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In God’s Image and Likeness: An Interview with Author Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Part III
This is the third installment of a multi-part interview between myself and Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, author of the recently released In God’s Image and Likeness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Book of Moses. For previous posts in this series, see Part I here and Part II here.
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In God’s Image and Likeness: An Interview with author Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Part II
Question for Jeff Bradshaw on In God’s Image and Likeness (cont.)
[David] In your introduction, you spend some good time addressing the fact that although Joseph spent three years working on his inspired translation of the Bible, a disproportionate amount of time was spent translating the first half of the Book of Genesis, including the chapters [...]
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, LDS Interest, News and Events, Religious Scholars, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Book of Moses, Hugh Nibley, In God's Image and Likeness, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, JST, Scripture, Temple 2 Comments
Manifestations of the Spirit: St. Seraphim and the Mormons
I am writing this post while on a train from Durham, England to St Andrews, Scotland (thank goodness for free WiFi). I spent two days in Durham and absolutely loved the place. I will make sure to post more info plus pictures soon. I would like to post now some selections from a term paper [...]
Posted in Scripture Also tagged fruits of the Spirit, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Mormon missionaries, St Seraphim 4 Comments
Orson Hyde, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Hierarchy of the Gods
Lately, I have been looking into a very interesting topic in the Dead Sea Scrolls which concerns the idea that there are several levels of heaven and that each level has an appointed chief or guardian who rules over it. This is actually a fairly common theme in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical literature [...]
Posted in Favorite Posts, Heavenly Ascents, Priesthood, Religious Scholars, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Dead Sea Scrolls, Deification, Enoch, exaltation, Heaven, Heavenly Ascent, Heavenly Temple, hierarchy of gods, James Davila, liturgical works, Melchizedek, Millenial Star, Orson Hyde, Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice 5 Comments
In God’s Image and Likeness: an Interview with Author Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Part 4