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Report from the 1st Annual Expound Symposium
On Saturday the 14th of May I had the opportunity to attend and participate in the 1st Annual Expound Symposium, which was held in Provo at the Brigham Young Academy building. For anyone who was there, I hope I had a chance to talk to you — I met so many bright and interesting people [...]
Posted in LDS Interest, News and Events, Scholarly Conferences Also tagged BYU, Expound Symposium, Jeffrey Bradshaw, Matthew Brown, Provo Comments closed
First Annual Expound Symposium in Provo, May 14th!!!!
I just wanted to alert you, especially those who live or will be in Utah next month, to the imminent advent of the First Annual Expound Symposium, to be held Saturday, May 14th, at the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah. I will be coming all the way from Scotland to speak at this event [...]
Posted in LDS Interest, News and Events, Scholarly Conferences, Uncategorized Also tagged Brigham Young Academy, conference, Expound, ExpoundLDS, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew Brown, Provo, Symposium, Utah Comments closed
SBL 2010: LDS and the Bible, Session 2
Okay, here are my notes from the second and last session of the Latter-day Saints and the Bible unit, which took place on Tuesday, 23 November 2010 at the SBL Annual Meeting in Atlanta. This session was also meant to focus on the legacy left by the late BYU professor Hugh W. Nibley. John Hall, [...]
Posted in LDS Interest, Religious Scholars, Scholarly Conferences, Scripture, Temple Also tagged 40 Day Literature, Bible, Dana Pike, David J. Larsen, Dustin Naegle, Frederick M. Huchel, Hugh Nibley, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, John Hall, John Welch, Michael Biggerstaff, New Year Festival, pre-mortal existence, sacrifice, SBL, Scripture, Stephen Ricks, Temple, Tuesday Comments closed
SBL 2010: LDS and the Bible, Session 1
To conclude my notes from SBL, I want to present the material I took down from the two “Latter-day Saints and the Bible” sessions that were held Monday and Tuesday mornings. Because I want to share my notes on these in greater detail, this will be divided into two posts. The theme was the same [...]
Posted in LDS Interest, Religious Scholars, Scholarly Conferences, Scripture, Temple Also tagged apostasy, Bible, BYU, Christianity, Exegesis, German, Jack Welch, John Hall, John Welch, Laurence Hemming, liturgy, Marco Frenschkowski, SBL, Scripture, session, Temple Comments closed
SBL 2010 Summary (Continued)
In the interest of continuing what I started the other day, here is a summary of what else I was able to see and learn at the recent SBL Conference in Atlanta. Saturday afternoon I participated in a session regarding Teaching Philosophies, directed by BYU’s Taylor Halverson. This was a very helpful, practical presentation of [...]
Posted in Religious Scholars, Scholarly Conferences Also tagged Abraham, anniversary, Atlanta, Bible, Christianity, Egypt, John Gee, KJV, Matt Grey, priests, rabbis, SBL, Taylor Halverson, Temple, UNC Comments closed
“Thou Hast Done Wonderful Things” (OT Lesson 37)
Isaiah 22; 24-26; 28-30 With this lesson we have skipped chapters 7-21 of Isaiah (many of which are quoted in the Book of Mormon, so that may be part of the reason) and moved on to chapter 22. The chapters covered in this lesson contain many symbols and themes that we can interpret as prefiguring [...]
Posted in Scripture, Sunday School Lessons Also tagged Angels, Eliakim, house of David, Isaiah, Jesus Christ, key, Lesson 37, Messiah, messianic, nail, Old Testament, prophecy, Sunday School, sure place Comments closed
2,000-Year-Old Cupid Found in Jerusalem Excavations
AN ANCIENT CUPID CAMEO has been excavated in Jerusalem: Israel archeologists uncover 2,000-year-old cupid in City of David dig Israel Antiquities Authority says added inlaid semi-precious stone is of the ‘Eros in mourning,’ one of a group of visual motifs linked with mourning practices. By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel news archeology Jerusalem Israeli archeologists unveiled a 2,000 [...]
Posted in News and Events Also tagged archaeology, City of David, Cupid, dig, excavations, James Davila, Jerusalem, Salt Lake Temple Comments closed
John W. Welch: Insights from His Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecture