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The Exodus Narrative as Another Creation Story (for Old Testament Lesson 13)
Please excuse me for not sharing much for the last couple of weeks. I have been working hard on my dissertation. Unfortunately, I missed commenting on a story I really love — the Joseph in Egypt narrative. I won’t take the time to backtrack now and write much on it, but I have always thought [...]
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, Favorite Posts, Scripture, Sunday School Lessons Also tagged Creation, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Exodus, Hebrew Bible, LDS, Lesson 13, Old Testament, Red Sea, Sigmund Mowinckel, Sunday School Comments closed
Son of God and King: Adam, Enoch, Moses (Comments on Old Testament Lesson 5)
The following are some notes that I made this week in association with my study of this Sunday’s Gospel Doctrine (Old Testament) Lesson 5. The lesson covers Moses 5-7 and is titled: “If Thou Doest Well, Thou Shalt Be Accepted” This title has to do with the Book of Moses narrative regarding Cain and Abel [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Doctrinal Issues, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Scripture, Sunday School Lessons Also tagged Adam, Book of Moses, Dead Sea Scrolls, Enoch, Gospel Doctrine, LDS, Pearl of Great Price, Scripture, Sunday School Comments closed
Introduction from Dr. Andrei Orlov’s “Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha”
As promised in my last post, with Dr. Orlov’s permission, I am posting a link to the full introduction to his new book Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha . Click here: Orlov Introduction The intro is over 20 pages long, but it is well worth your time to take a look at it. Dr. [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Christianity, Religious Scholars Also tagged Andrei Orlov, anthropomorphic, Apocalypse of Abraham, divine form, Divine Manifestations, divine name, divine throne, Elijah, Enoch, Enochic literature, God's face, Marquette University, Slavonic Pseudepigrapha Comments closed
The Orphic Gold Tablets: “The Longed-For Crown”
I return now to my overview/commentary on Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets by Alberto Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal (Brill: 2008). If you missed my first few posts on this topic, you can see them here: First, Second, Third, and Fourth. One of the key features of the inscriptions found [...]
Posted in Scripture, Temple Also tagged Abraham, Afterlife, Bacchic, coronation, Crown, Doctrine and Covenants, Enoch, Greek Mythology, High Priest, Initiation, King, LDS, Mother Goddess, mystery religions, Netherworld, Orphic Gold Tablets, Orphic Mystery Religion, rituals, Temple, Underworld Comments closed
The Human Form on God’s Throne
Michelangelo’s Depiction of Moses on a Throne The following post represents research I did for Dr. Orlov’s Apocalyptic Literature class in preparation for a presentation I did on themes from the text of an ancient drama known as Exagoge, written by Ezekiel the Tragedian. This text is only known by fragments of the original [...]
Posted in Favorite Posts, Heavenly Ascents, School Journal, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Andrei Orlov, anthropomorphic, Deification, divine throne, Ezekiel, Ezekiel the Tragedian, Godhead, Merkavah, School Journal, scriptures, Throne Comments closed
Moses, Enoch, and the Heavenly Ascent
Insights from Andrei Orlov’s “IN THE MIRROR OF THE DIVINE FACE:THE ENOCHIC FEATURES OF THE EXAGOGE OF EZEKIEL THE TRAGEDIAN” For Latter-day Saints, there is often a certain connection made in our minds between the prophets Moses and Enoch due to the inclusion of the story of Enoch in The Pearl of Great Price’s Book of [...]
Posted in Heavenly Ascents, Scripture Also tagged Andrei Orlov, Book of Moses, Deification, Enoch, Enochic literature, Exagoge, Ezekiel the Tragedian, Pearl of Great Price Comments closed
They Shall See His Face
Insights from Margaret Barker’s Temple Themes in Christian Worship: Part V After a rather long tangent looking at the suppression of ancient doctrines and ordinances, I now return to my commentary on Margaret Barker’s work on the themes of the First Temple that show up in later Christian beliefs. This post will focus on Chapter [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Ezekiel, First Temple, Godhead, Psalms, Second Temple, Sinai, Temple, vision of God, Yahweh Comments closed
Out with the Old Moses, In with the New Joshua