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Expound Symposium: My Notes on Matthew Brown’s “Cube, Gate and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern”

The following are my notes on Matthew B. Brown’s presentation at the recently held Expound Symposium that I participated in on May 14th (see my initial report on the event here). Matthew’s paper was intriguing — a very insightful treatment of temple-related topics that readers of this blog would surely find extremely interesting.  My notes [...]
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A History of Heaven

My CES supervisor, Thomas F. Olmstead, whom I’ve mentioned before as a great source for indicating excellent books on religious studies, has given me permission to post the notes he sent me on another book that he recently read. The name of the book is A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence by Jeffrey Burton Russell, Professor of History and Religious [...]
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