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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 [...]
Posted in LDS Interest, Scholarly Conferences, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Apocalypse, Bible, Expound Symposium, Ezekiel, gate, Matthew Brown, New Jerusalem, New Testament, Psalms, Revelation, Scripture, Temple Comments closed
Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: My Expound Symposium Paper
The following is my presentation, entitled “Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: The Psalms as a Key to Understanding the Rituals of the First Temple” from the Expound Symposium. Please note that this is a draft — it is in the format in which I presented it at the symposium — it has not [...]
Posted in Heavenly Ascents, LDS Interest, Scholarly Conferences, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Enoch, Expound Symposium, Ezekiel, gates, Heavenly Ascent, Heavenly Temple, Jerusalem, Matthew Brown, pilgirmage, Psalms, Silviu Bunta, Temple Comments closed
Isaiah Ascends to Heaven to See the Social Trinity
The title of this blog post is meant to catch your attention more than anything, and if you are reading this, then I guess it worked!! The purpose of this post is to simply announce, for those who haven’t seen them, a couple of papers that I have recently posted on my Scribd account. The [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Judaism, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Bible, Ezekiel, Merkabah, Rachel Elior, Temple Comments closed
Recent Blog Posts on Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Just wanted to alert you to a couple of interesting blog posts that I recently read on the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. Tony Burke at Apocryphicity shared the following regarding why he chose to study the Christian Apocrypha: Why am I such an advocate for the Christian Apocrypha? Have I been “burned…by orthodox Christianity” as Ben [...]
Posted in Pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha, Religious Scholars Also tagged Apocrypha, Christian, Jim Davila, Joseph Kelly, Pseudepigrapha, Tony Burke Comments closed
“How Beautiful Upon the Mountains”: Some Thoughts on OT Lesson 39
Isaiah 50-53 In 1979, a biblical scholar named John Eaton published a work entitled Festal Drama in Deutero-Isaiah. Eaton, following the work of Ivan Engnell and others, saw in the “Servant Songs” and other themes of chapters 40-55, 60-62 of Isaiah allusions to the themes of the Ancient Israelite New Year Festival (which I’ve so [...]
Posted in Scripture, Sunday School Lessons Also tagged Atonement, Day of Atonement, Deutero-Isaiah, High Priest, Isaiah, James Davila, Jesus Christ, John Eaton, King, lesson, New Year Festival, scapegoat, Second Isaiah, Servant, Servant Songs, Suffering Servant, Sunday School Comments closed
What Did the Authors of Isaiah 40-55 Really Know About Babylon: Dr Lena Sophia Tiemeyer
Yesterday I had the privilege of hearing from Dr Lena Sophia Tiemeyer, Lecturer in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the University of Aberdeen, as she presented a paper at our weekly Biblical Studies seminar. Her study was entitled “What Did the Authors of Isaiah 40-55 Really Know About Babylon?” The timing of this presentation, for the [...]
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, Religious Scholars, School Journal, Scripture Also tagged Akkadian, Babylon, Biblical studies, Deutero-Isaiah, Diaspora, Exile, Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, Judah, Lena Tiemeyer, N.T. Wright, Palestine, Scripture, Second Isaiah, seminar, Talmon, University of Aberdeen, University of St Andrews Comments closed
William Hamblin: Temple Themes in Isaiah 13-29
BYU Professor William Hamblin already has his notes on temple themes in Isaiah posted for chapters 13-29. Check them out at his blog: http://hamblinofjerusalem.blogspot.com/ Or directly on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/whamblin
Posted in LDS Interest, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Isaiah, Temple, themes, William Hamblin Comments closed
James Davila: More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project News