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Answers to Questions Regarding Heavenly Ascent in Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature

By David Larsen | Published: May 11, 2010
This post comprises some very interesting questions posed to me by a new reader of this blog, Steve Bastasch, regarding the development of the “heavenly ascent” theme in early Christian thought and writings and their Jewish background. My answer to these questions follows. ————————————————————————— Steve: I’m new to your Heavenly Ascents blog – it looks fascinating and well [...]
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Notes on Early Jewish Belief in a Messiah

By David Larsen | Published: April 28, 2010
The following is from some notes that I took in Professor Jim Davila’s class on the Dead Sea Scrolls this week. I sit in on this undergraduate class of his just to get more exposure to his great knowledge and expertise on this topic. The way the class is set up, at least at this [...]
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Notes on Emanuel Tov’s Dead Sea Scrolls Lecture at St Mary’s College

By David Larsen | Published: April 21, 2010
The following are my notes from a lecture given by Professor Emanuel Tov as a part of the Biblical Studies Seminar at St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews.  Emanuel Tov is a professor of Hebrew Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was one of the editors of the Hebrew University Bible Project, [...]
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Melchizedek: King, Priest, and God and the Forbidden Degrees

By David Larsen | Published: February 1, 2010
The title of this post is actually somewhat deceptive as it implies that the post is going to be about Melchizedek, who can be considered a king, a priest, and also a god, and about the “Forbidden Degrees” (sounds tantalizing, eh?), which the title seems to suggest have some connection to Melchizedek. Well, as far [...]
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Christmas Reading

By David Larsen | Published: December 23, 2009
I must start this post by saying that although I would have liked to, I don’t have any wonderful Christmas message to share.  I have been quite busy lately — but I still feel that Christmas spirit. It has been snowing here in St Andrews, and the snow has stayed (which I hear is rather [...]
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