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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, LDS, liturgy, Marco Frenschkowski, 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, LDS, Matt Grey, priests, rabbis, Taylor Halverson, Temple, UNC Comments closed
SBL Annual Meeting 2010: Biblical Studies Conference in the Buckle of the Bible Belt
I arrived home Wednesday night from the 2010 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s conference was an especially good one, in my experience, at least. I still look back with fondness on my first national SBL meeting in San Diego — the setting alone is hard to beat. However, [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Religious Scholars Also tagged 2010, Andre Orlov, Atlanta, Bogdan Bucur, Christianity, Daphne Arbel, early, Guy Williams, Hebrews, Isaiah, Jack Levison, Jewish, Jim Davila, Judaism, Knight, Merkabah, Mysticism, Peter Schafer, Rachel Elior, Rebecca Lesses, Silviu Bunta Comments closed
New Work Released on The Book of Noah
NEW BOOK published by the SBL: Noah and His Book(s) Michael E. Stone, Aryeh Amihay, Vered Hillel ISBN 1589834887 Status Available Price: $45.95 Binding Paperback Publication Date June, 2010 In a collection of original essays, this book offers new insights on the question of the lost “book of Noah,” as well as studies of Noah’s [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, Early Judaism, News and Events, Pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha, Religious Scholars Also tagged Jim Davila, lost books, Michael Stone, Noah, Pseudepigrapha Comments closed
SBL Notes 2009: April DeConick — Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism
My notes on: Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism – Sunday 4pm April De Conick Star Gates: What Were the Gnostics Doing? The Peratics (perasai, Greek for “Transcendentalists”) say: We alone have known that genesis is necessary and (we alone have known) have know the roads by which humans have entered into the cosmos. We have [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Heavenly Ascents, Religious Scholars, Scholarly Conferences Also tagged April DeConick, Cosmology, Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism, Egypt, Egyptian, Gnosticism, John Hall, Peratics Comments closed
SBL Notes 2009: Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting 2009 — New Orleans Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity — Sunday 9am Session Frances Flannery, James Madison University Ascents, Apocalypses, and Neuroscience: Moshe Idel and the Study of Religious Experience This unit/section is of an interdisciplinary nature. It was organized to provide a forum for scholars [...]
Posted in Scholarly Conferences Also tagged Apocalyptic Literature, Apocalypticism, ascensions, Ascent, Christianity, Flannery-Dailey, Frances Flannery, Jewish Mysticism, Kabbalah, Moshe Idel, religious experience, ritual Comments closed
SBL 2010: LDS and the Bible, Session 2