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SBL Notes 2009: Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity

By David Larsen | Published: November 30, 2009
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 [...]
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Society of Biblical Literature: New Orleans

By David Larsen | Published: November 24, 2009
Well, another SBL annual meeting has come and gone.  I had a great time this year here in New Orleans.  For some reason, the conference was not as well attended as in past years, but it was still an enlightening experience. Despite the fact that my connecting flight from Atlanta was delayed two hours (which [...]
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Upcoming Conferences I’m Attending

By David Larsen | Published: October 22, 2009
I will be having the extraordinary opportunity to attend two fantastic conferences in the next month or so.  I will be taking meticulous notes that I plan to share with you all soon afterwards. The first conference, held October 31 in London, England, is the 3rd Temple Studies Symposium, organized by Margaret Barker and the [...]
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RBL Review of Margaret Barker’s “The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of God”

By David Larsen | Published: August 23, 2009
I apologize for the dearth of good, solid posts recently. As we have been preparing for our move to Scotland, I haven’t had much time for blogging. I’ll be spending some time in Utah for the next few weeks and then we are off to the UK, so I probably won’t be very settled until [...]
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The Rest of My SBL Notes

By David Larsen | Published: January 25, 2009
I am finally posting the rest of my notes from the November 2008 Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Boston. There are some good topics here that are of special interest to LDS readers.  As always, please take my notes as my own thoughts on what the speakers said, and not necessarily as their words [...]
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SBL 2008 Notes: Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism

By David Larsen | Published: January 10, 2009
Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Session Topic: Enochic Literature Dr. Silviu Bunta (PhD, Marquette University) presiding First Presenter: Name Unknown The book of 1 Enoch describes a scene in which Enoch is shown a group of seven mountains. The middle mountain is God’s throne–the mountain of judgment The other mountains are thrones of the divine [...]
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My Notes from the Society of Biblical Literature Conference — Boston, 2008

By David Larsen | Published: January 6, 2009
It has been well over a month since I promised to post my notes from the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) conference that was held in Boston at the end of November, 2008.  I apologize for the delay.  I would like to thank all those who supported me and made my trip to the conference [...]
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SBL Experiences

By David Larsen | Published: December 1, 2008
I got back from the Society of Biblical Literature conference in Boston late Wednesday night. It was a great experience! I drove there and back (about a day long journey) with my whole family and we had the good fortune of being able to stay with our good friends Dan and Bunny French who we [...]
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