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Reviews of Interesting New Books on RBL
Via the Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter, 17 Feb 2011 ———————————— The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature and listed on the RBL blog (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/): John J. Collins Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7404 Reviewed by Philip R. Davies David Lyle Jeffrey [...]
Posted in News and Events, Religious Scholars, Scripture Also tagged Bible, books, Dead Sea Scrolls, RBL, reviews, scriptures Comments closed
Did Jesus Deny the Possibility of Heavenly Ascents? (John 3:13)
If so, then maybe I should change the name of my blog!! A few people have been asking me whether I plan to do regular posts on New Testament Sunday School topics, as I had been doing with the OT. I would have to say that my tentative answer is either “maybe” or “probably not.” [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Doctrinal Issues, Early Christianity, Scripture, Sunday School Lessons Also tagged Heavenly Ascents, Jesus, John, New Testament Comments closed
Psalm 24: Temple Gates and Guardians
I have written a new post over at The Millennial Star looking at Psalm 24 and the possibility that it describes an ancient temple ritual in which pilgrims to the temple engaged in a question-and-answer dialogue with priests that acted as gatekeepers at the temple gates. If interested, please check out the post at: http://www.millennialstar.org/psalm-24-temple-gates-and-guardians/
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, Heavenly Ascents, LDS Interest, Scripture, Temple Also tagged gatekeepers, New Year Festival, Priesthood, Psalms, ritual, Temple Comments closed
On Divine Humanity
I found the following a while back and just recently looked at it again and thought it would be great to post here. British scholar Crispin Fletcher-Louis, in his book All the Glory of Adam, had the following to say about the early Jewish belief that all of humanity was meant to, and and eventually could, [...]
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, Early Judaism, LDS Interest, Priesthood, Pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha, Religious Scholars, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Angelomorphic, angelomorphism, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Deification, divine humanity, Divinity, Priesthood, Temple Comments closed
SBL 2010: LDS and the Bible, Session 2
Okay, here are my notes from the second and last session of the Latter-day Saints and the Bible unit, which took place on Tuesday, 23 November 2010 at the SBL Annual Meeting in Atlanta. This session was also meant to focus on the legacy left by the late BYU professor Hugh W. Nibley. John Hall, [...]
Posted in LDS Interest, Religious Scholars, Scholarly Conferences, Scripture, Temple Also tagged 40 Day Literature, Bible, Dana Pike, David J. Larsen, Dustin Naegle, Frederick M. Huchel, Hugh Nibley, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, John Hall, John Welch, LDS, Michael Biggerstaff, New Year Festival, pre-mortal existence, sacrifice, SBL, Stephen Ricks, Temple, Tuesday Comments closed
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, SBL, session, Temple Comments closed
William Hamblin: New NT Research
In case you are not aware of it, BYU Professor William Hamblin has recently been doing some exciting new research on some interesting topics involving the New Testament. The first is an exploration of the sign of the cross in ancient Israelite and early Christian temple symbolism (this is not strictly a “New Testament” study, [...]
Posted in LDS Interest, Religious Scholars, Scripture, Temple Also tagged BYU, cross, intercessory prayer, Jesus, Jesus Christ, research, Temple, William Hamblin Comments closed
Expound Symposium: My Notes on Matthew Brown’s “Cube, Gate and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern”