Every once and a while I’ll come upon an antiquarian painting, print, fresco, sculpture or other art piece that peaks my interest. This is one of them. This is an illustration by Jean Fouquet from a french translation manuscript of Josephus‘ Jewish Antiquities. It is entitled, “The Creation, God Introducing Adam and Eve,” and dates [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Tagged adam and eve, art, clothing, compass, creation, eternal, garments, handclasp, marriage, square, symbolism
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Note: I taught our Elders Quorum class today, and was assigned the topic of the Mosaic Tabernacle as a Temple. Below are the notes and illustrations I used for my lesson. Review of prior lesson on the exodus: Children of Israel escape Egyptian bondage (Ex. 14) Moses leads them out Parting of the Red Sea, [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Tagged aaronic, altar, anointing, apron, ascension, atonement, building, celestial, clothing, construction, diagram, donald w. parry, dwell, endowment, fall, garments, gate, heaven, hebrew, incense, initiation, israelites, keys, matthew brown, melchizedek, moses, mountain, ordinances, prayer, priest, priesthood, profane, rituals, robes, sacred, sacrifice, scholars, symbolism, tabernacle, throne, translation, veil, washing
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This last weekend in General Conference, Elder Richard G. Scott gave an incredibly good talk about the temple and the importance of temple attendance. I will break down more of this talk in a future post to glean more from the great insight he gave us. One of his “interesting suggestions” for gaining more benefit [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities, Temples Today
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Tagged apostles, attendance, clothing, conference, education, focus, inside, marriage, profane, riches, sacred, saints, time, watch, worldly
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TempleStudy.com Now on iPhone, iPod Touch, Android & Blackberry Devices
In honor of my purchase of an iPhone a few days ago, I decided it was time to make TempleStudy.com more mobile. Now you can access and read TempleStudy.com in a much more reader-friendly way just by visiting the website in your browser on your mobile device. The website will automatically detect the type of [...]