August 18, 2008 – 10:33 am
If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!David Larsen posted a great notice over at Heavenly Ascents of the upcoming “Temples and Ritual in Antiquity” Symposium that will be held at BYU on November 7th, 2008. It is being presented [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Tagged antiquity, blogging, BYU, conference, near east, ritual, scholar, symposium
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August 16, 2008 – 7:41 pm
A few days ago I wrote about a post I read over at Lehi’s Library which quoted a paper by Kevin Christensen in which he referenced Margaret Barker. The subject was the use of the Hebrew word/letter tau or tav, translated as “mark” in Ezekiel 9:4-6, and what it meant in Ezekiel’s day, and what [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also posted in Church History, Favorites, Texts
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Tagged anointing, bible, BYU, calling, covenant, crown, faithfulness, greek, hands, hebrew, imagery, job, names, oath, pattern, prophet, psalms, satan, scriptures, stephen d. ricks, symbol, translation, veil
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August 15, 2008 – 8:57 am
Tradition has held that Solomon’s Temple, the first permanent temple that the Israelites built in Jerusalem around 968 B.C. and destroyed around 587 B.C. by Nebuchadnezzar, was located on the same site as the modern-day Muslim mosque, the Dome of the Rock. A new archaeological team made up of Garth Norman, Lance Harding, Jason Jones, [...]
August 12, 2008 – 11:42 am
A few days ago I read a post by James over at his superb blog, Lehi’s Library, entitled, “Looking Beyond the Mark: Insights from Margaret Barker.” In it, James refers to an excellent article by Kevin Christensen who talks about the Deuteronomist de-Christianizing of the Old Testament and Josiah’s reforms. I thought he made some [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also posted in Practices, Texts
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Tagged anointing, book of mormon, david, farms, hebrew, jerusalem, jesus christ, jews, john, margaret barker, marks, paul, restoration, satan, scholar, sealing, solomon, symbol
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August 10, 2008 – 4:56 pm
“We have to try to get through the filter of the later editing… But deep down, there was something there. I’m mean this [the temple] is a cultural icon, it’s shaped our pictures of the garden of Eden, it’s shaped our pictures of what it is to be a human being. Because Adam is the [...]
August 10, 2008 – 4:40 pm
“…the building of the Second Temple involved leveling a new site… I mean, as far as I can see, the Zachariah prophesies about the mountain becoming a plain and building all that sort of thing, they are implying that a new mountaintop site is to be used for the rebuilt temple. That suggests to [...]
August 9, 2008 – 11:44 am
“The original purpose of the temple pilgrimage, was that you went to the temple to see the face of the Lord. Yea? In the old calendars ‘each of your males will see the face of the Lord’… By the time you’re reading the Masoretic texts as we have now, ‘each of your [...]
August 9, 2008 – 10:54 am
“… the Old Testament describes idolatry as the work of human hands. So if you worship the work of human hands, the political system, economics, anything like that, that is idolatry. The consequence of idolatry, according to the commandments, is that the third and fourth generation suffer from their iniquity.” —Margaret Barker
“A single parent is [...]
August 9, 2008 – 10:17 am
Book on Christianity and environmentalism due out by November 2010.
“…is it profitable, is it viable, is this a business proposition? When business propositions have got us into a bit of a mess. There’s got to be other ways of discourse. And the awful thing is, because religion has been so sidelined in [...]
“It’s things like that, you know, reading through Matthew as well, all sorts of things, there’s such many stories, and when you stop and read them, you think, ‘Oh, my goodness!’ You know. ‘I’ve been looking at that for fifty years, and it just never dawned on me what I was reading.’ It is amazing.” [...]
Book entitled “Christmas: The Original Story” due to be released in September 2008.
“It’s a lovely early [Christmas] icon, because it shows the three wise men coming, dressed as three high priests.” —Margaret Barker
“Those three gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, the old tradition was, that Adam, the original high priest, the angels had given him those [...]
“It’s very interesting, isn’t it? There’s something called the SBL [Society of Biblical Literature] that’s existed all this time with nothing about the central theme of the Bible, which is the temple. I mean, that should make everyone stop and rub their eyes in amazement, I think. But here we are.” —Margaret [...]
I just received an email from Dr. William Hamblin who is currently studying at a seminar in Oxford, England, and he said he had the unique opportunity to have a lunch today with Methodist scholar Margaret Barker about her intriguing and in-depth research into temple studies. Barker graciously permitted him to film the conversation, and [...]
[Update 8/6/08: Blair Hodges over at Life on Gold Plates will also be liveblogging the event.]
Anyone who has visited the site yesterday or today may have seen the “UPCOMING LIVE BLOG” banner on the homepage. It is an email reminder tool that you can use to remind yourself that TempleStudy.com will be liveblogging the entire [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also posted in Tidbits
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Tagged apologetics, bloggernacle, blogging, conference, daniel c. peterson, fair, joseph smith, journal, matthew brown, online, visit
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August 3, 2008 – 11:36 am
One of our readers, RBiddulph, recently pointed me to a quote by Harold Bloom, a well-known literary and cultural critic who is currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University, who once said this about Joseph Smith:
I can only attribute to his genius or daemons his uncanny recovery of elements in ancient Jewish [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also posted in Church History, Tidbits
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Tagged death, esoteric, harold bloom, hymn, joseph smith, music, prophet, ritual, sacrifice, traditions, w. w. phelps
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If you have not been able to tell, one of my top role models and mentors is Dr. Hugh Winder Nibley, former BYU professor and highly esteemed LDS scholar. He was and is still considered the foremost LDS scholar and apologist of this century, and perhaps of all time. And he was a genius. Once [...]
As someone recently quipped, “I’m so glad Nibley’s not letting a little thing like being dead slow down his publishing schedule!”
Another volume in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley series is being officially released on August 6, 2008 (it’s already available in Deseret Book stores). This volume will be the third volume published since Hugh [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also posted in Tidbits
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Tagged atonement, book, egyptian, hugh nibley, interview, jews, joseph smith, literature, restoration, scholar, truman g. madsen, video
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I came across some references to early Christian ritual vestments this morning in Matthew Brown’s The Gate of Heaven. He cited The Awe-Inspiring Rites of Initiation by Edward Yarnold, and The Archæology of Baptism by Wolfred N. Cote. I looked up these references and they were intriguing in describing an early Christian practice of face [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also posted in Artifacts, Practices
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Tagged archaeology, baptism, cap, cyril of jerusalem, early christian, initiate, matthew brown, priesthood, ritual, satan, symbol, veil
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I’ve built an online store for TempleStudy.com using Amazon.com, and today is its grand opening! I did this primarily for three reasons:
Readily available Temple-related Products: All the products that I’ve been able to find that have to do with LDS temples or ancient temples from Amazon.com I have individually selected and gathered together, sorted, and [...]
The scholarly world is aflutter over the latest discovery of a 3-foot tall tablet being called “Gabriel’s Revelation,” “Hazon Gabriel,” or the “Vision of Gabriel.” It contains 87 lines of Hebrew text written in ink on stone, and has been dated to the first century BCE. The tablet was found near the Dead Sea in [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also posted in Artifacts, Texts
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Tagged adam, ascension, atonement, david, dead sea, discussion, early christian, egyptian, gate, greek, imagery, jesus christ, jews, marriage, redemption, resurrection, revelation, ritual, scholar, symbol, test, translation, veil
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