UPDATE: See the latest updates about this discovery at Jordanian Lead Plates: Authentic or Forgery? – David Larsen at HeavenlyAscents.com has pointed out an interesting recent discovery (see his posts here and here). A collection of dozens of books made from metal plates have been found in Jordan that initial tests show date from the [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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November 2, 2009 – 10:11 am
My friend David Larsen has some great notes at Heavenly Ascents on the presentation given by Dr. Margaret Barker at the Temple Studies Symposium III in London this past weekend. Her words were an introduction to the symposium which focused on the topic of “The Holy Anointing Oil”: Anointing with myrrh oil was the most [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also tagged anointing, david, david larsen, heavenly ascents, margaret barker, oil, priest, priesthood, rite, symposium, temple studies
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Some of you may remember my paper The Genesis of the Round Dance that I posted early in the life of TempleStudy.com. It was a paper I wrote for a BYU Dance Department Symposium a few years ago that addressed the ancient ubiquitous practice of ring dancing, particularly as connected with religious worship and prayer. [...]
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Also tagged ancients, BYU, dance, israelites, margaret barker, papers, Practices, research, ring dance, round dance, scholar, symposium
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February 3, 2008 – 9:49 am
(Continued from Part 4) Religion and Dance Many scholars have described dance in terms of religion. Kraus describes it among the ancients as being used “as a means of communication with the forces of nature – for becoming one with the gods,” and as “a major form of religious ritual . . . a means [...]
February 1, 2008 – 8:03 am
(Continuation from Part 2) Greece The ancient choruses, dances, and songs of the dithyramb of Greece displayed the familiar pattern of a dignified, circular dance around the altar of Dionysus in the theater’s orchestra. In fact, the term orchestra originally meant the circular dancing place of the theater. In addition, the terms carole and chorus, [...]
