November 6, 2009 – 12:35 pm
David Larsen at Heavenly Ascents continues to provide excellent notes from his attendance at the Temple Studies Group Symposium in London last weekend. Recently he posted his notes on Archimandrite Ephrem’s presentation about the Holy Oil in the Orthodox Church. Father Ephrem gave out a handout which included detailed notes on the anointing rite in [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also tagged anointing, david, eastern orthodox, hands, heavenly ascents, oil, priest, rite, signs, symposium, temple studies
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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 holy [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also tagged anointing, christian, david, heavenly ascents, margaret barker, oil, priest, priesthood, rite, symposium, temple studies
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Our long-time reader and commenter at TempleStudy, David J. Larsen, has begun a terrific blog – “Heavenly Ascents.” David received his BA from BYU in Near Eastern Studies in 2001, and is a current graduate student in Theology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, studying under Dr. Andrei Orlov who is a prominent Enoch [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also tagged blog, blogger, bloggernacle, blogging, discussion, early christian, heavenly ascents, margaret barker, scholar, talk
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