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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Posted in Practices, Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged anointing, book of mormon, david, hebrew, jerusalem, jesus christ, jews, john, margaret barker, marks, paul, restoration, satan, scholar, sealing, solomon, symbols
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Note: This was going to be the next part of the series on the Egyptian ankh, and its relationship with the papyri and Book of Abraham, but I thought an intro to these first would be a better place to start. Let’s return again to the subject of the ankh, and related symbols, that we’ve [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged abraham, book, egyptian, endowment, fragments, hieroglyph, hugh nibley, john gee, joseph smith, lecture, olivewood, symbols, translation
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There is an interesting post at The T&T Clark Blog with a transcription of an address that BYU’s John Welch gave on March 5th in London at a conference about Margaret Barker’s latest book, Temple Themes in Christian Worship, and her scholarly work on temple subjects in ancient Christianity and Judaism. FARMS lists Welch as [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged anointing, book, BYU, clothing, early christian, holy of holies, john welch, liturgy, margaret barker, new name, plan of salvation, prayer, priesthood, rituals, robe, scholar, temple studies, veil, washing
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April 26, 2008 – 12:13 pm
I can’t remember where I originally heard about the new Olivewood bookstore. It may have been in the Bloggernacle somewhere – perhaps FAIR. In any case, I had heard enough about this store that I decided that I had to visit it. It is located at 3330 N University Ave. Suite C in Provo, next [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Church History, Tidbits
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Also tagged art, books, bookstore, lecture, media, neal a. maxwell institute, olivewood, photo, provo
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February 27, 2008 – 12:52 pm
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU posted a short featured article on their homepage yesterday by Dr. Stephen Ricks on the subject of the dexiosis (Greek) or dextrarum iunctio (Latin), which was a peculiar Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Early Christian practice of joining the right hands in a solemn and ceremonial [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged dexiosis, dextrarum iunctio, fidelity, handclasp, marriage, right hands, seal, sealing, stephen ricks
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