December 9, 2011 – 10:46 pm
Matti Friedman of the Associated Press published news about a recent excavation in the City of David in Jerusalem, near the Gihon Spring. The excavation revealed an interesting set of markings carved into the stone floor of a room, and expert archeologists cannot determine what their meaning or use was. The markings consist of three [...]
February 24, 2011 – 8:45 am
I’m very pleased to welcome another guest post by Matthew B. Brown. Some of his writings, particularly his book The Gate of Heaven, are what inspired me to study the temple more in depth. He offers a wealth of insight and learning for the Latter-day Saints. ~Bryce Matthew B. Brown holds a degree in history [...]
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Posted in Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged anointing, bible, cap, clothing, endowment, garments, initiation, israelites, joseph smith, markings, marks, Matthew B. Brown, oil, ordinances, priest, prophet, research, rite, rites, ritual, rituals, robe, robes, royal, sanctuary, scholar, scholars, solomon, symbols, symposium, tabernacle, vestments, washing
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I know a lot of people who have been waiting for this book for many years. One Eternal Round is the 19th volume in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, and is his magnum opus, the volume of materials he worked on for a very long time until the end of his life. The book [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship
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Also tagged abraham, Achilles shield, alchemy, apocrypha, Aztec, books, BYU, egyptian, Fibonacci, greek, hermeticism, hopi, hugh nibley, islam, Jewish, kabbalism, Mayan, mesopotamia, myth, Phi, ritual, traditions
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November 9, 2009 – 10:56 am
Occasionally you encounter a talk or book or article that is a classic. Elder John A. Widtsoe‘s talk on “Temple Worship” given at a meeting of the Genealogical Society of Utah at the Assembly Hall in Salt Lake on October 12, 1920, is one of those talks. There are portions of this talk that many [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities, Temples Today
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Also tagged covenant, D&C, endowment, exaltation, john a. widtsoe, ordinances, plan of salvation, preparation, principles, restoration, salvation, symbols, temple worship
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October 29, 2009 – 12:06 am
Ancient Israelite Temples Timeline (1300 BC—AD 100) by Bryce Haymond is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. That means you can use this graphic however you please, as long as you attribute the original work to me and this website, and any derivatives must be licensed the same. See the [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Scholarship, Tidbits
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Also tagged david, diagram, herod, image, information, learn, moses, solomon, tabernacle, temple worship, temples, zerubbabel
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