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 [...]
UPDATE: See the latest updates about this discovery at Jordanian Lead Plates: Authentic or Forgery? – A few days ago we wrote about an interesting discovery of ancient sealed metal plates that were found within the last few years in Jordan, and are starting to create a stir among archeologists. The BBC News religious affairs [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Also tagged archaeology, collection, early christian, holy of holies, Jewish, margaret barker, origin, photos, sealed, symbols, worthiness
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On Sunday I had the opportunity of going to the Daybreak Stake Center in South Jordan and listening to a wonderful fireside given by Dr. Daniel C. Peterson about the temple. I audio recorded the fireside, and have a digital copy. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get a hold of Dr. Peterson to ask [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged ancients, anointing, ascension, cleansing, cosmology, creation, crown, daniel c. peterson, diagram, egyptian, embrace, endowment, enoch, fair, fireside, gammadia, garments, gate, hands, markings, myth, osiris, paul, prayer, presence, priest, psalms, questions, rituals, robes, scholar, secret, tabernacle, throne, veil, washing, worthiness
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August 26, 2008 – 3:59 pm
The blog Pronaos is becoming ever more intriguing as Grandpa Enoch continues his series on the possible location of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. It’s not just the question of the location of the temple that interests me, but the great introduction to the geography of the entire region too. I’ve always wondered what the layout [...]
August 23, 2008 – 6:53 pm
There is a great new LDS-oriented temple-themed blog in the Bloggernacle entitled Pronaos, which is run by Grampa Enoch. From the first few posts this appears like it will be a very good blog indeed. The word pronaos comes from the Greek for “before a temple” (pro-before, naos-temple). It references the inner area of the [...]
