November 11, 2008 – 11:20 pm
Last Friday I was able to attend the symposium entitled “Temples and Ritual in Antiquity,” sponsored by The Students of the Ancient Near East (SANE) and the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University. It was an excellent symposium about the temple, with a wide range of topics related to the temple presented by students [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged apostasy, architecture, asian, BYU, early christian, egyptian, imagery, incense, liturgy, matthew brown, near east, online, prayer circle, priesthood, rituals, SANE, scholar, symposium, tabernacle, video
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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, farms, fragments, hieroglyph, hugh nibley, john gee, joseph smith, olivewood, symbols, translation
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There are a couple good firesides/lectures coming up, for those of you who are in the Salt Lake/Provo area. First off, there will be a lecture given by John Gee this Thursday, June 19th, at 7:00pm at the Olivewood Bookstore in Provo (3330 N. University Ave., Suite C). He will be speaking about the message [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Tidbits
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Also tagged abraham, avraham gileadi, bible, book of mormon, BYU, egyptian, jews, john gee, neal a. maxwell, near east, olivewood, scholar
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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, farms, media, neal a. maxwell institute, olivewood, photo, provo
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