October 19, 2009 – 4:46 pm
The use of those two words together, resurrection in mortality, appears to be perfectly incongruous at first glance. In our common parlance in the Church we understand resurrection to be something that can only happen after mortality. The resurrection “consists in the uniting of a spirit body with a body of flesh and bones, never [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Temples Today, Texts
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Also tagged anointing, atonement, calling and election, embrace, eternal life, exaltation, farms, holy of holies, hugh nibley, joseph smith, maxwell institute, presence, priesthood, restoration, resurrection, scholar, seal, temple studies, throne, veil
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Some of you may remember my paper The Genesis of the Round Dance that I posted early in the life of TempleStudy.com. It was a paper I wrote for a BYU Dance Department Symposium a few years ago that addressed the ancient ubiquitous practice of ring dancing, particularly as connected with religious worship and prayer. [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged ancients, BYU, christian, dance, israelites, papers, Practices, research, ring dance, round dance, scholar, symposium
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August 15, 2008 – 8:57 am
Tradition has held that Solomon’s Temple, the first permanent temple that the Israelites built in Jerusalem around 968 B.C. and destroyed around 587 B.C. by Nebuchadnezzar, was located on the same site as the modern-day Muslim mosque, the Dome of the Rock. A new archaeological team made up of Garth Norman, Lance Harding, Jason Jones, [...]
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, farms, hebrew, jerusalem, jesus christ, jews, john, marks, paul, restoration, satan, scholar, sealing, solomon, symbols
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August 10, 2008 – 4:56 pm
“We have to try to get through the filter of the later editing… But deep down, there was something there. I’m mean this [the temple] is a cultural icon, it’s shaped our pictures of the garden of Eden, it’s shaped our pictures of what it is to be a human being. Because Adam is the [...]
