September 27, 2008 – 12:36 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!Last night at the Third Nephi conference held at BYU, Professor John W. Welch gave the keynote address. His topic was “New Insights Into the Temple Setting of the Sermon on the Mount [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged bible, bibliography, book, book of mormon, BYU, conference, covenant, farms, john welch, literature, minerva teichert, non-lds, pattern, psalms, scholar, sermon at the temple, sermon on the mount, willes center
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September 26, 2008 – 8:44 pm
Part 2 of liveblogging the Third Nephi Conference at BYU.
September 26, 2008 – 5:48 pm
This is a liveblog of the conference entitled “Third Nephi: New Perspectives on an Incomparable Scripture,” which is taking place at Brigham Young University on September 26-27, 2008, from 6:30pm on the 26th to about noon on the 27th. See my previous post on the subject, or the program of the conference here. Note: Those [...]
Note: This is a comment I made on my last post, but I thought it was pertinent enough to make it into a post of itself.
The concept of “keys” is not absent from the Book of Mormon. Whenever God has chosen to give authority to man to perform ordinances in His name, it has been [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities, Texts
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Also tagged alma the elder, authority, book of mormon, calling, keys, melchizedek, minerva teichert, ordinances, ordination, priesthood, prophet, scriptures
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First of all I’d like to thank all those who have participated in the TempleStudy feedback that was posted yesterday. I have received a good number of responses, and most were very positive. Some even compared my methodology, albeit detrimentally, as similar to Hugh Nibley’s, for which I could not be more flattered. [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Scholarship
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Also tagged book of mormon, critics, daniel c. peterson, egyptian, elephantine, fair, hugh nibley, jerusalem, jews, life, olivewood, scholar, video
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The Testament of Levi is one of the books in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and is an apocryphal and pseudopigraphal work so we do not know its original author or source. The Testament of Levi, as we have it today, was composed in its final form in the second century B.C. [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Texts
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Also tagged anointing, apron, ascension, book of mormon, cap, celestial, clothing, coronation, crown, early christian, garments, gate, heaven, holy of holies, holy place, jesus christ, joseph smith, new name, ordination, priesthood, prophet, revelation, robe, sacred, sacrifice, throne, washing
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February 10, 2008 – 12:47 pm
I recently came across a quote by Hugh Nibley in which he said,
It has often been claimed that the Book of Mormon cannot contain the ‘fullness of the gospel,’ since it does not have temple ordinances. As a matter of fact, they are everywhere in the book if we know where to look for them, [...]
January 23, 2008 – 3:56 pm
This first scripture is, no doubt, the most read scripture in all the Church, and possibly the most read from the LDS canon outside of the Church. Members of the Church have all read this scripture over and over as they begin reading the Book of Mormon and recommit to daily scripture study and finishing [...]