September 10, 2008 – 1:22 pm
(Continued from Part 2) Having found the mosaics from Ravenna, Italy, that displayed this symbol in connection with Melchizedek, I wanted to do some more research to see if I could find the symbol mentioned anywhere else. And, of course, I went to the best tool for online research – Google. The difficulty with using [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Also tagged BYU, church, david, design, google, melchizedek, online, priesthood, san diego temple, seal, symbols
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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 [...]
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, margaret barker, marks, paul, restoration, satan, scholar, sealing, symbols
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