August 10, 2008 – 4:56 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!“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 [...]
August 10, 2008 – 4:40 pm
“…the building of the Second Temple involved leveling a new site… I mean, as far as I can see, the Zachariah prophesies about the mountain becoming a plain and building all that sort of thing, they are implying that a new mountaintop site is to be used for the rebuilt temple. That suggests to [...]
August 9, 2008 – 11:44 am
“The original purpose of the temple pilgrimage, was that you went to the temple to see the face of the Lord. Yea? In the old calendars ‘each of your males will see the face of the Lord’… By the time you’re reading the Masoretic texts as we have now, ‘each of your [...]
August 9, 2008 – 10:54 am
“… the Old Testament describes idolatry as the work of human hands. So if you worship the work of human hands, the political system, economics, anything like that, that is idolatry. The consequence of idolatry, according to the commandments, is that the third and fourth generation suffer from their iniquity.” —Margaret Barker
“A single parent is [...]
August 9, 2008 – 10:17 am
Book on Christianity and environmentalism due out by November 2010.
“…is it profitable, is it viable, is this a business proposition? When business propositions have got us into a bit of a mess. There’s got to be other ways of discourse. And the awful thing is, because religion has been so sidelined in [...]
“It’s things like that, you know, reading through Matthew as well, all sorts of things, there’s such many stories, and when you stop and read them, you think, ‘Oh, my goodness!’ You know. ‘I’ve been looking at that for fifty years, and it just never dawned on me what I was reading.’ It is amazing.” [...]
Book entitled “Christmas: The Original Story” due to be released in September 2008.
“It’s a lovely early [Christmas] icon, because it shows the three wise men coming, dressed as three high priests.” —Margaret Barker
“Those three gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, the old tradition was, that Adam, the original high priest, the angels had given him those [...]
“It’s very interesting, isn’t it? There’s something called the SBL [Society of Biblical Literature] that’s existed all this time with nothing about the central theme of the Bible, which is the temple. I mean, that should make everyone stop and rub their eyes in amazement, I think. But here we are.” —Margaret [...]
I just received an email from Dr. William Hamblin who is currently studying at a seminar in Oxford, England, and he said he had the unique opportunity to have a lunch today with Methodist scholar Margaret Barker about her intriguing and in-depth research into temple studies. Barker graciously permitted him to film the conversation, and [...]
If you have not been able to tell, one of my top role models and mentors is Dr. Hugh Winder Nibley, former BYU professor and highly esteemed LDS scholar. He was and is still considered the foremost LDS scholar and apologist of this century, and perhaps of all time. And he was a genius. Once [...]
Elder Russell M. Nelson said this in a devotional he gave on December 10, 2002 at BYU:
The time is coming when those who do not obey the Lord will be separated from those who do. Our safest insurance is to continue to be worthy of admission to His holy house. How blessed we are to [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities, Tidbits
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Also tagged BYU, ezra taft benson, henry b. eyring, holy place, jesus christ, obedience, prophet, second coming, thomas s. monson, work
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As someone recently quipped, “I’m so glad Nibley’s not letting a little thing like being dead slow down his publishing schedule!”
Another volume in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley series is being officially released on August 6, 2008 (it’s already available in Deseret Book stores). This volume will be the third volume published since Hugh [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Tidbits
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Also tagged atonement, book, egyptian, hugh nibley, interview, jews, joseph smith, literature, restoration, scholar, truman g. madsen
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Here is the latest very well done compilation by Mike Batie of officially published photographs of the newest Twin Falls Idaho Temple. Enjoy!
I just posted my review of the Disney/Pixar movie WALL-E over at Millennial Star. See it here. Be forewarned - I didn’t like it much.
Update (7/14/08): And, of course, since the issue is environmentalism, it eroded quickly.
Here is another media preview of the new Twin Falls Temple that comes from Local News channel 8 in Idaho Falls and Pocatello Idaho. It gives more details concerning the murals in the garden room, painted by Rexburg artist Leon Parson. Parson skillfully included the Idaho Shoshone Falls in the depiction of the [...]
The Church has produced a short video for the media describing the newest temple of the Church in Twin Falls, Idaho, and the open house that will be occurring there from July 11th through August 16th, 2008 (8am-8pm, except Sundays and Mondays after 6pm).
This video comes from Times-News at MagicValley.com. It is introduced by Elder [...]
I was thinking yesterday that there might be more to the common saying “asking for her hand in marriage.” Doing a few searches and I found that some believe it comes from a medieval ritual known as handfasting. Today it has been adopted by certain Neopagan groups as part of their engagement or marriage rituals, [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices
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Also tagged altar, BYU, ceremony, crown, eastern orthodox, greek, handclasp, hands, marriage, middle ages, oath, ritual
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(Continued from Part 2)
For those of you who don’t want to wade through my analysis of the Oxford degree ceremony in the last part, or if you’d just like to see what the presentation is like, the degree ceremony that took place on September 28, 2007 at Oxford University was formally videotaped and posted on [...]
Video created by the LDS Church to commemorate and celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ action in June 1978 to extend its lay priesthood to men of all races - entitled “He Inviteth Us All.” The revelation from God came quite clear from heaven to prophets and apostles [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, General Authorities, Temples Today
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Also tagged church, gentiles, gordon b. hinckley, jews, n. eldon tanner, peter, priesthood, prophet, race, revelation, salt lake temple, spencer w. kimball
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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, nephi, olivewood, scholar
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