Freemasonry and the Origins of Modern Temple Ordinances
An Important New Study of Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saints: What’s Good, What’s Questionable, and What’s Missing in Method Infinite
Twenty Years After “Paradigms Regained,” Part 1: The Ongoing, Plain, and Precious Significance of Margaret Barker’s Scholarship for Latter-day Saint Studies
“How Thankful We Should Be to Know the Truth”: Zebedee Coltrin’s Witness of the Heavenly Origins of Temple Ordinances
The Body As the Temple of God
Tamid: Zacharias and the Second Temple
The Past and Future of the Temple Lot in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri
King Benjamin’s Sermon as a Type of Temple Endowment
“By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified”: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6
Joseph Smith at the Veil: Significant Ritual, Symbolism, and Temple Influence at Latter-day Saint Beginnings
Latter-day Houses of the Lord: Developments in Their Design and Function
Edfu and Exodus
The Temple: A Multi-Faceted Center and Its Problems
The Book of Moses as a Temple Text
Passing Up The Heavenly Gift (Part Two of Two)
Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement
Jesus’ First Visit to the Temple
Temple Themes in the Book of Abraham
Ancient Temple Imagery in the Sermons of Jacob
KnoWhy OTL26A — Why Does “Holiness To the Lord” Appear on LDS Temples?
The Yoke of Christ: A Light Burden Heavy With Meaning
“I Have Revealed Your Name”: The Hidden Temple in John 17
Heavenly Ascent in Jacob’s Writings in Second Nephi: Addressing the Question of What the Plan of Salvation is in the Book of Mormon
Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: What the Psalms Can Tell Us About the Rituals of the First Temple
“In the Mount of the Lord It Shall Be Seen” and “Provided”: Theophany and Sacrifice as the Etiological Foundation of the Temple in Israelite and Latter-day Saint Tradition
Faith, Hope, and Charity: The “Three Principal Rounds” of the Ladder of Heavenly Ascent
Restoring Melchizedek Priesthood
Essay #31: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Heavenly Ascent and Ritual Ascent (Moses 1)
KnoWhy OTL03A — What Can the Architecture of Israelite Temples Teach Us About Creation and the Garden of Eden?
Early Christian Temples and Baptism for the Dead: Defining Sacred Space in the Late Antique Near East
Standing in the Holy Place: Ancient and Modern Reverberations of an Enigmatic New Testament Prophecy
The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah
Aftermath of the Martyrdom: Aspirants to the Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Smith
“How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place”
A Review of Danel W. Bachman,
“A Temple Studies Bibliography”
Women and the Priesthood in the Contemporary Church
KnoWhy OTL05A — Why Was Joseph Smith Initially Prohibited from Publishing His Bible Translation?
Vindicating Josiah
“The Messenger of Salvation”: The Messenger-Message Christology of D&C 93:8 and Its Implications for Latter-day Saint Missionary Work and Temple Worship
Nurture and Harvest: A Continued Conversation with The Annotated Book of Mormon
Isaiah 56, Abraham, and the Temple
Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry
“Armed with Righteousness and with the Power of God”: Allusions to Priestly Clothing, Priesthood, and Temple in 1 Nephi 14:14
Examining the Origins of Temple Worship
Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?
KnoWhy OTL36A — How Might We Interpret the Dense Temple-Related Symbolism of the Prophet’s Heavenly Vision in Isaiah 6?
“The Desert Shall Rejoice, and Blossom as the Rose”
Axes Mundi: Ritual Complexes in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon
KnoWhy OTL15A — How Do the Serpent and the Shewbread Symbolize Christ?
Cube, Gate, and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern
Axes Mundi: Ritual Complexes in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon
Essay #46: Moses Witnesses the Creation (Moses 2): The Days of Creation and Temple Architecture (Moses 2:1-27)
The Lady at the Horizon: Egyptian Tree Goddess Iconography and Sacred Trees in Israelite Scripture and Temple Theology
Seeing Psalms as the Libretti of a Holy Drama
Light and Perspective: Essays from the Mormon Theology Seminar on 1 Nephi 1 and Jacob 7
Josiah to Zoram to Sherem to Jarom and the Big Little Book of Omni
Twenty Years After “Paradigms Regained,” Part 2: Responding to Margaret Barker’s Critics and Why Her Work Should Matter to Latter-day Saints
Essay #61: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): The Tree in the Sacred Center of the Garden of Eden (Moses 3:9)
A Deeper Understanding of the Temple in 175 Entries
Book Review: Temple Mysticism: An Introduction, by Margaret Barker
“A Mystery to the World”: A New Proposal for Isaiah 22:20-25
KnoWhy OTL05B — How Does Moses 5-8 Illustrate the Consequences of Keeping and Breaking Temple Covenants One By One?
Nephite insights into Israelite Worship Practices before the Babylonian Captivity
An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses
2022 Temple on Mount Zion — Program & Abstracts
KnoWhy OTL14A — What Similarities Are There Between Egyptian and Israelite Temples?
The Integration of Temples and Families: A Latter-day Saint Structure for the Jacob Cycle
The Kinshasa DR Congo Temple: A Personal Perspective Part 4: Vignettes of Joy and Gratitude from the Kinshasa Temple Open House
The Tabernacle: Mountain of God in the Cultus of Israel
Founded Upon a Rock: Doctrinal and Temple Implications of Peter’s Surnaming
First Visions and Last Sermons: Affirming Divine Sociality, Rejecting the Greater Apostasy
“Encircled About Eternally in the Arms of His Love”: The Divine Embrace as a Thematic Symbol of Jesus Christ and His Atonement in the Book of Mormon
Essay #73: The Two Ways (Moses 5): The Five Celestial Laws (Moses, chapters 5–8)
Essay #32: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: The Two-Part Pattern of Heavenly and Ritual Ascent (Moses 1)
Now That We Have the Words of Joseph Smith, How Shall We Begin to Understand Them? Illustrations of Selected Challenges within the 21 May 1843 Discourse on 2 Peter 1
Essay #55: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): The Garden of Eden as a Model for the Temple in Israel and Old Babylon (Moses 3:8–15)
KnoWhy OTL14B — What Were Israel’s Most Serious Provocations of the Lord in the Wilderness?
Ancient Sacred Vestments: Scriptural Symbols and Meanings
Interpreting Interpreter: Bodies as Literal Temples
Essay #76: Noah (Moses 8): Was Noah’s Ark Designed as a Floating Temple? (Moses 8:22–30; Genesis 6:5–22; chapters 7–8)
Precious Highlights in President Spencer W. Kimball’s Journal
Essay #33: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses 1 as a “Missing” Prologue to Genesis (Moses 1)
Joseph Smith: Monogamist or Polygamist?
Not Leaving and Going On to Perfection
Book of Moses Bibliography (Alphabetical)
2024 Temple on Mount Zion — Program & Abstracts
KnoWhy OTL06A — Was Noah’s Ark Designed As a Floating Temple?
A Lengthening Shadow: Is Quality of Thought Deteriorating in LDS Scholarly Discourse Regarding Prophets and Revelation? Part One
From Dust to Exalted Crown: Royal and Temple Themes Common to the Psalms and the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Crown of Creation
Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances
“Being of that Lineage”: Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham
Joseph Smith: The World’s Greatest Guesser (A Bayesian Statistical Analysis of Positive and Negative Correspondences between the Book of Mormon and The Maya)
Essay #69: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): “Stand Ye in Holy Places, and Be Not Moved” (Moses 4:29–31)
Prophets and Kings in Lehi’s Jerusalem and Margaret Barker’s Temple Theology
KnoWhy OTL22A — What Was the Religious Role of Music in the Life and Times of David?
The Lost Prologue: Reading Moses Chapter One as an Ancient Text
Becoming Men and Women of Understanding: Wordplay on Benjamin — An Addendum
Messengers of the Covenant: Mormon’s Doctrinal Use of Malachi 3:1 in Moroni 7:29–32
“With the Tongue of Angels”: Angelic Speech as a Form of Deification
“Put Off Thy Shoes from Off Thy Feet”: Sandals and Sacred Space
Theosis in the Book of Mormon: The Work and Glory of the Father, Mother and Son, and Holy Ghost
Essay #71: The Two Ways (Moses 5): The Prayer of Adam and Eve (Moses 5:4)
The Prodigal’s Return to the Father: House of Glory and Rediscovery
2020 Temple on Mount Zion — Videos
A Mesoamerican Context for the Book of Mormon is a Two-edged Sword
“One Drop of Salvation from the House of Majesty”: An Analysis of the Revelation of the Magi and Restoration Scripture
Essay #77: Noah (Moses 8): Was Noah Drunk or in a Vision? (Genesis 9)
Temples All the Way Down: Some Notes on the Mi‘raj of Muhammad
Serpents of Fire and Brass: A Contextual Study of the Brazen Serpent Tradition in the Book of Mormon
“Thou Knowest That I Believe”: Invoking The Spirit of the Lord as Council Witness in 1 Nephi 11
2020 Temple on Mount Zion — Program & Abstracts
A Modern View of Ancient Temple Worship
“Our Great God Has in Goodness Sent These”: Notes on the Goodness of God, the Didactic Good of Nephi’s Small Plates, and Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s Renaming
The Millennial Temple with R. Jean Addams
Conference Talks: The Past and Future of the Temple Lot in Jackson County, Missouri
The Kinshasa DR Congo Temple: A Personal Perspective Part 1: Preparing for the Kinshasa Temple Open House
“There’s the Boy I Can Trust”: Dennison Lott Harris’ First-Person Account of the Conspiracy of Nauvoo and Events Surrounding Joseph Smith’s “Last Charge” to the Twelve Apostles
Essay #39: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: The Names of Moses as “Keywords” (Moses 1:25)
The Book of Mormon as a Resurrected Book and a Type of Christ
Essay #17: The Teachings of Enoch — “By the Water Ye Keep the Commandment” (Moses 6:60, 64)
“I Shall Gather In”: The Name Joseph, Iterative Divine Action, and the Latter-day Harvest Ingathering of Israel as Themes in 3 Nephi
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 1 of 2
Moving Beyond the Historicity Question, or a Manifesto for Future Book of Mormon Research
KnoWhy OTL06B — Was Noah Drunk or in a Vision?
Sorting Out the Sources in Scripture
KnoWhy OTL13A — What Did the Lord Mean When He Said Moses Would Become “God to Pharaoh” During the Plagues of Egypt?
Conference Talks: “Holiness to the Lord: Biblical Temple Imagery in the Sermons of Jacob the Priest”
The Temple: Ancient and Restored
KnoWhy OTL25A — Is There More to Psalm 23 Than Words of Solace and Comfort?
Exploring the Symbolism of Christ in Ancient Christmas Carols and Traditions 2: Temple Themes in Luke’s Account of the Angels and the Shepherds
Conference Talks: From Temple to Church: Defining Sacred Space in the Near East
Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn on Ancient Manuscripts When He Translated the Story of Enoch?: Recent Updates on a Persistent Question
Interpreting Interpreter: Abrahamic Temple Themes
Passing Up The Heavenly Gift (Part One of Two)
Conference Talks: Cherubim and Seraphim: Iconography in the First Jerusalem Temple
Lehi and Nephi as Trained Manassite Scribes
“Creator of the First Day”: The Glossing of Lord of Sabaoth in D&C 95:7
The Kinshasa DR Congo Temple: A Personal Perspective Part 2: Media Session of the Kinshasa Temple Open House
KnoWhy OTL18A — Did Joshua “Utterly Destroy” the Canaanites?
Conference Talks: The Two Ways in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Israelite Temple Theology
Essay #21: The Teachings of Enoch — “Thus May All Become My Sons” (Moses 6:59, 66–68)
The Church in the DR Congo: A Personal Perspective: Part 9, The Temple 2: “Holiness to the Lord”
Too Little or Too Much Like the Bible? A Novel Critique of the Book of Mormon Involving David and the Psalms
The Temple: Past, Present and Future
Essay #24: Enoch, the Prophet and Seer: The End of the Wicked and the Beginnings of Zion (Moses 7:12–18)
Conference Talks: What Did Joseph Smith Know about Temple Ordinances by 1836?
The Church in the DR Congo: A Personal Perspective: Part 10, The Temple 3: A Light to the World
Conference Talks: Wiraqocha and the Rites of the Raqchi Temple in Peru
The Handclasp, the Temple, and the King
Conference Talks: From Dust to Exalted Crown: Royal and Temple Themes Common to the Psalms and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Interpreting Interpreter: Two Decades of Margaret Barker
“All Can Partake, Freely”
Marjorie Newton’s Account of the Faith of the Māori Saints: A Critical Appraisal
Viewing the Temple Through Wilford Woodruff’s Eyes
“We May Not Understand Our Words”: The Book of Abraham and the Concept of Translation in The Pearl of Greatest Price
Old Testament Commentary: Genesis 28-31: “In His Own Time, and in His Own Way” Part 1 of 3: Jacob Ascends the Ladder of Exaltation
Essay #70: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): The “Temple Work” of Adam and Eve (Moses 4:23–25, 31)
Conference Talks: Women in Ancient Israelite Temple Worship
Prophet or Loss: Mosiah1/Zeniff, Benjamin/Noah, Mosiah2/Limhi and the Emergence of the Almas
Conference Talks: Gentiles in the Temple: Worship and Conversion in the Septuagint of Isaiah
Conference Talks: Jerusalem Temple Imagery in Late Ancient Synagogue Ritual, Art, and Architecture
2014 Temple on Mount Zion Conference Videos
Conference Talks: The Story-Cycles of the Patriarchs and Temple Progression
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
KnoWhy OTL05C — Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn On Ancient Manuscripts When He Translated the Story of Enoch?
Conference Talks: Covenant and Temple in Psalm 105
Conference Talks: “That They May Be Purified in Me”
Consecration Brings Forth Zion, Not Just Disaster Relief: An Examination of Scholarly and Prophetic Statements on the Law of Consecration
Reprint: The Book of Moses as a Temple Text
Doctrine and Covenants Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 44
The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs
The Great and Spacious Book of Mormon Arcade Game: More Curious Works from Book of Mormon Critics
Ministering across Fault Lines of Belief and Community
The Life-giving “Water” of the Restoration
A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 1: Ignoring Inconvenient Evidence
The Man with No Name: The Story of the Brother of Jared as an Anti-Babel Polemic
Reprint: On Earth When It Was in Heaven: Sacred Time and its Protection in Egyptian Temples
Conference Talks: Axes Mundi: A Comparative Analysis of Nephite and Mesoamerican Temple and Ritual Complexes
Book Review: Temple Themes in the Book of Moses, by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
The Church in the DR Congo: A Personal Perspective: Part 8, The Temple 1: “Turning the Hearts of the Children”
What Did Joseph Smith Know about Modern Temple Ordinances by 1836?
The Lord Will Not Forget Them! Māori Seers and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Essay #20: The Teachings of Enoch — “By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified” (Moses 6:60)
Conference Talks: Bearing Testimony in Hebrew: A Comparison of Ancient Israelite Temple Worship with Modern Latter-day Saint Testimony Meetings
Conference Talks: Jesus’s First Visit to the Temple
Eye of the Beholder, Law of the Harvest: Observations on the Inevitable Consequences of the Different Investigative Approaches of Jeremy Runnells and Jeff Lindsay
Conference Talks: The Book of the Dead as a Temple Text and Its Implications for the Book of Abraham
2022 Temple on Mount Zion — Psalm 89 in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran Reflections on the Coming Messiah and the “True Service” of the Temple
The Role and Purpose of Synagogues in the Days of Jesus and Paul
Conference Talks: The Messianic Sacred, Not Secret
Conference Talks: The Day of Atonement, the Mosaic Temple, and the Christian Sacrament of Communion: Links and Symbols
Conference Talks: Psalm 24 and the Two Yahwehs at the Gate of the Temple
Vaughn J. Featherstone’s Atlanta Temple Letter
Temple Studies Bibliography is now Online
Conference Talks: Clothed with Glory: Sacred Vestments and the Restoration
Conference Talks: Consecration and Sacrilege in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Conference Talks: “Let the Beauty of the Lord our God be Upon Us”: The Role of Visual Aesthetics in Ancient Israel’s Temple Worship
On Being the Sons of Moses and Aaron: Another Look at Interpreting the Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood
Essay #35: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses Falls to the Earth (Moses 1:9-11)
