by Administration | Mar 13, 2024 |
Noel Reynolds and Jeff Lindsay spoke at the Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference on Saturday, September 19, 2020 about “‘Strong Like Unto Moses’: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Content Apparently...
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by Administration | Feb 28, 2024 |
Ryan Dahle spoke about “Centralizing Scriptural Resources” at the Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference on Saturday, September 19, 2020. All of the conference presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are...
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by Administration | Feb 14, 2024 |
Matthew Roper spoke on “Clothed with Glory: Sacred Vestments and the Restoration” at the fourth Temple on Mount Zion Conference, held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The presentations were filmed, and...
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by Administration | Jan 31, 2024 |
Stephen Smoot spoke on “The Symbolism of the Cupped Hand in Ancient Egypt and Israel: Iconography, Text, and Artifact” at the fourth Temple on Mount Zion Conference, held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah....
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by Administration | Jan 17, 2024 |
The fourth “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference was held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. The videos are...
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by Administration | Jan 3, 2024 |
The fourth “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference was held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. The videos are...
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by Administration | Dec 20, 2023 |
The fourth “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference was held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. The videos are...
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by Administration | Dec 6, 2023 |
This paper will examine similarities between the account of the sacrifice and epiphany of the first parents in Moses 5:1-15 and analogous accounts found in apocryphal literature of the late antique and medieval periods. Apocryphal texts I will consider include...
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by Administration | Nov 22, 2023 |
In this paper, I propose to revisit the question posed by Hugh Nibley, “What Is a Temple?” in Mormonism and Early Christianity (Salt Lake City and Provo, 1987), 355-90, and by John Lundquist, “What Is a Temple? A Preliminary Typology,” in Temples of the Ancient World,...
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by Administration | Nov 8, 2023 |
The “Messianic Secret” theory proposes that Jesus Christ forbids demons and followers from revealing who he is for an enigmatic reason. While the findings of the original theory have largely been abandoned, the idea of secrecy motifs in Mark has endured. Mark’s use of...
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by Administration | Mar 6, 2024 |
Jeffrey Bradshaw, David Larsen, and Stephen Whitlock spoke at the Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference on Saturday, September 19, 2020 about “Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?.” Their paper highlights the...
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by Administration | Feb 21, 2024 |
Elder Bruce C. Hafen (emeritus) and Sister Marie K. Hafen gave the keynote address, “Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement” at the Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference on Friday September 18, 2020....
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by Administration | Feb 7, 2024 |
Avram Shannon spoke on “Consecration and Sacrilege in Early Rabbinic Judaism” at the fourth Temple on Mount Zion Conference, held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The presentations were filmed, and both...
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by Administration | Jan 24, 2024 |
The fourth “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference was held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. The videos are...
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by Administration | Jan 10, 2024 |
The fourth “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference was held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. The videos are...
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by Administration | Dec 27, 2023 |
The fourth “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference was held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. The videos are...
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by Administration | Dec 13, 2023 |
The fourth “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference was held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. The videos are...
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by Administration | Nov 29, 2023 |
The idea of names as “keywords” has been associated with temples since very early times. In a temple context, the meaning of the term “keyword” can be taken quite literally: the use of the appropriate keyword or keywords by a qualified worshipper “unlocks” each one of...
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by Administration | Nov 15, 2023 |
The religious ceremony of prayer with uplifted hands, practiced in Christian denominations contemporary with the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has an extremely ancient and venerable history that goes back thousands of years and is...
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by Administration | Nov 1, 2023 |
When the Spaniards arrived on Peruvian shores in 1532, they were mistaken for Wiraqocha, a bearded white god who had sojourned among them in ancient times. This god had travelled through the Andes on a perfect 45 degree angle of the north-south axis of the planet....
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