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August 2020

August 26, 2020

Greed, Priestcraft, and Me

I'm being attacked. That's not news, of course. I'm attacked every single...

August 17, 2020

Revision 3.15 “The First Arab Conquests”

Abu Bakr was the first man to bear the title of caliph, to...

August 13, 2020

Next Year Along the Nile

The latest installment of my bi-weekly Deseret News column went up earlier today...

July 2020

July 20, 2020

“The Lady at the Horizon: Egyptian Tree Goddess Iconography and Sacred Trees in Israelite Scripture and Temple Theology”

An intriguing article, written by John S. Thompson, was posted today on the...

July 18, 2020

Revision 2.1 “The Arabs before Islam”

The first question that comes up when we begin to discuss “the Arabs”...

July 17, 2020

“Four Idolatrous Gods in the Book of Abraham”

A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

June 2020

June 23, 2020

Liberal Islam and Illiberal Islam

I share, here, a couple of passages that I marked during my reading...

June 21, 2020

Modeling a way of being a Latter-day Saint family on the eastern bank of the Nile

Within weeks of our marriage in the Salt Lake Temple, my wife and...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

Napoleon the Muslim

A perfectly astounding passage from Paul Strathern, Napoleon in Egypt (New York: Bantam...

May 07, 2020

Napoleon’s “Savants” and the Great “Description de l’Égypte”

I have subtly hinted that I'm not exactly chairman of the Napoleon Fan...

May 06, 2020

Napoleon, en route to Egypt

I share here two extracts from Paul Strathern, Napoleon in Egypt (New York:...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

There is still a chance to go with us to Egypt in late November!

Are you tired of being cooped up at home? Are you yearning to...

April 29, 2020

From my readings: “Nothingness” in ancient Egyptian thinking

I continue here with some notes from John H. Walton, Genesis 1 as...

April 28, 2020

The beginning of modernity in the Middle East

Once or twice, I used Daniel W. Brown, A New Introduction to Islam,...

April 25, 2020

A first pass at Sayyid Qutb

One of the principal architects of modern Islamic "fundamentalism" and, therefore, derivatively, of...

April 16, 2020

On Anwar Sadat and the Fundamentalists

I share some further notes from Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political...

March 2020

March 29, 2020

On the “east wind” in the Book of Mormon

Barring unforeseen mishap, I'll be on the Interpreter Radio Show tonight (Sunday night)...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

“Yes, wonderful things.”

"How Iran Became a New Epicenter of the Coronavirus Outbreak" "Iranian clerics...

February 27, 2020

“Ultimate Egypt Lecture Series”

"Ultimate Egypt Lecture Series" "Cruise Lady: Latter-day Adventures is pleased to announce a...

February 03, 2020

“Ultimate Egypt Interpreter Foundation Tour”

I would like to call your attention to an upcoming visit to Egypt...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

6 October 1981, in Luxor, Egypt

My wife and I took the overnight train from Cairo to Luxor on...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

Angelic choirs and Palestinian shepherds

On Sunday, after attending sacrament meeting at the Newport Hills Ward, my wife...

November 10, 2019

Come, fly with me!

I'm told that two spots have unexpectedly opened up on the Cruise Lady...

November 05, 2019

Memories of Kamal

For the last three of the four years that my wife and I...

November 03, 2019

For a Sabbath Day, the “Great Hymn to the Aten”

The "Great Hymn to the Aten" is a poem, composed during the middle...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

“Last Chance to Book ‘Ultimate Egypt’!”

I just now received a note from the folks at Cruise Lady, and...

April 2019

April 01, 2019

Archaeology continues to deliver

Here's some news from the world of the past: "Pompeii ‘fast food’...

February 2019

February 14, 2019

In which I recall embarrassing myself with President Nelson

New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Lasting Happiness Comes from...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

New Testament Notes 10-11

Matthew 2:13-23 Luke 2:39-40 In the Bible -- in the Old Testament,...

January 22, 2019

Egypt, anybody?

During our recent visit to Egypt, I found out that -- contrary to...