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August 2014

August 03, 2014

Interpreter

I assume that most of my readers know of the Interpreter Foundation, it's journal and...

August 02, 2014

DN column on Constantine

With Dan Peterson. Click here.

July 2014

July 21, 2014

Does God Know the Past?

The claims of some liberal LDS that God might choose to reveal "inspired fiction" in...

July 13, 2014

Historicity as Dividing Line

The default assumption of non-LDS is that the unique LDS scripture in the Pearl of...

July 12, 2014

David Larsen on Scripture

An in depth and insightful analysis of the nature of scripture from David Larsen at...

July 11, 2014

Abrahamic Issues

The recent Church statement on the "Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham" has...

July 11, 2014

What is Scripture? and is it relevant?

Well, that all depends on what you mean by "scripture" and what you mean by...

July 09, 2014

Milvian Bridge, 312 AD

Those who think that "violence never solves anything" have never studied history. For good or...

July 08, 2014

Historicity of the Book of Abraham

This statement seems difficult to reconcile with claims of a fictional Book of Abraham.

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Rome

Tomorrow I'm off to Rome for a month. I'll have intermittent wifi access, and will...

June 30, 2014

Thoughts on Historicity

Those who propose that our scriptures are best understood as "inspired fiction" almost inevitably frame...

June 18, 2014

Hamblin-Peterson Column on Relics

See here.

June 18, 2014

What is Apostasy?

Some of the critics of the Church like to claim that "apostasy" means "standing apart,"...

June 11, 2014

Mysticism 1: new class at BYU

I'm going to be teaching a class on "Mysticism and Esotericism" at BYU, in Fall...

June 11, 2014

Heavenly Ascents

People interested in temple theology, deification, celestial ascent, and biblical esoterica should check out David...

June 06, 2014

DH-39 Scholarly Consensus?

The claim is often made by supporters of the Documentary Hypothesis that there is scholarly...

June 04, 2014

Guatemala Tour!

I'll be leading a tour to Guatemala on 23 January-1 Feb 2015. Click here for...

June 04, 2014

DH-38 We Don’t Know

Another remarkable characteristic of the Documentarians is their unwillingness to simply admit, “We just don’t...

June 02, 2014

Religious Art

Hamblin-Peterson column in the Deseret News on religious art.

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Review of Ehrman

The ever insightful Larry Hurtado reviews Bart Ehrman's new book How Jesus Became God (2104).

May 25, 2014

DH 37- A Shrinking Theory?

One of the latest book-length defenses of the Documentary Hypothesis, Joel Baden’s The Composition of...

May 21, 2014

DH-36: Four Degrees of Speculation

Documentarians generally claim that they can: 1- identify the four different sources within the Pentateuch;...

May 14, 2014

DH-33: How Many Sources?

The classical formulation of the Documentary Hypothesis posits four written sources for the Pentateuch, called...

May 12, 2014

DH-32: Source Criticism

Modern scholars attempt to clearly indicate their sources by footnotes. Ancient scholars generally did not. ...

May 11, 2014

It’s not Personal

Stephen Smoot made an insightful comment here: [Quoting Hamblin:] "But what they cannot do is...

May 11, 2014

Bokovoy’s Response

David Bokovoy sent the follow as a comment. So it doesn't get lost in the...

May 10, 2014

Seeking Clarification

Various people, both here, on Facebook, and on anti-Mormon discussion boards in the nether regions...

May 10, 2014

Have I Misunderstood?

In response to my criticisms of his views (which I can't directly access; indirectly here),...

May 07, 2014

Palenque Enthronement

Enthronement scene of the king of Palenque. For high res version, click here:

April 2014

April 28, 2014

DH 30: Historicity Redux

David Bokovoy has written a response to Jeff Bradshaw's review of Authoring the Old Testament. Although...