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June 2014

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 18, 2014

Spring City, Utah

Spring City, Utah (population 1000), is an old Mormon pioneer agrarian settlement from the 1850s. It...

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...

April 26, 2014

“Jesus’ Wife” a Hoax?

Arguments that the "Jesus' Wife" papyri fragment is a hoax.

April 23, 2014

DH 20: Historicity 2

Historians have long realized that, epistemologically speaking, the idea of learning what “really happened” through...

April 22, 2014

DH 19: Historicity 1

When examining the question of historicity, it is important to distinguish between ontological issues and...

April 21, 2014

DH 17: What is the Documentary Hypothesis?

The discussion on DH 16 seems to have degenerated into a debate about the meaning...

August 2013

August 19, 2013

Mysteries of Enoch 2: Intertestamental and New Testament

Attached are the KeyNote slides for my Education Week presentation" "Mysteries of Enoch 2: Intertestamental and New...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Royal Skousen’s Critical Text Project

His lecture series is now online via the Maxwell Institute:

July 22, 2013

Another Gee Bullseye

July 22, 2013

The Future of Mormon Studies?

Ben Park, an associate editor of the newly envisaged Mormon Studies Review, has forwarded a...

July 14, 2013

Deseret column on esoteric

July 04, 2013

Happy Fourth of July

Some photos:

June 2013

June 29, 2013

Book of Mormon Onomastica

Now online. Lot's of interesting things here about names in the Book of Mormon.

June 23, 2013

Stake Fireside

I'm going to be presenting a stake fireside at the Daybreak South Jordan Stake center on...