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July 2015

July 08, 2015

Hamblin 26: Goose and Gander

My friend Neal Rappleye recently posted an important response to some of the things Jenkins...

May 2015

May 03, 2015

“Not a Divine Product”

On his blog David Bokovoy suggest that Latter-day Saints should adopt the views of Marcus...

May 03, 2015

Tree veneration in India and the Bible

The latest Hamblin-Peterson Deseret News Column "Tree veneration in India and the Bible" Be sure...

March 2015

March 13, 2015

Historical Criticism and Historicity

I'm off traveling for a while, and will have intermittent internet access, and time for...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

What is Historicity?

In his blogs of the past few David Bokovoy has been using the term "historicity"...

February 07, 2015

Is Modern Biblical Studies a “Historical” Discipline?

John Gee presented an interesting analysis of the question of whether a person can get...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

Gee on HIstoricity

I've been out of the loop for a couple of weeks due to my mother's...

January 08, 2015

More Confusion about Historicity

David Bokovoy is a smart guy, a good scholar, and a wonderful human being. But...

January 02, 2015

October 2014

October 13, 2014

M&E 17 Mystical Miscellany

Discussion of various concepts of Jewish mysticism: tzaddik (righteous/saint), sacred sexuality, silence, sacred dance, sacred space,...

October 13, 2014

M&E 18 Zohar; Reincarnation/Gilgul

Origin, nature and impact of the Zohar; Jewish mystical concept of reincarnation (gilgul)

October 08, 2014

M&E 16 Rabbinic Discussions of Mysticism

Discussion of early Rabbinic accounts of Jewish mystical exegesis and practices, and Rabbinic concerns over...

October 06, 2014

M&E 15 Dead Sea Scrolls and Philo

Jewish proto-mysticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Philo

October 03, 2014

M&E 14 Enoch

Discussion of apocalyptic and apocrypha; the background to different biblical versions: Hebrew Bible, Aramaic Targum,...

October 01, 2014

Mysticism and Esotericism Class

I finished reorganizing the recordings of lectures 1-13 from my "Mysticism and Esotericism" class, and placed...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

Column on the name Jehovah

The Hamblin/Peterson column in the Deseret News on the name Jehovah,

September 12, 2014

Temple 8: Altar of Peace

Augustus' Ara Pacis (Altar of Peace) created to honor the gods for restoring peace by...

September 09, 2014

Temple 7: Bull Sacrifice

Roman mural depicting of a bull (wearing crown and garlands) being brought to the sacrificial...

September 03, 2014

Temple 6: covenant gesture?

This is the surviving terracotta arm of an early Etruscan statue. The arm is pre-made...

September 02, 2014

Temple 5: Lampstand (Menorah)

Early Roman (or Etruscan?) bronze lamp-stands. One has a built in lamp, and one has...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Temple 3: First Fruits

This statue shows a Roman emperor Pontifex Maximus (High Priest), with veiled head in preparation for...

August 26, 2014

Mysticism and Esotericism

I'm teaching a new class at BYU this fall: History 485 "Mysticism and Esotericism." I've...

August 23, 2014

Temple 1: Brazen Sea

The Brass Sea (Brazen or Bronze Sea) (2 Kgs 25:13-16; 1 Chr 18:8; Jer 52:17-20; cf....

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

DH-38 We Don’t Know

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

May 2014

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...