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September 2012

September 20, 2012

Temple on Mount Zion Conference

Just a reminder that the Temple on Mount Zion Conference will be held Saturday 22 September....

September 19, 2012

The First Interpreter Scripture Roundtable

This video is the inaugural Scripture Roundtable from the Interpreter Foundation, in which we discuss...

September 19, 2012

Video lecture: Melchizedek traditions

September 17, 2012

Video Lecture: Bronze Age Jerusalem

Examines the archaeological remains of Canaanite Jerusalem during the Bronze Age (to c. 1500 BC);...

September 16, 2012

New Article on Interpreter

Mormonism and Wikipedia: The Church History That “Anyone Can Edit” Abstract: The ability to...

September 16, 2012

Desideratum for the Study of Mormon Scripture

If I were in charge (which I'm not--which is probably a good thing), I would...

September 14, 2012

Celestial Ascent

A preliminary introductory bibliography.

September 12, 2012

Canaanite Sacred Symbols

An examination of some of the sacred sites and images of the Canaanites.

September 12, 2012

Neolithic Sacred Symbols, part 2

Discussion of the uses of stones in Neolithic times to formulate Sacred Space, part 2....

September 11, 2012

New Interpreter Podcast

Mark Alan Wright describes his research on the Maya, and its possible relation to the...

September 10, 2012

The Last Pagan Temple

This slide shows the keep of the citadel of Harran (modern Turkey), which is one...

September 10, 2012

Divine Council and Celestial Ascent

Although the most detailed descriptions of temple ritual in the Bible are descriptions of sacrificial...

September 09, 2012

New DN column on BYU art exhibit

September 07, 2012

Sacred Symbolism of the Egyptian Pyramids

and the Pyramid texts.

September 07, 2012

Neolithic Sacred Symbols, part 1

An examination of the earliest archaeological evidence of religious belief.

September 07, 2012

Review Essay on Atheists on Interpreter

Louis Midgley, "Atheist Piety: A Religion of Dogmatic Dubiety"

September 04, 2012

Sacred Symbols of Ancient Temples

From my World History class

September 04, 2012

Video on Creation Myths and Temples

From my 201 class:

September 01, 2012

Palestinian Hieratic

The fourth presentation at BYU's Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies conference on 31...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

New article on Interpreter

A response to Michael Coe

August 30, 2012

Biblical definition of Christian

The simple biblical definition of what is a Christian can be found in Matthew 16:15-17...

August 29, 2012

Interpreter Podcast 1

In this inaugural podcast discussion Dan Peterson and William Hamblin discuss the origin and purposes of the Interpreter Foundation,...

August 28, 2012

Interpreter has a new blog

Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has added a new blog. It is multi-authored,...

August 28, 2012

Are Mormons Christians? Witherington says no.

Ben Witherington recently posted the following essay on Patheos: “Why Mormonism is not Christianity– the...

August 25, 2012

New Deseret News column

On atheism and Christianity in Soviet Russia

August 24, 2012

My new article

"“I Have Revealed Your Name”: The Hidden Temple in John 17" has just appeared in...

August 22, 2012

Temple Study Computerside chat

We discuss the nature of ancient temple worship, and the early endowments in the Nauvoo...

August 21, 2012

Computerside Chat on the Temple

I'll be participating in another live Computerside Chat on the temple on Wed. 22 August...

August 19, 2012

Lesson on the Sabbath

From TGAS #16, which I gave to my High Priest group, Sunday 19 August, 1pm....

August 17, 2012

A Critique of Evangelical Biblicism

Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism is not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture,...