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June 2017

June 15, 2017

Some Sources for More Serious Study

One of the comments added to the last post asked about sources that might help...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

Review of Mark Smith, Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World

I've put up my review of Mark Smith, Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

To the Editors of the Deseret News

Dear Sir / Ma'am: I was interested to read in your edition of Thursday, January...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

Diachronic or Synchronic? A Response to Nicholas J. Frederick

Introduction The fact that New Testament (NT) language appears throughout the Book of Mormon (BM)...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

BYUNTC Revelation

The Revelation volume in the BYUNTC series is back in the news, so I thought...

January 2015

January 04, 2015

The Part I Left Out…

I was blogging a bit over with Benjamin the Scribe, but didn’t get all of...

December 2014

December 14, 2014

The 144,000 PARTHENOI of Revelation 14

The story of the 144,000 who stand with the Lamb on Mt. Zion in Rev...

December 08, 2014

New Kid in Town: Newest Anchor Bible Commentary on Revelation

This seems to be the year for commentaries on Revelation. And although there are a...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Women, Blacks, and the Priesthood in Recent LDS Church Rhetoric

The open letter recently delivered by LDS church spokesman Michael Otterson to a variety of...

May 28, 2014

10 Reasons to be Excited about the Study of Religion at BYU

In the spirit of the 10 tidbits series at FPR, I offer (for once!) a...

May 05, 2014

Biblical Literalism, Literally

The increasingly common use of “literally” to mean something emphatic (but not literal) has provided...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

Bill Hamblin on the Documentary Hypothesis

Bill Hamblin has done a great service in providing a detailed outsider’s critique, repeating some...

March 2014

March 25, 2014

The Joseph Story in Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis

A basic first step in grasping the meaning of a biblical text as it may...

March 09, 2014

Things You Wouldn’t Think Might Go Together…

About last Friday or so I was sitting under my rock reading from Ehrman’s...

June 2013

June 03, 2013

Maimonides and a new Torah Scroll Controversy

My ears perked up when I heard the news that Mauro Perani, professor of Hebrew...

March 2013

March 19, 2013

An (Updated) Bible Dictionary?

Let me just say upfront that I don’t have a problem in theory with the...

March 05, 2013

Approaching Antiquity: BYU Church History Symposium 2013

In case you haven't seen it, take a break from Wheat and Tares Apologizing and...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

Israel’s Past Without the Bible

It may come as a surprise to some that there are texts from ancient Israel,...

February 18, 2013

Peter, James, and … Lazarus?

I recently ran across a hypothesis promulgated anew by Ben Witherington III that attempts to...

February 11, 2013

On the Malleability of Gold Plates: Mormonism and Modern Biblical Scholarship

From the time I first came to understand the nature of pseudepigrapha, I felt comfortable...

September 2012

September 06, 2012

Scripture Mastery Context(s) Series: Jeremiah 16:16 – Should Missionaries be Hunting & Fishing?

“Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them;...

September 03, 2012

Quick and Powerful

And so another Labor Day comes, bringing the end to summer. May the next summer...

August 2012

August 15, 2012

Black and White

As I have casually wandered around the BoM this summer looking at how it uses...

August 13, 2012

Giant Horror Bug Replaced!!!

When last we looked in on how the BoM used something of Paul’s from First...

August 10, 2012

Giant Horror Bug Gone Missing!!!

This is one of those instances of intertextuality where what’s interesting is what’s missing. At...

August 07, 2012

Gall of Bitterness

This expression, which seems pretty strange to moderns, is used a surprising number of times...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

Ten [More] Tidbits from the Sermon on the Mount

1. Although this discourse opens by naming the disciples as the audience, at its conclusion...

July 23, 2012

Ten Tidbits About the Ten Commandments

1. Although commonly referred to as the "Ten Commandments," in the Hebrew Bible itself they are...

July 13, 2012

Seal You His

Closing out the fifth chapter of Mosiah is an exhortation to righteous living followed by...

July 12, 2012

Author and Finisher

Tucked away near the end of the BoM is a description of Christ as “the...

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