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December 2008

December 29, 2008

How to Teach Yourself Hebrew from Scratch: Part II

Let's assume at this point that you're someone who took a year of Hebrew in...

December 19, 2008

Christmas and Mary

1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun,...

December 17, 2008

The Divine Council

There has been serious discussion among Mormon scholars over the past several years regarding the...

December 07, 2008

Reading the Christmas Stories: What is biblical criticism? Part 3

Hopefully you have all done what I suggested last time and made notes on both...

December 05, 2008

Genesis 1-3 and The Documentary Hypothesis (again)

As scholars have noted for some time, and as I shall argue here, there are...

October 2008

October 10, 2008

Righteous Dissent?

Paul's bitter dispute with Peter and James poses a problem for thinking about LDS notions...

September 2008

September 11, 2008

Back to Allegory?

When we moderns read any scripture we tend to read it only one way. We...

September 04, 2008

Amateur Biblical Studies, Part 2

Here's the other five resources which I recommend for an amateur in biblical studies just...

September 02, 2008

Amateur Biblical Studies, Part 1

I am not a biblical scholar, and I have never taken a class in anything...

July 2008

July 11, 2008

The Church and the Conversion Experience

Some time ago someone made a comment on one of our threads characterizing the LDS...

June 2008

June 30, 2008

Anxiety and the Fall

Some years back for a course I was taking in psychiatry we were assigned to...

June 24, 2008

How Old Was Jesus?

Doesn't everyone know that Jesus was 30 when he started his ministry, and 33 when...

June 18, 2008

The Shift Toward Modernity

Today's important news is that I ate my first ripe tomato of the 2008 season...

June 17, 2008

The End of Modernism?

When last we met to discuss the world of Catholic Biblical scholarship, Pius X had...

June 16, 2008

A Modicum of Modernism

This post arises from one of the issues raised in Nitsav’s Apologia. (Since it’s now,...

June 14, 2008

Eve Deceived

There has been a fair amount of discussion on the question of whether Eve was...

June 06, 2008

Uzzah Killed For Blind Obedience

Let me start out by saying I’m a big, big fan of obedience. And I...

June 05, 2008

What you have to explain without the Documentary Hypothesis

Last year I tried to give sure-fire evidence from a single chapter in Exodus supporting...

April 2008

April 29, 2008

The Record of John

Doctrine and Covenants 93:6-18 promises that if we are faithful, we shall receive the "fulness...

March 2008

March 31, 2008

BYU Religion Dean on Premortal Life, Part II: Scripture “Mastery”

This is part II of a post begun a week and a half ago in...

March 27, 2008

Jesus and the Sabbath

Jesus is depicted in the Gospels as healing on the Sabbath. This healing frequently caused...

March 19, 2008

BYU Religion Dean on Premortal Life, Part I: Race and Nobility

Last week Terry Ball, Dean of the College of Religious Education, gave BYU's weekly devotional...

March 12, 2008

Judah, Joseph, ‘Chastity’, and Authorial Intent

Most LDSs who have actually read Genesis 38 and 39 have undoubtedly had the thought,...

January 2008

January 26, 2008

Priesthood, Temple, and Semantics

Most people know that in our current arrangement, young men tend to receive the priesthood...

December 2007

December 23, 2007

November 2007

November 26, 2007

Notes from hither and yon

AHLDuke summarizes the SBL conference on his blog. I hear it was a good time....

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