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September 2008

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 21, 2008

Call for Papers

"Reconciliations and Reformulations": A Conference for LDS Graduate Students in Religious Studies Harvard University, February...

July 19, 2008

Vision of Gabriel Update

The "Vision of Gabriel," (aka Hazon Gabriel) a newly discovered Hebrew text written in ink...

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...

May 2008

May 09, 2008

A Special Day at FPR (Updated)

Today we mark two important milestones at FPR. First, May 9th, 2008 is the third...

May 05, 2008

Nephi as the first autobiographer?

One of the most interesting things about the small plates of Nephi is the first...

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...

April 10, 2008

Elder Holland’s Subversive Message?

At the risk of stirring controversy against my absolute favorite Apostle, I want to ask...

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,...

March 10, 2008

What readers bring to texts

Last week we learned of the discovery of another example in an increasingly long line...

March 05, 2008

Book of Mormon Ethics Revisited

Hi, everybody it’s my first post. Newbie that I am, I’m still becoming acquainted with...

February 2008

February 19, 2008

The C-F-A and a Non-literal Adam and Eve

This past Sunday I taught my 14 year old SS class about the Atonement from...

January 2008

January 26, 2008

Priesthood, Temple, and Semantics

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

January 15, 2008

Do we really believe the Book of Mormon?

Sitting in Sunday School this week and rereading 1 Ne 1-7, I couldn't help but...

December 2007

December 23, 2007

More on the New Perspective on Paul

There has been some interest in this topic on the LDS blogs recently. I think...

December 22, 2007

The Father of Jesus

It is clear that for many early Christian authors, the Virgin Birth was unknown. Paul...

December 21, 2007

The Christmas Post: Happy Winter Solstice

The holiday for late Roman deity Sol Invictus, the Unconquerable Sun, was celebrated on December...

December 19, 2007

Some Notes on Reading Hebrew (and Greek)

I taught Old Testament in Institute last semester, but we only did Genesis. I'll try...

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