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2013-06-07T13:45:12-05:00

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Modern Mormonism and Christianity’s Legacy of Holy Misogyny

Last updated on: June 7, 2013 at 1:45 pm By RT

In recent weeks there seems to have been a significant uptick in online discussion and exploration of the place of women in LDS theology and their relationship to priesthood. Joanna Brooks has been holding an insightful study session on what priesthood has meant at varying periods of the Church’s history, suggesting that the concept has been far more ambiguous and malleable than generally thought, while a number of blogs and other forms of media have given prominence to issues that... Read more

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2013-06-03T16:57:16-05:00

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Maimonides and a new Torah Scroll Controversy

Last updated on: June 3, 2013 at 4:57 pm By Bored in Vernal

My ears perked up when I heard the news that Mauro Perani, professor of Hebrew at the University of Bologna, has found what he believes is the world’s oldest complete Torah scroll. Perani was updating the University library’s Hebrew manuscript catalogue in February, when he realized the scroll had been wrongly dated by the last cataloguer in 1889. The 1889 cataloguer, a Jew named Leonello Modona, had described the letters in the scroll as “an Italian script, rather clumsy-looking, in... Read more

2013-05-29T15:02:04-05:00

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Event at Benchmark Books Tonight: Mormons and the Bible

Last updated on: May 29, 2013 at 3:02 pm By gwesley

If you are in the area of Benchmark Books, stop by to hear Philip L. Barlow and to pick up a copy of the updated edition of his book, Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion, which has just been reissued in paperback with a new preface and updated bibliography. And if you are not in the area, get a copy online. First published by Oxford University Press in 1991 and featuring such chapters... Read more

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2013-05-22T11:23:25-05:00

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The Value of an Outsider’s Perspective

Last updated on: May 22, 2013 at 11:23 am By smallaxe

Several years ago I was asked to accompany an investigator to church.We showed up a few minutes early and sat in the chapel. On the way to church, this investigator explained that he had never been to a Christian service before. He seemed quite eager to take in the experience. After I briefly introduced what takes place in a sacrament meeting service, we sat quietly in the chapel. Several moments went by as he looked around, and then asked, “What does that mean?”... Read more

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2013-05-23T12:30:39-05:00

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Exploring the Iconic Nature of the Book of Mormon: Part IIa – Manuscripts and Editions of the Book of Mormon

Last updated on: May 23, 2013 at 12:30 pm By MormonDeadhead

In my last post, I introduced two lines of questioning that Timothy Beal has raised in his book The Rise and Fall of the Bible concerning biblical texts. Part of Beal’s intent in writing is to introduce the reader to how a bunch of disparate religious writings came to be known as “The Bible.” Two main points are important in such a discussion: (1) that there are a great number of biblical manuscripts in existence today, and (2) that there are... Read more

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2013-05-03T01:29:49-05:00

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Priesthood, Women, and Non-Agency

Last updated on: May 3, 2013 at 1:29 am By jupiterschild

Two anecdotes: 1) Recently our bishop was teaching an Aaronic Priesthood lesson to a small group of young men that included a newly ordained deacon, the only deacon in the ward and the de facto president of the quorum. The earnest (and highly educated) bishop was zeroing in on the deacon, explaining that as the deacon’s quorum president he was one of only four people in the ward who hold the power to turn keys. 2) A (different) bishop was... Read more

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2013-04-23T09:28:40-05:00

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Boat, Bible; Ship, Scripture

Last updated on: April 23, 2013 at 9:28 am By gwesley

*follow-up to this. Three vociferous cheers for Old Joe and his Indian Bible notwithstanding, a lot of what the Book of Mormon says about colonization and colonialization is liable to make current readers squeamish. After all, it has been some time since the president of the United States, for instance, was systematically removing Native Americans to west of the Mississippi. Today there is actually concern about the loss of Native American languages, if not religions. It doesn’t matter much whether... Read more

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2013-04-19T09:44:02-05:00

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Scripture Studies and Theory

Last updated on: April 19, 2013 at 9:44 am By TT

With the arrival of Salt Press at the Maxwell Institute, we have finally entered an era of “theory” as part of mainstream LDS scripture studies. At the same time, we LDS have not fully processed the moves made in biblical studies. There was a short spurt of LDS feminist criticism in the 1990’s, but this did not engage the scriptures as a primary point of inquiry. Poststructuralism, cultural criticism, and queer studies have had almost no impact on LDS scripture... Read more

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2013-04-09T00:13:11-05:00

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Exploring the Iconic Nature of the Book of Mormon: Part I, Introduction

Last updated on: April 9, 2013 at 12:13 am By MormonDeadhead

In his recent book The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book, Timothy Beal offers an insightful and timely assessment of what he calls the “the iconic cultural meaning of the Bible.” [1] Beal proposes two main arguments in his work. First, that “there never has been a time when we could really talk about the Bible in the singular,” [2] and, second, that there is a marked difference between what the Bible actually is... Read more

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2013-03-29T20:16:14-05:00

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Breaking the Ivory Ceiling

Last updated on: March 29, 2013 at 8:16 pm By smallaxe

As a LDS studying religion, it’s not uncommon to hear the claim that Mormons have a hard time getting hired in religious studies departments; especially if they study Mormonism. Before 6 or so years ago there were 3 LDSs I am aware of that had a tenured (or tenure track) position in a religious studies (or theology) department:* (more…) Read more

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