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2016-12-21T09:56:25-05:00

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The Cyclical Nature of BYU’s Religious Education

Last updated on: December 21, 2016 at 9:56 am By smallaxe

A guest post from Mrs. Silence Dogood One of the most interesting books on Mormon history to appear in the last year was Thomas Simpson’s American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism (University of North Carolina Press). You can read reviews of the book here, here, here, and here, as well as interviews here and here. As a summary, Simpson argues that the Mormon tradition’s awkward, uneven, but relentless interaction with higher education drove much of the Americanization process... Read more

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2016-12-19T12:44:14-05:00

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

Last updated on: December 19, 2016 at 12:44 pm By RT

I’ve put up my review of Mark Smith, Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World (Yale University, 2016). The book is a stimulating and concise exploration of a timely topic. Read more

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Scripture

2016-12-05T23:43:51-05:00

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The death of Book of Mormon antiquity research?

Last updated on: December 5, 2016 at 11:43 pm By RT

Book of Mormon antiquity research has changed a lot since since the late 1990s. Not so long ago, it appeared that the future looked bright for the project to authenticate the BoM. Even in 2005 Richard Bushman could write, “the proponents [of an ancient BoM] are as energetic and ingenious as the critics in mustering support for the historicity of the Book of Mormon. On the whole better trained, with more technical language skills than their opponents, they are located mainly at... Read more

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2016-12-02T13:03:18-05:00

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Chaoskampf, the Garden of Eden, and the Mountains of Lebanon

Last updated on: December 2, 2016 at 1:03 pm By RT

I have a new paper up on the Garden of Eden that explores its mythological background in Canaanite-Israelite mythological tradition. Among other things, I argue that the mysterious ʾēd that comes up to water the ground in Gen 2:6 is correctly translated “flood” and that the motif hearkens back to an ancient Canaanite myth in which El created the world through defeating the primordial Sea monster. This discovery then leads me to reconstruct how the biblical Garden of Eden story has evolved over time, with particular... Read more

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2016-11-16T13:23:19-05:00

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John Hall and why we can’t have nice, biblical things (part 2)

Last updated on: November 16, 2016 at 1:23 pm By oudenos

This may become a recurring series. Who knows. There is a mountain of material with more coming out each year it seems. Anyway, today’s installment comes from John F. Hall, a former professor of Classical Studies at BYU and self-styled scholar of the New Testament. In his 2002 monograph New Testament Witnesses of Christ: Peter, John, James, and Paul (Covenant) the reader finds this (p. 59): “Modern critics resort to literary analysis and redaction criticism to dismiss the accounts of Mark... Read more

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2016-11-08T13:32:00-05:00

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This is why we can’t have nice, biblical things

Last updated on: November 8, 2016 at 1:32 pm By oudenos

Apparently this advertisement was sent to students and faculty at BYU who are in some way connected to the study of HB/NT. “You are invited to attend a public lecture this Wednesday by Margaret Barker, the well-known British founder of the Temple Studies group in London. The title of her lecture on deification is “The Lord is One.” This presentation will be held in the Varsity Theater, in the Wilkinson Student Center at 4:00 pm, Wednesday, November 9. After her presentation, Andrew Skinner,... Read more

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2016-10-18T18:21:28-05:00

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Review of The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion, ed. John Barton

Last updated on: October 18, 2016 at 6:21 pm By RT

I have posted a review of The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion, ed. John Barton, on my blog. http://www.religionofancientpalestine.com/?p=587 Read more

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2016-10-03T08:35:53-05:00

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Announcement: Faith and Knowledge 2017

Last updated on: October 3, 2016 at 8:35 am By TT

Faith Promoting Rumor is happy to learn of the upcoming Faith and Knowledge conference. For more details about the conference, visit the website www.faithandknowledge.org. HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL CAMBRIDGE, MA FEBRUARY 24-25, 2017 The Faith and Knowledge Conference was established in 2007 to bring together LDS graduate students in religious studies and related disciplines in order to explore the interactions between religious faith and scholarship. During the past five conferences, students have shared their experiences in the church and the... Read more

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2016-09-27T18:25:07-05:00

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Review of Debra Scoggins Ballentine, The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition (2015)

Last updated on: September 27, 2016 at 6:25 pm By RT

I have a new post up on a book that treats the myth of God’s combat with the Sea/Leviathan Review of Debra Scoggins Ballentine, The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition (2015) Read more

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2016-09-13T17:45:14-05:00

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אל קנה ארץ: Creator, Begetter, or Owner of the Earth?

Last updated on: September 13, 2016 at 5:45 pm By RT

I have a new article up on my blog about the meaning of the verb qny in the divine epithet qny ʾrṣ, variously translated “Creator,” “Begetter,” or “Owner of the earth.” I argue that the verb never means “to create” in West Semitic and that all attested usages can be explained on the assumption that they derive from a single root with the basic meaning “to acquire, come into possession.” The correct translation of Hebrew qnh šmym wʾrṣ in Gen 14: 19, 22 is “Owner of heaven... Read more

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