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Nov 24, 2009, 10:47 am
Well, another SBL annual meeting has come and gone. I had a great time this year here in New Orleans. For some reason, the conference was not as well attended as in past years, but it was still an... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 6:06 am
Laurence Hemming is one of the co-founders of the Temple Studies Group. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Lancaster and a Fellow, tut... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 5:04 am
David Littlefield has made available the newest version of his amazing book, Mormon Mysticism. You can see it for free on his website, www.mormonmysticism.com in .html or .pdf format.
I came across... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2009, 6:12 am
As I was doing some research this morning, I came across a text that, although quite unrelated to what I was looking for, I found very interesting. I thought I would share it here on my blog.
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Nov 7, 2009, 11:16 am
The following are my notes from Dr. John F. Hall’s wonderful presentation at the recent Temple Studies Group symposium held 31 October 2009 at the Temple Church in London. Dr. Hall is the Eliza ... Comment - Like
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Nov 4, 2009, 5:30 am
The Holy Oil in the Orthodox Church
Although Prof. John Hall’s presentation was next after Dr. Barker’s, I am still working on the notes for his talk, so I will now post my notes from the... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2009, 7:26 am
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Nov 1, 2009, 6:58 pm
I just got home this morning from yesterday’s Temple Studies Group symposium at the Temple Church in London. In fact, my dear wife picked up from the train station this morning on her way to C... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2009, 6:12 am
This post was inspired by a speaker at yesterday’s (Sunday’s) sacrament meeting in Dundee, Scotland (and also by this discussion on Bryce Haymond’s blog). The speaker (I didn’... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2009, 4:34 am
I will be having the extraordinary opportunity to attend two fantastic conferences in the next month or so. I will be taking meticulous notes that I plan to share with you all soon afterwards.
The ... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2009, 7:50 am
About two months ago, I wrote a post sharing my opinion on a review of Margaret Barker’s The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of God (2007), written by Benedict Thomas Viviano, O.P., for SBL̵... Comment - Like
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Oct 11, 2009, 4:40 pm
This post is stepping back in time about a month to when we were in Utah. I never was able to post the rest of the temple photos we took while we were there. In the first post, I put up some pictures... Comment - Like
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Oct 9, 2009, 8:02 am
As I promised in my last post, I will be sharing here some of my thoughts after reading Psalm 2. While my comments will draw from some of the studies I have done recently and commentaries read, the ... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2009, 4:56 pm
Its been almost a month since my last post, a lot longer than I hoped to be absent. Without giving too many excuses, besides the obvious difficulties involved in moving my family to a new country, I... Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2009, 12:27 am
Please check out two new features here at heavenlyascents.com that can be found near the top of the page under the banner picture: a page entitled “Articles of Interest” and another entitl... Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2009, 12:11 am
Professor William Hamblin of Brigham Young University has created a new blog to share with us his adventures as he travels the Old World. Dr. Hamblin will be living in Jerusalem for the next year, I... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2009, 12:32 am
I apologize for the dearth of posts recently. I have moved from Wisconsin and am now staying in Utah for the next couple of weeks until I fly out with my family to Scotland. Needless to say, I hav... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2009, 10:53 pm
I apologize for the dearth of good, solid posts recently. As we have been preparing for our move to Scotland, I haven’t had much time for blogging. I’ll be spending some time in Utah for t... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2009, 4:45 pm
Back in June I posted the text of Frederick M. Huchel’s powerful presentation at the 2nd UK Temple Studies Group Symposium, entitled “The Cosmic Ring-Dance of the Angels: An Early Christian Ri... Comment - Like
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Aug 9, 2009, 11:24 pm
As promised in my last post, with Dr. Orlov’s permission, I am posting a link to the full introduction to his new book Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha .
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Aug 4, 2009, 1:22 pm
I would like to introduce you to some new books that have just recently been published by my former professor and advisor at Marquette University, Associate Professor of Christian Origins, Andrei A. O... Comment - Like
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Jul 31, 2009, 3:22 am
I return now to my overview/commentary on Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets by Alberto Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal (Brill: 2008). If you missed my first few... Comment - Like
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