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February 2016

February 05, 2016
A post up before Saturday night! Wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles... Today we enter...

January 2016

January 31, 2016
Two of my most-read posts have dealt with the flood in Genesis 6-9. This one looks...
January 31, 2016
Not a lot of time for more than anything but some rough notes this week....
January 23, 2016
School has begun, and I'm swamped. Buckets of reading and writing, and trying to finish...
January 16, 2016
First, although this lesson terminates in chapter 15, next week's Lesson 4 doubles back to cover...
January 02, 2016
These are the most familiar chapters to any Mormon, and I've literally spent weeks on...
January 02, 2016
In the coming year, I plan to put up a Gospel Doctrine post each week as...

December 2015

December 19, 2015
I promised, so here they are. Go read and comment on my post at TimesandSeasons....
December 13, 2015
Well, the end is upon us. It's the end of the world/New Testament as we...
December 05, 2015
The final book! We’ve almost made it through! The end is nigh! First, a note...
December 05, 2015
1 John opens reminiscent of both the Gospel of John (thematically) and Luke/Acts (in contrast). That is, the...

November 2015

November 29, 2015
These three epistles are usually grouped with James and the three epistles of John, together...
November 08, 2015
I assume James gets his own Gospel Doctrine lesson because... Joseph Smith and James 1:5? Not sure,...
November 07, 2015
These letters are known as the Pastoral Letters. (Pastor came into English from Latin pastor, "shepherd.") They are...

October 2015

October 28, 2015
I've got a new feature here. Bible verses now have a NRSV pop-up when you...
October 25, 2015
I've got a new feature here. Bible verses now have a NRSV pop-up when you...
October 22, 2015
First of all, I've made a Facebook page for Benjamin the Scribe. I'm not sure...
October 09, 2015
I'll be speaking tomorrow morning on BYU campus, as part of the conference of the...

September 2015

September 27, 2015
Hebrews is fun and different. Note that it comes at the end of Paul's letters,...
September 19, 2015
Paul's letter to Romans "has been the most studied of the apostle's writings -- indisputably...
September 12, 2015
2 Corinthians constitutes the first preserved "sequel" in Paul's letters.  In fact, Paul wrote three or...
September 12, 2015
The latter half of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians has a definite flow and organization...

August 2015

August 28, 2015
This week, we're all in one place, 1 Corinthians, which is a smorgasbord of interesting...
August 23, 2015
[Please see my newer version of this post here.] Let me open by saying, this...
August 22, 2015
(Some mysterious formatting issues in today's post, though I'm told it looks fine on mobile...
August 17, 2015
We're moving into very very dense historical, textual, and doctrinal territory today. Today I lean...
August 09, 2015
Since I am posting this and the last lesson two nights apart, I'm going to...
August 07, 2015
We're about half way through the year, and I felt it appropriate to repost some...

July 2015

July 23, 2015
Today we begin something new that is neither here nor there. Acts is not a...
July 19, 2015
Apologies for a short post on such an important section. I don't get out to...
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