Provisional, almost complete program for 5 November temple conference at BYU

Third Temple on Mount Zion Conference

in memory of Matthew B. Brown

Saturday, 5 November 2016

251 Tanner Bldg, BYU

9:15           Stephen Ricks                        Session chair

Opening prayer

9:30           Jeffrey Bradshaw                   “By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified”: Temple Themes in Joseph Smith’s Translation of Moses 6:59–63 and Genesis 17:4–7

10:15         David Calabro                        The Choreography of Genesis: A Ritual Reading of the Book of Abraham

10:45         15-minute break

11:00         Alex Douglas                         Gentiles in the Temple: Worship and Conversion in the Septuagint of Isaiah

11:30         Matthew Grey                        Jerusalem Temple Imagery in Late Ancient Synagogue Ritual, Art, and Architecture

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch break

David Calabro                        Session chair

1:30           Stephen Ricks                        Prayer with Uplifted Hands

2:00           Camille Fronk Olson             Women in Ancient Israelite Temple Worship

2:30           Matthew Bowen                    “Where I Will Meet You”: The Convergence of Sacred Time and Sacred Space as the Etiological Function of the Tent of Meeting

3:00           15-minute break

3:15           David Larsen                         Group Ascension to Heaven in Early Judaism and Christianity

3:45           Daniel Smith                          The Ancient Israelite Tabernacle, Its Accoutrements, and the Priestly Vestments

4:45           Stephen Ricks                        Closing remarks