A Biblical Pattern and a Chemical Engineer

Unusually for a Monday, here’s the announcement of an article — this one by the late Matthew B. Brown — appearing in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:

“Cube, Gate, and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern”

Abstract: This article explores the biblical pattern that relates the temple-related symbols of the cube, the gate, and measuring tools. The tools of architecture and measurement were associated with the kingship motifs of creation and conquering chaos, and on the day when a person was initiated as a king in ancient Israel, all of these concepts were applied to him.

[Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the LDS community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.

See Matthew B. Brown, “Cube, Gate, and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern,” in Ancient Temple Worship: Proceedings of The Expound Symposium 14 May 2011, ed. Matthew B. Brown, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Stephen D. Ricks, and John S. Thompson (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2014), 1–26. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/ancient-temple-worship/.]

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The notice below went out a short while ago to all volunteers for the Interpreter Foundation:

The Interpreter Foundation is pleased to announce that Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, who has recently returned to the United States after almost nine years in Shanghai, China, has agreed to join its Board of Trustees as a vice president.

Jeff has been providing online materials defending the history, doctrine, and scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than twenty years, at JeffLindsay.com and http://mormanity.blogspot.com but also as a highly productive contributor to Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.

After serving in the German-speaking Switzerland Zurich Mission, he went on to earn a doctorate in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University. A US patent agent, he currently oversees research and development and intellectual property for a US consumer-product startup, Lume Deodorant. In China he was in charge of intellectual property for Asia Pulp and Paper, one of the world’s largest forest-product companies. Since 2015, Jeff has been recognized as a leading IP strategist by IAM (Intellectual Asset Magazine), based on peer input. He is also lead author of Conquering Innovation Fatigue (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).

He and his wife Kendra are the parents of four boys and have eleven grandchildren.

You can find more about the Board of Trustees for The Interpreter Foundation at this page:

     https://interpreterfoundation.org/foundation/