{"id":67206,"date":"2018-11-09T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=67206"},"modified":"2018-11-09T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T20:05:10","slug":"maori-saints-the-temple-and-more-on-the-book-of-abraham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/11\/maori-saints-the-temple-and-more-on-the-book-of-abraham.html","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori Saints, the Temple, and More on the Book of Abraham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Aotearoa's<\/a>
The Hamilton New Zealand Temple will soon be joined by a new temple in Auckland.
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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New, in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMarjorie Newton\u2019s Account\u00a0of the Faith of the M\u0101ori Saints:\u00a0A Critical Appraisal\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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There are by the way, some potentially very interesting developments underway in New Zealand at this very moment. \u00a0I hope that we\u2019ll be hearing about them soon.<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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You should most definitely not forget tomorrow\u2019s symposium on the campus of Brigham Young University:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTemple on Mount Zion Conference\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s entirely free and open to the public. \u00a0And you\u2019re welcome to come for all of it or for whatever part you can manage to attend.<\/p>\n

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Please let others know about it, as well.<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The most recent installment of the biweekly column by William Hamblin and Daniel Peterson has been published in the Deseret News<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWilliam Law\u2019s \u2018serious call\u2019 to holiness\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I largely devoted a post yesterday<\/a>\u00a0to resources regarding the Book of Abraham. \u00a0I should add to that list of resources Dr. John Gee\u2019s August 2018 presentation to the annual FairMormon conference, which is now available both as a transcript and as a video:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSelling Our Birthright for a Mess of Pottage: The Historical Authenticity of the Book of Abraham\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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You might also enjoy this interview with Dr. Gee, which was published online on 30 January 2018:<\/p>\n

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\u201c10 questions with John Gee\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s his testimony<\/a>, as it appears on the Mormon Scholars Testify<\/a> site (which is yet to be renamed), along with a brief and summary biography that was more or less up to date when the entry was posted back in March 2010, nearly nine years ago:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.fairmormon.org\/testimonies\/scholars\/john-gee<\/p>\n

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Well beyond his publications on Latter-day Saint topics, Dr. Gee is an extraordinarily productive presenter and writer in purely Egyptological circles, particularly in Europe (where there are more Egyptologists who work in his area of specialization than there are in North America ).<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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You might enjoy this article from Book of Mormon Central:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Miraculous Translation of the Book of Mormon into Ukrainian\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Incidentally, the schedule for my upcoming visit to Australia has changed a bit from what I previously announced. \u00a0Apparently, I won\u2019t be speaking in Melbourne. \u00a0However, I\u2019m scheduled to speak to\u00a0a large YSA fireside in Sydney on the night of Sunday, 25 November, in addition to my delivery of the seventh annual Religious Liberty Lecture at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, there in Sydney on Tuesday, 27 November. \u00a0I hope that some of my Australian friends will be able to make one or both of those lectures.<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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You might also find this interesting:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTensions on Religious Right? Did you notice Trump\u2019s political kill shot on Rep. Mia Love?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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There is, for one thing, an explicitly Latter-day Saint angle to the story.<\/p>\n

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