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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This article appeared earlier today (Monday) in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Lisle G. Brown, \u201cTamid: Zacharias and the Second Temple\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>This\u00a0essay follows Zacharias\u2019 biography from entering the priesthood till the day the angel Gabriel appeared to him in Herod\u2019s temple. After recounting the procedures to become a priest, Brown focuses on the day when Zacharias prepared to bring one of the two central standing offerings. He points out that likely, a priest would only have a once in a lifetime chance to partake in the core of this ceremony, entering the Holy Room and burning incense on the Inner Altar. Brown paints a very visual picture of this day, immersing us in the ritual of the time, a ritual that became even more significant for Zacharias by seeing an angel in the temple, something that has not happened before nor after in the Second Temple.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n [Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/span><\/p>\n See Lisle G. Brown, \u201cTamid<\/em>: Zacharias and the Second Temple,\u201d in\u00a0Temple Insights: Proceedings of the Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, \u201cThe Temple on Mount Zion,\u201d 22 September 2012,<\/em>\u00a0ed. William J. Hamblin and David Rolph Seely (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2014), 241\u201378. Further information at\u00a0https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/books\/temple-insights\/<\/a>.]<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n And here are a couple of links to articles from a previous<\/em> volume of Interpreter<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Matthew Scott Stenson, \u201c\u201cWherefore, for This Cause\u201d: The Book of Mormon as Anti-type of the Brass Serpent\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>Nephi1<\/sub>\u00a0represents the sacred record that becomes the Book\u00a0of\u00a0Mormon as a\u00a0new brass serpent to heal the nations. Nephi\u2019s typological project is reasonable given that he self-identifies with Moses, his family\u2019s scriptures and compass are made of brass, and he consistently describes reading as an act of seeing, looking, or believing. Nephi understands from Isaiah that the book he (Nephi) prepares \u2014 and that he has so much to say about \u2014 will become an ensign, or sign, that will be lifted up and heal the nations that have stumbled in blindness. Nephi\u2019s project emerges most fully in 2\u00a0Nephi\u00a025, the introductory material to an extended prophecy wherein he points the Jewish people to their Messiah, a\u00a0figure he equates with Moses\u2019s raised serpent and Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Barbara Morgan Gardner, \u201cWomen and the Priesthood in the Contemporary Church\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>During the last century there has been a prophetic emphasis on the understanding of women and their priesthood power and authority that has been unprecedented since the days of Joseph Smith. Through the use of scripture and teachings of our prophets and leaders of the restoration, this paper seeks to clarify the contemporary role of women in relation to their priesthood power and authority. By integrating the patriarchal priesthood\u2014that priesthood entered into by Eve and Adam, lost during the time of Moses, and again revealed in our day in the Kirtland Temple\u2014with the administrative priesthood found in the public Church and spoken of more traditionally, we can better understand the privileges, powers, and authorities associated with the temple that are critical for our day.<\/em><\/p>\n [Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/p>\n See Barbara Morgan Gardner, \u201cWomen and the Priesthood in the Contemporary Church,\u201d in\u00a0Proceedings of the Fifth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 7 November 2020<\/em>, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw,\u00a0Temple on Mount Zion 6<\/em>\u00a0(Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2021), in preparation. Further information at\u00a0https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/books\/the-temple-past-present-and-future\/<\/a>.]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This article in the Deseret News<\/em> caught my attention, and has since caught the attention of others, as well:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cUsing Nazi symbols to protest vaccines is disgraceful: Protecting public health should never be equated to the horrors committed by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Amen.\u00a0 And again, amen.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This was never intended as a San Francisco trip.\u00a0 San Francisco was just a place to spend a night while traveling along our way; it and the Bay Area are well worth a trip of their own.)\u00a0 So we didn\u2019t look around in the city, let alone cross the Oakland Bay Bridge to revisit the Oakland California Temple (one of my favorites) or the vicinity of the University of California at Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union (where I spent a very enjoyable summer back in, I think, 1990.)\u00a0 Instead, we got up this morning and headed on our way without seeing much of San Francisco.\u00a0 It was sorely tempting to devote some time to Stanford, too, where I spent two remarkable weeks at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace<\/a> just before beginning my undergraduate studies at BYU.\u00a0 But we needed to get on the road.\u00a0 However, once we were down<\/em> the road just a bit, we did take the time to shop at a familiar roadside produce stand,\u00a0 enjoy a good fish and shrimp lunch at Sea Harvest in Moss Landing<\/a> (and, from the restaurant, to watch an amusing sea otter cavorting in Elkhorn Slough<\/a>), and then to slowly do the famous 17-Mile Drive in Monterey.\u00a0 And then we drove southward, eventually stopping in Buellton<\/a> for a light dinner and in Solvang for the night.\u00a0 Among my childhood memories are at least two or three trips up to the little Danish-American town of Solvang<\/a> and enjoying split-pea soup \u2014 of all things \u2014 at Pea Soup Andersen\u2019s<\/a> (note the Danish name) in nearby Buellton.\u00a0 My paternal grandfather, after all, was Danish.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n