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December 2014

December 31, 2014
On a personal note, on December 19th, my oldest daughter Kate returned home from serving...
December 31, 2014
Dear Friends, I am sincerely grateful for the opportunity that the Patheos site provides to...
December 31, 2014
Reading through each of the prophetic texts of the Bible, the common denominator in terms...
December 30, 2014
I’m very grateful for Daniel Peterson’s kind, thoughtful response to my recent post. I’m going...
December 30, 2014
Within Mormonism faith, love, service, and critical thinking are all essential components in developing spirituality....
December 28, 2014
Mormon studies versus apologetics. It seems the "bloggernacle" is currently filled with posts addressing this...
December 26, 2014
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a large group in-service meeting...
December 16, 2014
The most recent edition of Biblical Archaeology Review took note of the blog entry on...
December 10, 2014
Ancient Mesopotamian texts had a significant impact upon the material in the Bible. Some Mesopotamian...
December 06, 2014
The Hebrew noun ’elohim can be a bit confusing. Technically, ’elohim is a masculine plural...

November 2014

November 09, 2014
I don’t exaggerate when I state that Dr. Jeffrey Stackert has produced one of the...

October 2014

October 21, 2014
  Brigham Young University’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship continues to offer impressive...

July 2014

July 10, 2014
I had the opportunity to sit down with Doug Fabrizo in a live in-studio discussion...

April 2014

April 30, 2014
In the previous post exploring the literary use of Deutero-Isaiah in the Book of Mormon,...
April 29, 2014
Isaiah didn’t write the book of Isaiah.  The Bible connects the book with a prophetic...
April 22, 2014
In this episode, the Mormon Matters “Genesis Team”–David Bokovoy, Tom Roberts, andBrian Hauglid–join host Dan Wotherspoon for a...
April 16, 2014
I’m grateful that my book Authoring the Old Testament has sparked some interesting discussions.   As...
April 13, 2014
  For 2013-14, I had the opportunity to serve as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in...
April 10, 2014
The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah continues to play host to some...
April 02, 2014
I had the opportunity Fall semester 2013 to teach a Book of Mormon as Literature...

March 2014

March 20, 2014
I'll have the opportunity to travel to Texas this weekend and give several presentations.  The...
March 04, 2014
I'm pleased to announce that my book Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis-Deuteronomy is now officially...

January 2014

January 28, 2014
Dan Wotherspoon has posted our discussion on Abraham and the Akedah as a free podcast...
January 26, 2014
I’m surprised how often I read online someone making the assertion that the Documentary Hypothesis...
January 25, 2014
I've had the privilege of joining my friend Dan Wotherspoon in a series of podcasts...
January 24, 2014
I need to begin this post with a frank confession.  I self-identify as a male-feminist. ...
January 23, 2014
The Book of Mormon presents a touching exchange between husband and wife.  In a moment...
January 22, 2014
The term “anthropomorphism” refers to the attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a...
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