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April 2014

April 11, 2014
 
April 10, 2014
Rarely do we have the original manuscripts of ancient books.  Surviving copies generally date centuries—and...
April 10, 2014
Israel Third Temple movements are increasing their agitation for Jewish control of the Temple Mount
April 09, 2014
The Olmec Museum at La Venta contains a number of interesting artifacts, including these obsidian...
April 09, 2014
The most obvious example of later editing of a biblical text is found in the...
April 08, 2014
Colossal head of an Olmec god-king from La Venta, Mexico (early first millennium BC).  
April 08, 2014
The biblical text itself explicitly claims that much of it is composed of copies, abridgments,...
April 07, 2014
This letter is just in on the new direction of the Journal of Book of Mormon...
April 07, 2014
A black Jesus in the Church of Guadaloupe, San Cristobal del las Casas, Mexico.
April 07, 2014
We need to clearly understand that the ancient idea of a “book” is quite different...
April 06, 2014
April 06, 2014
The Virgin of Guadaloupe is the patron saint of Catholic Mexico, with regional shrines throughout...
April 06, 2014
We need to understand that in ancient societies, it was not only considered completely legitimate...
April 06, 2014
We need to understand that in ancient societies, it was not only considered completely legitimate...
April 05, 2014
The Hamblin-Peterson column for this week.  
April 05, 2014
My photography of the Church of Santa Lucia, decorated for Christmas, 2013.  San Christobal del...
April 05, 2014
Priests and priesthood are import in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament.  In its...
April 05, 2014
Most biblical books are anonymous—no authorship is asserted by the text itself.  The major exceptions...
April 05, 2014
I've just heard a secret report that, following on their triumph in getting Brendan Eich...
April 04, 2014
Bradshaw and Larsen will be signing their book at Eborn Books (254 S. Main Street) in...
April 04, 2014
Personally, I thought the Noah movie was okay, but not great.  I really couldn’t buy...
April 04, 2014
Two new reviews of David Bokovoy’s new book Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis–-Deuteronomy  have appeared on Interpreter....
April 04, 2014
To understand the Documentary Hypothesis, we need to begin by considering this question: why do...
April 03, 2014
What shocks me most about the new Noah movie is that people actually expect Hollywood...
April 03, 2014
Why did I name my new blog "Enigmatic Mirror"? It is drawn from Paul's observation...
April 03, 2014
Issues relating to the Documentary Hypothesis are again being discussed these days in some LDS...
April 03, 2014
I've relocated my blog "Mormon Scripture Explorations" to the Patheos community. The old site location...

February 2014

February 15, 2014
An important evaluation of the secularizing impulse at work at BYU, providing the broad context...

October 2013

October 16, 2013
Although I have ceased active posting on this blog, I do want to make this...

August 2013

August 30, 2013
Gee's views on the BOA have been misrepresented in some of the comments on my...
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