The slides for this podcast are in pdf format here. The podcast outline with notes is here. To read p. 85-87 of Howard Schwartz’s Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism (Oxford University Press, 2004), go here. To view the two separate accounts of the betrayal of Joseph, with bothContinue Reading

The slides for this podcast are in pdf format here. The podcast outline with notes is here. For a more in-depth study of the ways the ancients understood the names of these people, tying them with places where they lived, see: “Punning Around in the Jacob Traditions.”Continue Reading

The slides for this podcast are in pdf format here. The podcast outline with notes is here. Here is the link to the class that Bryce mentioned for those looking for an eternal companion. It’s based upon the “science of dating.” He addresses 10 common pitfalls that we often fallContinue Reading

2 Kings 18.4 reads: He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: For it was called Nehushtan.[1]The Nehushtan נְחֻשְׁתָּן was the serpent pole that Moses constructed in the wilderness in the episode with the fiery flying serpentsContinue Reading

D&C 77 Questions and Answers concerning St. John’s Ἀποκάλυψις Apokalypsis, or Revelation[1]ἀποκάλυψις definition:   1. Laying bare, making naked, 2. A disclosure of truth, instruction, 2a. Concerning things before unknown, 2b. Used of events by which things or states or … Continue reading In the form of questions and answers, the ProphetContinue Reading

The arrival of the Prophet in Kirtland, Ohio, marked the beginning of a period of rapid growth in the young Church. By June of 1831 its membership numbered more than two thousand. As was to be expected, this growth excited a great deal of opposition. Civic leaders, ministers, newspaper editors,Continue Reading