–––From the Interpreter website–––
The Interpreter Foundation would like to announce a forthcoming conference, the 2014 Temple on Mount Zion Conference to be held in 251 TNRB (N. Eldon Tanner Building) on the campus of Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah, on 25 October, 2014. This conference is sponsored by the BYU College of Humanities and Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages as well as The Interpreter Foundation.
The conference focuses on LDS conceptions of ancient and modern Temple theology as reflected in the Bible and LDS scripture. There will be thirteen presenters. You can see a list of presenters and schedule on the Program & Schedule page.
Program & Schedule
2014 Temple on Mount Zion Conference
Saturday, 25 October 2014, 8:45 am–5:45 pm
251 TNRB (N. Eldon Tanner Building)
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
8:45 am Opening Prayer, Greeting—Donald W. Parry, presiding
9:00 am Jeffrey Bradshaw: “What Did Joseph Smith Know about the LDS Endowment by 1836?”
9:30 am Dan Belnap: “‘Let the Beauty of the Lord our God be Upon Us’: The Role of Visual Aesthetics in Ancient Israel’s Temple Worship”
10:00 am Carli Anderson: “Enthroning the Daughter of Zion: The Coronation Motif of Isaiah 60-62”
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Carli Anderson, presiding
Stephen D. Ricks: “Prayer with Uplifted Hands”
11:15 am David Calabro: “Joseph Smith and the Architecture of Genesis”
11:45 am Stephen Smoot: “The Book of the Dead as a Temple Text and the Implications for the Book of Abraham”
12:15 pm David J. Larsen: “Psalm 24 and the Two Yahwehs at the Gate of the Temple”
12:45 pm Lunch break
1:55 pm Greeting—David J. Larsen, presiding
2:00 pm Ann Madsen: “Temples in the Margins: The Temple in Isaiah”
2:30 pm Donald W. Parry: “Temple Themes in Cities of Refuge Texts”
3:00 pm Matthew L. Bowen: “‘I Have Done According to My Will’: Reading Jacob 5 as a Temple Text”
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Stephen D. Ricks, presiding
John W. Welch: “Leviticus as an Archetypal Temple Template”
4:15 pm John S. Thompson: “How John’s Gospel Portrays Jesus as the Way of the Temple”
4:45 pm Shon D. Hopkin: “The Day of Atonement, the Mosaic Temple, and the Christian Sacrament of Communion: Links and Symbols”
5:15 pm Daniel C. Peterson: “The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Qur’an”
5:45 pm Concluding Remarks, Closing Prayer
This conference is sponsored by the BYU College of Humanities, the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages, and the Interpreter Foundation
