The Fourth Temple on Mount Zion Conference
in memory of Matthew B. Brown
10 November 2018
251 Tanner Building, Brigham Young University
Stephen Ricks: Session chair
9:00 Welcome and prayer
9:15 S. Kent Brown: Jesus’ First Visit to the Temple
9:45 Kerry Muhlestein: On Earth WhenIt Was in Heaven: Sacred Time and its Protection in Egyptian Temples
10:15 15-minute break
10:30 Thomas Wayment: Recovering the Language of Purity after the First Revolt
11:00 Matthew Bowen: “They Shall Be Joined unto Thee”: Levi, Levites, and the Importance of Joinings in Temple Architecture and Ritual
11:30 Jeffrey M. Bradshaw: Beauty and Truth in Moses 1
12:00–1:30 Lunch break
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, section chair
1:30 Ryan Davis: Bearing Testimony in Hebrew: A Comparison of Ancient Israelite Temple Worship with Modern Latter-day Saint Testimony Meetings
2:00 John Thompson: The Two Ways in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Israelite Temple Theology
2:30 Avram Shannon: Consecration and Sacrilege in Early Rabbinic Judaism
3:00 15-minute break
3:15 Stephen Smoot: The Symbolism of the Cupped Hand in Ancient Egypt and Israel: Iconography, Text, and Artifact
3:45 John Gee: “Put Off Thy Shoes from Off Thy Feet”
4:15 Matt Roper: “Fixed and Unmovable”: Joseph Smith and the Eternal Nature of the Priesthood
4:45 Closing
