August 1999 FAIR Conference Schedule
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Kevin L. Barney is an attorney and independent scholar who has published widely on ancient scripture and Latter-day Saint topics.
Can the beliefs of modern Latter-day Saints be found in early Christianity? This presentation examines evidence for a group of “Former-day Saints” within the early Jewish Christian world.
Barry R. Bickmore is a geologist and author of Restoring the Ancient Church, exploring Joseph Smith, early Christianity, and Latter-day Saint belief.
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Roger D. Cook is a philosophy scholar specializing in ancient philosophy, Near Eastern studies, philosophy of religion, and early Christianity.
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John Gee is an Egyptologist with a Ph.D. from Yale whose research focuses on ancient Egypt, the Book of Abraham, and the Joseph Smith Papyri.
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Daniel C. Peterson is a scholar of Islamic Studies and Arabic whose research and writing explore Islam, the Near East, and Latter-day Saint topics.
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D. Charles Pyle is a Latter-day Saint researcher whose studies focus on biblical languages, ancient texts, early Christianity, and Latter-day Saint doctrine and history.
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Matthew Roper (MS from Brigham Young University), is a resident scholar at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University.
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John A. Tvedtnes was a scholar of ancient languages and the Near East whose research focused on the Book of Mormon, the Bible, and ancient texts.
Speakers
Kevin Barney, Barry Bickmore, Roger Cook, John Gee, Daniel C. Peterson, D. Charles Pyle, Matt Roper, John Tvedtnes
Topics
A Tale of Two Restorations, Mormonism in the Early Jewish Christian Milieu, Joshua the High Priest and the Council of the Gods in the Book of Zechariah: A Post-Exilic Jew in King Yahweh’s Court, The Corruption of Scripture in the Second Century, What Has Athens to do with Jerusalem?: Apostasy and Restoration in the Big Picture, I Have Said, ‘Ye are Gods’: Concepts Conducive to the Early Christian Doctrine of Deification in Patristic Literature and the Underlying Strata of the Greek New Testament Text, Salvation for the Dead: A Response to Luke Wilson, Early Christian and Jewish Rituals Related to Temple Practices