The conference “Enoch and the Temple” was filmed, and the videos of the presentations are now available for viewing online here.

The proceedings from the October 2012 conference are now available as a book entitled Mormonism and the Temple: Examining an Ancient Religious Tradition. Click here for more information.

Students of the temple will be interested in an important January 2013 update to “A Temple Studies Bibliography.” In addition to continuing work to correct errors, standardize entries and the key words associated with them, this update features over 300 new titles, 19 of which are PhD dissertations. The typewritten manuscript for the bibliography now numbers 700 pages. To facilitate faster load time, the bibliography is now in three parts on the Academy of Temple Studies website.

The last of the videos from the October 2012 Conference have been posted here on the website, and on our YouTube channel. This includes presentations from John Hall, John L. Fowles, Le Grande Davies, and Laurence Hemming. All the presentations from the conference are now available for viewing.

We have added the ability for you to subscribe by email to the Academy for Temple Studies website. This means whenever we add a news announcement, you will be emailed it.

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The Academy for Temple Studies and the USU Religious Studies Program are very pleased to announce a distinguished co-sponsored program on “Enoch and the Temple,” with a keynote address by George W. E. Nickelsburg. It will take place at Utah State University in Logan on February 19, and again at Brigham Young University in Provo on February 22, 2013.

Click here to see the full announcement with details, and to RSVP.

On 29 December 2012 another important update to “A Temple Studies Bibliography” was placed online. In addition to over 100 new titles added (located by the  symbol), as promised last month, Part 2 (L-Z) has been carefully proof read and thousands of minor changes made. We hope ongoing refinement and additions to the bibliography continue to make it a valuable tool for users.

The filming of the 2012 conference, “Mormonism and the Temple: Examining an Ancient Religious Tradition,” on October 29, 2012 in Logan, Utah, has now been made available in part here on TempleStudies.org, and on the Academy’s YouTube channel. The rest of the videos are forthcoming.

On 28 November 2012 an important update to “A Temple Studies Bibliography” was placed online. In addition to many new titles included, the first part (A-K) was carefully proof read and thousands of minor changes made. As a result of the proof reading, other significant alterations were made in the entire bibliography. Plans are to put a monthly update online at the beginning of each month. Part 2 (L-Z) will undergo a similar proof reading in December.

We have had some people ask where the conference will be specifically located.  It will be at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, at the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium on campus.