Dear Temple Studies friends,

We are happy to let you know about a conference about the Temple on Mount Zion, that will be held at Brigham Young University on Saturday, October 25. This conference runs morning and afternoon on Saturday. 

The same weekend, on Friday evening and Saturday morning, the Sperry Symposium will also be taking place on BYU campus. Its theme is “The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle.” Here’s a link to that program; some of its presentations relate to Temple Studies. http://religion.byu.edu/event/43rd-annual-sidney-b-sperry-symposium

Either or both of these programs are open to the public, free, and may be of interest to you.

Gary Anderson
Phil Barlow
Jack Welch

 Presentations at Temple on Mount Zion Conference II in Memory of Matthew B. Brown
251 TNRB, BYU
October 25, 2014
8:45 am–5:30 pm 

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: “The Number ‘Seven’ in the Context of the Ancient Israelite Temple”
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