2014 Temple on Mount Zion Conference

Saturday, 25 October, 2014, full day,
251 TNRB (N. Eldon Tanner Building),
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

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.

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:

• Carli Anderson: “Enthroning the Daughter of Zion: The Coronation Motif of Isaiah 60-62”
• Dan Belnap: TBD
• Matt Bowen: “‘I Have Done according to my Will’: Reading Jacob 5 as a Temple Text”
• Jeffrey M. Bradshaw: “What Did Joseph Smith Know about the LDS Temple Ordinances by 1836?”
• David Calabro: “Joseph Smith and the Architecture of Genesis”
• Shon Hopkin: “The Day of Atonement, the Mosaic Temple, and the Christian Sacrament of Communion: Links and Symbols”
• David Larsen: “Psalm 24 and the Two Yahwehs at the Gate of the Temple”
• Ann Madsen: “Temples in the Margins: The Temple in Isaiah”
• Donald Parry: “The Number ‘Seven’ in Israelite Temple Worship”
• Daniel Peterson: “Reflections on the Temple on Mount Zion”
• Stephen Ricks: “Prayer with Uplifted Hands”
• Stephen Smoot: “The Book of the Dead as a Temple Text and its Implications for the Book of Abraham”
• John Thompson: “The Temple in the Gospel of John”

The conference is free and open to the public, with no RSVP or entrance fee.