Announcing:

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 When It 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