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: “Jesus the High Priest and the Temple in the Gospel of John”
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