The Temple: Symbols, Sermons, and Settings (Temple on Mount Zion vol. 5)

The temple is central to Latter-day Saint worship. Through modern revelation Joseph Smith restored the ancient tradition of temples and the ordinances performed therein. Studies of ancient temples can shed much light on latter-day temples and temple worship.

Several years ago Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Brown planned a conference entitled The Temple on Mount Zion and began to invite the participants. Matthew Brown loved the temple and temple worship and studied and published on ancient and modern temples. His interests and knowledge were vast. When Matthew passed away very unexpectedly in 2011, his friends decided to organize a series of conferences in his memory. This volume, the fifth in the series, contains proceedings from the fourth conference held in his memory 10 November 2018 and reflects many of the topics that Matthew loved, centered on the theme of the temple: symbols, sermons, and settings.

The purpose of the book series is to increase understanding and appreciation of temple rituals and doctrines, and to encourage participation in the redeeming work of family history and temple worship.

Contents:

• Jesus’ First Visit to the Temple – S. Kent Brown
• On Earth When It Was in Heaven: Sacred Time and its Protection in Egyptian Temples – Kerry Muhlestein
• Recovering the Language of Purity after the First Revolt – Thomas Wayment
• “They Shall Be Joined unto Thee”: Levi, Levites, and the Importance of Joinings in Temple Settings – Matthew L Bowen
• Truth and Beauty in the Book of Moses – Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
• Bearing Testimony in Hebrew – Ryan Davis
• The Symbolism of the Cupped Hand in Ancient Egypt and Israel: Iconography, Text, and Artifact – Stephen O. Smoot
• Consecration and Sacrilege in Early Rabbinic Judaism – Avram Shannon
• “Fixed and Immovable”: Joseph Smith and the Eternal Nature of the Priesthood – Matt Roper
• ““Put Off Thy Shoes from Off Thy Feet”: Sandals and Sacred Space – John Gee