Comments on: Forthcoming from FAIR and FARMS http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/ A Mormon Blog Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:09:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kevin Christensen http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20640 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:49:32 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20640 I met Alyson at a few inservice meetings when we both lived in Lawrence, KS, though in different wards meeting in the same building. Her husband became the Bishop of their ward. I believe she has five children and at least one University degree. She got interested in Margaret Barker’s The Great Angel around the same time I did (1999) when we were both teaching institute classes. By sheer persistance and enthusiasm, and she managed to get herself included in the May 2003 Barker Seminar at BYU. She has an Occasional Paper on Wisdom Teaching in the Book of Mormon forthcoming from FARMS, hopefully this year. It’s a fresh vision, bringing out things no one had thought of seeing in the Book of Mormon before.

And yes, the offering stand is the one from Tannach, around 1200 BCE, as I recall. She looks at it in light of her own close observations of the artistic depictions on the stand in comparison to Barker’s close reading of the Hebrew text of Ezekiel’s visions, and also to key imagery in the Book of Enoch. I’ve encouraged her to send a copy to Dever when the Review comes out. According to Shirley Ricks, her review is the “most reviewed” essay in terms of the number of people reading it, that they’ve ever had in the FARMS Review.

Kevin Christensen
Pittsburgh, PA

]]> By: jupiterschild http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20639 Tue, 29 May 2007 17:46:01 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20639 Kevin C.,

Do you (or anyone) know what Von Feldt’s background is? The terracotta offering stand (I assume you’re talking about the one from Taanach) is interesting–I’ve never seen a convincing interpretation of it and I’m interested in what Von Feldt has to say about it. Tx.

]]> By: Kent Larsen http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20638 Fri, 25 May 2007 20:43:51 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20638

I realize that Mormon apologetics is something of a minority taste among participants in the Bloggernacle.

To the degree that this is true it is most surely an error. Even if you disagree with the majority of what FAIR or FARMS publishes, it is surely best to maintain some level of communication with them — if nothing else just to understand what these groups are up to.

Please continue to keep us up-to-date with what FARMS and FAIR are doing.

]]> By: g.wesley http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20637 Fri, 25 May 2007 19:44:43 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20637 i think the ashurst-mcgee article first appeared elsewhere (jmh?).

]]> By: Kevin Christensen http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20636 Fri, 25 May 2007 17:47:40 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20636 As a side note on the forthcoming FR, I have read the essay by Alyson Von Feldt, which is a review of William Dever’s Did God Have a Wife? Beyond locating his book in the current discussions and noting the relevance to LDS thought, she brings in some materials that Dever overlooked, and as a result makes some observations on a key artifact depicted in Dever’s book (the terra cotta offering stand that he gives only two or three sentences) that is mindblowing and important, with far reaching implications.

IMHO the FARMS Review has been far and away the most essential and consistently good LDS journal for years. The recent essays by Ashurst McGee and Larry Morris, for instance were both amazing.

Kevin Christensen
Pittsburgh, PA

]]> By: Christopher Smith http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20635 Fri, 25 May 2007 07:14:16 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20635 I was surprised by the last paragraph as well. Good for Louis Midgley.

]]> By: Clark http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20634 Thu, 24 May 2007 23:32:09 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20634 LOL. I did to the SMPT conference but only a few people asked for it. Maybe this time I’ll set up a table and sell the chocolate?

]]> By: Kevin Barney http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20633 Thu, 24 May 2007 22:44:36 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20633 Bring some chocolate.

]]> By: Clark Goble http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20632 Thu, 24 May 2007 21:29:18 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20632 I’m going to try and make it this year. I have to confess I’ve not made it in prior years.

]]> By: Jacob J http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/23/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20631 Thu, 24 May 2007 18:47:25 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/forthcoming-from-fair-and-farms/#comment-20631 I have only been to the FAIR conference once, but it was great. Can’t tell if I’ll be able to make it this year or not, but fwiw, I am in the ‘nacle and I don’t have any antipathy against apologetics. Good last paragraph from Midgley.

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