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Sunday, January 9, 2022

Meridian’s 15 Most-Read Articles in 2021

 (latterdaysaintmag.com)

https://latterdaysaintmag.com/meridians-15-most-read-articles-in-2021/

A New Biography of Enoch (and an excellent tool for the Book of Moses)


 (latterdaysaintmag.com)

https://latterdaysaintmag.com/a-new-biography-of-enoch-and-an-excellent-tool-for-the-book-of-moses/

The Book of Moses - From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days


 The book of Moses is canonized scripture spanning the epochs of Creation, Adam and Eve, Enoch, and Noah. Its content was revealed anciently by God to Moses and re-revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith in modern times. This book explores the origins and development of the Book of Moses, its ancient nuances, the linguistic features of its revelations, and how its sweeping visions and rich doctrines inspired and guided Joseph Smith and the early members of what would become The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in their pursuit of Zion.

https://deseretbook.com/p/rsc-book-of-moses-from-the-ancient-of-days-to-the-latter-days?variant_id=196210-hardcover&fbclid=IwAR0-W84cF47btwXT9cw3FwmhlNPEaSrX1YSujAt7GXzyGcNcQDrEnxO3LME

Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry

 (by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw interpreterfoundation.org)

Abstract: The Book of Giants (BG), an Enoch text found in 1948 among the Dead Sea Scrolls, includes a priceless trove of stories about the ancient prophet and his contemporaries, including unique elements relevant to the Book of Moses Enoch account. Hugh Nibley was the first to discover in the BG a rare personal name that corresponds to the only named character in the Book of Moses besides Enoch himself, a finding that some non-Latter-day Saint Enoch scholars considered significant. Since Nibley’s passing, the growth of new scholarship on ancient Enoch texts has continued unabated. While Nibley’s pioneering research compared the names and roles of one character in Moses 6–7 and BG, scholars have now been able to examine the names and roles of nearly all of the prominent figures in the two books and analyze their respective accounts in more detail. Not only are the overall storylines of the two independent accounts more similar than could have imagined a few years ago, a series of recent studies have added substance to the claim that the specific resemblances of the Book of Giants to Moses 6–7—resemblances that are rare or absent elsewhere in Jewish tradition—are more numerous and significant than the resemblances of any other single ancient Enoch text—or, for that matter, to all of the most significant extant Enoch texts combined. Of particular note is new evidence in BG that relates to the Book of Moses account of Enoch’s gathering of Zion to divinely prepared cities and the ascent of his people to the presence of God.

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/moses-6-7-and-the-book-of-giants-remarkable-witnesses-of-enochs-ministry/

Considering the Cross — A Conversation with John Hilton III