I began to reflect

Reflections on Joseph Smith and the Holy Scriptures: The Holy Bible, The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, The Doctrine and Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price, and Related Themes

Monday, January 31, 2011

Anah, Aminadi, and the Mysterious Yemim (but not yet the Yeti)

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The Book of Mormon works "unto the convincing" of all mankind "that the records of the prophets and of the apostles of the La...

Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Primeval Tower Mound in the Book of Ether, Book of Abraham Facsimile 2, and Egyptian Heliopolis

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As many as three names in the brief Jaredite onomasticon, Gilead, Gilgal, and Gilgah, signify standing stones or standing circles of stone...

Friday, January 28, 2011

Stonehenge, Gilgah, Gilgal, and Gilead in the Book of Ether

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The Gil- names in the Book of Ether open a window onto the archaic culture of the Jaredites. The word signifies stone pillar or pile and ...

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Brother of "Shared" (or Gilead) in the Book of Ether

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It doesn't matter how many readings, every time I open the Book of Ether (the account of the Jaredite train bound for headlong destructi...

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Name Gilgal in the Book of Mormon

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The name Gilgal (wheel, stone pile, standing stones, heap of stones) portends evil and violence in the Book of Mormon. It is a darker, bleak...

Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Water of Sebus and The Waters of Amun

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Only two extant Egyptian texts describe semi-nomadic Semitic tribes bringing their flocks to a place of water. One is Alma 17 in the Book of...

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Fragment of a Hymn (For Meditation)

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To open the door and set men free from sin and death the cross he bore. Selfsame hands caused the blind to see, as bled upon the wood s...

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I began to reflect: 2020 is the Bicentennial of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I dedicate this website not to the wise and the learned but to those of the rising generation, who, like the young Joseph Smith, are beginning to learn the things of God for themselves. "I began to reflect" is how Joseph describes his earliest yearnings for God. The Book of Mormon gives us added insights on the phrase: of Coriantumr we read "he began to remember"; "he began to repent." I began to reflect corresponds to I began to repent. I hold copyright for all postings and alone am responsible for all content. Nothing I post on Scripture should be considered an official or authoritative statement of the teachings or policies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I address all readers who love the truths revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith and all those who may yet learn to love them. I hold myself free from any investment whatsoever in polemics, apology, politics, religious controversy, or debate (see 1 Peter 1:15). "Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right." Val Hinckley Sederholm, PhD, Egyptology, UCLA.

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