Revisiting the Forgotten Voices of Weeping in Moses 7: A Comparison with...
The LDS Book of Moses is remarkable in its depiction of the suffering of the wicked at the time of the Flood. According to this text, there are three parties directly involved in the weeping: God...
View Article“Enoch and the Temple” Conference with George W. E. Nickelsburg
A conference on "Enoch and the Temple" will have a keynote from George W. E. Nickelsburg, a well-known expert on Enoch literature.
View ArticleAncient Affinities within the LDS Book of Enoch Part One
In this article, we will examine affinities between ancient extracanonical sources and a collection of modern revelations that Joseph Smith termed “extracts from the Prophecy of Enoch.” We build on the...
View ArticleAncient Affinities within the LDS Book of Enoch Part Two
In this article, we will examine affinities between ancient extracanonical sources and a collection of modern revelations that Joseph Smith termed “extracts from the Prophecy of Enoch.” We build on the...
View Article“Enoch and the Temple” Conference Videos Now Available
Videos of the conference "Enoch and the Temple," which took place on February 19 and 22, 2013, are now available.
View ArticleEnoch and Noah on Steroids
Review of Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and David J. Larsen, In God’s Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014), 590 pp....
View ArticleScripture Roundtable: Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 5, "If Thou Doest...
This is Scripture Roundtable 55 from The Interpreter Foundation, in which we discuss the Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson #5, “If Thou Doest Well, Thou Shalt Be Accepted,” focusing on scriptures in...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Publication of Enoch and the Temple E-Book
The Academy for Temple Studies announces the publication of Enoch and the Temple, an e-book with texts and videos that were presented in February 2013 at the Enoch and the Temple conference. It is...
View ArticleKnoWhy OTL05C — Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn On Ancient Manuscripts When He...
An Old Testament KnoWhy for Gospel Doctrine Lesson 5: “If Thou Doest Well, Thou Shalt Be Accepted” (Moses 5-7) Question: Some say that Joseph Smith drew on ancient stories about Enoch not found in the...
View ArticleInsight #001: Enoch’s Prophetic Commission (Moses 6:26–36) — Introduction
As with many prophets elsewhere in scripture, the account of Enoch’s mission found in the Pearl of Great Price begins with the details of how he was called as a prophet. Such a story is often called a...
View ArticleInsight #002: Enoch’s Prophetic Commission: The Opening of Enoch’s Mouth and...
When the Lord called Enoch as a prophet, Enoch was concerned about his ability to adequately preach to the people. In particular, he described himself as being “slow of speech.” Moses may have been...
View ArticleInsight #003: Enoch’s Prophetic Commission: Enoch As a Lad (Moses 6:31)
Readers of the Book of Moses have often puzzled over Enoch's self-description as a “lad” (Moses 6:31), especially in light of the fact that he was at least sixty-five years old at the time (v. 25)....
View ArticleInsight #004: Enoch’s Prophetic Commission: Enoch’s Power Over the Elements...
Some of the most remarkable ancient affinities with the Book of Moses’ are found within Mandaean scripture. In this article, we will explore two examples: 1. Enoch’s power over the elements, and 2....
View ArticleInsight #005: Enoch’s Teaching Mission: Were Ancient Enoch Manuscripts the...
In this Insight, we will introduce the most well-known ancient Enoch manuscripts and review the possibility that Joseph Smith could have derived the Enoch accounts in Moses 6–7 from any of them....
View ArticleInsight #006: Enoch’s Teaching Mission: Enoch and the Other “Wild Man” (Moses...
As Enoch set out to fulfill his prophetic commission, it seems that his preaching at first attracted listeners only because of its value as local entertainment. Everyone was eager to see the noisy...
View ArticleInsight #007: Could Joseph Smith Have Borrowed “Mahijah/Mahujah” from the...
As Hugh Nibley was finishing the concluding, August 1977 article in his long-running series on ancient Enoch manuscripts and Moses 6–7 for the Ensign magazine, he received—“just in time” —the anxiously...
View ArticleInsight #008: Mahijah and Mahaway Interrogate Enoch (Moses 6:40)
As Hugh Nibley was finishing the concluding, August 1977 article in his long-running series on ancient Enoch manuscripts and Moses 6–7 for the Ensign magazine, he received—“just in time” —the anxiously...
View ArticleInsight #009: Secret Works, Oaths, and Murders (Moses 6:15)
As Hugh Nibley was finishing the concluding, August 1977 article in his long-running series on ancient Enoch manuscripts and Moses 6–7 for the Ensign magazine, he received—“just in time” —the anxiously...
View ArticleInsight #010: Enoch Reads from a Book of Remembrance (Moses 6:46–47)
As Hugh Nibley was finishing the concluding, August 1977 article in his long-running series on ancient Enoch manuscripts and Moses 6–7 for the Ensign magazine, he received—“just in time” —the anxiously...
View ArticleInsight #011: Enoch’s Call Raises the Possibility of Repentance (Moses 6:47,...
As Hugh Nibley was finishing the concluding, August 1977 article in his long-running series on ancient Enoch manuscripts and Moses 6–7 for the Ensign magazine, he received—“just in time” —the anxiously...
View ArticleInsight #012: The Defeat of the Gibborim and the Roar of the Wild Beasts...
A previous Insight described how the gibborim sorrowed and trembled after Enoch read their wicked deeds out of the book of remembrance and tendered the possibility of repentance. Drawing jointly on the...
View ArticleInsight #013: Imprisonment of the Gibborim (Moses 7:38)
The conclusion of the story of the rebellion of the Watchers in 1 Enoch is their terrible binding and eternal imprisonment: "Go, Michael, bind Shemihazah and the others with him, … bind them … in the...
View ArticleInsight #014: Enoch as a Teacher (Moses 6:51–68)
In reviewing ancient and modern threads that highlight Enoch’s roles as a missionary, prophet, and visionary, we must not overlook his effectiveness as a teacher. Among the most precious and...
View ArticleInsight #015: “The Son of Man, Even Jesus Christ, a Righteous Judge” (Moses...
In a previous Insight, we discussed resemblances in vocabulary and phrasing between the prophetic call of Enoch in the Book of Moses and the account of Jesus’ baptism in the Gospels. We described...
View ArticleInsight #016: “By Water, and Blood, and the Spirit” (Moses 6:58–60)
According to the Book of Moses, Enoch and other ancient prophets taught the doctrine of rebirth. Enoch cited the word of God to Adam to the effect that man must be “born … into the kingdom of heaven”...
View ArticleInsight #017: “By the Water Ye Keep the Commandment” (Moses 6:60, 64)
In Moses 6:60, Enoch declares the word of the Lord about the essential place of baptism in the suite of saving ordinances. In v. 64, he illustrates his point by describing the baptism of Adam. In this...
View ArticleInsight #018: “Out of the Waters of Judah” (1 Nephi 20:1; JST Genesis 17:3–7)
In this article, we digress from the direct discussion of Enoch’s sermon on the ordinances to discuss the corresponding subject of the relationship between baptism, as revealed in the beginning to Adam...
View ArticleInsight #019: “By the Spirit Ye Are Justified” (Moses 6:60, 63, 65–66)
In this article, we turn our attention to the second phrase in Moses 6:60: “by the Spirit ye are justified.” Simply put, individuals become “just”—in other words, innocent before God and ready for a...
View ArticleInsight #020: “By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified” (Moses 6:60)
Because blood is a symbol of death and life, it was used in Israelite temples for “the altar [of sacrifice] to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the...
View ArticleInsight #021: “Thus May All Become My Sons” (Moses 6:59, 66–68)
Significantly, the last verse of Moses 6 includes the words “and thus may all become my sons.” This statement relating to the exaltation of Adam and Eve and all their posterity provides the doctrinal...
View ArticleInsight #022: Enoch’s Transfiguration (Moses 7:1–3)
In the Bible, we are told simply that “Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” However, in Moses 7, we are given a detailed account of how and why this happened—not only to Enoch but...
View ArticleEssay #23: Enoch the Prophet and Seer — Enoch’s Prophecy of the Tribes (Moses...
Having concluded his teachings on the plan of salvation, “from that time forth Enoch began to prophesy … unto the people.” Already, in Moses 6, we are provided with subtle linguistic evidence that...
View ArticleEssay #24: Enoch, the Prophet and Seer: The End of the Wicked and the...
This Essay relates the end of the end for the wicked, and the beginning of the beginning for the people of God who start to lay the foundation of Zion. Similar events are well-attested in the ancient...
View ArticleEssay #25: Enoch’s Grand Vision: A Chorus of Weeping (Moses 7:18–49)
Within the Book of Moses, the stories of rescue and exaltation in the accounts of Noah and Enoch share a common motif of water. On one hand, Noah’s waters are the waters of destruction, the floods of...
View ArticleEssay #26: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Complaining Voice of the Earth (Moses...
In a previous Essay, we observed that three distinct parties weep for the wickedness of mankind: God, the heavens, and Enoch himself. In addition, a fourth party, the earth, complains and mourns—though...
View ArticleEssay #27: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Weeping Voice of the Heavens (Moses...
In a previous Essay, we observed that three distinct parties weep for the wickedness of mankind: God, the heavens, and Enoch himself. In addition, a fourth party, the earth, complains and mourns—though...
View ArticleEssay #28: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Weeping of Enoch (Moses 7:28–43)
The tradition of a weeping prophet is perhaps best exemplified by Jeremiah who cried out in sorrow: “Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for...
View ArticleEssay #29: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Earth Shall Rest (Moses 7:60–69)
Having witnessed the abrupt end of the long-awaited coming of the Son of Man in His unexpected crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension; and having now understood that His presence on earth would not...
View ArticleEssay #30: Enoch’s Grand Vision: God Receives Zion unto Himself (Moses...
Enoch succeeded in bringing a whole people to be sufficiently “pure in heart” to fully live the final celestial law of consecration. In Zion, the “City of Holiness,” the people “were of one heart and...
View ArticleEnoch, the Book of Moses, and the Book of Giants
Professor Matthew Black and his wife Ethel came to Provo at the beginning of BYU’s Summer Term of 1977. He lectured twice—on Thursday, June 30, and on Friday, July 1. The titles of his topics were “The...
View ArticleMoses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry
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...
View ArticleThe Book of Moses as a Temple Text
Abstract: In this fascinating article, Jeff Bradshaw details how the Book of Moses might be understood as a temple text, including elements of temple architecture, furnishings, and ritual in the story...
View ArticleEnoch and the Gathering of Zion
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. Enoch and the Gathering of Zion: The Witness of Ancient Texts for Modern Scripture. Orem, Springville, and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central,...
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