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Markham, Airyana | Dressing the part: Early Christian identity North Africa, 100-200 CE | The study of early Christian identity in the second-third centuries is problematic. This is because there is a paucity of material evidence and assigning a religious affiliation to that evidence is highly contested. For this reason, early Christian identity is often viewed by scholars in a distinct,... | Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Identification (Religion); Christian life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | 2014-12 |
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Lipman, Joshua | Environmental ethics in the Book of Mormon | Current LDS environmental theology, championed by George Handley, includes critiques of Mormon pioneer history, analyses of the Doctrine of Covenants (the LDS book of laws), and LDS influenced nature writing such as the work of Terry Tempest-Williams. However the lack of ecological thought dedicated... | Book of Mormon - Criticism, interpretation, etc | 2014-12 |
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Mann, Samuel A. | Gendered language in Joseph Smith's revision of the new testament | In 1830, directly after founding the Church of Christ, Joseph Smith began an effort to amend what he considered to be errors in the King James Version of the Bible. By the conclusion of this process, Smith had edited over 3,000 verses. Through comparing Smith's revision to the original language of t... | | |
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Hanswille, Isa | Origins of a monotheistic worldview among the ancient Israelites | The early Israelites, like all of their closest Ancient Near Eastern neighbors, began their journey as a people with the worship of a pantheon full of gods. However, as the books of the Hebrew Bible progress chronologically, a shift in thinking occurs toward an alternate worldview. Proscriptions aga... | Monotheism -- History; Judaism -- History -- To 70 A.D; Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D | 2015-04 |