Andrew c skinner biography of abraham
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Review
Title: Verse bygd Verse : the Old Testament
Author: D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner
Publisher: Deseret Book
Genre: Commentary on scripture
Year Published: ; revised edition
Number of pages: Vol: ; Vol 2:
Binding: Trade paperback
ISBN13, volume 1:
ISBN13, volume 2:
Price: $ for each volume
Reviewed by Dennis Clark for the Association for Mormon Letters
This fryst vatten not really a verse-by-verse commentary. Nor is it written to accompany the Come, Follow Me manual for study in of the Old Testament. As Ogden and Skinner declare in the preface, “the division between our volumes reflects the way in which courses on the Old Testament are structured in the institutes of religion &#; and on the campuses of Brigham Young University.” That structure is essentially chronological, with verses addressed, as nearly as can be determined, in chronological order. This order differs from both the beställning of books in the Authorized utgåva which the Church of J
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“The Book of Abraham: A Most Remarkable Gift for Our Time,” Liahona, January
Among the invaluable records that the Lord promised would be restored in the latter days (see 1 Nephi ; Doctrine and Covenants ), the book of Abraham, given through the Prophet Joseph Smith, is a unique and priceless gem in our treasury of revealed scripture.
It is a most remarkable book—an authentic ancient record that immediately plunges us back into a specific time and place in the Near East and yet at the same time opens to us the wide expanse of the universe. It is so dynamic that it can reveal the historical and cultural origins of ancient Egyptian civilization (see Abraham –28) and yet, in the turn of a phrase, teach us profound truths about eternity.
Above all, the book of Abraham is a powerful, Christ-centered text that has as its main themes the eternal nature of the Abrahamic covenant, the preeminence of Jesus Christ, and the role of Jesus Christ in the three great events of the plan of
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