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Guide Home > Doctrinal Issues > Temples and Temple Work > Ancient Temples
Additional TopicsThe following are additional topic areas related to Ancient Temples. If there is a bracket number after the topic, that number indicates how many actual articles there are related to that subject. If the link for the topic is not live, it simply means the topic is a 'planned area' for future growth. FAIR ResourcesThese links are either to Web pages hosted on the FAIR Website, or to FAIR Papers. FAIR Papers are short articles about specific topics or questions, written by members of FAIR. These articles can be downloaded and read in PDF format and are intended to be distributed by e-mail or print for the general use of our patrons. (To read FAIR Papers you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader. It can be downloaded free from the Adobe Web site.) Click on a title below to visit a FAIR Web page or to read the latest version of a FAIR Paper. John A. Tvedtnes, "Early Christian and Jewish Rituals Related to Temple Practice," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, August 1999) A number of early Jewish and Christian documents deal with elements found in modern LDS temples. This article examines the meaning of some of those parallels. John A. Tvedtnes, "Early Christian and Jewish Rituals Related to Temple Practices," (1999 FAIR Conference presentation.) Were unique LDS temple practices also known to early Jews and Christians? Ensign ArticlesThese articles cited below provide information on the topic of this page. The Ensign is one of the official publications of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When you click on one of the article links below, you are whisked to the article found in the archives of the Church's Web site. Hugh W. Nibley, "Ancient Temples: What Do They Signify?," Ensign, September 1972, 47. Sidney B. Sperry, "Ancient Temples and Their Functions," Ensign, January 1972, 67. Other ResourcesThe resources listed below are related items available on the Web that should be of interest. These links are to information not located on the FAIR Web site. LeGrand Baker, "Temple Characteristics of the Book of Mormon," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (Provo: FARMS, 1997), (on-line only) Margaret Barker, "What Did Josiah Reform? The Earlier Religion of Israel," BYU Speeches (6 May 2003) Non-LDS Cambridge scholar, Margaret Barker, discusses some of the interesting aspects of ancient Israel (and the Israelite temple). LDS scholars recognize some uniquely LDS traits in the things noted by Barker. (MP3 file) Dr. William Hamblin, "Tract Made Without Evidence". Hamblin respond's to James White's (of Alpha & Omega Ministry) e-tract, "Temples Made Without Hands." Hamblin takes White to task for claiming that a true Christian Church would not construct temples. Dr. William Hamblin and James White, Christian's and Temple Building: A Discussion of the Issue by Dr. William Hambling and "Dr." James White. Hamblin & White debate (by email) the issue of Christian Temples -- see "Tract Made Without Evidence." Lynn M. Hilton, The Hand as a Cup in Ancient Temple Worship. Hugh W. Nibley, "The Early Christian Prayer Circle," BYU Studies (1979), 1-37 The nature of the early Christian prayer circle may be described by letting the oldest documents speak for themselves, beginning with the latest and moving backwards to the earliest. The rite was depicted for the last time in a document read to the assembled churchmen of the Second Council of Nicaea in A.D. 787 and condemned by them to the flames. Their objection was to parts of the text that proclaimed the Gnostic doctrine of the total immateriality of Christ; on the subject of the prayer circle, which was strange to them, they preserved a discreet silence. Actually that part of it was an excerpt taken from a much older writing, the Acts of John, being the earliest apocryphal Christian Acta, dating at least to the early third century. The further back we go the more prominent becomes the rite in the church.
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