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2009 Sidney B. Sperry Symposium


THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL SIDNEY B. SPERRY SYMPOSIUM


THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
Friday and Saturday, October 30 and 31, 2009

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009

 

Time

 

JSB Auditorium

 

6:30 p.m.

 

Keynote Address:  The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament
Elder F. Melvin Hammond, Released Seventy

 

 

Time

 

JSB Auditorium

 

445 MARB

 

 446 MARB

 

          455 MARB

 

          456 MARB

 

     
7:30
  p.m.

 

Isaiah’s “Other” Servant Songs

 

 

Terry B. Ball
Dean, Religious Education, BYU

 

 

An Approach to Seeing Beyond the Symbol: A Purchased Jewel

 

Craig R. Frogley,
Seminaries & Institutes, Utah

 

Swimming Iron and Liberated Lepers:
Finding Christ in Types of The Old Testament

Blair G. Van Dyke,
Seminaries & Institutes, Utah

 

“How Excellent is Thy Lovingkindness”– The Gospel Principle of Hesed

 

Daniel Belnap,
Ancient Scripture,
BYU

 

“Upon All Flesh”: The Multiple Fulfillment of Joel 2:28-32

 

C. Robert Line,
Seminaries & Institutes, Utah

 

 

  8:30
  p.m.

 

 

 

Ruth, Redemption, Covenant and Christ: Ruth’s Teachings About Our Relationship with Christ and His Redemption of Us

Kerry M. Muhlestein,
Ancient Scripture,
BYU

 

 

 

 

Wrestling Before God, Enos and Jacob

 

 

 

James L. Carroll,
Part-time
BYU

 

 

Christ, Covenants, and the Caph

 

 

 

Shon Hopkin,
Seminaries & Institutes, Texas

 

 

The Holy Spirit: Creating, Anointing, and Empowering throughout the Old Testament

 

Lynne H. Wilson,
Seminaries & Institutes, California

 

 

Hosea 1-2: The Imagery of Hosea’s Family and the History and Restoration of Israel

 

Aaron Schade,
Chair, Religious Education,
BYU-Hawaii


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009

 

Time

 

JSB Auditorium

 

445 MARB

 

446 MARB

 

455 MARB

 

456 MARB

 

        
9:00
     a.m.

 

 

The Path of Angels: A Biblical Pattern for the Role of Angels in Physical Salvation

 

 

 

Taylor Halverson,
Center for Teaching and Learning, BYU

 

The Plan of Salvation in the Old Testament

 

 

 

 

Rae Ann Collard,
Seminaries & Institutes, New Mexico

 

The Sanctifying Power of True Ritual Worship Is Illustrated in the Old Testament

 

 

 

Carol F. Ellertson,
Part-time, BYU

 

 

 

According to Their Language, Unto Their Understanding: Hierophanies and Theophanies in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon

 

Mark Alan Wright, Part-time, BYU

 

Malachi and the Centrality of Families in the Gospel of Jesus Christ

 

 

Kory L. Meyerink,
Adjunct Professor of History & Religion, BYU

 

        
   10:00
     a.m.

 

 

 

 

 

“For This Child I Prayed” (1 Samuel 1:27): Motherhood in the Old Testament

 

John Hilton III & Lani Hilton,
Part-time, BYU & wife

 

“For they truly testify of Christ”: A Second Through Eighth Century Christian Reading of the Old Testament

 

Alonzo L. Gaskill,
Church History and Doctrine, BYU

 

Righteous Courtship: Genesis 24–A Scriptural Pattern

 

 

Keith J. Wilson,
Ancient Scripture, BYU

 

Plain and Precious Parts Are Still There: The Plan of Salvation in the First Six Books of the Old Testament

 

Paul Y. Hoskisson,
FARMS, BYU

 

The Whole Meaning of the Law: Vicarious Sacrifice Strengthening Our Faith in Christ

 

Jennifer C. Lane,
Religious Education, BYU-Hawaii

 

   11:00
     a.m.

 

 

 

Eternal Marriage and Family in the Old Testament

 

Michael Goodman, Church History and Doctrine, BYU

 

“Holiness to the Lord” and Personal Temple Worship

 

Gaye Strathearn,
Ancient Scripture, BYU

 

Cutting Covenants

 

 

Jared T. Parker,
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering

 

Ye Shall Not Fast as Ye Do This Day

 

Allen W. Litchfield,
Seminaries & Institutes, Utah

 

Circumcision as a Sign of the Abrahamic Covenant

Ryan J. Wessel,
Seminaries & Institutes, Arizona

 

   12:00
     p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Creation–The Impact of Ancient Scripture on the Collective Self Image of  Latter-day Saints

 

Douglas Godwin
Seminaries & Institutes, Utah

 

Finding the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Our Own Story Through the Windows and Mirrors of the Book of Numbers

 

Tyler Jay Griffin,
Seminaries & Institutes, Utah

 

“Have I Any Pleasure At All that the Wicked Should Die?” (Ezekiel 18:23): Insights into the Compassion of Christ as Found in the Old Testament

David L. Draut,
Seminaries & Institutes, Michigan

 




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