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David Bokovoy’s New Blog
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David Bokovoy’s New Blog
Posted on 2009-03-19 by arnyjuice

I would be doing you a great disservice if I didn’t alert you to the fact that David Bokovoy, a PhD candidate at Brandeis University, has set up an exciting new blog at www.davidbokovoy.com.  You should recognize the name from a number of great recent publications through FARMS (of The Maxwell Institute at Brigham Young University). If you haven’t had the possibility to see them, go here: http://farms.byu.edu/authors/?authorID=76

He also has a book out, written combined with LDS scripture scholar John Tvedtnes, referred to as Testaments: Links between the Book of Mormon as well as the Hebrew Bible. For more on this work, see Jeff Lindsay’s review of it here: http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2005/08/recommended-reading-bokovoy-and.html

For a lovely summary of Bokovoy’s lively exchange with evangelical Hebrew Bible scholar Michael S. Heiser over Psalm 82 as well as what we should understand by the phrase “Ye are gods,” see here:  http://heartissuesforlds.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/heiser-and-bokovoy-exchange-introduction/ 

On a more personal note, I have had the privilege of meeting David Bokovoy on a couple of occasions in the past few months as well as can truly say I found him to be brilliant, quick-witted, as well as just a really lovely guy.  He has had some of the best training in Hebrew as well as the Hebrew Bible that you can get (Brandeis is very well recognized on behalf of Hebrew as well as Jewish studies–LDS scholar Victor Ludlow also went there).  

David graduated from BYU with a BA in History as well as Near Eastern Studies as well as then earned his MA in Ancient Near East as well as Judaic Studies from Brandeis. As mentioned, he is currently pursuing his PhD there, with an emphasis on Hebrew Bible.  His current topic of focus is the Divine Council motif.  He also currently teaches at the Boston, MA LDS Institute of Religion (I’d love to have a class from him!). 

His blog, which has actually been around on behalf of a month or so (shows you how busy I’ve been), covers a good range of topics, including:

  • Biblical Studies
  • The Book of Abraham
  • The Book of Mormon

His posts are scholarly, deep, as well as very informative. I highly recommend checking out www.davidbokovoy.com!

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