Dan Wotherspoon: One verification of that idea was proposed to me by a friend who was surprised that Royal Skousen’s work on the Book of Mormon text didn’t find its way into the new version. Skousen is a professor of linguistics at BYU and has spent the last twenty-five years studying...
In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong. ...
“lake of burning”) that provided “fiery torture . . . for those who are to be punished and destroyed” in the afterlife.[12]In iconographic depictions of the netherworld this lake of fire is drawn as “a rectangular or round body where the water is fire, suitably colo...
At the highest point on the terrace a huge “Audience Palace,” theApadana, was built to receive visiting leaders. Its massive roof was supported by 72 stone columns of which only 14 still stand. Over each of the Apadana’s four corners rose a 4-story tall tower and in the foundation ...