Upcoming Lectures

Next week Dr. Muhlestein will be at BYU Hawaii doing the Joseph Smith Lecture Series. He will do the Devotional entitled "The Book of Abraham, Joseph Smith, Revelation, and You," on Tuesday. The text of this lecture will be made available on the University's website and on BookofAbraham.org.

That day he will also do a public lecture entitled "Seeing God's Unending Love, Patience and Mercy in His Dealings with the House of Israel."

On Wednesday he will teach some classes, do some lectures for the faculty, and do a campus wide lecture entitled "Joseph Smith's Treasure Seeking as a Personal Tutoring Opportunity."

He will also do a book signing at the Campus Bookstore on Thursday, as well as a question and answer session with students that day.

Teaching about Egypt

Dr. Muhlestein taught 4 classes of 6th graders about ancient Egypt at Orchard Elementary.

A few weeks earlier Dr. Muhlestein spent several hours teaching two different social studies/socratic methods classes about ancient Egypt at Maeser Prep Academy.

Upcoming Lecture

Dr. Muhlestein will be doing a lecture this Saturday at 9 am as part of the Sydney B. Sperry Symposium. He will be lecturing on the way the presence of God is described in the Old Testament. You can learn more about the symposium at http://rsc.byu.edu/symposia/sperry

New Article

Kerry Muhlestein and Kristin South have published a new article about the excavation: “Regarding Ribbons: The spread and use of narrow purpose-woven bands in Late Roman Egyptian burials,” in Drawing the threads together: Textiles and footwear of the 1st millennium AD from Egypt, Antoine De Moor, Cäcilia Fluck, Petra Linscheid, eds. (Tielt, Belgium: Lanoo, 2013), 56-73.

Excavation Work moving along

We recently had our first excavation team meeting of the academic year. I am excited to see all the good things so many people are doing. We are moving forward on creating our database, on publishing a catalogue of our textiles and some interim work, on conserving the materials we have, on firming up our excavation plans for this year, and on publishing some articles about our pyramid. David Whitchurch and Kerry Muhlestein just submitted and article to the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology about the stelae from the Excavation. Many more good things are in the works.

We have such a great team, and so many things are moving along so well. It is going to be a promising year.

Review of Lectures in Newspaper

Deseret News just posted a review of my lectures on the Book of Abraham. You can find them at http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865588253/Whats-new-BYU-scholar-shares-latest-research-on-book-of-Abraham.html

Interview Available

The interview with Martin Tanner is now available online. You can listen at http://img.ksl.com/audio/2013_09_29_religion_today.mp3 We talk about my books that have come out, my lectures that have come out, and the Book of Abraham.