A good book you might consider is Nibley's book on the temple. It's vol. 12, "Temple and Cosmos." It explains a lot of symbolism using ancient temples as examples. A good non-LDS book was written by a man who recently passed away and is better known as a critic of the so-called mystic school of English poets (primarily William Blake), but who was also an ordained mainstream Protestant minister and taught at Victoria College, U of Toronto, which houses the United Church of Canada's seminary. His name's Northrop Frye and he wrote a kind of double book, one called "The Great Code: the Bible and Literature," and "Words With Power," its successor (and written in a chiastic form, interestingly). Although he's not LDS, I think so much of Frye that I have devoted a section of my website to him.
Go to http://www.members.shaw.ca/mschindler/B/scripture.htm and you'll see 3 items by/about him: B1 is a shorter piece, and B3 is a longer piece with extensive excerpts from his two books. B12 is a review I wrote on one of his books for either Dialogue or Sunstone -- offhand I forget which. B15 isn't bad either -- it's about symbolism and literary techniques (such as onomatopoeia and alliteration which is lost in the translation) in Isaiah. "John W. Redelfs" wrote: > At 08:43 PM, Monday, 10/28/02, Stephen Beecroft wrote: > >5. Moses 7:26 mentions Satan veiling the earth with his chain, > >symbolizing (I believe) the captivity of sin and the blindness Satan > >causes in the hearts of men. Isaiah 25:7 also uses this symbolism. > > > >Just some musings during the gospel doctrine discussion yesterday. > > It's too heavy for me. But then I have a hard time with symbolism. I am > too literal minded. It has occurred to me that when we are dealing with > other adults, we cannot know who they were in the premortal existence, and > they cannot know who we truly are. I have heard it said that if we could > only pierce that veil we would hold each other in much higher regard. > > John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] > =========================================== > "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to > laugh at that man." --Jack Handy > =========================================== > All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR > > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland Guns don’t kill people; people with guns kill people Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author’s employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ${list_promo}
