The Crown of Creation

by David R. Seely, Jo Ann H. Seely

Overview

Abstract: The Seelys discuss the well-known concept of the universe as a temple, and link the creation story to the temple drama. They explore how God, in creating the universe, had the same roles the temple drama gives to Adam and Eve as archetypes of each man and woman (that of king, priest, and artisan), and how man, by participating in the temple drama, is raised to be the image of God, thus becoming the real crown of creation, participating in God's creation by procreation.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162249917
Publisher:	Interpreter Foundation
Publication date:	03/04/2021
Series:	Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship , #43
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	329 KB

About the Author

David Rolph Seely is a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He is a member of the international team of scholars that translated the Dead Sea Scrolls and published, together with Moshe Weinfeld, the Barkhi Nafshi hymns from Qumran in the Oxford series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert. He coauthored with William Hamblin Solomon’s Temple in Myth and History, and with Richard Holzapfel and Dana Pike Jehovah and the World of the Old Testament.

Jo Ann H. Seely is adjunct faculty in ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. She coedited with John W. Welch and David Rolph Seely Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem. She has published articles in The Book of Mormon Reference Companion, Anchor Bible Dictionary, BYU Studies, and the Studies in Scriptures series.

David and Jo Ann love teaching and writing together. In 2006 they were named the BYU Honors Co-Professors of the Year and have written several articles together, but their best collaboration has been their four children and three grandchildren.