Getting "Comped," Mopologetic Style?

[_Mister Scratch]

As a kind of belated Christmas gift, I received the following bit of information from a very reliable informant. Over on the aptly named MADboard, Professor Peterson has issued yet another plug for a book that he likes:

Some here will want to be aware of the newly-published book A Great Mystery: The Secret of the Jerusalem Temple: The Embracing Cherubim and At-One-Ment with the Divine (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2008).

Written by the late Dr. Eugene Seaich of Salt Lake City, whom some of us knew, the book argues that, in the view of those who built the ancient Jerusalem temple, humans become divine through spiritual union with God -- a union that was represented by what he contends was the marital embrace of the cherubim in Solomon's sanctuary, which itself represented a sacred marriage. The book has been kicking about in manuscript form for quite some time, but, thanks to the efforts of my friend Bryan Thomas, of Denver, has finally seen the light of day in print.

(emphasis added)

http://www.mormonapologetics.org/index. ... opic=40249

Already, this post is interesting. Here we have someone, apparently a friend of The Good Professor's, who was "kicking about" an apparently unpopular manuscript, and whose book embraced a theory which (coincidentally?) manages to support certain Mopologetic claims. Furthermore, one of DCP's friends helped to get the book published.

Anyways, for those interested in the book, it can be purchased here:

http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/sh ... e2d2a2e646

Unfortunately, you will have to cough up the tidy sum of $125.00

Intriguingly---and perhaps do to his network of "associates"---DCP was not required to pay the full price:

Unfortunately, it's very pricey. I got mine for 50% off at an academic symposium in Boston last month.

Was this a 50% discount given over to all symposium participants, or did The Good Professor receive a special, Mopologetic discount, as it were, due to his special "connections"? At the very least, I think that one cannot help but marvel at the incredible series of social networks, price gouging, coincidences, gossip, and behind-the-scenes deal-making that brought this book into being. Just think: this book would never have been published had it not been for DCP's "friend," and furthermore, notice how the premise of the book neatly supports a key Mopologetic argument. And, DCP managed to score a whopping 50% discount on it to boot!

It turns out that even the endorsements on the back cover of the book have deep Mopologetic connections:

The book is endorsed on the back cover by Margaret Barker and the late Raphael Patai, and it features a foreword by Steve Wiggins, whom I especially appreciate because of his important work on the goddess Asherah: A Reassessment of 'Asherah': A Study according to the Textual Sources of the First Two Millennia B.C.E (Neukirchen-Fluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1993).

We all know who Margaret Barker is, if only from K. Shirts's endless name dropping in his now-infamous YouTube films: "Bill Hamblin's in Oxford! He's meeting with Margaret Barker! Say hello to Bill Hamblin! He's in Oxford!"

I have to say, there are an awful lot of astonishing coincidences here. One wonders if Mopologetics is possible *without* a network of "back-slapping bros."

[_LifeOnaPlate]

50% off? Still a pricey book. Would you pay 50% for it, MS>

[_Lamanite]

I'm flipping through The Temple by Edersheim and can think of several arguments with which to discount some of the assertions made by Piscataway's summary.

And you're creating a post about some lame 50% discount. I got a a $10 off card from Deseret Book in the mail yesterday. Perhaps it's a conspiracy that only Half Tongan Mormonites are receiving this discount based upon our dominant presence in West Valley?

Bush League


Lamanite

[_LifeOnaPlate]

I'm flipping through The Temple by Edersheim and can think of several arguments with which to discount some of the assertions made by Piscataway's summary.

And you're creating a post about some lame 50% discount. I got a a $10 off card from Deseret Book in the mail yesterday. Perhaps it's a conspiracy that only Half Tongan Mormonites are receiving this discount based upon our dominant presence in West Valley?

Bush League


Lamanite

Sorry I got one of those too, and I'm not half Tongan.

[_Lamanite]

I'm flipping through The Temple by Edersheim and can think of several arguments with which to discount some of the assertions made by Piscataway's summary.

And you're creating a post about some lame 50% discount. I got a a $10 off card from Deseret Book in the mail yesterday. Perhaps it's a conspiracy that only Half Tongan Mormonites are receiving this discount based upon our dominant presence in West Valley?

Bush League


Lamanite

Sorry I got one of those too, and I'm not half Tongan.

Well I'm sure it's a conspiracy of some sort. I mean honestly, if we are not required to pay full price and others are, then there must be some injustice taking place.

Discount = Foul play.

God forbid Mr. Scratch make a case against deification in the early Jewish Temple. That would be insane!

Big UP Rabbi Shlomo

Lamanite

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Well, here's the thing, Lamanite. Discounts equal favoring. Getting "comped" mopologetic style typically involves academic discounts of up to 50%. The interesting thing is how DCP was likely the only person who received such treatment, old bean.

[_harmony]

Well, here's the thing, Lamanite. Discounts equal favoring. Getting "comped" mopologetic style typically involves academic discounts of up to 50%. The interesting thing is how DCP was likely the only person who received such treatment, old bean.

Oh, bullshaloney. I got a $10 card too, and I'm nowhere near Provo. And getting discounts on books when at conferences is nothing new. (although I wouldn't have bought it, unless it was on sale for $10)

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Well, here's the thing, Lamanite. Discounts equal favoring. Getting "comped" mopologetic style typically involves academic discounts of up to 50%. The interesting thing is how DCP was likely the only person who received such treatment, old bean.

Oh, bullshaloney. I got a $10 card too, and I'm nowhere near Provo. And getting discounts on books when at conferences is nothing new. (although I wouldn't have bought it, unless it was on sale for $10)

Like I'm going to believe that. Trix are for kids, and also discounts on books are for mopologists.

[_Lamanite]

Well, here's the thing, Lamanite. Discounts equal favoring. Getting "comped" mopologetic style typically involves academic discounts of up to 50%. The interesting thing is how DCP was likely the only person who received such treatment, old bean.

I should have guessed. No doubt this middle aged Krispy Kreme eating white male will use his 50% savings for the further gentrification of Utah County. Which will result in my Tongan relatives being exiled into K-Town (Kearns). WEST SIDE Nukka!

Diabolical!

I've seen the mountain top, I may not get there with you...mostly because I had to pay full price at an educational seminar where others, who knew the pass grip of an Apprentice Mason, did in fact receive a 50% discount.

My new bumper sticker:
Hiram Abiff saved me money on my car insurance!

Lamanite

[_Rollo Tomasi]

And getting discounts on books when at conferences is nothing new.

50% is a hefty discount, even for an academic conference. Like MS, I would be interested to know whether the 50% discount was available to all conference-goers.