Sperry Symposium: Static and active holiness
PROVO — The subtleties of the two types of holiness in the Hebrew language were not on Gaye Strathearn's mind as she climbed Mount Sinai 22 years ago.
It was cold and dark and the backpack was getting heavier. It didn't help that she and the other students from BYU's study abroad program were rousted out of bed at 3:30 a.m. to beat the sunrise to the top of the mountain declared holy ground. All she wanted to do was stop climbing.
Strathearn, a professor of ancient scripture at BYU, began her class at the Sperry Symposium by telling of her climb up that holy mountain. She told how there are two different words in Hebrew that are translated as "holy" in English.
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