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The Completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project
Slides and an audio recording from the Celebration on August 10, 2024
Go to https://dev.interpreterfoundation.org/royal-skousen-presentation-on-the-innovative-and-revolutionary-book-of-mormon-critical-text-project/ to see the slides from Royal Skousen’s and Stanford Carmack’s presentations
Watch the New Witnesses Video Series!
We’re excited to announce a new short video series of clips taken from the inspiring film, Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon!
You can find these short, engaging clips on our YouTube channel here. By subscribing to our channel, and then liking, commenting, and sharing these videos, you’ll help us spread the word and ensure these important messages reach a wider audience. Let’s work together to ignite interest in the Book of Mormon witnesses and inspire others with the timeless truths of the Book of Mormon.Or follow us on one of our other social media channels and then like, share, and comment on the videos wherever you see them
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Dear Interpreter Foundation Supporters:
The same quality film-making team that produced Witnesses, Interpreter’s highly successful and award-winning movie about the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, is producing Six Days in August, a compelling movie about the succession crisis after Joseph Smith’s martyrdom. We seek your support to enable us to complete this movie and release it in theaters in October.Here’s why this project is so important and why we need your support:
Six Days in August will portray the dramatic but relatively little known story of that crucial succession decision in 1844. It will show how Brigham Young and the quorum that he led came to be recognized by a large majority of Latter-day Saints as the Lord’s chosen leadership for the Church after the death of Joseph Smith.This story is vitally important today. The members of the Quorum of the Twelve have led the Church, and senior apostles have presided over it, ever since those dramatic days in early August 1844. Attacks on the legitimacy of the Twelve’s assumption of leadership over the Church in 1844 are, whether deliberately or not, attacks on today’s apostolic authority.
We began filming in September 2023 at sites in Canada, upstate New York, and at the LDS Motion Picture Studios in Provo. We have recently finished filming our final scenes. Gifts from generous donors have paid for filming, but there are still considerable expenses to prepare Six Day in August as a finished project ready for theatrical release.Please consider making a tax-deductible gift to help us raise the $256,000 we need to fund post-production efforts, associated with cutting raw footage, assembling that footage, standardizing and enhancing the color of the footage, adding music, dubbing, and sound effects.We seek your support now to help us cross the finish line to bring this entertaining, informative, and inspiring story to hundreds of thousands of people.Here is an entertaining video clip that features scenes from the movie and interviews with its actors.
For further background, please review the movie’s website at sixdaysinaugust.com on which you can also make an online donation.You can also make checks out payable to:
Six Days in August Productions
P.O. Box 970542
Orem, UT 84097
Thank you for supporting The Interpreter Foundation over the years and for your dedication to defending the Faith.Sincerely,Daniel C. Peterson
President, The Interpreter FoundationP.S. If you have questions, please contact Ed Snow at esnow23@gmail.com or 801-592-1750.
Study and Teaching Helps — 2024 Book of Mormon Lesson 38
Editor's Note: Four years ago, Jonn Claybaugh began writing the Study and Teaching Helps series of articles for Interpreter. We now have these wonderful and useful posts for all four years of Come, Follow Me lessons. Beginning this year we will be reposting these...
Study and Teaching Helps — 2024 Book of Mormon Lesson 37
Editor's Note: Four years ago, Jonn Claybaugh began writing the Study and Teaching Helps series of articles for Interpreter. We now have these wonderful and useful posts for all four years of Come, Follow Me lessons. Beginning this year we will be reposting these...
Study and Teaching Helps — 2024 Book of Mormon Lesson 36
Editor's Note: Four years ago, Jonn Claybaugh began writing the Study and Teaching Helps series of articles for Interpreter. We now have these wonderful and useful posts for all four years of Come, Follow Me lessons. Beginning this year we will be reposting these...
Hugh Nibley Observed: A Mighty Kauri Has Fallen
“Even though what I offer is a personal remembrance, I hope that what I have to say will in some measure speak both for and to others whose lives have or should have been influenced by him. Obviously, others have their own stories of how and why they came to know (or...
Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 35
This week for Come, Follow Me lesson 35 covering Helaman 1-6, we have lectures 73 through 78 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering Alma 62–Helaman 10. During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book of Mormon...
Interpreter Radio: The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 35
In the August 4th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Martin Tanner, Hales Swift, and Brent Schmidt discuss Book of Mormon lesson 35, “The Rock of Our Redeemer” covering Helaman 1-6. You can listen to or download the Book of Mormon...
Study and Teaching Helps — 2024 Book of Mormon Lesson 35
Editor's Note: Four years ago, Jonn Claybaugh began writing the Study and Teaching Helps series of articles for Interpreter. We now have these wonderful and useful posts for all four years of Come, Follow Me lessons. Beginning this year we will be reposting these...
Interpreting Interpreter: Intertextual Korihor
This post is a summary of the article “Insights into the Story of Korihor Based on Intertextual Comparisons” by Noel Hudson in Volume 62 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...
Insights into the Story of Korihor Based on Intertextual Comparisons
Abstract: A brief outline of the saga of Korihor, the Anti-Christ, is provided along with a discussion of his affinities with other Book of Mormon anti-Christs, including those in the order of Nehors. Literary allusions suggesting Korihor as a foil to the king of the...
Interpreting Interpreter: Zeniff Qua Korihor
This post is a summary of the article “Did Korihor Usurp the Words of Zeniff?” by Elliott Jolley in Volume 62 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...
Did Korihor Usurp the Words of Zeniff?
Abstract: The Book of Mormon contains several instances where a speaker or author in the Book of Mormon quotes a previous one. This article presents one such example: It appears that Korihor usurped the words of Zeniff, quoting some of them for his own purposes. The...
Hugh Nibley Observed: The Woman behind the Man
“In a little green house one block south of BYU campus lives the widow of well-known Latter-day Saint historian Hugh Nibley. Phyllis Draper Nibley, now seventy-nine years old, has lived in her Provo home for fifty years. She was born nearby in Salt Lake City, August...
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