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Adams, William James, Jr. “Synagogues in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 1 (2000).
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The Book of Mormon mentions synagogues in twenty-five passages. An important resource that may help us understand what the Book of Mormon means by the word synagogue is the body of research on biblical synagogues. This is especially true of research related to the years prior to the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, which began in 586 BC, since this is the time period when Lehi left Jerusalem. We would expect, therefore, that the nature of biblical synagogues before the captivity would have greatly influenced the concept of the synagogue that Lehi and his family took with them to the New World. In this article, William J. Adams Jr. details the historical development, nature, and cultural function of synagogues of the biblical era and relates them to the history, form, and religious function of synagogues in the New World.

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Bokovoy, David E. “From Distance to Proximity: A Poetic Function of Enallage in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 1 (2000): 60-63, 79-80.
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This essay analyzes examples of poetry in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon that do not conform to the standards to which prose is typically confined. Each of these poems contains a syntactic device that scholars have come to identify by the term enallage (Greek for “interchange”). Rather than being a case of textual corruption or blatant error, the grammatical variance attested in these passages provides a poetic articulation of a progression from distance to proximity.

Keywords: Enallage; Grammar; Language; Language - Hebrew; Poetic; Poetry; Structure
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Literary Aspects
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Booras, Steven W. “Appendix 1: The Book of Mormon and the Apocalypse of Paul.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 183-194. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Angel; Angel Moroni; Apocalypse of Paul; Hidden Records; Metal Plates; Paul the Apostle; Vision
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Brown, S. Kent. “Marriage and Treaty in the Book of Mormon: The Case of the Abducted Lamanite Daughters.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 1-18. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Amulon; Daughters of the Lamanites; Marriage; Priests of King Noah; Treaty
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Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “The Names Lehi and Sariah—Language and Meaning.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 1 (2000): 32-34, 77.
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Unlike the Old and New Testaments, where a variety of Hebrew and Greek texts exist to aid us, for the Book of Mormon we have only the King James English translation produced by Joseph Smith. The languages of the Book of Mormon were hardly the same throughout the original composition. Chadwick continues the onomastic discussion of the names Lehi and Sariah by suggesting that the Book of Mormon name Lehi matches the spelling in the King James Bible in the place-name Ramath-lehi; therefore the two must necessarily represent the same Hebrew term. He agrees with one of Hoskisson’s meanings for Lehi’s name— “jaw”— and indicates this may be a nickname rather than a proper name. Sariah is attested as a female name in a Near Eastern document. Although not found as a female name in the Bible, it is well documented as a male name in ancient Israel. In this light, the name means “Jehovah is Prince,” meaning Jehovah is the son of a king.

Keywords: Greek; Joseph; Jr.; Language; Language - Hebrew; Lehi (Prophet); Name; Onomastics; Sariah; Smith
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Davidson, Karen Lynn. “The Book of Mormon in Latter-day Saint Hymnody.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 1 (2000): 14-27, 76-77.
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A church member who has loved the Book of Mormon since childhood and who takes it for granted that the Book of Mormon is central to LDS class instruction, general conference addresses, and missionary discussions is likely to be surprised that we have only six Book of Mormon hymns in our 1985 hymnbook. Early hymn writers turned to the Book of Mormon itself for their texts. Twelve Book of Mormon hymns were introduced into Mormon hymnody by Emma Smith’s first hymnal, but the Book of Mormon as a theme almost disappeared from later hymnals. Only one hymn relating to the Book of Mormon was among the forty-nine new hymns added to the 1985 hymnal. In this article, Book of Mormon hymns are listed, discussed, and categorized. Most of the Book of Mormon hymns that have been written are narrative, rather than devotional. Each new hymnbook must meet the needs of its age. Devotional hymns are likely to be more forthcoming as literary appreciation of the Book of Mormon continues to grow.

Keywords: Hymn; Literary; Literature; Music
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Draper, Richard D. “Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites: A Study in Hypókrisis.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 385-427. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Hypocrisy; Jesus Christ; Pharisees; Scribe
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Draper, Richard D. “The Book of Mormon on Christ’s Role as Redeemer.” Ensign, January 2000.
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Elliott, T. Lynn. “Discovering Mormon and Moroni.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): Article 3.
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Review of The Lives and Travels of Mormon and Moroni (2000), by Jerry L. Ainsworth

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Elliott, T. Lynn. “Modern-Day Lessons from the Book of Mormon.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): Article 10.
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Review of As One Crying from the Dust: Book of Mormon Messages for Today (1999), by Brent L. Top

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Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “1999 Book of Mormon Bibliography.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): Article 22.
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Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “Seeking Agreement on the Meaning of Book of Mormon Names.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 1 (2000).
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Over two hundred proper names of peoples or places appear in the Book of Mormon text. Although some of those names appear in the Bible, a large majority of them are unique to the Book of Mormon. Paul Y. Hoskisson leads the Onomasticon Project, which seeks to identify and interpret Book of Mormon names using standard principles and methods. This article introduces five subsequent articles that demonstrate to nonspecialists how this type of research can and should be applied to the Book of Mormon. Prepared scholars—Hoskisson, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Dana M. Pike, John A. Tvedtnes—display the type of interchange that is required to clarify and settle the issues surrounding Book of Mormon proper names. This article also introduces two additional articles that complement the onomastic discussion.

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Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “Out of the Dust.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 1 (2000).
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This article details three topics. First, Oliver Huntington was an early LDS pioneer who wrote or dictated numerous reminiscences, including on his association with Joseph Smith. On 16 February 1895, he wrote the names of the three Nephites who “do not sleep.” Historians find that some of what he recorded does not square with other reports. Without corroborating statements from other sources, we cannot know if he is correct. Second, Monument 6 near Palenque, Mexico, prophesies the descent of the god Bolon Yokte K’u. This monument allows confidence that the practice of prophesying future happenings was going on within a few centuries after the end of the Book of Mormon period. Third, two landmark publications raised the profile of the long-debated question about transoceanic contact. The article also briefly mentions a report about research that uncovers evidence of an Atlantic crossing.

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Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “New Light.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 1 (2000).
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Recent genetic studies indicate that Polynesians were connected to ancient America. Careful reading of native sources led European scholar Michel Graulich to conclude that pre-Columbian Americans held beliefs that may arise out of the Christian tradition. Whether he or those he opposes are correct, the caution to allow more than one interpretative stance remains appropriate. Interpretations of scriptural history are possibly “contingent upon the theoretical inclinations” of the investigators. The historical process of the Anufo people of the Ivory Coast territory suggests how “robbers” or “secret societies” could have grown to be players on the sociopolitical scene in Mesoamerica.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3033]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 1558  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:21
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “In Memoriam, Franklin S. Harris Jr.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 1 (2000).
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Recent genetic studies indicate that Polynesians were connected to ancient America. Careful reading of native sources led European scholar Michel Graulich to conclude that pre-Columbian Americans held beliefs that may arise out of the Christian tradition. Whether he or those he opposes are correct, the caution to allow more than one interpretative stance remains appropriate. Interpretations of scriptural history are possibly “contingent upon the theoretical inclinations” of the investigators. The historical process of the Anufo people of the Ivory Coast territory suggests how “robbers” or “secret societies” could have grown to be players on the sociopolitical scene in Mesoamerica.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “Out of the Dust: Finding Things Where They Are Not Supposed to Be.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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Archaeological discoveries that challenge previously accepted theories of the history of civilization are found all over the world.

ID = [3048]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 22185  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:22
Fullmer, Robert. “Paul Henning: The First Mormon Archaeologist.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 1 (2000).
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Paul Henning was born in Germany in 1872 and passed away in 1923. He was the first Latter-day Saint to become a professional archaeologist and Mesoamerican scholar. He was also the first to bring his professional knowledge to bear on how to correlate the Book of Mormon record with the physical remains and history of the area now widely considered among church members as the core Book of Mormon location. While his ideas on these matters were never published, he deserves to be saluted as a pioneer of Book of Mormon studies. This biographical article includes information about his association with Benjamin C. Cluff Jr., president of Brigham Young University, and his contribution to the university.

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Gee, John. “Some Notes on the Anthon Transcript.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 1 (2000): 5-8.
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Review of Translating the Anthon Transcript (1999), by Stan and Polly Johnson

Keywords: Anthon Transcript; Language; Typography
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Goff, Alan. “Scratching the Surface of Book of Mormon Narratives.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): 51-82.
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Review of Digging in Cumorah: Reclaiming Book of Mormon Narratives (1999), by Mark D. Thomas

Keywords: Form Criticism; Historicity; Literature; Scholarship
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Hallen, Cynthia L. “Feasting upon the Works: A Tribute to John L. Sorenson.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): 181-184.
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Review of Mormons, Scriptures, and the Ancient World: Studies in Honor of John L. Sorenson (1998), edited by Davis Bitton

Keywords: Ancient America; Asherah; Early Church History; Education; Festschrift; Kingship; Mesoamerica; Missionary Work; Native Americans; Tree of Life
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Hardy, Grant R. “Speaking So That All May Be Edified.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): 83-97.
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Review of Digging in Cumorah: Relcaiming Book of Mormon Narratives (1999), by Mark D. Thomas

Keywords: Form Criticism; Historicity; Interpretation; Methodology; Scholarship; Theology
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Hauglid, Brian M. “A New Approach to the Book of Mormon: The Restored Covenant Edition.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): 9-19.
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Review of The Book of Mormon: Restored Covenant Edition (1999), by Zarahemla Research Foundation

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Critical Text; Formatting; Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Structure; Textual History
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Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, and R. Q. Shupe. Brigham Young: Images of a Mormon Prophet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2000.
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The focus of this project is to bring together all the known paintings and photographic images of Brigham from his lifetime. Additionally, a representative sample of the numerous graphic images of Brigham appearing in newspapers, magazines, and books from the same period are reproduced. Illustrations of the Mormon leader in these publications sometimes closely reflect the photographic record because they are based on original photographs or because they were made from personal observations by a trained artist. In many cases, artists met Brigham face-to-face and then worked from photographic images to finish their work. Other illustrations, however, range from the ridiculously funny to the blatantly vicious, like many political cartoons of the day. ISBN 1-5700-8625-7

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Honey, David B., and Michael P. Lyon. “An Inscribed Chinese Gold Plate in Its Context: Glimpses of the Sacred Center.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 19-65. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Buddhism; China; Far East; Metal Plates
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Hoskisson, Paul Y. “Lehi and Sariah.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 1 (2000): 30-31, 77.
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Hoskisson begins the onomastic discussion with the names Lehi and Sariah. These are two Book of Mormon names that are close in time and space to ancient Jerusalem. Hoskisson suggests etymologies for these two names. He introduces his explanation of their names with a discussion of ancient names in general. He suggests that Sariah’s name is composed of common Hebrew and Semitic elements and probably means “Jehovah is my prince.” Lehi’s name has a few possible meanings, evidence that it is not yet possible to come to a firm conclusion about some names. Ambiguity reminds scholars that the study of onomastica does not always yield clear results, that conclusions cannot be dogmatic, that previous suggestions should always be reevaluated, and that new suggestions are welcome.

Keywords: Etymology; Language; Language - Hebrew; Lehi (Prophet); Name; Onomastics; Sariah
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Hoskisson, Paul Y. “Response to the Comments.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 1 (2000): 38-39, 77-78.
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Hoskisson responds to and elaborates on the comments about the names Lehi and Sariah that Chadwick, Pike, and Tvedtnes provided in this onomastic discussion. Where Hoskisson disagrees with their conclusions, he uses examples to defend his position. He acknowledges the contribution this discussion has provided to the study of Book of Mormon proper names. He welcomes further examples on the points suggested by these scholars

Keywords: Lehi (Prophet); Name; Onomastics; Sariah
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Hoskisson, Paul Y. “What’s in a name?: Nephi.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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Though the name Nephi conforms in some ways to common Semitic patterns, none of the possible consonantal roots that appear in Hebrew can be applied to the name. Other possible sources such as Ugaritic or Egyptian may be considered.

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Huchel, Frederick M. “The Deseret Alphabet as an Aid in Pronouncing Book of Mormon Names.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 1 (2000): 58-59, 79.
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One approach to reconstructing the Prophet Joseph Smith’s pronunciation of the proper names in the Book of Mormon is to determine how his close associates in the early days of the church later pronounced the names. In the Deseret Alphabet we have a record of the pronunciation in vogue in 1869. It is plausible that pronunciation of the names did not change much between 1830, when the scripture first appeared in English, and the publication of the Deseret Alphabet Book of Mormon in 1869. This article includes a table of pronunciation of eighteen names from the Book of Mormon according to the phonetic Deseret Alphabet characters compared with the sounds recommended in the “Pronouncing Guide,” which appears in all English-language editions today.

Keywords: Deseret Alphabet; Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Language; Name; Pronunciation; Smith
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Johnson, D. Lynn. “The Restored Covenant Edition of the Book of Mormon—Text Restored to Its Purity?” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): 21-38.
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Review of The Book of Mormon: Restored Covenant Edition (1999), by Zarahemla Research Foundation

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Critical Text; Formatting; Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Structure; Textual History
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Line, C. Robert. “The Middoni Principle.” Religious Educator Vol. 1 no. 1 (2000).
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
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Ludlow, Daniel H., and S. Kent Brown. To All the World: The Book of Mormon Articles from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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This new selection of materials from the incomparable Encyclopedia of Mormonism includes 151 Book of Mormon articles by 115 scholars and articulate authors.
Within this compilation, readers will find: 45 illustrative photographs, maps, and charts, bibliographies, a unique list of entries by category, and a full index of passages.

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Ludlow, Victor L. “Covenant Teachings of the Book of Mormon.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 67-93. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Covenant
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McDonald, Andrew J. “New Evidences for Old?: Buyer Beware.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): 101-117.
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Review of New Evidences of Christ in Ancient America (1999), by Blaine M. Yorgason, Bruce W. Warren, and Harold Brown

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Evidence; Mesoamerica
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Midgley, Louis C. “To Remember and Keep: On the Book of Mormon as an Ancient Book.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 95-137. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Historicity; Remembrance
ID = [75499]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:49
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Last Days, Then and Now.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 269–303. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Reprinted in Eloquent Witness: Nibley on Himself, Others, and the Temple, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 17, 196–227.
Hugh Nibley discusses the last days based on his own thoughts and actively avoiding quotes from others (unless they pop up from memory).

Keywords: Last Days
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Government, Politics
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > History > Christian History, Apostasy > Eschatology, Last Days
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Olson, Camille Fronk. “Desert Epiphany: Sariah and the Women in 1 Nephi.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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Insights can be gained by considering the eight-year wilderness sojourn of Lehi’s company through the eyes of the women who were there. Leaving the comforts of civilization for the difficulties of the desert would have been very challenging. While the record in 1 Nephi mentions nine women, Sariah was the only one identified by name. Nephi records Sariah’s struggles as well as her testimony. The record of the women in 1 Nephi communicates much about the need to seek and receive one’s own witness of truth.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [3038]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 52926  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:21
Paulson, Matthew A. Breaking the Mormon Code: A Critique of Mormon Scholarship Regarding Classical Christian Theology and the Book of Mormon. Livermore, California: WingSpan Press, 2000.
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In Provo, Utah, there exists the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) renowned as a Mormon think-tank, FARMS is owned and operated by Brigham Young University (BYU) and the Mormon Church. Their mission seeks to repudiate the opposition, applaud its supporters, and justify many peculiar Mormon doctrines. This book demonstrates that FARMS often twists the truths to justify Mormon doctrines. To justify their position they often will utilize inane accusations, misquotes and equivocation. This collection of deceit from Mormon scholarship is what Matt Paulson has identified as the ¿breaking of the Mormon Code.¿

Keywords: Christian Scholarship; Rhetoric, anti-Mormon; Anti-Mormon writings
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Peterson, Daniel C. “Nephi and His Asherah.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 2 (2000): 16-25, 80-81.
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Asherah was the chief goddess of the Canaanites. She was El’s wife and the mother and wet nurse of the other gods. At least some Israelites worshipped her over a period from the conquest of Canaan in the second millennium before Christ to the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC (the time of Lehi’s departure with his family). Asherah was associated with trees—sacred trees. The rabbinic authors of the Jewish Mishna (second–third century ad) explain the asherah as a tree that was worshipped. In 1 Nephi 11, Nephi considers the meaning of the tree of life as he sees it in vision. In answer, he receives a vision of “a virgin, . . . the mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the flesh.” The answer to his question about the meaning of the tree lies in the virgin mother with her child. The virgin is the tree in some sense and Nephi accepted this as an answer to his question. As an Israelite living at the end of the seventh century and during the early sixth century before Christ, he recognized an answer to his question about a marvelous tree in the otherwise unexplained image of a virginal mother and her divine child—not that what he saw and how he interpreted those things were perfectly obvious. What he “read” from the symbolic vision was culturally colored. Nephi’s vision reflects a meaning of the “sacred tree” that is unique to the ancient Near East. Asherah is also associated with biblical wisdom literature. Wisdom, a female, appears as the wife of God and represents life.

Keywords: Asherah; Canaanite; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Sacred Tree; Tree; Vision; Wife of God; Wisdom
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Peterson, Daniel C. “Mounting Evidence for the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, January 2000.
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Phillips, W. Revell. “Metals of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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For three weeks in February 2000, a team of BYU geologists worked in coastal Dhofar, focusing on geological formations that could have produced the metals needed by Nephi for making tools to build a ship. This article discusses the ores and processes that Nephi would have employed and considers the possibility that the coast of Dhofar may be a candidate for the location of Nephi’s shipbuilding.

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Phillips, W. Revell. “Copper, Bronze, and Brass.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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Although Nephi’s tools were most likely made of iron or steel, bronze remains a possibility. The making of brass or bronze requires the creation of a copper alloy, and examples of such alloys are found in both the Old World and the New World. The nature of the alloys differed depending on the minerals available.

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Pike, Dana M. “Response to Paul Hoskisson’s ‘Lehi and Sariah’” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 1 (2000): 35-36, 77.
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In this article Pike responds to Hoskisson’s conclusions about the etymology of the names Lehi and Sariah. He agrees with Hoskisson that Sariah is a theophoric name, which was common in ancient Israel and means “My prince is Jehovah.” However he suggests that the name should be grammatically distinguished from the masculine biblical personal name Seraiah. Although he offers an additional possibility for the meaning of the name Lehi, he agrees with Hoskisson’s suggestion that the name means “cheek.” The remainder of the article discusses the challenge of doing onomastic analysis on ancient non-English names when only an English form is available and further mentions the frequency of giving newborns in ancient Israel names of a religious nature.

Keywords: Language; Lehi (Prophet); Name; Onomastics; Sariah; Theophoric
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Raish, Martin H. “A Reader’s Library.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 1 (2000).
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Martin Raish suggests that although there are only two dictionaries of Mesoamerican archaeology and culture, both are quite good and can be augmented with some excellent travel guides and wall maps. Together they help readers better understand the terminology of art history and archaeology, become more conversant with the names of sites and cultures, and feel more confident about the general outlines of history in likely Book of Mormon lands. The author specifically recommends two dictionaries, a volume on Mesoamerican religions, an atlas, some traveler’s guides, and some National Geographic Society maps.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Reynolds, Noel B. “Lehi As Moses.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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Lehi and his people understood their own times in terms of types and shadows from the past. God’s leading the family out of Jerusalem and reinstituting his covenant with Lehi in a new promised land can be understood only by comparison with the exodus and the roles of Lehi and Nephi in terms of Moses. This article identifies fourteen Mosiac themes and circumstances that Lehi invoked in his sermon recorded in 2 Nephi 1 and illustrates close parallels with these themes in Deuteronomy. Lehi may have compared himself to Moses as a rhetorical device to help his children see the divine direction behind his actions. In his final words to his children, Lehi invokes Moses’ farewell address to the Israelites. In so doing, Lehi casts himself in a role similar to that of Moses. Nephi portrays himself in similar terms on the small plates, apparently following the pattern set by his father.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Topics > Moses
Old Testament Topics > Types and Symbols
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Reynolds, Noel B. “The Authorship Debate Concerning Lectures on Faith: Exhumation and Reburial.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81859]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:44
Ricks, Stephen D. “God’s Name?” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 1 (2000): 1-4.
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Review of The Name of God: From Sinai to the American Southwest. A Script and Language of Ancient Palestine Also Found in the Ancient American Southwest (1998), by James R. Harris, assisted by Dann W. Hone

Keywords: Ancient America; Epigraphy; Grammar; Language; Petroglyphs; Typology
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Ricks, Stephen D. “Introduction: Richard Lloyd Anderson, An Appreciation.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, ix-xiv. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Scholarship
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Ricks, Stephen D. “Adam’s Fall in the Book of Mormon, Second Temple Judaism, and Early Christianity.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 595–605. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Early Christianity; Fall of Adam; Second Temple Judaism
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Ricks, Stephen D., Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges. The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Richard Lloyd Anderson is a scholars’ scholar. Among Latter-day Saints, he is dean and master of two separate fields of academic study: the New Testament and early LDS Church history. His passion for history has profoundly influenced his scholarly career; his passion for order and system has shaped his missionary work and directed him into studying law; and his love for Brigham Young University and loyalty to its mission and destiny have guided his academic path. This volume, as you can see from the table of contents, contains essays written by outstanding LDS scholars on Book of Mormon Studies, Old Testament Studies and Ancient History, and New Testament Studies and Early Christian History.

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Articles

Hedges, Andrew H. “Introduction.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81845]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Allen, James B. “Second Only to Christ: Joseph Smith in Modern Mormon Piety.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Bitton, Davis. “The Ram and the Lion: Lyman Wight and Brigham Young.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81847]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Black, Susan Easton. “The Tomb of Joseph.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81848]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Cannon, Donald Q. “Words of Comfort: Funeral Sermons of the Prophet Joseph Smith.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81849]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Cowan, Richard O. “Richard Lloyd Anderson and Worldwide Church Growth.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81850]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Faulring, Scott H. “The Return of Oliver Cowdery.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81851]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Gee, John. “Eyewitness, Hearsay, and Physical Evidence of the Joseph Smith Papyri.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81852]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  abraham,church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Gillum, Gary P. “Every Kindred, Tongue, and People.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81853]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Godfrey, Kenneth W. “David Whitmer and the Shaping of Latter-day Saint History.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81854]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Hedges, Andrew H. “Pleasing the Eye and Gladdening the Heart: Joseph Smith and Life’s Little Pleasures.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81855]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:44
Jackson, Kent P. “Scenes from Early Latter-day Saint History.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81856]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:44
Leonard, Glen M. “Antiquities, Curiosities, and Latter-day Saint Museums.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81857]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:44
Matthews, Robert J. “The Role of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible in the Restoration of Doctrine.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81858]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books,jst  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:44
Skousen, Royal. “John Gilbert’s 1892 Account of the 1830 Printing of the Book of Mormon.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81860]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:44
Tvedtnes, John A. “Historical Perspectives on the Kirtland Revelation Book.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81861]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:44
Welch, John W. “Oliver Cowdery’s 1835 Response to Alexander Campbell’s 1831 ‘Delusions’” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81862]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:44
Whittaker, David J. “Mormon Missiology: An Introduction and Guide to the Sources.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Ricks, Stephen D., Parry, Donald W., and Hedges, Andrew H. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
ID = [81863]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  church-history,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:44
Ricks, Stephen D., Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, eds. The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Richard Lloyd Anderson is a scholars’ scholar. Among Latter-day Saints, he is dean and master of two separate fields of academic study: the New Testament and early LDS Church history.
His passion for history has profoundly influenced his scholarly career; his passion for order and system has shaped his missionary work and directed him into studying law; and his love for Brigham Young University and loyalty to its mission and destiny have guided his academic path.
This volume, as you can see from the table of contents, contains essays written by outstanding LDS scholars on Book of Mormon Studies, Old Testament Studies and Ancient History, and New Testament Studies and Early Christian History.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Early Christian History; Early Church History; Far East; Historicity; Scholarship
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Symposia and Collections of Essays
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Articles

Robertson-Wilson, Marian. “Inspired Melody and Chosen Word: The Wedding of Music and Scripture in Leroy Robertson's Oratorio from the Book of Mormon.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 139-62. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Music; Oratorio
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Sorenson, John L. “Religious Groups and Movements among the Nephites, 200–1 B.C.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 163-208. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Alma the Elder; Alma the Younger; Mulekite; Nephite; Order of Nehor; Secret Combinations
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Hall, John F. “The Military Reforms of the Emperor Diocletian.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 209-40. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Diocletian; Roman Empire
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Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel. “The Social Context of First-Century Roman Christianity.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 241-67. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Early Christianity
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Parry, Donald W. “Messiah Becomes the New King: Notes on Isaiah 9:3–7.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 305–21. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Kingship; Messiah; Translation
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Peterson, Daniel C., and Stephen D. Ricks. “The Throne Theophany/Prophetic Call of Muhammad.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 323-37. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Islam; Muhammad; Prophet; Theophany
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Seely, Jo Ann H., and David Rolph Seely. “Josephus’s Portrayal of Jeremiah: A Portrait and a Self-Portrait.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 339–58. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Flavius Josephus; Jeremiah (Prophet)
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
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Skinner, Andrew C. “Savior, Satan, and Serpent: The Duality of a Symbol in the Scriptures.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 359-84. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Adversary; Dualism; Jesus Christ; Symbolism
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Griggs, C. Wilfred. “Terrena atque Caelestia: A Prolegomenon to a Study of the Fourth Gospel.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 429-54. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Epistle of John; John (Apostle)
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Peterson, Daniel C. “‘Ye Are Gods’: Psalm 82 and John 10 as Witnesses to the Divine Nature of Humankind.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 471–594. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Deification
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
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Seely, David Rolph. “‘The Old Adorns the New’ Reading the Book of Mormon in Light of the Bible.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): Article 6.
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Review of From Jerusalem to Zarahemla: Literary and Historical Studies of the Book of Mormon (1998), by S. Kent Brown

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Seely, David Rolph. “Explaining the Temple to the World: James E. Talmage’s Monumental Book, The House of the Lord.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): Article 19.
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Review of The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries: A special Reprint of the 1912 First Edition (1998), by James E. Talmage.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Seely, David Rolph. “From Jerusalem to Zarahemla.” BYU Studies 39, no. 1 (2000): 219.
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Silver, Cherry B. “Connecting the Nephite Story to Mesoamerican Research.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 1 (2000): 23-34.
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Review of Images of Ancient America: Visualizing Book of Mormon Life (1998), by John L. Sorenson

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Maya; Mesoamerica; Native Americans - Olmec
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Sorenson, John L. Mormon’s Map. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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As the ancient prophet Mormon edited the scriptural texts that would become the Book of Mormon, he must have had a map in his mind of the places and physical features that comprised the setting for the events described in that book.
Mormon’s Map is Book of Mormon scholar John Sorenson’s reconstruction of that mental map solely from information gleaned from the text after years of intensive study. He describes his method; establishes the overall shape of Book of Mormon lands; sorts out details of topography, distance, direction, climate, and civilization; and treats issues of historical geography.
The resultant map will facilitate analysis of geography-related issues in the Book of Mormon narrative and also be of help in evaluating theories about where in the real world the Nephite lands were located.

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Sorenson, John L. “In Memoriam, John L. Hilton.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 1 (2000).
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In memory of John L. Hilton and his contribution to Book of Mormon word-print studies.

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Sorenson, John L. “The Editor’s Notebook.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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The introduction to this issue is a discussion of the emphasis of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies as defined by the editors.

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Sorenson, John L. “Last-Ditch Warfare in Ancient Mesoamerica Recalls the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 2 (2000): 44-53, 82-83.
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Warfare is a constant theme in the Book of Mormon. Conflicts with varying motivations erupted between the Nephites and Lamanites from the beginning of their sojourn in the New World. Ultimately, the Nephites as a sociopolitical group were exterminated in one climactic battle when hundreds of thousands died in a single day. Have Mesoamerican archaeologists detected an intensity and scale of warfare great enough to account for the extermination of a people like the Nephites? Yes, there is now good reason to believe that the period when the Nephites were being destroyed by their enemies was characterized in southern Mexico and Guatemala by widespread disruption rather than an orderly evolution in the Classic era that once was the standard claim of archaeologists. The process of the complete destruction of the Nephites and their culture agrees with a recurrent pattern in Mesoamerican history.

Keywords: Archaeology; Extermination; Lamanite; Mesoamerica; Nephite; Warfare
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Sorenson, John L. “Was There Hebrew Language in Ancient America? An Interview with Brian Stubbs.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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In an interview with John L. Sorenson, linguist Brian Stubbs discusses the evidence he has used to establish that at least one language family in Mesoamerica is related to Semitic languages. Stubbs explains how his studies of Near Eastern languages, coupled with his studies of Uto-Aztecan, helped him find related word pairs in the two language families. The evidence for a link between Uto-Aztecan and Semitic languages, or even Egyptian or Arabic, is still tentative, although the evidence includes all the standard requirements of comparative or historical linguistic research: sound correspondences or consistent sound shifts, morphological correspondences, and a substantial lexicon consisting of as many as 1,000 words that exemplify those correspondences.

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Sorenson, John L. “The Problematic Role of DNA Testing in Unraveling Human History.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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Over the last century, new techniques of scientific analysis have been developed that have been applied with the intent to clarify the course of human history. Immediately after World War II, blood group data seemed to provide a magic key to open up the history of the world’s populations, but by the 1960s such studies were shown to be unrealistic and misleading. The new tool in human biology and anthropology is DNA analysis. Despite cautions from the best scientists about the limits the new findings have for interpreting human history, some enthusiasts continue to claim too much for DNA study.

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Sorenson, John L. “Centenary of a Giant.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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It has been 100 years since George Reynolds published his massive work, A Complete Concordance of the Book of Mormon. Reynolds worked on this project, begun while serving a prison sentence for polygamy, over 21 years of his life. He tabulated virtually every word used in the Book of Mormon except a few of the most common words, and gave a portion of the sentence in which each cited word appeared. He himself paid all the printing costs.

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Szink, Terrence L. “The Personal Name ‘Alma’ at Ebla.” Religious Educator Vol. 1 no. 1 (2000).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Szink, Terrence L. “Book of Mormon Scholar’s Digest.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): 45-50.
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Review of Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins (1997), edited by Noel B. Reynolds

Keywords: Authorship; Early Church History; Eight Witnesses; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Scholarship; Smith; Three Witnesses; Translation
ID = [358]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 14285  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:42
Tvedtnes, John A. The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: Out of Darkness Unto Light. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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If it existed in only one ancient copy, says John Tvedtnes, the Book of Mormon may have been unique. But in virtually every other way it resembles many ancient books. In this present volume, Tvedtnes shows perhaps fifty things about ancient records that must have been hilarious in 1830 but make perfect sense today: the ubiquity of intentionally hiding books in all kinds of ingenious containers made of many materials, including stone boxes and ceramic jars; books incised on obdurate surfaces, like metals, bones, and ivory; inked papyri and parchments treated with swaddling cloths soaked in cedar and citrus oils to prevent decay; many sealed and open records; waterproofing sealants like bitumen and white lime mortar; caves serving as repositories of treasures buried in many sacred mountains; the ancient perception of permanence and eternalism associated with the preservative functions of writing; and numerous ancient traditions of angels as writers and guardians of written records. Many twentieth-century discoveries of ancient documents have made all of this visible.

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Articles

Wright, H. Curtis. “Introduction.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Records: “Out of Darkness unto Light”, edited by , ix-xii. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; Hidden Records; Metal Plates
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Speech from the Dust.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 1-7. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Angel Moroni; Hidden Records; Latter-day Saint History (1820-1846); Mormon (Prophet); Moroni (Son of Mormon); Prophecy; Smith; Joseph; Jr.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Hidden Records.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 9-30. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Egypt; Ancient Near East; Burial; Dead Sea Scrolls; Early Christianity; Freemasonry; Hidden Books; Hidden Records; Judaism; Metal Plates; Nag Hammadi Library
ID = [75604]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Tvedtnes, John A. “Hiding Records in Boxes.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 31-57. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Egypt; Ancient Near East; Ark of the Covenant; Early Christianity; Gold Plates; Hidden Records; Judaism; Metal Plates
ID = [75605]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Tvedtnes, John A. “Sealed Books.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 59-73. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Egypt; Ancient Near East; Hidden; John the Beloved; Judaism; Moroni (Son of Mormon); Nephi (Son of Lehi); Prophecy; Sealed Book; Sealing
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [75606]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Tvedtnes, John A. “Angels as Guardians of Hidden Books.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 75-107. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; Angel Moroni; Angels; Apocalypse of Paul; Dream; Early Christianity; Hidden Records; Islam; John the Beloved; Judaism; Lehi (Prophet); Middle Ages; Muhammed; Paul the Apostle; Three Witnesses; Vision; Whitmer; Mary
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [75607]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Tvedtnes, John A. “Hiding Sacred Relics.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 109-126. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; Breastplate; Burial; Copper Scroll; Dead Sea Scrolls; Early Christianity; Gold Plates; Judaism; Nephite Interpreters; Relics; Sword of Laban; Temple Worship; Urim and Thummim
ID = [75608]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Tvedtnes, John A. “Mountain Repositories.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 127-143. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; China; Dead Sea Scrolls; Early Christianity; Hidden Records; Hill Cumorah; Hill Shim; Islam; Judaism; Moses (Prophet); Nag Hammadi Library; Records; Ten Commandments
ID = [75609]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Tvedtnes, John A. “A Book That Does Not Wear Out.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 145-154. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; Gold Plates; Islam; Judaism; Large Plates of Nephi; Metal Plates; Papyri; Recordkeeping
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Books in the Treasury.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 155-166. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Egypt; Ancient Near East; Brass Plates; Judaism; Library; Masada; Nag Hammadi Library; Recordkeeping; Temple Worship
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Tvedtnes, John A. “The Records Come Forth.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 167-174. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; Apocalypse of Abraham; Book of Jasher; Buddhism; China; Copper Scroll; Dead Sea Scrolls; Hidden Records; Latter-day Saint History (1820-1846); Nag Hammadi Library; Prophecy; Restoration; Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Restoring Lost Scriptures.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 175-182. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Hidden Records; Joseph Smith Translation; Joseph Smith–Matthew; Recordkeeping
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Appendix 2: Glowing Stones in Ancient and Medieval Lore.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness Unto Light”, edited by , 195-225. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; Gazelem; Idolatry; Jaredite Stones; Judaism; Middle Ages; Nephite Interpreters; Noah' s Ark; Teraphim; Urim and Thummim
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Bibliography: Ancient and Medieval Works Cited.” In The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Records: “Out of Darkness unto Light”, edited by , 227–250. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2000.
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Keywords: Bibliography
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Lehi and Sariah Comments.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 1 (2000): 37, 77.
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Tvedtnes adds to the onomastic discussion of the names of Lehi and Sariah in this article. He suggests that scholars should not be dissuaded by the fact that the name Sariah is found only for men. He discusses the difference between etymology and attestation of names. In the first article of this discussion, Hoskisson concluded that personal names containing parts of the body are rare in all the ancient Semitic languages. Tvedtnes, on the other hand, finds numerous examples of personal names derived from body parts. He concludes with his analysis that Sariah means “Jehovah is (my/a) prince” and that Lehi means “cheek, jawbone.”

Keywords: Language; Lehi (Prophet); Name; Onomastics; Sariah
ID = [3024]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 1517  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:20
Tvedtnes, John A., John Gee, and Matthew P. Roper. “Book of Mormon Names Attested in Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 1 (2000).
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In recent years, a large number of ancient writings have been found in and around Israel. While many of these include names found in the Bible and other ancient texts, others were previously unattested in written sources. Some of these previously unattested names, though unknown in the Bible, are found in the Book of Mormon. The discovery of these Hebrew names in ancient inscriptions provides remarkable evidence for the authenticity of the Book of Mormon and provides clear refutation of those critics who would place its origin in nineteenth-century America. This article explores several Book of Mormon proper names that are attested from Hebrew inscriptions. Names included are Sariah, Alma, Abish, Aha, Ammonihah, Chemish, Hagoth, Himni, Isabel, Jarom, Josh, Luram, Mathoni, Mathonihah, Muloki, and Sam—none of which appear in English Bibles.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Williams, Richard N. “The Spirit of Prophecy and the Spirit of Psychiatry: Restoration of Dissociation?” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 1 (2000): 435-443.
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Review of The Sword of Laban: Joseph Smith Jr. and the Dissociated Mind (1998), by William D. Morain

Keywords: Criticism
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Wirth, Diane E. “The Bearded, White God is Everywhere—or Is He?” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 1 (2000): 9-22.
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Review of Fair Gods and Feathered Serpents; A Search for the Early Americas' Bearded White God (1997), by T. J. O'Brien

Keywords: Ancient America; Jesus Christ; Mesoamerica; Native Americans - Aztec; Pre-Columbian American History; Quetzalcoatl
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Woodger, Mary Jane. “How the Guide to English Pronunciation of Book of Mormon Names Came About.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 1 (2000): 52-57, 79.
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Nobody in the early days of the church attempted to define in print how the proper names appearing in the Book of Mormon—but not the Bible—were to be pronounced. Joseph Smith spelled out unfamiliar proper names to his scribes during the translation process, and he never formally recorded his pronunciations. Throughout the twentieth century, several church committees attempted to standardize the pronunciation and provided a printed guide for English-speaking church members. In studying the pronunciation guide’s evolution for English-speaking church members, one thing becomes clear: church members will probably never pronounce Book of Mormon proper names correctly until either the ancients themselves tell us how they said their names or the Lord reveals the proper pronunciations.

Keywords: Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Language; Name; Pronunciation; Smith
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Hess, Wilford M. “Recent Notes about Olives in Antiquity.” BYU Studies 39, no. 4 (2000): 115-126.
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When a group of LDS scholars collaborated in 1994 under the auspices of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies to publish a book on the allegory of the olive tree in Jacob 5, few substantial works on olive production in the ancient world existed. Now, two new archaeological books add a wealth of information to our understanding of the importance of the olive in ancient life. The first mention of the olive in the Book of Mormon is found in Lehi’s prediction of the Babylonian captivity and the coming of the Lamb of God. Lehi compared the house of Israel to an olive tree whose branches would be broken off and scattered upon all the face of the earth (1 Ne. 10:12). After being scattered,the house of Israel would be gathered and the natural branches of the olive tree, or the remnants of the house of Israel, would be grafted in, or come to a knowledge of the true Messiah (1 Ne. 10:14). In this passage, Lehi probably drew upon Zenos’s allegory, found on the plates of brass. In incredible horticultural detail, that allegory compares the house of Israel to an olive tree. Yet that Old World information was apparently lost among Lehi’s descendants in the New World. After the fifth chapter of Jacob, the olive is not mentioned again in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Allegory; Olives; Zenos (Prophet)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Old Testament Topics > Flora and Fauna
Old Testament Topics > Olive Oil
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Turner, Rodney. “Christ’s Church in Ancient America.” Ensign, March 2000.
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Ensign. “Family History Together.” Ensign April 2000.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [54314]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 531  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:22
Hinckley, Gordon B. “My Testimony.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2000.
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Of all the things for which I feel grateful … , one stands out preeminently. That is a living testimony of Jesus Christ.

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Oaks, Dallin H. “Resurrection.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2000.
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Resurrection is much more than merely reuniting a spirit to a body. … The resurrection is a restoration that brings back “carnal for carnal” and “good for that which is good” (Alma 41:13).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [18790]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2000-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 13631  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:22:59
Pace, Glenn L. “A Temple for West Africa.” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2000.
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It has been inspiring to see the Lord’s hand in bringing the forces together which will lead to an inevitable victory. There will be a temple in West Africa.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Ensign. “100 Million Copies of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign May 2000.
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Hinckley, Gordon B. “My Testimony.” Ensign, May 2000.
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Williams, Clyde J. “Following the Prophets: A Book of Mormon Perspective.” Ensign, July 2000.
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Ensign. “The Book of Mormon: A Worldwide View.” Ensign August 2000.
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Ensign. “The Book of Mormon: A Worldwide View.” Ensign August 2000.
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Fernelius, Lisa H. “Planning Family Home Evening Together.” Ensign, August 2000.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [54493]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1920  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:23
Gardner, Brant A. “A Real People, Time, and Place: Contextualizing the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2000 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2000.
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Keywords: Context; Mesoamerica
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Norwood, L. Ara. “Nehors in the Land: A Latter-day Variation on an Ancient Theme.” Paper presented at the 2000 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2000.
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Keywords: Apostasy; Nehor
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Skinner, Andrew C. “From Zion to Destruction: The Lessons of 4 Nephi.” Ensign, September 2000.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
ID = [54515]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 20362  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:23
Bassett, K. Douglas. “Faces of Worldly Pride in the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, October 2000.
ID = [40786]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 23504  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:39
Crockett, Keith. “Retaining a Remission of Sin.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2000.
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King Benjamin taught three basic principles that can help us retain a remission of our sins: first, to remain humble; second, to call upon the Lord daily; and third, to stand steadfast in the faith.

ID = [18979]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2000-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 6473  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:02
Dew, Sheri L. “Stand Tall and Stand Together.” Delivered at the General Relief Society Meeting of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2000.
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No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [19003]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2000-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 11054  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:03
Maxwell, Neal A. “The Tugs and Pulls of the World.” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2000.
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Many individuals preoccupied by the cares of the world are not necessarily in transgression. But they certainly are in diversion and thus waste “the days of [their] probation” (2 Ne. 9:27).

ID = [18937]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2000-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 8596  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:01
Dew, Sheri L. “Stand Tall and Stand Together.” Ensign, November 2000.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [54578]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 11003  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:24
Ensign. “Clerks, Leaders, and Members: Working Together.” Ensign December 2000.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [40570]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3125  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:38
Bigelow, Christopher K. “Clerks, Leaders, and Members: Working Together.” Ensign, December 2000.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [40565]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 10952  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:38
Ladle, Douglas S. “Insights from 3 Nephi about Our Father in Heaven.” Ensign, December 2000.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [40564]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 10409  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:38
2001
Arnold, Marilyn. “Hidden Ancient Records Abound.” FARMS Review of Books 13, no. 2 (2001): 53-56.
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Review of The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of the Darkness unto Light” (2000), by John A. Tvedtnes

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Gold Plates; Hidden Records; Historicity
ID = [386]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 8186  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:44
Ash, Michael R. “Lehi of Africa.” FARMS Review of Books 13, no. 2 (2001): 5-20.
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Review of Manifestations Mysteries Revealed: An Account of Bible Truth and the Book of Mormon Prophecies (2000), by Embaya Melekin

Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography; Book of Mormon Geography - Africa
ID = [384]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 34375  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:44
Aston, Warren P. “Newly Found Altars from Nahom.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 2 (2001).
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Ancient altars in Yemen bear the inscription Nihm, a variant of the word Nahom. According to the Book of Mormon, one of the travelers in Lehi’s group, Ishmael, was buried at a place called Nahom. Because the altar has been dated to about the sixth or seventh century BC (the time of Lehi’s journey), it is plausible that the Nihm referred to on the altar could be the same place written about in the Book of Mormon. This article discusses the discovery site, the appearance of the altars, and the process of dating the altars, as well as the place-name Nahom in its Book of Mormon setting.

ID = [3073]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 13902  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Ball, Terry B., and Ray L. Huntington, eds. The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
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Is the New Testament doctrinally complete? Does God condone anger as the book of Matthew seems to suggest? What does the book of Mormon teach us about the concept of hell as compared to the Bible and the teachings of other Christian faiths? What is the meaning of the word gospel? In this volume, fourteen Latter-day Saint scholars answer these and other questions with a collection of thought-provoking essays. These essays show that the Book of Mormon confirms the truth of the New Testament while offering a more complete understanding of the plan of salvation. ISBN 1-5734-5836-8

ID = [33352]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 14  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:01

Articles

Judd, Daniel K. “The Final Judgment.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 1–18. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
ID = [36598]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 38594  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Largey, Dennis L. “The Key of Knowledge.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, 19–31. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36599]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 29938  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Marsh, W. Jeffrey. “The Priesthood.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 33–44. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > D — F > Foreordination
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Law of Moses
RSC Topics > L — P > Melchizedek Priesthood
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
ID = [36600]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 26728  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Matthews, Robert J. “The Meaning of the Word Gospel.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 45–56. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [36601]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 21438  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Nyman, Monte S. “A Scriptural Comparison Concerning Anger: 3 Nephi 12:22 and Matthew 5:22.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 57–76. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
ID = [36602]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 43379  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Ostler, Craig James. “Hell Second Death, Lake of Fire and Brimstone, and Outer Darkness.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 77–89. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Devil
RSC Topics > G — K > Hell
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [36603]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 27690  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Reeve, Rex C., Jr. “The Second Coming of Jesus.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 92–109. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Second Coming
ID = [36604]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 37486  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Satterfield, Bruce K. “A Doctrinal Framework for the New Testament.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 111–23. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [36605]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 26051  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Top, Brent L. “The Sacrament: Building upon Christ’s Rock.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 125–37. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
ID = [36606]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28131  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Wilson, Keith J. “Baptism.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 139–57. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [36607]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 42267  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Ball, Terry B. “Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 159–71. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
ID = [36608]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 27215  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Flinders, Neil J. “Gethsemane and Golgotha: Why and What the Savior Suffered.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 173–99. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [36609]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 62753  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Garrett, H. Dean. “Spiritual Rebirth: Have Ye Been Born of God?” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 201–17. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [36610]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 37387  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Huntington, Ray L. “The Resurrection: An Embattled Keystone.” In The Book of Mormon and the Message of the Four Gospels, ed. Ray L. Huntington and Terry B. Ball, 219–33. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [36611]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 29709  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Barney, Kevin L. “A Seemingly Strange Story Illuminated.” FARMS Review of Books 13, no. 1 (2001): 1-20.
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Review of The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: “Out of Darkness unto Light” (2000), by John A. Tvedtnes

Keywords: Criticism; Early Church History; Gold Plates; Hidden Records; Historicity
ID = [374]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 50455  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:43
Bone, Wendy L. “Because of Thy Exceeding Faith: A Choreographic Portrayal of Women in The Book of Mormon.” Master’s thesis, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2001.
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Keywords: Women; Book of Mormon, women; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon; Performing arts, dance
ID = [81544]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:26
Ellertson, Carol F. “The Isaiah Passages in the Book of Mormon: A Non-Aligned Text.” Master’s thesis, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2001.
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Since the advent of the Dead Sea Scrolls, four biblical textual scholars have emerged at the forefront of the dialogue concerning textual evolution. They are: Frank Moore Cross, Emanuel Tov, Shemaryahu Talmon and Eugene Ulrich. Though there is some overlap in their hypotheses, each scholar has put forth a framework of biblical textural development in light of these new discoveries. If a new biblical text were discovered today, how would each scholar approach it? This thesis evaluates each scholars’ views and concludes that Emanuel Tov’s criteria for judging a newly discovered text is the most thorough and explanatory. Tov’s views provide for texts that appear to have evolved away from other known biblical texts. His descriptive categories for discovered texts recognize the possibility that a discovered text could be unaligned with any text known thus far to the scholarly world. He terms this category “non-aligned.” The other scholars do not provide for such a category. They assume that all texts are closely related in “families,” or “literary editions” and that all texts evolved in relative close proximity to one other with either occasional or frequent contact. Book of Mormon Isaiah was removed from the biblical textual evolutionary process that was taking place in Palestine ca. 600 B.C. Where does it fit into this process as put forth by scholars? Is it a text closely related to any of the families described by these four scholars? This thesis evaluates the textual variants between Book of Mormon Isaiah and Isaiah in the Septuagint, the Masoretic Text, and Qumran’s Isaiah scrolls. Of the 433 verses of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon. 216 (50%) contain 370 variants. 119 of these are related to italicized words in the King James Version. 76 variants appear to agree with the Septuagint, 28 agree with Isaiah at Qumran, 52 are supported by the Masoretic text, and 150 variants are non-aligned. These facts are accurately predicted and explained by Emanuel Tov’s theories. Of the four, he is the only scholar that conceives of the idea of a text non closely aligned with any other extant text. Book of Mormon Isaiah contains approximately 1/3 of the chapters in the Masoretic text. Using Tov’s theories, when 433 verses contain 370 variants, this fits the criteria of an “independent” or “non-aligned text.” Book of Mormon Isaiah is a proof text for his theories.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Bible and; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon
ID = [81551]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:27
Flake, Lawrence R. Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
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One of the greatest blessings the Lord has showered upon Latter-day Saints is the guidance and noble example of modern-day apostles and prophets—men whose lives and words inspire, bless, and uplift. This volume brings together engaging biographies of these men—all 109 members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles called since the Restoration began. Featuring memorable stories and facts from the lives of those whom the Lord has called to lead His latter-day kingdom, this volume unfolds the panorama of latter-day Church history. ISBN 1-5734-5797-3

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Chapters

Flake, Lawrence R. “Introduction.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36395]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4055  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “The First Presidency: An Introduction.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
ID = [36396]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5596  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Presidents of the Church and Their Counselors (chart).” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
ID = [36397]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Joseph Smith Jr.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36398]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 20659  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Brigham Young.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [36399]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  brigham,rsc-books  Size: 16811  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “John Taylor.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36400]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 10907  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Wilford Woodruff.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36401]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 9023  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Lorenzo Snow.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36402]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 10300  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Joseph Fielding Smith.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [36403]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 13198  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Heber Jeddy Grant.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [36404]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 10712  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “George Albert Smith.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [36405]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 12448  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “David Oman McKay.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [36406]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 12923  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Harold Bingham Lee.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [36408]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 12869  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Spencer Woolley Kimball.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [36409]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 17257  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Ezra Taft Benson.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [36410]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 13634  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Howard William Hunter.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [36411]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 11677  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Flake, Lawrence R. “Gordon Bitner Hinckley.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36412]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 13709  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Oliver Cowdery.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36413]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4322  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Hyrum Smith.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36414]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3889  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Jesse Gause.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36415]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3802  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Sidney Rigdon.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostasy
ID = [36416]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6773  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Heber Chase Kimball.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36417]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5573  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “John Willard Young.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36419]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3515  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “George Quayle Cannon.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36420]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 8664  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “John Rex Winder.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36422]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3634  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Anthon Henrik Lund.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36423]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5823  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Charles William Penrose.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36424]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4342  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Anthony Woodward Ivins.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36425]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3914  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Joshua Reuben Clark Jr.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36426]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 8103  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Stephen Longstroth Richards.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36427]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3512  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Henry Dinwoodey Moyle.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36429]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5079  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:39
Flake, Lawrence R. “Hugh Brown.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36430]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 8989  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Nathan Eldon Tanner.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36432]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 8139  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Marion George Romney.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36433]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5861  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Thomas Spencer Monson.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36435]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6947  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Frederick Granger Williams.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36437]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3676  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “William Law.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36439]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3428  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Willard Richards.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36440]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4542  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Jedediah Morgan Grant.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36441]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4652  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Daniel Hanmer Wells.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36442]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4879  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Rudger Judd Clawson.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36444]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5490  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “John Henry Smith.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36446]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3068  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Charles Wilson Nibley.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36449]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4534  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “James Esdras Faust.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36459]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 9112  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “John Cook Bennett.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36460]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4187  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Amasa Mason Lyman.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36461]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4000  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Brigham Young Jr.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36464]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  brigham,rsc-books  Size: 3241  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Albert Carrington.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36465]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3184  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:40
Flake, Lawrence R. “Henry Thorpe Beal Isaacson.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36470]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3925  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “Alvin Rulon Dyer.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36471]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4764  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “Joseph Smith Sr.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36474]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5357  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “John Smith.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36476]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3366  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: An Introduction.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36482]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4193  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Called By Each President of the Church.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
ID = [36483]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3620  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “Thomas Baldwin Marsh.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36484]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3679  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “Orson Hyde.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36486]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5250  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “Franklin Dewey Richards.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36490]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3625  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “Francis Marion Lyman.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36492]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4503  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “George Franklin Richards.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36497]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3665  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:41
Flake, Lawrence R. “Thomas Bladwin Marsh.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36506]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “David Wyman Patten.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36507]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3619  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “William Earl McLellin.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36511]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4066  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “Parley Parker Pratt.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36512]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6290  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “Luke Samuel Johnson.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36513]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 2889  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “William Smith.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36514]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3940  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “Orson Pratt.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36515]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5809  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “John Farnham Boynton.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36516]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 2390  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “Lyman Eugene Johnson.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36517]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 2577  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “John Edward Page.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36518]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3143  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “Lyman Wight.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36523]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3759  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “Charles Coulson Rich.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36526]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5868  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “Erastus Fairbanks Snow.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36528]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4532  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “Moses Thatcher.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36534]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4636  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “George Teasdale.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36537]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3776  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “John Whittaker Taylor.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36539]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3184  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “Marriner Wood Merrill.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36540]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5007  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:42
Flake, Lawrence R. “Abraham Hoagland Cannon.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36542]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3096  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Matthias Foss Cowley.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36543]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3256  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Abraham Owen Woodruff.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36544]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4866  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Reed Smoot.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36546]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6086  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Hyrum Mack Smith.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36547]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3278  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Orson Ferguson Whitney.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36551]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4473  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “James Edward Talmage.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36555]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 4288  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Richard Roswell Lyman.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36557]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3771  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Melvin Joseph Ballard.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36558]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 7423  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “John Andreas Widtsoe.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36559]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6211  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Joseph Francis Merrill.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36560]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3637  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Charles Albert Callis.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36561]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3723  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Joshua Rueben Clark Jr.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36562]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 44  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Alonzo Arza Hinckley.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36563]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4272  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Albert Ernest Bowen.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36564]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3302  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Sylvester Quayle Cannon.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
ID = [36565]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 2932  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Mark Edward Peterson.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36569]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4206  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Matthew Cowley.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36570]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3602  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:43
Flake, Lawrence R. “Delbert Leon Stapley.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36572]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4507  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “LeGrand Richards.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36574]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4520  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Adam Samuel Bennion.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36575]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3297  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Richard Louis Evans.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36576]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3501  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “George Quayle Morris.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36577]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3580  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Boyd Kenneth Packer.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36583]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6243  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Marvin Jeremy Ashton.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36584]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6668  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Bruce Redd McConkie.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36585]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5920  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Lowell Tom Perry.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36586]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6622  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “David Bruce Haight.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36587]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5920  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Neal Ash Maxwell.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36589]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6900  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Russell Marion Nelson.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36590]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 7495  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Dallin Harris Oaks.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36591]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5728  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Melvin Russell Ballard.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36592]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5777  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Joseph Bitner Wirthlin.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36593]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5833  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Richard Gordon Scott.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36594]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6203  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Robert Dean Hales.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36595]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6210  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:44
Flake, Lawrence R. “Jeffrey R. Holland.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36596]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 7175  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Flake, Lawrence R. “Henry Bennion Eyring.” In Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36597]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5429  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:45
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “2000 Book of Mormon Bibliography.” FARMS Review of Books 13, no. 2 (2001): Article 19.
ID = [1315]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 7855  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:42
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “Of What Material Were the Plates?” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 1 (2001).
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Contrary to what some may assume, the plates were most likely made not of pure gold but rather of an alloy termed tumbaga by the Spanish.

ID = [3053]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 28132  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:22
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “New Light.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 1 (2001).
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Richardson Benedict Gill’s book The Great Maya Droughts: Water, Life, and Death provides substantial evidence of the natural physical events that occurred in Mesoamerica. These events are comparable to events recorded in the Book of Mormon.

ID = [3063]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 16332  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “Out of the Dust.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 1 (2001).
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Evidence suggests that ancient Mesoamericans may have had horses. Excavations have produced horse bones that archaeologists believe date to before the Spanish Conquest. The article also mentions an artifact found in Bolivia that may have characters in a Semitic script. Locals have asked for assistance in examining the piece, but it is not yet clear whether it is relevant to the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3064]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 19042  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “Out of the Dust: When the Day Turned to Night.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 2 (2001).
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The timing of volcanic eruptions in the Veracruz area, where many scholars suggest the Book of Mormon may have taken place, is contemporary with events recorded in the Book of Mormon, thus providing further evidence of the authenticity of that book.

ID = [3075]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 10052  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “New Light: Sunken Ruin Off Cuba.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 2 (2001).
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Reports of an underwater city off the island of Cuba have caused many Latter-day Saints to believe that the city is a remnant of a Book of Mormon city. However, archaeologists have not found any reason to support that idea.

ID = [3076]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 2753  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Gardner, Brant A. “The Other Stuff: Reading the Book of Mormon for Cultural Information.” FARMS Review of Books 13, no. 2 (2001): 21-52.
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Review of Nephite culture and Society: Selected Papers (1997), by John L. Sorenson

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Economics; Family; Historicity; Lehi (Prophet); Mesoamerica; Mulekite; Nephite Culture; Others; Politics; Sherem; Warfare
ID = [385]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 70936  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:44
Gee, John. “Epigraphic Considerations on Janne Sjodahl’s Experiment with Nephite Writing.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10, no. 1 (2001): 25, 79.
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Having studied Janne Sjodahl’s work on the number of plates required for the original Book of Mormon text, John Gee examines the potential drawbacks of Sjodahl’s experiment. He concludes that the size of Miller’s script suffices for Sjodahl’s test.

Keywords: Epigraphy; Nephite; Plates; Script
ID = [3055]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 15063  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:22
Givens, Terryl L. “The Book of Mormon and Dialogic Revelation.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10, no. 2 (2001): 16-27, 69-70.
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This article has been adapted from the author’s book By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion. The author discusses three common understandings of the term revelation: (1) revelation as doctrine, (2) revelation as history, and (3) revelation as inner experience. He suggests that the Book of Mormon introduces a fourth type: revelation as dialogue. This form of revelation allows individuals to have direct contact with God, rather than only through the scriptures, and can be applied to our lives just as it was to the lives of those living in Book of Mormon times.

Keywords: Conversion; Dialogue; Doctrine; Experience; History; Revelation
ID = [3068]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 55276  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Hallen, Cynthia L. “What’s in a Word?” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 1 (2001).
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This article explains the benefits of studying specific words in the context of the Book of Mormon. Focusing on the origin of a word provides additional meaning and insight to a particular verse of scripture and helps the reader better understand the intended meaning of the author.

ID = [3061]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 19766  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Harmon, Neal S. “The planning and design of a computer program to teach spanish through The Book of Mormon.” PhD diss., Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2001.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon, use and influence; Language, use and teaching; Book of Mormon
ID = [81556]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:27
Henrichsen, Kirk B. “How Witnesses Described the Gold Plates.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 1 (2001).
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This article contains descriptions of the gold plates quoted directly from individuals who were closely associated with Joseph Smith Jr. Among those quoted are Martin Harris, Orson Pratt, and Emma Smith. The compiler also comments on the material of the plates.

ID = [3052]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 24302  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:22
Jackson, Kent P. “Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson, 123–40. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [36388]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 40991  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:37
Jenkins, Joseph A. “An Analysis from a Teacher’s Perspective.” FARMS Review of Books 13, no. 2 (2001): 57-58.
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Review of Charting the Book of Mormon (1999), by John W. Welch and J. Gregory Welch

Keywords: Scripture Study; Study Aid
ID = [387]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 3644  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:44
Jones, Gerald E. “The Journey of an 1830 Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10, no. 1 (2001): 36-43, 79.
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When the Book of Mormon was first published in 1830, there were 5,000 copies printed. It is unclear how many of those copies still exist today, but each was worth approximately $5,000 in the 1980s. One such copy, after being passed from one person to another for over a century, finally fell into the hands of Gerald E. Jones. Using a note left on the inside cover by a former owner, Jones was able to track the journey of the book and discover who many of its owners were.

Keywords: 1830 Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon; Early Church History; NY; Palmyra
ID = [3057]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 31905  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Madsen, Ann N. “What Meaneth the Words That Are Written?” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 1 (2001).
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When the prophet Abinadi preached repentance to the Nephites, the people were upset and turned him over to King Noah. While in the king’s presence, Abinadi explained to the king and to the priests the meaning of Isaiah’s messianic prophecies. Although they did not heed Abinadi’s teaching, modern readers of the Book of Mormon are now able to better understand the life of Jesus Christ and the key principles of the atonement through Abinadi’s teachings.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
ID = [3051]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms,old-test  Size: 46908  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:22
Marsh, W. Jeffrey. “Brigham Young and the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10, no. 2 (2001): 6-15, 69.
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Brigham Young studied the text of the Book of Mormon for approximately two years before he decided to be baptized. This article discusses how his family life prepared him to receive the teachings of the Book of Mormon and the influence his testimony had on him throughout his life, as second president of the church, and as the first governor of the state of Utah. Despite his conversion to the Book of Mormon, Brigham did not often refer to its teachings in his sermons. This seemingly strange practice was likely a result of the cultural dependence on the Bible at that time and of Brigham’s careful attention to the prophet Joseph Smith Jr.’s teaching style, which did not include a large number of Book of Mormon references. Even though Brigham did not incorporate direct references in his teachings, he was greatly influenced by the principles taught in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Brigham; Conversion; Early Church History; Missionary Work; Young
ID = [3067]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,brigham,farms-jbms  Size: 44788  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Matthews, Robert J. “Historicity and the Truthfulness of God.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 141–148. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2001.
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While some may argue that gospel truth is separate from historical truth, the gospel cannot be true unless it is also historical. This means that events such as the Creation, Fall, Atonement, and Restoration all truly took place in an identifiable time and place, even if that time and place are not known to us. If these or any gospel events were not historically true, God could not render a righteous judgment on any person.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Historicity; Truth
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible
ID = [2621]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:58
Maxwell, Robert L. “Finding Biblical Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies 40, no. 1 (2001): 219.
ID = [11694]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 2884  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:07
Midgley, Louis C. “No Middle Ground: The Debate over the Authenticity of the Book of Mormon.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson, 149–70. rovo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.
ID = [36390]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 53154  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:38
Morrison, Alexander B. “The Latter-day Saint Concept of Canon.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson, 1–16. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2001.
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Traditional Christianity struggled for many years to define its canon, to determine which of its writings were sacred, inspired, and authoritative. The Latter-day Saint concept of canon differs from that of other Christians. In addition to the Bible, the Latter-day Saint canon includes the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. These “standard works” provide a measuring rod by which we can judge other texts and statements. But while we have a canon, we nevertheless believe that God continues to make known His will through the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles—men we sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators. Inspired by the Holy Ghost, their decisions are to be made in unity (D&C 107:27). We as Church members also need the Holy Ghost in order to recognize scriptural power in their words, and we can be comforted in the Lord’s promise that the President of the Church will never lead us astray.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Canon
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [2628]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,moses,rsc-books  Size: 36474  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:58
Neilson, Reid L. “Alma O. Taylor’s Fact-Finding Mission to China.” BYU Studies 40, no. 1 (2001): 176.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [11690]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 48325  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:07
Nibley, Hugh W. When the Lights Went Out: Three Studies on the Ancient Apostasy. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2001. 149 pp.
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These essays were originally published together in the 1970 Deseret Book publication by the same title and are all included in Mormonism and Early Christianity, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 4. 10–44, 168–208, 391–434.
Three of Nibley’s important essays on the fate of the primitive Christian church and its institutions and beliefs previously available only in academic journals in 1959-60, 1961, and 1966 are reprinted and indexed for the Mormon audience.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > History > Christian History, Apostasy
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Jesus Christ > Forty-Day Ministry
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Temples > Ancient Temples
ID = [716]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:07
Nibley, Hugh W. “Approach to John Gee, Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri.” FARMS Review of Books 13, no. 2 (2001): Article 9.
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Since 1989, the Review of Books on the Book of Mormon has published review essays to help serious readers make informed choices and judgments about books and other publications on topics related to the Latter-day Saint religious tradition. It has also published substantial freestanding essays that made further contributions to the field of Mormon studies. In 1996, the journal changed its name to the FARMS Review with Volume 8, No 1. In 2011, the journal was renamed Mormon Studies Review.
A review of A Guide to the Joseph Smtih Papyri (2000) by John Gee.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Reviews and Forewords of Others’ Works > John Gee
ID = [389]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,nibley  Size: 3789  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:44
Nyman, Monte S. “Other Ancient American Records Yet to Come Forth.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10, no. 1 (2001): 52-61, 79-80.
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Many critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that there cannot be any scripture added to the Bible, thus making the Book of Mormon blasphemous. However, many scriptures refer to other books of scriptures, including the Book of Mormon and other records that are not currently available to the world. Monte S. Nyman discusses here the plausibility of receiving modern revelation and scripture from God. He also suggests that by studying the Book of Mormon and other scriptures in conjunction with the Bible, Latter-day Saints can better prepare for the day when lost records are restored.

Keywords: Hidden Books; Lost Records; Revelation; Scripture
ID = [3059]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 54207  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Oaks, Dallin H. “The Historicity of the Book of Mormon.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 237–248. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2001.
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The issue of the historicity of the Book of Mormon highlights the difference between those who rely solely on scholarship and those who rely on revelation, faith, and scholarship. Those who rely solely on scholarship reject revelation and focus on a limited number of issues. But they can neither prove nor disprove the authenticity of the Book of Mormon through their secular evidence and methods. On the other hand, those who rely on a combination of revelation, faith, and scholarship can see and understand all of the complex issues of the Book of Mormon record, and it is only through that combination that the question of the historicity of the Book of Mormon can be answered.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
ID = [2632]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,rsc-books  Size: 25971  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:59
Opare, Kwame. “How the Book of Mormon Found Me.” Ensign, January 2001.
ID = [54610]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4298  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:24
Parry, Donald W. Harmonizing Isaiah: Combining Ancient Sources. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2001.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [30008]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Petersen, Boyd J. “Something to Move Mountains: Hugh Nibley’s Devotion to the Book of Mormon.” In Colloquium Essays in Literature and Belief, 489–513. Provo, UT: Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, 2001.
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Hugh Nibley’s correspondence reveals a lifelong fascination with the Book of Mormon. This is significant for two reasons: First, Nibley has taken the book seriously longer than we have as a church, and second, the private Hugh Nibley is as devoted to the Book of Mormon as is the public man.
Nibley’s interest in the book is threefold: he recognizes the striking similarities it shares with other ancient Near Eastern texts; acknowledges its witness to Joseph Smith’s divine calling; and, most importantly, perceives the relevance and accuracy of the book’s prophetic warnings. In his letters, Nibley also addresses criticism raised against his methodology. “The potential power” of the Book of Mormon, writes Nibley, “is something to move mountains; it will only take effect when everything is pretty far gone, but then it will be dynamite. That leaves room for optimism.” Hugh Nibley’s words make that optimism contagious.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Book of Mormon
ID = [748]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:09
Peterson, Daniel C. “Editor’s Introduction: American Apocrypha?” FARMS Review of Books 13, no. 1 (2001): xi-xvi.
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Introduction to the current issue, including editor’s picks. Peterson surmises what the assumptions of the forthcoming book American Apocrypha will be. The statements of the Book of Mormon witnesses must be taken seriously, and the work of Royal Skousen reveals a stunningly consistent, systematic, and complex book. Keith Norman’s dissertation on deification and Jordan Vajda’s master’s thesis on divinization note parallels with early doctrines of theosis. Joseph Smith’s mission consisted of making clear that which was formerly hidden.

Keywords: Criticism; Historicity
ID = [373]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,peterson  Size: 6482  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:43
Raish, Martin H. “A Reader’s Library.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 1 (2001).
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This article lists and discusses multiple texts that comment on the Book of Mormon and recommends them as supplements to Book of Mormon study.

ID = [3062]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 13651  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Reynolds, Noel B. “Lehi as Moses.” The 30th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2001.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Moses
Old Testament Topics > Types and Symbols
ID = [38837]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:58
Reynolds, Noel B., and Royal Skousen. “Was the Path Nephi Saw ‘Strait and Narrow’ or ‘Straight and Narrow’?” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10, no. 2 (2001): 30-33, 70.
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The two spellings strait and straight are often considered synonymous; however, they come from different Middle English words and have different meanings. Strait means “narrow” or “tight,” whereas straight means “not crooked.” The difference in these meanings affects the interpretation of the scriptural phrase “strait/straight and narrow path” and others like it. Reynolds and Skousen explore possible meanings that the original Book of Mormon authors may have intended in their use of the two words.

Keywords: Middle English; Nephi; Straight; Strait
ID = [3070]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 17888  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Robertson-Wilson, Marian. “A Musical Message of Faith and Repentance.” FARMS Review of Books 13, no. 2 (2001): 1-4.
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Review of Come unto Christ: The Conversion of Alma the Younger (1999), by Merrill Jenson, with text compiled by Betsy Jenson

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Conversion; Music; Repentance
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [383]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 10033  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:44
Seely, David Rolph. “Lehi’s Altar and Sacrifice in the Wilderness.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10, no. 1 (2001): 62-69, 80.
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After the Book of Mormon prophet Lehi left Jerusalem with his family, he built an altar in the wilderness and offered a sacrifice to God. This practice appears to contradict biblical law as outlined in Deuteronomy 12, which states that sacrifices should be made only on an altar within a temple. However, David Rolph Seely provides three possible explanations as to why Lehi was not breaking the law of Moses.

Keywords: Altar; Law of Moses; Lehi (Prophet); Sacrifice; Temple; Wilderness
ID = [3060]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 33424  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Seely, David Rolph, and S. Kent Brown. “Jeremiah’s Imprisonment and the Date of Lehi’s Departure.” Religious Educator Vol. 2 no. 1 (2001).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [38099]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,rel-educ  Size: 46570  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:16
Simon, Jerald F. “Researching Isaiah Passages in the Book of Mormon.” In Covenants, Prophecies and Hymns of the Old Testament: 30th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, Stephan Taeger, ed., 210—23. Proceedings of The 30th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2001.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
ID = [39715]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:38
Sjodahl, Janne M. “The Book of Mormon Plates.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10, no. 1 (2001): 22-24, 79.
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Janne Sjodahl discusses how the Book of Mormon would have taken up less space on the plates than in its current translated and printed form. Because the plates were written in a language comparable to Hebrew, Sjodahl had fourteen pages of the English Book of Mormon translated into Hebrew and written out. This Hebrew text covered only one page. According to this finding, the Book of Mormon could be written using as few as twenty-one plates (or even forty-eight if written in larger characters). Sjodahl presents estimates of the size and weight of the plates.

Keywords: Characters; Gold Plates; Language - Hebrew; Writing; Writing System; Epigraphy
ID = [3054]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 19264  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:22
Skinner, Andrew C. “Serpent Symbols and Salvation in the Ancient Near East and the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10, no. 2 (2001): 42-55, 70-71.
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The serpent is often used to represent one of two things: Christ or Satan. This article synthesizes evidence from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Greece, and Jerusalem to explain the reason for this duality. Many scholars suggest that the symbol of the serpent was used anciently to represent Jesus Christ but that Satan distorted the symbol, thereby creating this paradox. The dual nature of the serpent is incorporated into the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Duality; Jesus Christ; Paradox; Satan; Serpent; Snake; Symbolism
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Types and Symbols
ID = [3072]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,old-test  Size: 53486  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Skousen, Royal. Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Volume 1: The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2001.
ID = [75259]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:35
Skousen, Royal. Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Volume 2: The Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon (2 parts). Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2001.
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A stray ink drop and a quirk of nineteenth-century script make the difference between retain that wrong and repair that wrong. More than a decade of meticulous research revealed such insights as Royal Skousen prepared transcripts of the original and printer’s manuscripts of the Book of Mormon for publication.

ID = [75260]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:36
Sorenson, John L. “The Book of Mormon as a Collectible.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 1 (2001).
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This article discusses the evolution of book collecting, particularly by Latter-day Saints. Although the circle of book collectors used to be small, it has since expanded, probably because of the spread of the Internet. Latter-day Saints throughout the world are now able to locate and purchase old and rare books within minutes. While this innovation can be productive and beneficial, the easy access can be risky. Because people are so anxious to buy these types of books, they have the potential to be deceived by those who create fraudulent products, and unlike the older, more experienced buyers, newcomers often do not inspect books closely for authenticity and condition before purchasing them. Because of these potential mistakes, it is essential that book collectors be more aware of the risks and take the necessary precautions to avoid them.

ID = [3058]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms,sorenson  Size: 30578  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Swanson, Vern G. “The Book of Mormon Art of Arnold Friberg: Painter of Scripture.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 1 (2001).
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Arnold Friberg is arguably the most influential artist on Latter-day Saint scriptural art. His depictions of the people and the landscape of the Book of Mormon are well known to Latter-day Saints. This article explains the genesis and completion of Friberg’s series of twelve Book of Mormon paintings and gives the author’s own observations on each painting.

ID = [3056]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 41940  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:22
Tanner, John S. “Two Hymns Based on Nephi’s Psalm.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10 no. 2 (2001).
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The first line of Nephi’s Psalm (found in 2 Nephi 4:16– 35) matches perfectly the iambic pentameter of Jean Sibelius’s Finlandia, more commonly known among Latter-day Saints as the hymn Be Still, My Soul. Because of this coincidence, John S. Tanner decided to write lyrics based on Nephi’s Psalm, called I Love the Lord, after which he solicited the help of Ronald J. Staheli in composing a musical arrangement based on Finlandia. Tanner later wrote another adaptation of Nephi’s Psalm, called Sometimes My Soul, using the tune of an American folk song. He explains the process of writing these two songs and the accompanying challenges.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [3071]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 18083  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Vogel, Dan. “The Use and Abuse of Chiasmus in Book of Mormon Studies.” Sunstone Podcast (2001).
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“This paper will demonstrate that simple Hebraic-type chiasmus does not exist in the Book of Mormon except in rare instances, but that there is a natural explanation for these occurrences. This paper will also examine longer, more complex chiasms.”

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ID = [81973]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:50
Williams, Clyde J. “More Light on Who Wrote the Title Page.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10, no. 2 (2001): 28-29, 70.
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The title page of the Book of Mormon was most likely written by Moroni, but in recent years scholars have suggested that Mormon, Moroni’s father, may have written the first six lines of the title page, with Moroni writing the rest. However, a more in-depth analysis of the text on that page and the specific language that is used provides evidence supporting the notion that the title page was, in fact, written solely by Moroni.

Keywords: Authorship; Mormon; Moroni; Title Page
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3069]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 11793  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:23
Ball, Terry B. “Alma 39: A Model for Teaching Morality.” Religious Educator Vol. 2 no. 2 (2001).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Chastity
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [38088]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2001-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 27619  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:15
Skinner, Andrew C. “The Foundational Doctrines of 1 Nephi 11–14.” Religious Educator Vol. 2 no. 2 (2001).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [38096]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2001-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 40422  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:15
Ashurst-McGee, Mark. “Mormonism’s Encounter with the Michigan Relics.” BYU Studies 40, no. 3 (2001): 174-209.
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One of the strangest and most extensive archaeological hoaxes in American history was perpetrated around the turn of the twentieth century in Michigan. Hundreds of objects known as the Michigan Relics were made to appear as the remains of a lost civilization. The artifacts were produced, buried, “discovered,” and marketed by James O. Scotford and Daniel E. Soper. For three decades these artifacts were secretly planted in earthen mounds, publicly removed, and lauded as wonderful discoveries. Because the Michigan Relics allegedly evidence a Near Eastern presence in ancient America, they have drawn interest from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This article traces the intriguing history of this elaborate affair and Mormonism’s encounter with it. At the center of this history lies the investigation of the artifacts by Latter-day Saint intellectual and scientist James E. Talmage.

Keywords: Ancient America; Archaeology; Forgery; Hoax; Michigan Relics
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [11653]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-01-03  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 49739  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:06
Funaki, Inoke F. “Pacific Islanders ’in the nethermost parts of the vineyard’: Identity and Challenges.” David O. Mckay Lecture, Brigham Young University—Hawaii, February 11, 2001.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [71156]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-02-12  Collections:  bom,byuh-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:00
Carmack, John K. “United in Love and Testimony.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2001.
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Church members are unified in Christ through love and testimony. This dispensation’s pathway to our Savior is through Joseph and the Book of Mormon.

ID = [19096]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7146  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:04
Larsen, Sharon G. “Your Celestial Guide.” Delivered at the General Young Women Meeting of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2001.
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When you pray often and seek to know the Lord’s will like Nephi did, the Lord will show you the way.

ID = [19111]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 9449  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:05
Porter, L. Aldin. “‘To Bear Testimony of Mine Only Begotten’” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2001.
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A spiritual witness of the Nephite scripture will always bring the certainty of the Savior’s existence.

ID = [19045]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 10252  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:03
Minor, Brenda. “Book of Mormon Theater.” Ensign, June 2001.
ID = [54809]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2001-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2184  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:25
Brown, S. Kent. “Arabia and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.
ID = [32366]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 37575  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:48
Gardner, Brant A. “A Social History of the Early Nephites.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.
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Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon Geography - Mesoamerica; Nephites
ID = [32367]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 51015  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:48
McGuire, Benjamin L. “Nephi and Goliath: A Reappraisal of the Use of the Old Testament in First Nephi.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.
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Keywords: Goliath; King David; Nephi (Son of Lehi)
ID = [32369]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference,old-test  Size: 68768  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Norwood, L. Ara. “Benjamin or Mosiah: Resolving an Anomaly in Mosiah 21:28.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [32371]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 37962  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Peterson, Daniel C. “The Divine Source of the Book of Mormon in the Face of Alternative Theories Advocated by LDS Critics.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.
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Keywords: Authorship; Early Church History; Ethan; Manuscript Found; Smith; Solomon; Spaulding; Translation; View of the Hebrews
ID = [32372]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference,peterson  Size: 42583  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Roper, Matthew P. “Right on Target: Boomerang Hits and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon
ID = [32373]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 28322  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Woodward, Scott. “DNA and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.
ID = [32365]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 3441  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:48
Givens, Terryl L. “The Book of Mormon and Religious Epistemology.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 34, no. 3 (Fall, 2001): 31-54.
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In this paper, I want to make some tentative observations about the way in which the Book of Mormon has contributed to the fashioning of a particular religious vocabulary, or to be more specific, the disclosure of a particular religious epistemology. I am not arguing that this epistemology necessarily signaled a radical break from Protestantism, or that it conditions a religious vocabulary wholly lacking in Protestant equivalents. Rather, I hope to suggest that the role of the Book of Mormon in framing the concept of prayer and revelation in particular is connected to subtle shades of differences and distinctions which are worth examining. [From the text]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, use and influence; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon
ID = [81974]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2001-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:50
Hawkins, Mary Margaret. “Morning Manna (Mosiah 7:19).” Ensign, September 2001.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [54912]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2001-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 694  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:26
Ensign. “Open Houses Introduce Eastern Armenian Book of Mormon.” Ensign October 2001.
ID = [54972]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2001-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4238  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:26
Dew, Sheri L. “It Is Not Good for Man or Woman to Be Alone.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2001.
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No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [19130]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 9571  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:05
Packer, Boyd K. “The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2001.
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.

ID = [19189]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2001-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 11477  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:06
Packer, Boyd K. “The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.” Ensign, November 2001.
ID = [55002]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2001-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12498  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:26
Ensign. “Angel Moroni Statues Placed atop Three Temples.” Ensign December 2001.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [55051]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2001-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1496  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:27
2002
Insights. “Latest Review Rolls off Press.” Insights 22, no. 1 (2002).
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The FARMS Review of Books has a long tradition of providing its readers with insightful and substantive reviews of books on the Book of Mormon, Mormon studies, and Christian studies, as well as those books that attack the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The latest issue does not disappoint. It contains reviews and responses to 18 books or articles on diverse topics, such as ancient Nephite culture, the conversion of Alma, hidden ancient records, the temple, the LDS concept of the nature of God, and the ark of the covenant.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; culture; history; papyri
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [66645]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:43
Abunuwara, Ehab. “Into the Desert: An Arab View of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11, no. 1 (2002): 60-65, 111.
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The Book of Mormon culture is found to be strikingly similar to that of the Middle East. An Arab Latter-day Saint tells his experience with the Book of Mormon and how he is able to relate to the stories within its pages because of his cultural origins. Among the congruities discussed are the structure of the family, the concept of taking oaths, the behavior of women, and the danger of the desert. Together, these points demonstrate the worth of the Book of Mormon and show how each reader is able to draw from his or her own cultural background in order to infer different messages.

Keywords: Arabia; Behavior; Book of Mormon; Culture; Desert; Middle East; Oaths
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3087]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 31814  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Arts, Valentin. “A Third Jaredite Record: The Sealed Portion of the Gold Plates.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11, no. 1 (2002): 50-59, 110-111.
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In the Book of Mormon, two records (a large engraved stone and twenty-four gold plates) contain the story of an ancient civilization known as the Jaredites. There appears to be evidence of an unpublished third record that provides more information on this people and on the history of the world. When the brother of Jared received a vision of Jesus Christ, he was taught many things but was instructed not to share them with the world until the time of his death. The author proposes that the brother of Jared did, in fact, write those things down shortly before his death and then buried them, along with the interpreting stones, to be revealed to the world according to the timing of the Lord.

Keywords: Brother of Jared; Gold Plates; Jaredite; Prophet; Record; Revelation; Sealed Portion
ID = [3086]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 45732  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Asay, Ronald W. “Bassett’s Latter-day Commentary on the Book of Mormon.” FARMS Review of Books 14, no. 1 (2002): Article 3.
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Review of Latter-day Commentary on the Book of Mormon: Insights from Prophets, Church Leaders, and Scholars (1999), by K. Douglas Bassett

ID = [400]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 16995  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:45
Bennett, Richard E. “‘How Long, Oh Lord, How Long?’ James E. Talmage and the Great War.” Religious Educator Vol. 3 no. 1 (2002).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [38084]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 41236  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:15
Bradford, Miles Gerald, and Alison V. P. Coutts, eds. Uncovering the Original Text of the Book of Mormon: History and Findings of the Critical Text Project. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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This colorful, informative book features reports on the multi-pronged effort to determine as far as possible the original English-language translation of the Book of Mormon. Royal Skousen, the editor and principal investigator of the original and printer’s manuscripts of the Book of Mormon, details the project’s history and some of the more significant findings. Robert Espinosa reviews his team’s painstaking work of preserving and identifying remaining fragments of the original manuscript. Ron Romig narrates the investigation into the printer’s manuscript, and Larry Draper explains how the press sheets for the 1830 edition reveal overlooked details of the printing process. In an insightful response, Daniel C. Peterson interpolates evidence from Skousen’s research to show the divine manner in which the Book of Mormon came forth.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, critical text project; Book of Mormon, manuscripts; Book of Mormon, editions and translations; Faith and scholarship
ID = [7008]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 179717  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:37
Brown, S. Kent. “The Sesquicentennial of Four European Translations of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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Introduction to the following four articles on early translations of the Book of Mormon into French, German, Italian, and French.

ID = [3081]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 2520  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Brown, S. Kent. “New Light from Arabia on Lehi’s Trail.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 55-125. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Adversity; Arabia; Architecture; Bountiful (Old World); Dream; Incense Trail; Jerusalem (Old World); Lehi (Prophet); Metal Plates; Metallurgy; Nahom; Recordkeeping; Sacrifice; Tree of Life; Vision; Wilderness
ID = [75591]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 126129  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Christian, Wendy Hamilton. “‘And Well She Can Persuade’: The Power and Presence of Women in the Book of Mormon.” MA thesis, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2002.
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This work is the first of its kind on women in the Book of Mormon. It (1) is an exhaustive treatment of the book’s female characters, (2) analyzes how women function in the text, and (3) delineates the text’s female-inclusive language. This thesis contains a complete list and discussion of the identifiable women in the Book of Mormon (Chapter 1); provides a compilation and treatment of the book’s gender-inclusive language—comprising over 200 words and more than 5,000 references to them—and its bearing on the doctrines and depictions of women in the narrative (Chapter 2); and illustrates the significant influence individual women had on the Nephite-Lamanite-Jaredite civilization (Chapter 3). This study concludes with a chapter that attempts to account for the scarcity of women’s stories in the narrative and the minimal knowledge we are provided about them compared to men. Readers will find overwhelming evidence from this thesis that women figure more prominently in the narrative than we often realize. This work offers a compelling argument for the pervasive and powerful presence of women in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Gender roles; Book of Mormon, women; Book of Mormon
ID = [81549]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:26
Clark, John E. “Evaluating the Case for a Limited Great Lakes Setting.” FARMS Review of Books 14, no. 1-2 (2002): 9-77.
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Review of Return to Cumorah: Piecing Together the Puzzle Where the Nephites Lived (1998), by Duane R. Aston; The Land of Lehi: Further Evidence for the Book of Mormon (1999), by Paul Hedengren: and The Lost Lands of the Book of Mormon (2000), by Phyllis Carol Olive

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Book of Mormon Geography – Great Lakes
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [401]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 54238  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:45
Clark, John L. “Painting Out the Messiah: The Theologies of Dissidents.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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Despite the establishment of Christ’s church in the New World by the Book of Mormon prophet Nephi, many dissenters during its thousand-year history attempted to thwart the church and preach alternative theologies. This article first discusses the doctrine that Nephi taught to his people concerning Jesus Christ. Historical context then provides further understanding of the society in which Nephi and his descendants lived. Having come from Jerusalem in the Old World, the Nephites were still accustomed to the law of Moses, which certainly would have influenced their view of a Messiah. This, along with the political circumstances of the Nephite people, facilitated the dissension of many. The experiences of the Anti-Christ Sherem, the priests of Noah, and the Zarahemla dissidents demonstrate these points. Lastly, those who altered Nephi’s teachings appeared to do so for five specific reasons, which are discussed in this article, thus showing how the dissenters erased the doctrine of a Redeemer from their theologies.

ID = [3080]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 67745  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Coleman, Gary J. “The Book of Mormon: A Guide for the Old Testament.” Ensign, January 2002.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
Old Testament Topics > Scripture Study
ID = [55072]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign,old-test  Size: 14907  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:27
Coutts, Alison V. P. “From a Convert’s Viewpoint.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 421-452. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Baptism; Eve; Fall of Adam; Judgment; Mesoamerica; Opposition; Plan of Redemption; Plan of Salvation; Premortal Existence; Three Nephites; Warfare
ID = [75600]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 50202  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Dennis, Ronald D. “Llyfr Mormon: The Translation of the Book of Mormon into Welsh.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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In 1840, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints established its first branch in Wales. The branch had been organized and converts baptized without the help of Welsh translations of the Book of Mormon and other church materials. In this specific area in Wales, English was widely spoken; thus translating the Book of Mormon into Welsh had not been a priority. However, after being sent to a different area of Wales by Elder Lorenzo Snow of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, William Henshaw quickly realized that such a translation was imperative to the spreading of the gospel throughout the rest of Wales. In 1845, Captain Dan Jones arrived in Wales as a new missionary. Elder Jones used a press belonging to his brother, a Welsh clergyman, to print church pamphlets that he had translated into Welsh. One of the employees who worked at the press, John S. Davis, eventually was baptized. In 1850, Davis translated the Doctrine and Covenants into Welsh. The next year, he asked the Welsh Saints to subscribe to the official Mormon periodical, which would publish a part of the Book of Mormon each week. The subscriptions would provide the funds necessary to do so. The Saints responded enthusiastically, and as a result, the Welsh translation of the Book of Mormon was eventually all published.

ID = [3085]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,farms-jbms  Size: 23620  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Draper, Larry W. “Book of Mormon Editions.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 2 (2002).
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Larry Draper describes his role in providing Royal Skousen with copies of various early editions of the Book of Mormon for use in the critical text project. Draper also describes the printing process of the Book of Mormon, which process was made clearer because of Skousen’s project. Draper explains the stereotyping method of printing that was used for the 1840 Cincinnati/Nauvoo edition and the 1852 Liverpool edition of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [3102]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 17092  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:25
Duffin, Stephen J. “Pressing Forward: A Real Feast.” FARMS Review of Books 14, no. 1-2 (2002): 91-97.
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Review of Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s (1999), edited by John W. Welch and Melvin J. Thorne

Keywords: Commentary; Scholarship
ID = [404]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 13346  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:45
Dunn, Scott C. “Automaticity and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon, edited by Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalfe, 17-46. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002.
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“In this essay, automatic writing refers to the ability to write or dictate text in a relatively rapid, seemingly effortless and fluent manner with no sense of control over the content. A consideration of this phenomenon is important for Mormons since a number of authors have asserted that this was the method through which Joseph Smith produced the Book of Mormon. Such a claim, if correct, can have important implications for the way Latter-day Saints approach their scriptures.” [pp.18-19]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Automatic Writing; Book of Mormon, authorship
ID = [82087]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:57
Espinosa, Robert J. “Fragments of the Original Manuscript.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 2 (2002).
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Robert Espinosa was approached by Royal Skousen in 1991 with a request for him to join Skousen on the critical text project of the Book of Mormon. Espinosa shares his experience working with Skousen and the developments that they were able to make. After meeting with the owners of some fragments of the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon, Espinosa and Skousen were able to conserve, examine, and photograph the fragments. They also carefully analyzed the physical characteristics of the printer’s manuscript.

ID = [3099]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 15296  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:25
Faulconer, James E. “With Real Intent.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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Faulconer discusses the evolution of his testimony of the Book of Mormon; years passed before he recognized the importance of that book to his life as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After reading an article explaining the tree of life that is written about in 1 Nephi, he gained a deeper understanding of the purpose of the Book of Mormon—that the book prepares members of the church to enter into covenants with God in the temple and explains what those covenants are. In addition to that objective, the book testifies of and brings people to Jesus Christ.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [3090]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 30355  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Firmage, Edwin, Jr. “Historical Criticism and the Book of Mormon: A Personal Encounter.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon, edited by Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalfe, 1-16. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002.
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“The remaining pages of this essay will present a few of what, for me in 1984, were discoveries of some importance. These do not by any means constitute a comprehensive explanation of the Book of Mormon. Nor are they offered as proofs of my thesis that the book is modern, but as examples of how the assumption that it is modern resolves otherwise significant difficulties.” [From author’s introduction]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon, historicity; Book of Mormon, authorship
ID = [82084]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:56
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “An Interview With John L. Sorenson.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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Editors of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies interview renowned Book of Mormon scholar John L. Sorenson to discuss his experience in doing Book of Mormon research for more than fifty years. Sorensen tells of becoming interested in the Book of Mormon and in Mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology. He also articulates how to be a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while conducting objective and scholarly research on the Book of Mormon. Sorenson explains how this approach has helped people throughout the world better understand the Book of Mormon and how it will continue to help.

ID = [3089]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 27713  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “New Light: The Queen of Sheba, Skyscraper Architecture, and Lehi’s Dream.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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The Book of Mormon prophet Lehi received a vision commonly referred to as the tree of life. Within that vision, he observes a building that he describes as “strange.” A possible reason Lehi labels it this way is that the architecture of the building was dissimilar to the architecture popular in Jerusalem at the time. The building in Lehi’s dream was plausibly structured similar to the buildings found in south Arabia during Lehi’s time. By studying the architectural styles of Jerusalem and south Arabia, one can better evaluate and understand the vision of the tree of life.

ID = [3094]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 8809  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:25
Gee, John. “Book of Mormon Word Usage: ‘Seal You His’” Insights 22, no. 1 (2002).
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The verb to seal occurs some 34 times in the Book of Mormon. In most of these instances the verb takes (is followed by) a direct object referring to such things as the law, a book, records, words, an account, an epistle, an interpretation, revelation, the truth, and the stone interpreters. Twice, however, the verb to seal takes a person as a direct object that is qualified by a possessive pronoun: Therefore, I would that ye should be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in good works, that Christ, the Lord God Omnipotent, may seal you his, that you may be brought to heaven, that ye may have everlasting salvation and eternal life, through the wisdom, and power, and justice, and mercy of him who created all things, in heaven and in earth, who is God above all. (Mosiah 5:15; emphasis added)

Keywords: Book of Mormon; seal; Hebrew; records
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [66648]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:43
Gee, John. “The Wrong Type of Book.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 307-329. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Authorship; Manuscript Found; Native Americans; Smith; Ethan; Spaulding; Solomon; View of the Hebrews
ID = [75597]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 35779  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Gunderson, Robert A. “From the Dust to the Dusty: The Rise and Fall of the Book of Mormon in the Life and Ministry of Joseph Smith Jr.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 22 (2002): 75-88.
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Gunderson argues that “within a significantly brief span of time, Joseph Smith Jr. first produced, proclaimed, and then effectively dismissed the Book of Mormon as the source of authoritative religious doctrine.” He never denied the Book of Mormon, but “he simply stopped using it.” He contends that Joseph Smith “rightly discerned that the Book of Mormon was brought forth by the gift and power of God.” However in his later career, Joseph sometimes tried to press this gift of prophecy “into the service of his own agenda.” When he did that he “became increasingly fallible and Joseph was increasingly left to his own devices and imagination.”

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., thought; Book of Mormon, use and influence; Smith, Joseph, Jr., prophecies
ID = [81975]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:50
Hallen, Cynthia L. “What’s in a Word? Tender and Chaste and Delicate Feelings Are Pleasing to the Lord.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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The word tender is used repeatedly throughout the Book of Mormon, but the modern connotations of the term may skew readers’ understanding of what Book of Mormon authors intended to convey when employing it in their writing. By examining the etymology of tender and the etymologies of similar words, readers can better comprehend the intended meaning of the ancient Book of Mormon authors.

ID = [3092]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 16565  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:25
Harmon, Neal S. “Book of Mormon Stories Diglot Reader on Computer.” MS thesis, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2002.
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This report describes the design, development, and evaluation of a computer-based diglot reader of the Book of Mormon Stories of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Di means two and glot means language, thus a diglot reader combines two languages into one reader in order to teach a person to read in a new language. The program, which runs on both Macintosh and Windows computer platforms, contains fifteen chapters of the Book of Mormon Stories and introduces about four hundred Spanish words. This report includes a literature review on the diglot method and related materials, a description of the program and its features, and an evaluation of the program including eight one-to-one evaluations and a small-group evaluation. The small-group evaluation volunteers completed a pretest, studied the reader, completed a posttest, and filled out a questionnaire for their evaluation of the product. Finally, the report examines the strengths and weaknesses of the program and suggests some general guidelines for future diglot reader computer programs in general.

Keywords: Reading habits; Language, use and teaching; Book of Mormon
ID = [81555]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:27
Homer, Michael W. “Il Libro di Mormon: Anticipating Growth Beyond Italy’s Waldensian Valleys.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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In the year 1850, Elder Lorenzo Snow of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles arrived in Italy as a missionary. He and his companions spent much of their time with a Waldensian community. Elder Snow soon began sending missionaries to Switzerland to preach the gospel to French speakers there and began publishing church materials into French. The new materials caused a lot of opposition from Swiss Protestants and Italian Catholics. Elder Snow then went to England, where he solicited the help of an anonymous translator, and together they completed the translation of the Book of Mormon into Italian. Elder Snow returned to Italy soon after, bringing copies of Il Libro di Mormon with him, but he and the other missionaries did not find much success. Because of the influence of the Catholic Church on the government, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was not given much freedom in their preaching. Il Libro di Mormon similarly did not significantly help the missionary work. Almost all the Italian converts to the church were French-speaking Waldensians. Because of the lack of progress, the Italian mission was closed in 1867 and not reopened until a century later, in 1966.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3084]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 30206  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Hoskisson, Paul Y., Brian M. Hauglid, and John Gee. “What’s in a Name? Irreantum.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11, no. 1 (2002): 90-93, 114-115.
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The Book of Mormon was written in a language that was grounded in Hebrew and Egyptian; the people of the Book of Mormon most likely spoke this same language. It is interesting, then, that the Book of Mormon authors periodically included definitions for certain terms that they used in their writing, as if their audience did not understand them. This technique, known as a gloss, suggests that those terms may not have been a part of that ancient language. In an attempt to uncover the true origin of such words, this article dissects the Book of Mormon term Irreantum and delves into its linguistic characteristics to determine whether the term could have originated from Hebrew, Egyptian, ancient South Semitic, or another language.

Keywords: Egyptian; Gloss; Irreantum; Language; Language - Hebrew; Name; Onomastics; Reformed Egyptian; Semitic
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3091]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 21817  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Jibson, Michael D. “Korihor Speaks or the Misinterpretation of Dreams.” FARMS Review of Books 14, no. 1 (2002): Article 13.
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Review of Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith: Psychobiography and the Book of Mormon (1999), by Robert D. Anderson

ID = [405]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 34570  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:45
Linn, David, and Kevin L. Barney. “‘Let Us Stain Our Swords No More’” Insights 22, no. 1 (2002).
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In Alma 24 we read of the courage of the people of Anti- Nephi-Lehi, Lamanites who had converted to the Lord. Their king pleaded with them, “Let us stain our swords no more with the blood of our brethren” (Alma 24:12). So great was their faith that they covenanted never to take up arms again and buried their weapons of war. When the unconverted Lamanites came against them, the Anti-Nephi- Lehies, rather than resist their attackers, prostrated themselves on the ground to pray and allowed their brethren to slay them.

Keywords: Lamanites; Christianity; Anti-Nephi-Lehies; Maurice
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [66647]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:43
Maxwell, Neal A. “‘By the Gift and Power of God’” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 1-15. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon; Miracle; Restoration; Revelation; Smith; Joseph; Jr.; Translation
ID = [75589]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 20278  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
McClellan, Richard D. “Traduit de L’Anglais: The First French Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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When the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was first organized in the year 1830, the Book of Mormon had been published in only one language: English. But the church was growing quickly and spreading to other parts of the world. One of the first publications of the Book of Mormon in another language was in French. This article gives an account of the French translation from 1850 to 1852, when Elder John Taylor, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, presided over a newly opened mission in France. Elder Taylor oversaw the translation process, which was done primarily by recent French converts Mr. Wilhelm and Louis Bertrand and one of Elder Taylor’s counselors, Elder Curtis E. Bolton. While these men were translating, Paris was in the midst of political unrest and was wary of unfamiliar social, political, and religious organizations. In fact, both Elder Taylor and Brother Bertrand had to hide from government officials. Despite all the complications that came about during this process, the work was ultimately a success.

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Moore, Michael R. “The Book of Mormon: A Witness to the Historicity and Accuracy of Biblical Persons, Events, and Doctrines.” Master’s thesis, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2002.
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A historical study of the Book of Mormon based on the literary context and elements found within the book.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Bible and; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81563]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:27
Murphy, Thomas W. “Lamanite Genesis, Genealogy, and Genetics.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon, edited by Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalfe, 47-77. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002.
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“This essay outlines two insights into the geography and history of human genes and their implications for Mormon thought. If the embrace of DNA research has an impact on Mormon views, it will likely propel new approaches to scripture and history already underway in intellectual circles. First, genalogical data inscribed in genes suggest to current researchers that humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor that lived in Africa between 5 and 7 million years ago. This adds to an abundance of archaeological and other data pointing to the same conclusion and adds to the challenges one encounters in trying to uphold scriptural literalism. Second, new genetic clues are being discovered that confirm scientific views about ancient migration patterns. Ancestors of Native Americans seem to have separated from their Asian neighbors about 40,000-50,000 years ago and from each other in what may have been three or more separate waves of migration 7,000-15,000 years ago. No link between American Indians and ancient Israelites is evident in the data.” [From author’s introduction]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon, Native Americans and; Native Americans, Mormon views of; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [82088]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:57
Nibley, Hugh W. “Appendix: Echoes and Evidences from the Writings of Hugh Nibley.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 453-506. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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A discussion of evidence of the Book of Mormon’s authenticity.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Arabia; Historicity; Scholarship
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Nyman, Monte S., and Lisa Bolin Hawkins. “Book of Mormon: Overview.” In Latter-day Saint Essentials: Readings from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. John W. Welch and Devan Jensen, 54–60. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2002.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
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Parry, Donald W. “Hebraisms and Other Ancient Peculiarities in the Book of Mormon.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 155-189. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Hebraism; Language - Hebrew; Parallelism; Poetry; Simile Curse
ID = [75593]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 54376  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, eds. Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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The amazing achievements of the last hundred years in technology and science are paralleled by significant strides in Book of Mormon studies. Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon takes inventory of some of the most fascinating ancient elements of the Book of Mormon. For many years now, Latter-day Saint scholars have called attention to significant parallels in the Book of Mormon with the ancient world that in many cases were unknowable in the world of Joseph Smith. The sheer number of these “bull’s-eyes” alone is impressive. In this volume, scholars trained in biblical studies, archaeology, classics, history, law, linguistics, anthropology, political science, philosophy, Near East studies, literature, and other relevant fields present some of their favorite evidences that support the Book of Mormon’s claim to ancient origins. Their findings illuminate points present in ancient sources, details that are not obvious, intricate patterns, unusual or distinctive features, and information that was little or not known in the 1820s.

Keywords: Ancient Near East, Anthropology, Arabia, Historicity, Literature, Mesoamerica, Philosophy, Politics, Scholarship
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Articles

Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch. “Introduction.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, ix-xv. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Historicity; Scholarship
ID = [75588]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,welch  Size: 10309  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Welch, John W. “The Power of Evidence in the Nurturing of Faith.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 17-53. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Evidence; Faith; Reason; Revelation; Scholarship; Study
ID = [75590]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,welch  Size: 61798  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Reynolds, Noel B. “By Objective Measures: Old Wine into Old Bottles.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 127-153. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: American Revolution; Arabia; Merismus; Metal Plates; Metallurgy; Narrative of Zosimus; Politics; Population Size; Shipbuilding; Temple Worship; United States History; Warfare; Wordprint
ID = [75592]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 43152  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Peterson, Daniel C. “Not Joseph’s, and Not Modern.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 191-229. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; Asherah; Authorship; Columbus; Christopher; Eight Witnesses; Exodus Motif; Historicity; Language - Hebrew; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Smith; Joseph; Jr.; Three Witnesses
ID = [75594]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,peterson  Size: 64818  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Tvedtnes, John A. “Ancient Texts in Support of the Book of Mormon.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 231-260. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Abinadi (Prophet); Hidden Records; Jaredite Barges; John the Beloved; Joseph (of Egypt); Laban; Moses (Prophet); Reformed Egyptian; Translation/Transfiguration; Zemnarihah
ID = [75595]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 51547  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Sorenson, John L. “How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization?” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 261-306. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography; Cement; Fabric; Language; Mesoamerica; Politics; Sheum; Warfare; Wine
ID = [75596]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,sorenson  Size: 77569  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Welch, John W. “A Steady Stream of Significant Recognitions.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 331-387. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Concrete; King Benjamin; King Mosiah; Laws; Legal; Mesoamerica; Sermon at the Temple; Warfare; Weights and Measures; Zemnarihah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [75598]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,welch  Size: 93649  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Ricks, Stephen D. “Converging Paths: Language and Cultural Notes on the Ancient Near Eastern Background of the Book of Mormon.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 389-419. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; Early Church History; Hebraism; Nahom; Onomastics; Translation
ID = [75599]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 50265  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Petersen, Boyd J. “Something to Move Mountains: Hugh Nibley and the Book of Mormon.” In Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life, 244–259. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2002.
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Hugh Nibley’s correspondence reveals a lifelong fascination with the Book of Mormon. This is significant for two reasons: First, Nibley has taken the book seriously longer than we have as a church, and second, the private Hugh Nibley is as devoted to the Book of Mormon as is the public man.
Nibley’s interest in the book is threefold: he recognizes the striking similarities it shares with other ancient Near Eastern texts; acknowledges its witness to Joseph Smith’s divine calling; and, most importantly, perceives the relevance and accuracy of the book’s prophetic warnings. In his letters, Nibley also addresses criticism raised against his methodology. “The potential power” of the Book of Mormon, writes Nibley, “is something to move mountains; it will only take effect when everything is pretty far gone, but then it will be dynamite. That leaves room for optimism.” Hugh Nibley’s words make that optimism contagious.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Book of Mormon
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Petersen, Boyd J. “Truth Is Stranger Than Folklore: Hugh Nibley: The Man and the Legend.” Sunstone, December 2002, 18–23.
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an excerpt from Hugh Nibley: a Consecrated Life Greg Kofford Books, January 2003.
Did Hugh Nibley really tether a goat to his front lawn so he wouldn’t have to mow it? Did Hugh and his friend scribble Book of Mormon passages in Egyptian in one of Utah’s red rock canyons? Would he walk home from work, forgetting he had driven that day? This article looks at what truths lurk behind these and other stories.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Folklore
ID = [750]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size: 31585  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:09
Peterson, Daniel C. “A Response: ‘What the Manuscripts and the Eyewitnesses Tell Us about the Translation of the Book of Mormon’” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 2 (2002).
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According to the traditional account, when Joseph Smith translated the gold plates into what is now known as the Book of Mormon, he did not create the text himself or copy the text from another existing manuscript. Rather, he translated the text through an interpreting device, which only worked when Joseph was spiritually and emotionally prepared. The article supports this claim by including several stories of the translation process as told by eyewitnesses.

ID = [3104]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms,peterson  Size: 20337  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:25
Price, Robert M. “Joseph Smith: Inspired Author of the Book of Mormon.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon, edited by Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalfe, 321-366. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002.
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“The trembling hands of young Joseph Smith uncovered the buried golden plates of Mormon and Moroni, lost chapters of an undreamed-of history of Israelite tribes and the Christian Savior in the New World. As the depraved Lamanite had purused the Nephite Mormon and his son to death, so did young Smith feel besieged by the competing claims of rival evangelists and revivalists in his ’Burned-Over District.’ It was no surprise that the analogous tale told in the plates struck a note deep within him. And as the Nephites had long survived as a parallel branch of biblical Israel in the western hemisphere, so would the Church of the Latter-day Saints make its lonely but triumphant way through the generations as a parallel version of the Christian religion shared, at arm’s length, by most other Americans.”

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Book of Mormon, origins; Historic archaeology, Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, authorship
ID = [82089]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:57
Raish, Martin H., and C. Gary Bennett. “A Reader’s Library.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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Two critics evaluate the book By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion. Raish opines that Givens’s book effectively explains why a person might accept the Book of Mormon and facilitates a reader’s desire to better understand the Book of Mormon. Bennett adds that Givens approaches his discussion of the Book of Mormon as a scholar, resulting in a more accepting readership. Givens also studies the Book of Mormon with respect to its role in promoting the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a worldwide religion.

ID = [3093]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 16312  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:25
Ricks, Eldin. Story of the Formation of the Book of Mormon Plates. Orem, UT: Orion Publishing, 2002.
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Keywords: Gold Plates, Large Plates of Nephi, Plates of Mormon, Recordkeeping, Small Plates of Nephi
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Ricks, Eldin. The Case of the Book of Mormon Witnesses. Orem, UT: Orion Publishing, 2002.
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Keywords: Cowdery, Oliver, Eight Witnesses, Harris, Martin, Three Witnesses, Whitmer, David
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Ricks, Eldin. Book of Mormon Study Guide. Orem, UT: Orion Publishing, 2002.
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“Of all of Dad’s credentials, the most important is this, Dad loved the scriptures. His passion was the Book of Mormon. He was a lifetime student of the scriptures. He devoted his life to teaching others to love - and to a greater understanding of - the scriptures. As a young missionary in the 1930s, he began compiling the Combination Reference as a scripture reference tool for other missionaries. In 1945, as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, his missionary zeal led him to present a copy of the Book of Mormon to Pope Pius XII. After the war, in 1949, he joined the religion faculty at BYU, where he was instrumental in making the Book of Mormon a required class. This Book of Mormon Study Guide was developed at BYU as a personal study aid for all students of the Book of Mormon. He hoped that this book would aid you in your personal scripture study. And, like Nephi of old, may ’your soul also delight in the scriptures.’”

Keywords: Education, Eight Witnesses, Gold Plates, Study Aid, Study Helps, Three Witnesses
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Ridges, David J. Isaiah Made Easier: In the Bible and Book of Mormon. Springville, Utah: Bonneville Books, 2002.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Topics > Scripture Study
Old Testament Topics > Teaching the Old Testament
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Romig, Ronald E. “The Printer’s Manuscript.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 2 (2002).
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Ronald Romig, archivist for the RLDS Church (now renamed the Community of Christ), played a significant role in Royal Skousen’s critical text project. Romig was responsible for overseeing the handling of the printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon, which was made available on two different occasions for Skousen to examine for his research. Skousen also examined over twenty copies of the first edition of the Book of Mormon belonging to the Community of Christ. Romig explains his responsibilities and the process of assisting Skousen in the project and also mentions how Skousen’s work has improved the relationship between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints and the Community of Christ.

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Rust, Richard Dilworth. “Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon.” FARMS Review of Books 14, no. 1-2 (2002): 83-90.
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Review of Finding Biblical Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon (1999), by Hugh W. Pinnock

Keywords: Literature; Parallelism; Repetition; Structure
ID = [403]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 8443  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:45
Scharffs, Gilbert W. “Das Buch Mormon: The German Translation of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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While on assignment from the LDS prophet Joseph Smith to visit Jerusalem in 1840, Elder Orson Hyde of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles suggested opening a mission in Germany and translating the Book of Mormon into German. By April 1852, the new prophet, Brigham Young, had sent Daniel Carn to Germany to be the mission president and to help with the translation, and by May of the same year, Das Buch Mormon had been published. However, when East Germany was created and placed behind the “Iron Curtain,” matters grew worse for the Latter-day Saints. Because they were unable to print anything themselves, they relied on missionaries and members of the church in West Germany to smuggle copies of Das Buch Mormon into East Germany so they could have the scripture that was so central to their beliefs. Members still had to burn all manuals and church material that had been published after 1920 to avoid arrest, but since Das Buch Mormon had been published in 1852, the Saints were able to keep their copies of that scripture.

ID = [3083]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,brigham,farms-jbms  Size: 33805  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Skousen, Royal. “History of the Critical Text Project o the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 2 (2002).
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Royal Skousen details the history of the critical text project of the Book of Mormon. He describes that project, including his work with both the original manuscript and the printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon. After six years of pursuing this venture, Skousen was asked by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to temporarily resign as a professor at Brigham Young University and focus primarily on the project. Skousen agreed, and for the following seven years he continued his work on the Book of Mormon text, often collaborating with the Church Scriptures Committee. In this article, Skousen shares several discoveries that have surfaced because of his research and the meaning that those discoveries have had in his life.

ID = [3098]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 44330  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:25
Skousen, Royal. “Findings about the Printer’s Manuscript.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 2 (2002).
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Royal Skausen gives information about the history, corrections, and the use of the printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [3101]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 4846  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:25
Skousen, Royal. “The Systematic Text of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 2 (2002).
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Royal Skousen explains in detail the internal consistency of the original text of the Book of Mormon. He references several verses of the Book of Mormon to discuss five main points: consistency in meaning; systematic phraseology; variation in the text; conjectural emendation; and revising the text. By examining these five aspects, Skousen shows that neither the message nor the doctrine of the Book of Mormon loses credibility as a result of textual changes. Skousen also mentions that the consistency in the manuscripts suggests that Joseph Smith did not receive the text as a concept but rather received it word for word.

ID = [3103]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 56408  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:25
Smith, George D., Jr. “B. H. Roberts: Book of Mormon Apologist and Skeptic.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon, edited by Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalfe, 123-155. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002.
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“Brigham Henry Roberts developed the primary apologetic arguments used to define the antiquity of the Book of Mormon, a book most Latter-day Saints believe narrates the story of the ancestors of the American Indian. While speaking to the Church as a general authority, Roberts addressed the book as an ancient record; privately, however, he voiced doubts. In the last twelve years of his life, he encountered questions about Book of Mormon language, archeology, and geography that he could not answer. As he reexamined his earlier writings on the subject, he turned to his colleagues with two critical treatises that asked whether the prophet had created a ’wonder tale’ which, ’I sorrowfully submit, points to Joseph Smith’ as its author. He expressed his public faith and private doubts to the end of his life.” [From author’s introduction]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Roberts, B. H., Book of Mormon and; Internal conflict, intellectual
ID = [82090]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:57
Staker, Susan. “Secret Things, Hidden Things: The Seer Story in the Imaginative Economy of Joseph Smith.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon, edited by Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalfe, 235-274. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002.
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“Those who associated with Joseph Smith during the spring and summer of 1829 remembered that he used a ’seer stone’ to dictate both the Book of Mormon and his early revelations. This fact orients Joseph Smith’s biography in crucial and important ways, pointing not only backward to his youthful career as glass-looker and treasure seer but forward as well to his emerging work as translator, prophet, seer, and Moses-like leader of a community of believers. This continuity was important for early believers, coming as they did from a world similar to Smith’s where the line between magic and religion was fluid and inspiring, not dangerous or degrading.

Keywords: Seer stones; Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
ID = [82091]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:57
Vogel, Dan. “Echoes of Anti-Masonry: A Rejoinder to Critics of the Anti-Masonic Thesis.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon, edited by Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalfe, 275-320. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002.
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“In recent years Mormon apologists have begun to challenge what many researchers, myself included, long regarded as obvious: the Book of Mormon’s reflection of the cultural milieu of early nineteenth-century America, particularly the anti-Masonic controversy that pervaded westen New York during the late 1820s. If the similarities between Masonry and the secret societies described in the book are not apparent to some modern readers, they were to its first readers, Mormon and non-Mormon, who almost immediately associated its warnings of latter-day ’secret combinations’ with the dreaded Masons. Despite the book’s use of the term ’secret combinations’--a favorite anti-Masonic epithet--several scholars now, for various reasons, object to the connection and, in some instances, offer alternative interpretations. In particular, I will examine and respond to the arguments put forth by Richard L. Bushman, Blake T. Ostler, D. Michael Quinn, and Daniel C. Peterson.” [From author’s introduction]

Keywords: Peterson, Daniel C.; Quinn, D. Michael; Freemasonry; Book of Mormon, anti-Masonry; Ostler, Blake T.; Bushman, Richard L.
ID = [82085]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:56
Vogel, Dan, and Brent Lee Metcalfe. American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2002.
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“A fine line divides scripture from non-scripture, writes Robert M. Price in American Apocrypha. There are books that are not in the Bible that are as powerful and authoritative as anything in the canon. At the same time, much of the Bible was written centuries after the events it narrates by scribes using fictitious names. Clearly, the hallmark of scripture is not historical accuracy but rather its spiritual impact on individuals; exclusion from the canon is not reason to dismiss a book as heretical. Consider the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The nature of this volume—in particular its claim to antiquity—is the theme of nine ground-breaking essays in American Apocrypha. Thomas W. Murphy discusses the Book of Mormon’s view that American Indians are descendants of ancient Hebrews. In recent DNA tests, Native Americans have proven to be of Siberian ancestry and not of ancient Jewish or Middle Eastern descent. Nor is the Book of Mormon a traditional translation from an ancient document, writes David P. Wright, as indicated by the underlying Hebrew in the book’s Isaiah passages. Other contributors to American Apocrypha explore the evolution of ideas in the Book of Mormon during the course of its dictation.” [Publisher]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, commentaries; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, authorship; Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon, historicity
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Articles

Vogel, Dan, and Brent Lee Metcalfe. “The Validity of the Witnesses’ Testimonies.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon, edited by Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalfe, 79-121. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002.
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“In this essay I will examine the published testimonies of the witnesses, as well as other related historical sources, to try to determine more accurately the nature of their experiences. Hence, I will not explore the question of the witnesses’ honesty and trustworthiness; this has been exploited at great length by those whose intent has been to present a false dichotomy: either the witnesses told the truth about their experiences, and therefore Joseph Smith’s claims about the plates are true, or they lied and the plates never existed. This either/or reduction misrepresents the situation facing those who wish to examine the historical nature of these events.” [From author’s introduction]

Keywords: Whitmer, David; Whitmer, Peter, Jr.; Harris, Martin; Whitmer, John; Whitmer, Jacob; Book of Mormon, witnesses; Whitmer, Christian; Smith, Joseph, Sr.; Page, Hiram; Smith, Hyrum (1800-1844); Smith, Samuel H.; Cowdery, Oliver
ID = [82086]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:56
Wright, David P. “Isaiah in the Book of Mormon: Or Joseph Smith in Isaiah.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon, edited by Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalfe, 157-234. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002.
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“A major question in Book of Mormon scholarship is whether the several chapters or passages of Isaiah cited and paraphrased in the book derive from an ancient text or whether they have been copied with some revision from the King James Version of the Bible. The BoM narrative would have us believe the former, that its citations of Isaiah come directly or ultimately from the brass plates of Laban or from Jesus’ recitation where, according to the BoM, he visited the New World peoples shortly after his death. Closer study shows that despite the intent of the story, the Isaiah of the BoM is a revision of the KJV and not a translation of an ancient document. This essay seeks to review and enlarge upon the evidence of this conclusion. It focuses on internal textual evidence where the BoM’s Isaiah appears to reflect or respond to the peculiarities and idiom of the KJV text. This analysis demonstrates how intricately and fully the BoM Isaiah is tied to the KJV. The last section reviews and shows the weakness of arguments that the BoM has parallels with ancient manuscripts and translations or that its variants reflect elements of Hebrew style and language.” [From author’s introduction]

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., Bible and; Bible, use and influence; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
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Welch, John W. “Book of Mormon Religious Teachings and Practices.” In Latter-day Saint Essentials: Readings from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. John W. Welch and Devan Jensen, 60–6. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2002.
ID = [36254]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,welch  Size: 15534  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:30
Williams, Camille Stilson. “Women in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 no. 1 (2002).
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Feminist readers, particularly, have argued that biblical writing is sexist because the majority of the text was written by men who seem to place little significance on the role of women. This observation has become a serious concern among some because it calls into question the nature of God: does this supposedly perfect being love men and women equally? This study delves into the text of the Book of Mormon and its female characters to suggest that women were not considered lower than men in Book of Mormon times; likewise, women are not considered lower than men in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today.

ID = [3088]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 109701  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:24
Wirth, Diane E. “Quetzalcoatl, the Maya Maize God, and Jesus Christ.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11, no. 1 (2002): 4-15, 107.
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Many scholars suggest that Quetzalcoatl of Mesoamerica (also known as the Feathered Serpent), the Maya Maize God, and Jesus Christ could all be the same being. By looking at ancient Mayan writings such as the Popol Vuh, this theory is further explored and developed. These ancient writings include several stories that coincide with the stories of Jesus Christ in the Bible, such as the creation and the resurrection. The role that both Quetzalcoatl and the Maize God played in bringing maize to humankind is comparable to Christ’s role in bringing the bread of life to humankind. Furthermore, Quetzalcoatl is said to have descended to the Underworld to perform a sacrifice strikingly similar to the atonement of Jesus Christ. These congruencies and others like them suggest that these three gods are, in fact, three representations of the same being.

Keywords: Atonement; Jesus Christ; Maize God; Maya; Mesoamerica; Popol Vuh; Quetzacoatl; Underworld
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Bokovoy, David E. “Love vs. Hate: An Analysis of Helaman 15:1–4.” Insights 22, no. 2 (2002).
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Few literary genres from the ancient world stand out so prominently as the Near Eastern vassal treaty. Scholars have shown that these political contracts formed between vassal kings and suzerain provided the conceptual background for the book of Deuteronomy. “The assumption is that Israel conceived of its relation to Yahweh as that of subject peoples to a world king and that they expressed this relationship in the concepts and formulas of the suzerainty treaty.”

Keywords: love; hate; Helaman; context; antiquity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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Hicks, Michael. “Moroni.” BYU Studies 41, no. 2 (2002): 70.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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McClendon, Richard J. “Captain Moroni’s Wartime Strategies: An Application for the Spiritual Battles of Our Day.” Religious Educator Vol. 3 no. 3 (2002).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temptation
ID = [38061]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2002-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 37584  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:13
Skousen, Royal. “‘Scourged’ vs. ‘Scorched’ in Mosiah 17:13.” Insights 22, no. 3 (2002).
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Very often in my work on the critical text of the Book of Mormon, I have discovered cases where the text reads inappropriately. Book of Mormon researchers have typically attempted to find some circumstance or interpretation to explain a difficult reading, but in many cases I have found that difficult readings are actually the result of simple scribal errors.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Mosiah; text; manuscript
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [66664]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:43
Walker, Kyle R. “Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Recollections of Joseph’s Meetings with Moroni.” BYU Studies 41, no. 3 (2002): 5-17.
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Katherine Smith Salisbury, the last surviving member of the Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith family was frequently sought out by converts, missionaries, and reporters for her recollections of those early events of the Restoration. Such visitors reported that she was a willing and able conversationalist on matters pertaining to her family and was quick to share her testimony of the truth of the work they helped to establish. Her early connection with Mormonism and her willingness to speak and write about her experiences make Katharine’s recollections an important source for the study of early Latter-day Saint history.One such recollection, published by a newspaper in 1895, appears at the end of this article.

Keywords: Angel; Early Church History; Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [11585]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-03  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 19167  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:06
Bennion, Mark D. “Lehi’s Dream.” BYU Studies 41, no. 4 (2002): 64.
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Poetry. No abstract available.

Keywords: Dream; Lehi (Prophet); Poetry; Vision
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Sorenson, John L. “The Submergence of the City of Jerusalem in the Land of Nephi.” Insights 22, no. 4 (2002).
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In touring southern Guatemala, many FARMS patrons traveled west of the capital city to visit Lake Atitlán, one of the most photogenic spots in Central America. Tour guides have told thousands that the beautiful “waters of Mormon” beloved by Alma and his people (see Mosiah 18:30) might well be Lake Atitlán. The Nephite record also tells us that a city called Jerusalem, which was constructed by Lamanites led by Nephite dissenters, was located “away joining the borders of Mormon” (Alma 21:1–2).

Keywords: Mesoamerican geography; Jerusalem; archaeology
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Insights. “Nibley Fellowship Application Deadline, Guidelines.” Insights 22, no. 5 (2002).
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Each year at about this time we remind graduate students about the Nibley Fellowship Program. Those interested in applying for the first time or who wish to renew their fellowships for the 2002/ 2003 academic year must do so by 30 June 2002.

Keywords: Nibley Fellowship Program; guidelines; Book of Mormon
ID = [66676]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:44
Insights. “Special Report on Critical Text Project.” Insights 22, no. 5 (2002).
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In lieu of this year’s first issue of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, a special report of the 20 October 2001 FARMS symposium on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project will be mailed to FARMS subscribers with the next issue of the Insights newsletter.

Keywords: Book of Mormon Critical Text Project; translation; report
ID = [66677]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:44
Parker, Michael B. “Nephi’s Later Reflections on the Tree of Life Vision.” Insights 22, no. 5 (2002).
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An interesting phenomenon concerning 1 and 2 Nephi is that parts of the latter book draw on the tree of life vision that Nephi and his father shared, as recorded in 1 Nephi 8, 11–15. In an earlier FARMS Update, John A. Tvedtnes demonstrated that Nephi drew on this vision when composing the psalm in 2 Nephi 4. Further study suggests the likelihood that Nephi’s exhortation in 2 Nephi 31 was similarly informed by that sublime vision.

Keywords: Nephi; Tree of Life; vision; testimony
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [66675]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:44
Insights. “Hugh Nibley Audiotape Collection.” Insights 22, no. 6 (2002).
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FARMS has released volumes 3, 4, and 5 of an ongoing audiotape collection of essays titled Preparing for the Millennium, by renowned Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh W. Nibley. Read by Lloyd D. Newell, the audiotapes feature four essays from Nibley’s Approaching Zion and three essays from another volume in his collected works, The Prophetic Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Preparing for the Millennium; language; Book of Mormon; volume
ID = [66683]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:44
Insights. “Special Book Offer.” Insights 22, no. 6 (2002).
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For a limited time, FARMS subscribers can obtain at special discount the first two volumes of the Book of Mormon critical text: The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text and The Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts, published by FARMS in 2001 (see the order form). For a full report on these essential resources for serious study of the Book of Mormon text, see the lead article in INSIGHTS 21/5 (2002).

Keywords: subscribers; volume; text; offer
ID = [66684]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:44
Gee, John. “Egyptian Writing on Gold ‘Plates’” Insights 22, no. 6 (2002).
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A recent issue of a popular journal on ancient Egypt discusses a number of sheets of gold foil incised with Egyptian writing. These artifacts provide some interesting parallels to the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: gold plates; Egyptian writing; parallels; Book of Mormon
ID = [66682]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:44
Insights. “New Book Enriches NT Study.” Insights 22, no. 7 (2002).
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A new book from FARMS offers a world of information about the New Testament and its background. Charting the New Testament contains scores of charts, tables, and graphs, each with helpful explanatory and reference materials in a reader-friendly format. Covering a wide array of topics-from the ancient Jewish setting of the New Testament and the world of the Greeks and Romans in which the activities of Jesus and his apostles took place to detailed analysis of the scriptural text itself-the book offers an extensive overview of matters doctrinal, literary, and historical. A companion volume to Charting the Book of Mormon, this handy resource is designed with both the student and the teacher in mind.

Keywords: New Testament; BYU; Book of Mormon; background
ID = [66686]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-07  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:45
Insights. “Scholars Speak at FAIR Conference.” Insights 22, no. 8 (2002).
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Scholars from BYU spoke at the recent FAIR (Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research) LDS Apologetics Conference held in August at Utah Valley State College, in Orem, Utah. FAIR, which is not affiliated with BYU or the Institute, is an organization dedicated to defending LDS beliefs and practices with sound scholarship. The theme of the conference was “Turning Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones: Responding to Challenging Issues in Mormonism.”

Keywords: FAIR Conference; critics; errors; text; Book of Mormon
ID = [66691]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-08  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:45
Tvedtnes, John A. “Hiding the Secret Plans.” Insights 22, no. 8 (2002).
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The Second Conference of Abbot Serenus 21, written about A.D. 426 by the Christian scholar John Cassian, sheds light on statements made in the Book of Mormon and the Book of Moses about Cain, who slew his brother Abel.

Keywords: Cain; Abel; Book of Mormon; text; traditions
ID = [66692]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-08  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:45
Sorensen, David E. “Place the Book of Mormon in Your Heart—Not on Your Bookshelf.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, March 19, 2002.
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Make a commitment today that you will not leave this great university without having read the Book of Mormon at least once.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Podcast: Come; Follow Me
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Larsen, Sharon G. “Standing in Holy Places.” Delivered at the General Young Women Meeting of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2002.
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Standing in holy places is all about being in good company, whether you are alone or with others.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Colton, Kent W. “In the Line of Service.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, April 9, 2002.
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“But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.” [Moroni 7:47]

Keywords: Service
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Neilson, Reid L. “A Priceless Pearl: Alma O. Taylor’s Mission to Japan.” Ensign, June 2002.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [55262]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2002-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 11197  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:28
Gardner, Brant A. “The Gadianton Robbers in Mormon’s Theological History: Their Structural Role and Plausible Identification.” Paper presented at the 2002 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2002.
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Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon Geography - Mesoamerica; Gadianton Robbers; Oaths; Secret Combinations
ID = [32377]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2002-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 44724  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Jensen, R. Devan. “Follow the Liahona.” Ensign, August 2002.
ID = [55342]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2002-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2044  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:29
Skousen, Royal. “Changes in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2002 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2002.
ID = [32381]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2002-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 37251  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Rees, Robert A. “Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 3 (Fall, 2002): 83-112.
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I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies with the text—though not just as a field for scholarly exploration.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph
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Thomas, Mark D. “Form Criticism of Joseph Smith’s 1823 Vision of the Angel Moroni.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 3 (Fall, 2002): 145-60.
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Thomas employs form criticism to identify the original historic core of Joseph Smith’s 1823 vision of the angel Moroni. To do this, he examines some details of the vision including Moroni’s citation of Malachi 3 and 4. He also examined some historical traditions preceding the 1823 vision including magic/money digging, 19th-century visionaries, a tradition of buried books, etc. He determined that ’no historical anachronisms exist in the original core narratives.’ He reasons that Joseph Smith ’very likely had an actual vision on the night of 21-22 September 1823.’ He then discusses what it meant in the 19th century to have a vision. From this analysis he concludes the essay with a description of the core elements of what can rationally be presumed to have happened during Joseph Smith’s 1823 vision.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., angelic visitations; Moroni, visitations; Angels; Smith, Joseph, Jr., visions; Smith, Joseph, Jr., occult, treasure seeking
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [81977]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:50
Wirthlin, Joseph B. “The Book of Mormon: The Heart of Missionary Proselyting.” Ensign, September 2002.
ID = [55356]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2002-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 18053  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:29
Wunderli, Earl M. “Critique of a Limited Geography for Book of Mormon Events.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 3 (Fall, 2002): 161-197.
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During the past few decades, a number of LDS scholars have developed various “limited geography” models of where the events of the Book of Mormon occurred. These models contrast with the traditional western hemisphere model, which is still the most familiar to Book of Mormon readers. [From the text]

Keywords: Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Book of Mormon geography, Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81976]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:50
Maxwell, Neal A. “Encircled in the Arms of His Love.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2002.
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Perplexing things will still happen, but, like Nephi, we can still know that God loves us, a … fact which can and will sustain us through so much!

ID = [19369]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2002-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 11058  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:09
2003
Insights. “Brown Bag Report.” Insights 23, no. 1 (2003).
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On 30 October John L. Clark, emeritus instructor in the Church Educational System, spoke on the topic “Painting Out the Messiah: Theologies of the Dissidents.” Clark began by showing that Lehi, Nephi, and Jacob all taught specifically about the Messiah but that dissidents like Sherem and Nehor opposed their teachings with “theologies” that denied Christ’s redemptive role and godhood, thereby causing many believers to lose faith. Clark then examined the arguments of the dissidents in the Book of Mormon to show what the prophets were teaching and what the objections to those teachings were. He discusses this topic at length in an article in the current issue of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, mailed along with this newsletter.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; journal; theologies; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [66697]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:45
Ball, Terry B., and Jeremy Daniel Wendt. “The Book of Mormon’s Message to the Gentiles.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36227]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:28
Barney, Kevin L. “A More Responsible Critique.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): 97-146.
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Review of “Does the Book of Mormon Reflect an Ancient Near Eastern Background?” (2002), by Thomas J. Finley, and “Rendering Fiction: Translation, Pseudotranslation, and the Book of Mormon” (2002), by David J. Shepherd.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Christianity; Criticism; Doctrine; Hebraism; Metal Plates; Names; Translation
ID = [428]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 109697  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:46
Bassett, K. Douglas. Commentaries on Isaiah in the Book of Mormon. American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 2003.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [29929]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:29
Black, Susan Easton. “King Benjamin.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 192–202. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
ID = [36164]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 21361  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Bokovoy, David E., and John A. Tvedtnes. Testaments: Links between the Book of Mormon and the Hebrew Bible. Tooele, Utah: Heritage, 2003.
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**Only a selection of these chapters are available for online reading. An introduction to several key literary, cultural, linguistic, and religious connections between the Book of Mormon and the Old Testament. Since 1830, millions of people have read the Book of Mormon and studied its claims for ties with the ancient world. The Book of Mormon begins with references to Jerusalem and the Hebrew Bible. Readers often wonder to what extent the Book of Mormon reflects the literary, cultural, and religious world of ancient Israel. In the book Testaments, these and other issues are carefully addressed in a reader-friendly style. The authors, David E. Bokovoy and John A. Tvedtnes illustrate that the Book of Mormon shares much in common with the Old Testament. These exciting links provide clear evidence that the Book of Mormon and the Hebrew Bible serve as related testaments of the Savior Jesus Christ and his restored gospel.

Keywords: Altar; Bible; Clothing; Colophon; Covenant; Death; Dream; Enallage; Hell; Isaiah; Jesus Christ; Joseph (of Egypt); King Benjamin; Language; Language - Hebrew; Prayer; Prophet; Repentance; Savior; Superscript; Symbolism; Vision; Wilderness; Wisdom
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
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Brinley, Douglas E. “The Jaredites: A Case Study in Following the Brethren.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 427-441. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Keywords: Ether (Book of); Jaredites; Obedience; Revelation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
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Brown, Matthew S. Plates of Gold: The Book of Mormon Comes Forth. American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, Inc., 2003.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon, gold plates; Book of Mormon, historicity
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Brown, S. Kent. “The Book of Mormon at the Bar of DNA Evidence.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12 no. 1 (2003).
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Editor’s introduction to a four-part series on the relationship of DNA studies to Book of Mormon origins.

ID = [3107]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 2045  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:25
Brown, S. Kent. “New Light: Nahom and the Eastward Turn.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12 no. 1 (2003).
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The account of the journey of Lehi’s family through the wilderness mentions one local name, Nahom, where Ishmael was buried. The discovery of the tribal name NHM on three altars from the seventh and sixth centuries BC provides a likely location for that stopping point on their trip. This site is located at the bend of the incense trail that went in the opposite direction of Lehi’s group—westward to NHM and then turning northward.

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Brown, S. Kent. “Recovering the Missing Record of Lehi.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 144–72. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
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Brown, S. Kent. “Alma’s Conversion.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 246–61. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
RSC Topics > G — K > Hell
RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
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Butler, John M. “A Few Thoughts From a Believing DNA Scientist.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 36-37.
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The Book of Mormon does not give sufficient information about the background of Ishmael’s wife, the wives of Ishmael’s sons, and Nephi’s sisters to test the mitochondrial DNA of the group. Other problems for critics’ assertions include the uncertainty of Lehi’s possession of an Abrahamic Y chromosome and the complete disregard for the entire Jaredite population (remnants of which may have survived their final battle). Confident scientific conclusions are difficult to attain and cannot replace a spiritual witness of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: DNA; Genetics; Ishmael; Mitochondrial DNA; Y Chromesome
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BYU Religious Studies Center. The Fulness of the Gospel: Foundational Teachings from the Book of Mormon. The 32nd Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2003.
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The 32nd Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium The first publication of the Book of Mormon was completed only a few days before the Church was organized. The Lord revealed that it “contains a record of a fallen people, and the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Before the revelation was received on the organization of priesthood quorums, before the vision of the three degrees of glory, before knowledge of vicarious work for the dead, and before Joseph Smith was instructed to begin an inspired translation of the Bible, the Book of Mormon was received as scripture for all members of the Church. As the “keystone” containing a “fulness of the gospel,” the Book of Mormon connects, enhances, and clarifies the other standard works. This volume was published to encourage all who read it to discover and rediscover for themselves that the Book of Mormon does indeed contain the fulness of the gospel.

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Williams, Clyde J. “‘Make Plain the Old Paths’ : The Restoration of Plain and Precious Truths.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Johnson, Sherrie Mills. “‘Choose Eternal Life’ : Agency in the Book of Mormon.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36225]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:28
Richardson, Matthew O. “Vision, Voice, Path, and Rod : Coming to Partake of the Fulness.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36226]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:28
Roper, Matthew P., and John Gee. “‘I Did Liken All Scriptures Unto Us’ : Early Nephite Understandings of Isaiah and Implications for ‘Others’ in the Land.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [36228]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Marsh, W. Jeffrey. “Greater Views on the Very Points of the Doctrine of Christ.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36229]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Parker, Todd B. “The Fall of Man : One of the Three Pillars of Eternity.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36230]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Eastmond, Mark Elbert. “Gethsemane and Golgotha : The Book of Mormon’s Illunimation on the Hours of Atonement.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36231]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Millet, Robert L. “The Doctrine of Merit : The Book of Mormon on the Work of Grace.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36232]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Skinner, Andrew C. “Jesus Christ as Father in the Book of Mormon.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36233]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Holbrook, Brett L. “Christ and Divine Parenthood in the Book of Mormon.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36234]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Tvedtnes, John A. “Captivity and Liberty in the Book of Mormon.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36235]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Olson, Camille Fronk, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. “Faith unto Repentance.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
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Judd, Daniel K. “Hedonism, Asceticism, and the Great Plan of Happiness.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36237]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Wilson, Keith J. “Receiving Offense without Taking Offense : The Book of Mormon and the Power to Forgive.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36238]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Ludlow, Victor L. “Covenant Teachings in the Book of Mormon.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36239]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Marsh, David Brent. “Peace through Christ : The Book of Mormon’s Divine Perspective on War.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36240]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Ray, Brian K. “‘That I Might Draw All Men unto Me’” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36241]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Matthews, Robert J. “For a Wise Purpose.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36242]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “Has the Seal of Mulek Been Found?” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 2 (2003): 72-93, 117-118.
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A small stamp seal bearing the inscription belonging to Malkiyahu, son of the king, arguably belonged to Mulek, son of Zedekiah, who accompanied one of the Israelite groups that settled in the New World. Jeremiah 38:6 mentions Malchiah the son of Hammelech, which could also be a reference to this same Mulek. Discussion centers on similar seals, the meaning of Ben Hamelek, the possible age of Malkiyahu, and Book of Mormon claims about Mulek. This seal could conceivably have been left behind in Jerusalem and found centuries later, thus representing an archaeological artifact of a Book of Mormon personality.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Archaeology; Jerusalem; King Zedekiah; Mulek; Old Testament; Seal
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Cracroft, Richard H. “Had for Good and Evil: 19th-Century Literary Treatments of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12 no. 2 (2003).
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Moroni prophesied on 21 September 1823 that Joseph’s name, and by implication the book he would eventually translate and publish, should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues. Many current criticisms of the Book of Mormon trace their roots to the antagonistic critiques by 19th-century authors, beginning with Abner Cole, Alexander Campbell, and E. D. Howe. Campbell in particular was responsible for introducing the environmental theory: that Joseph Smith introduced 19th-century elements into his story. Travelers to Salt Lake City published their exposés, which were mostly critical of the Latter-day Saints and their book of sacred scripture. Mark Twain’s dismissive treatment of the book forged lasting popular misconceptions of the book. Fiction writers of the 19th century contributed to suspicion of and ignorance about Mormonism and the Book of Mormon. In more recent times, Fawn M. Brodie, Thomas O’Dea, and Robert V. Remini perpetuated environmental claims about the book. Recent Latter-day Saint scholars— Hugh Nibley, Richard Bushman, and Terryl Givens— represent those who speak good of the book and try to correct misperceptions about it.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Dadson, Andrew E. “With Real Intent: A Priceless Gem.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12 no. 1 (2003).
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Dadson shares his experience of gaining a testimony of the Book of Mormon while a young teenager at boarding school in Ghana. He was blessed through clean living, studying the Book of Mormon, and paying his tithing.

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Dahl, Larry E., ed. Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons: Interviews with Long-Term Residents. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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After the announcement of the intent to rebuild the Nauvoo Temple, there was much discussion in the town about why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would want to build such a large building in such a small place and what impact it might have on Nauvoo. Questions were raised about the vast potential increase in the number of visitors to Nauvoo, as well as whether large numbers of Church members would come to settle in Nauvoo permanently, significantly affecting the political and cultural environment. Additional interest focused on the whole history of the Mormons in Nauvoo. Those ideas, attitudes, and feelings of residents were captured in this collection of interviews. Twenty-six Nauvoo residents were interviewed and their answers recorded in this volume. ISBN 978-0-8425-2526-8

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Dahl, Larry E. “Foreword.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “The Editors’ Role.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Oral History Project.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Ralph Arnold.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Lynn and Wanitta Barritt.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Richard Bolton.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Dean Gabbert.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Lucille Gano.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family History
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Dahl, Larry E. “Lucile Harsch.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Dorothy Hart.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “David W. Knowles.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “John LaCroix.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Mary Eleanor Logan.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “John McCarty.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Paul J. McKoon.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “James W. Moffitt.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Estel Neff.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Edward J. Newton.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Florence Ourth.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Dahl, Larry E. “Ken and Karolyn Nudd.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37521]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 15455  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:39
Dahl, Larry E. “Lee and Carmen Ourth.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37522]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 44073  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:39
Dahl, Larry E. “Donald Elbert Pidcock.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37523]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 40876  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:39
Dahl, Larry E. “Louis Pilkington.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37524]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 20973  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:39
Dahl, Larry E. “Dr. Lillian M. Snyder.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
ID = [37525]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 58066  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:39
Dahl, Larry E. “Lloyd S. Starr.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37526]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 17830  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:39
Dahl, Larry E. “LeRoy Ufkes.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37527]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 19295  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:39
Dahl, Larry E. “Jim Webb.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37528]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 39621  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:39
Dahl, Larry E. “Leon Wilkinson.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37529]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 24894  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:39
Dahl, Larry E. “Thomas Wilson.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37530]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 14218  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:39
Dahl, Larry E. “Epilogue.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37531]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 1581  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:40
Dahl, Larry E. “Appendix.” In Modern Perspectives on Nauvoo and the Mormons, ed. Larry E. Dahl. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37532]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 8965  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:40
Dahl, Larry E. “The Concept of Hell.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 262-279. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Keywords: Amulek; Hell; Spirit Prison; Spirit World
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Hell
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Spirit World
ID = [36168]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books  Size: 37520  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Dennis, Ronald D. “Proofs—Book of Mormon.” In Defending the Faith, ed. Ronald D. Dennis. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
ID = [37438]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 38182  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:33
Dennis, Ronald D. “The Book of Mormon—first treatise.” In Defending the Faith, ed. Ronald D. Dennis. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
ID = [37461]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 29767  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:35
Dennis, Ronald D. “The Book of Mormon—second treatise.” In Defending the Faith, ed. Ronald D. Dennis. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [37462]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 30225  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:35
Duke, James T. “Word Pairs and Distinctive Combinations in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 2 (2003): 32-41, 112-113.
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The literary richness of the Book of Mormon is attested by the appearance of word pairs, in both parallel and conjoined pairs. On occasion, combinations of three, four, or even more words appear together more than once. Possible reasons for the scriptural use of word pairs include literary functions, echoes of the law of Moses, theological terms, universals (or merisms), repetition, and mnemonic function. Duke builds on previous studies of word pairs in the Book of Mormon by Kevin Barney and John Tvedtnes. The frequency of word pairs and other combinations of words witnesses to the Hebrew roots of the language of the book.

Keywords: Language - Hebrew; Law of Moses; Literary; Literature; Parallelism; Word Pairs
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3124]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 52597  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
Flinders, Rebecca M., and Anne B. Fairchild. “Scriptures for Families.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): 431-434.
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Review of Thomas R. Valletta, gen. ed. The Book of Mormon for Latter-day Saint Families. Review of Thomas R. Valletta, gen. ed. The New Testament for Latter-day Saint Families.

Keywords: Education; Family; Scripture Study
ID = [437]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 8756  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:47
Forsberg, Clyde R., Jr. Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
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Keywords: Gender roles; Temple ritual; Freemasonry; Smith, Joseph, Jr., thought, American setting; Book of Mormon
ID = [81477]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:22
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “2002 Book of Mormon Bibliography.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): Article 22.
ID = [1316]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 10908  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:42
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “A Conversation with Robert J. Matthews.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12 no. 2 (2003).
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Robert J. Matthews was influenced by the Book of Mormon to pursue his studies of the Joseph Smith Translation. He was intrigued by what the Book of Mormon said about the Bible. To further one’s understanding of the Book of Mormon, Matthews recommends further study on the Near East and an analysis of the internal structure of the book. Royal Skousen’s work on the comparative text, Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon writings, and articles in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism on the Book of Mormon are sources for increasing one’s knowledge of that book.

ID = [3129]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 22497  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Gardner, Brant A. “Confusion of Tongues and a Map.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): Article 5.
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Review of Robert A. Pate. Mapping the Book of Mormon: A Comprehensive Geography of Nephite America.

ID = [441]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 20585  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:47
Hallen, Cynthia L. “What’s in a Word?: The Language of Scriptures.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12 no. 2 (2003).
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A two-pronged approach to studying the scriptures emphasizes language as well as doctrine. Some typical syntactic structures that appear in 19th-century Book of Mormon English include word-order variation, interruption, parenthesis, ellipsis, fragment, conjunctions, and parallel structure.

ID = [3130]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 18562  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Hansen, Kristine, and Keith Lawrence. “A Reader’s Library.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 2 (2003): 100-106.
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Both Hansen and Lawrence review Grant Hardy’s The Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition. Not meant to replace the 1981 edition published by the church, this edition appears in a reader-friendly format and provides additional notes and appendices.

Keywords: Literary; Literature; Structure
ID = [3132]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 27340  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Hardy, Grant R. “New Light: The Book of Mormon as a Written (Literary) Artifact.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 2 (2003): 107-109, 118.
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Hardy hypothesizes that the misplacement of Alma 13:16 (which, he proposes, actually belongs three verses earlier) is an example of a mistake in handwriting and copying known as homoeoteleuton.

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Homoeoteleuton; Literary; Literature
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3133]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 18848  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Hauglid, Brian M. “Nibley’s Abraham in Egypt: Laying the Foundation for Abraham Research.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): Article 9.
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Since 1989, the Review of Books on the Book of Mormon has published review essays to help serious readers make informed choices and judgments about books and other publications on topics related to the Latter-day Saint religious tradition. It has also published substantial freestanding essays that made further contributions to the field of Mormon studies. In 1996, the journal changed its name to the FARMS Review with Volume 8, No 1. In 2011, the journal was renamed Mormon Studies Review.
Review of Hugh Nibley. Abraham in Egypt.

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham
ID = [433]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,nibley,old-test  Size: 8932  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:47
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “Straightening Things Out: The Use of Strait and Straight in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12 no. 2 (2003).
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Confusion between the use of strait and straight existed in Joseph Smith’s day and continues to persist today. This confusion is manifest in the spelling of the term in the original manuscript (strait preserved in 10 of 11 existing occurrences), the printer’s manuscript (all 27 instances spelled strait), and the 1830 edition (in which the compositor changed all 27 instances to straight). Through close examination of meanings, comparison to Hebrew words and usage, and analysis of poetic form, Hoskisson examines each instance of strai(gh)t in the Book of Mormon and recommends a spelling for each one.

ID = [3126]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 86164  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Jensen, Jay E. “The Precise Purposes of the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 4 no. 1 (2003).
ID = [38050]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 23958  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:13
Johnson, Clark V. “A Test of Faith: The Book of Mormon in the Missouri Conflict.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 2 (2003): 84-87, 118.
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While imprisoned in Liberty Jail in Missouri in 1839, the Prophet Joseph Smith directed the church members to gather statements and affidavits about the sufferings and abuses put on them by the people of Missouri. Of the surviving affidavits, five speak directly about the Book of Mormon as a test of faith. Several were offered their lives, property, and safety if they would deny the Book of Mormon and denounce the divine calling of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Those who refused to recant were robbed of their property, whipped, beaten, slandered, and jailed.

Keywords: Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Mormon-Missouri War of 1838; Smith; Testimony
ID = [3128]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 23778  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Jordan, Benjamin R. “Volcanic Destruction in the Book of Mormon: Possible Evidence from Ice Cores.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 78-87, 118-119.
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Third Nephi 8 preserves a written account of a natural disaster at the time of Christ’s death that many assume to have been caused by volcanic activity. In a modern-day science quest, the author examines research done on glacial ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. Ice-core records can reveal volcanic gases and ashes that are carried throughout the world—the gases are detected by measuring the acidity of the ice at various layers. Many factors influence the findings and the proposed datings of the volcanic events. The ice-core records offer some evidence, though not conclusive, of a volcanic eruption around the time of Christ’s death.

Keywords: Natural Disaster; Volcanic Eruption
ID = [3114]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 41272  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
Largely, Dennis. The Book of Mormon Reference Companion. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2003.
ID = [29966]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:30
Ludlow, Jared W., Brian M. Hauglid, and Fred E. Woods. Who Controls the Water? Yahweh vs. Baal/Justice and Mercy in the Book of Deuteronomy (Is There Mercy in the Old Testament?)/Garment of Joseph: An Update. Vol. 4 of Occasional Papers, edited by William J. Hamblin. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2003.
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Includes three papers: \"Who Controls the Water? Yahweh vs. Baal\" (Fred E. Woods), \"Justice and Mercy in the Book of Deuteronomy (Is There Mercy in the Old Testament?)\" (Jared W. Ludlow) and \"Garment of Joseph: An Update\" (Brian M. Hauglid).

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
ID = [8424]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:43
Ludlow, Victor L. Unlocking Isaiah in the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2003.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
ID = [29970]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:30
Matthews, Robert J. “Jacob: Prophet, Theologian, Historian.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 173–91. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
RSC Topics > L — P > Law of Moses
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
ID = [36163]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 41052  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Maxwell, Neal A. “The Book of Mormon.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 1–18. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36153]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 37018  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:24
McClellan, David A. “Detecting Lehi’s Genetic Signature: Possible, Probable, or Not?” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): 35-90.
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David A. McClellan provides a basic understanding of some biological principles that would be helpful to one studying the question of DNA evidence of the authenticity of the Book of Mormon. After a discussion of these fundamental principles, McClellan concludes that DNA tests can neither prove nor disprove the existence of ancient Israelites in the New World.

Keywords: DNA; Genetics; Historicity; Lehi (Prophet)
ID = [452]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 129496  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Meldrum, D. Jeffrey, and Trent D. Stephens. “Who Are the Children of Lehi?” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 38-51, 116.
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By covenanting with Abraham, God promised him that through his seed all the families of the earth would be blessed—his seed would be as leaven within bread. This metaphor can likewise be applied to the children of Lehi, who introduced the Abrahamic covenant to the much larger indigenous Mesoamerican population. The larger gene pool with which the children of Lehi assimilated makes it very likely that no genetic evidence will ever substantiate an American–Middle Eastern link, although Native American populations show a strong affinity with Asian populations. The assumption that all modern-day Native Americans are descended exclusively from Book of Mormon peoples is not required by the scriptures. The genetic link, however, may be less important than the nongenetic transmission of memes, including ideas, behaviors, information, languages, and divine kinship.

Keywords: DNA; Genetics; Lineage; Abrahamic Covenant; Ancient America; Mesoamerica
ID = [3111]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 66416  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
Morris, Larry E. “‘The Private Character of the Man Who Bore That Testimony’ Oliver Cowdery and His Critics.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): Article 17.
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Review of LaMar Petersen. The Creation of the Book of Mormon: A Historical Inquiry. Review of Robert D. Anderson. Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith: Psychobiography and the Book of Mormon. Review of Dan Vogel. “The Validity of the Witnesses’ Testimonies.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon

ID = [426]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 94295  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:46
Mouritsen, Paul. “Secret Combinations and Flaxen Cords: Anti-Masonic Rhetoric and the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 116-118.
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Some critics of the Book of Mormon claim that Joseph Smith drew certain terminology from his nineteenth-century environment. In particular, they suggest that terms such as secret society and secret combination may reflect anti-Masonic rhetoric from the period or even that the term flaxen cord has Masonic overtones. This article traces many varied uses of secret combination in nineteenth-century writings that have nothing to do with the Masons. The appearance of these terms in the Book of Mormon does not weaken the historical claims of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Anti-Mason; Early Church History; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Nineteenth-Century American History; Oaths; Rhetoric; Secret Combinations; Smith
ID = [3113]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 60883  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
Murphy, Thomas W. “Imagining Lamanites: Native Americans and the Book of Mormon.” PhD diss., Seattle: University of Washington, 2003.
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Raises questions, based on DNA, about the Book of Mormon and ancestry of American Indians.

Keywords: Native Americans, Mormon views of; Genetics
ID = [81567]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:27
Peterson, Daniel C. “Editor’s Introduction: Of ‘Galileo Events,’ Hype, and Suppression: Or, Abusing Science and Its History.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): Article 2.
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Introduction to the current issue, including editor’s picks. Peterson discusses the so-called Galileo event that some Book of Mormon critics believe will soon occur, thus expanding the separation between reli-gion and science until religion subsides to science. He also addresses the lack of Near Eastern culture among Native Americans, a common argument against the authenticity of the Book of Mormon

ID = [438]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review,peterson  Size: 121398  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:47
Peterson, Daniel C. “Prolegomena to the DNA Articles.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): 25-34.
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Peterson addresses Thomas Murphy’s criticism of the Book of Mormon and shows that Murphy does not incorporate other scholars, whether they be in favor of or against the Book of Mormon, into his research. Rather, he uses his own opinions and previous writings as the basis for his claims.

Keywords: Criticism; DNA; Genetics; Science
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [451]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,peterson  Size: 22078  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Potter, George D., and Richard Wellington. Lehi in The Wilderness; 81 new documented evidences that The Book Of Mormon is a True History. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, Inc., 2003.
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“The Book of Mormon begins with a stirring account of Lehi’s family fleeing Jerusalem through the wilderness to a new home in the America’s. For decades, scholars have scoffed at many of the locations and conditions described by Lehi’s son Nephi. This new evidence shows that Nephi’s account is completely accuracte. Two Latter-day Saints, wtih unprecedented access to the lands of the Middle East, have completed a six-year odyssey documenting the actual locations of Lehi’s journey from Jersualem to the land of Bountiful. Their discoveries give tangible proof of the locations described by Nephi in the Book of Mormon.” [Publisher]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, evidence; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, geography; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81506]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:24
Potter, George D., and Richard Wellington. Lehi in the Wilderness: 81 New, Documented Evidences that the Book of Mormon is a True History. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 2003.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [77206]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Potter, George D., and Richard Wellington. Lehi in the Wilderness: 81 New, Documented Evidences that the Book of Mormon is a True History. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 2003.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [76457]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:39
Rees, Robert A. “Irony in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 2 (2003): 20-31, 111-112.
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The Book of Mormon appears replete with examples of verbal and dramatic irony, something unlikely to have been produced intentionally by Joseph Smith with his level of rhetorical and expressive skills. Dramatic irony occurs when an exceeding young Nephi, who is large in stature, admires the exquisite sword of Laban and then grapples with the distasteful command to kill Laban with that sword. Having passed the test, Nephi has matured into a man large in stature. Dramatic irony also occurs in Abinadi’s experience with King Noah and in the similar experiences of Alma and Korihor with the power of speech and silence. Verbal irony is apparent in Lehi’s expectations for Laman to be like a river, continually running into the fountain of all righteousness, and for Lemuel to be like a valley, firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord. Nephi also refutes his older brothers’ false knowledge by reminding them of what they already know.

Keywords: Abinadi (Prophet); Alma the Younger; Irony; Joseph; Jr.; King Noah; Korihor; Nephi; Rhetoric; Smith; Sword of Laban
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3123]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 61041  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
Reynolds, Noel B. “The Book of Mormon Today.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): 5-14.
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Review of Terryl L Given. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Doctrine; Early Church History; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Scholarship; Smith; Translation
ID = [420]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 21960  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:46
Robinson, Stephen E. “Early Christianity and 1 Nephi 13–14.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 112–27. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [36160]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 34056  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Roper, Matthew P. “Nephi’s Neighbors: Book of Mormon Peoples and Pre-Columbian Populations.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): Article 8.
ID = [453]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 83920  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Roper, Matthew P. “Swimming in the Gene Pool: Israelite Kinship Relations, Genes, and Genealogy.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): 129-164.
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This article discusses the possibility that DNA is not dependable evidence either for or against the veracity of the Book of Mormon. It is difficult to ascertain whether Book of Mormon people were literal descendants of Israel and how similar those genetics are with modern Israelites. Therefore, no conclusive statements can be made concerning the DNA of Book of Mormon people.

Keywords: DNA; Genealogy; Genetics; Historicity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [454]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 80122  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Skinner, Andrew C. “The Doctrine of God the Father in the Book of Mormon.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 412–26. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > G — K > God the Father
ID = [36176]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 31328  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:26
Sorenson, John L. “A Rare Gem.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): 15-17.
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Review of Terryl L Given. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Doctrine; Historicity; Scholarship
ID = [421]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,sorenson  Size: 6489  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:46
Sorenson, John L., and Matthew P. Roper. “Before DNA.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12 no. 1 (2003).
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Critics of the Book of Mormon often cite genetic evidence in their attacks on the historicity of the text, saying that the lack of any Near Eastern–American Indian DNA links conclusively proves that no emigration ever occurred from the Near East to the Americas. Their simplistic approach—that the Book of Mormon purports to be a history of the entire American Indian race—is not supported by archaeological or Book of Mormon evidence. The authors pose and respond to questions about the geographical scene, the spread of Book of Mormon peoples, Latter-day Saint traditions about the scenes and peoples of the Book of Mormon, the terms Nephites and Lamanites, the possible presence of others in the land, ocean travel, Mesoamerican native traditions, languages of the Western Hemisphere, Old World peoples coming to the Americas, archaeological evidence, and ethnically distinct populations in ancient American art. These questions set out the social, cultural, and geographical contexts that are necessary for geneticists to understand before reaching major conclusions.

ID = [3108]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms,sorenson  Size: 104822  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
Spackman, Randall P. “Interpreting Book of Mormon Geography.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): 19-46.
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Review of John L. Sorenson. Mormon's Map.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Mesoamerica; Mormon (Prophet)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [422]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 59050  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:46
Stubbs, Brian D. “Elusive Israel and the Numerical Dynamics of Population Mixing.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): 165-182.
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This article discusses how a population’s number of pure-blooded individuals can diminish drastically to only a few percent in a few hundred years. This information suggests that it is difficult and perhaps impossible to draw any definite conclusions concerning the genetics of Native Americans in relation to the people spoken of in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: DNA; Genetics; Native Americans
ID = [455]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 41686  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Taylor, Leslie A. “The Word of God.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 52-63, 116.
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The term word of God is used in rich and varied ways in the Book of Mormon. The word of God is of great worth and is clearly identified with Christ, or the Logos. The word of God is often portrayed as a two-edged sword, is associated with creation and power, provides both comfort and discomfort, is nourishing and enlightening, and plays a role in the last days. The fundamental characteristics of the word of God are constant throughout scripture.

Keywords: Imagery; Jesus Christ; Logos; Two-Edged Sword; Word of God
ID = [3112]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 45499  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
Thomas, M. Catherine. “Types and Shadows of Deliverance in the Book of Mormon.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 280-294. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Keywords: Deliverance; Shadow; Type
ID = [36169]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books  Size: 29307  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Thomas, Mark D. “Moroni: The Final Voice.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 88-99, 119-120.
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Moroni, the final writer and compiler of the Book of Mormon, provides three endings to the book. His first ending, in Mormon 8–9, can be called a “signature ending”—the primary purpose here is to state that the writing is finished and to identify the author and his father and nation. Moroni, yet alive, provides a second ending, a “farewell ending,” in Ether 12. This type of ending both concludes the work and wishes the reader well but then warns or rejoices that the narrator will meet the reader at the final judgment. In the final farewell ending (in Moroni 10), Moroni, the lone survivor of his people, expresses joy and hope. The three endings remind latter-day readers to acknowledge the destruction of the Nephite and Jaredite nations and provide doctrinal, logical, and scriptural arguments in defense of the Book of Mormon and its doctrines.

Keywords: Farewell; Moroni (Son of Mormon)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3115]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 40148  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
Top, Brent L. “Faith Unto Repentance.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 295-315. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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In every dispensation, from Adam to the present day, the Lord’s anointed prophets have been under a divine mandate to “preach nothing save it were repentance and faith on the Lord”. The central message of the gospel of Jesus Christ is and has always been that through the Atonement of the Lamb of God, the scarlet sins of man can become “white as snow”. Without a knowledge and acceptance of what the scriptures generally, and the Book of Mormon specifically, teach about the doctrine of repentance, one may seek through self-justification to make repentance easier than it really is or through doctrinal distortion to make it more difficult than it needs to be.

Keywords: Doctrine; Faith; Gospel; Repentance
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [36170]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books  Size: 43475  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Tvedtnes, John A. “Reconstructing the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): 1-3.
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Review of M. Grald Bradford and Alison V. P. Coutts, eds. Uncovering the Original Text of the Book of Mormon: History and Findings of the Critical Text Project.

Keywords: Critical Text; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Textual Criticism; Translation
ID = [419]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 5978  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:46
Tvedtnes, John A. “One Small Step.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): Article 12.
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Review of Francis J. Beckwith, Carl Mosser, and Paul Owen. “Introductory Essay”; Thomas J. Finley. “Does the Book of Mormon Reflect an Ancient Near Eastern Background”; and David J. Shepherd. “Rendering Fiction: Translation, Pseudotranslation, and the Book of Mormon.” In The New Mormon Challenge: Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement.

ID = [429]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 121902  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:46
Tvedtnes, John A. “The Charge of ‘Racism’ in the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): Article 11.
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Some critics of the Book of Mormon reject the ancient text on account of its supposedly racist commentary. In response to these critics, this article incorporates biblical examples and traditions to show how certain words and phrases that could be seen as racist were used to illustrate a larger message

ID = [456]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 32778  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Tvedtnes, John A. “King Mosiah and the Judgeship.” Insights 23, no. 1 (2003).
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The immediate situation that prompted Mosiah to institute a system of judges to govern the Nephites was the departure of his four sons. The people asked that Aaron be appointed king, but he and his brothers had gone to the land of Nephi to preach to the Lamanites and had renounced their claims to the monarchy (see Mosiah 29:1–6).

Keywords: King Mosiah; Joseph Smith; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [66698]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:45
Unattributed. A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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“The Book of Mormon provides resounding and great answers to what Amulek designated as ’the great question’—namely, is there really a redeeming Christ? (Alma 34:5–6). The Book of Mormon with clarity and with evidence says, ’Yes! Yes! Yes!’ ” This declaration by Elder Neal A. Maxwell is the first in what might be described as a treasure trove of answers—a collection of twenty-seven though-provoking essays exploring and explaining the great truths found in the book of Mormon. Selected from more than three decades of symposia and conferences held at Brigham Young University, these essays by General Authorities and religious educators are filled with insights that will appeal to any serious student of the “keystone of our religion.” A Book of Mormon Treasury covers a wide variety of gospel topics, from “Agency and Freedom,” “Faith, Hope, and Charity,” and “The Doctrine of a Covenant People” to “Abinadi’s Commentary on Isaiah,” “The Natural Man: An Enemy to God,” and “The Concept of Hell.” Arranged to follow the order of the books in the Book of Mormon, each essay provides a deeper look into familiar doctrines, illuminating the gems of truth found within this sacred book of scripture. Among the valuable insights offered are these: “The highest and most revered purpose of the Book of Mormon is to restore to Abraham’s seed that crucial message declaring Christ’s divinity, convincing all who read its pages ’with a sincere heart, with real intent’ that Jesus is the Christ (Moroni 10:4).”—Elder Jeffrey R. Holland “Even as the criticism of the Book of Mormon continues to intensify, the book continues to testify and to diversify its displays of interior consistency, conceptual richness, and its connection with antiquity.”—Elder Neal A. Maxwell “Serious and careful study of the Fall in the Book of Mormon can drive people to their knees, bringing them to acknowledge their own weaknesses and thus their need for the Lord’s redemption. The Atonement is necessary because of the Fall, and unless people sense the effects of Eden—both cosmically and personally—they cannot comprehend the impact of Gethsemane and Calvary.”—Robert L. Millet ISBN 978-1-5903-8099-4

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Articles

Nelson, Russell M. “Jesus the Christ—Our Master and More.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 19–31. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [36154]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 24432  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:24
Oaks, Dallin H. “Agency and Freedom.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 32–46. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
ID = [36155]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28181  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:24
Holland, Jeffrey R. “Rending the Veil of Unbelief.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 47–66. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36156]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 42948  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Larsen, Dean L. “Likening the Scriptures unto Us.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 67–79. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [36157]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 25349  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Wells, Robert E. “The Liahona Triad.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 80-96. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Keywords: Allegory; Liahona
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [36158]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books  Size: 35646  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Ludlow, Daniel H. “The Title Page.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 97–111. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36159]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 24093  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Wilcox, S. Michael. “Nephi’s Message to the ‘Gentiles’” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 128-143. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Keywords: Gentile; Gospel; Holy Ghost; Jesus Christ; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Prophecy; Stumbling Block; Testimony
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gospel of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [36161]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books  Size: 32626  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Millet, Robert L. “The Natural Man.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 203–22. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
ID = [36165]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 43423  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Nyman, Monte S. “Abinadi’s Commentary on Isaiah.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 223–45. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
ID = [36166]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books  Size: 46761  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Welch, John W. “Ten Testimonies of Jesus Christ from the Book of Mormon.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 316–42. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [36171]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,welch  Size: 52030  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Draper, Richard D. “The First Coming of the Lord to the Jews.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 343–56. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [36172]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 30603  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
McConkie, Joseph Fielding. “The Doctrine of a Covenant People.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 357–77. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [36173]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 45315  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel. “One by One.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 378–88. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
ID = [36174]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 21152  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:26
Millet, Robert L. “‘This Is My Gospel’” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 389–411. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gospel of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [36175]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 49650  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:26
Judd, Daniel K. “The Spirit of Christ: A Light Amidst the Darkness.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 442–56. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
ID = [36178]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 31615  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:26
Dahl, Larry E. “Faith, Hope, and Charity.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators,, 457–70. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Charity
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Hope
ID = [36179]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28319  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:26
Welch, John W. “How Much Was Known about Chiasmus in 1829 When the Book of Mormon Was Translated?” The FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): 47-80.
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Welch shares his study of chiasmus in ancient texts. He states that Joseph Smith knew nothing of chiasmus when he was translating the Book of Mormon. Even so, Welch researches how much the scholars of 1829 knew about chiasmus to show that Joseph could not have intentionally incorporated chiasmus into his own writing.

Keywords: Chiasmus; Joseph; Jr.; Parallelism; Smith; Structure
ID = [423]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,welch  Size: 77579  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:46
Welch, John W. “Counting to Ten.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 2 (2003): 42-57, 113-114.
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The regular occurrence of things occurring ten times in the scriptures tends to relate to perfection, especially divine completion. Welch approaches this phenomenon through ten topics: perfection, worthiness, consecration, testing, justice, reverence, penitence, atonement, supplication, and ascension into the holy of holies or highest degree of heaven. The significance of the number ten in the ancient world relates to the tenfold occurrences in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Atonement; Consecration; Justice; Law of; Perfection; Reverence
ID = [3125]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,welch  Size: 70050  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
Whiting, Michael F. “DNA and the Book of Mormon: A Phylogenetic Perspective.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 24-35, 115-116.
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This paper debunks the myth that the Book of Mormon has been proved false by modern DNA evidence. Critics have tried to apply American Indian DNA-based research to the Book of Mormon without designing a study specifically for that purpose. It is extraordinarily difficult to use DNA sequence information to track the lineage of any group with such a complex lineage history as the Nephites and Lamanites. Possible hypotheses about the populations from the Book of Mormon include the global colonization hypothesis (in which the three colonizing groups came to a land void of humans) and the local colonization hypothesis (in which the land was already occupied in whole or in part by people of an unknown genetic heritage). The latter hypothesis, generally viewed by Book of Mormon scholars as a more accurate interpretation, is much more difficult to investigate by way of DNA evidence. Issues such as genetic introgression, genetic drift, and the founder effect would seriously hamper any attempt to produce a funded, peer-reviewed study of Book of Mormon genetics.

Keywords: DNA; Genetics; Phylogenetics
ID = [3109]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 66635  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
York, Carole Mikita. “With Real Intent: A Continuing Influence.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 2 (2003): 96-99.
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Carole Mikita York shares the story of the conversion of her mother first and then the rest of her family. As a young child, Carole gained a testimony that the Book of Mormon was true even before she read it.

Keywords: Conversion; Missionary Work; Testimony
ID = [3131]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 16455  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Zavale, Filipe S. “The Liahona Was My Guide.” Ensign, January 2003.
ID = [55505]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3240  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:30
Insights. “The Book of Mormon at the Bar of DNA ‘Evidence’” Insights 23, no. 2 (2003).
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On 29 January a capacity crowd gathered in the Harold B. Lee Library auditorium to hear BYU biology professor Michael F. Whiting address the topic “Does DNA Evidence Refute the Authenticity of the Book of Mormon? Responding to the Critics.” The size of the audience suggested the great interest people have in the role and limitations of DNA research in unlocking the past, especially the religious past.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Harold B. Lee Library; BYU; DNA; history
ID = [66701]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:45
Insights. “Brown Bag Report.” Insights 23, no. 2 (2003).
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On 13 November John F. Hall, professor of classical languages and ancient history at Brigham Young University, spoke about his new book, New Testament Witnesses of Christ: Peter, John, James, and Paul. The book draws on early Christian writings to show that the “four pillars” of early Christianity—Peter, John, James (the brother of Jesus), and Paul—consistently testified of the life and mission of Jesus Christ. The book is important, Hall believes, because many professing Christians, even many ministers, do not accept Christ as the literal Son of God even though the scriptures and the writings of the early church fathers are clear on the matter. In his book Hall also deals with issues of scholarly debate, such as whether the Gospel of John was the last biblical book written and whether tradition has judged Peter too harshly as a man of little faith and learning, that are illuminated by the Greek text and by an understanding of Greek culture. Hall’s book is divided into sections that review the backgrounds of the four pillars, apostolic authority, the Jewish world, and the Greek and Roman world.

Keywords: languages; ancient history; BYU; scriptures
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66702]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:45
Insights. “Institute News.” Insights 23, no. 2 (2003).
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The Institute appreciates opportunities to facilitate meaningful scholarly discussion of Mormon studies. One recent instance was its cosponsorship of a conference titled “God, Humanity, and Revelation: Perspectives from Mormon Philosophy and History,” held at the Yale University Divinity School on 27–29 March. The event featured more than two dozen scholars and authors, including several Latter-day Saints. A report of the conference will appear in the next issue of Insights.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; history; philosophy; revelation
ID = [66704]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:45
Insights. “Forthcoming Publication.” Insights 23, no. 2 (2003).
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The FARMS Review (vol. 15, no. 1), edited by Daniel C. Peterson, contains reviews of a FARMS publication titled Uncovering the Original Text of the Book of Mormon: History and Findings of the Critical Text Project, Terryl L. Givens’s study of the Book of Mormon titled By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion (published by Oxford University Press), three books on the Book of Abraham, and an evangelical critique titled The New Mormon Challenge, initially treated in the last Review. The FARMS Review (formerly FARMS Review of Books) also includes a study of what was known about chiasmus at the time the Book of Mormon was produced. Beginning with this issue is a section called “Book Notes,” in which brief descriptions of recent books will be given. Available in late April.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; religion; scripture; history
ID = [66706]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-02  Collections:  abraham,bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:45
Benson, RoseAnn. “The Book of Mormon: A Primer for Priesthood Leadership.” Religious Educator Vol. 4 no. 2 (2003).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
ID = [38046]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2003-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 28311  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:13
Christensen, Kevin. “Nephi, Wisdom, and the Deuteronomist Reform.” Insights 23, no. 2 (2003).
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Biblical scholar Margaret Barker has argued that Judaism was reformed initially in response to the discovery of the “book of the law” (2 Kings 22: 8; 2 Chronicles 34:14) in King Josiah’s time (reigned 640–609 B.C.) and later in response to the destruction of the Israelite monarchy and the experience of the exile. Those reforms were carried out by a priestly group known to scholars as the Deuteronomists, credited with editing the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings (to celebrate Josiah and to address aspects of later Jewish history) and leaving a distinct imprint on the Hebrew Bible.

Keywords: Hebrew Bible; history; Book of Mormon; tradition
ID = [66703]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:45
Olsen, Steven L. “Nephi’s Literary Endeavor.” Religious Educator Vol. 4 no. 3 (2003).
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
ID = [38527]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2003-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 20933  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:40
Roper, Matthew P. “The Baptism of Little Children in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.” Insights 23, no. 3 (2003).
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In a letter to his son Moroni, Mormon warns against the practice of baptizing little children. He identifies two false assumptions of his day used to justify infant baptism: little children are born with sin (see Moroni 8:8) and will suffer divine punishment in hell if they die without having been baptized (see Moroni 8:13). While the exact nature of this aberrant practice is unknown, it was apparently common enough among the Nephites of Mormon’s day to warrant swift and unequivocal prophetic censure. Mormon describes the rite as particularly wicked and erroneous in light of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Keywords: Moroni; Mormon; Jesus Christ; baptism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [66710]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Christensen, Kevin. “Jacob’s Connections to First Temple Traditions.” Insights 23, no. 4 (2003).
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In a previous report I showed how the Book of Mormon’s portrayal of Nephi, son of Lehi, compares favorably to a preexilic Hebrew wisdom tradition reconstructed by biblical scholar Margaret Barker.1 This report highlights further connections between the Book of Mormon and traditions from ancient Israel that Barker asserts “have been lost but for the accidents of archaeological discovery and the evidence of pre-Christian texts preserved and transmitted only by Christian hands.”

Keywords: Book of Mormon; traditions; Jacob; temple
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [66715]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Insights. “Etruscan Gold Book from 600 B.C. Discovered.” Insights 23, no. 5 (2003).
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The Bulgarian National Museum of History in Sofia, Bulgaria, recently placed on public display an ancient book comprising six pages of 23.82-karat gold (measuring 5 centimeters in length and 4.5 centimeters in width) bound together by gold rings. The plates contain a text written in Etruscan characters and also depict a horse, a horseman, a Siren, a lyre, and soldiers. According to Elka Penkova, who heads the museum’s archaeology department, the find may be the oldest complete book in the world, dating to about 600 B.C.

Keywords: museum; history; archaeology; translation; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66717]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Insights. “Institute Researchers Share Findings at LDS Apologetics Conference.” Insights 23, no. 5 (2003).
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Three Institute researchers were among the speakers at the fifth annual FAIR conference, held August 7–8 at Utah Valley State College, in Orem, Utah. Founded in 1997, the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to providing sound information and research that support the doctrine, beliefs, and practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly on matters that are challenged by unbelievers.

Keywords: conference; research; Book of Mormon; DNA evidence
ID = [66720]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Insights. “The New World Promised Land’s Economic Base.” Insights 23, no. 5 (2003).
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A majority of people in the modern world are absorbed in performing their daily work, conceived in terms of jobs, money, food, and other things practical and economic. Would it have been different for the Nephites or Lamanites? Not really. The center of their daily concerns, too, was “making a living.” But what that meant differed greatly from what we mean by the expression.

Keywords: new world; Book of Mormon; society; religion
ID = [66722]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Skousen, Royal. “A Call for Emendations.” Insights 23, no. 5 (2003).
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As I have been working on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, people have occasionally written or talked to me about passages in the Book of Mormon that seem strange or difficult. A good many have made specific suggestions about emendations (or revisions to the text). Surprisingly, a large percentage of these have ended up being correct or have led me to come up with an appropriate emendation.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; evidence; volume; FARMS; history
ID = [66723]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Tvedtnes, John A. “Confession of Sins before Execution.” Insights 23, no. 5 (2003).
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Alma 1:15 records the execution of Nehor for the murder of Gideon: And it came to pass that they took him; and his name was Nehor; and they carried him upon the top of the hill Manti, and there he was caused, or rather did acknowledge, between the heavens and the earth, that what he had taught to the people was contrary to the word of God; and there he suffered an ignominious death.

Keywords: confession; Book of Mormon; execution; scriptures
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [66718]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Insights. “New Book Offers Views of Jerusalem as Lehi Knew It.” Insights 23, no. 6 (2003).
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Nephi and his brothers referred to Jerusalem as “that great city” (1 Nephi 2:13). Their opposing views about it became a point of contention that tore Lehi’s family in two, and their memories of it influenced the cultural perspective of their descendants in the New World for dozens of generations. The people known as Lamanites longed after it as a lost paradise and named one of their lands of settlement in its honor (Alma 21:1). Among the Nephites it exemplified the dire consequences of unbelief (Helaman 8:20). But what was the Jerusalem of Lehi’s day really like?

Keywords: Nephi; Lamanites; Jerusalem; anthology; Bible
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [66726]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Insights. “Investigating New World Volcanism at the Time of Christ’s Death.” Insights 23, no. 6 (2003).
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A recent article in the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies reported that ice cores taken from Greenland and Antarctica yield evidence broadly consistent with the 3 Nephi 8 account of cataclysmic New World events—presumably including a violent volcanic eruption—at the time of Christ’s death (Benjamin R. Jordan, “Volcanic Destruction in the Book of Mormon: Possible Evidence from Ice Cores,” JBMS 12/1 [2003]: 78–87). What other methods might yield corroborating evidence of such an eruption? Two possibilities are the analysis of tree rings and sea and lake sediments.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; environment; Mesoamerica; volcanism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [66728]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Insights. “BYU Journal Explores Hebrew Law in the Book of Mormon.” Insights 23, no. 6 (2003).
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In February 2001, a conference titled “Hebrew Law in the Book of Mormon” was held at Brigham Young University under the sponsorship of FARMS (see “BYU Conference on Hebrew Law a Success,” Insights 21/4 [2001], available on the FARMS Web site). Among the papers presented there were studies by seven BYU students on aspects of ancient law that might be reflected in the Book of Mormon. These papers are now available in a special issue, copublished by FARMS, of the student journal Studia Antiqua. They treat such topics as slavery, the Noachide laws (minimum standards of social and moral conduct revealed through Noah and thus binding on all humanity), false prophecy, blasphemy and reviling, the status of women in ancient Jewish law, and legal protections for widows and the fatherless.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; law; BYU; ancient world
ID = [66730]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Insights. “Forthcoming Publications.” Insights 23, no. 6 (2003).
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The FARMS Review (vol. 15, no. 2), edited by Daniel C. Peterson, features reviews and articles on DNA issues, the Mountain Meadows massacre, and secret combinations, as well as responses to a so-called insider’s view of Mormon origins. Available February 2004.

Keywords: reviews; articles; Book of Mormon; culture
ID = [66731]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Insights. “From Other Publishers.” Insights 23, no. 6 (2003).
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Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, edited by Donald W. Parry and Emanuel Tov, presents all of the nonbiblical Qumran texts along with English translations. Published by Brill Academic Publishers of the Netherlands, this six-part edition of the nonbiblical scroll fragments is an outgrowth of the FARMS Dead Sea Scrolls database. Parts 1 (religious law), 2 (exegetical texts), and 4 (calendrical and sapiental texts) are available now; parts 3 (parabiblical texts), 5 (poetic and liturgical texts), and 6 (additional genres and unclassified texts) will be available in spring 2004.

Keywords: translations; law; text; genres
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66732]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘O Ye Fair Ones’: An Additional Note on the Meaning of the Name Nephi.” Insights 23, no. 6 (2003).
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An earlier Insights article noted a possible wordplay in the first verse of the Book of Mormon that provides internal textual evidence that the name Nephi derives from the Egyptian word nfr. While nfr denotes “good, fine, goodly” of quality, it also signifies “beautiful, fair” of appearance. Assuming that at least some senses of the Egyptian word passed into Nephite language and culture, this second sense of nfr may have influenced Nephite self-perception. Several Book of Mormon passages evidence the affiliation.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; language; culture; Lamanites
ID = [66727]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Midgley, Louis C. “New Reader’s Edition of the Book of Mormon.” Insights 23, no. 6 (2003).
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With the recent publication of The Book of Mormon: A Reader‘s Edition, Grant Hardy has provided the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with a remarkable new version of their founding text. Although Hardy gears his book to a broad readership, those who truly love the Book of Mormon, seek to be serious students of it, or both will find A Reader’s Edition well worth owning. Why? Because in this edition the text is displayed not in verse format but in discrete, sub-headed sections of greater length with ease of reading the end in view.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; scripture; translation; history
ID = [66729]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Unattributed. “The Book of Mormon.” Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation Newsletter 30 (October 2002 - February 2003): 15.
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From the Kansas City Joumal, 22 September 1878, page 4, columns 1 and 2. In 1878, Orson Pratt and Joseph F. Smith visited David Whitmer to appeal to him to give or sell the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon to them.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, manuscripts; Whitmer, David
ID = [82080]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-02-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:56
Rudd, Glen L. “The Angel Moroni.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, March 11, 2003.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [71723]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-03-11  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:04
Garn, Daryl H. “Preparing for Missionary Service.” Delivered at the Priesthood Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2003.
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How important it is for fathers and sons to work together on the basics in preparing for a mission.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [19509]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7821  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:12
Holland, Jeffrey R. “A Prayer for the Children.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2003.
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As parents we can hold life together … with love and faith, passed on to the next generation, one child at a time.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [19546]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 11872  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:13
Hooper, Gary R. “Strengthening One Another in the Community of Saints.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, April 8, 2003.
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May we enjoy our time together and take full advantage of opportunities to serve and be blessed by others.

Keywords: Strength
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69358]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-04-08  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:47
Sorensen, David E. “‘Put Away Childish Things’” Devotional, Brigham Young University, May 20, 2003.
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For any among you who have made serious mistakes and are feeling spiritually scarred, remember the words of Isaiah: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

Keywords: Life
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69365]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-05-20  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:47
Stice, Earl K. “Happily Ever After: Lessons from Joseph Smith, Lehi, and the Recent Accounting Scandals.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, May 27, 2003.
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We should not get discouraged when our careful plans and solutions don’t always lead to calm, clear sailing. Joseph Smith, Lehi, and even the Stice family have learned that “happily ever after” means pressing forward with faith, not discouragement.

Keywords: Happiness
ID = [69366]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-05-27  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:47
Bradford, William R. “Selflessness Versus Selfishness.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, June 3, 2003.
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With selflessness we demonstrate our true relationship and intimacy with the Savior. It is the link that binds together the family of God.

Keywords: Service
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69367]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-06-03  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:47
Bates, Douglas. “All Things Shall Work Together for Your Good.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Hawaii, July 24, 2003.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [70354]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-07-24  Collections:  bom,byuh-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:54
Meldrum, D. Jeffrey. “The Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.
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Keywords: DNA; Genetics; Lehi (Prophet)
ID = [32392]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 55047  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Roper, Matthew P. “Nephi’s Neighbors: Book of Mormon Peoples and Pre-Columbian Populations.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.
ID = [32395]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 81718  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Stephens, Trent D. “Evolution and Latter-day Saint Theology: The Tree of Life and DNA.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.
ID = [32385]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 39198  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Tvedtnes, John A. “The Charge of ‘Racism’ in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.
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Determined to read the Book of Mormon in purely naturalistic nineteenth century terms, rather than as an ancient text, recent criticisms of that volume of scripture are offended by some descriptions of Lamanites in the text. This is particularly true when the Nephites describe the Lamanites in pejorative terms, such as blood-thirsty, idolatrous, ferocious, idle, lazy, and filthy. The question is whether these terms can be considered “racist,” and whether supposed “racist” attitudes of the Nephites are evidence against the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Curse; Lamanite; Nephite; Racism; Skin Color
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [32386]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 24105  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Bednar, David A. “Exceedingly Valiant For Courage (Alma 53:20).” Graduation, Brigham Young University—Idaho, August 22, 2003.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [71752]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-08-22  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:04
Marsh, David Brent. “Reading His Words Together.” Ensign, September 2003.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [55777]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2003-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8363  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:32
Bednar, David A. “Steadfast and Immovable (Mosiah 5:15).” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, September 9, 2003.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [71755]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-09-09  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:04
Bradley, Carol Pratt. “Women, the Book of Mormon, and the Law of Moses.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 3, no. 2 (November, 2003): 125-171.
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The intent of this study is to provide a more complete understanding of the position and status of women in ancient Jewish law. This is intended to be a study of eternal principles, not of worldly practice, in an effort to show that the same eternal principles are at work now as in ancient times-to show that there is no inconsistency from one dispensation to another, but that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. [From the text]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, women; Doctrinal history, plural marriage; Doctrinal history, women; Law of Moses; Book of Mormon; Divorce; Doctrinal history, freedom and equality; Chastity and virtue
ID = [82051]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-11-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Knight, Gregory R. “Slavery in the Book of Mormon.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 3, no. 2 (November, 2003): 91-106.
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Because the Book of Mormon records the history of a people with roots in the Old Testament, their slavery laws and practices should exhibit some similarity to biblical slavery. This paper presents a preliminary examination of slavery in the Book of Mormon, gathering evidence that the Nephites may have had extensive knowledge of biblical slavery laws. After discussing the possible sources of this knowledge, this paper examines specific passages that suggest that Book of Mormon societies were familiar with biblical slavery laws.

Keywords: Slavery; Book of Mormon, origins
ID = [82048]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-11-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Moss, James R. “Slavery in the Book of Mormon.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 3, no. 2 (November, 2003): 51-90.
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This paper will examine relevant legal provisions and customs concerning slavery in the ancient Near East and then return to a discussion of King Benjamin’s approach to debt-slavery and his use of slavery-related concepts to reinforce his teaching that he and his people were the servants of God and each other.

Keywords: Slavery; Book of Mormon, Bible and
ID = [82049]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-11-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Smith, Hannah Clayson. “Protecting the Widows and the Fatherless in the Book of Mormon.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 3, no. 2 (November, 2003): 173-180.
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In Old Testament times, widows and the fatherless were particularly vulnerable to poverty and distress. Perhaps because women generally had no right to inherit their deceased husband’s property, the Code of the Covenant specifically protected widows (and therefore their minor children) to ensure their subsistence. This paper examines how these provisions may illuminate our understanding of passages in the Book of Mormon that relate to the treatment of widows and the fatherless by asking the following questions: Why did widows and the fatherless need special protection under Hebrew law, and what legal protections existed? What legal protections existed in Book of Mormon times for widows and the fatherless, and what were the penalties for violating the law? Which accounts in the Book of Mormon demonstrate violations of the commandment to protect widows and the fatherless, and which accounts demonstrate obedience? The answers to these questions illustrate the special status of widows and the fatherless in biblical law and in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Women, widowhood
ID = [82047]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-11-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Warby, David W. “The Book of Mormon Sheds Valuable Light on the Ancient Israelite Law of False Prophecy.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 3, no. 2 (November, 2003): 107-116.
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This paper examines how false prophets and false prophecies are identified in the Book of Mormon and compares this to what is known about Israelite law.

Keywords: Doctrinal history, prophets; Book of Mormon; Prophecies
ID = [82050]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-11-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Welch, John W. “Bibliography of Hebrew Law in the Book of Mormon.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 3, no. 2 (November, 2003): 181-5.
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A bibliography of works discussing Hebrew law in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, bibliographies; Book of Mormon, Bible and
ID = [82045]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-11-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Chandler, Clay. “Scrying for the Lord: Magic, Mysticism, and the Origins of the Book of Mormon.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36, no. 4 (Winter, 2003): 43-78.
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In this controversial article, Chandler posits that Joseph Smith employed his knowledge and use of magic in obtaining the gold plates and translating the Book of Mormon. He presents three theories in an effort to understand the many complexities known about Joseph’s translating the plates. These theories, linking magic with the creation of the Book of Mormon, run the gamut from pious deceiver to true believer and mystic. In Chandler’s view, ’magic opened a door for Joseph Smith into the world of religious mysticism and, as a tool for producing the Book of Mormon, may have set him on the path to becoming a prophet.’

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Smith, Joseph, Jr., occult; Book of Mormon, origins
ID = [81979]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:50
Leavitt, Dean H., Jonathon C. Marshall, and Keith A. Crandall. “The Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36, no. 4 (Winter, 2003): 133-150.
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“A culture’s level of scientific understanding significantly influences how its religious texts are interpreted. The interplay between scientific discovery and scriptural understanding has been controversial throughout history. For example, the Catholic church’s response to scholars who disproved the geocentric understanding of the universe is well known. The studies of geology, astronomy, and organic evolution have all caused numerous problems with literal interpretations of the Biblical account of creation. Similarly, the Book of Mormon, a sacred text for a number of American religions, has been subject to reinterpretation in light of new scientific understanding. Its particular account of the history of the American continent has been intensely examined since its introduction by Joseph Smith, Jr., in the mid-nineteenth century.” [Author]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Historic archaeology, Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon; Genetics
ID = [81982]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Murphy, Thomas W. “Simply Implausible: DNA and a Mesoamerican Setting for the Book of Mormon.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36, no. 4 (Winter, 2003): 109-132.
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“While DNA shows that ultimately all human populations are closely related, to date no intimate genetic link has been found between ancient Israelites and indigenous Americans, much less within the time frame suggested by the Book of Mormon. Instead of lending support to an Israelite origin as posited by Mormon scripture, genetic data have confirmed already existing archaeological, cultural, linguistic, and biological data, pointing to migrations from Asia as ’the primary source of American Indian origins.’”

Keywords: Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon, Native Americans and; Native Americans, origins of; DNA; Genetics
ID = [81981]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Price, Robert M. “Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36, no. 4 (Winter, 2003): 89-96.
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DID JOSEPH SMITH WRITE the Book of Mormon? To this over-familiar question the orthodox Latter-day Saint answer is a resounding “No” because the official belief is that a series of men with quasi-biblical names wrote the book over many centuries.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Smith, Joseph
ID = [81980]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-12-01  Collections:  bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:50
2004
Ensign. “Testimonies of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign January 2004.
ID = [55906]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 6234  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:32
Ensign. “Book of Mormon Times at a Glance, Chart 1: Ether and 1 Nephi through Mosiah.” Ensign January 2004.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [55908]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 19824  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:32
Insights. “Review Responds to Distortions of DNA Evidence, Mormon Origins.” Insights 24, no. 1 (2004).
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The latest issue of the FARMS Review (vol. 15, no. 2, 2003) responds in full measure to two works challenging the historicity of the Book of Mormon and the foundational events of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. The contributing scholars not only expose fatal flaws in the critics’ arguments and methods but also provide background information and perspectives that readers will find instructive. In addition, this issue of the Review evaluates several other recent publications in Mormon studies and includes a Book of Mormon bibliography for 2002.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; BYU; DNA; origins
ID = [66734]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Insights. “Lecture Report.” Insights 24, no. 1 (2004).
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On 10 October 2003, Father Columba Stewart presented an Institute-sponsored lecture at BYU titled “The Practices of Egyptian Monastic Prayer: Desert, Cell, and Community.” Fr. Stewart is a Benedictine monk of St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, where he is professor of theology at St. John’s School of Theology and teaches monastic studies. He is also the interim director of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, which is working closely with the Institute on its manuscript preservation projects in the Middle East and Ethiopia.

Keywords: Mesoamerica; mythology; BYU; scriptures
ID = [66736]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Insights. “Publications.” Insights 24, no. 1 (2004).
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FARMS Occasional Papers, Volume 4, edited by Jared Ludlow (BYU–Hawaii) and Larry E. Morris, contains articles by three BYU professors and focuses on the polemical use of water and storm language in the Deuteronomic History (Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, and 1 and 2 Kings), justice and mercy in the book of Deuteronomy, and the garment of Joseph.

Keywords: FARMS Review; ancient texts; BYU; volume
ID = [66738]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Adams, William James, Jr. “Nephi’s Written Language and the Standard Biblical Hebrew of 600 B.C.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 245—58. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
Old Testament Topics > Literary Aspects
ID = [39692]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Ball, Terry B., and Wilford M. Hess. “Agriculture in Lehi’s World: Some Textual, Historical, Archaeological, and Botanical Insights.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 149—92. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Flora and Fauna
ID = [39690]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Barker, Margaret. “What Did King Josiah Reform?” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 523—42. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
ID = [39701]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Barney, Kevin L. “An Elegant Presentation.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 1 (2004): 1-10.
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Review of Grant Hardy, ed. The Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition.

Keywords: Education; Formatting; Scripture Study; Structure
ID = [458]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 21682  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Barrionuevo, Mark A. “Of Adams and Gardens: The Book of Mormon as American Gothic Literature.” Master’s thesis, Washington, DC: Georgetown University, 2004.
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The author looks at the Book of Mormon as a form of fiction and deconstructs many literary forms that are prevalent in American Gothic culture.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, American setting; Mormon literature, American setting
ID = [81543]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:26
Brown, S. Kent. Voices from the Dust: Book of Mormon Insights. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2004.
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“The six studies in this volume share a common focus on persons who made a remarkable difference in Book of Mormon history. Beginning with the all-important founding generation of the Lehite peoples and their epic journey across Arabia, and ending with the last known survivor of the Nephite-Lamanite wars of the fourth century A.D., these studies attempt to set both heroes and heroines of the Book of Mormon narrative within their times, bringing their world to life… In all, these studies take Book of Mormon students into places where few studies have ventured, probing possibilities, that enrich our understanding of people who made a difference, who kept their faith, and who believed that God has orchestrated events in their lives.” [Author]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Study; Book of Mormon, geography; Book of Mormon, commentaries; Moroni (Book of Mormon figure); Lehi (Book of Mormon figure); King Benjamin (Book of Mormon figure); Nephi (Book of Mormon figure); Mormon (Book of Mormon figure)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [81469]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:22
Brown, S. Kent. “Jerusalem Connections to Arabia in 600 B.C.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 625—46. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Geography
Old Testament Topics > History
ID = [39706]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Bybee, Ariel E. “A Woman’s World in Lehi’s Jerusalem.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 131—48. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Customs, Culture, and Ritual
Old Testament Topics > History
Old Testament Topics > Women in the Old Testament
ID = [39689]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “Lehi’s House in Jerusalem and the Land of His Inheritance.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 81—130. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
Old Testament Topics > Geography
Old Testament Topics > History
Old Testament Topics > Israel, Scattering and Gathering
Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
ID = [39688]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Christensen, Kevin. “Truth and Method: Reflections on Dan Vogel’s Approach to the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 1 (2004): 287-354.
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Kevin Christensen responds to Dan Vogel’s views against the authenticity of the Book of Mormon. Vogel claims that the Book of Mormon cannot be a translated text because there were numerous influences surrounding Joseph Smith that could have motivated him to write the book on his own. Christensen and Vogel have responded to each other’s claims previously; this article is a continuation of that debate.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon; Criticism; Historicity; Mesoamerica; Native Americans
ID = [471]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 144976  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:49
Christensen, Kevin. “The Deuteronomist De-Christianizing of the Old Testament.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): 59-90.
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Review of Melodie Moench Charles. “The Mormon Christianizing of the Old Testament.” In The Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture

Keywords: Criticism; Deuteronomist Reforms; Jerusalem (Old World); Lehi (Prophet); Temple Theology; Theology
ID = [480]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,old-test  Size: 69779  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:49
Christensen, Kevin. “The Temple, the Monarchy, and Wisdom: Lehi’s World and the Scholarship of Margaret Barker.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 449—22. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
Old Testament Topics > Temple and Tabernacle
ID = [39700]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Christenson, Allen J. “Linguistic Puzzles Still Unresolved.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): 107-111.
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Review of Robert A. Pate. Mapping the Book of Mormon: A Comprehensive Geography of Nephite America.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Linguistics; Mesoamerica
ID = [482]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 10189  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:49
Clark, John E. “Searching for Book of Mormon Lands in Middle America.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): 1-54.
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Review of Joseph L. Allen. Sacred Sites: Searching for Book of Mormon Lands and Review of James Warr. A New Model for Book of Mormon Geography.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Central America; Mesoamerica
ID = [478]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 109842  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:49
Clark, John E. “Archaeology and Cumorah Questions.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13, no. 1-2 (2004): 144-151, 174.
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The archaeology of New York—and specifically the Hill Cumorah—is persuasive evidence that Book of Mormon peoples did not live in that region. By implication, the Cumorah of the golden plates is not the Cumorah of the final battles—Mormon’s hill and Moroni’s hill are not one and the same. These conclusions follow from a few basic points and assumptions that the author explores in this article.

Keywords: Ancient America; Archaeology; Cumorah; Hill Cumorah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3148]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 33281  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Faulring, Scott H., Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds. Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2004.
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The latter-day restoration of the gospel included the restoration of much significant truth to the Bible. It brought about the restoration of biblical history that had been lost and the restoration of biblical texts that had been changed or omitted or were in need of clarification. More important, it included the restoration of biblical doctrine that had been either removed, distorted, or simply misinterpreted by a world that did not enjoy the fulness of the gospel.
Shortly after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint was organized, the Prophet Joseph Smith was instructed by the Lord to undertake a careful reading of the Bible to revise and make corrections in accordance with the inspiration that he would receive. The result was a work of profound significance for the Church that included the revelation of many important truths and the restoration of many of the “precious things” that the Book of Mormon prophet Nephi had foretold would be taken from the Bible (1 Ne. 13:23–29). In June 1830 the first revealed addition to the Bible was set to writing. Over the next three years, the Prophet made changes, additions, and corrections as were given him by divine inspiration while he filled his calling to provide a more correct translation for the Church. Collectively, these are called the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), a name first applied in the 1970s, or the New Translation, as Joseph Smith and others in his day referred to it.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Joseph Smith Translation (JST), Primary Manuscripts and Parallel Editions
Old Testament Topics > Bible: Joseph Smith Translation (JST)
ID = [2464]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,rsc-books,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:48
Faust, James E. “The Keystone of Our Religion.” Ensign, January 2004.
ID = [55905]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 10334  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:32
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “2003 Book of Mormon Bibliography.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): Article 23.
ID = [1317]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 17361  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:42
Gardner, Brant A. “An Exploration in Critical Methodology: Critiquing a Critique.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): 173-223.
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Review of Earl M. Wunderli. “Critique of a Limited Geography for Book of Mormon Events.” Dialogue 35/3 (2002): 161–97.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Book of Mormon Geography - Hemispheric; Book of Mormon Geography - Limited Geography; Mesoamerica; Methodology
ID = [487]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 111185  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:50
Gates, Crawford. “The Delights of Making Cumorah’s Music.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13, no. 1-2 (2004): 70-77.
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As a missionary in the Eastern States Mission, Crawford Gates participated in the Hill Cumorah Pageant in 1941. Although he loved the music and considered it appropriate to the Book of Mormon scenes of the pageant, he thought then that the pageant needed its own tailor-made musical score. Twelve years later he was given the opportunity to create that score. Gates details the challenge of creating a 72-minute musical score for a full symphony orchestra and chorus while working full time as a BYU music faculty member and juggling church and family responsibilities. When that score was retired 31 years later, Gates was again appointed to create a score for the new pageant. He relates further experiences arising from that assignment.

Keywords: Cumorah; Hill Cumorah; Hill Cumorah Pageant; Missionary Work; Music
ID = [3141]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 24555  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Gee, John. “Egyptian Society during the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 277—98. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > History
ID = [39694]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Gee, John. “A Seething Pot in the North: International Affairs Leading Up to Lehi’s Day.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 543—60. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
Old Testament Topics > History
ID = [39702]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Gerritsen, Allen P. “The Hill Cumorah Monument: An Inspired Creation of Torleif S. Knaphus.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13, no. 1-2 (2004): 124-135, 173.
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From the time the church acquired the property comprising the Hill Cumorah, artist and sculptor Torleif S. Knaphus had often spoken to the Brethren about creating a monument on that hallowed hill. His testimony of the restoration of the gospel created a desire to honor in a tangible way the sacred event of the angel Moroni’s visit to Joseph Smith and Moroni’s eventual transfer of the gold plates to Joseph for translation. This article chronicles Knaphus’s upbringing, artistic development, and conversion to the church. The design and creation of the Hill Cumorah monument were his consuming passion for five years and a rare opportunity to add his testimony to the great latter-day work. He was commissioned to create many statues and bas-reliefs for the church, some of which are featured in a sidebar to this article.

Keywords: Angel Moroni; Cumorah; Hill Cumorah; Monument
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3146]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 33304  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Goff, Alan. “Positivism and the Priority of Ideology in Mosiah-First Theories of Book of Mormon Production.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 1 (2004): 11-36.
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Review of Brent Lee Metcalfe. “The Priority of Mosiah: A Prelude to Book of Mormon Exegesis.” In New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology, and Review of Edwin Firmage Jr. “Historical Criticism and the Book of Mormon: A Personal Encounter.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon, and Review of Susan Staker. “Secret Things, Hidden Things: The Seer Story in the Imaginative Economy of Joseph Smith.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon

Keywords: Criticism; Early Church History; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Seerstones; Smith; Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [459]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 58683  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Hallen, Cynthia L., and Josh Sorenson. “What’s in a Word?: Pairs and Merisms in 3 Nephi.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13 no. 1 (2004).
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Cynthia Hallen invited students in her History of the English Language course to search for conjoined word pairs in the scriptures as a term project. They searched for pairs of words linked with conjunctions in order to better understand the meaning of selected set expressions in the King James Bible and the Book of Mormon. Hallen summarizes and comments on their research.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [3149]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 31770  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Hendel, Ronald S. “The Nephilim Were on the Earth: Genesis 6:1-4 and its Ancient Near Eastern Context.” In The Fall of the Angels, edited by C. Auffarth and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, 11-34. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources
ID = [4600]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:42
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “What’s in a Name?: The Name Cumorah.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13 no. 1 (2004).
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Unlike the case of some place-names in the Book of Mormon, the book does not explain how the land and the hill Cumorah received their designation in the Nephite record. The name Cumorah lends itself to several possible etymological explanations, which Hoskisson discusses in this article.

ID = [3150]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 26624  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Judd, Frank F., Jr. “The Most Correct Book.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): Article 8.
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Review of Ed J. Pinegar and Richard J. Allen. Teachings and Commentaries on the Book of Mormon.

ID = [483]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 7577  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:49
Judkins, Benjamin N. “Recent Trends in Book of Mormon Apologetics: A Critical Assessment of Methodological Diversity and Academic Viability.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 1 (2004): 75-97.
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This article discusses the evolvement of Book of Mormon apologetics. Although Book of Mormon scholarship was originally intended for an exclusively Latter-day Saint audience, it has since broadened to address a more scholarly and secular audience.

Keywords: Apologetics; Evidence; Methodology; Scholarship
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Largey, Dennis L. “The Book of Mormon Reference Companion.” Religious Educator Vol. 5 no. 1 (2004).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
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McConkie, Bruce R. “This Generation Shall Have My Word through You.” In Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants, ed. Craig K. Manscill, 35–47. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
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Nibley, Hugh W. Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004. xxxviii + 333 pp.
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New to this edition is Gary Gillum’s “Hugh Nibley: Scholar of the Spirit, Missionary of the Mind”; the bibliography has been dropped.
The essays in this volume, including four on today’s world, were selected by a panel of Hugh Nibley’s colleagues. They are singular in their penetration, their originality, and their vitality. Reaching from the apocalyptic visions of original “treasures in heaven” down to the climax of history, they are more than mind-stretching. The delight of Nibley’s brilliant and sometimes biting prose style imparts a sense of the agelessness of what he calls the “three-act play” of human existence. Written specially for this book, the author’s own “intellectual autobiography,” together with his introductory paragraphs for the various chapters, complete the work of making the book a fitting and permanent record of one of the past outstanding historians

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Criticisms, Apologetics
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Gillum, Gary P. “Hugh Nibley: Scholar of the Spirit, Missionary of the Mind.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, vii–xviii. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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Reprinted in Hugh Nibley Observed.
Breaking down Hugh Nibley’s attributes into broad categories in order to talk about Bro. Nibley in his own context.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing
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Madsen, Truman G. “Foreword to the First Edition.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, xix–xxviii. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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Thoughts on Hugh Nibley, his personality, and his works.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Personal Appreciations
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Nibley, Hugh W. “An Intellectual Autobiography: Some High and Low Points.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 281–99. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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Reprinted in Eloquent Witness: Nibley on Himself, Others, and the Temple, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 17, and in .
Hugh Nibley’s search for things of import by the decades, and what he discovered.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Autobiographical
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Nibley, Hugh W. “To Open the Last Dispensation: Moses Chapter 1.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 1–22. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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After all these years, it comes as a surprise for me to learn that the book of Moses appeared in the same year as the publication of the Book of Mormon, the first chapter being delivered in the very month of its publication. And it is a totally different kind of book, in another style, from another world. It puts to rest the silly arguments about who really wrote the Book of Mormon, for whoever produced the book of Moses would have been even a greater genius. That first chapter is a composition of unsurpassed magnificence. And we have all overlooked it completely. The Joseph Smith controversy is silly for the same reason the Shake­speare controversy is silly. Granted that a simple countryman could not have written the plays that go under the name of Will Shakespeare, who could? If that man is hard to imagine as their author, is it any easier to imagine a courtier, or a London wit, or a doctor of the schools, or, just for laughs, a committee of any of the above as the source of that mira­culous outpouring? Joseph Smith’s achievement is of a different sort, but even more staggering: he challenged the whole world to fault him in his massive sacred history and an unprecedented corpus of apocalyptic books. He took all the initiative and did all the work, withholding noth­ing and claiming no immunity on religious or any other grounds; he spreads a thousand pages before us and asks us to find something wrong. And after a century and a half with all that material to work on, the learned world comes up with nothing better than the old discredited Solomon Spaulding story it began with. What an astounding tribute to the achievement of the Prophet that after all this time and with all that evidence his enemies can do no better than that! Even more impressive is the positive evidence that is accumulating behind the book of Moses— which includes fragments from books of Adam, Noah, and Enoch; for in our day ancient books that bear those names are being seriously studied for the first time in modern history, and comparison with the Joseph Smith versions is impressing leading scholars in the field. But even without external witnesses, what a masterpiece we have in that first chapter of the book of Moses! Consider the below.

Keywords: Abraham (Prophet); Adam (Prophet); Apocalypse of Abraham; Apocrypha; Combat of Adam; Deliverance; Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Moses (Prophet); Plan of Salvation; Prophet; Satan; Smith; Translation
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 1
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Nibley, Hugh W. “The Expanding Gospel.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 23–52. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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Originally printed in BYU Studies (1965). Reprinted in Temple and Cosmos: Beyond This Ignorant Present, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 12.
Moses takes us back to the beginning, but which beginning? Nothing in the restored gospel is more stimulating to the inquiring mind than the infinitely expanded panorama of time and space it spreads before us. Our existence is viewed not as a one-act play, beginning with instantaneous creation of everything out of nothing and ending with its dissolution into the immaterial nothing from which it came (as St. Jerome puts it), but as a series of episodes of which, for the present, we are allowed to view only a few. The play has always been going on and always will be: the man Adam played other roles and was known by different names before he came here, and after his departure from mortal life, he assumes other offices and titles. Even in this life, everyone changes from one form to another, gets new names and callings and new identities as he or she plays his or her proverbial seven parts, always preserving identity as the same conscious living being. The common religion of the human race centers around that theme: the individual and the society pass from one stage of life to another not by a gradual and imperceptible evolution but by a series of abrupt transformations, dramatized the world over in rites of passage, of which birth and death are the prime examples, coming not unannounced but suddenly and irresistibly when the time is ripe. Other passages, as into puberty and marriage, follow the same pattern. In such a perspective of eternity, the stock questions of controversy between science and religion become meaningless. When did it all begin; can you set a date? Were there ever humanlike creatures who did not belong to the human race? (There still are!) How old is the earth? the universe? How long are they going to last? What will we do in heaven forever? And so on. Nothing is settled yet, not only because the last precincts are never heard from in science and their report always comes as a shocker but because we are far from getting the last word in religion either. For us the story remains open-ended, at both ends, in a progression of beginnings and endings without beginning or end, each episode proceeding from what goes before and leading to the next. The Absolutes of the University of Alexandria, of which the doctors of the Christians and the Jews were completely in the thrall from the fourth century on, simply do not exist for Latter-day Saints. Instead of that, they have a much bigger book to study; it is time they were getting with it.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Doctrines, Principles > Plan of Salvation, Terrible Questions
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Treasures in the Heavens.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 53–93. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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Reprinted as “Treasures in the Heavens” in Old Testament and Related Studies, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 1, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 171–214.
A complex and rich study of the cosmology of the Christian world, which is compared to other similar sources. — Midgley. As Christianity has been deeschatologized and demythologized in our own day; so in the fourth century it was thoroughly dematerialized, and ever since then, anything smacking of “cosmism” that is, tending to associate religion with the physical universe in any way has been instantly condemned by Christian and Jewish clergy alike as paganism and blasphemy. Joseph Smith was taken to task for the crude literalism of his religion not only talking with angels like regular people but giving God the aspect attributed to Him by the primitive prophets of Israe, and, strangest of all, unhesitatingly bringing other worlds and universes into the picture. Well, some of the early Christian and Jewish writers did the same thing; this weakness in them has been explained away as a Gnostic aberration, and yet today there is a marked tendency in all the churches to support the usual bloodless abstractions and stereotyped moral sermons with a touch of apocalyptic realism, which indeed now supplies the main appeal of some of the most sensationally successful evangelists. Over a century ago, J.-P. Migne argued that the medieval legends of the Saints were far less prone to mislead the faithful than those scientifically oriented apocrypha of the Early Church, since the former were the transparent inventions of popular fantasy that could never lead thinking people astray, while the latter, by their air of factual reporting and claims to scientific plausibility, led the early Christians into all manner of extravagant speculation, drawing the faithful astray in many directions. To appreciate the strength of their own position, Latter-day Saints should not be without some knowledge of both these traditions. Since the “cosmist” doctrines have been almost completely neglected, here we offer a look at some of them.

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Science > Cosmology, Creation, Treasures in the Heavens
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Subduing the Earth: Man’s Dominion.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 95–110. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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The essays in this volume, including four on today’s world, were selected by a panel of Hugh Nibley’s colleagues. They are singular in their penetration, their originality, and their vitality. Reaching from the apocalyptic visions of original “treasures in heaven” down to the climax of history, they are more than mind-stretching. The delight of Nibley’s brilliant and sometimes biting prose style imparts a sense of the agelessness of what he calls the “three-act play” of human existence. Written specially for this book, the author’s own “intellectual autobiography,” together with his introductory paragraphs for the various chapters, complete the work of making the book a fitting and permanent record of one of the past outstanding historians
Ever since the days of the Prophet Joseph, presidents of the Church have appealed to the Saints to be magnanimous and forbearing toward all of God’s creatures. But in the great West, where everything was up for grabs, it was more than human nature could endure to be left out of the great grabbing game, especially when one happened to get there first, as the Mormons often did. One morning, just a week after we had moved into our house on Seventh North, as I was leaving for work, I found a group of shouting, arm-waving boys gathered around the big fir tree in the front yard. They had sticks and stones, and in a state of high excitement were fiercely attacking the lowest branches of the tree, which hung to the ground. Why? I asked. There was a quail in the tree, they said in breathless zeal, a quail! Of course, said I, what is wrong with that? But don’t you see, it is a live quail? A wild one! So they just had to kill it. They were on their way to the old B. Y. High School and were Boy Scouts. Does this story surprise you? What surprised me was when I later went to Chicago and saw squirrels running around the city parks in broad daylight; they would not last a day in Provo. Like Varro’s patrician friends, we have taught our children by precept and example that every living thing exists to be converted into cash, and that whatever would not yield a return should be quickly exterminated to make way for creatures that do. (We have referred to this elsewhere as the Mahan Principle; Moses 5:31.) I have heard influential Latter-day Saints express this philosophy. The earth is our enemy, I was taught does it not bring forth noxious weeds to afflict and torment man? And who cared if his allergies were the result of the Fall, man’s own doing? But one thing worried me: if God were to despise all things beneath Him, as we do, where would that leave us? Inquiring about today, one discovers that many Latter-day Saints feel that the time has come to put an end to the killing.

Keywords: Abraham (Prophet); Adam (Prophet); Cain; Dominion; Enoch (Prophet); Israel; Joseph; Jr.; Moses (Prophet); Noah (Prophet); Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 4
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Adam, Eve
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Stewardship, Creation, Earth, Environment
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Genesis of the Written Word.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 111–41. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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Reprinted from the Commissioner’s Lecture Series, 1972.
An examination of writing as a gift from God and as a vehicle for the preservation and communication of knowledge of divine things.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Language > Records, Writing
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Nibley, Hugh W. “The Sacrifice of Isaac.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 143–61. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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The essays in this volume, including four on today’s world, were selected by a panel of Hugh Nibley’s colleagues. They are singular in their penetration, their originality, and their vitality. Reaching from the apocalyptic visions of original “treasures in heaven” down to the climax of history, they are more than mind-stretching. The delight of Nibley’s brilliant and sometimes biting prose style imparts a sense of the agelessness of what he calls the “three-act play” of human existence. Written specially for this book, the author’s own “intellectual autobiography,” together with his introductory paragraphs for the various chapters, complete the work of making the book a fitting and permanent record of one of the past outstanding historians
When I was in high school, everybody was being very smart and emancipated, and we always cheered the news that some scholar had discovered the original story of Samson or the Flood or the Garden of Eden in some ancient nonbiblical writing or tradition. It never occurred to anybody that these parallels might confirm rather than confound the scripture. For us the explanation was always perfectly obvious: the Bible was just a clumsy compilation of old borrowed superstitions. As comparative studies broke into the open field, parallels began piling up until they positively became an embarrassment. Everywhere one looked, there were literary and mythological parallels. Trying to laugh them off as “parallelomania” left altogether too much unexplained. In the 1930s, English scholars started spreading out an overall pattern that would fit almost all ancient religions. Finally, men like Graves and Santillana confront us with huge agglomerations of somehow connected matter that sticks together in one loose, gooey mass, compacted of countless resemblances that are hard to explain but equally hard to deny. Where is this taking us? Will the sheer weight and charge of the stuff finally cause it to collapse on itself in a black hole, leaving us none the wiser? We could forego the obligation of explaining it and content ourselves with contemplating and admiring the awesome phenomenon for its own sake were it not for one thing: Joseph Smith spoils everything. A century of bound periodicals in the stacks will tell the enquiring student when scholars first became aware of the various elements that make up the superpattern, but Joseph Smith knew about them all, and before the search ever began, he showed how they are interrelated. In the documents he has left us, you will find the central position of the Coronation, the tension between matriarchy and patriarchy, the arcane discipline for transmitting holy books through the ages, the pattern of cycles and dispensations, the nature of the mysteries, the great tradition of the Rekhabites or sectaries of the desert, the fertility rites and sacrifices of the New Year with the humiliation of the kind and the role of substitute, and so forth. Where did he get the stuff? It would have been convenient for some mysterious rabbi to drop in on the penniless young farmer when he needs some high-class research, but George Foote Moore informs us that “so far as evidence goes, apocalyptic things of that sort were without countenance from the exponents of what we may call normal Judaism.” Take, for example, the tradition that the sacrifice of Isaac merely followed the scenario of an earlier sacrifice of Abraham himself. Nobody has heard of that today until you tell them about it, when, of course, they shrug their shoulders and tell you that they knew about it all along. Which prompts me to recommend a simple rule for the ingenuous investigator: always ask the expert to tell you the story first. I have never found anyone who could tell me the Joseph Smith Abraham story, and the apocrypha records which report it have all been published since his day. Today the story of Abraham casts a new light on the story of Isaac. Here is some of it.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Bible > Old Testament > Characters > Abraham, Sarah, Abram, Sarai
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham > Characters > Abraham, Sarah, Abram, Sarai
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Nibley, Hugh W. “The Book of Mormon: A Minimal Statement.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 163–68. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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The following statement was written on request for a journal that is published in eight languages and, therefore, insists on conciseness and brevity: “Teaching a Book of Mormon Sunday School class ten years later, I am impressed more than anything by something I completely overlooked until now, namely, the immense skill with which the editors of the book put the thing together. The long book of Alma, for example, is followed through with a smooth and logical sequence in which an incredible amount of detailed and widely varying material is handled in the most lucid and apparently effortless manner. Whether Alma is addressing a king and his court, a throng of ragged paupers sitting on the ground, or his own three sons—each a distinctly different character—his eloquence is always suited to his audience, and he goes unfailingly to the peculiar problems of each hearer.Throughout this big and complex volume, we are aware of much shuffling and winnowing of documents and informed from time to time of the method used by an editor distilling the contents of a large library into edifying lessons for the dedicated and pious minority among the people. The overall picture reflects before all a limited geographical and cultural point of view: small, localized operations, with only occasional flights and expeditions into the wilderness; one might almost be moving in the cultural circuit of the Hopi villages. The focusing of the whole account on religious themes, as well as the limited cultural scope, leaves all the rest of the stage clear for any other activities that might have been going on in the vast reaches of the New World, including the hypothetical Norsemen, Celts, Phoenicians, Libyans, or prehistoric infiltrations via the Bering Straits. Indeed, the more varied the ancient American scene becomes—as newly discovered artifacts and even inscriptions hint at local populations of Near Eastern, Far Eastern, and European origin—the more hospitable it is to the activities of one tragically short-lived religious civilization that once flourished in Mesoamerica and then vanished toward the northeast in the course of a series of confused tribal wars that was one long, drawn-out retreat into oblivion. Such considerations would now have to be included in any ‘minimal statement’ this reader would make about the Book of Mormon.”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Churches in the Wilderness.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 169–201. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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Originally printed in An Approach to the Book of Mormon (1957).
Long before the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, Robert Eisler called attention to the existence of societies of ancient sectaries, including the early Christians, who fled to the desert and formed pious communities there after the manner of the order of Rekhabites (Jeremiah 35). More recently, E. Kdsemann and U. W. Mauser have taken up the theme, and the pope himself has referred to his followers as “the Wayfaring Church,” of all things. No aspect of the gospel is more fundamental than that which calls the Saints out of the world; it has recently been recognized as fundamental to the universal apocalyptic pattern and is now recognized as a basic teaching of the prophets of Israel, including the Lord Himself. It is the central theme of the Book of Mormon, and Lehi’s people faithfully follow the correct routine of flights to the desert as their stories now merge with new manuscript finds from the Dead Sea and elsewhere. And while many Christian communities have consciously sought to imitate the dramatic flight into the wilderness, from monastic orders to Pilgrim fathers, only the followers of Joseph Smith can claim the distinction of a wholesale, involuntary, and total expulsion into a most authentic wilderness. Now, the Book of Mormon is not only a typical product of a religious people driven to the wilds (surprisingly we have learned since 1950 that such people had a veritable passion for writing books and keeping records) but it actually contains passages that match some of the Dead Sea Scrolls almost word for word. Isn’t that going a bit too far? How, one may ask, would Alma be able to quote from a book written on the other side of the world among people with whom his own had lost all contact for five hundred years? Joseph Smith must have possessed supernatural cunning to have foreseen such an impasse, yet his Book of Mormon explains it easily: Alma informs us that the passages in question are not his, but he is quoting them directly from an ancient source, the work of an early prophet of Israel named Zenos. Alma and the author of the Thanksgiving Scroll are drawing from the same ancient source. No wonder they sound alike.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Dead Sea Scrolls
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Mahaway, Mahujah, Mahijah
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Nibley, Hugh W. “The Haunted Wilderness.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 203–31. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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Exactly at noon on the winter solstice of 1964, the writer stood at the entrance of an artificially extended cave at the place then called Raqim (now Sahab), a few miles south of Amman. He stood with Rafiq Dajani, brother of the minister of antiquity for Jordan, who had just begun important excavations on the spot and duly noted that the sun at that moment shone directly on the back wall of the cave—a feat impossible at any other time of the year. The ancient picture of a dog painted on the cave wall had dimly suggested to the local inhabitants and a few scholars in an earlier generation the story of the dog who guarded the Cave of the Seven Sleepers (which title hundreds of caves claimed), but nobody took it very seriously. Beneath Byzantine stones, older ruins were coming to light, suggesting that the place may have been another Qumran, a settlement of early Christian or even Jewish sectaries of the desert; the region around was still all open country, mostly bare rocky ground. There it was, the beginning of an excavation that might turn up something exciting. Professor Dajani had read the article below in manuscript form and obligingly took me to the place, where I took some pictures, which were published in the Improvement Era. Compare those pictures with what you find there today! Twelve years later, I returned to the spot with a tour group in excited anticipation of the wonders I would now see laid bare. What we found was that the excavations, far from being completed, had actually been covered up, all but the cave; on the spot was rising the concrete shell of a huge new mosque, and a large marble slab before the cave proclaimed in Arabic and English that this was the Cave of the Seven Sleepers. The spot was being converted into a major Muslim shrine; our Christian Armenian guide was worried sick that there would be an incident and, at first, hotly refused to stop the bus anywhere near the place. Naturally, I went straight for the cave and was met at the entrance by a venerable Mullah and his assistant, who were selling candles. I said I wanted to see the holy dog, and they led me to the back of the cave, where the wall was completely covered by a large old commode, through the dirty glass windows of which they pointed out some ancient brown bones and their prize: the actual jawbone of the holy dog. A relic had usurped the place of the picture. So there it was: what had been a few scattered ruins, lying deserted and completely ignored on the heath, was now being promoted as a booming cult center, rapidly foundering in the encroaching clutter of suburban real estate enterprises. To a student of John Chrysostom, nothing could be more instructive; it had taken just twelve years to set up an ancient and hopefully profitable center of pilgrimage. So you see, all sorts of things go on in the haunted desert, as this article will show.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Dead Sea Scrolls > Characters > Seven Sleepers, Companions of the Cave
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Their Portrait of a Prophet.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 233–48. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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In 1977 two full-length biographies of Joseph Smith appeared, both more of the same with a little more added. They all continue to miss the point: why is Joseph Smith worth writing about? Only, apparently, because the Mormons are still going strong. He was once thought interesting as a picturesque, even fantastic, frontier character, but now that it has become the fashion to explain him away as a perfectly ordinary guy, even that has been given up. But do ordinary guys do what Joseph Smith did ? It is as if the biographers of Shakespeare were to go on year after year digging up all the details of his rather ordinary life, omitting only that, incidentally, he was credited with writing some remarkable plays. The documents which Joseph Smith has placed in our hands are utterly unique; if you doubt it, please furnish an example to match the books of Moses and Abraham, any book of the Book of Mormon, or for that matter, Joseph Smith’s own story. No one since Eduard Meyer has pointed out how closely Joseph’s productions match those of the prophets of Israel; no one but he and E. A. W. Budge have had the knowledge to detect familiar overtones from ancient apocryphal writings in Joseph Smith’s revelations and his autobiography. From the first deriding of the Book of Mormon before 1830 to the latest attacks on the Book of Abraham, the approach has always been the same: “Considering who Smith was and the methods he used, it is hardly worth the trouble to examine the writings which he put forth as holy scriptures and ancient histories.” And so his work remains unread by his critics, and the greatest of all literary anomalies remains not only unexplained but unexamined. But why should his critics not see in Joseph Smith only what they choose to see, since the Mormons themselves do the same?
An example of what some scholars may believe about Joseph Smith and how anyone can manipulate stories into whatever fits their purpose.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Joseph Smith > Criticisms, Apologetics
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Educating the Saints.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 249–80. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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Originally printed as “Educating the Saints: A Brigham Young Mosaic“ in BYU Studies in 1970.
The compelling mystique of those franchise businesses that in our day have built up enormous institutional clout by selling nothing but the right to a name was anticipated in our great schools of Education, which monopolized the magic name of Education and sold the right to use it at a time when the idea of a “School of Education” made about as much sense as a class in Erudition or a year’s course in Total Perfection. The whole business of education can become an operation in managerial manipulation. In “Higher Education,” the traffic in titles and forms is already long established: The Office, with its hoarded files of score sheets, punched cards, and tapes, can declare exactly how educated any individual is, even to the third decimal. That is the highly structured busywork which we call education today. But it was not Brigham Young’s idea of education. He had thoughts which we have repeated from time to time with very mixed reception on the BYU campus. Still, we do not feel in the least inclined to apologize for propagating them on the premises of a university whose main distinction is that it bears his name.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Brigham Young
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Education, Learning
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Zeal without Knowledge.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 281–99. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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Reprinted in Approaching Zion, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 9. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 63–84.
“This talk was given on request as part of the celebration of Academic Emphasis Week. Once a year, for a whole week, our students are free
to turn their minds to things of an intellectual nature without shame or embarrassment. After this cerebral saturnalia, the young people mostly return to their normal patterns: concealing the neglect of hard scholarship by the claim to spirituality and strict standards of dress and grooming. Yet from time to time a student will confess to wayward twinges of
thought and find himself wondering, “If ‘The Glory of God Is Intelligence’ (our school motto) might there not be some possible connection between intelligence and spirituality?” Under temporary license from
the Academics Committee, we have presumed to touch upon this sensitive theme.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Education, Learning
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Beyond Politics.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 301–28. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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A talk originally given on 26 October 1973 to the Pi Sigma Alpha society in the Political Science Department at BYU.
In most languages, the Church is designated as that of the last days, so this speech—which is only a pastiche of quotations from its founders—is unblushingly apocalyptic. Did our grandparents overreact to signs of the times? For many years, a stock cartoon in sophisticated magazines has poked fun at the barefoot, bearded character in the long nightshirt carrying a placard calling all to “Repent, for the End is at Hand.” But where is the joke? Ask the smart people who thought up the funny pictures and captions: Where are they now?

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Government, Politics
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1.” Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988–1989. Provo, UT: Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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482 pp. Transcripts of 29 lectures.
Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon
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Talks

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 1—Book of Mormon—Like Nothing Else.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 1—10. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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An introduction to Hugh Nibley’s Teachings of the Book of Mormon class.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Book of Mormon Translation
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Ancient Near East
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 2—Book of Mormon—Nephi’s Heritage.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 11—22. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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There are certain things about the Book of Mormon that we must notice at the beginning to get off on the right foot. . . . The opening of the Book of Mormon concerns our people, and it concerns also our world. To start, this lecture looks at the biographical nature of 1 Nephi and moves on to Nephi’s heritage and legacy.

Keywords: Nephi (Son of Lehi)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Ancient Near East
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 3—Book of Mormon—Geopolitics 600 BC.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 23—34. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “Geopolitics and the Rule of Tyrants, 600 B.C.“
There is nothing more rmarkable about the Book of Mormon than its cultural history. It is loaded with details that give us an insight into the culture of a particular people. It describes three distinct cultures, and it describes them vividly. A look into why 600 B.C. is considered by historians to be the “pivotal year“ and what that means for the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Politics
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Ancient Near East
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 4—Book of Mormon—600 B.C.: Setting the Stage.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 35—46. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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One thing to make a hort remark about is the evidence for the Book of Mormon. They talk so much about archaeological evidence that always comes up where the Book of Mormon is mentioned. If you want proof of the Book of Mormon, you must go to the Old World. You won’t find it in the New World.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Archaeology; Jerusalem (Old World)
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Ancient Near East
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 5—Book of Mormon—Jeremiah and Solon: Lehi’s Contemporaries.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 47—58. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “Insights from Lehi’s Contemporaries: Solon and Jeremiah.“
Lehi and his great contemporaries started a lot of chain reactions. We don’t mention them just because they were interesting curiosities, or anything like that, but because we are still living on their capital.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Jeremiah (Prophet); Jerusalem (Old World); Solon
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Ancient Near East
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 6—Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 1 and Jeremiah 29, Lehi’s Jerusalem.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 59—72. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “Souvenirs from Lehi’s Jerusalem.“
Lehi had full baggage. Remember, his people were especially prepared to transfer the culture from one world to the other. We want to find out first what happened to Jeremiah because that’s very much in the story of Lehi. The reason we are bringing this up is that there are some marvelous documents that have appeared “out of the blue“ right from Lehi’s day.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Jerusalem (Old World); Laban (Old World); Lachish Letters; Nephi (Son of Lehi)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 1 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 7—Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 1 and Jeremiah.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 73—84. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “The Days of King Zedekiah: ’There Came Many Prophets.’“
Nephi has the four qualities that Matthew Arnold attributes to Homer. The Book of Mormon has them; I don’t know anything else that has them. If you were to be asked, “What is the significance of the Lachish Letters for the Book of Mormon?“ They are immensely important.

Keywords: Jeremiah (Prophet); Jerusalem (Old World); Lachish Letters; Lehi (Prophet)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 1 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 8—Book of Mormon—1 Nephi, Escape from Doom.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 85—96. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Let’s review quickly the first book of Nephi.

Keywords: Ancient America; Arabia; Lachish Letters; Lehi (Prophet); Prophecy; Theophany
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 1 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 9—Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 1—3, 15.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 97—110. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “In the Wilderness.“
The Book of Mormon is a handbook; it’s everything. It’s all in there, far more than you think.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Arabia; Bar Kokhba Letters; Copper Scroll; Dead Sea Scrolls; Wilderness
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 1 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 10—Book of Mormon—Dead Sea Scrolls.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 111—22. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “The Book of Mormon and the Dead Sea Scrolls.“
Now we are going to talk about the Book of Mormon and the Jews in the light of the new discoveries (the Dead Sea Scrolls).

Keywords: Bar Kokhba Letters; Copper Scroll; Dead Sea Scrolls
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Ancient Near East
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Dead Sea Scrolls
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 11—Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 4—7, Scripture and Family.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 123—36. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Keywords: Ishmael; Ishmael\'s Daughters; Ishmael\'s Wife; Jerusalem (Old World); Laban; Lachish Letters; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Sacrament; Serekh Scroll; Sons of Ishmael; Zoram (Servant of Laban)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 1 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 12—Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 8—11, The Tree of Life.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 137—50. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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A discussion about the Tree of Life.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Copper Scroll; Dream; Jerusalem (Old World); Lehi (Prophet); Tree of Life; Vision
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 1 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 13—Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 12—14, Nephi’s Vision.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 151—64. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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We were noting that chapter ten of 1 Nephi deals with the Jaws. Chapter eleven does something else. Chapter twelve deals with the New World version: Israel in the New World, the Book of Mormon people. Chapter thirteen deals with the Gentiles and the whole world; it takes the world view.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Dream; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Promised Land; Prophecy; Tree of Life; Vision
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 1 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 14—Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 15—16.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 165—78. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “The Liahona and Murmurings in the Wilderness.“
We start out with the last place to look if we want to find information. It starts out, “I returned to the tent of my father.“

Keywords: Arabia; Laman (Son of Lehi); Lemuel (Son of Lehi); Liahona; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Wilderness
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 1 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 15—Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 17—19, 22; Toward the Promised Land.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 179—92. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Now, we’ve got the seventeenth chapter, the seventh verse, when the Lord says, you will make a boat: “Thou shalt construct a ship.“ He didn’t have time to scout around for the necessary metals. The Lord told him, I can tell you where to get them. We said they were adept in ores: where to find ores, and how to make the bellows.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Arabia; Laman (Son of Lehi); Lemuel (Son of Lehi); Nephi (Son of Lehi); Shipbuilding; Transoceanic Voyage
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 1 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 16—Book of Mormon—2 Nephi 1—4, Atonement.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 193—206. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “’Encircled . . . in the Arms of His Love’: Oneness with God and the Atonement.“
We start out with 2 Nephi, and we really get into some pretty deep stuff.

Keywords: Atonement; Promised Land
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 2 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 17—Book of Mormon—2 Nephi 2, The Law and The Atonement.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 207—20. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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We are on the second chapter of 2 Nephi, perhaps the hardest chapter in the book. It’s about the Law of Moses.

Keywords: Atonement; Law of Moses
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 2 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 18—Book of Mormon—2 Nephi 3—8.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 221—34. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “Lehi’s Family: Blessings and Conflict.“
2 Nephi 3 is a genealogical chapter, and it has strange phenomena in it which occur in genealogy all the time.

Keywords: Brass Plates; Genealogy; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Psalm of Nephi; Skin Color; Temple Worship
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 2 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 19—Book of Mormon—2 Nephi 9 The Atonement and Judgment.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 235—48. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “Jacob’s Teachings on the Atonement and Judgment.“
The Book of Mormon was hand-delivered by an angel. There’s every evidence that it was, so let’s look at it.

Keywords: Atonement; Jacob (Son of Lehi); Judgment
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 2 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 20—Book of Mormon—2 Nephi 25, The Jews and Jerusalem.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 249—60. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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We have come to those chapters where Nephi talks about Isaiah. He gives his explanation in chapter 25, and that’s what interests us.

Keywords: Isaiah (Book); Isaiah (Prophet); Native Americans; Prophecy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 2 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 21—Book of Mormon—2 Nephi 25—28, Nephi’s Prophecy of Our Times.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 261—74. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Now, Nephi is in his prophetic vein, and he is going to take us all the way.

Keywords: Nephi (Son of Lehi); Prophecy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 2 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 22—Book of Mormon—2 Nephi 29—31, Scripture and Canon.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 275—88. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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We are on 2 Nephi 29. The Lord is talking about when He sets His hand again in these last days the second time to recover His people. There are no “God’s privileged people.“ He loves one as much as the other.

Keywords: Apocrypha; Canon; Prophecy; Pseudepigrapha
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 2 Nephi
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 23—Book of Mormon—2 Nephi 32—33; Jacob 1—2.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 289—302. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “Rejecting the Word of God.“
We are on 2 Nephi 32, and are things going downhill fast. Here’s the first generation that has already gone bad, and Nephi is just terribly depressed. He ends on a down note, and then his brother Jacob takes it up.

Keywords: Atonement; Jacob (Son of Lehi); Nephi (Son of Lehi); Strait and Narrow Path
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > 2 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Jacob
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 24—Book of Mormon—Jacob 3—4, Filthiness and the Atonement.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 303—17 Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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We’re on the book of Jacob. I’ve decided that more than any book in the Book of Mormon this has the ring of absolute truth, historical and everything else.

Keywords: Atonement; Jacob (Son of Lehi)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Jacob
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 25—Book of Mormon—Jacob 5—7; Enos.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 317—29 Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “The Olive Tree; The Challenge of Sherem.“
In the fourth chapter of Jacob he rings the gong in verses 13 and 14. What he is talking about here is absolutely basic. Notice that verse 13 is one philosophy of life, and verse 14 is the other philosophy of life.

Keywords: Allegory of the Olive Tree; Enos (Son of Jacob); Jacob (Son of Lehi); Sherem; Zenos (Prophet)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Jacob
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Enos
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 26—Book of Mormon—Enos, Jarom, Omni.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 329—42 Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “The Struggle of Enos.“
Enos is an important book. It’s just one chapter, you notice, but what a chapter!

Keywords: Enos (Son of Jacob); Jarom (Son of Enos); Omni (Son of Jarom)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Enos
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Jarom
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Omni
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 27—Book of Mormon—Omni, Words of Mormon, Mosiah 1.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 343—56 Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Also called “The End of the Small Plates; The Coronation of Mosiah.“
Well, now we’ve got to the point where in one verse they take care of the history of a larger people than the Nephites. It simply says they crossed the ocean and landed here, and that was that.

Keywords: Amaleki (Son of Abinadom); King Benjamin; King Mosiah; Mosiah the Elder; Mulekite; Phoenicians; Small Plates of Nephi
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Omni
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Words of Momon
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Mosiah
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 28—Book of Mormon—Mosiah 1—2, King Benjamin’s Speech.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 357—70 Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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What we have here is a very good lesson on the subject of fear and trembling.

Keywords: King Benjamin; King Benjamin' s Speech
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Mosiah
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 29—Book of Mormon—Mosiah 3—5, King Benjamin’s Speech.” In Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 , 371—84 Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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King Benjamin’s speech and why it’s important, part 1.

Keywords: Covenant; King Benjamin; King Benjamin' s Speech
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Books > Mosiah
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lectures 1—10.” Lectures 1—10 in Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lectures 11—20.” Lectures 11—20 in Teachings of the Book of Mormon - Part 1. Transcripts of lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990 Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Norton, Don E., Jr. “A Reader’s Library.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13 no. 1 (2004).
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Both Norton and Taylor review the volume Book of Mormon Reference Companion, edited by Dennis L. Largey and published by Deseret Book.

ID = [3151]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 23219  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Oman, Nathan B. “‘Secret Combinations’ A Legal Analysis.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 1 (2004): Article 6.
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This article addresses the belief that the account of secret combinations in the Book of Mormon is a satire on Masonry. Many scholars claim that the term secret combinations was exclusively used in the 1820s to refer to Masonry. However, Nathan Oman points out that this term was also used in legal situations to refer to criminal conspiracies.

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Packer, Cameron J. “Cumorah’s Cave.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13 no. 1 (2004).
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The significance of the Hill Cumorah in the restoration of the gospel goes beyond its identification as the ancient repository of the metal plates known as the Book of Mormon. In the second half of the 19th century, a teaching about a cave in the hill began surfacing in the writings of several leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In their view, the hill was not only the place where Joseph Smith received the plates but also their final repository, along with other sacred treasures, after the translation was finished. This article cites ten different accounts, all secondhand, that refer to this cave and what was found there. The author includes a comparison of the accounts that discusses additional records in the cave, God’s dominion over Earth’s treasure, miraculous dealings of God, and the significance of the presence of the sword of Laban.

Keywords: Cave; Cumorah; Early Church History; Gold Plates; Hill Cumorah; Joseph; Jr.; Miracle; Smith; Sword of Laban; Treasure
ID = [3139]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 39302  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Peterson, Daniel C. “On the New World Archaeological Foundation.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 1 (2004): 221-233.
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Some critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have claimed that the church has funded several failed archaeological expeditions in an effort to prove the veracity of the Book of Mormon. As Daniel C. Peterson points out, however, such excursions have not been failures. On the contrary, they have produced significant evidence to support the Book of Mormon, and there is still more to be discovered.

Keywords: Ancient America; Archaeology; Mesoamerica
ID = [469]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,peterson  Size: 28744  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:49
Peterson, Daniel C. “Editor’s Introduction: ‘In the Hope That Something Will Stick’ Changing Explanations for the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): Article 2.
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A slightly different version of this essay was first presented at the 2002 conference of the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR; see www.fair-lds.org), in Provo, Utah. It represents a sketch for what I hope will eventually become a more detailed study of the varying counterexplanations that have been offered for the Book of Mormon.

ID = [477]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review,peterson  Size: 55846  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:49
Peterson, Daniel C., and Matthew P. Roper. “Ein Heldenleben? On Thomas Stuart Ferguson as an Elias for Cultural Mormons.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 1 (2004): Article 12.
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Review of Stan Larson. Quest for the Gold Plates: Thomas Stuart Ferguson’s Archaeological Search for the Book of Mormon.

ID = [465]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review,peterson  Size: 105991  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Pike, Dana M. “Israelite Inscriptions from the Time of Jeremiah and Lehi.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 193—244. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
Old Testament Topics > Literary Aspects
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Raish, Martin H. “Encounters with Cumorah: A Selective, Personal Bibliography.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13, no. 1-2 (2004): 38-49, 169-170.
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This bibliographic article identifies descriptions of the Hill Cumorah that go beyond Joseph Smith’s account. The author includes firsthand reports of the hill’s appearance at the time the sacred events took place and accounts by visitors who focus on emotional, spiritual, poetic, or nostalgic aspects of their experience. Some of the featured descriptions are written by James Gordon Bennett, Oliver Cowdery, Orson Pratt, George Q. Cannon, Susa Young Gates, photographer George E. Anderson, and Anthony W. Ivins. Taken together, the accounts enrich our understanding and appreciation of the Hill Cumorah and the role it played in the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. This article includes recommendations for post–World War II studies on the hill and a sidebar that discusses a clue to the history of the name Cumorah being associated with the hill near Palmyra.

Keywords: Bibliography; Cumorah; Hill Cumorah; Joseph; Jr.; NY; Palmyra; Restoration; Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3138]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 60674  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Revillo, Carlos C. “Book of Mormon Principles: Favored of the Lord.” Ensign, January 2004.
ID = [55909]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 6817  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:32
Ricks, Stephen D. “Testaments: The Literary Riches of the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): 55-57.
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Review of David E. Bokovoy and John A. Tvedtnes. Testaments: Links between the Book of Mormon and the Hebrew Bible.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Apologetics; Linguistics; Literature
ID = [479]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 6361  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:49
Roper, Matthew P. “Limited Geography and the Book of Mormon: Historical Antecedents and Early Interpretations.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): 225-275.
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This article discusses how geographical theories about the Book of Mormon have developed. Whereas many of the early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints speculated that the Book of Mormon took place throughout all of the Americas, many present members and scholars believe it took place in the more specific region known as Mesoamerica.

Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon Geography - Hemispheric; Book of Mormon Geography - Limited Geography; Book of Mormon Geography - Mesoamerica; Early Church History; Hill Cumorah; Joseph; Jr.; Orson; Pratt; Smith; Zelph
ID = [495]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 115388  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:50
Roper, Matthew P. “Was Aminadab a Zoramite?” Insights 24, no. 1 (2004).
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In one of the more moving narratives found in the Book of Mormon, a group of Lamanites are miraculously prevented from killing the prophets Nephi and Lehi in a prison. The Lamanites and Nephite dissenters are then redeemed from their own spiritual bondage when they are converted to Christ.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Lehi; Nephite; language
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Satterfield, Bruce K. “The Divine Justification for the Babylonian Destruction of Jerusalem.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 561—94. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > History
Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
ID = [39703]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Scanlon, Rory R. “Designing Costumes for the Hill Cumorah Pageant.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13, no. 1-2 (2004): 78-87, 171.
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The costume design for the Hill Cumorah Pageant reflects a strong understanding of the physical and artistic needs of the production as well as a good grasp of the historical setting of the Book of Mormon. Through a rich blending of theatrical techniques, the pageant dramatically re-creates scriptural episodes to underscore the wisdom of human agency based on moral choice—a message made poignantly relevant by the historical realism conveyed in large part by authentic costuming. This article explores the physical challenges of creating costumes for an outdoor drama and the historical research that influences the costume construction while staying true to the message of the script.

Keywords: Clothing; Cumorah; Hill Cumorah; Hill Cumorah Pageant; Historicity
ID = [3142]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 37625  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Schade, Aaron P. “The Kingdom of Judah: Politics, Prophets, and Scribes in the Late Preexilic Period.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 299—336. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > History
ID = [39695]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Seely, David Rolph. “Sacred History, Covenants, and the Messiah: The Religious Background of the World of Lehi.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 381—420. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Covenant [see also Ephraim, Israel, Jews, Joseph]
Old Testament Topics > History
ID = [39698]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Seely, David Rolph, and Fred E. Woods. “How Could Jerusalem, ‘That Great City,’ Be Destroyed?” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 595—610. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > History
Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
ID = [39704]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Seely, David Rolph, and Jo Ann H. Seely. “Lehi and Jeremiah: Prophets, Priests, and Patriarchs.” Rev. ed. in Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 357—80. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [39697]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Seely, David Rolph, and Robert D. Hunt. “Dramatis Personae: The World of Lehi.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 41—64. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
ID = [39686]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Seely, David Rolph, Jo Ann H. Seely, and John W. Welch. “Introduction.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, ix-xvi. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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Keywords: Jerusalem (Old World)
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Seely, Jo Ann H. “‘Bringing Them Out of the Land of Jerusalem.’ A Photo Essay.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 65—80. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
ID = [39687]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Skousen, Royal. Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Volume 4: Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, 1st Edition. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2004.
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Note: This is the first edition of this book set. The second edition is available here. Parts 1-6 are offered as a six-book set from BYU Studies while supplies last. Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon gives readers detailed access to the central task of Professor Royal Skousen’s Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, the most comprehensive effort ever undertaken to recover the original English-language text of the Book of Mormon. The books in this set consider every significant textual change that has occurred in the English Book of Mormon over the 187 years since Joseph Smith first dictated it to his scribes; it also considers a number of conjectural emendations for specific words or passages. These six large books total 4,060 pages.

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Snow, Steven E. “Book of Mormon Principles: The Sweet Fruits of Obedience.” Ensign, January 2004.
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Sorensen, A. Don. “The Problem of the Sermon on the Mount and 3 Nephi.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): Article 9.
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Review of William D. Russell. “A Further Inquiry into the Historicity of the Book of Mormon.” Sunstone, September–October 1982, 20–27.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Stott, G. St. John. “Amerindian Identity, the Book of Mormon, and the American Dream.” Journal of American Studies of Turkey 19 (2004): 21-33.
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“In 1829 William Apess (1798-1839) published his autobiography, Son of the Forest, in which he foresaw Native Americans flocking to accept Christianity and ’occupy[ing] seats in the kingdom’ before his white readers would (O’Connell 51). The following year—but without any knowledge of Apess’ work — Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-44) published the Book of Mormon, in which he foresaw the same, and indeed went further. As well as anticipating their conversion, Smith envisioned Native Americans both building an American New Jerusalem and acting as God’s scourge, executing divine judgment on an apostate United States (Stott “New Jerusalem” 75-76). Unlike those of his generation whose valuation of Indianness ’went hand in hand with the dispossession and conquest of actual Indian people’ (Deloria 182), Smith foresaw the dispossession and conquest of the whites. The work’s radicalism should not be exaggerated : it would mix eighteenth-century environmentalism with the covenant theology of the Old Testament, and Smith would have no qualms in reporting that the dark coloration of Native Americans was evidence of a curse. Nevertheless, that he made no attempt in his early thought to follow precedent and appropriate the Abrahamic myth for European Americans, but instead saw God working through the American Indian, is remarkable. It is fully understandable that Apess, a Pequot brought up by white families and converted to Methodism, would talk of Christianity as a means to the redemption of his people; less so that Smith would argue that the future of white America depended on the continent’s native population. In what follows I begin with the curse and move to the eschatology in order to explain Smith’s reasons for thinking so, and for believing — only fifty years after the Revolution — that the American Dream was morally bankrupt.” [Author]

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., Native Americans and; Book of Mormon, Native Americans and; Native Americans; Native Americans, Mormon views of
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Szink, Terrence L. “Jerusalem in Lehi’s Day.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): 149-159.
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Review of John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, eds. Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Jerusalem (Old World); Lehi (Prophet)
ID = [485]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 24228  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:50
Thompson, Jeffrey Paul, and John W. Welch. “The Rechabites: A Model Group in Lehi’s World.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 611—24. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > History
ID = [39705]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Thompson, John S. “Lehi and Egypt.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 259—76. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
ID = [39693]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Tvedtnes, John A. The Most Correct Book: Insights from a Book of Mormon Scholar. Springville, UT: Horizon, 2004.
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Can Early Chinese Maritime Expeditions Shed Light on Lehi’s Voyage to the New World?” The FARMS Review 16, no. 1 (2004): 427-428.
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Review of Gavin Menzies. 1421, the Year China Discovered America.

Keywords: China; Far East; Ship; Transoceanic Voyage
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Reinventing the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): 91-106.
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Review of Brent Lee Metcalfe. “Reinventing Lamanite Identity.” Sunstone

Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography - Limited Geography; DNA; Genealogy; Genetics; Historicity; Lamanite
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Isaiah in the Bible and the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): 161-172.
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Review of David P. Wright. “Isaiah in the Book of Mormon: Or Joseph Smith in Isaiah.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon

Keywords: Isaiah (Prophet); Joseph; Jr.; King James Bible; Smith; Textual Variants; Translation
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [486]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,old-test  Size: 29216  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:50
Washburn, J. A. An Approach to the Study of the Book of Mormon Geography. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004.
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“This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.” [Publisher]

Keywords: Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon; Historical geography; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81535]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:26
Welch, John W. “The Trial of Jeremiah: A Legal Legacy from Lehi’s Jerusalem.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 337—56. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [39696]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Welch, John W. “The Calling of Lehi as a Prophet in the World of Jerusalem.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 421—48. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
Old Testament Topics > Prophets and Prophecy
ID = [39699]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Welch, John W., and Robert D. Hunt. “Culturegram: Jerusalem 600 B.C.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 1—40. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
ID = [39685]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Welch, John W., David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, eds. Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
Old Testament Topics > Symposia and Collections of Essays
ID = [30093]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,mi,old-test,welch  Size:   Children: 23  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Woodford, Robert J. “The Articles and Covenants of the Church of Christ and the Book of Mormon.” In Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants, ed. Craig K. Manscill, 103–116. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
ID = [36126]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 31587  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:23
Insights. “FARMS Symposium Opens Window on Lehi’s World.” Insights 24, no. 2 (2004).
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FARMS’s publication earlier this year of Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem was a significant milestone in Book of Mormon studies. The prodigious effort marshaled the research talents of 19 BYU scholars in a multidisciplinary reconstruction of Lehi’s Old World environment. Those who acquaint themselves with this groundbreaking research will read 1 Nephi with new eyes—with a greater awareness of the sociocultural context and lifeways of Lehi’s world.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; BYU; FARMS Symposium; Lehi
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [66742]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Insights. “Nibley Fellowship Program.” Insights 24, no. 2 (2004).
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Each year at about this time we remind graduate students about the Nibley Fellowship Program and its application deadline. Named in honor of Hugh Nibley, this program provides financial aid to students enrolled in accredited PhD programs in areas of study directly related to the work and mission of the Institute, particularly work done under the name of FARMS—studies of the Book of Mormon, the Book of Abraham, the Old and New Testaments, early Christianity, ancient temples, and related subjects. Applicants cannot be employed at the Institute or be related to an Institute employee.

Keywords: program; financial aid; scriptures; application
ID = [66744]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-02  Collections:  abraham,bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Edwards, Boyd F. “Does Chiasmus Appear in the Book of Mormon by Chance?” BYU Studies 43, no. 2 (2004): 103.
ID = [11520]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 56599  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Hardy, Grant R. “Of Punctuation and Parentage.” Insights 24, no. 2 (2004).
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As is well known, when the words of the Book of Mormon were translated “by the gift and power of God,” there was no punctuation at all in the early manuscripts, and that is the way the translated text was delivered to E. B. Grandin’s print shop. Type-setter John Gilbert reported that when he sat down to prepare the text for publication, “every chapter . . . was one solid paragraph, without a punctuation mark, from beginning to end.”¹ So he added punctuation and paragraphing as he went along. He did a good job, especially for someone reading the book for the first time, but there are a few sentences that could have been punctuated in more than one way, with slightly different results. Since the punctuation of the Book of Mormon does not enjoy the same revealed status as the words themselves, it may be worth considering some of the alternatives.

Keywords: punctuation; manuscripts; text; Book of Mormon
ID = [66741]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Insights. “Patrick Henry, Gideon, and the Book of Mormon.” Insights 24, no. 3 (2004).
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Historian Richard L. Bush-man, responding to accusations that the Book of Mormon contains “evidence of nineteenth-century American political culture,” concluded that in fact “most of the principles tradition-ally associated with the American Constitution are slighted or disregarded altogether” in the book. “So many of the powerful intellectual influences operating on Joseph Smith failed to touch the Book of Mormon.”

Keywords: Book of Mormon; tradition; Joseph Smith; philosophy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66749]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:47
Insights. “Forthcoming Publications.” Insights 24, no. 3 (2004).
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Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part 1,by Royal Skousen, is the first part of volume 4 of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. Covering the title page through 2 Nephi 10, it analyzes every significant variant in the original and printer’s manuscripts and in 20 important editions of the Book of Mormon (from the 1830 edition to the 1981 edition). The task of this volume is to use the earliest textual sources and patterns of systematic usage to recover the original English-language text. Available August 2004.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; texts; volume; language
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [66752]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:48
Insights. “Restoring the Original Text of the Book of Mormon.” Insights 24, no. 4 (2004).
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Elegantly produced and weighing in at 652 pages, the first part of volume 4 in Professor Royal Skousen’s ongoing Book of Mormon critical text project has just come from the press. Volumes 1 and 2, containing transcripts of the original manuscript and the printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon, were published by FARMS in 2001. Volume 3, which will describe the history of the Book of Mormon text from Joseph Smith’s original dictation through the current standard editions, will appear after all parts of volume 4 have been published. Volume 3 will include a complete analysis of the grammatical editing of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; transcript; Joseph Smith; original text
ID = [66754]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:48
Insights. “Herculaneum Papyri Project Catalyzes New Oxford Society.” Insights 24, no. 4 (2004).
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Brigham Young University’s Herculaneum papyri project continues to gain support among American and European scholars. The project’s director, Roger T. Macfarlane, an associate professor of classics at BYU, was invited to serve on the organizing board of the nascent Herculaneum Society, which was inaugurated in Oxford, England, on 3 July 2004. The society promotes inter-national attention on scholarship and fund-raising related to the ancient town of Herculaneum and its Villa of the Papyri. Together with David Arm-strong, a classics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Macfarlane will direct the North American division of the Herculaneum Society. “There is no secret,” he says, “that the society is eager to capitalize on our project’s success.”

Keywords: BYU; Herculaneum Society; scholarship; documentary
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66757]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:48
Insights. “Forthcoming Publications.” Insights 24, no. 4 (2004).
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies(vol. 13, nos. 1–2), edited by S. Kent Brown, is a special double issue devoted to the Hill Cumorah. Studies include the geologic history and archaeology of the area, early accounts of a cave in the hill, the Hill Cumorah Pageant (its history, music, and costuming), Latter-day Saint poetry, the Hill Cumorah Monument, a linguistic analysis of the name Cumorah, and the earliest photographs of the hill. Available late fall 2004.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; journals; studies; history
ID = [66759]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:48
Faulring, Scott H. “An Examination of the 1829 ‘Articles of the Church of Christ’ in Relation to Section 20 of the Doctrine and Covenants.” BYU Studies 43, no. 4 (2004): 57-91.
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The 1829 “Articles of the Church of Christ” is a little-known antecedent to section 20 of the Doctrine and Covenants. This article explores Joseph Smith’s and Oliver Cowdery’s involvement in bringing forth these two documents that were important in laying the foundation for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Section 20 was originally labeled the “Articles and Covenants.” It was the first revelation canonized by the restored Church and the most lengthy revelation given before the first priesthood conference was held in June 1830. Scriptural commentators in recent years have described the inspired set of instructions in section 20 as “a constitution for the restored church.” In many respect, the Articles and Covenants was the Church’s earliest General Handbook of Instructions. Although Latter-day Saints typically associate the Articles and Covenants with the organization of the Church on April 6, 1830, this regulatory document had roots in earlier events: in the earliest latter-day revelations, in statements on Church ordinances and organization from the Book of Mormon, and in the preliminary set of Articles written by Oliver Cowdery in the last half of 1829.

Keywords: Articles and Covenants; Church Administration; Church Organization; Cowdery; Early Church History; Handbook; Oliver; Revelation
ID = [11490]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-04  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies,d-c  Size: 46663  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Skousen, Royal. “The Pleading Bar of God.” Insights 24, no. 4 (2004).
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Near the end of his life, the prophet Nephi referred to the day of judgment and declared that we, the readers of the Book of Mormon, will stand face to face with him before the bar of Christ (2 Nephi 33:11). Similarly, the prophets Jacob and Moroni referred to meeting us when we appear before “the pleasing bar” of God to be judged.

Keywords: Nephi; pleasing bar; original manuscript; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [66756]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:48
Insights. “The Michigan Relics Revisited.” Insights 24, no. 5 (2004).
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One of the most enduring archaeological hoaxes, the Michigan relics, a series of copper, slate, and clay forgeries, were “discovered” throughout counties in Michigan from the late 19th century until 1920. James Scotford and Daniel Soper apparently worked together to create and sell the forgeries. Scholars and archaeologists were skeptical from the outset, but interest in the objects persisted. In 1911 James E. Talmage studied the relics, recognizing the impact they could have on the perception of the Book of Mormon if they were genuine. In a detailed report, Talmage dismissed them as blatant forgeries.

Keywords: Michigan; Book of Mormon; relics; archeology
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66762]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:48
Insights. “Forthcoming Publications.” Insights 24, no. 5 (2004).
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies(vol. 13, nos. 1–2), edited by S. Kent Brown, is a special double issue devoted to the Hill Cumorah. Studies include the geologic history and archaeology of the area, early accounts of a cave in the hill, the Hill Cumorah Pageant (its history, music, and costuming), Latter-day Saint poetry, the Hill Cumorah Monument, a linguistic analysis of the name Cumorah, and the earliest photographs of the hill. Available December 2004.

Keywords: journal; Book of Mormon; studies; history
ID = [66767]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:48
Hardy, Grant R. “2 Nephi 26 and 27 as Midrash.” Insights 24, no. 5 (2004).
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Nephi was the only Book of Mormon author to receive what might be called a classical Hebrew education. He had ambivalent feelings about his training—indeed, he specifically noted that the tradition would end with himself: “I . . . have not taught my children after the manner of the Jews” (2 Nephi 25:6; see vv. 1–2). So it is not surprising that he remains the most literate, book-learned of the Nephite prophets. That is to say, his writings exhibit the most connections with earlier prophecies and texts, and he structures his teachings in a way that suggests he is working from written documents. In particular, he is eager to tie his own visions of the future of the House of Israel to the words of Isaiah, and his commentary at 1 Nephi 22—where he weaves phrases from the two Isaiah chapters he has just quoted into a new revelatory discourse—is a masterpiece of prophetic interpretation. The same style of commentary, which by placing familiar phrases into new contexts reinterprets as it explains, is found in a slightly more diffuse form at 2 Nephi 25–30.

Keywords: Nephi; Book of Mormon; technique; tradition; writing
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [66763]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:48
Cramer, Barbara. “Which Path Do We List?” Insights 24, no. 6 (2004).
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Reading King Benjamin’s speech, we come upon a passage in which the verb list is used four times: “Beware lest there shall arise contentions among you, and ye list to obey the evil spirit. . . . For behold, there is a wo pronounced upon him who listeth to obey that spirit; for if he listeth to obey him, and remaineth and dieth in his sins, the same drinketh damnation to his own soul. . . . The man that doeth this, the same cometh out in open rebellion against God; therefore he listeth to obey the evil spirit, and becometh an enemy to all righteousness” (Mosiah 2:32, 33, 37).

Keywords: speech; passage; list; meanings; commentary
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [66771]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:49
Gee, John. “Quotations of the Sealed Portions of the Book of Mormon.” Insights 24, no. 6 (2004).
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What we have of Jesus’s ministry to the Nephites is an abridged version because the Lord wished to “try the faith of [his] people” (3 Nephi 26:6–13). Dutiful to his charge, Mormon did not provide a full account of Jesus’s teachings, but his son Moroni provided three quotations of portions that his father did not.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Moroni; quotations; passage; writing
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [66770]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:49
Eyring, Henry B. “The Book of Mormon Will Change Your Life.” Ensign, February 2004.
ID = [55935]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-02-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 18485  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:33
Kissi, Emmanuel A. “Book of Mormon Principles: Our Eternal Choices.” Ensign, February 2004.
ID = [55939]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-02-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 6354  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:33
Pearce, Virginia H. “The Book of Mormon.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, February 3, 2004.
ID = [71773]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-02-03  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:04
Sunstone. “Reframing the Book of Mormon.” Sunstone 131 (Spring, 2004): 19.
ID = [81983]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Bolton, Andrew. “Anabaptism, the Book of Mormon, and the Peace Church Option.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 37, no. 1 (Spring, 2004): 75-94.
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Bolton discusses similarities that exist between the Anabaptists and the Latter-day Saints, and explores the presence of Anabaptist themes in the Book of Mormon. The themes of believer’s baptism, questions of the sword, mutual aid and community, salvation, grace and works, keeping the commandments, and church order are all examined. Bolton contends that while Joseph Smith initially embraced the peace advocated by these themes, he eventually adopted a stance of ’justified’ violence. In spite of the legacy left by this example, all Latter-day Saints can, Bolton believes, learn from these themes to ’more fully find the way of Jesus’ by wholeheartedly opposing violence and embracing the ’peace church’ option.

Keywords: Comparative religion, Anabaptism; Doctrinal history, peace; Crime and violence
ID = [81987]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Gregory, Ellen. “Family Home Evening Helps: ‘I’ll Be Nephi’” Ensign, March 2004.
ID = [55985]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-03-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1770  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:33
Groesbeck, Mark, and Dean C. Jessee. “The Book of Mormon as a Symbolic History: A New Perspective on Its Place in History.” Sunstone 131 (Spring, 2004): 35-45.
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I have examined the Book of Mormon as a product of grand symbolic processes that touch on archetypal themes in the collective unconscious and unleash associated energies in the way described by Jung. Though the Book of Mormon’s specific origins can be located in the tensions between European and Indian cultures, it is clear from its farreaching influence that it can also be applied helpfully to issues in hundreds of cultures and without regard to particular historical contexts. Much as Black Elk’s vision of the six grandfathers and the many sacred hoops of the world gave hope and identity to his people, the Book of Mormon has shown a similar ability to bring peace and a sense of belonging to many people in many places. Regardless of one’s reaction to my overarching thesis that the Book of Mormon is best understood as a symbolic history capable of uniting the un-unitable in shamanic balance, I believe there are more important questions to reflect upon than whether the Book of Mormon is literally an translation of an ancient record or literally a product of nineteenth century or psychological influences. These more important questions center on why it is that the Book of Mormon occupies such an important place in the collective psyche of so many. Instead of worrying about its ancient, modern, or psychological origins, we should be asking what it is about the book that has had power to motivate millions of people to spend their time and energy—some even sacrificing careers and fortunes—in efforts to share this book with others.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., occult; Book of Mormon, use and influence; Symbolism; Book of Mormon, historicity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [81986]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Metcalfe, Brent Lee. “Reinventing Lamanite Identity.” Sunstone 131 (Spring, 2004): 20-25.
ID = [81984]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Olsen, Ralph A. “A Malay Site for Book of Mormon Events.” Sunstone 131 (Spring, 2004): 30-34.
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Prompted by inconsistencies in the placement of Book of Mormon events in the Americas, the author proposes the Malay Peninsula as an alternative location. While not claiming to definitively prove the location, the author gives cultural, geographic, and agricultural evidence that supports the Malay theory.

Keywords: Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Book of Mormon, parallels with ancient Near East; Book of Mormon, geography
ID = [81985]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
BYU Religious Education. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Andrew Hedges, Kent Jackson, Keith Wilson, Steven Harper, 2008.
ID = [39544]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2004-03-05  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Witnesses of the Book of Mormon D&C 5 and 17.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Brent Top, Guy Dorius, Mary Jane Woodger, Craig Ostler, 2004.
ID = [39618]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2004-03-12  Collections:  bom,d-c,rsc-rt-dc,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Hafen, Bruce C. “The Atonement: All for All.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2004.
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When the Savior’s all and our all come together, we will find not only forgiveness of sin, … “we shall be like him.”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [19792]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 10210  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:17
Kerr, W. Rolfe. “The Words of Christ—Our Spiritual Liahona.” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2004.
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Let us in faith take the words of Christ into our minds and into our hearts.

ID = [19735]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7166  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:16
Manzhos, Aleksandr N. “Book of Mormon Principles: Spiritually Born of God.” Ensign, April 2004.
ID = [56003]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 6617  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:50
Reynolds, Sydney Smith. “Book of Mormon Principles: King Benjamin on the Atonement.” Ensign, April 2004.
ID = [55997]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 9706  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:33
Tanner, Susan W. “All Things Shall Work Together for Your Good.” Delivered at the General Young Women Meeting of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2004.
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As we search, pray, and believe, we will recognize miracles in our lives and become miracle workers in the lives of others.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [19799]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 10967  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:17
Krueger, Carr. “Let Us Walk Together.” Commencement, Brigham Young University, April 22, 2004.
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I invite each of you to “step up with me.” Let us “walk together” in service to this great university and the students it produces.

Keywords: Leadership
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69409]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-04-22  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Samuelson, Cecil O. “This Special and Great University.” Commencement, Brigham Young University, April 22, 2004.
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I hope we will commit ourselves today and continue this commitment throughout our lives to contribute in every way that we can to building the kingdom of God on earth and also in supporting our alma mater.

Keywords: BYU
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [69410]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-04-22  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Nyland, Nora Kay. “‘Serve the Lord with Gladness’” Devotional, Brigham Young University, April 30, 2004.
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Our testimonies let us trust that we are part of a very important pattern in building the kingdom of God, even if we can’t see it in its entirety. Every skill, talent, and ability we have, whether inborn or developed in callings or other areas of our lives, helps us be more serviceable in the kingdom.

Keywords: Service; Women’s Conference; Podcast: Come; Follow Me
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69424]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-04-30  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Kerr, W. Rolfe. “The Words of Christ—Our Spiritual Liahona.” Ensign, May 2004.
ID = [56040]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7100  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:50
Tanner, Susan W. “All Things Shall Work Together for Your Good.” Ensign, May 2004.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [56062]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 10886  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:50
Abrea, Angel. “Teachings of Nephi.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, May 25, 2004.
ID = [71789]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-05-25  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:04
Clark, John E. “Archaeology, Relics, and Book of Mormon Belief.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, May 25, 2004.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon; Collection: Joseph Smith the Prophet
ID = [69432]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-05-25  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Cooper, Flávio A. “Book of Mormon Principles: He Knows Our Suffering.” Ensign, June 2004.
ID = [56085]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7890  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:50
McEachran, Ross H. “Book of Mormon Principles: Obeying the Lord’s Spirit.” Ensign, June 2004.
ID = [56095]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 5529  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:50
Mead, Gerald A. “Book of Mormon Principles: A Change of Heart.” Ensign, June 2004.
ID = [56086]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8401  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:50
Ensign. “Book of Mormon Times at a Glance, Chart 2: Alma through Mormon and Moroni.” Ensign July 2004.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [56118]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 24818  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:50
De Hoyos, Benjamín. “Book of Mormon Principles: Submitting Our Will to the Father’s.” Ensign, July 2004.
ID = [56123]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8378  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:50
Richardson, D. Chad. “Book of Mormon Principles: Earthly Choices, Eternal Consequences.” Ensign, July 2004.
ID = [56117]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7320  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:50
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Explaining Away the Book of Mormon Witnesses.” Paper presented at the 2004 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2004.
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Keywords: Cowdery; David; Early Church History; Eight Witnesses; Harris; John; Joseph; Jr.; Martin; Oliver; Smith; Testimony; Three Witnesses; Whitmer; Whitmer; Witnesses
ID = [32396]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 47022  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Gardner, Brant A. “The Case for Historicity: Discerning the Book of Mormon’s Production Culture.” Paper presented at the 2004 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2004.
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Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon Geography - Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon Historicity
ID = [32406]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 48668  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Gibson, John R. “Book of Mormon Principles: Be Strong and of a Good Courage.” Ensign, August 2004.
ID = [56148]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8152  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:51
May, Richard D. “Book of Mormon Principles: They Think They Are Wise.” Ensign, August 2004.
ID = [56159]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7521  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:51
Murphy, Betty Jan. “Book of Mormon before Breakfast.” Ensign, August 2004.
ID = [56153]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3015  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:51
Ensign. “Major Trade Publisher to Produce First Commercial Book of Mormon.” Ensign September 2004.
ID = [56202]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2678  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:51
Dunlop, James. “Book of Mormon Principles: Turning the Other Cheek.” Ensign, September 2004.
ID = [56181]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7120  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:51
Hicken, Joseph T. “Book of Mormon Principles: Shunning Satan’s Snares.” Ensign, September 2004.
ID = [56182]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 6516  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:51
Ensign. “Book of Mormon Timeline Poster Now Available.” Ensign October 2004.
ID = [56238]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 463  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:51
Callister, Douglas L. “Book of Mormon Principles: The Gathering of the Lord’s Faithful.” Ensign, October 2004.
ID = [56224]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3575  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:51
Hughes, Kathleen H. “Book of Mormon Principles: The Compassion of Christ.” Ensign, October 2004.
ID = [56217]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4600  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:51
Richards, H. Bryan. “Remember the Teachings of Your Father.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2004.
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The Book of Mormon can and does change lives.

ID = [19900]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 9497  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:19
Christofferson, D. Todd. “A Sense of the Sacred.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, November 7, 2004.
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All things sacred and holy are to be revealed and brought together in this last and most wonderful dispensation. With the Restoration of the gospel, the Church, and the priesthood of Jesus Christ, we hold an almost incomprehensible store of sacred things in our hands.

Keywords: Body; Mortal; Language; Modesty; Reverence; Sacred; Podcast: Come; Follow Me
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69457]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-11-07  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Mattsson, Hans H. “Book of Mormon Principles: How Could I Testify?” Ensign, December 2004.
ID = [56296]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4290  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:52
Steuer, Robert R. “Book of Mormon Principles: Come unto Christ.” Ensign, December 2004.
ID = [56297]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2004-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 5396  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:52
Ostler, Blake T. “Yea, Yea, Nay, Nay: Assessing the Logical Structure of DNA Arguments against the Book of Mormon.” Sunstone 135 (2004-12-04): 70-72.
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LDS philosopher and theologian Blake T. Ostler employs the tools of logic and formal argumentation to assess recent claims against Book of Mormon historicity.

Keywords: Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; DNA; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81988]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-12-04  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
2005
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Attempts to Redefine the Experience of the Eight Witnesses.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 18-31, 125-127.
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Skeptics have misused some historical sources as they attempt to reverse the Eight Witnesses’ statements about their physical contact with the Book of Mormon plates. The Eight Witnesses speak of viewing the plates themselves with unobstructed vision. They left 10 specific statements of handling the plates. This article provides an overview of the statements and experiences of the Eight Witnesses and the arguments of their critics, both then and now. Their unequivocal testimonies resist revisionists’ attempts to portray their experience as mere illusion or deception.

Keywords: Early Church History; Eight Witnesses; Gold Plates
ID = [3155]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 73196  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Ashton, Morgan. “The Non-English Translations of the Book of Mormon: 1830-2004.” MA thesis, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2005.
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“The Lord scattered Israel among all the nations of the earth and commissioned the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to gather Israel by bringing its remnants to a knowledge of the covenants God made with Abraham and teaching them about Jesus Christ. The Lord created the Book of Mormon to accomplish this gathering and stated that ’every man shall hear the fulness of the gospel in his own tongue’ (D&C 90:11). Therefore, the Lord has given the Church a divine mandate to translate the Book of Mormon into the languages of the world. Apostles and mission presidents supervised the missionaries who produced the early translations of the Book of Mormon (those produced from 1851 to 1867), and the Church exercised very little control over these translations. In 1965 the Church organized the Translation Department and began to centralize Church translation and bring a unity to the translation process. From that time forward, this department supervised all Book of Mormon translations and imposed upon the translation process a strict procedure of reviews and approvals.” [From author’s introduction]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon, editions and translations; Book of Mormon; Translating LDS publications
ID = [81541]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:26
Benson, Ezra Taft. “Gospel Classics: The Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants.” Ensign, January 2005.
ID = [56328]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,ensign  Size: 12995  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:52
Benson, RoseAnn, and Stephen D. Ricks. “Treaties and Covenants: Ancient Near Eastern Legal Terminology in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 48-61, 128-129.
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Ancient Near Eastern treaties and Old Testament covenants exhibit many of the same literary elements. Of particular interest is the use of the Hebrew word y?da? ,“to know,” when it signifies “to enter into a binding agreement.” The use of this word in both treaties and scriptures supports the notion that prophets spoke of holy covenants using language that framed responsibilities between God and his people in legal terms. The Book of Mormon usage of to know reflects similar intent. This article discusses the background of the word to know, compares treaties with covenants, discusses to know in connection with ancient Near Eastern treaties and biblical covenants, and assesses to know in Book of Mormon covenants.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Covenant; Language - Hebrew; Laws; Legal; Treaty
ID = [3157]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 67099  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Benson, Sherrie Mills. “The Zoramite Separation: A Sociological Perspective.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14 no. 1 (2005).
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The Zoramites’ transformation from quiescent dissidents to aggressive enemies of their former brethren and mother culture is a powerful study of human nature. The Book of Mormon does not delineate the reasons that the Zoramites separated themselves from the larger population at Zarahemla, but they obviously felt a great deal of animosity toward their former brethren. Perhaps they had been marginalized in Nephite society because of their ethnicity. They constructed a culture that deliberately differed in many ways from that at Zarahemla, and they expelled all who were converted by Alma. Because of their extreme hatred of the Nephites, the Zoramites ultimately joined with the Lamanites as fierce enemies of the Nephites.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3159]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 58842  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Black, Susan Easton, and Andrew C. Skinner. Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book (2005).
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Explore the life and mission of Joseph Smith in this six-episode DVD and the companion book of essays. Thirty-three respected scholars — including Richard E Turley Jr., Andrew C. Skinner, Larry C. Porter, Milton V. Backman and Robert J. Matthews — examine a variety of topics about the Prophet. This volume and DVD teach us about Joseph Smith while nourishing our testimonies that he was indeed the Lord\'s anointed prophet, called to bring forth the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Latter-day Saints will treasure them both!

ID = [82082]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 5  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:56

Articles

Williams, Clyde J., and Andrew C. Skinner. “Insights from Moroni’s Visits in 1823.” In Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet, edited by Black, Susan Easton, and Andrew C. Skinner, 47-56. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005.
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This essay simply recounts the visits and messages of Moroni to the Prophet Joseph.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., angelic visitations; Moroni, visitations; Angels
ID = [82110]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:58
Underwood, Grant. “The Book of Lehi.” In Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet, edited by Black, Susan Easton, and Andrew C. Skinner, 76-84. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005.
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This essay tells the story of the lost 116 pages of the Book of Lehi.

Keywords: Harris, Martin; Doctrine and Covenants, Section 3; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, Lost 116 pages
ID = [82114]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:58
Faulring, Scott H. “Oliver Cowdery, Book of Mormon Scribe.” In Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet, edited by Black, Susan Easton, and Andrew C. Skinner, 85-94. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005.
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This chapter documents Oliver’s position as the main scribe of the Book of Mormon translation in 1829.

Keywords: Cowdery, Oliver; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
ID = [82112]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:58
Wilson, Keith J. “The Three Witnesses.” In Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet, edited by Black, Susan Easton, and Andrew C. Skinner, 95-106. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005.
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Each of the three witnesses played a vital role in assisting the bringing forth of the Book of Mormon, besides simply testifying of its truthfulness. Martin Harris financed the project, Oliver Cowdery served as the principle scribe, working at a remarkable pace, and David Whitmer provided lodging in Fayette for the completion of the project.

Keywords: Harris, Martin; Cowdery, Oliver; Book of Mormon, witnesses; Whitmer, David
ID = [82111]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:58
Jackson, Kent P. “Publishing the Book of Mormon.” In Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet, edited by Black, Susan Easton, and Andrew C. Skinner, 107-16. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005.
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This chapter details the printing process of the first five thousand copies of the Book of Mormon by E.B. Grandin for three thousand dollars.

Keywords: Skinner, Andrew C.; Grandin, E. B.; Book of Mormon, printing
ID = [82113]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:58
Black, Susan Easton, and Larry C. Porter. “‘For the Sum of Three Thousand Dollars’” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 2 (2005): 4-11, 66-67.
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The familiar narrative of how Martin Harris mortgaged his farm to pay the printing cost of the first five thousand copies of the Book of Mormon overlooks details that make possible a fuller appreciation of his key role in the restoration of the gospel. Financially and otherwise, Harris was uniquely situated to secure the publisher’s note and relieve the financial tension that imperiled the book’s publication. Details of his family background, land ownership, business enterprises, and generosity are reviewed. Despite his pattern of vacillating in his religious commitments, his loss of 116 pages of translated manuscript, his exposure to public ridicule, and his fracturing marriage, Harris proved willing and able to honor the mortgage agreement and the Lord’s directives to him in Doctrine and Covenants, section 19. He did so at great personal cost when all attempts to recoup the publication costs failed and the shared financial responsibility unexpectedly fell solely on him. The view is expressed that Harris was raised up by the Lord to assist the Prophet Joseph Smith by securing and then personally financing the first publication of the Restoration.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Early Church History; Harris; Joseph; Jr.; Martin; Mortgage; Smith
ID = [3167]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,d-c,farms-jbms  Size: 43924  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Bowen, Matthew L. “What Meaneth the Rod of Iron?” Insights 25, no. 2 (2005): 2–3.
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Latter-day Saint scholars Hugh W. Nibley and John A. Tvedtnes have discussed at length how a staff, rod, and sword came to be commonly identified with the word of God in the ancient Near East. The evidence they cite from the Bible, the earliest Hebrew commentators, modern biblical scholarship, and elsewhere affirms Nephi ’s unambiguous assertion that the “word of God” is a “rod.”

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses
ID = [2572]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,moses  Size: 30009  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:55
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “The Wrong Place for Lehi’s Trail and the Valley of Lemuel.” The FARMS Review 17, no. 2 (2005): 197-215.
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Review of George Potter and Richard Wellington. Lehi in the Wilderness.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Arabia; Archaeology; Lehi (Prophet); Valley of Lemuel
ID = [515]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 44709  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:51
Clark, John E. “Archaeology, Relics, and Book of Mormon Belief.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 2 (2005): 38-49, 71-74.
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Archaeology has much to offer as a scientific means of gathering independent evidence of the Book of Mormon’s authenticity. But one must look in the right place. A cautionary tale is the failed Cluff expedition of 1900, which, assuming a “hemispheric model” of Book of Mormon geography, traveled from Provo as far as Colombia looking for the city Zarahemla. Yet in 1842 the Times and Seasons (under Joseph Smith’s editorship) had printed excerpts from a popular book on Mesoamerican archaeology that demonstrated a surprisingly high level of civilization, implying that Nephite lands did not extend into South America, thus supporting the theory of a ”limited” geographic model. Both sides believe that archaeology is on their side. Book of Mormon critics also claim that archaeology is on their side, but decades of archaeological investigation in Mesoamerica and in the Old World has shown a pattern of increasing convergence that favors Book of Mormon authenticity. Evidences discussed include, among others, metal records in stone boxes, ancient writing, warfare, the tree of life and other metaphors, Old and New World geography, and cycles of civilization. In a sidebar article, the findings of an amateur archaeologist challenge a popular assumption that the hill was the scene of the final battles depicted in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Ancient America; Archaeology; Authenticity; Book of Mormon Geography; Book of Mormon Geography – Heartland; Early Church History; Evidence; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Mesoamerica; Smith; Times and Seasons; Zarahemla (Polity)
ID = [3170]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 63727  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Conkling, J. Christopher. “Alma’s Enemies: The Case of the Lamanites, Amlicites, and Mysterious Amalekites.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 108-117, 130-132.
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In Alma 21 a new group of troublemakers is introduced—the Amalekites—without explanation or introduction. This article offers arguments that this is the same group called Amlicites elsewhere and that the confusion is caused by Oliver Cowdery’s inconsistency in spelling. If this theory is accurate, then Alma structured his narrative record more tightly and carefully than previously realized. The concept also challenges the simplicity of the good Nephite/bad Lamanite rubric so often used to describe the players in the book of Mormon.

Keywords: Amalekite (Nephite Apostate Group); Amlicite; Apostasy; Cowdery; Critical Text; Oliver; Spelling; Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3163]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 52368  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Cowdrey, Wayne L., Howard A. Davis, and Arthur Vanick. Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?: The Spalding Enigma. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2005.
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Authors determine that The Book of Mormon is an “adaptation of an obscure historical novel.”

Keywords: Book of Mormon, authorship, Spaulding theory; Authorship, stylometric analysis; Book of Mormon, authorship
ID = [81472]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:22
Eliason, Eric A. “Book of Mormon Reference Companion.” BYU Studies 44, no. 1 (2005): 170.
ID = [11483]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 3604  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “An Interview with Daniel H. Ludlow.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14 no. 1 (2005).
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Daniel H. Ludlow, formerly the director of Correlation Review for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, answers questions about his understanding and testimony of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [3164]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 23491  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “Looking for Artifacts at New York’s Hill Cumorah.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14 no. 2 (2005).
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Landon Smith gives an account of artifact hunting in the fields surrounding Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra, New York. He presents evidence that the archaeology of New York does not support the idea that Book of Mormon peoples lived in that region of that New York’s Hill Cumorah was the scene of the final battles between the Nephites and Lamanites.

ID = [3171]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 9353  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “Out of the Dust: Ancient Steel Sword Unearthed.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14 no. 2 (2005).
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A short sword was unearthed in the ancient Philistine city Ekron, which was destroyed in 604 BC and lay twenty-two miles south of Jerusalem. Israel seems to have been initially dependent on the Philistines for metallurgy. In 2003, a seventh-century BC Etruscan gold book was discovered in Bulgaria. Recently, another gold book was found in Iran dating from around the sixth century BC.

ID = [3173]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 5032  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Gessel, Van C. “‘Strange Characters and Expressions’: Three Japanese Translations of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 32-47, 127-128.
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The complete Book of Mormon has been translated into Japanese no fewer than three times. The first translation was done by a young American missionary, Alma O. Taylor, the second by Sat Tatsui, the first native Japanese person to undertake the challenge, and the third after World War II by a committee appointed by the First Presidency. The challenges of translating concepts such as God, Spirit, or atonement into a language that shares no linguistic or cultural commonalities with the language of the inspired translation of the Book of Mormon are overwhelming. When attempting to communicate in a culture that does not acknowledge supreme deity or the kinship connection between God and man or life after death, a simple concept such as damnation can be challenging to convey. In addition, dramatic changes have occurred in the Japanese language over past century. The written Japanese language has changed with a rapidity that is unfathomable in English.

Keywords: Culture; Foreign Language Translation; Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3156]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 62975  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Goff, Alan. “Dan Vogel’s Family Romance and the Book of Mormon as Smith Family Allegory.” The FARMS Review 17, no. 2 (2005): 321-400.
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Review of Dan Vogel. Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet.

Keywords: Criticism; Early Church History; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Smith; Translation
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Hallen, Cynthia L. “Beauty on the Mountains: Inspiration from the Book of Mormon for LDS Writers.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 104-107.
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The Book of Mormon provides many good examples to Latter-day Saint writers of how to magnify their work. By following the patterns of the Book of Mormon, writers can understand what to emphasize and how to include the Spirit in their writing.

Keywords: Beauty; Example; Holy Ghost; Holy Spirit; Inspiration
ID = [3162]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 14996  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Hoffman, Michael A. “Revealed or Buried in the Dirt: The Book of Mormon as Scripture for Postmodernity in the Community of Christ.” Master’s thesis, Lamoni, IA: Graceland University, 2005.
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Keywords: Schisms, RLDS; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon
ID = [81557]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:27
Huntington, Ray L. “Reading between the Lines: Book of Mormon Insights from S. Kent Brown.” The FARMS Review 17, no. 2 (2005): 1-5.
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Review of S. Kent Brown. Voices from the Dust: Book of Mormon Insights.

Keywords: Education; Scholarship; Scripture Study
ID = [511]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 10467  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:51
Keller, Roger R., and Robert L. Millet, eds. Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
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For three days, April 11-13, 2002, Brigham Young University hosted a unique conference titled “Salvation in Christ: Christian Perspectives.” Scholars, theologians, and interested laypersons came together to celebrate the redemptive act of our Lord Jesus Christ and to explain their understandings of salvation in Christ from the viewpoints of their respective Christian denominational backgrounds. A broad spectrum of Christian approaches were represented, as was the range of issues needing to be addressed with the monumental topic of “Salvation in Christ” as the theme for the gathering. The purpose of the conference was for participants to speak, listen, and learn from one another--to become better acquainted with various faith traditions, particularly different perspectives on the major doctrines associated with Christian salvation. ISBN 0-8425-2606-4

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Skinner, Andrew C. “Foreword.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
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Skinner, Andrew C. “Rebirth in Christ.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [35954]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 45237  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:13
Blomberg, Craig L. “The New Testament Concept of Salvation.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > D — F > Forgiveness
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
ID = [35955]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 51884  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:13
Davies, Douglas J. “Anglican Soteriology.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [35956]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 30069  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:13
Davis, Stephen T. “Bodily Redemption.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [35957]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 37783  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:13
Olson, Camille Fronk. “The Mission of the Holy Ghost.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Charity
RSC Topics > G — K > Gifts of the Spirit
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > Q — S > Spiritual Gifts
ID = [35958]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 35231  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:13
Loewe, William P. “Jesus the Savior.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35959]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 42898  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:13
Matthews, Robert J. “The Role of Ordinances in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
ID = [35960]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 32953  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:13
Millet, Robert L. “The Process of Salvation.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [35961]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 91621  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:13
Olson, Roger E. “Confessions of an Arminian Evangelical.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
ID = [35962]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 47440  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:13
Osborne, Kenan B. “Jesus, Sacrament of God: A Contemporary Franciscan View.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35963]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 67574  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:13
Pappas, Harry S. “Salvation in Christ: Perspectives of the Orthodox Church.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35964]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 54472  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:14
Paulsen, David L. “The Redemption of the Dead: A Latter-day Saint Perspective on the Fate of the Unevangelized.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism for the Dead
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [35965]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 82849  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:14
Sanders, John. “Those Who Have Never Heard: A Survey of the Major Positions.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > G — K > Hell
ID = [35966]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 59745  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:14
Smit, Laura. “Salvation in Christ: A Calvinist Perspective.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35967]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 39047  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:14
Keller, Roger R. “Jesus Christ: Priest, King, and Prophet.” In Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, eds. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > D — F > Discipleship
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
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Literski, Nicholas S. “Mormonism, Masonry, and Mischief: Clyde Forsberg’s Equal Rites.” The FARMS Review 17, no. 1 (2005): Article 3.
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Review of Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture.

ID = [498]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 23592  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:50
Midgley, Louis C. “A Mighty Kauri Has Fallen: Hugh Winder Nibley (1910–2005).” The FARMS Review 17, no. 1 (2005): Article 14.
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Since 1989, the Review of Books on the Book of Mormon has published review essays to help serious readers make informed choices and judgments about books and other publications on topics related to the Latter-day Saint religious tradition. It has also published substantial freestanding essays that made further contributions to the field of Mormon studies. In 1996, the journal changed its name to the FARMS Review with Volume 8, No 1. In 2011, the journal was renamed Mormon Studies Review.
The author reflects on the lasting influence of the eminent Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley, whose far-reaching scholarship, unmatched erudition, and vigorous defense of the Mormon faith established Mormon studies on a solid foundation and pointed the way for others to follow.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Death and Funeral Services
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Theology
ID = [509]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,nibley  Size: 46348  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:51
Morris, Larry E. “‘I Should Have an Eye Single to the Glory of God’ Joseph Smith’s Account of the Angel and the Plates.” The FARMS Review 17, no. 1 (2005): Article 4.
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Review of Ronald V. Huggins. “From Captain Kidd’s Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism.” Dialogue 36/4 (2003): 17–42.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [499]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 158768  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:50
Murphy, Thomas W. “Sin, Skin, and Seed: Mistakes of Men in the Book of Mormon.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 25 (2005): 36-51.
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Murphy suggests using anthropology to remove the mistakes of men from the Book of Mormon, namely: 1) People’s skin color reflects states of righteousness or wickedness. 2) Male patriarchs provide the creative contribution, the seed, to the process of human reproduction, and 3) American Indians must turn to restoration scriptures to know their own history. In expanding upon these ideas, he states that the Book of Mormon attribution of “moral and social conditions” is made up of strands from colonial history, and that the history of the Lamanites as recorded in the Book of Mormon is no more than a rewriting of the Indian past. Murphy briefly touches on “overwhelming genetic evidence” that Native Americans came from northeast Asia with no evidence in current Native American populations of Middle East ancestry. This research, in his view, makes the Book of Mormon claim that the Lamanites are “the principal ancestors of the Native Americans” untenable. He also discusses the concept of seed at length as used in the Book of Mormon and the Bible.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Native Americans, origins of; Native Americans, Mormon views of; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81989]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Neilson, Reid L., and Van C. Gessel, eds. Taking the Gospel to the Japanese, 1901–2001. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2005.
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The first Latter-day Saint missionaries to Japan encountered formidable language, religious, and cultural barriers. After considerable efforts, Church officials closed the mission in 1924. Later, the gospel was reintroduced in mid-century, when it took root. Since that time, Mormon missionaries have baptized many believers, several missions have opened, auxiliary organizations such as the Relief Society have been instituted, and two temples have been constructed. This volume celebrates the Church’s first hundred years among the Japanese. The articles explore such issues as the Japanese presses’ portrayal of Mormonism and answer questions such as what the historical and cultural challenges are to successful missionary work in Japan; why the Book of Mormon needed to be translated three times in one century; and whether Latter-day Saint converts hail from specific areas based on the region’s religious traditions. The essays in the book let readers witness the expansion and growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints among the Japanese.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Parr, Ryan. “Missing the Boat to Ancient America . . . Just Plain Missing the Boat.” The FARMS Review 17, no. 1 (2005): 83-106.
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Review of Simon G. Southerton. Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church.

Keywords: Ancient America; Criticism; DNA; Genetics; Native Americans; Science
ID = [500]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 53103  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:50
Pemberton, Jennifer C. “Sleeping with the Book of Mormon.” Master’s thesis, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 2005.
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The importance of the Book of Mormon in the lives of Latter-day Saints and how it is a building block towards Mormon faith.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, use and influence; Scriptures; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, importance of
ID = [81570]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:28
Peterson, Daniel C. “Editor’s Introduction, Not So Easily Dismissed: Some Facts for Which Counterexplanations of the Book of Mormon Will Need to Account.” The FARMS Review 17, no. 2 (2005): Article 2.
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Introduction to the current issue, including editor’s picks. Recent research supporting the authenticity of the Book of Mormon includes evidence that the book was, as witnesses claimed, orally dictated; that its opening chapters accurately depict the ancient Near East in details unknown in Joseph Smith’s day; and that many of its expressions and word meanings had disappeared from English before 1700. Such evi-dence argues against claims that the Book of Mormon was memorized or otherwise cribbed from another document.

ID = [510]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review,peterson  Size: 95754  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:51
Pike, Dana M., and David Rolph Seely. “‘Upon All the Ships of the Sea, and Upon All the Ships of Tarshish’: Revisiting 2 Nephi 12:16 and Isaiah 2:16.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 2 (2005): 12-25, 67-71.
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Some Latter-day Saint commentators deem a phrase that appears in 2 Nephi 12:16 but not in the parallel passage in Isaiah 2:16—“and upon all ships of the sea”—as evidence that the Book of Mormon preserves a version of this verse from the brass plates that is more complete than the Hebrew or King James readings. One scholar’s conclusions in this regard are reviewed and then critiqued for ignoring the complexities of the ancient Hebrew and Greek versions of the Bible. The authors examine Isaiah 2:16 in its broader literary context, noting that the 2 Nephi reading alters a pattern of synonymous couplets; analyze the Greek and Hebrew texts of the verse; and relate their findings to the Book of Mormon reading. They discuss the inherent limitations of textual criticism in this kind of study and conclude that LDS and non-LDS scholars are open to different interpretive possibilities owing to the role that faith plays in one’s approach to and interpretation of textual evidence.

Keywords: Brass Plates; King James Bible; Language; Ship; Textual Criticism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [3168]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,old-test  Size: 88782  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Prete, Roy A. “God in History? Nephi’s Answer.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 2 (2005): 26-37, 71.
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Trained to accept only material evidence, professional historians since the late nineteenth century have avoided writing “providential history”—history that acknowledges the hand of God in shaping human events. Even believing historians, lacking prophetic insight and revelation, have been at a loss to determine God’s role in the historical process. In Latter-day Saint tradition, the Book of Mormon, and especially the sweeping visions of prophet-historian Nephi, is seen as a welcome corrective. In defining God’s plan for the salvation of humankind, identifying specific instances of divine providence (e.g., the discovery and colonization of the American promised land), and outlining the principles governing such intervention (e.g., the higher purposes behind God’s ongoing covenant relationship with the house of Israel), Nephi’s writings greatly inform the modern LDS understanding of providential history.

Keywords: Divine Providence; History; Nephi; Prophecy; Revelation
ID = [3169]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 44607  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Reynolds, Noel B., ed. Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2005.
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This book takes a fresh look at the apostasy of the early Christian church. Most Latter-day Saint scholars and leaders previously based their understanding of the Christian apostasy on the findings of Protestant scholars who provided a seemingly endless array of evidences of apostasy in Christian history. Since the classic treatments of this topic were written, many newly discovered manuscripts written during the first Christian centuries have come to light, giving a clearer picture of what the early Christian experience was like. Drawing on this material, LDS scholars today are able to shift the focus of study to the causes of the apostasy rather than the effects. This volume of essays reports new research by several LDS scholars in different fields. They identify common myths and misconceptions about the apostasy and promote better understanding of when and why the apostasy occurred.

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Robison, Lindon J. “‘No Poor Among Them’” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 86-97, 130.
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One way that those who love God and others demonstrate their love and “at-one-ment” (the state of being one) and thereby qualify for blessings, is by imparting of their substance to the poor. When a people become of one heart and mind, there are no poor among them. The Book of Mormon describes two stages of at-one-ment that lead to a general economic equality: Complete at-one-ment (perfect observation of the laws resulting in no contentions or disputations with “all things common among them” 4 Nephi 1:3), and at-one-ment as evidenced by equality before the law (the ability to form and be governed by equitable and just laws wherein all status and social discrimination is eliminated). The love of riches and status increases divisions and separations among the people and brings poverty and iniquity.

Keywords: Atonement; Discrimination; Economic Equality; Economy; Love; Poor
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
ID = [3160]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 44513  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Roundy, Bruce A., and Robert J. Norman. “‘All Things Denote There is a God’: Seeing Christ in the Creation.” Religious Educator 6, no. 2 (2005): 51–62.
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The Lord told Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, “Look unto me in every thought” (D&C 6:36). In the ordinance of the sacrament we covenant each week to “always remember him,” that we “may always have his Spirit” to be with us (D&C 20:77). The Book of Mormon testifies that “all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all thing that are upon the face of it” (Alma 30:44). Thus, God has given all things as a type or representation of Christ to help us remember Him (see 2 Nephi 11:4; Helaman 8:24). The key to understanding the things of God is to see Christ in them, including His creations.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [4697]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,moses  Size: 26879  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:49
Rust, Richard Dilworth. “The Book of Mormon as Literature.” The FARMS Review 17, no. 2 (2005): 141-143.
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Review of James T. Duke. The Literary Masterpiece Called the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Literary Form; Literature; Rhetoric; Structure
ID = [513]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 6271  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:51
Sorenson, John L. “Ancient Voyages Across the Ocean to America: From ‘Impossible’ to ‘Certain’” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 4-17, 124-125.
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In the past, experts have assumed that primitive sailors would have found it impossible to cross the oceans between the Old World and the New. However, John Sorenson here concludes that the evidence for transoceanic contacts now drowns out the arguments of those who have seen the New World as an isolated island until ad 1492. Sorenson’s arguments are based on evidences from Europe, Asia, and Polynesia of the diffusion of New World plants and infectious organisms. His research identifies evidence for transoceanic exchanges of 98 plant species, including tobacco and peanuts. The presence of hookworm in both the Americas and the Old World before Columbus also serves as evidence to establish transoceanic contact.

Keywords: Contact; Isolation; New World; Old World; Transoceanic Voyage; Voyage
ID = [3154]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,sorenson  Size: 58518  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Sperry, Kip. Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
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Kirtland, Ohio, is of unique historical interest because of its roots in Church history and because so many Church members trace their ancestry there. This handy guide brings together a wealth of family history and historical sources to help genealogists, historians, and other researchers. The volume includes photographs of the Kirtland Temple and maps of the area. ISBN 0-8425-2600-5

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Chapters

Sperry, Kip. “Front Matter.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35914]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 856  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Preface.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35915]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4658  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Acknowledgments.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35916]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4825  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Introduction to Kirtland Family History Research.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family History
ID = [35917]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 29819  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Historical Background.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35918]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4613  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Chronology of Historical Events.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [35919]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 17353  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Kirtland Bibliography.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35920]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 166612  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Periodicals, Newsletters, and Newspapers.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35921]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 13060  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Computer Databases and Genealogical Collections.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35922]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 13623  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Appendix: Abbreviations.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35923]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3928  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Appendix: Addresses.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
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Sperry, Kip. “Appendix: Internet Sites.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35925]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 8441  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Appendix: Geauga County Records.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35926]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6059  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Appendix: Lake County Records.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35927]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4462  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Sperry, Kip. “Appendix: Kirtland Temple pulpits.” In Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
ID = [35928]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 2779  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:11
Swift, Charles. “Lehi’s Vision of the Tree of Life: Understanding the Dream as Visionary Literature.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 2 (2005): 52-63, 74-75.
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One of the more striking and significant passages in the Book of Mormon is Lehi’s vision of the tree of life. It is often studied in terms of its content alone, with clarifying details illuminated by Nephi’s similar vision. However, exploring this vision against the backdrop of ancient visionary literature can lead to greater appreciation of its literary richness while affording insights into its interpretation. Many narrative components of Lehi’s vision match the characteristic elements of visionary literature identified by biblical scholar Leland Ryken, including otherness, reversal of ordinary reality, transcendental realms, kaleidoscopic structure, and symbolism. The relationship between symbolic aspects of Lehi’s vision and specific historical events more clearly recognized in Nephi’s account (e.g., Christ’s mortal ministry, the apostasy, Nephite history) is discussed. In addition, identifying the man in the white robe in Lehi’s vision as John the Revelator provides a natural narrative and structural link to Nephi’s vision that emphasizes the relatedness of the two accounts. Most elements of the vision point to Jesus Christ. Lehi’s vision comports well with the genre of ancient visionary literature, a form that biblical scholarship has shown to be worthy of serious scholarly attention.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Dream; Jesus Christ; John the Revelator; Lehi (Prophet); Literary; Literature; Nephi; Tree of Life; Vision
ID = [3172]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 43769  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Wayment, Thomas A. “The Hebrew Text of Alma 7:11.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 98-103, 130.
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The brass plates were essential to Lehi’s posterity since they contained the teachings that would lead them to righteousness; there are quotations from the brass plates throughout the Book of Mormon. We do not know what language or languages were used on the plates that came from Laban’s trove. Alma’s rendering of an unattributed Isaiah quotation is closer to the Hebrew text than are the versions found in the Septuagint and King James Bible. But when this same quotation appears a second time in the Book of Mormon and is attributed to Isaiah, it follows the KJV rendering. This curiosity offers a clue to the riddle of the language of the brass plates—it is very possible that at least some of the writings were in Hebrew.

Keywords: Brass Plates; Isaiah; King James Bible; Language; Language - Hebrew
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3161]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 28927  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:29
Welch, John W. “Hugh Nibley and the Book of Mormon.” Insights 25, no. 1 (2005).
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At first light on 6 June 1944, the first of many Allied landing craft began hitting the beaches of Normandy. At Utah Beach, 12 men dangling from one of the emerging jeeps cheered their driver on as they surged up from beneath the surface of the chilly English Channel waters. That driver, an army intelligence officer with a PhD in ancient history from the University of California at Berkeley, was none other than Hugh W. Nibley, age 34.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; ancient history; Hugh Nibley; scholarship
ID = [66775]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:49
Welch, John W. “Voices from the Dust: Book of Mormon Insights.” BYU Studies 44, no. 1 (2005): 171.
ID = [11484]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,welch  Size: 1830  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Welch, John W., Joseph Ponczoch, and John F. Hall. “Overview.” In Apostles and Bishops in Early Christianity, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 15. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2005.
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Keywords: Sermon; Sermon at the Temple; Sermon on the Mount
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Christian History, Apostasy, Early Christianity
ID = [2207]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,nibley,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:32
Wells, M. Gawain. “The Savior and the Children in 3 Nephi.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 62-73, 129.
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When Christ was with the Nephites, the Savior felt it was important to take the time to call children around him, bless each of them one by one, and pray to the Father for them. Christ’s actions provide an example of loving, blessing, and instructing children. We must not overlook the children among us. The children that the Savior blessed were to become the second generation of the Zion people that he was forming; as such, their preparation was vital.

Keywords: 3 Nephi; Blessing; Children; Jesus Christ; Savior; Zion
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [3158]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 45746  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:28
Insights. “FARMS Review Probes Geography, Papyri, Isaiah, Creation, and More.” Insights 25, no. 2 (2005).
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The latest FARMS Review (vol. 16, no. 2, 2004) is another weighty issue flush with articles covering a wide array of interesting topics. In the lineup are reviews of works on Book of Mormon geography, de-Christianization of the Old Testament, the Joseph Smith Papyri, Isaiah’s central message, Jerusalem in Lehi’s day, creation theology, gospel symbolism, and the Christian countercult movement. Also included are two freestanding essays, one older article of lasting appeal (initiating a new feature in the Review), book notes, a 2003 Book of Mormon bibliography, and the editor’s top picks of recent publications. A foretaste of the many engaging articles follows.

Keywords: FARMS; geography; Isaiah; creation
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [66779]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:49
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘What Meaneth the Rod of Iron’?” Insights 25, no. 2 (2005).
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Latter-day Saint scholars Hugh W. Nibley and John A. Tvedtnes have discussed at length how a staff, rod, and sword came to be commonly identified with the word of God in the ancient Near East.¹The evidence they cite from the Bible, the earliest Hebrew commentators, modern biblical scholarship, and elsewhere affirms Nephi’s unambiguous assertion that the “word of God” is a “rod.”

Keywords: Nephi; Book of Mormon; translation; languages
ID = [66780]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:49
Matheson, R. Mark. “Studying the Book of Mormon Online.” Religious Educator Vol. 6 no. 2 (2005).
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [37999]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 13155  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:10
Reynolds, Noel B. “The Israelite Background of Moses Typology in the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies 44, no. 2 (2005): 5-23.
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Nephi tells the story of the founding events of the Nephite people in such a way that his readers will see him as a second Moses. Although Nephi’s use of the Moses typology has been previously noted, what has not been noticed before is that his father, Lehi, also employs this same typology in his farewell address in 2 Nephi 1-4 in order to persuade his descendants of his own divine calling and of their new covenant relationship to the same God who had given the promised land to ancient Israel. The fact that Nephi and Lehi both saw themselves as Moses figures demonstrates their awareness of a recognizable feature of preexilic Israelite literature that has only recently been explicated by Bible scholars.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Topics > Moses
Old Testament Topics > Types and Symbols
ID = [11461]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies,old-test  Size: 33948  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Insights. “Lehi’s Journey of Faith Topic of FARMS Documentary.” Insights 25, no. 3 (2005).
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FARMS has teamed with award-winning Latter-day Saint filmmaker Peter Johnson to produce a documentary on Lehi and company’s route from Jerusalem to the New World. Based on the most recent research, the 90-min-ute DVD documentary will feature Latter-day Saint scholars commenting on proposed sites for the party’s first base camp near the Red Sea; Nahom, where Ishmael was buried; and Bountiful, the fertile coast-al locale where Nephi directed the building of his ship. The documentary will also feature the latest findings on Lehi’s ocean voyage and explore candidates for Book of Mormon sites in Mesoamerica.

Keywords: FARMS; Lehi; documentary; Book of Mormon; Ancient Studies
ID = [66785]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:49
Haws, JB. “‘To Stir Them Up in the Ways of Remembrance’: Lamanites and Memory in the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 6 no. 3 (2005).
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [37992]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 34748  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:10
Jensen, Robin Scott. “A Witness in England: Martin Harris and the Strangite Mission.” BYU Studies 44, no. 3 (2005): 78-98.
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Throughout his long life, Martin Harris consistently testified that he knew Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from golden plates. At first affiliated with Joseph Smith and the main body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for a time Harris associated with a schism led by James J. Strang. He served a mission in England in 1846 for the Strangites, but he claimed to the end of his life that he never preached against Mormonism or against the Book of Mormon. Indeed, he was a powerful witness of the Book of Mormon during his mission.

Keywords: Harris; Martin; Strangite; Testimony
ID = [11452]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-03  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 31056  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Van Dyke, Blair G. “Light or Dark, Freedom or Bondage: Enhancing Book of Mormon Themes through Contrasts.” Religious Educator Vol. 6 no. 3 (2005).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
ID = [37993]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 41506  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:10
Insights. “Textual Analysis of Book of Mormon Continues.” Insights 25, no. 4 (2005).
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FARMS and Brigham Young University are pleased to announce the release of part 2 of volume 4 of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon. Part 2 analyzes the text from 2 Nephi 11 through Mosiah 16.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; textual analysis; Nephi
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [66789]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:49
Clark, John E. “Archaeological Trends and the Book of Mormon Origins.” BYU Studies 44, no. 4 (2005): 83.
ID = [11435]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 29700  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Givens, Terryl L. “Joseph Smith: Prophecy, Process, and Plenitude.” BYU Studies 44, no. 4 (2005): 55-68.
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Joseph Smith was an explorer, a discoverer, and a revealer of past worlds. He described an ancient America replete with elaborate detail and daring specificity, rooted and grounded in what he claimed were concrete, palpable artifacts. He recuperated texts of Adam, Abraham, Enoch, and Moses to resurrect and reconstitute a series of past patriarchal ages, not as mere shadows and types of things to come, but as dispensations of gospel fullness equaling, and in some cases surpassing, present plenitude. And he revealed an infinitely receding premortal past—not of the largely mythic Platonic variety and not a mere Wordsworthian, sentimental intimation—but a fully formed realm of human intelligences, divine parents, and heavenly councils.

Keywords: Joseph; Jr.; Prophecy; Prophet; Smith
ID = [11434]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-04  Collections:  abraham,bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 29544  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Insights. “Publications.” Insights 25, no. 5 (2005).
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Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri,edited by John Gee and Michael Rhodes, is a second edition of Hugh Nibley’s 1975 book of the same title on the Egyptian endowment. It is still the only book-length treatment of the important Egyptian text now known as the “Document of Breathings Made by Isis,” a copy of which was found among the Joseph Smith Papyri. The new edition features previously excised material, corrections of numerous typographical errors, improved illustrations, and accurate placement of illustrations in the text. This book, published jointly with Deseret Book, is now at press after years of intense effort. Because of a recent concerted push to finish this project, the FARMS Review and Journal of Book of Mormon Studies are running late.

Keywords: From FARMS; From METI; By ISPART Scholars with Other Publishers
ID = [66795]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:50
Skousen, Royal. “The Archaic Vocabulary of the Book of Mormon.” Insights 25, no. 5 (2005).
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In my work as editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project (which began in 1988), I was initially interested in discovering the original English-language text of the book. But I soon came to the conclusion that it would be impossible to fully recover the original text by scholarly means, in large part because only 28 percent of the original manuscript is extant. In addition, there are obvious errors in the original manuscript itself that require conjectural emendation. As I have worked on the text of the Book of Mormon, I have come to some surprising conclusions regarding the nature of the original text itself, conclusions that I had not at all expected when I started my work transcribing the original and printer’s manuscripts of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; vocabulary; manuscript; language
ID = [66794]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:50
Tvedtnes, John A. “Atonement and the Temple.” Insights 25, no. 6 (2005).
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In 1988 Hugh W. Nibley noted that the use of terms based on the word atone (atonement, atoning, atoned, etc.), while used in the Old Testament mostly in association with rites performed in the tabernacle of Moses, clearly tied the Nephites to preexilic Israel, that is, prior to the Babylonian captivity of the Jews in 587 bc. He found that most of the occurrences were “in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, where they explicitly describe the original rites of the tabernacle or temple on the Day of Atonement.”

Keywords: Old Testament; Atonement; temple; Book of Mormon
ID = [66800]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:50
Volluz, Corbin T. “‘O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?’” Insights 25, no. 6 (2005).
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The Book of Mormon has come under frequent fire from its critics for allegedly quoting portions of the New Testament before the New Testament was written. A classic example of this is the famous phrase from 1 Corinthians 15:55, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” Clear allusions to this passage are made by three Book of Mormon prophets: Abinadi (Mosiah 16:8), Aaron (Alma 22:14), and Mormon (Mormon 7:5).

Keywords: New Testament; Book of Mormon; location; quotes
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [66799]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:50
Ensign. “Translation Work Taking Book of Mormon to More People in More Tongues.” Ensign February 2005.
ID = [56383]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-02-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2666  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:52
Ensign. “Full Editions of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign February 2005.
ID = [56384]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-02-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 934  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:52
Bowen, Matthew L. “And Behold, They Had Fallen to the Earth: An Examination of Proskynesis in the Book of Mormon.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 4, no. 1 (April, 2005): 181-5.
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This paper examines the use of proskynesis, or ritual prostration, in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Bible and; Ritualization
ID = [82044]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-04-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Eyring, Henry B. “Hearts Bound Together.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2005.
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When you were baptized, your ancestors looked down on you with hope. … They rejoiced to see one of their descendants make a covenant to find them.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [19999]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 12886  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:21
Packer, Boyd K. “The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ—Plain and Precious Things.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2005.
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The Book of Mormon is an endless treasure of wisdom and inspiration, of counsel and correction.

ID = [19927]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 13666  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:19
Steck, Jamie Ann. “Cutting a Covenant: Making Covenants and Oaths in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 4, no. 1 (April, 2005): 1-14.
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The Lord has always made covenants with his people to bless them and help them return to him. This restoration to the presence of God is the end goal of the Plan of Happiness that Christ made possible through his Atonement. A covenant is “an agreement enacted between two parties in which one or both make promises under oath to perform or refrain from certain actions stipulated in advance” (Mendenhall and Herion 1: 1179). In the Hebrew Old Testament, the word bryt (“covenant”) is almost always associated with the verb krt (“to cut”). These together mean “to make a covenant,” but the literal meaning of the idiom krt bryt suggests that some aspect of cutting is involved in making a covenant. This creates an interesting paradox, since a covenant is a binding agreement between two groups but the phrase has an underlying etymology of division. Though bryt in time came to refer to many kinds of oaths and covenants, certain covenants under the law of Moses reveal this connection with cutting as the rituals accompanying the covenants are performed: animal sacrifice, circumcision, and the rending of cloth. These ordinances and their corresponding covenants made after Christ’s condescension allow the believer to better see, in both the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon, how covenants relate to the ultimate goal of returning to the Father.

Keywords: Covenants; Oaths; Old Testament; Book of Mormon
ID = [82053]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-04-01  Collections:  bom,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:55
Tanner, Susan W. “Glad Tidings from Cumorah.” Delivered at the General Young Women Meeting of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2005.
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You and I can not only survive but prevail, as did Moroni, in our efforts to stand for truth in perilous times.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [20025]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 10767  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:21
Klein, Shirley R. “Protect Our Homes, Renew Our Powers.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, April 5, 2005.
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Today I would like to talk about the war we are waging to defend our homes. Our social fabric has been attacked around the edges, and now it is moving to the center—our homes! I’ll use Moroni’s strategies of preparing places of security to suggest ways to protect our homes and renew our powers today.

Keywords: Family; Home
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [69475]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-04-05  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Ensign. “The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ—Plain and Precious Things.” Ensign May 2005.
ID = [56497]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3040  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:53
Eyring, Henry B. “Hearts Bound Together.” Ensign, May 2005.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [56483]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12953  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:53
Ostler, Blake T. “Yea, Yea, Nay, Nay: DNA Strands in the Book of Mormon.” Sunstone 137 (2005-05-01): 63-66, 68-71.
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LDS philosopher and theologian Blake T. Ostler employs the tools of logic and formal argumentation to assess recent claims against Book of Mormon historicity.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual criticism; Lamanite, terminology; DNA; Native Americans, Mormon views of; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81990]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-05-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Packer, Boyd K. “The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ—Plain and Precious Things.” Ensign, May 2005.
ID = [56459]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 13471  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:53
Quinn, D. Michael. “The Ancient Book of Mormon As Tribal Narrative.” Sunstone 137 (2005-05-01): 67.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual criticism; Lamanite, terminology; DNA; Native Americans, Mormon views of; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81991]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-05-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Whiting, Michael F. “Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life: Some Assembly Required.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, May 24, 2005.
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Keywords: Science
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Terry, Ronald E. “Christ’s Healing Influence in the Book of Mormon.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, June 7, 2005.
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The Book of Mormon does testify of Christ and His healing influence. I am grateful for the authors and the preservers of the plates who made it possible for us to read these marvelous accounts of the Lord extending the arms of His love to those in need.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Jesus Christ; Collection: Jesus Christ; Our Savior and Redeemer; Podcast: Jesus Christ; Our Savior and Redeemer
ID = [69486]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-06-07  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Clark, John E., Wade Ardern, and Matthew P. Roper. “Debating the Foundations of Mormonism: The Book of Mormon and Archaeology.” Paper presented at the 2005 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2005.
ID = [32414]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 48981  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Parr, Ryan. “DNA and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2005 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2005.
ID = [32418]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 38760  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Romney, Marion G. “Gospel Classics: The Book of Mormon.” Ensign, August 2005.
ID = [56587]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 10286  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:54
Largey, Dennis L. “The Persuading Power of The Book of Mormon.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, August 2, 2005.
ID = [72362]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-08-02  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:09
Ensign. “Joy in the Book of Mormon.” Ensign September 2005.
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Whittaker, David J. “‘That Most Important of All Books’: A Printing History of The Book of Mormon.” Mormon Historical Studies 6, no. 2 (Fall, 2005): 101-134.
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Whittaker details the history of the six major English editions of the Book of Mormon, focusing primarily on those versions printed in Joseph Smith’s lifetime. He also discusses the European printings and the 1879, 1920, and 1981 editions. Recent textual studies have identified many errors in the current edition, and Whittaker encourages a new edition to incorporate textual corrections.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, editions and translations; Book of Mormon, printing
ID = [82033]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:53
Tanner, Susan W. “Scriptures—More Precious Than Gold and Sweeter Than Honey.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, September 11, 2005.
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Are the scriptures delicious to us—as precious as gold and sweeter than honey? Do we feast on them, delight in them, and ponder them as Nephi taught?

Keywords: Scriptures; Podcast: Come; Follow Me
ID = [69503]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-09-11  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Ensign. “Family Home Evening Helps: Book of Mormon Stories.” Ensign October 2005.
ID = [56671]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1597  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:54
Benson, Ezra Taft. “Gospel Classics: Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, October 2005.
ID = [56663]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7257  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:54
Eyring, Henry B. “Spiritual Preparedness: Start Early and Be Steady.” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2005.
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The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God’s commands in the midst of the storms of life.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [20074]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 12416  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:22
Grow, C. Scott. “The Book of Mormon, the Instrument to Gather Scattered Israel.” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2005.
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Jesus Christ gave us the Book of Mormon as the instrument to gather scattered Israel.

ID = [20068]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7196  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:22
Hughes, Kathleen H. “That We May All Sit Down in Heaven Together.” Delivered at the General Relief Society Meeting of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2005.
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When we become instruments in the hands of God, we are used by Him to do His work.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [20142]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7165  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:23
Perry, L. Tom. “Blessings Resulting from Reading the Book of Mormon.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2005.
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Now it is up to us to study the Book of Mormon and learn of its principles and apply them in our lives.

ID = [20040]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 12778  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:21
Grow, C. Scott. “The Book of Mormon, the Instrument to Gather Scattered Israel.” Ensign, November 2005.
ID = [56693]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7264  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:54
Hughes, Kathleen H. “That We May All Sit Down in Heaven Together.” Ensign, November 2005.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [56719]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7393  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:54
Perry, L. Tom. “Blessings Resulting from Reading the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, November 2005.
ID = [56684]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2005-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12673  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:54
Ford, Clyde D. “Lehi on the Great Issues: Book of Mormon Theology in Early Nineteenth-Century Perspective.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 38, no. 4 (Winter, 2005): 75-96.
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Without discussing authorship or date of composition, Ford shows how the Book of Mormon fits into the theological spectrum of the early nineteenth century. He compares Book of Mormon theology with the Arminian, Calvinist, Universalist, Unitarian, and Methodist beliefs of the day and shows how the Book of Mormon addressed the following four contemporary religious disputes: free will and predestination, the desirability of moral evil, infant sin, and accountability of those ignorant of Christian teachings. Ford concludes that Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon deserve a place in the scholarship of nineteenth-century theology.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, use and influence
ID = [81993]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Williams, R. J. “A Marvelous Work and a Possession: Book of Mormon Historicity as Postcolonialism.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 38, no. 4 (Winter, 2005): 37-55.
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Williams discusses Book of Mormon historiography and the “Galileo Event” which occurred when traditional historical and cultural views were questioned by scientific evidence. Specifically, Williams discusses the Lamanite identity and its resulting special status claimed by Latin American converts. He discusses the parallelomania in Book of Mormon scholarship and its consequences, concluding that Book of Mormon historicity is currently facing a redefinition wherein its traditional views are becoming less authoritative.

Keywords: Native Americans, origins of; Native Americans, Mormon views of; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81992]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
2006
Insights. “New Translation Launches METI’s Library of the Christian East Series.” Insights 26, no. 1 (2006).
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One of the misconceptions that many Westerners have is that all Arabs are Muslims and that all Muslims are Arabs. In fact, many of the major Islamic countries in the world (e.g., Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and the most populous of them all, Indonesia) are not Arab, and large minorities in some Arab countries are not Muslim. Christianity is a Near Eastern religion, not a European one, and it has been in the Near East since its origin. (An Egyptian Christian friend once complained to me about how tired he had become of Americans and Europeans asking him whether his family had been converted by the Germans, the French, or the British. His ancestors, he pointed out, had been converted by Mark, the writer of the Second Gospel, in the first century ad. My own forebears, in Scandinavia, didn’t accept Christianity until roughly a millennium later.)

Keywords: translation; BYU; Middle Eastern texts; library
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Ashurst-McGee, Mark. “Moroni as Angel and as Treasure Guardian.” The FARMS Review 18, no. 1 (2006): 34-100.
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This article addresses the origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and discusses whether the Saints believed Moroni to be an angel or merely a treasure guardian.

Keywords: Angel Moroni; Early Church History; Gold Plates; Moroni (Son of Mormon); Treasure Seeking
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [527]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 159961  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:52
Aston, Warren P. “Across Arabia with Lehi and Sariah: ‘Truth Shall Spring out of the Earth’” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15 no. 2 (2006).
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Utilizing techniques adapted from literary criticism, this paper investigates the narrative structure of the Book of Mormon, particularly the relationship between Nephi’s first-person account and Mormon’s third-person abridgment. A comparison of the order and relative prominence of material from 1 Nephi 12 with the content of Mormon’s historical record reveals that Mormon may have intentionally patterned the structure of his narrative after Nephi’s prophetic vision—a conclusion hinted at by Mormon himself in his editorial comments. With this understanding, readers of the Book of Mormon can see how Mormon’s sometimes unusual editorial decisions are actually guided by an overarching desire to show that Nephi’s prophecies have been dramatically and literally fulfilled in the history of his people.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [3189]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 37175  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Baker, LeGrand L. Joseph and Moroni: The 7 Principles Moroni Taught Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2006.
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This is the story of how an angel taught a boy to be a prophet. In it, we follow Joseph’s life from the time of the First Vision until he completed the translation and returned the Gold Plates to Moroni. It is the story of a remarkable friendship. Moroni had two responsibilities: first, to give Joseph the Gold Plates and teach him how to translate them and second to teach Joseph how to be a prophet.

Keywords: Early Church History, Moroni, Prophet, Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [75428]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:45
Barker, Margaret. “Joseph Smith and Preexilic Israelite Religion.” BYU Studies Quarterly 44, no. 4 (2006): 69-82.
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Terryl Givens has set Joseph Smith in the religious and cultural context of his time and raised many important issues. I should like to take a few of these issues and set them in another context, that of preexilic Jerusalem. I am not a scholar of Mormon texts and traditions. I am a biblical scholar specializing in the Old Testament, and until some Mormon scholars made contact with me a few years ago, I would never have considered using Mormon texts and traditions as part of my work. Since that initial contact I have had many good and fruitful exchanges and have begun to look at these texts very closely. I am still, however, very much an amateur in this area. What I offer can only be the reactions of an Old Testament scholar: are the revelations to Joseph Smith consistent with the situation in Jerusalem in about 600 BCE? Do the revelations to Joseph Smith fit in that context, the reign of King Zedekiah, who is mentioned at the beginning of the First Book of Nephi, which begins in the “first year of the reign of Zedekiah” (1 Nephi 1:4)? Zedekiah was installed as king in Jerusalem in 597 BCE.

Keywords: 1 Nephi; Jerusalem; King Zedekiah; Old Testament; Preexilic
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4676]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,moses,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 30998  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:47
Barney, Kevin L. “Seeking Joseph Smith’s Voice.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 1 (2006): 54-59, 71-72.
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Royal Skousen’s work on his Book of Mormon critical text project demonstrates that he is an able textual critic who employs sound judgment and proven methods to uncover the original text of the Book of Mormon. In many cases, these decisions seem counterintuitive to untrained readers, but Skousen correctly applies the principle that a more awkward reading is most likely original. He also shows his ability to make conjectural emendations for which no direct textual evidence is available. In every case, Skousen clearly lays out his reasoning so that readers who disagree with his inferences can examine the evidence for themselves to reach their own conclusions. This paper goes on to speculate that Skousen’s work may in time bring the LDS and RLDS editions of the Book of Mormon closer together textually. In the end, the critical text project is a superb work of scholarship on par with the standard works of biblical textual criticism.

Keywords: Conjectural Emendation; Critical Text; Joseph; Jr.; Original Text; Prophet; Smith; Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3183]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 27965  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Bradford, Miles Gerald. “Recovering the Original Text of the Book of Mormon: An Interim Review.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15 no. 1 (2006).
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Bradford introduces reviews of Royal Skousen’s work on the critical text project.

ID = [3178]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 10440  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Brown, S. Kent. “Refining the Spotlight on Lehi and Sariah.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15 no. 2 (2006).
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Royal Skousen’s endeavor to recover the original text of the Book of Mormon is more complicated than it seems because it involves more than simply reproducing the original manuscript. Rather, what Skousen means by “original text” is the very language that appeared on the Urim and Thummim. Every subsequent step, such as Joseph’s reading, his scribes’ understanding and transcribing of that utterance, and Oliver Cowdery’s copying of the manuscript for the printer, exposed the text to the possibility of human subjectivity and error. This paper explains the nature and scope of Skousen’s monumental undertaking and presents some of the methods and reasoning he employs to resolve disputed textual variants in search the Book of Mormon’s original text.

ID = [3191]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 85474  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Studies, 2006.
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Journey of Faith chronicles the courage and faith of Book of Mormon prophet Lehi and his family with the eye of the camera and the insights of scholars. Filmed on location in the Middle East, Journey of Faith takes viewers to the land of Nahom where Ishmael was buried, and to the most likely location for Bountiful where Nephi built his ship. Insightful and inspiring, this film offers perspective on how God molded Lehi’s family in the wilderness to become a new people of God.

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Chapters

Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “Front matter.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
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Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “Foreword.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
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Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “On the Trail with Journey of Faith.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75519]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:50
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “Jerusalem at the Time of Lehi.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75520]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:50
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “Lehi's Family.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75521]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:50
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “Metallurgy.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75522]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:50
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “The Desert Crossing.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75523]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:50
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “Ships.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75524]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “The Promised Land.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75525]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “What Joseph Smith Could Not Have Known.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75526]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “A Filmmaking Odyssey.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75527]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “Appendix 1.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
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Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “Appendix 2.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75529]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Brown, S. Kent, and Peter N. Johnson, eds. “About the Authors.” In Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land
ID = [75530]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:51
Butler, John M. “Addressing Questions Surrounding the Book of Mormon and DNA Research.” The FARMS Review 18, no. 1 (2006): 101-108.
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Butler discusses the premises of the DNA argument between supporters and critics of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: DNA; Genetics; Jaredite; Lehite; Mulekite; Native Americans
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BYU Religious Studies Center. How the New Testament Came to Be. The 35th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2006.
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The 35th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium This newest addition to the Sperry Symposium series celebrates the writing of the New Testament and the faithful service of those who brought that book of sacred scripture into existence. The chapters of this volume, presented on the Brigham Young University campus on October 27–28, 2006, explore the New Testament’s origin and examine ancient scriptural evidence on a variety of topics, ranging from the earliest ancient manuscripts to the contributions of Joseph Smith to our understanding of the New Testament. A great deal of interest has been generated lately in the origin, early history, and reliability of the documents that make up the New Testament. Books and motion pictures have exposed us to many new ideas relating to New Testament studies. This volume, although not responding directly to any of those works, puts into print the research of faithful Latter-day Saint scholars who have explored the earliest evidence for the New Testament and have asked hard questions concerning it. Indeed, the New Testament presents us with many questions. We do not know, for example, when and under what circumstances many of the documents were written. We do know that “plain and precious things” were removed from the scriptural text (1 Nephi 13:28), but because the original manuscripts do not exist, how can we find out what those things were and when they were lost? What can we say about the traditional attributions of the Gospels to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? What can we say about how those and other books were collected to form the New Testament? Do the ancient manuscripts provide answers? What does modern revelation teach us? How the New Testament Came to Be deals with these and other questions as it explores the writing and compilation of the New Testament. The authors, though they may not always interpret the evidence in the same way, have in common a strong commitment to the centrality of the sacred mission of Jesus Christ and a belief that modern revelation is an indispensable guide for reading and understanding the New Testament.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Articles

Morrison, Alexander B. “‘Plain and Precious Things’” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostle
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
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Jackson, Kent P. “Asking Restoration Questions in New Testament Scholarship.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
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Muhlestein, Kerry. “From Clay Tablets to Canon.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
ID = [35859]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 45109  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:08
Lane, Jennifer Clark. “Jews and Greeks.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [35860]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 37541  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:08
Griffin, Carl W., and Frank F. Judd Jr. “Principles of New Testament Textual Criticism.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
ID = [35861]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 36581  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:08
Ellertson, Carol F. “New Testament Manuscripts, Textual Families, and Variants.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
ID = [35862]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 36212  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:08
Wayment, Thomas A. “First-Century Sources on the Life of Jesus.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
ID = [35863]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 31609  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:08
Judd, Frank F., Jr. “Who Really Wrote the Gospels? A Study of Traditional Authorship.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
ID = [35864]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 44309  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Strathearn, Gaye. “Matthew as an Editor of the Life and Teachings of Jesus.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
ID = [35865]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 37798  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Judd, Daniel K., and Allen W. Stoddard. “Adding and Taking Away ‘without a cause’ in Matthew 5:22.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
ID = [35866]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 31865  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Swift, Charles. “The Bread of Life Discourse as Dialogue.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
ID = [35867]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 32275  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Huntsman, Eric D. “The Occasional Nature, Composition, and Structure of Paul’s Letters.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
ID = [35868]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 42677  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Blumell, Lincoln H. “Scribes and Ancient Letters.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
ID = [35869]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 46589  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Ludlow, Jared W. “Paul’s Use of Old Testament Scripture.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35870]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 32186  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Szink, Terrence L. “Authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostle
ID = [35871]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 38864  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Draper, Richard D. “The Earliest ‘New Testament’” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
ID = [35872]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 53540  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Wayment, Thomas A. “False Gospels.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [35873]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 25795  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Matthews, Robert J. “Joseph Smith and the New Testament.” In How the New Testament Came to Be, eds. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Charity
RSC Topics > D — F > Dispensations
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
ID = [35874]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 37501  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Carr, Stephen L. “Birds Along Lehi’s Trail.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 2 (2006): 84-93, 125-126.
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When Carr traveled to the Middle East, he observed the local birds. In this article, he suggests the possibility that the Book of Mormon prophet Lehi and his family relied on birds for food and for locating water. Carr discusses the various birds that Lehi’s family may have seen on their journey and the Mosaic law pertaining to those birds.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Animal; Arabia; Law of Moses; Ornithology
ID = [3195]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 37746  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “Out of the Dust: All That Glitters Is Not . . . Steel.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 1 (2006): 66-67.
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A previous report characterized a metal blade discovered at the site of biblical Ekron in Israel as a steel short sword dating from the late seventh century BC, shortly before Lehi left Jerusalem, thus corroborating the much-criticized account of Laban’s steel sword in the Book of Mormon. Unfortunately, these assertions are incorrect. Jeffrey R. Chadwick, who is personally acquainted with the excavators who unearthed the blade, explains here that the blade is not a short sword but probably a ceremonial knife. Additionally, the knife is likely from the eleventh century BC and cannot properly be described as steel. Though this artifact does not support the Book of Mormon account of seventh-century steel swords, much better archaeological parallels do exist. Chadwick mentions a meter-long steel sword discovered in Jericho that dates to around 600 BC. This genuinely steel sword from the proper time period makes Nephi’s description of Laban’s sword entirely plausible.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Arabia; Metallurgy; Steel; Sword; Sword of Laban; Weaponry
ID = [3185]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 6415  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “An Archaeologist’s View.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 2 (2006): 68-77, 122-124.
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Seasoned archaeologist Jeffrey R. Chadwick responds to studies done by Warren Aston (see page 8), Richard Wellington and George Potter (see page 26), and Kent Brown (see page 44) pertaining to the trail that the Book of Mormon prophet Lehi took after fleeing Jerusalem. Chadwick uses his archaeological, historical, and scriptural knowledge to comment on the claims made by the other scholars. He specifically analyzes Lehi’s life in Jerusalem, the route Lehi took from Jerusalem to the Red Sea, the Valley of Lemuel, the route from Shazer to Nahom, the route from Nahom to Bountiful, and the building of the ship at Bountiful.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Arabia; Archaeology; Bountiful; Lehi’s Trail; Nahom; Shazer; Valley of Lemuel
ID = [3193]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 58334  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Dorius, Guy L., Craig K. Manscill, and Craig James Ostler, eds. Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
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Volume 6 i​n the Regional Studies Series Ohio became the first gathering place for the Saints in this dispensation when the Lord declared, “A commandment I give unto the church, that it is expedient in me that they should assemble together at the Ohio” (D&C 37:3). Members of the Church in New York responded to this command by gathering in and around Kirtland, Ohio, where the Lord promised that He would give them His law and endow them power. Revelation was abundant and sometimes accompanied by the Lord’s presence. Almost half of the revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants were received in Ohio. Soon, stretching northward into Canada, the message of the restored gospel reached the homes of John Taylor, Mary Fielding, and other early converts. This book also tells the story of journalist and political activist William Lyon Mackenzie and his interest in the Saints. Contributors are Richard E. Bennett, David F. Boone, Richard O. Cowan, H. Dean Garrett, William Goddard, Steven C. Harper, Daniel H. Olsen, Craig James Ostler, Kip Sperry, Dennis A. Wright, and Helen Warner. ISBN 978-0-8425-2653-1

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Boone, David F. “A Most Remarkable Family: The Ohio Legacy of the Asael and Mary Duty Smith Family.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada, eds. Guy L. Dorius, Craig K. Manscill, and Craig James Ostler. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
ID = [35875]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 31637  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Cowan, Richard O. “Faith and Devotion in Building the Kirtland Temple.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada, eds. Guy L. Dorius, Craig K. Manscill, and Craig James Ostler. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
ID = [35876]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 16741  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Garrett, H. Dean. “The Messengers and the Message: Missionaries to the Lamanites.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada, eds. Guy L. Dorius, Craig K. Manscill, and Craig James Ostler. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [35877]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 31473  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Harper, Steven C. “‘Every Man Walketh in His Own Way’: Individualism, Revelation, and Authority in the Ohio Period.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada, eds. Guy L. Dorius, Craig K. Manscill, and Craig James Ostler. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostasy
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [35878]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 30340  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Sperry, Kip. “Religion and Ethnicity in the Western Reserve.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada, eds. Guy L. Dorius, Craig K. Manscill, and Craig James Ostler. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family History
ID = [35879]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 52501  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Wright, Dennis A. “Caroline Young Harris: The Kirtland Wife of Martin Harris.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada, eds. Guy L. Dorius, Craig K. Manscill, and Craig James Ostler. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
ID = [35880]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 27851  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:09
Ostler, Craig James, and William Goddard. “A Brief History of the Church in the Mount Pleasant Area, Ontario, before 1850.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada, eds. Guy L. Dorius, Craig K. Manscill, and Craig James Ostler. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
ID = [35881]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 67249  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:10
Warner, Helen K. “William Lyon Mackenzie and the Mormon Connection.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada, eds. Guy L. Dorius, Craig K. Manscill, and Craig James Ostler. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Miracles
ID = [35882]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 39530  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:10
Bennett, Richard E. “Of Printers, Prophets, and Politicians: William Lyon Mackenzie, Mormonism, and Early Printing in Upper Canada.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada, eds. Guy L. Dorius, Craig K. Manscill, and Craig James Ostler. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [35883]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 76846  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:10
Draper, Thomas W., and Lindsey Kenny. “Book of Mormon Parenting.” The FARMS Review 18, no. 1 (2006): 1-2.
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Review of Geri Brinley. The Book of Mormon: A Pattern for Parenting.

Keywords: Family; Parenthood; Scripture Study
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Duffy, John-Charles. “Just How ‘Scandalous’ is the Golden Plates Story?: Academic Discourse on the Origin of the Book of Mormon.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 26 (2006): 142-165.
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For this study Duffy analyzed fifty academic texts written in the last twenty-five years about the Book of Mormon’s production and “published outside the Mormon world.” His purpose was to discover what these scholars are saying about its provenance. He organized these writings under the following six rhetorical strategies: open deprecation, disclaiming the truth question, naturalistic explanations, implicit skepticism, distancing devices, and factual language. He then asks if, in the world of academics, LDS scholars can “credibly voice orthodox perspectives” of the Book of Mormon and states that he believes they can if they are not “openly advocating for it.”

Keywords: Book of Mormon, witnesses; Book of Mormon, historicity; Book of Mormon, authorship
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Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “English Editions of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15 no. 1 (2006).
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Photographic presentation of Book of Mormon editions in English.

ID = [3180]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 2658  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Givens, Terryl L. “The Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 1 (2006): 32-35, 71.
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Royal Skousen’s endeavor to recover the original text of the Book of Mormon is more complicated than it seems because it involves more than simply reproducing the original manuscript. Rather, what Skousen means by “original text” is the very language that appeared on the Urim and Thummim. Every subsequent step, such as Joseph’s reading, his scribes’ understanding and transcribing of that utterance, and Oliver Cowdery’s copying of the manuscript for the printer, exposed the text to the possibility of human subjectivity and error. This paper explains the nature and scope of Skousen’s monumental undertaking and presents some of the methods and reasoning he employs to resolve disputed textual variants in search the Book of Mormon’s original text.

Keywords: Cowdery; Critical Text; Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Oliver; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Original Text; Smith; Textual History; Translation
ID = [3179]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 24565  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Hardy, Grant R. “Scholarship for the Ages.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 1 (2006): 43-53, 71.
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Until now, nearly all commentaries on the Book of Mormon have focused mainly on issues of doctrine rather than beginning with the text itself. Royal Skousen’s critical text project does the opposite by treating the text itself on the word and phrase level. Skousen weighs nearly all possible evidence to deduce the events that may have led to the variations seen in the texts and to draw conclusions about which readings are most likely original. Some conclusions may surprise readers, but Skousen is more interested in candidly documenting what the texts reveal than in interpreting all the implications. Several lengthy excerpts from Skousen’s work show the scholarly depth and rigor of his analysis. In the end, Skousen may have produced the seminal work of Book of Mormon textual criticism that scholars and students will still be using hundreds of years from now.

Keywords: Commentary; Critical Text; Scholarship; Textual History
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Haslam, Reed Berg. Translating Scripture: The Thai Book of Mormon. Sandy, UT: H-town Publications, 2006.
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Keywords: Thailand; Book of Mormon, editions and translations; Asia, Southeast, Thailand
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Hilton, Lynn M. “In Search of Lehi’s Trail—30 Years Later.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 2 (2006): 4-7, 110.
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Thirty years after publishing In Search of Lehi’s Trail, Lynn M. Hilton looks back at the progress of research on the journey of Lehi and his family from Jerusalem to Bountiful. Hilton starts by briefly reviewing the known aspects of the party’s travel, such as the location of Jerusalem and their initial “south-southeast direction.” Following their trail, he gives an overview of the discoveries that have helped identify and describe potential sites for several key locales mentioned in Nephi’s narrative of the journey: the Valley of Lemuel, Nahom, and Bountiful. In the past thirty years, many important discoveries have expanded our understanding of the real-life setting of Lehi’s travel through the Arabian Peninsula.

Keywords: Arabia; Bountiful; Lehi (Prophet); Lehi’s Trail; Nahom; Shazer; Valley of Lemuel
ID = [3188]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 18984  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Hilton, Nancy Goldberg. “With Real Intent: Out of Judaism.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 2 (2006): 102-107, 126-127.
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Nancy Goldberg Hilton shares her experiences growing up in the Jewish religion. Although she felt close to God while reciting verses from the Old Testament, she was confused about God’s true nature and current role. Hilton eventually abandoned her belief in God until she had a miraculous experience at Rainbow Bridge on Lake Powell in Utah. This experience helped her to feel the reality of God and of Jesus Christ, and she soon began to search for further information about their doctrine. When a business contact gave her a Book of Mormon, she read it and was delighted to discover how the book connected the life of Jesus Christ to her Jewish heritage and to the life she was now living. Hilton agreed to meet with missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and she was baptized shortly thereafter.

Keywords: Conversion; Judaism; Missionary Work
ID = [3197]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 36794  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Kettley, Marlene C., Arnold K. Garr, and Craig K. Manscill. Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
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Latter-day Saints may think Church history in Illinois began in 1839 with establishment of the city of Nauvoo. However, important events took place much earlier in the decade. For example, the missionaries to the Lamanites unexpectedly had to cross the state on their trip from Ohio to Missouri. This happened in 1830, ten years before more prominent events took place in the history of the Church in Illinois. This occurrence made Illinois one of only four states to receive missionaries in the year 1830. The Church grew rapidly there, and by 1835 it was likely the fourth largest religious body in the state. This account fills in the ten-year gap of Church history in Illinois using both LDS and non-LDS sources. The book tells the story of the conversion of future Apostle Charles C. Rich. It also talks about the Saints’ involvement in the so-called Mormon War. Other chapters discuss the events of Zion’s Camp, Kirtland Camp, and the Saints’ exodus from Missouri to Quincy, Illinois. ISBN 978-0-8425-2652-4

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Chapters

Kettley, Marlene C., Arnold K. Garr, and Craig K. Manscill. “Preface.” In Mormon Thoroughfare. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
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Kettley, Marlene C., Arnold K. Garr, and Craig K. Manscill. “Introduction.” In Mormon Thoroughfare. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
ID = [35823]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5921  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Kettley, Marlene C., Arnold K. Garr, and Craig K. Manscill. “Mission to the Lamanites.” In Mormon Thoroughfare. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
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Kettley, Marlene C., Arnold K. Garr, and Craig K. Manscill. “Mission to Missouri.” In Mormon Thoroughfare. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [35825]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 47004  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Kettley, Marlene C., Arnold K. Garr, and Craig K. Manscill. “Missionaries and Converts in Illinois 1831–34.” In Mormon Thoroughfare. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
ID = [35826]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28062  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Kettley, Marlene C., Arnold K. Garr, and Craig K. Manscill. “Zion’s Camp.” In Mormon Thoroughfare. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [35827]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 54307  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Kettley, Marlene C., Arnold K. Garr, and Craig K. Manscill. “Missionaries and Converts in Illinois 1835–38.” In Mormon Thoroughfare. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [35828]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 35164  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Kettley, Marlene C., Arnold K. Garr, and Craig K. Manscill. “The Saints Flee from Ohio to Missouri.” In Mormon Thoroughfare. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostasy
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
ID = [35829]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 38065  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Kettley, Marlene C., Arnold K. Garr, and Craig K. Manscill. “Quincy, Illinois: A Temporary Refuge.” In Mormon Thoroughfare. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
ID = [35830]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 45182  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
LeFevre, David A. “‘We Did Again Take Our Journey’” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 2 (2006): 58-67, 120-122.
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David A. LeFevre analyzes the studies done by Warren Aston (see page 8), Richard Wellington and George Potter (see page 26), and Kent Brown (see page 44) and compares them, using the text of the Book of Mormon as a guide. These three studies take liberty in interpreting Nephi’s usage of specific terms; LeFevre, however, insists that such interpretations are unnecessary and inaccurate. He analyzes other phrases in a more conservative way in order to find additional information regarding Lehi’s trek. He specifically discusses Lehi’s life in Jerusalem, the route Lehi took from Jerusalem to the Red Sea, the Valley of Lemuel, the route from Shazer to Nahom, the route from Nahom to Bountiful, and the building of the ship at Bountiful.

Keywords: Bountiful; Jerusalem; Lehi’s Trail; Nahom; Nephi; Red Sea; Shazer; Valley of Lemuel
ID = [3192]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 55723  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Matheson, R. Mark. “Teaching in the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 7 no. 1 (2006).
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Teaching the Gospel
ID = [37980]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 34227  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:09
Matthews, Robert J. “Joseph Smith and the Text of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 1 (2006): 38-42, 71.
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Royal Skousen’s most significant contribution to Book of Mormon scholarship, this paper states, is in openly and systematically detailing the thousands of variants that occur across two manuscripts and twenty editions and showing that these variations do not affect the message or validity of the book as a witness of Jesus Christ. Skousen’s work also offers new insights into the process of translating and publishing the Book of Mormon. Though the work of translation appears to have involved a number of different methods, we can nevertheless be sure that the Book of Mormon was translated by the “gift and power of God.”

Keywords: Authorship; Critical Text; Joseph; Jr.; Smith; Translation
ID = [3181]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 26614  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
McKinlay, Daniel B. “The Brightening Light on the Journey of Lehi and Sariah.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 2 (2006): 78-83, 124-125.
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Many Book of Mormon scholars have attempted to determine the course that Lehi and his family took when they fled Jerusalem to travel to the promised land. In his record, Nephi provided place-names and geographical descriptions, but that information is not sufficient to make conclusive claims. This article draws on the experiences and research of others to discuss the possible locations of the Valley of Lemuel, Shazer, the area where Nephi’s bow broke, Nahom, and Bountiful.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Arabia; Bountiful; Jerusalem; Lehi (Prophet); Nahom; Promised Land; Sariah; Shazer; Valley of Lemuel
ID = [3194]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 35939  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Muhlestein, Kerry. “Insights Available as We Approach the Original Text.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15 no. 1 (2006).
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In his effort to correct and preserve the original text of the Book of the Mormon, Royal Skousen has also increased our understanding of and appreciation for this volume of sacred scripture. Skousen’s close examination of the use of words and phrases throughout the book highlights its intertextuality and demonstrates that Book of Mormon authors were aware of and influenced by the words of previous authors. Moreover, restoring the original text helps clarify some vague constructions and should also caution us against putting too much emphasis on the exact wording of the present Book of Mormon. Skousen’s analysis of how such changes occurred during a relatively modern transmission process can also further the understanding of more ancient textual transmission. Finally, Skousen’s work reveals that the original Book of Mormon may have been even more strikingly Semitic than the present text and that some characteristically Hebrew constructions have been edited out over the years, though many still remain.

ID = [3184]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 21791  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Olsen, Steven L. “Prophecy and History: Structuring the Abridgment of the Nephite Records.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 1 (2006): 18-29, 70-71.
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Utilizing techniques adapted from literary criticism, this paper investigates the narrative structure of the Book of Mormon, particularly the relationship between Nephi’s first-person account and Mormon’s third-person abridgment. A comparison of the order and relative prominence of material from 1 Nephi 12 with the content of Mormon’s historical record reveals that Mormon may have intentionally patterned the structure of his narrative after Nephi’s prophetic vision—a conclusion hinted at by Mormon himself in his editorial comments. With this understanding, readers of the Book of Mormon can see how Mormon’s sometimes unusual editorial decisions are actually guided by an overarching desire to show that Nephi’s prophecies have been dramatically and literally fulfilled in the history of his people.

Keywords: Abridgment; History; Literary Criticism; Mormon (Prophet); Narrative; Nephite; Prophecy; Structure
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [3177]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 59928  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Peterson, Daniel C. “Authority in the Book of Mosiah.” The FARMS Review 18, no. 1 (2006): Article 10.
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This article examines the book of Mosiah in the Book of Mormon in order to study the doctrine and pres-ence of the priesthood in Book of Mormon times.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [531]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review,peterson  Size: 92139  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:52
Phillips, W. Revell. “Weather Report from the Valley of Lemuel.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15 no. 2 (2006).
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In his effort to correct and preserve the original text of the Book of the Mormon, Royal Skousen has also increased our understanding of and appreciation for this volume of sacred scripture. Skousen’s close examination of the use of words and phrases throughout the book highlights its intertextuality and demonstrates that Book of Mormon authors were aware of and influenced by the words of previous authors. Moreover, restoring the original text helps clarify some vague constructions and should also caution us against putting too much emphasis on the exact wording of the present Book of Mormon. Skousen’s analysis of how such changes occurred during a relatively modern transmission process can also further the understanding of more ancient textual transmission. Finally, Skousen’s work reveals that the original Book of Mormon may have been even more strikingly Semitic than the present text and that some characteristically Hebrew constructions have been edited out over the years, though many still remain.

ID = [3196]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 27661  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Potter, George D., and Richard Wellington. “Lehi’s Trail: From the Valley of Lemuel to Nephi’s Harbor.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15 no. 2 (2006).
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Bradford introduces reviews of Royal Skousen’s work on the critical text project.

ID = [3190]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 88424  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Rees, Robert A. “The Book of Mormon and Automatic Writing.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 1 (2006): 4-17, 68-70.
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Some critics of the Book of Mormon have suggested that Joseph Smith produced the book through a process known as “automatic writing,” a rapid flow of language claimed to be generated through paranormal means such as trance-like states or claimed communications with spirits. This paper presents an overview of some prominent claims of automatic writing and examines the historical and scientific evidence for the authenticity of at least some of these cases. After discussing the similarities between these works and the Book of Mormon, the paper outlines a number of features in the Book of Mormon that clearly differentiate it from any known case of automatic writing, features such as the presence of Near Eastern and Mesoamerican geographic, cultural, and linguistic details that were unknowable to anyone in 1830. Based on this and other evidence, the Book of Mormon does not fit the profile of automatic writing but is best explained by Joseph’s own account of its ancient and divine origins.

Keywords: Authorship; Automatic Writing; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Prophet; Smith; Translation
ID = [3176]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 68920  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:30
Ricks, Shirley S. “The Book of Mormon Abridged Anew.” The FARMS Review 18, no. 1 (2006): 21-33.
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Review of Jana Riess, annotator. The Book of Mormon: Selections Annotated and Explained.

Keywords: Abridgment; Scripture Study
ID = [526]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 29018  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:52
Seely, David Rolph, and Erica L. Holland. “Old Testament Bibliography: Latter-day Saint Publications, 1997–2005.” BYU Studies 45, no. 1 (2006): 143-171.
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This is a continuation of the comprehensive bibliography of LDS writings on the Old Testament published in BYU Studies 37, no. 2 (1997–98), available at byustudies.byu.edu. This bibliography includes publications from 1997 to the end of 2005 as well as a few older publications that were not included in the first bibliography. Since that bibliography, there has been a Sperry Symposium dedicated to the Old Testament; all of those printed proceedings (Covenants, Prophecies, and Hymns of the Old Testament) are included in this bibliography. Published in 2005 is the volume Sperry Symposium Classics, a collection of papers from previous symposia; since many of those articles were revised for the 2005 volume, they are included here. Also relevant to the Old Testament is a volume published by FARMS entitled Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem. Of note but not included in this bibliography because of space considerations are the many Old Testament topics discussed in encyclopedic form in The Book of Mormon Reference Companion, edited by Dennis Largely (Deseret Book, 2003).

ID = [29928]  Status = Type = bibliography,journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,old-test  Size: 63884  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:29
Skinner, Andrew C. “The Book of Mormon as an Interpretive Guide to the New Testament.” In Sperry Symposium Classics: The New Testament, eds. Frank F. Judd Jr. and Gaye Strathearn. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [35836]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 42281  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:07
Skousen, Royal. “Conjectural Emendation in the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 18, no. 1 (2006): 187-231.
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Royal Skousen explains what a critical text is and discusses his own critical text of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Conjectural Emendation; Critical Text; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Textual Criticism
ID = [532]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 80994  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:52
Sorenson, John L. “Out of the Dust: Steel in Early Metallurgy.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15, no. 2 (2006): 108-109, 127.
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During the 19th century, critics of the Book of Mormon claimed that steel was not known in the Near East or ancient America during the appropriate Book of Mormon times. This assertion, if true, would discredit the authenticity of the Book of Mormon. However, in more recent decades, proof that Mesopotamian peoples used steel has been revealed. This discovery means that steel was used well before the oldest Book of Mormon people lived. Further research regarding steel in ancient America is still necessary; however, it appears that five Mesoamerican proto-languages have a word for metal, suggesting that the people who spoke those languages were familiar with some form of metal.

Keywords: Anachronisms; Historicity; Language; Mesoamerica; Metal; Metallurgy; Steel
ID = [3198]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,sorenson  Size: 10905  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Stewart, David G., Jr. “DNA and the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 18, no. 1 (2006): Article 8.
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Stewart examines the DNA research applicable to Native Americans and how it relates to Book of Mormon peoples.

ID = [529]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 68062  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:52
Stott, G. St. John. “A Conjectural Reading of The Book of Mormon.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 42, no. 4 (2006): 447-458.
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This article claims that, although the Book of Mormon provides an explanation for American Indian origins, it “was primarily concerned with defining the factors underlying social progress, not the historical events that made such progress possible.” [Author]

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., American setting; Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, American setting
ID = [82057]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:55
Toit, Herman du, and Doris R. Dant. Art and Spirituality: The Visual Culture of Christian Faith. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2006.
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Since 1998 the Brigham Young University Museum of Art has hosted the biennial Art, Belief, Meaning Symposium. The purpose of the symposium is to provide an opportunity for Latter-day Saint artists, critics, and commentators to contribute to the ongoing discussion about issues related to art and spirituality. Our goal is to articulate our interest in the making of art that not only is relevant and meaningful for our day, but which also bears witness and gives perspective to the realities that flow from the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. The symposium provides a welcome forum for discussion regarding issues that have always concerned serious religious artists: • What is the role of the artist in relation to the mission of the Church? • What is the place of self expression, belief, and inspiration in religious art? • Do artists have a “mission” through their work? • How does individual testimony find expression in the work of the artist? • Does religion create untenable tensions in the expression of the artist? • What is the relationship between idea and technique in religious art? • Can religious art find expression through contemporary art movements? This series provides an opportunity for like-minded believers, those with deep and often passionate interests in the arts, to come together, reason together, and benefit from each others’ points of view. Hopefully others who find themselves confronted by similar issues will benefit from a careful reading of these essays.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75253]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:35
Welch, John S. “Keep the Old Wine in Old Wineskins: The Pleasing (Not Pleading) Bar of God.” The FARMS Review 18, no. 1 (2006): 139-147.
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Welch discusses the use of the phrase pleasing bar in the Book of Mormon. Whereas scholar Royal Skousen argues that the word pleasing should actually be pleading, Welch claims that it should remain as it is.

Keywords: Critical Text; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Pleading Bar; Pleasing Bar; Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Textual Criticism; Translation
ID = [530]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 20536  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:52
Insights. “FARMS Review Answers Critics, Sizes Up Scholarship.” Insights 26, no. 2 (2006).
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At 500 pages, the new FARMS Review (vol. 17, no. 2) nearly bursts its binding with items of interest for anyone desiring to be well-informed on Mormon studies. The coverage ranges from Lehi’s encampments in Arabia and the resurgence of the all-but-dead Spalding theory to Jewish-Mormon relations, creation ex nihilo, and the Egyptian Hor Book of Breathings.

Keywords: FARMS; scholarship; Book of Mormon; Bible
ID = [66808]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:50
Insights. “LDS Scholar, Scientist Weigh In on Talk Radio DNA Debate.” Insights 26, no. 2 (2006).
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On 23 February 2006 BYU professor Daniel C. Peterson and DNA scientist John M. Butler were interviewed on the Hugh Hewitt radio program concerning DNA and the Book of Mormon. One week earlier, the Los Angeles Times had run a front-page story on how human DNA studies contradict the Book of Mormon because they suggest an Asian ancestry for people native to the Americas; and on that same day the Times reporter, William Lobdell, was a guest on Hewitt’s program.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; LDS scholar; culture; tradition
ID = [66809]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:50
Insights. “Nibley Fellowship.” Insights 26, no. 2 (2006).
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Each year at this time we remind graduate students about the Nibley Fellowship Program and its application deadline. Named in honor of the late eminent Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley, this program provides financial aid to students enrolled in accredited PhD programs in areas of study directly related to the work and mission of the Maxwell Institute, particularly work done under the name of FARMS—studies of the Book of Mormon, the Book of Abraham, the Old and New Testaments, early Christianity, ancient temples, and related subjects. Applicants cannot be employed at the Institute or be related to an Institute employee.

Keywords: financial aid; religious scholarship; FARMS; PhD programs
ID = [66811]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-02  Collections:  abraham,bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:50
Andersen, M. Steven. “My Great-Grandmother and the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 7 no. 2 (2006).
ID = [37971]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2006-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 9525  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:08
Heal, Kristian S. “‘Look to God and Live’” Insights 26, no. 2 (2006).
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Near the end of the children of Israel’s journey to the promised land following their miraculous escape from Egypt, they once again began to complain against the Lord and against Moses. As a result of this sin, the Lord sent “fiery serpents” among them (Numbers 21:6). Faced with physical death, the people went to Moses, confessed their sins, and entreated him to pray to the Lord to take the serpents away. However, the serpents were not taken away as requested. Instead, in what may have seemed an expression of deep irony—but was in reality a sacred symbol—Moses was instructed to raise up a brass serpent as the means of healing those bitten. This Moses did: “And it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. And the children of Israel set forward” (Numbers 21:9–10). There ends the story in the Bible account.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; narrative; Moses; Bible; Nephi
ID = [66810]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:50
Maxwell, Robert L. “The Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition.” BYU Studies 45, no. 2 (2006): 191.
ID = [11419]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 2619  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Terry, Roger K. “The Omniscience of God.” Religious Educator Vol. 7 no. 2 (2006).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
RSC Topics > G — K > God the Father
RSC Topics > G — K > Godhead
ID = [38608]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2006-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 20156  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:45
Insights. “Latest Findings in the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.” Insights 26, no. 3 (2006).
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These are the best of times for Book of Mormon studies. Since 2001, FARMS (now part of the Maxwell Institute) has been publishing the long-anticipated findings of Professor Royal Skousen’s Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. Each massive volume in this landmark study, appearing on a yearly basis, averages nearly 670 oversize pages of research and analysis that reward careful examination with expanded views of the founding text of Mormonism.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; language; translation; text; scholarship
ID = [66813]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:50
Insights. “Lehi’s Trek DVD Reissued to Target Broader Audience.” Insights 26, no. 3 (2006).
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Journey of Faith, a FARMS documentary about Lehi’s travels through ancient Arabia, has been well received and has generated considerable interest since its release last summer (see report in Insights25/3). Now steps are under way to produce a reissue of the DVD, this time with translations of the commentary into Spanish and Portuguese with English closed-captioning.

Keywords: FARMS; documentary; translation; Lehi
ID = [66814]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:51
Aston, Warren P. “The Rings That Bound the Gold Plates Together.” Insights 26, no. 3 (2006).
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Eyewitnesses to the Book of Mormon plates described in consistent terms the rings that bound the gold plates into a single volume. The rings were three in number and apparently made of the same material as the plates themselves. While our attention naturally focuses on the plates and the translation of the text engraved upon them, the rings may offer another subtle but telling confirmation of the record’s ancient origin.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; translation; plates; rings
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66816]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:51
Bowen, Matthew L. “Wordplay on the Name ‘Enos’” Insights 26, no. 3 (2006).
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In his analysis of Mosiah 1:2–6 and 1 Nephi 1:1–4, John A. Tvedtnes notes that in many instances “Nephite writers relied on earlier records as they recorded their history.”1 He makes a convincing argument that the description of King Benjamin teaching his sons “in all the language of his fathers” (Mosiah 1:2) is modeled on Nephi’s account.

Keywords: Enos; history; Nephi; Book of Mormon; language
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [66815]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:51
Wadsworth, Nathaniel H. “Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies 45, no. 3 (2006): 77.
ID = [11382]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-03  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 37413  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:04
Insights. “Making the Case for Cultural Diffusion in Ancient Times.” Insights 26, no. 4 (2006).
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Old theories die hard in academia, at least when they are entrenched and have been defended intellectually with fervor. Only with overwhelming evidence to the contrary does the institutional status quo crumble and make way for new theories to find legitimacy within the academic mainstream. Illustrative of this struggle for acceptance in the academy has been the contest between the establishment position that ancient American civilization evolved in complete independence from the Old World and the “cultural diffusion hypothesis.” The latter proposes that American societies did not arise and develop in total isolation but were stimulated by connections from the Old World.

Keywords: academia; Old World; ancient times; language; literature
ID = [66819]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:51
Insights. “Lehi’s Epic Journey Detailed in New Book.” Insights 26, no. 4 (2006).
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The seamless blend of scholarship and artistry of the Maxwell Institute’s DVD documentary Journey of Faith continues in expanded form in the new book Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land. Complemented by numerous additional threads of historical detail and scholarly insight, this visually stunning look at Lehi’s trek through the harsh Arabian desert reflects a synergistic collaboration of talented scholars, artists, and photographers seeking to illuminate an epic event in scriptural history and situate it in a real-world setting.

Keywords: history; documentary; Lehi; Book of Mormon
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Probert, Josh E. “Understanding Mazmuur Naafi: The Arabic Psalm of Nephi.” BYU Studies 45, no. 4 (2006): 185.
ID = [11376]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 13547  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:04
Spackman, T. Benjamin. “Negative Questions in the Book of Mormon.” Insights 26, no. 4 (2006).
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Much research has been devoted to identifying and examining language patterns in the Book of Mormon that appear to reflect the book’s underlying Semitic character. One possible Hebraism in the Book of Mormon that has not received attention is the use of negative rhetorical questions when a positive meaning is intended. Some modern Bible translations now translate these negative questions in a positive or even emphatic way. This rhetorical device occurs in English, but it is stronger and more com-mon in biblical Hebrew.

Keywords: questions; Book of Mormon; criticism; examples
ID = [66821]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:51
Insights. “Symposium Explores Widespread Tree of Life Motif.” Insights 26, no. 5 (2006).
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Scholars from various disciplines and institutions gathered in Brigham Young University’s Varsity Theater on 28 and 29 September 2006 to explore the pervasive and powerful tree of life motif as found in civilizations spanning the Far and Middle East to Mesoamerica and as expressed in Latter-day Saint scripture and art. The following report highlights the two presentations by visiting non–Latter-day Saint scholars and briefly summarizes the others.

Keywords: BYU; motif; scripture; art; tree of life
ID = [66824]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:51
Tvedtnes, John A., and Matthew P. Roper. “Firstlings, Sacrifices, and Burnt Offerings.” Insights 26, no. 5 (2006).
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In abridging the account of the Nephite gathering under King Benjamin, Mormon stated, “And they also took of the firstlings of their flocks, that they might offer sacrifice and burnt offerings according to the law of Moses” (Mosiah 2:3). Under Mosaic law, first-lings, or firstborn animals, were dedicated to the Lord, meaning they were given to the priests, who were to sacrifice them and consume the flesh (see Exodus 13:12–15; Numbers 18:17). The exception to this rule was the firstborn lambs used for the Passover meal, which all Israel was to eat (see Exodus 12:5–7).

Keywords: Mormon; tradition; biblical text; sacrifice; burnt offerings
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [66825]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:51
Insights. “New Book Compiles Scholarship on Oliver Cowdery.” Insights 26, no. 6 (2006).
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In conjunction with the recent BYU symposium “Oliver Cowdery: Restoration Witness, Second Elder,” the Maxwell Institute has published Oliver Cowdery: Scribe, Elder, Witness, edited by John W. Welch and Larry E. Morris. This book includes 17 important articles previously published by BYU Studies or FARMS and covers virtually all periods of Oliver Cowdery’s life.

Keywords: BYU Studies; FARMS; Oliver Cowdery; Book of Mormon
ID = [66828]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:51
Roper, Matthew P. “Deer as ‘Goat’ and Pre-Columbian Domesticate.” Insights 26, no. 6 (2006).
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Sometime after the death of his father Jacob, Enos wrote that the Nephites raised “flocks of herds, and flocks of all manner of cattle of every kind, and goats, and wild goats” (Enos 1:21). While contemporary archaeology thus far has not yielded evidence of pre-Columbian goats, anthropologist John L. Sorenson has suggested that Book of Mormon peoples, like the Spanish writers of a later time, may have considered some species of pre-Columbian deer to be a kind of goat.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; United States; deer; Mesoamerica
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [66829]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:51
Bateman, Merrill J. “‘Look Forward with an Eye of Faith’” Devotional, Brigham Young University, March 5, 2006.
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Remember the great gifts of mortality: the physical body, additional light, and the eternal family. These gifts are sacred. May the Lord bless you during this wonderful phase of life that is yours to live so that you may receive all three of these great promises in their fulness.

Keywords: Atonement; Book of Mormon; Mortality; Collection: Overcoming Adversity; Podcast: Overcoming Adversity
ID = [69521]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2006-03-05  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Ensign. “Singles and Marrieds: Together in the Faith.” Ensign April 2006.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [56885]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2006-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 398  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:56
Oaks, Dallin H. “All Men Everywhere.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2006.
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Again and again the Book of Mormon teaches that the gospel of Jesus Christ is universal in its promise and effect.

ID = [20224]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2006-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 13460  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:24
Peterson, Kathleen Lubeck. “Singles and Marrieds: Together in the Faith.” Ensign, April 2006.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [56883]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2006-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8414  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:56
Tanner, Susan W. “‘I Am the Light Which Ye Shall Hold Up’” Delivered at the General Young Women Meeting of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2006.
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Each of our [Christlike] deeds may share only a pinpoint of light, but added together they begin to make a significant difference.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [20250]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2006-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 6522  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:25
Samuelson, Cecil O. “Distinguished Graduates of 2006.” Commencement, Brigham Young University, April 27, 2006.
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I believe being acceptable to God and having the approval of the right kind of men and women are the ultimate accreditation that we should each personally seek. And the basic standard by which we will be measured is whether or not we serve Christ.

Keywords: BYU
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69531]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2006-04-27  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:49
Gardner, Brant A. “Defenders of the Book: Surveying the New World Evidence for Book of Mormon Historicity.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.
ID = [32432]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2006-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Mayfield, Steven L., and George Throckmorton. “Salamander Letters.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.
ID = [32435]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2006-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Stewart, David G., Jr. “DNA and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.
ID = [32425]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2006-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 63263  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Clark, Kim B. “As the Army of Helaman.” Graduation, Brigham Young University—Idaho, August 25, 2006.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [71863]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2006-08-25  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:05
Bahr, Howard M. “‘A Simple, Common-Sense Explanation’: Thomas F. O’Dea and the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Mormon History 32, no. 3 (Fall, 2006): 104-140.
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In 1949 Thomas O’Dea wrote “A Study of Mormon Values” for Harvard University. In this document, the majority of his sources were written by members of the Church since he wished to portray the Mormons as they saw themselves. He was “new to the culture” and was “deferential to the perceptions of the people he studied.” He stated several times that it was not the role of a sociologist to decide if what someone believes is true or false, but that their values and beliefs should be respected because ”’they remain the orienting mechanisms which give meaning to human life and which are held with a considerable degree of emotional attachment’.” However, according to Bahr, by the time O’Dea wrote “The Mormons” eight years later he abandoned this view. In the second chapter of “The Mormons,” O’Dea concluded that the simplest explanation for the Book of Mormon is that it was written by Joseph Smith. Bahr attempts to trace any thoughts O’Dea had on the Book of Mormon before “The Mormons” was published by examining information from notes that O’Dea made while living in a Mormon community, his interviews of Mormon intellectuals, and his margin notes in a Book of Mormon. Bahr also dissects O’Dea’s argument that Joseph Smith authored The Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Sociological studies; O’Dea, Thomas F.
ID = [82025]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:53
2007
Insights. “Mary and Elisabeth Topic of Museum of Art Lecture.” Insights 27, no. 1 (2007).
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As part of the ongoing Museum of Art lecture series on the life of Christ, S. Kent Brown, director of FARMS, addressed the topic “The Birth of the Savior” on January 17. Drawing from Luke 1 and 2 and studies on life among ancient Jews, he focused on Mary and Elisabeth, whose lives are only faintly sketched in the scriptures.

Keywords: art; lecture; Book of Mormon; scriptures
ID = [66837]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:52
Ball, Terry B. “Alma’s Reform of Zarahemla: A Model for Activation.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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Just as modern missionaries can learn much from the methods of the sons of Mosiah, we can learn much about strengthening wavering members from the example of Alma the Younger in his remarkable reform of the Nephites in Zarahemla. A careful study of Alma 4–16 shows that Alma the Younger models many important principles of activation that are helpful to us today. This study examines principles of activation derived from the account of Alma’s labors among the apostate Nephites, particularly in the city of Zarahemla in Alma 4 and 5.

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Conversion; Missionary Work; Zarahemla (Polity)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [35813]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 22048  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Belnap, Daniel L. “‘We Are Not Cut Off’: Separation and Reconciliation through Sacred Covenants.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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Perhaps no theme in the Book of Mormon resonates so powerfully to modern readers as that of separation from and reconciliation with God. The sense of being cut off, isolated, or driven out is attested throughout the book. Similarly, messages from the Book of Mormon prophets of hope, reconciliation, and communion with God seek to alleviate the fears and depression that arise from loneliness or abandonment. This theme is particularly evident in Jacob’s great speech recorded in 2 Nephi 6–10 and the two “last” speeches from Moroni in Mormon 8 and Moroni 10. Jacob and Moroni both address separation from and reconciliation with God, providing a template for the reader to understand their own experiences. In particular, these prophets quote the words of Isaiah to teach how sacred covenants reconcile us to God.

Keywords: Covenant; Jacob (Son of Lehi); Moroni (Son of Mormon); Reconciliation; Separation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
ID = [35807]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 27701  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Bokovoy, David E. “Repetitive Resumption in the Book of Mormon.” Insights 27, no. 1 (2007).
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One of the most important contributions of biblical scholarship since the time of Joseph Smith has been the recognition and analysis of editorial activity in the Old Testament. Like the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Mormon is a compilation of several literary sources produced under the auspices of ancient editors or redactors. Significantly, one of the primary signs of editorial activity in the Old Testament, a technique known as repetitive resumption, is also attested in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; narrative; resumption; Joseph Smith
ID = [66835]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:52
Brown, S. Kent. “The Hunt for the Valley of Lemuel.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16 no. 1 (2007).
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A canyon in northwestern Arabia, Wadi Tayyib al-Ism, appears to be a strong candidate for the Valley of Lemuel in the Book of Mormon. Although its rare year-round stream seems to confirm this site as the valley, other locations must be considered. Brown gives arguments both in favor of and against three other propositions, all of which are within a few dozen miles of Wadi Tayyib al-Ism. The aspects of the river and the Red Sea, the drainage areas of wadis, and the character of the valley are all evaluated. Despite his one serious objection to Wadi Tayyib al-Ism—the difficulty Lehi’s family would have experienced in reaching the site from the north end of the Gulf of Aqaba—Brown argues that it is the most viable candidate for the Valley of Lemuel.

ID = [3206]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 34041  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
BYU Religious Studies Center. Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts. The 36th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2007.
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The 36th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium Mark Twain reportedly said, “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” Perhaps a similar statement could be made regarding the Book of Mormon: the person who reads the Book of Mormon but does not follow its teachings is not much better off than the person who does not read it. The 2007 Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, Living the Book of Mormon: “Abiding by Its Precepts,” focuses on how the Book of Mormon can immeasurably bless our lives as we strive to live what it teaches. In this volume are papers presented at the Sidney B. Sperry Symposium held on the Provo campus of Brigham Young University on October 26–27, 2007. This year the symposium takes its theme from Joseph Smith’s statement, “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book” (introduction to the Book of Mormon). Topics of the 2007 Sidney B. Sperry Symposium include redemption through Christ, the “three Rs” of the Book of Mormon, and the divine precept of charity. Presenters include Elder Joe J. Christensen, Terry B. Ball, Richard O. Cowan, and Robert L. Millet. This symposium is distinctive in that it centers on the practical application of the precepts taught in the Book of Mormon—precepts that can help us draw nearer to God.—Elder Joe J. Christensen, emeritus member, First Quorum of the Seventy.

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Articles

Christensen, Joe J. “‘Abiding by Its Precepts’” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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I submit that anyone who reads the Book of Mormon and receives a testimony of its truthfulness by the power of the Holy Ghost will be motivated to live a life more consistent with the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. He or she will become a better person. The Book of Mormon is action oriented. It is motivational. As long as the Spirit continues to strive with such individuals, their consciences will not let them be completely at peace until they improve their lives. Abiding by the precepts, teachings, and commandments taught so clearly in its pages will help a person proximately in this life and ultimately in the life to come. As a result, I resonate positively to the theme of this symposium: “Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts.”

Keywords: Doctrine; Joseph; Jr.; Precept; Pride; Salvation; Scripture Study; Smith
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35800]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 46455  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Williams, Clyde J. “Using the Book of Mormon to Meet Today’s Challenges.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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Prophets and apostles have counseled us how to use the Book of Mormon. In April 1986, President Ezra Taft Benson pleaded: “I would particularly urge you to read again and again the Book of Mormon and ponder and apply its teachings. . . . [One] who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.”

Keywords: Promise; Prophecy; Scripture Study
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [35801]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 31458  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Esplin, Scott C. “Getting ‘Nearer to God’: A History of Joseph Smith’s Statement.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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The Prophet Joseph Smith’s statement, “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book,” may be one of his most recognizable quotes. Millions of readers of the Book of Mormon find it in the sixth paragraph of the book’s introduction. Hundreds of thousands of general conference participants hear it cited repeatedly from the pulpit. Books, articles, and even entire symposia use it as a theme. However, how many people familiar with the quote understand its context? For example, why did Joseph say what he did regarding the Book of Mormon? Who were “the brethren” to whom he made the statement? What sparked the declaration? How has it been used over time? Answers to these important historical questions help us better appreciate the power and application of Joseph’s prophetic statement in our modern day.

Keywords: Doctrine; Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Precept; Prophet; Smith
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [35802]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 34011  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Millet, Robert L. “‘The Most Correct Book’: Joseph Smith’s Appraisal.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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On November 28, 1841, the Prophet Joseph Smith met with the Nauvoo City Council and members of the Quorum of the Twelve in the home of President Brigham Young. History of the Church records that he conversed “with them upon a variety of subjects. Brother Joseph Fielding was present, having been absent four years on a mission to England.” It was in that setting, at the Sunday city council meeting in the Young’s residence, that Joseph Smith made what has come to be one of the most axiomatic and memorable statements in Mormon literature: “I told the brethren,” he said, “that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” In what follows, we will consider the possible meaning and implications of the various parts of this rather bold declaration about this extrabiblical document. We will consider the nature of the Book of Mormon’s correctness, how it is the keystone, the precepts it contains, the poignancy of those precepts, its importance to the world, and finally, its prophetic destiny as a book of holy scripture.

Keywords: Doctrine; Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Keystone; Most Correct Book; Precept; Scripture Study; Smith
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
ID = [35803]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,brigham,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 36090  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Swift, Charles. “The Literary Power of the Book of Mormon.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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Although the Book of Mormon is composed of such literary elements as stories, poetry, symbolism, letters, archetypes, typology, and allegories, it is not just literature; it is sacred literature, and millions of people with open hearts have found the power behind the Prophet Joseph Smith’s inspired words that “a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book” (introduction to the Book of Mormon). For believers, there is no question that the Book of Mormon has the power to change the lives of those who are willing to let it. What believers may not so readily understand, however, is the powerful role that the book’s literary features play in changing their lives. These literary elements are not decorative add-ons included by the prophets merely to make reading the book more interesting. Often the literary nature of the Book of Mormon conveys the doctrine and other life-changing precepts in ways that help us better abide by them and experience their power in our lives.

Keywords: Allegory; Dialogue; Literature; Metaphor; Simile; Tragedy
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
ID = [35804]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 28115  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Ludlow, Victor L. “Agency—It’s Our Choice: Book of Mormon Insights.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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The choices we make may not affect the future history of our nation, but they do impact our personal destiny and influence those in our families and other circles of influence. Indeed, the cause-effect relationship of our choices is a major message of the Book of Mormon. In its pages, we learn about the nature of human agency and the enduring consequences of our choices. This chapter will discuss what agency is; how, where, and by whom various principles of agency are taught; and how understanding and applying the basic elements of agency will bring us nearer to God.

Keywords: Agency; Free Will
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
ID = [35805]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 26685  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Goodman, Michael A. “Laman and Lemuel: A Case Study in ‘Not Becoming’” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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We can easily see Laman and Lemuel as being lost from the start. Almost like stock characters in a novel, they may appear to have little depth or complexity. This simplistic view makes it hard to identify the reasons behind, as well as the consequences of, Laman and Lemuel’s behavior. Consequently, if we do not look for deeper meaning in Laman and Lemuel’s story, we may fail to identify the necessary precepts to avoid the pitfalls they fell into and to which we are vulnerable today. Through a more contextual view of Laman and Lemuel’s lives, we are provided with a set of precepts to help us thrive spiritually in our day. As President Spencer W. Kimball taught, to be “forewarned is [to be] forearmed.” Ultimately, Laman and Lemuel’s lack of faith in and incorrect understanding of God led to their failure to become the righteous sons of God they were intended to be.

Keywords: Humility; Laman (Son of Lehi); Lemuel (Son of Lehi); Prayer; Pride; Repentance; Scripture Study
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
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Szink, Terrence L. “Writing the Things of God.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
ID = [35808]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 23462  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Parker, Jared T. “Abinadi on the Father and the Son: Interpretation and Application.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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An important part of drawing nearer to God is coming to know and understand Him through the scriptures He has given us—especially the Book of Mormon, since it contains many plain and precious truths missing from our current Bible. Although most Book of Mormon passages are easy to understand, some are more difficult, such as Abinadi’s teachings about the Father and the Son in Mosiah 15:2–5. Yet Mormon’s inclusion of these words in his abridgment suggests that the Lord wants us to have these teachings and wants us to understand them. Accordingly, many have written about what Abinadi taught—that Jesus Christ is the Father and the Son—and have provided valuable insights and explanations. In these discussions, however, a satisfactory explanation of why Abinadi spoke this way appears to be unaddressed. Abinadi’s teachings can help us know God better and thereby draw nearer to Him if we (1) correctly interpret the why and what of his message and (2) apply his teachings in our study of the scriptures.

Keywords: Abinadi (Prophet); Application; God the Father; Godhead; Jesus Christ; Prophet; Role; Title; Trinity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
RSC Topics > D — F > Elohim
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
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Perkins, Jerome M. “Alma the Younger: A Disciple’s Quest to Become.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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One of the key messages of the Book of Mormon is that the human soul must change, must progress, must become. The Book of Mormon is, in effect, a handbook of change, with the Lord seeking to motivate mighty change within us by using the lives and teachings of the Book of Mormon protagonists as the means to teach us how to become. At the heart of the Book of Mormon, in the books of Mosiah and Alma, Alma the Younger makes the subject of change, progression, and becoming the very essence of his life and sermons, and thus Alma the Younger becomes a quintessential standard of how to become like God.

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Conversion; Discipleship
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
ID = [35810]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 24969  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Lane, Jennifer Clark. “Choosing Redemption.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > D — F > Devil
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [35811]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 28804  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Cowan, Richard O. “Restoration, Redemption, and Resurrection: Three R’s of the Book of Mormon.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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We have long heard of the “three R’s” of elementary education—reading, ”riting, and ”rithmetic. Similarly, a set of interrelated doctrines might be referred to as the three R’s of the Book of Mormon—restoration, redemption, and resurrection. In fact, we might add a fourth R, repentance, which is essential for the first two to function. Material for this chapter is drawn primarily from two experiences recorded in the book of Alma. First, Alma and Amulek confront a group of antagonistic lawyers in the wicked city of Ammonihah. Amulek’s response to Zeezrom’s hostile questioning is recorded in chapter 11. Then, as Alma the Younger neared the end of his life, he took time to give instructions to his three sons. Notice how he spent the most time with, and gave particularly profound teachings to, his wayward son Corianton—recorded in chapters 39–42. Apparently Alma agreed with the principle President Boyd K. Packer later annunciated—that “the study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior.”

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Amulek; Corianton (Son of Alma); Redemption; Restoration; Resurrection; Zeezrom
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [35812]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 20956  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Newell, Lloyd D. “‘All Are Alike unto God’: Equality and Charity in the Book of Mormon.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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Equality and charity are two expressions of the same principle—both require humility and meekness; both are central to the message of the Book of Mormon. With distinct clarity, the Book of Mormon teaches over and over again that “all are alike unto God,” and this simple truth is the antidote for many of the pride problems that keep people from coming unto Christ and from extending service and love to all of His children. Whenever an individual or a nation achieves greatness in the Book of Mormon, it is because the people are free with their substance and treat each other as equals. In contrast, the many tragic pitfalls of pride that the Book of Mormon outlines can be traced to a person or persons withholding charity and thinking they are above another. Alma’s deep sorrow was because of the “great inequality among the people, some lifting themselves up with their pride, despising others, turning their backs upon the needy and the naked and those who were hungry, and those who were athirst, and those who were sick and afflicted”. In the kingdom of God, righteousness and devotion are what matter—not prestige, power, or possessions. Love, compassion, and abundance of heart characterize the real Christian, not acquisitiveness and selfishness. The Book of Mormon declares that the true Saints of God are those who put “off the natural man” and become “new creatures” in Christ—”submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love”.

Keywords: Charity; Equality; Jesus Christ; Pride
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Charity
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
ID = [35814]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 30606  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Line, C. Robert. “‘With Power and Authority of God’: Principles of Missionary Success.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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The Book of Mormon contains powerful and priceless principles relating to the preaching of God’s word to His children. Although various principles relating to missionary work are found throughout the Book of Mormon, nowhere is this more evident than in Alma 17 and 18. This chapter seeks to help students and teachers of the restored gospel identify and implement a few of these potent principles that can help all of us have greater success in missionary work.

Keywords: Ammon (Son of King Mosiah); Authority; Faith; Missionary Work; Power; Righteousness; Sons of Mosiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
ID = [35815]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 24965  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Judd, Frank F., Jr. “How to Be Reclaimed from the Fall of Adam.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift, 223–36. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2007.
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When Alma the Younger returned to Zarahemla following his mission to the Zoramites, “he caused that his sons should be gathered together, that he might give unto them every one his charge, separately, concerning the things pertaining to righteousness” (Alma 35:16). The Book of Mormon contains a significantly larger amount of counsel from Alma to his wayward son Corianton than to Helaman and Shiblon.
Within Alma’s teachings, we discover a concise explanation of the Fall of Adam and three elements necessary to reclaim each individual from the Fall, namely, death, the Atonement, and the Resurrection. This chapter will discuss the Fall of Adam and these three elements in Alma’s teachings to Corianton and also in the inspired teachings of modern apostles and prophets. This chapter will conclude that we can control only one of the three elements necessary to reclaim mankind from the Fall: whether we use the Atonement to repent of our sins and forgive others.

Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
RSC Topics > T — Z > Virtue
ID = [4716]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 30757  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:51
King, Michael L. “The Atonement of Jesus Christ—‘Glad Tidings of Great Joy’” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > A — C > Charity
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Hope
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35817]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 41414  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Fear, Michael J. “The Merits of Christ: Fallen Humanity’s Hope for Redemption.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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Understanding men and women’s inability to merit salvation through their own efforts can lead one to rely “alone upon the merits of Christ”. Nephi put it this way: “O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh. Yea, cursed is he that putteth his trust in man”. Nephi had seen his weak and fallen condition and realized that without the strength of the Lord, he would not be able to overcome the world and his own personal struggles. When we see clearly that we are lost and that we need Him, we can be led to rely on His goodness and His grace in our lives. This reliance on the merits of Christ involves more than simply passive belief. It includes recognizing our fallen nature and finding access to grace through making and keeping sacred covenants.

Keywords: Atonement; Jesus Christ; Merits; Redemption; Righteousness
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Hope
RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35818]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 17079  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Ray, Brian K. “‘Proper Order’—A Powerful Precept of the Book of Mormon.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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By definition, order means being in the proper relationship or arrangement. In a gospel context, order is found in enjoying a harmonious relationship with God. This chapter will examine what the Book of Mormon teaches about order, how students of the Book of Mormon can order their lives, and the related doctrines of ordination and ordinances.

Keywords: Authority; Order; Ordinances; Ordination; Precept; Priesthood; Relationship
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
ID = [35819]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 23526  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Kramer, Neal W. “Prophetic Principles for Building Zion.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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When we think of the doctrine of Zion as taught in the Book of Mormon, our minds often turn to 4 Nephi. The book describes in a few verses a society organized around the principles taught by the Savior to a righteous remnant of Nephites and Lamanites at the temple in Bountiful. Some important characteristics of this community of Christians were faith, family, hope, peace, security, and happiness. Indeed, Mormon powerfully asserts that “there could not be a happier people among all the people who had been created by the hand of God”. Imagine that! They were happier than the citizens of the city of Enoch, happier than Mechizedek’s city of Salem. This Book of Mormon Zion had been foretold from the time Lehi and his family left Jerusalem. In preparation for that great day, crucial principles about Zion were regularly taught by prophets like King Benjamin and Alma the Elder. But the Book of Mormon was written for our day to assist us in preparing for the building of our Zion. And so the Book of Mormon calls us to come unto Christ and take upon His name by building Zion, which is founded on the principles of equality, unity, covenants, and priesthood organization.

Keywords: 4 Nephi; Covenant; Equality; Organization; Priesthood; Principle; Prophet; Unity; Zion
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > T — Z > Unity
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [35820]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 33329  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Richardson, Matthew O. “‘The Pure Love of Christ’: The Divine Precept of Charity in Moroni 7.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
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Some may ask, Can you really go wrong with love—in any form? But Mormon taught that “if ye have not charity, ye are nothing” and that “whoso is found possessed of it [charity] at the last day, it shall be well with him”. Obviously, saying that charity is important is an understatement. But what if people understate charity and are left with a form that isn’t even the same charity Mormon spoke of? What if the present understanding of charity has already shifted from the divine precept taught in the Book of Mormon?

Keywords: Charity; Jesus Christ; Love; Mormon (Prophet)
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Charity
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
ID = [35821]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 26752  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:06
Cannon, Donald Q. “In the Press: Early Newspaper Reports on the Initial Publication of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16, no. 2 (2007): 4-15, 92-93.
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Cannon’s examination of news articles and stories concerning the publication of the Book of Mormon helps provide a greater understanding of its initial reception. Most news coverage first appeared in Palmyra and the surrounding areas, but articles on the Book of Mormon appeared as far west as Missouri and Arkansas and from Maine to Georgia. Even with this seemingly wide range of coverage, the overall quantity of news articles on the topic reveals how few people knew about the book and the early LDS Church as a whole. Although the majority of the news articles concerning the Book of Mormon were negative, some assumed a neutral stance and a relatively small number were positive about the book and its publication.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Early Church History; NY; Palmyra; Restoration
ID = [3211]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 41586  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:32
Christianson, Jack R. The Book of Mormon. Orem, Utah: Millennial Press, 2007.
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“It sets forth in a clear and engaging style the answers to many of the false charges leveled by critics against the Book of Mormon. Rather than criticize others for their perception of the Book of Mormon, this book serves as a valuable guide for those who seek to better understand the central purpose of the Book of Mormon--to testify of Christ.” [Publisher’s abstract]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Native Americans, origins of; Book of Mormon, historicity; Book of Mormon, authorship
ID = [81471]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:22
Cumming, David Butler. “Three Days and Three Nights: Reassessing Jesus’s Entombment.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16 no. 1 (2007).
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The Bible does not explicitly state on which day of the week the Savior was crucified, and the passages describing the length of time he spent in the tomb can be interpreted in multiple ways. Depending on how days were measured and on what Sabbath the day of preparation preceded—whether the weekly Sabbath or the Passover Sabbath—the crucifixion could plausibly have occurred on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. The Bible and history have not been able to determine on which day of the week the crucifixion occurred, but the Book of Mormon gives additional information to establish the day. Based on a comparison of the passages in the two texts and an examination of time differences between the two hemispheres, Thursday appears to be the most plausible solution.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3205]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 26980  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Curci, Jonathan. “Liahona: ‘The Direction of the Lord’: An Etymological Explanation.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16, no. 2 (2007): 60-67, 97-98.
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The etymological meaning of the name Liahona has been touched on before, but Curci seeks to deliver a more plausible etymology than has previously been given. By transliterating the word back into the Hebraic idioms of the time of Lehi and evaluating the grammatical elements to form the name, he has settled on the meaning of “ direction of the Lord.” The name is broken into three parts, and Curci argues that each part is Hebraic in origin, including the meaning and interpretation of each part. The etymological evidence regarding the name Liahona strengthens the claim that the book was written by a group of ancient Hebrews and not Joseph Smith.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Etymology; Historicity; Language - Hebrew; Liahona; Transliteration
ID = [3216]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 41531  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:32
Davis, Ryan W. “For the Peace of the People: War and Democracy in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 17, no. 1 (2007): 42-55, 85-86.
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King Benjamin, in an attempt to establish and promote peace, created a form of government that may be understood as democratic. The political system is not a democracy in the way the term is understood today, but the democratic elements become especially clear when viewed next to its autocratic Lamanite counterpart. Davis demonstrates how a democratic system tends to bring more peace to a nation and, interestingly, also more victory when war does come upon them. The young Nephite state encountered the types of risks experienced in the modern progression to democracy, further illustrating how difficult a task it would have been for Joseph Smith to create this world. Although the democratic state played a role in the Nephite nation, the most important lesson in the Book of Mormon’s politics is that God makes all the difference.

Keywords: Democracy; Peace; Politics; Warfare
ID = [3204]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 59666  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Gardner, Brant A. Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2007.
ID = [77181]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Gardner, Brant A. Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon: First Nephi. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2007.
ID = [77219]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Gardner, Brant A. “A New Chronicler in the Old Style.” The FARMS Review 19, no. 1 (2007): 13-22.
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Review of David G. Calderwood. Voices from the Dust: New Insights into Ancient America.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; South America
ID = [552]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 20641  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:53
Hamblin, William J. “Reformed Egyptian.” The FARMS Review 19, no. 1 (2007): Article 7.
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This article discusses the term reformed Egyptian as used in the Book of Mormon. Many critics claim that reformed Egyptian does not exist; however, languages and writing systems inevitably change over time, making the Nephites’ language a reformed version of Egyptian.

ID = [554]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 11137  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:54
Hamblin, William J. “Sacred Writing on Metal Plates in the Ancient Mediterranean.” The FARMS Review 19, no. 1 (2007): 37-54.
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Significant evidence reveals that bronze and other metals were historically used for writing sacred texts. This article uses that information to demonstrate the plausibility that the Book of Mormon prophet Lehi would have followed the same practice.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Metal Plates; Metallurgy; Recordkeeping
ID = [555]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 45166  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:54
Hanson, Scot, and Daniel B. McKinlay. “A Selective Bibliography of Book of Mormon Literary Features.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16 no. 2 (2007).
ID = [3219]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 17231  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:32
Hardy, Heather. “Another Testament of Jesus Christ: Mormon’s Poetics.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16, no. 2 (2007): 16-27, 93-95.
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The Book of Mormon is clearly a didactic text, with its narrators using plainness, explicitness, and repetition to keep the message clear and straightforward. However, Hardy offers a more in-depth analysis of the text’s rhetorical design that also reveals it as a literary text. The Book of Mormon is both a primer for judgment and a guidebook for sanctification. Parallel narratives are compared through clusters of similar narrative elements or phrasal borrowing between the multiple accounts. In Mosiah, Mormon tells the story of the bondage and delivery of Alma and his people after recounting the story of the bondage of the people of Limhi. Hardy explains that ambiguity, indirection, comparison, and allusions are all used to suggest the larger context of these two narratives. The ability to read the book as a guidebook for sanctification, rather than just as a straightforward didactic primer, will provide insight and guidance in the process of living a faithful life.

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Another Testament of Jesus Christ; Bondage; Context; Delivery; Didactic; Judgment; King Limhi; Mormon; Narrative; People of Limhi; Poetic; Poetry; Sanctification
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3212]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 65869  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:32
Hicken, Paula W. “Mormon’s Spiritual Treasure, ‘Dazzling’ or Otherwise.” The FARMS Review 19, no. 2 (2007): Article 3.
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Review of Keith Bailey Schofield. How to Increase Your Enjoyment of the Book of Mormon: Striking New Insights Into the Life of Mormon and His Work.

ID = [572]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 22046  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:55
Hoskisson, Paul Y., and Michael D. Rhodes. “Out of the Dust: Ancient Semitic in Egyptian Pyramids?” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16, no. 1 (2007): 74-75, 88.
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An announcement made in Jerusalem—claiming that parts of the text found in the pyramid of Wenis were ancient Semitic and not Egyptian—could have implications applicable to the Latter-day Saints. If the claim proves to be true, these spells would be one of the oldest attestations of any Semitic language. Egyptologists have tended to reject the possibility of influence from non-Egyptians, but the existence of these Semitic lines would force them to reconsider that possibility. The reverse would also have to be considered, supporting the Book of Mormon’s suggestion that the Hebrews adopted Egyptian script to write Hebrew. However, the assertion has only been made and has yet to be proven.

Keywords: Arabia; Egyptian; Egyptology; Jerusalem; Language; Language - Hebrew; Semitic
ID = [3207]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 9183  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Larsen, Val. “Killing Laban: The Birth of Sovereignty in the Nephite Constitutional Order.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 17, no. 1 (2007): 26-41, 84-85.
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The slaying of Laban has been a stumbling block for many readers of the Book of Mormon. Although Laban appeared to have legally merited the execution, any explanation of the act is unsatisfactory if Nephi is considered to be acting as an individual. Larsen illustrates that Nephi was acting as a sovereign, with a clear political purpose. When Lehi offered a sacrifice in the Valley of Lemuel, his family became a separate people, with Nephi repeatedly promised the role of ruler. Nephi’s symbolic and literal assuming of this sovereign authority through the act of killing Laban is explained through six different layers: (1) substitutional sovereignty, (2) the assumption of Mosaic authority, (3) the assumption of Davidic authority, (4) private and public motives, (5) the Nephite constitutional order, and (6) explicit declarations of Nephi’s reign. Nephi did not formally assume the role of king for many years, but by slaying Laban he proves that he will be a dutiful king.

Keywords: Kingship; Laban; Law of Moses; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Sacrifice; Valley of Lemuel
ID = [3203]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 68702  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Ludlow, Jared W. “A Tale of Three Communities: Jerusalem, Elephantine, and Lehi-Nephi.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16, no. 2 (2007): 28-41, 95.
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Prior to the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem in 586 BC, Lehi took his family into the wilderness. Around the same time, another group of Jews fled to Elephantine in Egypt. Ludlow evaluates the Nephite group, the Elephantine colony, and the Jews in postexilic Jerusalem to show how the Nephites compared religiously with other Jewish groups. Social relationships, the Sabbath and festivals, priesthood officials, and temples played important roles in all three communities, with the importance and function of each varying among the three. On the other hand, scriptural texts strongly aided the reformation of Jerusalem and played an important role among the Nephites, beginning with the retrieval of brass plates from Laban, but the Elephantine community lacked texts related to the Hebrew Bible. After comparing the three, Ludlow shows that the Nephites created their own religious community, separate and independent from the religious community they left behind.

Keywords: Brass Plates; Community; Elephantine; Festival; Jerusalem; Lehi-Nephi (Polity); Priesthood; Scripture; Temple
ID = [3213]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 45735  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:32
Macdonald, Byron Scott. “Human nature as viewed through the imagery of warfare in the Book of Mormon.” Master’s thesis, Northridge: California State University, Northridge, 2007.
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An analysis of human nature, or the “natural man” in LDS terminology and how that applies to the warfare depicted within the pages of the Book of Mormon and how it benefits the validity of this Book.

Keywords: Doctrinal history, human nature; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon
ID = [81560]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:27
Meldrum, D. Jeffrey, and Trent D. Stephens. Who Are the Children of Lehi? DNA and the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2007.
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“In Who Are the Children of Lehi? Meldrum and Stephens, professors and researchers, provide a solidly scientific guide for the layperson, beginning with the basics. The scientific method works by proposing testable hypotheses and eliminating those that are incorrect. But the scientific method cant falsify untestable hypotheses (for example, is there a Lehite genetic marker in the Americas?) nor can it prove a negative (for example, if we cant find Lehite DNA, then it never existed). They also explain the fascinating process of genetic inheritance itself, illuminating technical points with easy-to-grasp examples and using their own family histories to show how DNA sequence data captures only a fraction of the 1,024 ancestral slots on a ten-generation pedigree chart. This discussion lays the foundation for a fascinating overview of DNA studies on existing Native American populations, which does indeed confirm Asian origins for most current Native Americans sampled by such methods. However, that discussion leads to a sober analysis of the genocide that swept Native American populations with the arrival of Europeans. In vivid historical examples and reports of contemporary studies, the authors explain how simplistic assumptions about DNA survival must be qualified by the often drastic effects of swamping out, bottlenec ks, founder effects, genetic drift, and admixture. The result is a rich and complex view of the realities of genetic transmission. They also offer diffusionism, a hypothesis with mounting evidence of numerous transoceanic contacts, as an alternative to the crossing the Bering land bridge paradigm.In their conclusion, they return to the foundations laid out in their introduction: The ultimate issues of the veracity of the Book of Mormon record as it relates to Native American ancestry lie squarely in the arena of faith and personal testimonybeyond the purview of scientific empiricism. In the end, Lehis legacy is one of kinship through covenant, rather than through bloodlines or genes.” [Abstract from book cover]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Native Americans, origins of; Native Americans, Mormon views of; Genetics; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81491]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:23
Merrill, A. Roger. “To Be Edified and Rejoice Together.” Ensign, January 2007.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [57247]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 14086  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:58
Midgley, Louis C. “Preserving and Enlarging the Memory of the Saints.” The FARMS Review 19, no. 2 (2007): 21-24.
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Midgley applies Yosef Yerushalmi’s discussion of the ways of remembrance as illustrated in Jewish history to the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Remembrance
ID = [577]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 8418  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:55
Midgley, Louis C. “Remembrance and the Past.” The FARMS Review 19, no. 2 (2007): Article 7.
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This article references Yosef Yerushalmi’s study of the role of remembrance in the Jewish religion. Novak and Midgley claim that Latter-day Saints have a similar need for remembrance in their religion, as is dem-onstrated in the Book of Mormon.

ID = [579]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 66660  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:55
Morris, Larry E. “The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16 no. 1 (2007).
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Shortly after arriving in New York and beginning employment as a schoolteacher in 1828, Oliver Cowdery first learned about Joseph Smith and the gold plates through rumors and gossip. Through the sincere investigations of Oliver and his newfound friend, David Whitmer, and his time as a boarder with the Joseph Smith family in Palmyra, Oliver continued to learn about Joseph and the plates. He received a personal witness and traveled with Samuel Smith to visit Joseph in Harmony. Several events involving Martin Harris, David Whitmer, Joseph Knight Sr., and the Smith family all played a role in Oliver’s conversion, and on April 7, Joseph and Oliver began the translation of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [3201]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 66423  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Parry, Donald W. Poetic Parallelisms in the Book of Mormon: The Complete Text Reformatted. Provo, UT: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2007.
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“Poetic Parallelisms in the Book of Mormon : The Complete Text Reformatted comprises the entire text of the Book of Mormon formatted into (1) historical narrative or (2) parallelistic forms, consisting of a number of parallel and repetitious types. The narrative portions, representing the majority of the Book of Mormon, are formatted into regular blocked style. Parallelistic forms, however, are formatted into various patterns designed to aid the reader in visualizing the forms. A number of mechanical techniques have been employed in creating the patterns, including bold characters, underlining, indentations, italics, parentheses, spacing, adding letters of the alphabet, and others. On occasion, ancient poetic texts belonging to the Dead Sea Scrolls were also formatted in certain arrangements.” [Author]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Chiasmus; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon
ID = [81503]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:24
Parry, Donald W. “Service and Temple in King Benjamin’s Speech.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16, no. 2 (2007): 42-47, 95-97.
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King Benjamin’s speech focuses almost entirely on service, repeating four variations of the word—servants, serve, served, and service—fifteen times in only eighteen verses. Benjamin gave the discourse in such a manner that his audience could have understood service in multiple ways. Given the significant temple setting for the discourse and the references to temple service in the Old Testament, Parry seeks to highlight the emphasis on temple service. To further strengthen his focus on temple service, Benjamin links service to the concept of blood on garments and his need to wash his garments of his people’s blood, bringing to mind the priests with blood on their garments from temple rituals, who were required to wash their garments. The temple setting, where sacrifices were made under the law of Moses, and the focus on service point to Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice—the supreme and final act of service.

Keywords: Atonement; Garments; King Benjamin; Old Testament; Sacrifice; Servant; Service; Temple
ID = [3214]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 42927  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:32
Phillips, W. Revell. “Mughsayl: Another Candidate for Land Bountiful.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16 no. 2 (2007).
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Adding to three previous sites proposed as Nephi’s Bountiful, Phillips argues in defense of another candidate—Mughsayl. He evaluates all the candidates and describes the corresponding areas. He proposes that Lehi and his family were not alone during their travels or time in Bountiful and lists ten reasons in support of his proposal of Mughsayl as the land of Bountiful. The merits of Mughsayl include its tributaries, its ability to sustain a large herd of camels and other domesticated animals, and its location on a trade route between Salalah and the Hadramaut region of Yemen.

ID = [3215]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 35259  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:32
Poulsen, Larry. “The Light Is Better Over Here.” The FARMS Review 19, no. 2 (2007): Article 4.
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Review of V. Garth Norman. Book of Mormon Geography—Mesoamerican Historic Geography.

ID = [573]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 17346  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:55
Smith, Robert F. “Assessing the Broad Impact of Jack Welch’s Discovery of Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16, no. 2 (2007): 68-73, 98-99.
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The attitude held by certain sectors of the anti-Mormon crowd has changed over the years, even to the point where some no longer deny the literary merit and beauty of the Book of Mormon. Although an assessment of the impact of Jack Welch’s work and writing on chiasmus may be premature, it is clear that his work on the subject incited the expansion of other literary analyses of the Book of Mormon and encouraged the publication of their results. Welch’s work influenced studies and analyses on chiasmus in Classic Mayan texts, and his publications have contributed much to the discipline of chiastic analyses.

Keywords: Chiasmus; Chiastic; Literary; Literature; Maya; Mesoamerica
ID = [3217]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 26425  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:32
Welch, John S. “Straight (Not Strait) and Narrow.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16 no. 1 (2007).
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Between 1830 and 1981, all printed editions of the Book of Mormon contained the phrase ” straight and narrow path [or course]” in four verses. The change in 1981 to “strait and narrow path [or course]” has been supported by several arguments, including the lack of the phrase “straight and narrow” in the King James version of the Bible. Welch counters this argument with the history of the introduction and rise of the phrase “straight and narrow” among Western authors. Working through each of the other arguments and offering his own counterarguments and evidences, he delivers his opinion that these phrases should not have been changed and should still read “straight and narrow path [or course].”

ID = [3202]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 45697  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Welch, John W. “The Discovery of Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon: Forty Years Later.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16, no. 2 (2007): 74-87, 99.
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On August 16, 1967, Welch discovered the presence of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon. Serving in the LDS South German mission at the time, in the city of Regensburg, Welch attended a lecture on the New Testament. He there learned of chiasmus and how it provides evidence of Hebraic origins. After reviewing a book dealing with literary art in the Gospel of Matthew, he began his analysis of the Book of Mormon for evidence of chiasmus. His first identification of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon was in Mosiah 5, but examples of chiastic style have since been found throughout the book. Welch wrote his master’s thesis on chiasmus and continued study on the subject. Though rational arguments cannot generate a testimony of the truthfulness of the book, the presence of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon gives credence to its origins.

Keywords: Chiasm; Chiasmus; Inverted Parallelism; Language; Structure
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [3218]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,welch  Size: 46937  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:32
Williams, Clyde J. “‘More Value . . . Than All the Gold and Silver of England’: The Book of Mormon in Britain, 1837–52.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles, eds. Robert C. Freeman and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
ID = [35740]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 67506  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:00
Williams, Richard N. “The Book of Mormon as Automatic Writing: Beware the Virtus Dormitiva.” The FARMS Review 19, no. 1 (2007): Article 6.
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Review of Scott C. Dunn. “Automaticity and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon.” In American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon.

ID = [553]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 16019  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:54
Insights. “Institute Supports Graduates and Undergraduates.” Insights 27, no. 2 (2007).
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The Maxwell Institute continues to encourage and support the work of graduate and undergraduate students through two funds. Each year at this time we remind graduate students about the Nibley Fellowship Program and its application deadline. Named in honor of the late eminent Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley, this pro-gram provides financial aid to students enrolled in accredited PhD programs in areas of study directly related to the work and mission of the Maxwell Institute, particularly work done under the auspices of one department of the Institute, the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, such as studies of the Book of Mormon, the Book of Abraham, the Old and New Testaments, early Christianity, ancient temples, and related subjects. Applicants cannot be employed at the Institute or be related to an Institute employee.

Keywords: graduate; undergraduate; Maxwell Institute; Christianity
ID = [66841]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-02  Collections:  abraham,bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:52
Insights. “Book Excerpt: Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon.” Insights 27, no. 2 (2007).
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At the beginning of Alma 43:14, the original manuscript reads desenters, which Oliver Cowdery miscopied into the printer’s manuscript as desendants; in other words, he ended up replacing dissenters with descendants. This mistake (a visual error) was facilitated by the similar spelling Oliver used for both these words. Notice that earlier in this verse Oliver wrote dissented as desented in P (but which the 1830 typesetter respelled in P as dissented). Moreover, at the end of verse 13, Oliver spelled descendants as desendants in both manuscripts. The proximity of this last instance prompted the error at the beginning of verse 14.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; manuscripts; descendants; dissenters
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [66847]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:52
Gardner, Brant A. Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon: Second Nephi through Jacob. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2007.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [77220]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2007-01-02  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Insights. “Center for Book of Mormon Studies Created.” Insights 27, no. 3 (2007).
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Accompanied by Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, President Cecil O. Samuelson recently announced the formation of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, a research center that promises to bring national and international distinction to the study of the Book of Mormon. President Samuelson made the announcement at a luncheon attended by Mark and Laura Willes and their family.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; research; scholarship; BYU; scriptures
ID = [66849]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:52
Insights. “New Documentary to Premier at Education Week.” Insights 27, no. 3 (2007).
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Journey of Faith: The New World, a new Maxwell Institute documentary, is set to premier at BYU Campus Education Week in August. The Maxwell Institute has again teamed with award-winning Latter-day Saint filmmaker Peter Johnson to produce a documentary that will explore the Book of Mormon in the New World.

Keywords: education; documentary; BYU; fil; scholarship
ID = [66851]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:52
Gardner, Brant A. Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon: Enos - Mosiah. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2007.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [77221]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2007-01-03  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Insights. “Book of Mormon Critical Text Project Continues with New Volume.” Insights 27, no. 4 (2007).
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The Maxwell Institute and Brigham Young University are pleased to announce the release of part 4 of volume 4 of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon. Part 4 analyzes the text from Alma 21 to Alma 55.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; text; language; literature; religion
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [66856]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:53
Insights. “Reformatted Text of Book of Mormon Enhances Study.” Insights 27, no. 4 (2007).
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Just in time for the study of the Book of Mormon in the 2008 churchwide Sunday School courses, the Maxwell Institute recently released an updated and expanded edition of Donald W. Parry’s Poetic Parallelisms in the Book of Mormon: The Complete Text.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; study; improvements; volume
ID = [66858]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:53
Gardner, Brant A. Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon: Alma. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2007.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [77222]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2007-01-04  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Roper, Matthew P. “Scripture Update: Lehi as a Visionary Man.” Insights 27, no. 4 (2007).
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One of the complaints leveled against Lehi by his rebellious sons Laman and Lemuel and his wife, Sariah, was that he was a “visionary man” (1 Nephi 2:11; 5:2). Although this term does not appear in the King James translation of the Bible, it accurately reflects the Hebrew word hazon, meaning divine vision.1 Although this Hebrew term appears in connection with true prophets of God, it is also sometimes written with a negative connotation, describing false prophets, especially in the writings of Lehi’s contemporary Jeremiah (Jeremiah 14:14; 23:16).

Keywords: Bible; Lehi; prophets; revelation; scripture
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [66857]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:53
Insights. “New Documentary Focuses on New World.” Insights 27, no. 5 (2007).
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Journey of Faith: The New World premiered to large audiences at BYU Education Week in a sneak preview. S. Kent Brown, director of the newly formed Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and one of the lead historical consultants on the documentary, and Peter N. Johnson, director, hosted the premier. A number of people returned for a second viewing because of the sweep of information in the film. “Packing a long history into 80 or 90 minutes of film presented a huge challenge to the filmmakers,” Johnson said. The new film enjoys the sponsorship of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and the Willes Center.

Keywords: BYU; education week; Book of Mormon; documentary
ID = [66864]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:53
Insights. “Maxwell Institute Well Represented at FAIR Conference.” Insights 27, no. 5 (2007).
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Four scholars from the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship spoke at the FAIR conference held in Sandy, Utah, in August. FAIR, the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of Latter-day Saint doctrine, belief, and practice.

Keywords: Neal A. Maxwell Institute; doctrine; FAIR Conference; Book of Mormon
ID = [66867]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:53
Gardner, Brant A. Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon: Helaman Through Third Nephi. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2007.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [77223]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2007-01-05  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Griffin, Carl W. “Syriac Studies Reference Library Now Completed.” Insights 27, no. 5 (2007).
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On June 20, 2001, representatives of BYU’s Maxwell Institute, The Catholic University of America (CUA), and Beth Mardutho, a Syriac studies institute, met together to discuss the digital imaging of key holdings in the Semitics/ICOR Library of CUA’s Mullen Library. CUA’s Semitics/ICOR Library houses one of the largest collections in the world of early and rare books on the Christian East. All parties shared a particular interest in early Syriac printed works, both for their continuing value to contemporary Syriac Christian communities as well as to Syriac scholars. Many early printed catalogs, text editions, grammars, lexica, and other instrumenta and studies have never been superseded or replaced. Their rarity and inaccessibility to scholars has long been a serious problem for the field of Early Christian Studies. The faculty and staff of Catholic University recognized this need as well and generously agreed to work with BYU and Beth Mardutho to provide digital access to their collection. BYU and Beth Mardutho entered into a three-way agreement with CUA to scan a broad selection of their Syriac book holdings, with BYU focusing on titles of primarily academic interest and Beth Mardutho on materials of broader interest to the Syriac churches. The results of this Institute project are now avail-able free of cost on the Web as the Brigham Young University & The Catholic University of America Syriac Studies Reference Library (http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/cua/).

Keywords: BYU; library; Syriac studies; churches
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66868]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:53
Sorenson, John L. “Worth Repeating: ‘The Book of Mormon as a Mesoamerican Record’” Insights 27, no. 5 (2007).
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The Nephite account is a record that resembles in form, nature, and functions—in scores of characteristics, in fact—what we would expect in an ancient Mesoamerican codex, a type of document that was utterly unknown to Joseph Smith.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Joseph Smith; American culture; political history
ID = [66869]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights,sorenson  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:53
Wilson, E. Jan, and John A. Tvedtnes. “The Prophet Like Moses.” Insights 27, no. 5 (2007).
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One of the most frequently quoted Old Testament passages in scripture is Moses’s prophecy as re corded in Deuteronomy 18:15–19: The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Keywords: Old Testament; Moses; Book of Mormon; prophet; revelations
ID = [66866]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:53
Insights. “Occasional Papers Spotlights the Book of Mormon.” Insights 27, no. 6 (2007).
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The latest issue of the Maxwell Institute’s Occasional Papers (number 5 in the series) focuses exclusively on what Joseph Smith called “the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion”—the Book of Mormon. As M. Gerald Bradford, editor of the series and associate executive director of the Maxwell Institute notes, “the papers in this volume show that the Book of Mormon can be studied and understood from a wide variety of scholarly disciplines.”

Keywords: Joseph Smith; Book of Mormon; history; language
ID = [66873]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:53
Insights. “Journey of Faith: The New World Screened in Hawaii.” Insights 27, no. 6 (2007).
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On November 9, 2007, the new Willes Center-sponsored DVD, Journey of Faith: The New World, was shown to a large audience in the IMAX Theater of the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii, adjacent to the campus of BYU–Hawaii. The screening was offered in connection with a three-day international business conference cosponsored by the University. The founder of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, Mark H. Willes, opened the screening by explaining how the film came about, its significance as a study aid to help all better understand the cultural and geo-graphical setting of events leading up to the Savior’s visit in the New World, and also the anticipated impact of similar projects on students of “The Lord’s Book.”

Keywords: BYU; screening; film; New World; Mormon Studies; scholarship
ID = [66878]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:54
Aston, Warren P. “Scripture update: El Niño and Lehi’s Voyage Revisited.” Insights 27, no. 6 (2007).
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In recent years several scholars have drawn the attention of Latter-day Saints to the phenomenon popularly known as “El Niño.”1 In 1990 David L. Clark highlighted the fact that a mechanism was now known to science that would permit, periodically, easterly sea travel across the Pacific, the direction Lehi’s party is understood to have traveled.2 ENSO, the more formal acronym for this phenomenon, comes from El Niño (the Christ child) and Southern Oscillation, referring to the fact that the changes commence in the southern Pacific Ocean. The intermittent ENSO effect creates an easterly equatorial current running counter to the prevailing westerly direction of Pacific currents and winds. The winds can even blow in reverse, thus not only allowing but encouraging sea travel to the western coast of the Americas.

Keywords: El Niño; dendrochronology; Pacific Ocean; Book of Mormon
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Gardner, Brant A. Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon: Fourth Nephi - Moroni. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2007.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Packer, Boyd K. “Lehi’s Dream and You.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, January 16, 2007.
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If you hold to the rod, you can feel your way forward with the gift of the Holy Ghost, conferred upon you at the time you were confirmed a member of the Church. The Holy Ghost will comfort you.

Keywords: Testimony; Trials; Youth; Podcast: Classic Speeches; Podcast: Come; Follow Me
ID = [69563]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2007-01-16  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:49
Hedges, Andrew H. “Book of Mormon Geography in the World of Joseph Smith.” Mormon Historical Studies 8, no. 1/2 (Spreng/Fall, 2007): 77-89.
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Hedges describes the evolution of Mormon thought in regards to Book of Mormon geography during the time of Joseph Smith. Hedges cites eleven different documents in an effort to understand the perceptions members of the Church had about geography described in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., thought; Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography
ID = [82034]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Matsumori, Vicki F. “A Lesson from the Book of Mormon.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2007.
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As first-generation members, you are the ones who begin the cycle of teaching and strengthening the next generation.

ID = [20470]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2007-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 6713  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:29
Oaks, Dallin H. “Divorce.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2007.
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A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [31047]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2007-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 12896  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:45
Cheney, Richard L. “April 2007 Commencement Address.” Commencement, Brigham Young University, April 26, 2007.
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As you leave your alma mater, you’ll carry many fond memories of your years on this campus. You’ll recall the long hours of hard work in the library and the lab, the sound of the national anthem in the morning and evening, and the teachers and the friends who have enriched your life.

Keywords: Gratitude; Opportunity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [69574]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2007-04-26  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:49
Matsumori, Vicki F. “A Lesson from the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, May 2007.
ID = [57398]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2007-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 6996  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:53:59
Sorenson, John L. “The Trajectory of Book of Mormon Studies.” Paper presented at the 2007 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2007.
ID = [32447]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2007-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference,sorenson  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Hawk, Larry Echo. “An Unexpected Gift.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, August 7, 2007.
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I remember slipping out of bed to my knees. It was the first time in my life that I had ever prayed intently. There I was, with bandages on my eyes, alone in my bedroom, praying for help.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; BYU Football; Gospel; Testimony
ID = [69589]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2007-08-07  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:49
Edgley, Richard C. “Enduring Together.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2007.
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The ward is organized to minister to the needs of those who face even the most difficult and heartbreaking trials.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [20524]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2007-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7059  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:29
Eyring, Henry B. “O Remember, Remember.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2007.
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“O remember, remember,” Book of Mormon prophets often implored.1 My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness.

ID = [25787]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2007-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 12112  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:16
Golden, Christoffel, Jr. “Small and Simple Things.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2007.
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May we discover anew the divine power of daily prayer, the convincing influence of the Book of Mormon, and true devotion when partaking of the sacrament.

ID = [20599]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2007-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 5659  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:31
Name withheld by request. “Our Long Road to the Temple—Together.” Ensign, October 2007.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [57566]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2007-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7406  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:00
Edgley, Richard C. “Enduring Together.” Ensign, November 2007.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [57599]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2007-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 6984  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:00
Nibley, Scott Preston Sukhan. “‘Have Ye Inquired of the Lord?’: Inquiry Patterns in the Bible and the Book of Mormon.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 5, no. 2 (December, 2007): 41-60.
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The Hebrew scriptures contain dozens of passages where an inquiry to deity is requested in order to reveal the unknown, or to sanction a proper course of action. Linguistic and narrative similarities in biblical passages involving divine inquiry have been observed by scholars. These divine inquiry incidents are categorized by scholars as a subset of Israelite divination within the larger framework of ancient Near Eastern mantic institutions. Variable narrative elements in these instances include such things as the setting, identity of the requester, identity of the intermediary, reason for the inquiry, and type of oracle employed. Linguistic elements, namely verb choice, correspond to narrative elements in different passages. When these elements are analyzed, prominent patterns of ancient Israelite divine inquiry emerge. The purpose of this paper is to identify dominant patterns of divine inquiry found in the Bible and to show how the Book of Mormon employs the same patterns in varied circumstances, and that these patterns fit all the parameters of typical ancient Israelite consultations of deity. In addition, an understanding of the prophetic inquiry type clarifies and contextualizes certain Book of Mormon passages.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Bible and; Prayer
ID = [82043]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-12-01  Collections:  bible,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
2008
Ensign. “The Book of Mormon: The Great Purveyor of the Savior’s Peace.” Ensign January 2008.
ID = [57699]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 866  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:01
Insights. “New Series Launched with Book on DNA Research.” Insights 28, no. 1 (2008).
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In the last few years, the topic of how DNA research fits in with the text of the Book of Mormon has become increasingly divisive. On the one hand, critics of the Church seize on recent DNA studies to claim that Native Americans are descended from Asian, not Middle Eastern, ancestors. On the other hand, faithful LDS scholars, including some of the most respected DNA researchers in the country, say the data from recent research is insufficient to deny or confirm the claims of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: DNA; research; Book of Mormon; articles; studies
ID = [66881]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:54
Andersen, Neil L. “The Book of Mormon: The Great Purveyor of the Savior’s Peace.” Ensign, January 2008.
ID = [57687]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12753  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:01
Anderson, Robert D. “Toward the Naturalistic Roots of The Book of Mormon: The Solomon Spalding Manuscript, William H. Whitsitt, The Book of Ether, and Psychological Considerations.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 28 (2008): 211-238.
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Robert D. Anderson reviews events concerning Solomon Spaulding and his manuscript writings, which some have claimed is the basis for the Book of Mormon. He discusses the writings of William Whitsitt, who thought Sydney Rigdon was the real author of the Book of Mormon. Anderson spotlights similarities between the Book of Ether and the Book of Mormon. Anderson lists reasons for and against supporting the Spaulding theory of Book of Mormon authorship. The final sections of this article concern Joseph Smith’s psychological state relative to Book of Mormon authorship. Anderson concludes that “to believe that one is “special” in receiving knowledge that trumps historical documentation or scientific discoveries requires more than a slight elevation of self-importance and self-deception, and throughout past and present history has created mischief beyond comprehension.”

Keywords: Book of Mormon, authorship, Spaulding theory
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [81995]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Aston, Warren P. “Identifying Our Best Candidate for Nephi’s Bountiful.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 17 no. 1 (2008).
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Scholars have presented and defended different viewpoints concerning the Lehite journey and the location of Nephi’s Bountiful. Aston explains that some of these arguments contain factual errors, such as claims regarding fertility and timber for Nephi’s ship and a lack of accounting for all possibilities. Discrepancies in theories and differences in opinion do not lessen the worth of all that has been found in Arabia and the supported theories, but acknowledging the sometimes contrary data will aid the search for the best candidate for Nephi’s Bountiful.

ID = [3226]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 20323  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Belnap, Daniel L. “‘I Will Contend with Them That Contendeth with Thee’: The Divine Warrior in Jacob’s Speech of 2 Nephi 6–10.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 17, no. 1-2 (2008): 20-39.
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At the time Jacob gave his speech in 2 Nephi 6–10, the Nephites had already been driven from two lands of inheritance and felt an ongoing concern of being cut off from God’s promises. Belnap illustrates that Jacob’s speech answers these concerns through emphasizing and expounding on the covenantal relationship made possible by God acting as the Divine Warrior. Jacob quotes Isaiah passages in his discourse and in some instances makes his own additions to emphasize important aspects. He illustrates how the Divine Warrior provides the hardships, knowledge, and power for an individual to become a divine warrior, and he discusses the Divine Warrior’s defeat over the monster of Death. The promises made by the Divine Warrior can provide hope and assurance to all.

Keywords: Death; Divine Warrior; Jacob (Son of Lehi); Land of Inheritance; Monster; Nephite; Promise
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [3224]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 77003  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:32
Brinley, Douglas E., Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald, eds. Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
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A symposium titled “The Gospel: The Foundation for a Professional Career Symposium” was held on Brigham Young University campus in March 2007. It was cosponsored by Religious Education and the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology. The purpose of the symposium was to emphasize how important it is for graduates of BYU to live the highest standards of morality and integrity as they leave campus and assume residency and employment in the world community. It was an opportunity to make principles taught by the Latter-day Saint faith find practical application in the lives of graduates. This volume contains the presentations from this symposium. “We live in most interesting times. Scandals in society and infamous episodes in the lives of respected leaders force us to ask hard questions about what matters in people’s lives. We must explore the difficult issue of whether leaders’ private morality is in any way related to their capacity to make responsible and moral judgments in our behalf.”—Robert L. Millet “Both by doctrine and by covenant, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are compelled to be men and women of character, honesty, and integrity in their personal and professional lives. As students attend Brigham Young University, graduate, and move out into the community and various chosen careers, they have an obligation to maintain the highest standards of integrity. In the workplace, whether they are employees or employers, they must be immune to improper incentives, social and corporate pressures, and shortcuts designed to enhance balance sheets at the expense of integrity and sound, acceptable business practices. “Integrity is a matter of behavior, sound thinking, and an attitude that honesty is essential to good business and engineering practices. Adherence to a code of professional integrity has its foundations in the doctrines of the Restoration, particularly the knowledge that we are all sons and daughters of God and face eventual accountability for our words, works, and thoughts (see Alma 12:14). Church membership compels Latter-day Saints to be trustworthy and immune from political, financial, or personal corruption in a world where such traits are fast losing ground to economic expediency and personal greed.”—The Editors ISBN 978-0-8425-2686-9

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Scott, Richard G. “Living the Gospel.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Living the Gospel
ID = [35688]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 31326  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:57
Parkinson, Alan R. “Ethics in Engineering and Technology.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
ID = [35689]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 17364  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:57
Ball, Terry B. “Faithful Science.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > L — P > Lifelong Learning
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [35690]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 26852  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:57
Millet, Robert L. “The Prophets and the Restoration of Integrity.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Honesty
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [35691]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 38888  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:57
Husein, Firoz. “Integrity and Honesty.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Honesty
ID = [35692]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 12452  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:57
Benzley, Stephen E. “Embracing Gospel Principles to Confront Major Global Moral Issues.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
ID = [35693]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28576  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:58
Brinley, Douglas E. “Latter-day Saint.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
ID = [35694]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 25419  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:58
Brooks, Kent R. “Desires, Character, and Principle-Based Decision Making.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
ID = [35695]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28401  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:58
Dorius, Guy L. “Integrity.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Honesty
ID = [35696]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 23428  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:58
Hawks, Val. “A Pattern of Integrity.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
ID = [35697]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28469  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:58
Judd, Daniel K. “Success and the Second Mile.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Personal Revelation
ID = [35698]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 25722  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:58
Peery, Mary. “Integrity in Leadership.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Honesty
ID = [35699]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 16405  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:58
Richardson, Matthew O. “Losing the Sacred Perspective.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
ID = [35700]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28888  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:58
Terry, Ronald E. “Becoming One with Christ.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > G — K > Happiness
ID = [35701]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 47250  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:58
Winder, Daniel R. “Incorporating Character Education into a BYU Engineering Department.” In Moral Foundations: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values, eds. Douglas E. Brinley, Perry W. Carter, and James K. Archibald. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
ID = [35702]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 29860  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:58
Brugger, Don L. “Toward the Ultimate Book of Mormon Time Line.” The FARMS Review 20, no. 1 (2008): 1-13.
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Review of Christopher Kimball Bigelow. The Timechart History of Mormonism: FromPremortality to the Present.

Keywords: Chronology; Scripture Study; Study Helps; Timeline
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Cowan, Richard O. Teaching the Word: Religious Education at Brigham Young University. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
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Religious instruction has been central to Brigham Young University’s unique mission since the beginning. Religious Education faculty and staff members identify with those whose commission it was in ancient times “to teach the word of God among all the people” (Helaman 5:14; see also Alma 23:4; 38:15; 2 Timothy 4:2). Therefore, it has been their desire, as it was with two of Lehi’s sons, to teach . . . the word of God with all diligence” (Jacob 1:19). This book tells the story of BYU’s efforts to fulfill the Savior’s commission. ISBN 978-0-8425-2708-8

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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Chapters

Cowan, Richard O. “Preface.” In Teaching the Word. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
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Cowan, Richard O. “Beginnings.” In Teaching the Word. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [35630]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 22879  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:53
Cowan, Richard O. “A New College.” In Teaching the Word. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
ID = [35631]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 15972  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:53
Cowan, Richard O. “The Hub of the University: 1970–79.” In Teaching the Word. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
ID = [35632]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 21250  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:53
Cowan, Richard O. “Reaching beyond the Classroom: 1980–2000.” In Teaching the Word. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > L — P > Outreach
ID = [35633]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 31928  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:53
Cowan, Richard O. “Continuing Contributions: 2000–Present.” In Teaching the Word. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [35634]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 20906  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:53
Cowan, Richard O. “Epilogue: The Future of Religious Education.” In Teaching the Word. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
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Cowan, Richard O. “Appendix A: Excerpts from Foundational Documents.” In Teaching the Word. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
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Cowan, Richard O. “Appendix B: Administrative and Other Officers.” In Teaching the Word. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
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Cowan, Richard O. “Appendix C: Full-Time Religious Education Faculty.” In Teaching the Word. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
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Gardner, Brant A. “Where Much Is Promised, Less is Given.” The FARMS Review 20, no. 1 (2008): 15-32.
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Review of Diane E. Wirth. Decoding Ancient America: A Guide to the Archaeology of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Ancient America; Archaeology; Art; Book of Mormon Geography; Mesoamerica; Methodology
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Gardner, Brant A. “This Idea: The ‘This Land?’ Series and the U.S.-Centric Reading of the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 20, no. 2 (2008): Article 8.
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Review of Edwin G. Goble and Wayne N. May. This Land: Zarahemla and the Nephite Nation. and Review of Wayne N. May. This Land: Only One Cumorah! and Review of Wayne N. May. This Land: They Came from the East.

ID = [608]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 50786  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:58
Gee, James. “The Nahom Maps.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 17, no. 1-2 (2008): 40-57.
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Several maps from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries support details of Lehi’s journey as recorded in the Book of Mormon. In 1751, the renowned cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D’Anville became the first to include Nahom (or Nehem), Ishmael’s burial place in the Book of Mormon, in his map of Asia. This map and a 1771 map of Yemen are the basis for most accurate maps of Arabia from 1751 to 1814. The spelling varies among the subsequent maps, with most using either D’Anville’s Nehem or Niebuhr’s Nehhm, but the location of Nahom does not differ between those maps that include Nahom. The mention of Nahom on the finest maps by the greatest cartographers of the times, in a location that corresponds to Lehi’s account, gives credence to Lehi’s travels.

Keywords: Arabia; Cartography; Ishmael; Map; Nahom; Yemen
ID = [3225]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 19479  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Gee, John. “Some Puzzles from the Joseph Smith Papyri.” The FARMS Review 20, no. 1 (2008): Article 1.
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This article explores what we know about the Joseph Smith Papyri, whether they are connected to the Book of Abraham, and the approaches that Latter-day Saints and non-LDS scholars take when trying to understand such a connection.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [602]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bom,farms-review  Size: 59720  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:57
Givens, Terryl L. “‘Common-Sense’ Meets the Book of Mormon: Source, Substance, and Prophetic Disruption.” The FARMS Review 20, no. 1 (2008): 33-55.
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This essay challenges criticism of the alleged origins of the Book of Mormon and argues a common-sense approach to support the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Authorship; Criticism; Doctrine; Evidence; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Smith; Theology
ID = [593]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 55914  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:56
Head, Ronan James. “A Brief Survey of Ancient Near Eastern Beekeeping.” The FARMS Review 20, no. 1 (2008): 57-66.
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The Book of Mormon includes a narration of the Jaredites and records that this people brought honeybees with them from the Old World to the New World. A study of the history of beekeeping in the ancient Near East supports the plausibility of the Jaredites’ story.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Apiculture; Beekeeping; Brother of Jared; Deseret; Honeybee
ID = [594]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 23086  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:57
Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment, eds. “Behold the Lamb of God”: An Easter Celebration. Proceedings of The 2007 BYU Easter Conference. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
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The 2007 BYU Easter Conference Followers of Jesus Christ since the beginning have referred to their Savior as the Lamb of God. While down by the River Jordan, John the Baptist was baptizing those who desired to follow the Savior. When the Savior approached the Baptist, John declared, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). After John baptized Jesus, he bore record “that he had baptized the Lamb of God” (1 Nephi 10:10). The next day, when John and two of his disciples saw Jesus, the Baptist again proclaimed, “Behold the Lamb of God!” (John 1:36). Three years later the Savior brought his Twelve Apostles to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. As Jews from all over the Roman Empire made pilgrimage to Herod’s Temple, firstborn male lambs without blemish were offered up as sacrifice, commemorating that God had physically delivered his people from their bondage to Pharaoh. During that same Passover, Jesus, the firstborn spirit son of God and the only mortal to live a perfect life, prepared himself to be offered up as a sacrifice in order to spiritually deliver God’s children from their bondage to Satan. This volume celebrates the life and sacrifice of the Lamb of God. ISBN 978-0-8425-2693-7

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Articles

Busche, F. Enzio. “Lessons from the Lamb of God.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
ID = [35661]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 24835  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:55
Huntsman, Eric D. “The Lamb of God: Unique Aspects of the Passion Narrative in John.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Crucifixion
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
ID = [35663]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 38718  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:55
Strathearn, Gaye. “Discipleship in the Olivet Discourse in Mark’s Gospel.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Discipleship
RSC Topics > Q — S > Second Coming
ID = [35664]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 27487  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:55
Judd, Frank F., Jr. “Interpreting Caiaphas’s ‘Prophecy’ of the Savior’s Death.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > G — K > High Priest
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [35665]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 30983  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:55
Ball, Terry B., and Nathan Winn. “Doctrines from Our Savior’s Final Words.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Forgiveness
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
ID = [35666]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 32008  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:55
Millet, Robert L. “Glorying in the Cross of Christ.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Crucifixion
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
ID = [35667]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 23453  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:55
Gee, John. “The Great and Last Sacrifice.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Law of Moses
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35668]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 25920  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:55
Pheysey, Dawn C. “Picturing the Crucifixion.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Crucifixion
ID = [35669]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 9349  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:55
Tate, George S. “The Resurrection as Olive Branch: A Meditation.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [35670]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 28047  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:56
Toit, Herman du. “Picturing the Resurrection.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [35671]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 9913  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:56
Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. “Jesus and the Ossuaries: First-Century Jewish Burial Practices and the Lost Tomb of Jesus.” In “Behold the Lamb of God”, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Easter
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [35672]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 38910  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:56
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 17 Issue 1. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 17 no. 1 (2008).
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The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting understanding of the history, meaning, and significance of the scriptures and other sacred texts revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

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Articles

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Authors.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 17 no. 1 (2008).
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Hedges, Andrew H. “Editor’s Notebook.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 17 no. 1 (2008).
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The editor gives a brief history of the Journal and gives his vision for the future of the publication.

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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Editors.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 17 no. 1 (2008).
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Szink, Terrence L. “The Vision of Enoch: Structure of a Masterpiece.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 17, no. 1–2 (2008): 6–19.
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The seventh chapter of the Book of Moses portrays Enoch’s vision of the history and future of the world within a specific literary framework. The text, coming from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, outlines three periods of time: (1) the days of Noah, (2) the meridian of time, and (3) the last days. The portrayal of each of these time periods contains five similar characteristics. Szink also compares this text with accounts in the Bible and other nonbiblical sources to further understand the vision and the significance of its framework. By presenting the three periods in a literary art form, the author has created a complex beauty that reflects and reinforces the content of the vision.

Keywords: Creation; Dream; Enoch (Prophet); Joseph Smith Translation; Last Days; Literary; Literature; Meridian of Time; Vision
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
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Nibley, Hugh W. “A Legendary Passion for Books and Languages.” In Eloquent Witness: Nibley on Himself, Others, and the Temple Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 17. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2008.
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One of the stunning aspects of Dr. Hugh Nibley’s genius was his persistent sense of wonder. That trait induced him to range widely through very disparate subjects of study—all covered in volume 17 of The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley on Himself, Others, and the Temple. In this compilation of materials, most of which have been published previously outside the Collected Works volumes, Nibley explores the ancient Egyptians, the temple, the life sciences, world literature, ancient Judaism, and Joseph Smith and the Restoration. The contents of this volume illustrate the breadth of his interest through autobiographical sketches, interviews, book reviews, forewords to books, letters, memorial tributes, Sunday School lessons, and various writings about the temple.
Johnston, a staff reporter for the Deseret News, conducted a series of interviews concerning the reading habits of prominent Utahns. This was the eighth in the series. Nibley listed, as his favorite books, the following: (1) Shakespeare, Complete Works; (2) Book of Mormon; (3) Homer, Odyssey; (4) Goethe, Faust; (5) Gaius Petronius, Satyricon; (6) Jean Froissart, Chronicles. Nibley also said that by age thirteen, he knew Macbeth by heart and tried to learn Hamlet but found it too long.

ID = [2263]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:36
Nibley, Hugh W. “Review of Our Book of Mormon.” In Eloquent Witness: Nibley on Himself, Others, and the Temple Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 17. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2008.
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One of the stunning aspects of Dr. Hugh Nibley’s genius was his persistent sense of wonder. That trait induced him to range widely through very disparate subjects of study—all covered in volume 17 of The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley on Himself, Others, and the Temple. In this compilation of materials, most of which have been published previously outside the Collected Works volumes, Nibley explores the ancient Egyptians, the temple, the life sciences, world literature, ancient Judaism, and Joseph Smith and the Restoration. The contents of this volume illustrate the breadth of his interest through autobiographical sketches, interviews, book reviews, forewords to books, letters, memorial tributes, Sunday School lessons, and various writings about the temple.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Reviews and Forewords of Others’ Works > Sidney B. Sperry
ID = [2265]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:36
Nibley, Hugh W. “Assembly and Atonement.” In Eloquent Witness: Nibley on Himself, Others, and the Temple Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 17. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2008.
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Originally published in King Benjamin’s Speech: That Ye May Learn Wisdom.
A look into what makes King Benjamin’s address to his people not only an assembly but also an atonement.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Temples > Ancient Temples > Ritual Patterns, Great Year-Rites, Universal Gospel Culture
ID = [2287]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:37
Roper, Matthew P. “Mesoamerican ‘Cimeters’ in Book of Mormon Times.” Insights 28, no. 1 (2008).
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The Book of Mormon first mentions a weapon called a cimeter during the time of Enos (some time between about 544 and 421 bc). Speaking of his people’s Lamanite enemies, Enos says, “their skill was in the bow, and in the cimeter, and the ax” (Enos 1:20). Later, in the first and second centuries bc, the weapon was part of the armory of both Nephites and Lamanites in addition to swords and other weapons (Mosiah 9:16; 10:8; Alma 2:12; 43:18, 20, 37; 60:2; Helaman 1:14).

Keywords: Book of Mormon; cimeter; weapons; English
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [66883]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:54
Smith, Joseph, Jr. The Parallel Book of Mormon: The 1830, 1837, and 1840 editions. Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2008.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon, editions and translations
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Inscribed Gold Plate Fits Book of Mormon Pattern.” Insights 28, no. 1 (2008).
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An inscribed gold plate 2.2 centimeters in length has been uncovered in a third-century ad Jewish burial. The burial, that of a young child, is located in a Roman cemetery in Halbturn, Austria. The news was released by archaeologists at the University of Vienna’s Institute of Prehistory and Early History.

Keywords: gold plate; Book of Mormon; history; text; alphabet
ID = [66884]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:54
Welch, John W. The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2008.
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The close readings in this book bring many new details to light, making the legal cases in the Book of Mormon clear to ordinary readers, convincing to attorneys, and respectable to scholars of all types, whether Latter-day Saints or not. All readers can identify with these compelling legal narratives, for they address pressing problems of ordinary people.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Insights. “Willes Center Awards Research Grants.” Insights 28, no. 2 (2008).
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The Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies announces five faculty research grants for the 2008–2009 academic year: Susan Easton Black and Andrew C. Skinner, “The Phrase ‘This Land’: Doctrinal and Geographical Implications for Latter-day Saints” (a book-length study).

Keywords: Book of Mormon; awards; grants; BYU
ID = [66890]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:54
Carmack, Noel A. “A Picturesque and Dramatic History: George Reynolds’s Story of the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies 47, no. 2 (2008): 115.
ID = [11264]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 35899  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:04
Ludlow, Jared W. “The Powers of the Atonement: Insights from the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 9 no. 2 (2008).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
ID = [38131]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2008-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 22049  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:17
Roper, Matthew P. “Book of Mormon Swords in Mesoamerican Antiquity.” Insights 28, no. 2 (2008).
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Swords are an important weapon in the Book of Mormon narrative. The prophet Ether reported that in the final battle of the Jaredites, King Coriantumr, with his sword, “smote off the head” of his relentless enemy Shiz (Ether 15:30). Swords were also used by the earliest Nephites (2 Nephi 5:14) and were among the deadly weapons with which that people were finally “hewn down” at Cumorah by their enemies (Mormon 6:9–10). While the text suggests that some Jaredites and early Nephites may have had metal weaponry (1 Nephi 4:9; 2 Nephi 5:14; Mosiah 8:10–11; Ether 7:9), references to metal weapons, including metal swords, are rare.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; swords; Bible; Mesoamerica
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66887]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:54
Insights. “New Book Examines Trials in the Book of Mormon.” Insights 28, no. 3 (2008).
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John W. Welch has studied two main topics throughout his career: the law and the Book of Mormon. Welch, a professor of law at Brigham Young University and the founder of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, has now prepared the culminating volume of decades of research into the trials and other legal procedures in the Book of Mormon. The Maxwell Institute is pleased to announce its publication as The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; BYU; Bible; texts
ID = [66892]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:54
Insights. “Maxwell Institute Announces Valuable New Research Tool.” Insights 28, no. 3 (2008).
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The Maxwell Institute and the Harold B. Lee Library have announced that a new electronic database, “Book of Mormon Publications, 1829–1844,” will soon be available to researchers and others interested in Mormon history. “We are excited about this collection,” notes M. Gerald Bradford, executive director of the Maxwell Institute, “because it brings together for the first time everything published about the Book of Mormon during Joseph Smith’s lifetime. Books, pamphlets, and articles from newspapers and periodicals are all included. This represents a major step forward for Mormon studies.”

Keywords: Maxwell Institute; research; Book of Mormon; BYU
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66895]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:54
Turley, Richard E., Jr. “Nephi Johnson 1908 Statement.” BYU Studies 47, no. 3 (2008): 138.
ID = [11253]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-03  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 185  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:03
Insights. “New Director Appointed for the Willes Center and the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.” Insights 28, no. 4 (2008).
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Recently the Brigham Young University administration announced the appointment of Professor Paul Y. Hoskisson as the new director of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies at the Maxwell Institute, effective September 1. Professor S. Kent Brown, who previously headed up these operations, retired from the university at the end of August.

Keywords: BYU; Book of Mormon Studies; scripture
ID = [66898]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:55
Insights. “Book of Mormon Project Continues with New Volume.” Insights 28, no. 4 (2008).
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The Maxwell Institute and Brigham Young University are pleased to announce the release of part 5 of volume 4 of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon. Part 5 analyzes the text from Alma 56 through 3 Nephi 18.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; volume; text; religion
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [66899]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:55
Insights. “Scholars Focus Conference on Third Nephi.” Insights 28, no. 6 (2008).
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The Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies hosted a two-day conference on 3 Nephi at the end of September 2008. Entitled “Third Nephi: New Perspectives on an Incomparable Scripture,” the conference consisted of a plenary session with an introductory address by John W. Welch, subsequent presentations by 21 distinguished scholars covering six themes, and a concluding session featuring a panel discussion.

Keywords: Third Nephi; BYU; Book of Mormon; scripture
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [66904]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:55
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “Update: The ‘Familiar Spirit’ in 2 Nephi 26:12.” Insights 28, no. 6 (2008).
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There are two ways to read a text, through exegesis and through eisegesis. The first means, approximately, “reading out of the text,” while the second means, approximately, “reading into the text.” Both are legitimate ways of approaching a text. Anyone who reads the scriptures will at times engage in both exegesis and eisegesis, whether knowingly or unwittingly. Therefore, the more conscientiously and consciously we engage in rigorous and careful exegesis and eisegesis, the better the chance that our reading of the scriptures will truly enlighten the mind and provide substance for the soul. I will illustrate both approaches using the term familiar spirit found in 2 Nephi 26:12, Isaiah 29:4, and 1 Samuel 28.

Keywords: text; scriptures; Book of Mormon; Nephi
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66906]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:55
Clark, Kim B. “We Are as the Army of Helaman.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Hawaii, February 28, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [71514]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-02-29  Collections:  bom,byuh-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:02
Christensen, Craig C. “A Book with a Promise.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2008.
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I pray that we will continue to use the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ to share the gospel message with family and friends.

ID = [20748]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7851  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:33
Johnson, Kenneth. “Restoring Faith in the Family.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2008.
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Stable families provide the fabric that holds society together, benefiting all mankind.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [20658]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 6772  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:32
Monson, Thomas S. “Looking Back and Moving Forward.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2008.
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Thomas S. Monson -Together we shall move forward doing His work.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [20731]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 13993  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:33
Clark, Kim B. “Stand Fast, Stand Up, Stand Together.” Graduation, Brigham Young University—Idaho, April 11, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [71890]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-04-11  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:05
Swain, Monte R. “He Cares More About the Shoulder Than About the Wheel.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, May 27, 2008.
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He who is omnipotent really does not need us to move the wheel or to build anything for Him. It is not His ultimate objective to cover the world with chapels and temples. That is a means to His end, and I believe we can all easily quote that end, His ultimate objective: “For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” I believe that He cares more about the shoulder than about the wheel—that wheel is how we are moved to come home to Him. The wheel, the work, is a blessing to us. This is important. The work is a blessing.

Keywords: Adversity; Work; Collection: Overcoming Adversity; Podcast: Overcoming Adversity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
ID = [69630]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-05-27  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:49
Hinckley, Richard G. “Fruits of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, June 2008.
ID = [57906]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2008-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4880  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:03
Kleinman, Curtis. “Where Would I Find Another Book of Mormon?” Ensign, June 2008.
ID = [57909]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2008-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2510  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:03
Rusch, Carolyn. “Families Can Be Together Forever.” Ensign, June 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [57893]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2008-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2871  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:03
Thomas, David A. “A Law upon Which All Blessings Are Predicated.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, June 3, 2008.
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One of the really important things we should think about each day is the blessings we have received and whether those blessings seem to be coming to us in response to our obedience to laws and commandments of the Lord. We should always remember to express our gratitude for these blessings. I think this is helpful to think about, even though, as King Benjamin put it, we will always be “unprofitable servants”—that is, always in debt to our Father in Heaven.

Keywords: Blessings
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69631]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-06-03  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:49
BYU Religious Education. “Testimony of the Witnesses and General Church History.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Andrew Hedges, Kent Jackson, Keith Wilson, Steven Harper, 2008.
ID = [39545]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-06-25  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “The Structure of the Book of Mormon.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Andrew Hedges, Keith Wilson, Todd Parker, Steven Harper, 2008.
ID = [39546]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-06-26  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “The Divine Purposes of the Book of Mormon - Part 1.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Frank Judd, Stanley Johnson, Daniel Judd, 2008.
ID = [39547]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-06-26  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “The Divine Purposes of the Book of Mormon—Part 2.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Frank Judd, Stanley Johnson, Daniel Judd, 2008.
ID = [39548]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-06-27  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 1 Nephi 1-2.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Gaye Strathearn, Paul Hoskisson, Terry Ball, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [39549]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-06-28  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 1 Nephi 3-7.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Gaye Strathearn, Paul Hoskisson, Terry Ball, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [39550]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-06-30  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 1 Nephi 8-10.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Gaye Strathearn, Paul Hoskisson, Terry Ball, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [39551]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-06-30  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 1 Nephi 11-12.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Camille Fronk Olson, Keith Wilson, Dana Pike, Daniel Judd, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [39552]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 1 Nephi 13-15.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Camille Fronk Olson, Keith Wilson, Dana Pike, Daniel Judd, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [39553]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 1 Nephi 16-18.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Camille Fronk Olson, Keith Wilson, Dana Pike, Daniel Judd, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [39554]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-02  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 1 Nephi 19-22.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Thomas Wayment, Victor Ludlow, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [39555]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-02  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 1 and 3.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Thomas Wayment, Victor Ludlow, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [39557]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-03  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 2.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Thomas Wayment, Victor Ludlow, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [39556]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-04  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 4-5.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Paul Hoskisson, Eric Huntsman, Victor Ludlow, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [39558]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-04  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 6-8; 10.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Paul Hoskisson, Eric Huntsman, Victor Ludlow, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [39559]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-04  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 9.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Paul Hoskisson, Eric Huntsman, Victor Ludlow, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [39560]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-07  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 11-16.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Victor Ludlow, Dana Pike, Terry Ball, Kerry Muhlestein, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [39561]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-07  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 17-24.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Victor Ludlow, Dana Pike, Terry Ball, Kerry Muhlestein, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [39562]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-08  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 25-27.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Victor Ludlow, Dana Pike, Terry Ball, Kerry Muhlestein, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [39563]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-08  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 28-30.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Gaye Strathearn, Keith Wilson, Michael Rhodes, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [39564]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-09  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 31-33.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Gaye Strathearn, Keith Wilson, Michael Rhodes, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [39565]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-09  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Jacob 1-3; 7.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Gaye Strathearn, Keith Wilson, Michael Rhodes, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [39566]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-10  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Jacob 4-6.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Victor Ludlow, Charles Swift, Frank Judd, Jared Ludlow, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [39567]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-10  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Enos; Jarom; Omni.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Victor Ludlow, Charles Swift, Frank Judd, Jared Ludlow, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
ID = [39568]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-11  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Words of Mormon; Mosiah 1-2.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Victor Ludlow, Charles Swift, Frank Judd, Jared Ludlow, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [39569]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-11  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Mosiah 3-6.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Andrew Skinner, Eric Huntsman, Terry Szink, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [39570]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-14  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Mosiah 7-13.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Andrew Skinner, Eric Huntsman, Terry Szink, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [39571]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-14  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Mosiah 14-17.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Kelly Ogden, Todd Parker, Brian Hauglid, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [39572]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-15  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Mosiah 18-24.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Andrew Skinner, Eric Huntsman, Terry Szink, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [39573]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-15  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Mosiah 25-28.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Kelly Ogden, Todd Parker, Brian Hauglid, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [39574]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-16  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Mosiah 29.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Kelly Ogden, Todd Parker, Brian Hauglid, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [39575]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-16  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 1-4.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Terry Ball, Thomas Wayment, David Whitchurch, Dana Pike, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [39576]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-17  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 5-7.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Terry Ball, Thomas Wayment, David Whitchurch, Dana Pike, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [39577]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-17  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 8-12.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Terry Ball, Thomas Wayment, David Whitchurch, Dana Pike, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [39578]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-18  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 13-16.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Paul Hoskisson, Camille Fronk Olsen, Eric Huntsman, Clyde Williams, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [39579]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-18  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 17-21.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Paul Hoskisson, Camille Fronk Olsen, Eric Huntsman, Clyde Williams, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [39580]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-21  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 22-24.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Paul Hoskisson, Camille Fronk Olsen, Eric Huntsman, Clyde Williams, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [39581]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-21  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 25-29.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Gaye Strathearn, Charles Swift, Keith Wilson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [39582]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-22  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 30.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Gaye Strathearn, Charles Swift, Keith Wilson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [39583]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-22  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 31-32.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Gaye Strathearn, Charles Swift, Keith Wilson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [39584]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-23  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 33-35.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Victor Ludlow, Stanley Johnson, Terry Ball, Terry Szink, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [39585]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-23  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 36-37.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Victor Ludlow, Stanley Johnson, Terry Ball, Terry Szink, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 38-39.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Victor Ludlow, Stanley Johnson, Terry Ball, Terry Szink, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 40-41.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Todd Parker, Brian Hauglid, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 42.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Todd Parker, Brian Hauglid, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 43-50.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Todd Parker, Brian Hauglid, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Alma 51-63.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Keith Wilson, Jared Ludlow, Kelly Ogden, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon Helaman 1 6.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Keith Wilson, Jared Ludlow, Kelly Ogden, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon Helaman 7 12.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Clyde Williams, Keith Wilson, Jared Ludlow, Kelly Ogden, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon Helaman 13 16.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Paul Hoskisson, Michael Rhodes, Thomas Wayment, Todd Parker, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 1-4.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Paul Hoskisson, Michael Rhodes, Thomas Wayment, Todd Parker, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 5-9.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Paul Hoskisson, Michael Rhodes, Thomas Wayment, Todd Parker, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 10-11.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Kelly Ogden, David Whitchurch, Thomas Wayment, Gaye Strathearn, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [39597]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-07-31  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 12.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Kelly Ogden, David Whitchurch, Thomas Wayment, Gaye Strathearn, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [39598]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-08-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 13-14.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Kelly Ogden, David Whitchurch, Thomas Wayment, Gaye Strathearn, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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LeSueur, Amanda. “Finding Comfort in King Benjamin’s Counsel.” Ensign, August 2008.
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Poulsen, Larry. “Book of Mormon Geography.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.
ID = [32455]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Wright, Mark Alan. “Deification: Divine Inheritance and the Glorious Afterlife in the Book of Mormon and Ancient Mesoamerica.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.
ID = [32456]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 15,17.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Gaye Strathearn, Robert Millet, Camille Fronk Olsen, Dan Belnap, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [39600]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-08-04  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 18-19.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Gaye Strathearn, Robert Millet, Camille Fronk Olsen, Dan Belnap, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [39602]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-08-04  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 27-30.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Todd Parker, Kerry Muhlestein, Dan Belnap, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: Mormon 1-6.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Keith Wilson, Andrew Skinner, David Whitchurch, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon Mormon 7-9.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Keith Wilson, Andrew Skinner, David Whitchurch, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon Ether 1 6.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Keith Wilson, Andrew Skinner, David Whitchurch, Stanley Johnson, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon Ether 7 11.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Andrew Skinner, Terry Ball, Jared Ludlow, Terry Szink, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon Ether 12 15.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Andrew Skinner, Terry Ball, Jared Ludlow, Terry Szink, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon Moroni 1-6 and Ether 13.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Andrew Skinner, Terry Ball, Jared Ludlow, Terry Szink, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [39611]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-08-12  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon Moroni 7.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Stanley Johnson, Thomas Wayment, Camille Fronk Olson, Michael Rhodes, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [39612]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2008-08-12  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Samuelson, Cecil O. “Citizenship, Research, Teaching: The BYU Way.” University Conference, Brigham Young University, August 26, 2008.
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…my hope is that we can as colleagues across campus think faithfully and diligently together about how we can make inquiry, creativity, and research a more effective part of how we not only transmit known information but, more important, how we enhance teaching by participating personally in the process of discovery and the creation of new knowledge.

Keywords: BYU; Citizenship; Teaching
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69645]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-08-26  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:49
McKinlay, Daniel B. “Joy in 3 Nephi.” In A Conference on Third Nephi: New Perspectives on an Incomparable Scripture. Provo, UT, 2008.
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Keywords: 3 Nephi (Book), Joy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Aidukaitis, Marcos A. “Because My Father Read the Book of Mormon.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2008.
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I invite all who hear me today to read the Book of Mormon and to apply the promise it contains. Those who do will know that the book is true.

ID = [20784]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7725  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:34
Duffy, John-Charles. “Mapping Book of Mormon Historicity Debates:Part 1: A Guide for the Overwhelmed.” Sunstone 151 (2008-10-01): 36-62.
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In this article John-Charles Duffy provides an extensive overview of the place of the Book of Mormon among Church members, scholars, and those inside the Church and out of it over the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes the brief article “Did B. H. Roberts Lose Faith in Book of Mormon Historicity?”

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Intellectual life; Internal conflict, intellectual; Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon, witnesses; Historiography, Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, use and influence; Book of Mormon, authorship; Roberts, B. H., thought; Genetics; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81996]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Aidukaitis, Marcos A. “Because My Father Read the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, November 2008.
ID = [58053]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2008-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7662  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:04
Insights. “A Chat with the New Editors of the Maxwell Institute Journals.” Insights 28, no. 5 (2008).
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Accompanying this issue of Insights is volume 17 (combining numbers one and two) of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies; however, readers will note that the Journal now carries a new name, the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture. In connection with this change, the Institute asked Andrew H. Hedges, an associate professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU, to become the new editor, replacing Professor S. Kent Brown, who served as editor and associate editor for many years, and who recently retired from the university. The new associate editors are Grant Hardy, professor of history, University of North Carolina at Asheville; Steven C. Harper, assistant professor of Church History and Doctrine, BYU; Jennifer Lane, assistant professor of religion, BYU–Hawaii; and Kerry Muhlestein, assistant professor of Ancient Scripture, BYU.

Keywords: BYU; church history; doctrine; journals
ID = [66901]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-12-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:55
2009
Ensign. “Book of Mormon Reaches 140 Million Milestone.” Ensign January 2009.
ID = [58179]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 989  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:05
Insights. “Mentoring Students at the Maxwell Institute.” Insights 29, no. 1 (2009).
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We have all felt the excitement that comes from seeing a great scholar at work, whether in the classroom or the archives. No less palpable is the thrill of a personal encounter with the past through direct contact with ancient texts or artifacts. Most of us can trace our fascination with the ancient world back to just such a personal encounter. One of our roles at the Maxwell Institute is to help inspire the next generation of young scholars. We do this by providing opportunities for BYU students to work directly with Institute scholars on new research, and thus to help them have their own encounters with the ancient world.

Keywords: students; Maxwell Institute; BYU; language
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66910]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:55
Insights. “Nibley Fellowship Program Assists Rising Scholars.” Insights 29, no. 1 (2009).
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For a number of years the Maxwell Institute has sponsored a graduate fellowship program that gives financial aid to students pursuing advanced degrees in fields of special interest to the Institute. Named in honor of the late eminent Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh W. Nibley, this program fosters the next gen- eration of faithful scholars by providing financial aid to students enrolled in accredited PhD programs in areas of study directly related to the work and mission of the Maxwell Institute. Work done under the auspices of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, such as studies of the Book of Mormon, the Book of Abraham, the Old and New Testaments, early Christianity, ancient temples, and related subjects are of particular interest.

Keywords: Maxwell Institute; program; studies; graduate
ID = [66911]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:55
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Probing the Lives of Christ and Joseph Smith.” FARMS Review 21, no. 2 (2009): 1-29.
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This Annual Neal A. Maxwell Lecture was given at Brigham Young University on 20 March 2009. Anderson respects both the Savior, Jesus Christ, and Joseph Smith, seer and revelator. He lays a foundation for the four Gospels and their historical authenticity. He notes the abundance of materials available about Joseph Smith and details his First Vision, the accounts of the Book of Mormon witnesses, sacred influences in Joseph’s life, and the significance of the events at Carthage.

Keywords: Eight Witnesses; First Vision; Jesus Christ; Joseph; Jr.; Prophet; Smith; Three Witnesses
ID = [634]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 68832  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:00
Ball, Terry B. “Letter to the Editor.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18 no. 1 (2009).
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A critique of Warren Aston’s “Identifying Our Best Candidate for Nephi’s Bountiful,” published in volume 17/1–2 of the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture.

ID = [3233]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 10855  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Barney, Kevin L. “A Book of Mormon Casebook.” FARMS Review 21, no. 1 (2009): 53-62.
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Review of John W. Welch. The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Judgment; Korihor; Laws; Legal; Nehor; Sherem; Trial
ID = [621]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 22428  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:59
Belnap, Daniel L. “The Process of Apostasy in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostasy
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
ID = [35428]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 48618  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:41
Black, Susan Easton. “Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants.” In Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery, ed. Alexander L. Baugh. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon Translation; Church History; Cowdery; Joseph; Jr.; Oliver; Smith
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine and Covenants
RSC Topics > T — Z > Urim and Thummim
ID = [35436]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,church-history,d-c,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 18970  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:42
Boyce, Duane. “Were the Ammonites Pacifists?” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18, no. 1 (2009): 32-47.
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One of the most moving accounts in the Book of Mormon is of the people of Ammon, their covenant to bury and never use again their weapons of war, their faith to sacrifice themselves instead of fighting back against their Lamanite brethren, and their sacrifice to send their children to war to aid the Nephites. Some interpret the stance that the Ammonites took against war to be pacifist. Some indications point toward this conclusion: their burying their weapons, covenanting never to fight again, allowing themselves to be slaughtered twice, and being motivated in these actions out of love for their Lamanite kin. However, when the text is read more carefully, it can easily be seen that further actions would not necessarily have reflected a pacifist view toward war: not objecting to the Nephite war in their defense, providing Nephite soldiers with food and supplies, and sending their own sons into battle would surely indicate that their personal opposition to war stemmed from the covenants they made during repentance.

Keywords: Ammonite; Conversion; Covenant; Lamanite; Pacifism; People of Ammon; Repentance; Sacrifice; Warfare
ID = [3231]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 59523  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
BYU Religious Studies Center. The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. The 38th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2009.
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The 38th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium The Prophet Joseph Smith said that those who read the Bible can “see God’s own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand [of God] wherever he can see it.” We cannot be true students of the Book of Mormon or Doctrine and Covenants without also being students of the Old Testament, for Jesus declared that the Old Testament scriptures “are they which testify of me” (John 5:39). This book of scripture serves as the First Testament of Jesus Christ.

ID = [38786]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,old-test,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 1  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:55

Articles

Hammond, F. Melvin. “The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gospel of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
ID = [35401]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 33586  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Goodman, Michael A. “Eternal Marriage and Family in the Old Testament.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sealing
ID = [35402]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 32568  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Hilton, John, III. “Motherhood in the Old Testament.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
ID = [35403]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 33719  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “The Plan of Salvation in the First Six Books of the Old Testament.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
ID = [35404]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 46422  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Lane, Jennifer Clark. “The Whole Meaning of the Law.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Law of Moses
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
ID = [35405]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 49485  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Ellertson, Carol F. “The Sanctifying Power of True Ritual Worship.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [35406]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 54757  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Parker, Jared T. “Cutting Covenants.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > G — K > Gospel of Jesus Christ
ID = [35407]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 48271  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Hopkin, Shon D. “Christ, Covenants and the Caph.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
ID = [35408]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 54338  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Halverson, Taylor. “The Path of Angels.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
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Belnap, Daniel L. “‘How Excellent Is Thy Lovingkindness’” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
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Muhlestein, Kerry. “Ruth, Redemption, Covenant, and Christ.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
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Ball, Terry B. “Isaiah’s ‘Other’ Servant Songs.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
ID = [35412]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 25988  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Strathearn, Gaye. “‘Holiness to the Lord’ and Personal Temple Worship.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
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Schade, Aaron P. “The Imagery of Hosea’s Family and the Restoration of Israel.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Abrahamic Covenant
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Restoration of the Gospel
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Wilson, Lynne Hilton. “The Holy Spirit.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gift of the Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Gifts of the Spirit
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
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Gaskill, Alonzo L. “Types, Shadows, and Symbols of Christ Seen by the Church Fathers.” In The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, eds. D. Kelly Ogden, Jared W. Ludlow, and Kerry Muhlestein. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
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Enders, Donald L., and Jennifer L. Lund. “Myths on Palmyra’s Main Street.” FARMS Review 21, no. 1 (2009): 63-77.
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Review of Gordon L. Weight. Miracle on Palmyra's Main Street: An “Old-Time” Printer's Perspective on Printing the Original Copies of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Smith; Translation
ID = [622]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 37156  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:59
Faulconer, James E. “Setting a New Standard.” FARMS Review 21, no. 1 (2009): 79-82.
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Review of Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 6 vols. (2007), by Brant A. Gardner.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Mesoamerica
ID = [623]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 8484  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:59
Gardner, Brant A. “Mormon’s Editorial Method and Meta-Message.” The FARMS Review 21, no. 1 (2009): Article 11.
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Gardner examines the timeline and process that Mormon plausibly underwent when he compiled and added to the Book of Mormon. Mormon’s message is the cycle of history—the Messiah will come again.

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Gardner, Brant A. “‘With What Measure?’” The FARMS Review 21, no. 2 (2009): Article 8.
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Review of John L. Lunds. Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon: Is This the Place?

ID = [636]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 36546  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:00
Givens, Terryl L. “Themes.” The FARMS Review 21, no. 1 (2009): 107-136.
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Givens first recounts the six visions that Nephi records in the Book of Mormon. He then suggests five themes from these visions: personal revelation, focus on Jesus Christ, wilderness and varieties of Zion, new configurations of scripture, and the centrality of family. Finally, he expands on each of these themes individually, explaining how they are illustrated throughout the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Family; Jesus Christ; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Personal Revelation; Vision; Zion
ID = [625]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 68856  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:59
Givens, Terryl L. “Joseph Smith’s American Bible: Radicalizing the Familiar.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 18, no. 2 (2009): 4-17.
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The Book of Mormon treats many topics that most nineteenth-century Christians would have been thoroughly familiar with: the fall, atonement, and resurrection, just to name a few. However, the Book of Mormon treats these subjects in a way that would have required such readers to rethink their relationship with the divine, their place in Christian history, and God’s relationship to history. Christ’s visit to the New World, the continuance of the scriptural canon, and abundant personalized revelation all create a text that is both familiar and radical.

Keywords: Atonement; Canon; Early Church History; Fall of Adam; Resurrection; Revelation
ID = [3236]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 51544  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Hardy, Grant R. “Two More Waves.” FARMS Review 21, no. 2 (2009): 133-152.
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Review of Robert A. Rees and Eugene England, eds. The Reader's Book of Mormon. and Review of The Book of Mormon. Translated by Joseph Smith. Introduction by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp.

Keywords: Book of Mormon Formatting; Literature; Missionary Work; Structure
ID = [635]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 47076  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:00
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “It Is OK Not to Have Every Answer: The Book of Mormon Onomastic Ending -(i)hah.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18 no. 1 (2009).
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In our search for understanding, it is often instructive to determine what something does not mean. This is the case with the ending on some Book of Mormon names, -(i)hah. Because one of the most common names ending with -(i)hah is Moronihah, the son of Moroni, it might be tempting to understand these names as patronymic; however, of eleven names with the suffix -(i)hah, Moronihah is the only occurrence in which the father is known. The case of the brothers Mathoni and Mathonihah also casts doubt on this interpretation. The suffix -(i)hah can also be interpreted as a shortened form of Jehovah, yhwh. For this to occur, however, -i(j)ah would have to switch to -(i)hah through metathesis, which is extremely rare in Semitic languages. Among other arguments against this understanding are that there are no instances in the corpus in which -(i)hah is used as a shortened form of Jehovah and, with one possible exception, no geographical name compounds with yhwh, as -(i)hah does in the Book of Mormon. Although this leaves the question currently unresolved, the use of sound methodology has helped to settle what -(i)hah is not, which will ultimately aid in determining what it is.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Huntington, Ray L., Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch, eds. Shedding Light on the New Testament: Acts—Revelation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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“We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great and good Holy Bible is one of our standard works. We teach from it. We bear testimony of it. We read from it. It strengthens our testimony. And we add to that this great second witness, the Book of Mormon, the testament of the New World, for as the Bible says, ’In the mouths of two or three witnesses shall all things be established.’” –President Gordon B. Hinckley This volume sheds light on many questions that students of the New Testament attempt to answer, such as: How do we reconcile Paul’s teachings on women with the doctrines of the Restoration? What is the relationship between grace and works? What do Latter-day Saints believe about grace? How are the Atonement, justification, and sanctification connected? How can we identify spiritual gifts and use them to serve others? How can we guard ourselves against the “wisdom of men” in today’s world? ISBN 978-0-8425-2725-5

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Articles

Ludlow, Jared W. “The Book of Acts: A Pattern for Modern Church Growth.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [35417]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 51585  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Richardson, Matthew O. “‘We Have Now Received the Atonement’” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35418]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28718  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:40
Olson, Camille Fronk. “Saved and Enabled by the Grace of Jesus Christ.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [35419]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 37165  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:41
Huntsman, Eric D. “‘The Wisdom of Men’: Greek Philosophy, Corinthian Behavior, and the Teachings of Paul.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [35420]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 58134  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:41
Whitchurch, David M. “The Unifying Power of Spiritual Gifts.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Gifts of the Spirit
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > L — P > Miracles
RSC Topics > Q — S > Spiritual Gifts
ID = [35421]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 51444  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:41
Johnson, Sherrie Mills. “Paul’s Teachings in 1 Corinthians on Women.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [35422]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 43553  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:41
Wayment, Thomas A. “Internal Divisions: Ephesians in Historical Context.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
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Judd, Frank F., Jr. “The Condescension of God according to Paul.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostle
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [35424]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 42202  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:41
Swift, Charles. “‘The Tongue Is a Fire’: The Symbolic Language of James 3.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Hauglid, Brian M. “Joseph Smith’s Inspired Commentary on the Doctrine of Calling and Election.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
ID = [35426]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 31544  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:41
Strathearn, Gaye. “The Overlooked Epistle of Jude.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Devil
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Draper, Richard D. “Understanding Images and Symbols in the Book of Revelation.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [35429]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 35467  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:41
Draper, Richard D. “The Exalted Lord.” In Shedding Light on the New Testament, eds. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Vision
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
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McConkie, Bruce R. “This Generation Shall Have My Word through You.” In Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Dispensations
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine and Covenants
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McGuire, Benjamin L. “Nephi and Goliath: A Case Study of Literary Allusion in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18, no. 1 (2009): 16-31.
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When authors use the rhetorical device of literary allusion, they not only teach through their own words but also attach to their own text meanings and interpretations from the alluded text. This is true of Nephi’s allusion to the account of David and Goliath in Nephi’s own account of his killing Laban, which allusion is generally of a thematic nature. A few of the main thematic parallels between the two accounts are that both unbelieving Israel and Laman and Lemuel are fearful of the main antagonist, both David and Nephi prophesy the death of their opponent, and both Goliath and Laban have their heads cut off and armor stripped. The implications of this allusion run deep. At a time in which the right to kingship was continually in dispute between Nephi and Laman, Nephi casting himself as David—the archetypal king of Judah, whose faith led to his supplanting Saul—could be seen as legitimizing his regal authority over Laman.

Keywords: Allusion; Authority; Goliath; King David; Kingship; Laban; Laman (Son of Lehi); Literature; Nephi (Son of Lehi)
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Meldrum, Rod L. Rediscovering the Book of Mormon Remnant Through DNA. New York, NY: Digital Legend Press, 2009.
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What the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has done to spark re-examination of basic Christianity, Meldrum’s analysis of DNA research promises to do for the re-examination---and probable replacement---of Mesoamerica as the accepted locus of Book of Mormon chronology.

Keywords: Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Dead Sea Scrolls; DNA; Book of Mormon, historicity
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Meldrum, Rod L., and Bruce H. Porter. Prophecies and Promises: The Book of Mormon and the United States of America: “The Heartland Model”. New York: Digital Legend Press and Pub., 2009.
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“This book introduces the reader to the Book of Mormon’s authoritative hierarchy of internal and external ’witnesses,’ beginning with the 36 prophecies and promises that its ancient writers originally intended latter-day readers to use in identifying the promised land of their day and ours. Readers will discover how these prophecies and promises establish and reveal a specific latter-day nation as the Promised Land of the Book of Mormon.” [Publisher’s abstract]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Prophecies; Historic archaeology, Book of Mormon
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Midgley, Louis C. “The Book of Mormon as Record.” FARMS Review 21, no. 1 (2009): 45-51.
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This article discusses the meaning of the term record and explains how it applies to the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Historicity; Record; Recordkeeping; Revelation
ID = [620]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 16924  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:59
Midgley, Louis C. “Editor’s Introduction, The Wedding of Athens and Jerusalem: An Evangelical Perplexity and a Latter-day Saint Answer.” The FARMS Review 21, no. 2 (2009): xi-xliv.
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Introduction to the current issue, including editor’s picks. Midgley explores such topics as Tertullian’s distinction between human wisdom and the “wisdom of God”; Augustinian traditions; evangelical and Roman Catholic views of God; Calvinism; freedom; and Book of Mormon teachings on redemption.

Keywords: Augustine; Calvinism; Early Christianity; Freedom; Redemption; Tertullian
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Millet, Robert L. “Worthy of Another Look: Classics from the Past: The Book of Mormon, Historicity, & Faith.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18 no. 2 (2009).
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A well-defined trend over the past two hundred years in secular biblical scholarship has been to sunder spiritual from historical, relegating events such as miracles and the resurrection to the category of “sacred stories.” This trend has also crept into some circles of LDS Book of Mormon scholarship, with adherents claiming an “expansionist” view of the Book of Mormon. They contend that the core of the text is historical but that so-called anachronisms in the text—references to the fall, atonement, resurrection, or new birth prior to the time of Christ—are due to Joseph Smith’s own interpolations. Because Book of Mormon writers and Joseph Smith himself clearly state that the text is entirely historical, this logically leaves expansionist advocates in the precarious position of claiming either that Joseph did not know the truth or that he lied. In contrast to this view, certain well-defined truths such as the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon, the reality of the First Vision, and the atonement and resurrection of Christ must stand as the foundation of the LDS faith.

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Minert, Roger P. In Harm’s Way: East German Latter-day Saints in World War II. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Winner of the Geraldine McBride Woodward Award for Best Publication in International Mormon History (Mormon History Association). Today we are mostly unfamiliar with the conditions the German Saints faced during World War II. They did not have ready access to the many conveniences American Saints took for granted—including their local Church leaders, clean places to meet, cars, and temples. In fact, German Saints could only experience the temple by crossing the Atlantic Ocean and most of the North American continent. Germany was one of the war fronts where homes were destroyed and friends and families were killed. Unlike American soldiers returning to their homes, nearly half of the German Saints had no home to which to return. In Harm’s Way contains compelling accounts of thousands of members of the Church in East Germany who found themselves in a precarious situation during World War II. They were compelled to live under the tyranny of Nazi Germany and participate in offensive and defensive military actions. The story of how they lived and died under those conditions has never before been told. This volume brings together the accounts of hundreds of Church members who survived the war—preserved in hundreds of personal interviews, journals, letters, and photographs. Their stories of joy and suffering are presented in this book against the background of the rise and collapse of the Third Reich. Readers will be amazed at the faith and dedication demonstrated by these Saints, young and old, military and civilian. A photo of a soldier with a swastika on his uniform evokes strong emotions. Reading this book opens our eyes to the possibility that the soldier may be caught in the turmoil of a political landscape, between duty to God and loyalty to country. Perhaps he is a priest in the Aaronic Priesthood or a branch president, a father of six or a former missionary. ISBN 978-0-8425-2746-0

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Minert, Roger P. “Acknowledgments.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Introduction.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Memorial Book.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Major Events in World War II.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “The East German Mission.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Berlin District, East German Mission.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Berlin Center Branch, Berlin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Berlin Moabit Branch, Berlin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Berlin Neukölln Branch, Berlin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Berlin Schöneberg Branch, Berlin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Brandenburg-Potsdam Branch, Berlin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Eberswalde Branch, Berlin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Leest Group, Berlin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Rathenow Branch, Berlin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Berlin Spandau Branch, Berlin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Breslau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Breslau Center Branch, Breslau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Breslau South Branch, Breslau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
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Minert, Roger P. “Breslau West Branch, Breslau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Liegnitz Branch, Breslau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Schlegel Branch, Breslau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Schweidnitz Branch, Breslau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Waldenburg Group, Breslau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Chemnitz District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Annaberg-Buchholz Branch, Chemnitz District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Chemnitz Center Branch, Chemnitz District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
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Minert, Roger P. “Chemnitz Schloss Branch, Chemnitz District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Döbeln Branch, Chemnitz District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Hohenstein Branch, Chemnitz District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Mittweida Branch, Chemnitz District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Danzing District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Danzig Branch, Danzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Elbing Branch, Danzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Wobesde Branch, Danzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Dresden District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Bautzen Branch, Dresden District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Bischofswerda Branch, Dresden District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Dresden Altstadt Branch.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Dresden Neustadt Branch, Dresden District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Freiberg Branch, Dresden District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
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Minert, Roger P. “Görlitz Branch, Dresden District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Nössige Branch, Dresden District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Hindenburg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Deutsch Rasselwitz Group, Hindenburg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Gleiwitz Branch, Hindenburg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Hindenburg Branch, Hindenburg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Ratibor Branch, Hindenburg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Königsberg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Insterburg Branch, Königsberg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Königsberg Branch, Königsberg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Memel Branch, Königsberg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Pillau Branch, Königsberg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Selbongen Branch, Königsberg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Tilsit Branch, Königsberg District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Leipzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Aschersleben Branch, Leipzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Dessau Branch, Leipzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Halberstadt Group, Leipzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Halle Branch, Leipzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Leipzig Center Branch, Leipzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Leipzig West Branch, Leipzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Magdeburg Branch, Leipzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Naumburg Branch, Leipzig District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Rostock District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Barth-Stralsund Branch, Rostock District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Demmin Branch, Rostock District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Neubrandenburg Branch, Rostock District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Rostock Branch, Rostock District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
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Minert, Roger P. “Wolgast Group, Rostock District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Schneidemühl District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Driesen Branch, Schneidemühl District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Minert, Roger P. “Flatow Branch, Schneidemühl District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35516]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 1346  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:46
Minert, Roger P. “Kreuz Branch, Schneidemühl District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35517]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 13154  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Landsberg Branch, Schneidemühl District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35518]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 17940  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Schneidemühl Branch, Schneidemühl District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35519]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 42137  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Schönlanke Branch, Schneidemühl District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35520]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 12109  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Spreewald District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35521]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6870  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Cottbus Branch, Spreewald District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35522]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 16798  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Forst Branch, Spreewald District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35523]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 31414  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Frankfurt-Oder Branch, Spreewald District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35524]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 14977  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Guben Branch, Spreewald District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35525]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 15939  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Stettin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35526]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 6133  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Kolberg Branch, Stettin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35527]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 7189  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Prenzlau Branch, Stettin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35528]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 2168  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Stargard Branch, Stettin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35529]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 17430  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Stettin Branch, Stettin District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
ID = [35530]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 62959  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Zwickau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35531]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4216  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Auerbach Branch, Zwickau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35532]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 1451  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Beutha Group, Zwickau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35533]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5491  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Meerane Branch, Zwickau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35534]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4744  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:47
Minert, Roger P. “Planitz Branch, Zwickau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35535]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 10009  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:48
Minert, Roger P. “Plauen Branch, Zwickau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35536]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 14871  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:48
Minert, Roger P. “Schwarzenberg Branch, Zwickau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35537]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 1264  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:48
Minert, Roger P. “Werdau Branch, Zwickau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35538]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 12369  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:48
Minert, Roger P. “Wilkau-Hasslau Branch, Zwickau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35539]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 11220  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:48
Minert, Roger P. “Zwickau Branch, Zwickau District.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35540]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 33609  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:48
Minert, Roger P. “Conclusion.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35541]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 46544  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:48
Minert, Roger P. “Glossary.” In In Harm’s Way. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
ID = [35542]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 7234  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:48
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 18 Issue 1. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 18 no. 1 (2009).
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The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting understanding of the history, meaning, and significance of the scriptures and other sacred texts revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

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Articles

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Contributors.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18 no. 1 (2009).
ID = [3227]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  farms-jbms  Size: 3805  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “Editor’s Notebook.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18 no. 1 (2009).
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Summary of current issue.

ID = [3228]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  farms-jbms  Size: 4752  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Strathearn, Gaye, and Jacob Moody. “Christ’s Interpretation of Isaiah 52’s ‘My Servant’ in 3 Nephi.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18, no. 1 (2009): 4-15.
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Many interpretations exist about who the “suffering servant” in many of Isaiah’s writings might be. Interpretations for this figure include Isaiah himself, the people of Israel, Joseph Smith, and Jesus Christ. Without arguing against these understandings of the servant, this paper claims that Christ, in 3 Nephi 20–23, personifies the servant as the Book of Mormon. Both the servant and the Book of Mormon are portrayed as filling the same “great and marvelous” works in the gathering of Israel, reminding the Jews of their covenants with God, and bringing the Gentiles to Christ.

Keywords: Covenant; Interpretation; Jesus Christ; Savior; Suffering Servant
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [3229]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,old-test  Size: 39458  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 18 Issue 2. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 18 no. 2 (2009).
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The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting understanding of the history, meaning, and significance of the scriptures and other sacred texts revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

ID = [2757]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 8  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:05

Articles

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Contributors.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18 no. 2 (2009).
ID = [3234]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  farms-jbms  Size: 5450  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Hedges, Andrew H. “Editor’s Notebook.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18 no. 2 (2009).
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Summary of current issue.

ID = [3235]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  farms-jbms  Size: 4789  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Takagi, Shinji. “Proclaiming the Way in Japanese: The 1909 Translation of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 18, no. 2 (2009): 18-37.
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The early twentieth century found the Japanese language in a state of flux—colloquial Japanese was very slowly beginning to replace classical written Japanese, whose grammar had remained relatively intact for centuries. At this time of change Elder Alma O. Taylor began his 1909 translation of the Book of Mormon. He choose initially to render the text into the colloquial style; however, prodded by his Japanese reviewers, Taylor quickly realized that no publicly praiseworthy translation could be made in colloquial Japanese. The choice to translate the Book of Mormon in the classical language, as well as to have successful Japanese author, Choko Ikuta, review and edit the translation, allowed the 1909 text to accurately portray doctrine as well as to be considered a major literary achievement.

Keywords: Foreign Language Translation; Japanese; Missionary Work
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3237]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 79384  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Roper, Matthew P. “Early Publications on the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 18, no. 2 (2009): 38-51.
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Articles from early newspapers and other publications give rare insights into the way in which the original audience of the Book of Mormon, both believers and critics, viewed the document. A large-scale collection of these documents was not initiated until the 1930s by Francis Kirkham, with encouragement from President George Albert Smith. Kirkham later published his collection in two volumes. His work, while extensive, was not exhaustive. The 19th-Century Publications about the Book of Mormon (1829–1844), a project partnered by the Maxwell Institute and the Harold B. Lee Library, builds off of Kirkham’s original research and seeks to preserve every extant published text discussing the Book of Mormon. The collection includes more than six hundred publications related to the Book of Mormon—almost one million words of text.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Early Church History
ID = [3238]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 42969  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Rawlins, Jacob D. “Journal Retrospective: Perspective from the Editors.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18 no. 2 (2009).
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The Journal of Book of Mormon Studies was founded in 1992 to be a forum through which faithful LDS scholars could highlight their research on the historical, linguistic, cultural, and theological contexts of the Book of Mormon. Since its founding by Stephan D. Ricks, four other scholars have served as editors of this publication: John L. Sorenson, S. Kent Brown, Andrew H. Hedges, and Paul Y. Hoskisson. Under these scholars’ stewardship, the Journal has developed into the flagship publication of the Maxwell Institute. This article features not only the history of the Journal but also perspectives from each of the editors.

ID = [3239]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 25419  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Grow, Matthew J. “Revealing the Joseph Smith Papers.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 18, no. 2 (2009): 58-69.
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Revelations and Translations, Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books, the second out of thirty expected volumes of the Joseph Smith Papers, reproduces in textual and photographic format two books used between 1831 and 1835 to record revelations given through Joseph Smith. This volume marks the first time that scholars and other interested readers will have broad access to these books of revelations. The text includes color-coded transcriptions of the various redactions made by Smith, Cowdery, Williams, and others. The revelations included in the volume consist of both canonical and noncanonical revelations; some of the noncanonical revelations give an intriguing glimpse into the early LDS Church. While this volume will be a great asset to any reader, its full potential may not be realized until the publication of later volumes, which will include a general index, contextual footnotes, and historical introductions to the revelations.

Keywords: Cowdery; Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Oliver; Revelation; Smith; Translation
ID = [3240]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,farms-jbms  Size: 33624  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Olsen, Steven L. “The Death of Laban: A Literary Interpretation.” FARMS Review 21, no. 1 (2009): 179-195.
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This article approaches the narrative of Laban’s death using literary criticism and studies how Nephi’s use of specific words and phrases offers additional insight to this story.

Keywords: Laban; Literary Criticism; Narrative; Nephi (Son of Lehi)
ID = [627]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 41473  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:59
Peterson, Daniel C. “Editor’s Introduction, Where Ideas Won’t Face Serious Challenge.” The FARMS Review 21, no. 1 (2009): xi-xxi.
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Peterson explains that disbelief in the religious does not leave a person who believes in nothing; it leaves a person who is willing to believe in anything except God. Peterson also mentions that from an academic standpoint he cannot explain the coming forth of the Book of Mormon in any way other than that which is presented by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Keywords: Atheism; Restoration
ID = [619]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,peterson  Size: 23479  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:59
Ricks, Stephen D. “Lehi and Local Color.” FARMS Review 21, no. 2 (2009): 169-177.
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Review of S. Kent Brown and Peter Johnson, eds. Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Mesoamerica
ID = [637]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 22056  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:00
Roper, Matthew P. “Myth, Memory, and ‘Manuscript Found’” FARMS Review 21, no. 2 (2009): 179-223.
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Roper discusses the regularly recurring Spaulding-Rigdon theory of the origins of the Book of Mormon and disputes, once again, the claims that Joseph Smith based the Book of Mormon text on a manuscript by Solomon Spaulding. Roper refutes the existence of two Spaulding manuscripts and shows possible influences of Jedediah Morse’s Geography on Spaulding’s existing “Manuscript Story.”

Keywords: Authorship; Book of Mormon Geography; Joseph; Jr.; Smith; Spaulding Manuscript
ID = [638]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 95868  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:00
Skousen, Royal. “Oliver Cowdery as Book of Mormon Scribe.” In Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery, ed. Alexander L. Baugh, 51–70. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
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Keywords: Church History; Cowdery; Joseph; Jr.; Oliver; Scribe; Smith
ID = [35434]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 32367  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:42
Smoot, Stephen O. “The Faith and Reason of Michael R. Ash.” FARMS Review 21, no. 2 (2009): 225-237.
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Review of Michael R. Ash. Of Faith and Reason: 80 Evidences Supporting the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Keywords: Apologetics; Book of Mormon; Early Church History; Evidence; Faith; Joseph; Jr.; Prophet; Smith
ID = [642]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 31624  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:00
Woodford, Robert J. “The Articles and Covenants of the Church of Christ and the Book of Mormon.” In Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine and Covenants
ID = [35577]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 31587  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:50
Insights. “New Nibley Volume Explores the Book of Abraham.” Insights 29, no. 2 (2009).
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An Approach to the Book of Abraham, volume 18 in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, is now avail­ able. This volume contains Nibley’s early work on the Book of Abraham and the Joseph Smith Papyri and is his closest look at Facsimile 1 of the Book of Abraham. In chapter 5, Nibley is at his best as he has Mr. Jones, the curator, conduct Dick and Jane through an imaginary museum in which the most important lion­couch scenes have all been gathered together in a single hall. Mr. Jones possesses a hand­ book that tells him all. In a conversational manner, he discusses the various figures of Facsimile 1, call­ing upon the best Egyptological knowledge of the time to explain their importance and setting.

Keywords: Book of Abraham; museum; volume; essays
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66916]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-02  Collections:  abraham,bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:55
Hedges, Andrew H. “Cumorah and the Limited Mesoamerican Theory.” Religious Educator Vol. 10 no. 2 (2009).
ID = [38301]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2009-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 67890  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:27
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “Missing the Mark.” Insights 29, no. 2 (2009).
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In teaching Book of Mormon at Brigham Young University over the past quarter century, I have rarely found a student, whether true freshman or returned missionary, who knows what the word mark means in Jacob 4:14.1 Most of them know that the mark symbolizes Christ in this verse, but they do not know what a mark is. That is, if a mark symbolizes Christ, then mark must be something in real life other than Christ. In fact, most Book of Mormon readers justifiably feel satisfied and uplifted by relying on what they think mark means in this verse. While it is true that great lessons can be learned from this verse by relying simply on the symbolic meaning of mark, when the meaning of mark as it fell from the Prophet’s lips while translating becomes clear, whole new, additional dimensions of understandings of Jacob’s warning begin to unfold.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; BYU; student; mark; lessons
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66915]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:55
Roper, Matthew P. “Plausibility, Probability, and the Cumorah Question.” Religious Educator Vol. 10 no. 2 (2009).
ID = [38302]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2009-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 64647  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:27
Insights. “Book of Mormon Critical Text Project Completes Text Analysis.” Insights 29, no. 3 (2009).
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The Maxwell Institute and Brigham Young University are pleased to announce the publica- tion of part 6 of volume 4 of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon. Part 6 analyzes the text from 3 Nephi 19 through Moroni 10.

Keywords: BYU; Book of Mormon; analysis; history; text
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [66920]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:56
Insights. “Blossoming with Books: Syriac Manuscripts from the Egyptian Desert.” Insights 29, no. 3 (2009).
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The birthplace and spiritual heart of Christian monasticism is the Nitrian Desert of Egypt and the long, shallow valley of Scetis (Wadi el-Natrun). It was to here, from the fourth century onwards, that Macarius the Great and other of the sainted desert fathers retreated from the world, devoting their lives to worship and prayer. While some monks chose to live in isolation as hermits, many others banded together to establish the first monasteries, building churches for worship and libraries for study.

Keywords: Christian; worship; prayer; books; languages
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66924]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:56
Buck, Deanna Draper. “Internal Evidence of Widespread Literacy in the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 10 no. 3 (2009).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [38280]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2009-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 40461  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:26
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “Khirbet Beit Lei and the Book of Mormon: An Archaeologist’s Evaluation.” Religious Educator Vol. 10 no. 3 (2009).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
ID = [38278]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2009-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 75891  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:26
Nelson, Zachary. “The Rod of Iron in Lehi’s Dream.” Religious Educator Vol. 10 no. 3 (2009).
ID = [38279]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2009-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 21331  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:26
Riess, Jana. “Book of Mormon Stories That Steph Meyer Tells to Me: LDS Themes in the Twilight Saga and The Host.” BYU Studies 48, no. 3 (2009): 141.
ID = [11179]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-03  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 15845  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:03
Sweat, Anthony. “Active Learning and the Savior’s Nephite Ministry.” Religious Educator Vol. 10 no. 3 (2009).
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
RSC Topics > T — Z > Teaching the Gospel
ID = [38281]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2009-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 28039  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:26
Brown, S. Kent. “Behind the Messiah Documentary.” Insights 29, no. 4 (2009).
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The following is part 1 of a two-part series of articles written by S. Kent Brown, executive producer of Messiah: Behold the Lamb of God. During production he was director of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and FARMS at the Maxwell Institute. Messiah: Behold the Lamb of God, a documentary produced by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, the College of Religious Education, and BYU Broadcasting, received a sneak preview at BYU’s Education Week in August. For the first time ever, teachings of the restoration, sound academic views from faithful Latter-day Saint scholars, and state-of- the-art documentary production have been combined to produce this seven-part series on Jesus Christ, the Messiah. BYUTV will air the documentary beginning on January 10, 2010, and copies will be available for purchase in the spring.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; religious education; BYU; documentary
ID = [66926]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:56
Roper, Matthew P. “A Note on Volcanism and the Book of Mormon.” Insights 29, no. 4 (2009).
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The account of the great destruction at the death of Christ in Third Nephi relates that many cities at the time were destroyed by fire (3 Nephi 8:14; 9:3, 9–11). In an article published in 1998, geologist Bart Kowallis argued that the destructive events, including the burning of cities described there, are consistent with the effects of a significant volcanic event. The volcanic interpretation fits particularly well in a Mesoamerican setting where volcanic events are historically common. Additional support for this interpretation can be found in Mormon’s description of the aftermath of these events. In his abridgement of the subsequent history of the people of Lehi, Mormon states that it was many years before these burned cities were rebuilt and inhabited (4 Nephi 1:6–7).

Keywords: volcanism; Book of Mormon; destruction; history
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
ID = [66929]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:56
Insights. “Givens Featured Speaker at First Biennial Willes Center Lecture.” Insights 29, no. 5 (2009).
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The Book of Mormon and its status as an American Bible was the subject of the First Biennial Laura F. Willes Center Book of Mormon Lecture held October 8, 2009, at Brigham Young University. Terryl L. Givens, professor of literature and religion and occupant of the James Bostwick Chair of English at the University of Richmond, focused his remarks on two points: the provenance of the Book of Mormon and major motifs within it.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; BYU; literature; religion
ID = [66932]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:56
Insights. “Valuable Research Tool Available Soon.” Insights 29, no. 5 (2009).
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By the end of this year, “Nineteenth-Century Publications about the Book of Mormon (1829–1844)” will be made available as one of the Harold B. Lee Library’s digital collections. Building on the work of previous generations of researchers, Matthew Roper, research scholar with the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, has collected digital facsimiles and electronic transcriptions of as many of these early publications as could be found.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; publications; Harold B. Lee Library; research
ID = [66933]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:56
Insights. “Nibley Lecture Series to Be Held.” Insights 29, no. 6 (2009).
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A lecture series entitled “The Work of Hugh W. Nibley: On the 100th Anniversary of His Birth” will be held during winter semester 2010 at BYU. March 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Nibley’s birth. In addition, One Eternal Round, volume 19 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, the final volume of the series, will have been published.

Keywords: BYU; anniversary; lecture series; Book of Mormon
ID = [66937]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:56
Culatta, Barbara. “Loving Our Neighbor: Tolerance and Acceptance as We Come Together in Knowing Christ.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, February 3, 2009.
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There is a traditional saying that we judge others based on their actions but we judge ourselves based on our intentions. If we were to give others the benefit of the doubt by looking at their intentions, our lives would be much richer and we would be more tolerant.

Keywords: Tolerance
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69664]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-02-03  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Brooks, Arthur C. “Why Giving Matters.” Forum, Brigham Young University, February 24, 2009.
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If people witness you as a giver, they will see a leader. Servant leadership is no joke, and it’s a secret to success, whether you’re looking for success or not. When people see you giving and cooperating and serving others, they will see in you a leader, or a future leader, and they cannot help but help you.

Keywords: Charity; Giving; Happiness; Service; Success; Podcast: By Study and By Faith; Podcast: Classic Speeches
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69666]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-02-24  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Dearden, David V. “The Sacred Gift of Agency.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, March 31, 2009.
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Well-meaning people may honestly disagree with my interpretation of how the universe is put together. Agency allows and requires this possibility. But for me, as I noted above, science is faith affirming because I choose to believe, and everything else follows.

Keywords: Agency
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69671]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-03-31  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Allsop, Dee T. “A Brand of Distinction.” Commencement, Brigham Young University, April 23, 2009.
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We are dedicated to cultivating the Spirit of the Y by keeping you informed and connected to the good works faculty and alumni are doing in the world and by providing opportunities for you to learn, volunteer, contribute, and serve with the students, programs, and activities of your alma mater—keeping you “Connected for Good.”

Keywords: BYU; Example
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [69672]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-04-23  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 16, 20-22.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Gaye Strathearn, Robert Millet, Camille Fronk Olsen, Dan Belnap, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [39601]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2009-06-23  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 4 Nephi.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Todd Parker, Kerry Muhlestein, Dan Belnap, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
ID = [39605]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2009-06-24  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon Moroni 8 10.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Stanley Johnson, Thomas Wayment, Camille Fronk Olson, Michael Rhodes, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [39613]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2009-06-26  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Gardner, Brant A. “Joseph the Seer—or Why Did He Translate With a Rock in His Hat?” Paper presented at the 2009 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2009.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Joseph; Jr.; Latter-day Saint History (1820-1846); Seer stone; Smith
ID = [32462]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 60518  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Miller, Wade E. “Science and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2009 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2009.
ID = [32466]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 59438  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Perego, Ugo A. “Haplogroup X in Light of Recent Book of Mormon Claims.” Paper presented at the 2009 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2009.
ID = [32585]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Taylor, Vickey. “The Sariah Dilemma: Finding Increased Faith When Our Children Misplace Their Own.” Paper presented at the 2009 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2009.
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Keywords: Children; Faith; Laman (Son of Lehi); Lemuel (Son of Lehi); Sariah
ID = [32458]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 21333  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
BYU Religious Education. “Discussions on The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 23-26.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Robert Millet, Todd Parker, Kerry Muhlestein, Dan Belnap, 2008.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [39603]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2009-08-05  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Bolton, Andrew. “Utopial Vision and Prophetic Imagination: Reading the Book of Mormon in a Nineteenth-century Context.” Restoration Studies 10 (Fall, 2009): 144-153.
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Bolton explores the origins and societal implications that arise from the Book of Mormon when viewed in an early nineteenth century context. Bolton describes the society in the Book of Mormon as a religious utopia, and explores the positive and negative utopian stories from that society.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, American setting
ID = [82042]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Samuelson, Sharon G. “The Iron Rod—The Word of God.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, September 8, 2009.
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In order to live with God once again, you cannot deviate from the strait and narrow path or lose your firm grip on the iron rod or you will be as those who were lost in Lehi’s vision.

Keywords: Righteousness
ID = [69697]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-09-08  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Clark, Kim B. “Building Zion Together.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, September 15, 2009.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [72510]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-09-15  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:10
Clark, Kim B. “‘Are Ye Stripped of Pride?’” Devotional, Brigham Young University, September 29, 2009.
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The message is clear: Whether in prosperity or in adversity, if we are not diligent and faithful, even the elect of God, even those greatly blessed by the Lord, can fall prey to the Great Lie and become hard-hearted, self-absorbed, stiff-necked, and puffed up in their pride.

Keywords: Humility; Pride; Collection: Overcoming Adversity; Podcast: Classic Speeches; Podcast: Overcoming Adversity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69700]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-09-29  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Ensign. “The 2010 Liahona: New Approach, Same Goal.” Ensign October 2009.
ID = [58509]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2009-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1122  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:07
Holland, Jeffrey R. “Safety for the Soul.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2009.
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I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world … that the Book of Mormon is true.

ID = [21081]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 10065  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:39
Wrigley, Heather Whittle. “The 2010 Liahona: New Approach, Same Goal.” Ensign, October 2009.
ID = [58506]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2009-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4167  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:07
Huntsman, Jon M., Sr. “God Did Not Put Us Here to Fail.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, November 10, 2009.
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You and the Lord, working together, can accomplish anything. Never forget—God did not put us here to fail.

Keywords: Adversity; Atonement; Failure; Success; Collection: Overcoming Adversity; Podcast: Overcoming Adversity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69703]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-11-10  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Allred, Keith J. “Who Was Second Nephi?” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 42, no. 4 (Winter, 2009): 1-17.
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The story of Nephi occupies a prominent place in the hearts of the Latter-day Saint people. As a young man, he was singularly affected by his father’s teachings and, despite his relative youth, became the de facto leader of the extended families of Lehi and Ishmael even before his father’s death. Later, as a prophet in his own right, he led a people who called themselves “Nephites” in his honor; and nine centuries after his death, hundreds of thousands of Nephites still honored his name and legacy. He belongs to the ages as the namesake of an ancient nation.

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ID = [81997]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51

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