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Arnold, Marilyn. “Words words words: Hugh Nibley on the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 2 (2010): 4–21.
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On 25 March 2010, in the Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium, Brigham Young University, Marilyn Arnold presented this lecture as part of a series honoring Hugh W. Nibley on the 100th anniversary of his birth (27 March 2010).
In this lecture commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of Hugh Nibley’s birth, Arnold paints a picture of him by discussing not only his scholarship but also his very unique, and often humorous, writing and speaking styles and his consistent jabs at academia. According to Arnold, who read everything Nibley had written on the Book of Mormon, Nibley was never more eloquent or serious than when he defended that book. Often, Arnold notes, his defenses and other writings are illuminated by literary devices, including the use of parable, epistle, and Platonic dialogue.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Book of Mormon
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Barney, Kevin L. “On Elkenah as Canaanite El.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 1 (2010): 22-35.
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Many easily recognizable Hebrew words and names can be found in the Book of Abraham. One name that hasn’t had a concrete meaning attached to it, however, is Elkenah. In this article, Barney addresses whether Elkenah is a person, place, or name; what its possible linguistic structures are; and what it might mean. Most importantly, Barney links Elkenah with the Canaanite god El and the attending cult—a cult that practiced human sacrifice. This has significant ramifications for the Book of Abraham, which has been criticized for its inclusion of human sacrifice. Assuming a northern location for the city Ur and taking Elkenah as the Canaanite El resolve the issue of child sacrifice in the Book of Abraham.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Book of Abraham; Elkenah; Language - Hebrew; Name; Onomastics; Pearl of Great Price
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Boylan, Robert S. “On Not Understanding the Book of Mormon.” FARMS Review 22, no. 1 (2010): 181-189.
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Review of Ross Anderson. Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Quick Christian Guide to the Mormon Holy Book.

Keywords: Anachronisms; Ancient Near East; Arabia; Archaeology; Criticism; Literary Style
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Bushman, Richard Lyman. “Hugh Nibley and Joseph Smith.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 1, (2010): 4–13.
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Reprinted in Hugh Nibley Observed.
Just as attorneys representing the church wouldn’t bear their testimonies in a courtroom, Hugh Nibley defended Joseph Smith through facts and scholarly dialogue, not testimony bearing. Although Nibley did, at times, discuss the Prophet specifically, his defense of Joseph came primarily through academic vindication of the Book of Mormon. When others made scholarly attacks against Joseph’s character, Nibley would move the debate to a discussion of the historicity of the book on its own terms. When Nibley did directly discuss the Prophet, he portrayed him as a humble, loving servant of God.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Apologetics
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Book of Mormon
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Joseph Smith
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BYU Religious Studies Center. The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture. The 39th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2010.
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The 39th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium Christians around the world look to the Sermon on the Mount for encouragement and guidance in developing the attitudes and behavior the Lord admonished us to have. The 2010 Sperry Symposium focuses on the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, Luke, and 3 Nephi. It will discuss in depth specific passages and textual variations in the different accounts of the Sermon, as well as the social and cultural context of the Sermon. Chapters will review the contributions that the Joseph Smith Translation makes to our understanding, as well as the use of the Sermon in later biblical and Book of Mormon teachings. Contributors include Richard D. Draper, Matthew J. Grey, Daniel K Judd, Jennifer C. Lane, Eric-John K. Marlowe, Robert L. Millet, Thomas A. Wayment, and John W. Welch.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Articles

Huntsman, Eric D. “‘Resist Not Evil’” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Devil
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
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Draper, Richard D. “The Sociocultural Context of the Sermon on the Mount.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
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Judd, Frank F., Jr. “Audience Astonishment at the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon at the Temple.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Law of Moses
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
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Ludlow, Jared W. “Israel’s Ancient Psalms.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
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Lane, Jennifer Clark. “Salt and Light.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
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Grey, Matthew J. “The Six Antitheses.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
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Marlowe, Eric-Jon K. “‘What Therefore God Hath Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder’” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
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Millet, Robert L. “‘Be Ye Therefore Perfect’” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
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Bowen, Matthew L. “The Father in the Sermon on the Mount.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
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Frederick, Nicholas J. “The Kingdom of God.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
RSC Topics > G — K > Hope
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
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Belnap, Daniel L. “‘Beholdest Thou. . .the Priests and the Levites’” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > L — P > Law of Moses
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LeFevre, David A. “The Golden Rule.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
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Wayment, Thomas A. “‘By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them’” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Charity
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
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Welch, John W. “‘Thy Will Be Done’” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
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Judd, Daniel K. “‘As Your Father Also Is Merciful’” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Discipleship
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
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Hardison, Amy Blake. “‘A Wise Man Built His House upon a Rock’” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
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Triplet-Hitoto, Valerie. “The Sermon on the Mount in the Joseph Smith Translation.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
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Skinner, Andrew C. “How New Testament Variants Contribute to the Meaning of the Sermon on the Mount.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
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Richardson, Matthew O. “Echoes from the Sermon on the Mount.” In The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture, eds. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
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BYU TV. “That Promised Day: The Coming Forth of the LDS Scriptures.” In BYU TV. 2010.
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This documentary film outlines the development of the 1979/1981 editions of the LDS Bible and Book of Mormon. Deepen your appreciation for the massive effort made to create the Topical Guide, Bible Dictionary, Joseph Smith Translation, footnotes, maps, and more. Listen to those who worked on the project over 30 years ago and hear their inspired experiences.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals
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Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “Lehi in the Samaria Papyri and on an Ostracon from the Shore of the Red Sea.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 1 (2010): 14-21.
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Until the discovery of Ostracon 2071, dating from the fifth century BC, in the 1930s on the shores of the Red Sea, the name Lehi (l?y in the discovered text) had been unattested in any extant document outside of the Book of Mormon. However, Nelson Gluek, along with many other scholars, including Hugh Nibley, vocalized l?y as “La?ai,” which pronunciation would have south Semitic roots. Chadwick argues, instead, that a Hebrew context for the ostracon would be more plausible and that therefore the more likely pronunciation would be “l??y.” He also argues for a Hebrew origin of the compound name ?bl?y, found in the fourth-century BC Samaria Papyri. Both of these names, given their strong Hebrew context, seem to confirm that Lehi was a name in use in ancient Israel and its surrounding areas.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Language; Lehi (Prophet); Name; Samaria
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Christensen, Kevin. “Hindsight on a Book of Mormon Historicity Critique.” FARMS Review 22, no. 2 (2010): 155-194.
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Review of William D. Russell. “A Further Inquiriy into the Historicity of the Book of Mormon.” Sunstone, September-October 1982, 20-27.

Keywords: Authorship; Historicity
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Faulconer, James E. “Scripture as Incarnation.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 17–61. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2001. Reprint, in Faulconer, J. E. Faith, Philosophy, Scripture. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, 2010, 151–202.
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Today the modernist view of history in which texts only represent events is so predominant that most Latter-day Saints automatically apply it to the question of scriptural historicity. Unfortunately, historical scholarship rarely lines up with our understanding of scripture as well as we would like. Problems arise when we use modernist tools to examine scripture written by premoderns, who considered their writing not as mere representation but as incarnation—an embodiment of the symbolic ordering of the world. The premodernist reading of the scriptures more accurately reflects Latter-day Saint beliefs: whereas modernism would use reason to understand history (and thus the Divine in history, i.e., scripture), premodernism uses divinely revealed scripture as well as ritual, ritual objects, and ritual language to give order to history. Instead of examining scripture as just another element of history, premoderns consider scripture to be the defining element in history.
The historicity of scripture is important to most Christians and especially to Latter-day Saints. [1] Christians disagree among themselves about how to understand scriptural history, but few deny that, in some important sense, Christian scripture is historical. However, given the challenges to scriptural history, challenges that are especially strong for Latter-day Saints who take the Book of Mormon to be historical, what are we to make of the claim that scriptures are history? Given those challenges, is it possible to understand scripture as literal history? The answer to that question—positive, I will argue—lies in answering the question of what we mean by history.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
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Gee, John. “The Grace of Christ.” FARMS Review 22, no. 1 (2010): 247-259.
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The Greek term often translated as “grace” has a broad range of meaning. Neither Jesus nor the Gospels teach that man is saved by grace alone; Paul is the predominant New Testament writer to use the term. The Protestant concept of grace stems from the time of Augustine. Book of Mormon prophets specify what actions are required to lay hold of the grace of Christ, a boon to be desired.

Keywords: Augustine; Early Christianity; Grace; Jesus Christ
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Hardy, Grant R. Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Hardy, Grant R. Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Head, Ronan James. “Mormonism’s Satan and the Tree of Life.” Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology 4, no. 2 (2010): 1-54.
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Longer version of an invited presentation originally given at the 2009 Conference of the European Mormon Studies Association, Turin, Italy, July 30-31, 2009

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
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Jones, Clifford P. “The Great and Marvelous Change: An Alternate Interpretation.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 2 (2010): 50-63.
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The customary interpretation of 3 Nephi 11:1 has been that those around the temple in Bountiful were showing one another the “ great and marvelous change” that had taken place in the land. However, Jones argues that those people were discussing instead the change that had taken place in their hearts. By examining the context in which this scripture appears and by interpreting other scriptures, especially ones emphasizing the way in which most revelation is received, Jones shows that the atonement of Jesus Christ and the individuals’ subsequent change of heart would have been the main topic of their discussion and would therefore be an appropriate understanding of the scripture.

Keywords: Atonement; Bountiful (Polity); Change of Heart; Crucifixion; Revelation; Temple
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Magleby, Kirk. Hugh Nibley and Book of Mormon Geography. Salt Lake City: Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum, 2010.
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Discussion about Hugh Nibley’s work on the Book of Mormon’s potential geography.

Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography; Mesoamerica
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics > Archaeology, External Evidences, Geography
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Maxwell, Neal A. “The Book of Mormon: A Great Answer to ‘The Great Question’” In The Voice of My Servants, eds. Scott C. Esplin and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
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McGuire, Benjamin L. “Understanding the Book of Mormon? He ‘Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks’” FARMS Review 22, no. 1 (2010): 163-180.
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Review of Ross Anderson. Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Quick Christian Guide to the Mormon Holy Book.

Keywords: Articles of Faith; Book of Mormon; Christianity; Criticism; Early Church History; Grace; Joseph; Jr.; Salvation; Smith; Trinity
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Mendenhall, Mark E., Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England, eds. Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
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Joseph and Hyrum Smith exemplified leadership as they worked together in organizing and operating the Church, teaching, speaking, and building temples and towns. As leaders, they held firm to their convictions, roused the hearts and minds of men and women in varied walks of life, and left legacies sufficient to stamp them as two of the most remarkable and influential men of the nineteenth century. The stories and examples of their shared leadership illustrate how they honored agency, exerted righteous influence, grew through adversity, forged bonds of obligation and love, governed conflict, and organized through councils. Their examples in this book can help us transform our personal perspective of leadership, lead with an eternal focus, heal and bless others through our leadership, learn and grow by asking authentic questions, share leadership in the home, and lead in the governmental arena. By incorporating these principles in our lives, we can foster more satisfying relationships in our homes, our Church service, and our professional lives. The book concludes with a call for each of us to carry on their legacy, which transcends time and place. Their lives and teachings are filled with lessons and skills we can easily apply today. ISBN 978-0-8425-2754-5

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Mendenhall, Mark E., and J. Bonner Ritchie. “‘They Were of One Heart and One Mind’” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
RSC Topics > T — Z > Unity
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O’Driscoll, Jeffrey S., and Hal B. Gregersen. “‘Persuasion and Love Unfeigned’” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
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Derr, C. Brooklyn. “‘I Will Yet Make Him a Polished Shaft in My Quiver’” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Forgiveness
RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
RSC Topics > T — Z > Unity
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Thompson, Michael. “‘Tuned to the Work’” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
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Thompson, Jeffrey Paul, and J. Stuart Bunderson. “‘Bound Together in the Cords of Everlasting Love’” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
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Romney, Alexander C. “In the Hands of the Potter.” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
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Mendenhall, Mark E., J. Bonner Ritchie, and Julie M. Hite. “‘For the Power Is in Them’” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
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England, Breck. “An Undeviating Course.” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
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Dollahite, David C., and E. Jeffrey Hill. “A House of God.” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
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Marshall, Elaine S. “The Power of God to Heal.” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
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Gregersen, Hal B., and Mark E. Mendenhall. “‘Let Him Ask of God’” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
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Marsh, W. Jeffrey. “A Prophet-Statesman.” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
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Swinton, Heidi S. “And the End Is Not Yet.” In Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One, eds. Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen, Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll, Heidi S. Swinton, and Breck England. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 19 Issue 1. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 19 no. 1 (2010).
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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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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Contributors.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 19 no. 1 (2010).
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Hoskisson, Paul Y. “Editor’s Notebook.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 19 no. 1 (2010).
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Summary of current issue.

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Welch, John W. “Seeing Third Nephi as the Holy of Holies of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 1 (2010): 36-55.
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Third Nephi and its account of the ministry of the resurrected Jesus to the Nephites has long been seen as the pinnacle of the Book of Mormon. This text can also be viewed as the Holy of Holies of the Book of Mormon. Everything in 3 Nephi, especially the ministry of the Savior, echoes themes related to the temple and the presence of the Lord in the Holy of Holies. Themes such as silence, timelessness, unity, awe, and consecration confirm this interpretation.

Keywords: 3 Nephi; Consecration; Holy of Holies; Law of; Silence; Temple; Unity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Paulsen, David L., Roger D. Cook, and Kendel J. Christensen. “The Harrowing of Hell: Salvation for the Dead in Early Christianity.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 1 (2010): 56-77.
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One of the largest theological issues throughout Christian history is the fate of the unevangelized dead: Will they be eternally damned? Will they be lesser citizens in the kingdom of God? Will they have a chance to accept Christ postmortally? These issues are related to the soteriological problem of evil. The belief of the earliest Christians, even through the time of the church fathers Origen and Clement of Alexandria, was that postmortal evangelization was possible. One of the origins of this belief is seen in apocalyptic Judaism, in which righteous gentiles are not left to suffer eternally but, however, are given a lesser status than righteous Jews. Early Christian doctrine goes even further through the belief of Christ’s preaching in Hades—all people have a chance, through accepting Christ, to be save in the same state. Later, however, many Christian theologians such as Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin rejected this doctrine and contended that righteousness and unrighteousness are fixed at death.

Keywords: Conversion; Doctrine; Early Christianity; Hell; Missionary Work; Postmortal Life; Salvation; Salvation for the Dead
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Worthy of Another Look: Classics from the Past: The Book of Mormon: A Minimal Statement.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 1 (2010): 78-80.
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This short article was originally published in the journal Concilium: An International Review of Theology and as such is addressed to a non-LDS audience. Nibley begins by giving a brief historical and theological background to the Book of Mormon. He then makes the point that the Book of Mormon includes topics that leave it open to scholars in many different disciplines to study and to put on trial. Finally, he comments on the remarkable coherence with which the prophetic editors were able to compile the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Coherence; History; Theology
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 19 Issue 2. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 19 no. 2 (2010).
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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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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Contributors.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 19 no. 2 (2010).
ID = [3250]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-01-01  Collections:  farms-jbms  Size: 4244  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:34
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “Editor’s Notebook.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 19 no. 2 (2010).
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Summary of current issue and a letter to the editor.

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Paulsen, David L., and Brock M. Mason. “Baptism for the Dead in Early Christianity.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 2 (2010): 22-49.
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To help mitigate the soteriological problem of evil, that one having had no chance to hear the gospel would be sent to hell, many early Christians practiced baptism for the dead. The only reference to this in the New Testament comes in 1 Corinthians 15:29, a scripture that some scholars attempt to reinterpret or repunctuate to dismiss baptism for the dead but that most scholars defend as a legitimate reference. Further strengthening the historicity of the practice are references by early writers such as Tertullian and Ambrosiaster. The quest for authenticating the practice of baptism for the dead should rest on these and other historical references, not on retroactively applied standards of orthodoxy.

Keywords: Ambrosiaster; Baptism for the Dead; Early Christianity; Orthodoxy; Soteriology; Tertullian; Theodicy
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Nibley, Hugh W. “The Early Christian Prayer Circle.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 2, (2010): 64-95.
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A practice that was eventually condemned by the church because of its Jewish affinities—being found, for example, in the Testaments of Abraham and Job and in the writings of Philo—the prayer circle has a long and complex history in Christian practice. This practice was considered one of the “ mysteries” and therefore was protected from all who weren’t initiated. For the initiated participants, this was a very sacred practice, which demanded unity between all those involved. The prayer circle, generally referred to as a “ dance,” often included hymns, prayers for the living and the dead, and gestures that would prepare the participants for heavenly visitations.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
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Nibley, Hugh W. “The Early Christian Prayer Circle: Sidebar, Minutes of the Second Council of Nicaea in ad 787.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 2 (2010): 65.
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Patriarch Tarasius and various bishops and monks condemn the Acts of John, in which an account of the early Christian prayer circle is recorded.

Keywords: Early Christianity
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Temples > Ancient Temples > Prayer Circles
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Nibley, Hugh W. “The Early Christian Prayer Circle: Sidebar, Coptic Liturgical Text.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 2 (2010): 89-94.
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This text, from a Christian “Book of Breathings,” highlights the importance of the prayer circle in early Christian worship.

Keywords: Prayer; Prayer Circle; Worship
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Dispensations and Axial Times.” Nibley, Hugh and Michael D. Rhodes.
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One Eternal Round is the culmination of Hugh Nibley’s thought on the book of Abraham and represents over fifteen years of research and writing. The volume includes penetrating insights into Egyptian pharaohs and medieval Jewish and Islamic traditions about Abraham; Greek, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian myths; the Aztec calendar stone; Hopi Indian ceremonies; and early Jewish and Christian apocrypha, as well as the relationship of myth, ritual, and history.
This chapter discusses periods past and future in which the gods come together to save mankind and bring them to godhood.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > History > Christian History, Apostasy > Dispensations, Axial Times
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Olsen, Steven L. “Prospering in the Land of Promise.” FARMS Review 22, no. 1 (2010): 229-245.
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Nephi and Mormon both treat the covenant of the promised land, expounding on characteristics of prospering in the land: obeying God’s law, practicing domesticated economies, preserving sacred records, bearing and raising children, securing adequate defense, constructively using natural materials, worshipping at temples, requiring industriousness, and providing righteous leadership.

Keywords: Covenant; Mormon; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Obedience; Promise; Promised Land
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
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Olsen, Steven L. “The Covenant of the Promised Land: Territorial Symbolism in the Book of Mormon.” FARMS Review 22, no. 2 (2010): 137-154.
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The symbolism of land and its covenantal associations are viewed as guiding structural elements in the Book of Mormon narrative. Involving “existential space” more than “geometric space,” the concept of land is central to an understanding of the book as a sacred, covenant-based record.

Keywords: Covenant; Land; Leitworter; Record; Symbolism
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Perego, Ugo A. “The Book of Mormon and the Origin of Native Americans from a Maternally Inherited DNA Standpoint.” The FARMS Review 22, no. 1 (2010): Article 9.
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The church advocates no official position on the origins of Amerindian populations. Critics and sup-porters of the Book of Mormon both attempt to bolster their own arguments with DNA evidence. This study reviews the properties of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), particularly pertaining to the origins of Native American populations. DNA studies are subject to numerous limitations.

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Roper, Matthew P. “Joseph Smith, Revelation, and Book of Mormon Geography.” FARMS Review 22, no. 2 (2010): 15-85.
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Review of Bruce H. Porter and Rod L. Meldrum. Prophecies and Promises: The Book of Mormon and the United States of America.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Book of Mormon Geography – Heartland; Early Church History; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Prophecy; Smith
ID = [656]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2010-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 156964  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:02
Roper, Matthew P. “Losing the Remnant: The New Exclusivist ‘Movement’ and the Book of Mormon.” FARMS Review 22, no. 2 (2010): 87-124.
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Review of Bruce H. Porter and Rod L. Meldrum. Prophecies and Promises: The Book of Mormon and the United States of America.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Book of Mormon Geography – Heartland; Early Church History; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Prophecy; Smith
ID = [657]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2010-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 79533  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:02
Smith, Gregory L. “Often in Error, Seldom in Doubt: Rod Meldrum and Book of Mormon DNA.” FARMS Review 22, no. 1 (2010): 17-161.
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Review of Rod L. Meldrum. Rediscovering the Book of Mormon Remnant through DNA.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Book of Mormon Geography – Heartland; DNA; Native Americans
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Smith, Robert F. “Epistolary Form in the Book of Mormon.” FARMS Review 22, no. 2 (2010): 125-135.
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The claim that a personal letter in the Book of Mormon mimics a form indicative of modern rather than ancient composition is critiqued. The majority of letters in the Book of Mormon follow the ancient Hittite-Syrian, Neo-Assyrian, Amarna, and Hebrew epistolary format in which the correspondent of superior rank is always listed first. Other clues to ancient composition are noted.

Keywords: Epistle; Language; Mormon (Prophet); Moroni (Son of Mormon); Structure; Writing
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [658]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 29548  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:02
Snuffer, Denver C., Jr. Removing the Condemnation: A Commentary on the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, UT: Mill Creek Press, LLC, 2010.
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Latter-day Saint religious commentary on certain chapters of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, critical text project; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon
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Tanner, Jerald, and Sandra Tanner. Joseph Smith’s Plagiarism of the Bible in the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 2010.
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“Besides the extensive list of parallels between the Bible and the Book of Mormon, this book examines many other possible sources used to create the text, i.e. the Apocrypha, the Westminster Confession, various newspapers and books, etc. Also examined is the Solomon Spalding theory, common phrases, chiasmus (Hebrew poetic form), influence of Freemasonry and folk magic, and the problems with the loss of the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon manuscript.”

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Bible, use and influence; Book of Mormon
ID = [81529]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2010-01-01  Collections:  bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:25
Tvedtnes, John A. “Was Joseph Smith Guilty of Plagiarism?” FARMS Review 22, no. 1 (2010): 261-275.
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Joseph Smith has been charged with plagiarism in the Book of Mormon and his own revelations, largely because of lengthy biblical quotations (which, in each instance, have been credited to the Old Testament prophet whose words are being cited). Numerous examples in the Old Testament show that prophets freely borrowed verbiage from another. In the nineteenth century, newspapers reprinted material, often without attribution.

Keywords: Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Old Testament; Plagiarism; Quotation; Revelation; Smith; Translation
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Walker, Kyle R. “As Fire Shut Up in My Bones: Ebenezer Robinson, Don Carlos Smith, and the 1840 Edition of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Mormon History 36, no. 1 (Winter, 2010): 1-40.
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Keywords: Smith, Don Carlos; Robinson, Ebenezer; Book of Mormon, editions and translations; Book of Mormon, printing
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Insights. “Willes Describes Lofty Goals at Fourth Annual Neal A. Maxwell Lecture.” Insights 30, no. 2 (2010).
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Mark Willes delivered the fourth annual Neal A. Maxwell Lecture on March 11, 2010. Willes, president and chief executive officer of Deseret Management Corporation, endowed the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies in 2007 in honor of his wife.

Keywords: lecture; media company; business; journalism
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Insights. “Early Book of Mormon Writings Now Online.” Insights 30, no. 2 (2010).
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The most extensive collection of writings about the Book of Mormon published between 1829 and 1844 has been made available as an online database. The collection, 19th-Century Publications about the Book of Mormon (1829–1844), includes nearly 600 publications and close to one million words of text. It is intended to comprise, insofar as possible, everything published during Joseph Smith’s lifetime relating to the Book of Mormon. Under the auspices of Digital Collections at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library, this ambitious project can be accessed at lib.byu.edu/dlib/bompublications.

Keywords: writing; Book of Mormon; publications; Joseph Smith
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘He Shall Add’: Wordplay on the Name Joseph and an Early Instance of Gezera Shawa in the Book of Mormon.” Insights 30, no. 2 (2010).
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In explaining the prophecies of Isaiah in which his soul delighted, Nephi sets up an intriguing wordplay on the name Joseph. On several occasions he combines segments of Isaiah 11:11 and Isaiah 29:14 to foretell the gathering and restoration of Israel at the time of the coming forth of additional scripture. The most discernible reason for Nephi’s interpretation of these two specific texts in the light of each other is their shared use of the Hebrew verb yāsap, which literally means “to add” but can have the more developed senses to “continue” or “proceed to do” something and “to do again.” This verb is also the source of the name Joseph, which means “may He [the Lord] add,” “He shall add,” or “He has added.” Rachel, the mother of the patriarch Joseph, is said to have explained the giving of this name to her son with that basic sense in mind: “And she called his name Joseph [yôsēp], and said, The Lord shall add [yōsēp] to me another son” (Genesis 30:24; emphasis in all scriptural citations is mine). Thus when Nephi combined these two prophecies together through their common use of yāsap, he was also using a wordplay on the name Joseph both to remind us that it was the seed of Joseph that would be gathered and to foretell the involvement of another Joseph, Joseph Smith, in the gathering and in the coming forth of scripture.

Keywords: Nephi; scripture; Joseph; texts
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66947]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:57
Calton, Terry F. “Book of Mormon Resources from the Religious Educator.” Religious Educator Vol. 11 no. 2 (2010).
ID = [38266]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 2794  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:25
Harper, Steven C. “Evaluating the Book of Mormon Witnesses.” Religious Educator Vol. 11 no. 2 (2010).
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [38255]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 32916  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:24
Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel. “‘Both are Edified and Rejoice Together’” Religious Educator Vol. 11 no. 2 (2010).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [38559]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 2625  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:42
Olsen, Steven L. “The Centrality of Nephi’s Vision.” Religious Educator Vol. 11 no. 2 (2010).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
ID = [38256]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 34375  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:25
Tippetts, Larry W. “Toward Emotional Maturity: Insights from the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 11 no. 2 (2010).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
ID = [38258]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 34284  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:25
Welch, John W. “The Testimony of Alma: ‘Give Ear to My Words’” Religious Educator Vol. 11 no. 2 (2010).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [38257]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ,welch  Size: 46484  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:25
Insights. “Nibley Fellowship Program Assists Rising Scholars.” Insights 30, no. 3 (2010).
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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 generation of faithful scholars by provid- ing financial aid to students enrolled in accredited PhD programs in areas of study directly related to the work and mission of the Maxwell Institute. Of particular interest is 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, and ancient temples.

Keywords: program; financial aid; students; application
ID = [66951]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-01-03  Collections:  abraham,bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:57
Skinner, Andrew C. “‘This Is My Gospel’: Jesus’ Discourse in 3 Nephi.” Religious Educator Vol. 11 no. 3 (2010).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [38558]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 54155  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:42
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘And He Was a Young Man’: The Literary Preservation of Alma’s Autobiographical Wordplay.” Insights 30, no. 4 (2010).
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Thanks to the work of Hugh Nibley, Paul Hoskisson, Terrence Szink, and others, the plausibility of Alma as a Semitic name is no longer an issue. Hoskisson has noted that “Alma” derives from the root ‘lm (< *ǵlm) with the meaning “youth” or “lad,” corroborating Nibley’s earlier suggestion that “Alma” means “young man” (cf. Hebrew ‘elem,עלם). Significantly, “Alma” occurs for the first time in the Book of Mormon text as follows: “But there was one among them whose name was Alma, he also being a descendant of Nephi. And he was a young man, and he believed the words which Abinadi had spoken” (Mosiah 17:2; emphasis in all scriptural citations is mine). This first occurrence of “Alma” is juxtaposed with a description matching the etymological meaning of the name, suggesting an underlying wordplay: Alma (‘lm’) was an ‘elem. A play on words sharing a common root is a literary technique known as polyptoton.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; text; wordplay; Alma
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [66956]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:57
Insights. “‘Symbolism in Scripture’ Focus of Willes Center Conference.” Insights 30, no. 5 (2010).
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“Symbolism in Scripture” was the theme of the second biennial Laura F. Willes Center Book of Mormon Conference held recently. The conference included presentations by 13 scholars addressing such topics as “The Symbolic Use of Hand Gestures in the Book of Mormon and Other Latter-day Saint Scripture” and “Light: The Master Symbol.”

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Latter-day Saints; scripture; baptism
ID = [66959]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:57
Bokovoy, David E., and Pedro Olavarria. “Zarahemla: Revisiting the ‘Seed of Compassion’” Insights 30, no. 5 (2010).
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More than ten years ago, Stephen Ricks and John Tvedtnes presented a case for interpreting the Book of Mormon proper noun Zarahemla as a Hebraic construct meaning “seed of compassion” or “child of grace, pity, or compassion.” The authors theorized: It may be that the Mulekite leader was given that name because his ancestor had been rescued when the other sons of King Zedekiah were slain during the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem. [See Mosiah 25:2.] To subsequent Nephite generations, it may have even suggested the deliverance of their own ancestors from Jerusalem prior to its destruction or the anticipation of Christ’s coming.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; texts; Bible; literary
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [66960]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:57
Fields, Paul J., Atul Nepal, and Matthew P. Roper. “Wordprint Analysis and Joseph Smith’s Role as Editor of the Times and Seasons.” Insights 30, no. 6 (2010).
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One of the issues that swirls around discus- sions of Book of Mormon geography is the rightful place the editorials in the 1842 Times and Seasons must take. The story of the editorials begins with Joseph’s receipt of John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood’s Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chaipas, and Yucatan, published in 1841. In early 1842, the Times and Seasons published several enthu- siastic articles that drew attention to the discoveries of Stephens and Catherwood in Central America and compared them favorably with the Book of Mormon. Two of these articles were signed by the editor, while three other articles were unsigned. Historical sources indicate that the Prophet Joseph Smith served as editor of the paper for all of the issues published between March 1 through the October 15, 1842. During this time, however, apostles John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff assisted the Prophet in his work in the printing office. Since these articles were not specifically signed by Joseph Smith, some have questioned whether the Prophet wrote them himself, or if someone else wrote them, with or without his approval.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; geography; Joseph Smith; prophet
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66964]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-01-06  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:58
Ensign. “James E. Talmage (1862–1933).” Ensign March 2010.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [58692]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-03-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1718  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:08
Kunz, Ryan E. “180 Years Later, Book of Mormon Nears 150 Million Copies.” Ensign, March 2010.
ID = [58695]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-03-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 5514  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:08
Solomon, Sonola Oladapo. “Do You Believe in the Book of Mormon?” Ensign, March 2010.
ID = [58686]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-03-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2296  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:08
Rasband, Ronald A. “Thy Friends Do Stand by Thee.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, March 7, 2010.
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“Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands.” I reaffirm this promise given by the Lord in the early days of the Restoration of this Church. I pray that each of us will have the privilege of enjoying righteous friendships and mentoring relationships as we grow together in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Keywords: Friendship
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69717]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-03-07  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Haddock, Sharon. “Nibley a Passionate Defender of the Book of Mormon.” Mormon Times, 26 March 2010.
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Describes Hugh Nibley’s passion for the Book of Mormon and how he defended it.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Book of Mormon
ID = [787]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 2010-03-26  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:11
Martino, James B. “All Things Work Together for Good.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2010.
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We may never know in this life why we face what we do, but we can feel confident that we can grow from the experience.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [21211]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7797  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:41
Name withheld by request. “Nephi’s Story, My Story.” Ensign, April 2010.
ID = [58710]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 6173  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:08
Martino, James B. “All Things Work Together for Good.” Ensign, May 2010.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [58770]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8006  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:09
Ensign. “Buenos Aires Argentina Temple.” Ensign June 2010.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [58827]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1074  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:09
Perkey, Joshua J. “A Bountiful Harvest in Bardstown.” Ensign, June 2010.
ID = [58811]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 10815  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:09
Berrett, Marilyn W. “Earnest Prayer.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, June 8, 2010.
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Heavenly Father is intimately interested in hearing from us and that He is omnipresent and available to listen at all times.

Keywords: Conversion; Heavenly Father; Prayer; Podcast: Classic Speeches; Podcast: Come; Follow Me
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
ID = [69729]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-06-08  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Paxman, David B. “Zoram and I: Getting Our Stories Straight.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, July 27, 2010.
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Faith in Jesus Christ has the power to help us get our stories straight, and I pray that, like Zoram, we will see that our life’s circumstances are often the very conditions in which God has chosen to bless us as He helps us work out our lives.

Keywords: Attitude; Perspective
ID = [69733]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-07-27  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Packer, Boyd K. “Finding Ourselves in Lehi’s Dream.” Ensign, August 2010.
ID = [58882]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 14035  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:09
Ricks, Stephen D. “Origin of Book of Mormon Names.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.
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Keywords: Name; Onomastics
ID = [32481]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Roper, Matthew P. “Joseph Smith and the Question of Book of Mormon Geography.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.
ID = [32470]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Skousen, Royal. “Restoring the Original Text of the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.
ID = [32473]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 50200  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Eyring, Henry B. “The Book of Mormon as a Personal Guide.” Ensign, September 2010.
ID = [58916]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2884  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:10
Holbrook, Hillary. “My Own Book of Mormon.” Ensign, September 2010.
ID = [58917]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1327  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:10
Luffman, Dale E. “Making a Case for a Nineteenth-Century Reading of the Book of Mormon in the Community of Christ.” Restoration Studies 11 (Fall, 2010): 111-126.
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It is my contention that a responsible and usable approach to interpreting and understanding the Book of Mormon requires that the reader be brought into a historical conversation with the early nineteenth century, a larger hermeneutical conversation with the text itself, and an interpretive strategy that may enable a more-adequate understanding of a reading of the Book of Mormon, which would include the perceived aims and purposes of Joseph Smith Jr. himself. Such an approach is necessary if one is to adequately understand the word and witness of the Book of Mormon in the twenty-first century. [From the article]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, RLDS and; America, Mormon views of, 19th century; Book of Mormon, use and influence
ID = [82039]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Aston, Warren P. “Finding Nephi’s ‘Bountiful’ in the Real World.” Meridian Magazine, September 20, 2010.
ID = [66560]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2010-09-20  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:42
Thygerson, Alton L. “Saving Lives.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, September 28, 2010.
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Only Jesus can save us. The clearest expression of this is given by King Benjamin in the Book of Mormon: “There shall be no other name given nor any other way nor means whereby salvation can come unto the children of men, only in and through the name of Christ.”

Keywords: Responsibility; Service
ID = [69747]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-09-28  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Mazzagardi, Jairo. “Avoiding the Trap of Sin.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2010.
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Stay strong and make good choices that will allow you to eat the fruit of the tree of life.

ID = [21329]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7406  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:43
Monson, Thomas S. “As We Meet Together Again.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2010.
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Missionary service is a priesthood duty—an obligation the Lord expects of us who have been given so very much.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [21238]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 4011  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:41
Nelson, Russell M. “Be Thou an Example of the Believers.” Delivered at the Priesthood Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2010.
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Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [21283]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2010-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 10484  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:42
Monson, Thomas S. “As We Meet Together Again.” Ensign, November 2010.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [58967]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3975  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:10
Aston, Warren P. “The Rings That Bound the Gold Plates.” Meridian Magazine, November 27, 2010.
ID = [66559]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2010-11-27  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:42
Bradley, Don. “Written by the Finger of God?: Claims and Controversies of Book of Mormon Translation.” Sunstone 161 (December 2010): 20-29.
ID = [77232]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
2011
BYU Studies. Blasphemers and Believers: Personal Reactions to the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2011.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on various believers and nonbelievers, including William E. McLellan, Mark Twain, B. H. Roberts, and Minerva Teichert. Contents “William E. McLellan’s Testimony of the Book of Mormon” Larry C. Porter “‘The Testimony of Men’: William E. McLellin and the Book of Mormon Witnesses” Mitchell K. Schaefer “The Gentle Blasphemer: Mark Twain, Holy Scripture, and the Book of Mormon” Richard H. Cracroft “B. H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon” Truman G. Madsen “Minerva Teichert: Scriptorian and Artist” Marian Ashby Johnson “Minerva Teichert: A Passion for the Book of Mormon” John W. Welch and Doris R. Dant

ID = [75257]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:35
Insights. “Latest Review Takes Up Church Media, Promised Land, Teen Religiosity, and More.” Insights 31, no. 1 (2011).
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The latest issue of the FARMS Review (volume 22, number 2), which appeared at the end of 2010, features a transcript of last year’s Neal A. Maxwell Lecture given by Mark H. Willes, president and CEO of Deseret Management Corporation. Willes illustrates the kind of creative thinking required for the LDS Church’s media outlets to eventually reach hundreds of millions of people worldwide. For a full report of this lecture, see Insights 30/2 (2010).

Keywords: Book of Mormon; reviews; United States; geography; revelation
ID = [66972]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:58
Alford, Kenneth L. “‘Delivered by the Power of God’: Nephi’s Vision of America’s Birth.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Restoration of the Gospel
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [35271]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 44876  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Baker, LeGrand L., and Stephen D. Ricks. Who Shall Ascend into the Hill of the Lord?: The Psalms in Israel’s Temple Worship In the Old Testament and in the Book of Mormon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2011.
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The Psalms were originally the text of the ancient Israelite temple services. Their poetry was woven into a magnificent eight day pageant-like temple drama that depicted the full eternal sweep of the Savior’s mission and his Atonement. The principles taught in that drama were accurately preserved on the brass plates and taught by Nephite prophets throughout the Book of Mormon. Soon after Lehi and his family left Jerusalem, the city and its temple were destroyed and the Jews were taken captive into Babylon. While there, they modified their religion in order to fit their new situation. But in doing so, they lost much that was most important. Even after their return from the Babylonian captivity, the Jews did not restore their original ancient temple worship. The order of the Psalms was rearranged so they no longer could be read from first to last to learn the story they once told. Consequently, in the Savior’s time the temple at Jerusalem was not used in the same way as the Temple of Solomon. However, neither the story told in the ancient drama nor its teachings were entirely lost. Some of the people recognized them in the teachings of John the Baptist and the Savior, and the authors of the New Testament frequently quoted the Psalms to remind their readers that the ancient fathers once understood the Savior’s mission and Atonement. Now, using the New Testament, with the Book of Mormon and modern revelation as keys, Baker and Ricks have sought to reconstruct the original order of the Psalms and uncover the story they once told in the ancient Israelite temple drama.

Keywords: Psalms (Book), Temple Worship
ID = [75452]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Belnap, Daniel L. “The Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Concept of Scripture.” In No Weapon Shall Prosper, ed. Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [35038]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 62588  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:18
Belnap, Daniel L. “The King James Bible and the Book of Mormon.” In The King James Bible and the Restoration, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
ID = [35252]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 47422  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:31
Belnap, Daniel L. “‘Even as Our Father Lehi Saw’: Lehi’s Dream as Nephite Cultural Narrative.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [35269]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 71043  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Belnap, Daniel L., Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson, eds. “The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision.” Proceedings of the 40th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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The 40th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium A dark and dreary waste, a man in a shining robe, a rod of iron, and a tree of life—these symbols evoke powerful images in our minds and deepen our appreciation for the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. The 2011 Sperry Symposium volume explores the rich symbolism of Lehi’s dream and Nephi’s vision, placing such symbols as the mists of darkness, the great and spacious building, and the church of the Lamb of God in the context of the last days. By introducing new perspectives to a familiar account, this volume offers a stirring reminder of the implications for Latter-day Saints. ISBN 978-1-6090-8738-8

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Articles

Osguthorpe, Russell T. “The Power of Inspired Invitations.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temptation
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Hardy, Heather. “The Double Nature of God’s Saving Work: The Plan of Salvation and Salvation History.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [35259]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 53324  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:31
Griffiths, Casey Paul. “The Church of the Lamb of God.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [35260]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 39283  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:31
Halverson, Jared M. “Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision as Apocalyptic Literature.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [35261]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 41712  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:31
Driggs, Lori. “Nephi’s Vision and the Loss and Restoration of Plain and Precious Truths.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
ID = [35262]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 56565  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:31
Pike, Dana M. “Lehi Dreamed a Dream: The Report of Lehi’s Dream in Its Biblical Context.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35263]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 72073  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:31
Lane, Jennifer Clark. “The Presence of the Lord.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
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Schade, Aaron P. “The Strait and Narrow Path: The Covenant Path of Discipleship Leading to the Tree of Life.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > D — F > Discipleship
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
ID = [35265]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 72944  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Easton-Flake, Amy. “Lehi’s Dream as a Template for Understanding Each Act of Nephi’s Vision.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Second Coming
ID = [35267]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 50650  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Hardy, Grant R. “Prophetic Perspectives: How Lehi and Nephi Applied the Lessons of Lehi’s Dream.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [35268]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 37284  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Bowen, Matthew L. “Not Partaking of the Fruit: Its Generational Consequences and Its Remedy.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35270]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 59854  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Judd, Frank F., Jr. “What Nephi’s Vision Teaches about the Bible and the Book of Mormon.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
ID = [35272]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 48026  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
King, Seth J. “Illuminating a Darkened World.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [35273]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 45751  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Line, C. Robert. “Bitter and Sweet: Dual Dimensions of the Tree of Life.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temptation
RSC Topics > T — Z > Trials
ID = [35274]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 27222  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Smith, D. Mick. “Sacrifice and Condescension: Types and Shadows for Latter-day Living.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > A — C > Consecration
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
ID = [35275]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 42002  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Swift, Charles. “‘It Filled My Soul with Exceedingly Great Joy’: Lehi’s Vision of Teaching and Learning.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
RSC Topics > T — Z > Teaching the Gospel
ID = [35276]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 74205  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Woodger, Mary Jane, and Michelle Vanegas Brodrick. “Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision as Used by Church Leaders.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Teaching the Gospel
ID = [35277]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 46416  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:32
Bennett, Richard E. “‘A Nation Now Extinct,’ American Indian Origin Theories as of 1820: Samuel L. Mitchill, Martin Harris, and the New York Theory.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 2 (2011): 30-51.
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This paper probes the theories of the origin of the American Indian up to the time of the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon. It covers some three hundred years of development, looking at many different theories, including the predominant theory of the lost tribes of Israel, which was in decline among most leading scientific observers in the early nineteenth century. The paper covers new ground in showing that Professor Samuel L. Mitchill, formerly of Columbia College, had concluded that two main groups of people once dominated the Americas—the Tartars of northern Asia and the Australasians of the Polynesian islands. Furthermore, they fought one another for many years, culminating in great battles of extermination in what later became upstate New York. This New York theory has much in common with the Book of Mormon. While visiting Professor Charles Anthon in New York in 1828, Martin Harris also met with Mitchill, an encounter that lent support to Harris’s work on the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: 19th Century Native American Origin Theories; Anthon; Book of Mormon Geography; Charles; Early Church History; Harris; Lost Ten Tribes; Martin; Mitchill; Native Americans; New York Theory; Samuel L.
ID = [3267]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 81695  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Black, Susan Easton, ed. The Best of the St. Louis Luminary. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2011.
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Published from November 1854 to December 1855, the St. Louis Luminary was started by Apostle Erastus Snow, the Latter-day Saint leader over the region. The newspaper maintained contact among the members, helped emigrating Saints stay focused on their ultimate destination in the West, and played a significant role in the national discussion of polygamy, which had been publicly announced in 1852. Snow’s goal was to produce a paper “devoted to the exposition of the favorable side of Mormonism,” something the “honest inquirer” had longed to read. The newspaper also consisted of a composite of exchanges from other periodicals, and a variety of local businesses—regardless of whether they were owned by Mormons—advertised in it. Furthermore, hundreds of names published in the columns yield a valuable genealogical database. Its forty-two missionary-agents traveled throughout most of the Midwest soliciting subscribers. I believe that this work will benefit readers and researchers alike by helping them explore another Mormon periodical from the mid-ninteenth century. Professor Black has again provided us with a powerful research tool that sheds light on a corner of history which has gone largely neglected. —Fred E. Woods, Professor, Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University and author of When the Saints Came Marching In: A History of the Latter-day Saints in St. Louis

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Black, Susan Easton, and Larry C. Porter. “‘Rest Assured, Martin Harris Will Be Here in Time’” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 1 (2011): 5-27.
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Martin Harris, one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, was the only witness to join the Saints in Utah. This journey was commenced only after missionaries passed through Kirtland for decades and attempted to convince Harris to make the journey to the Salt Lake Valley. Although each missionary over the course of decades was unsuccessful in his attempts to convince the impoverished, lonely Harris to go to Utah, each was spiritually renewed through the ever-present testimony of the witness of the Book of Mormon and “custodian” of the Kirtland Temple. This is the testimony Harris spread even as he traveled to Utah after a former acquaintance of his finally convinced him to make the trip at the age of eighty-seven. Finally in Utah, Harris enjoyed again the blessings of the church and continued to pronounce, even until he died, his powerful testimony of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Early Church History; Harris; Martin; Testimony; Three Witnesses; Translation
ID = [3259]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 100990  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Blumell, Lincoln H. “A Text-Critical Comparison of the King James New Testament with Certain Modern Translations.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 3 no. 1 (2011).
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This article renders a text-critical comparison of the King James New Testament and select modern translations of the New Testament. Specifically, it surveys twenty-two passages in the King James New Testament that have been omitted in most modern translations. The article then clarifies and explains why these verses have been omitted and asks whether such omissions ought to be accepted. While this study demonstrates that in most cases the readings in the King James Version are inferior in a text-critical sense and that they likely represent interpolations into the biblical text, there are a few cases where the King James Version might preserve a better reading. This article also argues that even though the King James Version may be inferior on a text-critical level, when compared to certain modern translations, we can still use it with profit if we are aware of its deficiencies.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [7029]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-sba  Size: 142703  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Boegh, Ben, and Jonathan P. Benson. “Letters.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 20 no. 2 (2011).
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Letters praising the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture and responding to articles published therein.

ID = [3264]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 4586  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Bokovoy, David E. “On Christ and Covenants: An LDS Reading of Isaiah’s Prophetic Call.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 3 no. 1 (2011).
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This article illustrates that for Latter-day Saints, the Book of Mormon can function as an interpretive guide to Isaiah’s writings. The analysis explores some ways in which the Book of Mormon can aid in identifying textual meaning in the story of Isaiah’s prophetic commission, especially on the topic of Christ and covenants. Lehi’s call narrative in the Book of Mormon shares much in common with Isaiah 6. Based on analogy with Lehi’s comparable dream, LDS readers can connect the seraph that interacts personally with Isaiah to Jesus Christ—that is, the Being with great luster who descends out of heaven to meet with the Book of Mormon prophet.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [7027]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-sba,old-test  Size: 47978  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:37
Clark, John E. “Revisiting ‘A Key for Evaluating Book of Mormon Geographies’” Mormon Studies Review 23, no. 1 (2011): Article 4.
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The author updates his 1989 key for judging the merits of theories that attempt to locate Book of Mormon events in the real world. His “internal” geography of the book is based exclusively on what the book itself says about locations, distances, and directions. Six components (“transects”) of this geography are treated in detail, and ten crucial tests of geographical relatedness are proposed.

ID = [664]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 86882  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:03
Corless, Timothy, Richard Dilworth Rust, and S. Mahlon Edwards. “Letters.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 20 no. 1 (2011).
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Letters praising the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture and responses to articles published therein.

ID = [3258]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 8136  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Fields, Paul J. “Examining a Misapplication of Nearest Shruncken Centroid Classification to Investigate Book of Mormon Authorship.” Mormon Studies Review 23, no. 1 (2011): Article 8.
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Review of Matthew L. Jockers, Daniela M. Witten, and Craig S. Criddle. “Reassessing authorship of the Book of Mormon using delta and nearest shrunken centroid classification.”

ID = [674]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 82635  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:04
Fields, Paul J. “The Historical Case against Sidney Rigdon’s Authorship of the Book of Mormon.” Mormon Studies Review 23, no. 1 (2011): Article 9.
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Review of Matthew L. Jockers, Daniela M. Witten, and Craig S. Criddle. “Reassessing authorship of the Book of Mormon using delta and nearest shrunken centroid classification.”

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Fullmer, James H. Other Heroes of the Book of Mormon. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, Inc., 2011.
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Much has been written about the Book of Mormon’s prominent heroes, such as Nephi, Abinadi, and Alma — but what about the many other characters who played a part in this sacred scripture? This fascinating illustrated book gives vivid glimpses into ancient America through those who had relatively minor roles in the scriptural narrative yet mighty influence and impact between its lines. Engaging text and more than 100 full-color illustrations, timelines, and maps bring to life the contributions of memorable figures such as Aminadab, Zeniff, and Lib, as well as usually unheralded female characters such as the faithful Nephite daughters, Lamoni’s wife, and the maidservant of Morianton. At the beginning of each chapter, author and artist James Fullmer references the key scriptural passages, and at the end of each chapter, he shares insight into the creative decisions that shaped his unique approach. Come along for an unforgettable journey that will excite readers of all ages, inspire them to take a closer look at the Book of Mormon, and help them more fully appreciate this sacred testament of Jesus Christ.

Keywords: Biography; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Gardner, Brant A. “Nephi as Scribe.” Mormon Studies Review 23, no. 1 (2011): 45-55.
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Nephi was a younger son of a wealthy family. As one who might not inherit his father's business, it is possible that he was trained for another profession. One of the high-status professions open to him would have been a scribe. Beyond the fact that Nephi produced at least three written works (1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, and the nonextant large-plate book of Lehi), there are other evidences in his writing that betray the kind of traning scribes received. His early professional training may have been an important preparation for his later role in establishing his people as a true people of the book.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Metalworking; Nephi; Scribe
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Griffin, Carl W. “Syriac Manuscripts from the Egyptian Desert.” Insights 31, no. 1 (2011).
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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 others 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; Egyptian desert; manuscripts; libraries
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Hemming, Laurence P. “‘With the Voice Together Shall They Sing’” BYU Studies 50, no. 1 (2011): 25.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [11082]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 35136  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:02
Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, and Kent P. Jackson, eds. My Redeemer Lives!. Proceedings of The 2010 and 2011 BYU Easter Conferences. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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The 2010 and 2011 BYU Easter Conferences This volume brings together talks from two Brigham Young University Easter Conferences. Presentations address the Savior, his life, his mission, the Atonement, and his influence in our lives today. The contributors include Elder John H. Groberg, Elder Gerald N. Lund, Robert L. Millet, and others. The topics range from the infinite sweep of the Atonement to its personal reach in perfecting individuals. “It is always a challenge to talk or write about the Atonement of Jesus Christ,” notes Elder Lund. “First of all, it is infinite in its scope. It is the most profound and pivotal event in all of eternity. And we are so totally and utterly finite. We can but glimpse its importance and come only to a small understanding of its full meaning for us.” ISBN 978-0-8425-2784-2

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Groberg, John H. “‘It Is Finished’” In My Redeemer Lives! ed. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson, 1–26. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Love
ID = [35139]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 26438  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:24
Lund, Gerald N. “What the Atoning Sacrifice Meant for Jesus.” In My Redeemer Lives!, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Crucifixion
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
ID = [35140]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 35441  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:24
Belnap, Daniel L. “‘To Them Gave He Power to Become’” In My Redeemer Lives!, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > God the Father
ID = [35141]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 22891  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:24
Millet, Robert L. “What We Worship.” In My Redeemer Lives!, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [35142]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 33228  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:24
Rogers, Sandra. “To Proclaim Liberty to the Captives.” In My Redeemer Lives!, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
ID = [35143]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 48120  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:24
Swift, Charles. “Three Stories.” In My Redeemer Lives!, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Miracles
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
ID = [35144]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  new-test,rsc-books,rsc-easter  Size: 31937  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Kimball, Edward L. Father of a Prophet: Andrew Kimball. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2011.
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Spencer W. Kimball spent innumerable hours working on a biography of his father, Andrew, but was unable to finish it. This book, completed by Spencer’s son and biographer, Edward L. Kimball, brings that desire to fulfillment. Father of a Prophet is the link between Andrew’s apostle father (Heber C. Kimball) and his prophet son (Spencer W. Kimball), and it provides an important prologue to the biographies Spencer W. Kimball (1977), and Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball (2005). Andrew presided for twelve years over the Indian Territory Mission, and he worked for years as a salesman in Utah and Idaho traveling from village to village. Then, in 1898, Church leaders called Andrew to move with his family to Arizona and preside over the St. Joseph Stake, covering southeastern Arizona and extending to El Paso, Texas, including the Mor­mon settlements in the Gila River Valley. Andrew invested himself deeply in his adopted community. He served a term in the Arizona legislature and exerted statewide influence as chair of the agricultural and horticultural commission. Whenever a vacancy occurred in the Quorum of the Twelve, Andrew’s name received speculative mention. His twenty-five years in stake administration illuminate the Church’s maturation from pioneer times to a period of inter­national growth, and his exemplary loyalty and personal high principles were passed on to his son Spencer, especially as father and son served together in the stake presidency.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Meldrum, Rod L. Exploring the Book of Mormon in America’s Heartland: A Visual Journey of Discovery. New York: Digital Legend, 2011.
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“From Adam-ondi-Ahman to the City of Enoch; from the restoration of the Gospel to building of the New Jerusalem in the latter-days the Heartland of America has been the setting of sacred and significant events throughout human history.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Historic archaeology, Book of Mormon
ID = [81492]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:23
Midgley, Louis C. “Out of Obscurity: The Story of Nibley’s ‘Beyond Politics’” Mormon Studies Review 23, no. 1 (2011): Article 11.
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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.
An explanation of why “Beyond Politics” was never published.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Politics, Social Issues
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 20 Issue 1. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 20 no. 1 (2011).
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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

Paulsen, David L., Kendel J. Christensen, and Martin Pulido. “Redeeming the Dead: Tender Mercies, Turning of Hearts, and Restoration of Authority.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 1 (2011): 28-51.
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Beginning with Paul’s reference to baptism for the dead and the early Christian practice thereof, many theologians—from Augustine and Cyril of Alexandria to Thomas Aquinas, Joseph Smith, and some of his contemporaries—have discussed the fate of the unevangelized dead. These authors have provided many ideas to solve this soteriological problem of evil; however, until the restoration, none could balance the three truths that God is all loving, one must accept Jesus Christ to be saved, and many have died without knowing about Christ. This article chronicles the thoughts of these and other theologians as well as the development, through revelation, of Joseph Smith’s own thinking on postmortem evangelization and baptism for the dead.

Keywords: Authority; Baptism for the Dead; Early Christianity; Joseph; Jr.; Missionary Work; Redemption; Restoration; Revelation; Smith; Soteriology; Tender Mercies; Theology
ID = [3260]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,farms-jbms  Size: 101048  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Rust, Richard Dilworth. “Light: A Masterful Symbol.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 1 (2011): 52-65.
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From God’s first creative act recorded in Genesis to the brightness with which the Savior will return in the second coming, light is ever present in scripture. Many instances in the scriptures record God’s use of light to further his purposes—the stones that provided the Jaredites light while crossing the ocean, the light by which the children of Israel were led in the wilderness, and the light that announced the Savior’s birth. None of these physical manifestations of light is without powerful symbolic meaning. At other points in scripture, light is used purely as a symbol—a symbol of truth, wisdom, power, and righteousness. More important than these, though, is that light can ultimately represent Jesus Christ himself, by whose light all can be saved.

Keywords: Creation; Jaredite; Jesus Christ; Light; Power; Righteousness; Salvation; Symbolism; Truth; Wisdom
ID = [3261]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 48443  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Ricks, Stephen D. “On Lehi’s Trail: Nahom, Ishmael’s Burial Place.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 1 (2011): 66-68.
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Nahom, a proper name given as the burial place of Ishmael in 1 Nephi 16:34, compellingly correlates archaeologically, geographically, and historically to the site of Nehem on the Arabian peninsula. However, as this article exhibits, some of the linguistic and etymological evidence given to connect the Book of Mormon Nahom to the Arabian Nehem is somewhat problematic.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Arabia; Ishmael; Language; Lehi’s Trail; Nahom
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [3262]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 12132  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Nibley, Hugh W. “Classics from the Past: Literary Style Used in Book of Mormon Insured Accurate Translation.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 20 no. 1 (2011).
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Responding to an inquiry from a member of a different faith about why the Book of Mormon was translated into the English of the King James Version of the Bible, Nibley discusses the use of biblical language in contemporary society, citing in particular the language of prayer and the use of King James English in the translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This article also serves as a platform for Nibley to discuss other issues raised about the Book of Mormon, especially in reference to the King James version of the Bible.

ID = [3263]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms,nibley  Size: 16113  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 20 Issue 2. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 20 no. 2 (2011).
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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

Sorenson, John L. “Mormon’s Sources.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 2 (2011): 2-15.
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How Mormon compiled Nephite records into the book that bears his name has never been carefully studied. This paper makes an attempt to understand that process as it details the limitations Mormon faced and the sources he would have used. Mormon’s framework depended primarily on the larger plates of Nephi, but this paper demonstrates that Mormon appears to have supplemented those plates with other sources from the Nephite archive of records. The restrictions of the plates of Nephi and the nature of the additional sources are discussed and evaluated.

Keywords: Compilation; Large Plates of Nephi; Mormon; Narrative; Scripture; Sources
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [3265]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,sorenson  Size: 46372  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Ball, Terry B. “Nibley and the Environment.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 2 (2011): 16–29.
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Hugh Nibley cared deeply about creation and was passionate about our stewardship over the earth. His arguments in defense of the environment were informed by the disciplines he knew best: history, philosophy, and theology. From his study, research, and reasoning, Nibley drew several principles that seem to have directed his thoughts and crafted his sense of environmental stewardship. Four of these principles are discussed in this paper: (1) humankind has a divine mandate to properly care for creation; (2) humankind’s spiritual health and environmental heath are linked; (3) creation obeys, reverences, and provides for humankind, as humankind righteously cares for creation; and (4) humankind should not sacrifice environmental health for temporal wealth.
A review of Hugh Nibley’s thoughts and writings on the environment.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Stewardship, Creation, Earth, Environment
ID = [1746]  Status = Type = Journal Article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,farms-jbms,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:06
Paulsen, David L., Kendel J. Christensen, Martin Pulido, and Judson Burton. “Redemption of the Dead: Continuing Revelation after Joseph Smith.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 20 no. 2 (2011).
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After Joseph Smith’s death, the Saints still had many questions regarding the soteriological problem of evil and the doctrines about redeeming the dead. This paper details what leaders of the church after Joseph Smith have said in response to these previously unanswered questions. They focus on the nature of Christ’s visit to the spirit world, those who were commissioned to preach the gospel to the departed spirits, the consequences of neglecting the gospel in mortality, and the extent and role of temple ordinances for those not eligible for celestial glory. This paper focuses on both the early and the late teachings of President Joseph F. Smith. It explains the doctrinal and historical contexts for his vision in 1918 and the further insights provided by this vision.

ID = [3268]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  farms-jbms  Size: 72317  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Gee, John, and Kerry Muhlestein. “An Egyptian Context for the Sacrifice of Abraham.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 20 no. 2 (2011).
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The plausibility of the attempted offering of Abraham by a priest of pharaoh and the existence of human sacrifice in ancient Egypt have been questioned and debated. This paper presents strong evidence that ritual slaying did exist among ancient Egyptians, with a particular focus on its existence in the Middle Kingdom. It details three individual evidences of human sacrifice found in ancient Egypt. Four different aspects of the attempted offering of Abraham are compared to these Egyptian evidences to illustrate how the story of Abraham fits with the picture of ritual slaying in Middle Kingdom Egypt.

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
ID = [3269]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  abraham,farms-jbms,old-test  Size: 30160  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Parry, Donald W., and Stephen D. Ricks. “Worthy of Another Look: The Great Isaiah Scroll and the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 20 no. 2 (2011).
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Numerous differences exist between the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon and the corresponding passages in the King James Version of the Bible. The Great Isaiah Scroll supports several of these differences found in the Book of Mormon. Five parallel passages in the Isaiah scroll, the Book of Mormon, and the King James Version of the Bible are compared to illustrate the Book of Mormon’s agreement with the Isaiah scroll.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [3270]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 7287  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Neilson, Reid L. The Japanese Missionary Journals of Elder Alma O. Taylor, 1901–10. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2011.
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Called to the Japan Mission at age eighteen, Alma O. Taylor and his parents would have been shocked had they known his mission would last nearly nine years. Alma, the eighteen-year-old lad, would return a twenty-seven-year-old man, having served one of the longest continuous missions in Church history. For eight and a half years (August 1901–January 1910), Alma worked with intense fervor, keeping a detailed journal of his experiences and impressions. Alma’s journal recaptures early Mormonism in Japan through the eyes of a young missionary. The body of this book is devoted to making his writings available for the first time to all those interested in the foundational events of the Church in Japan. Alma’s many accomplishments included learning both the spoken and written Japanese word; assisting in the translation of missionary tracts, Church hymns, and the Book of Mormon; serving as president of the Japan Mission from his early to late twenties; opening new proselyting areas throughout Japan; and finding, teaching, converting, and strengthening many of the early Japanese Saints. Shortly before Alma left his mission, he recorded his feelings about his final year in Japan: “During the year I have had many experiences some the most pleasant in life and some the most bitter that humans are called upon to experience. . . . Great is the debt of gratitude I owe to the Lord for His many blessings.”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [75358]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:41
Nibley, Hugh W. “Classics from the Past: Literary Style Used in Book of Mormon Insured Accurate Translation.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 1 (2011): 69-72.
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Nibley’s response to a query was printed in the Church News section of the Deseret News, 29 July 1961, 10, 15. It was reprinted in Saints’ Herald 108 (9 October 1961): 968–69, 975.
Responding to an inquiry from a member of a different faith about why the Book of Mormon was translated into the English of the King James Version of the Bible, Nibley discusses the use of biblical language in contemporary society, citing in particular the language of prayer and the use of King James English in the translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This article also serves as a platform for Nibley to discuss other issues raised about the Book of Mormon, especially in reference to the King James Version of the Bible.

Keywords: Dead Sea Scrolls; King James Bible; Literary; Literature; Translation
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics > Literary Style
ID = [1659]  Status = Type = Journal Article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:03
Ogden, D. Kelly. Verse by Verse: The Book of Mormon. Volume 1, 1 Nephi through Alma 29. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.
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Do you want to expand and deepen your study of the Book of Mormon? If so, you will find what you’re looking for in this commentary written by gospel scholars D. Kelly Ogden and Andrew C. Skinner. This volume is the first of a two-volume, reader-friendly exploration of the book of scripture that is the keystone of our religion. It incorporates sound doctrinal commentary with quotations from General Authorities and explanations of difficult passages—all sprinkled generously with the authors’ own experiences to illustrate great lessons and personal applications. Interspersed with the commentary are feature articles that offer new glimpses into such topics as angels who have come to earth, names and titles of God, Israel and Zion in Latter-day Saint usage, the Isaiah chapters of First and Second Nephi, the allegory of the olive tree, and prophecies of Christ. Highly informative and easy to read, this commentary on the Book of Mormon provides stimulating views that complement the scriptures. It will be treasured by anyone who wishes to understand more fully the teachings of those whom the Lord called in the land of promise to testify of him.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, use and influence; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Ogden, D. Kelly. Verse by Verse: The Book of Mormon. Volume 2, Alma 30 through Moroni 10. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.
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Do you want to expand and deepen your study of the Book of Mormon? If so, you will find what you’re looking for in this commentary written by gospel scholars D. Kelly Ogden and Andrew C. Skinner. This volume is the second of a two-volume, reader-friendly exploration of the book of scripture that is the keystone of our religion. It incorporates sound doctrinal commentary with quotations from General Authorities and explanations of difficult passages — all sprinkled generously with the authors’ own experiences to illustrate great lessons and personal applications. Interspersed with the commentary are feature articles that offer new glimpses into such topics as the importance of record keeping, the purpose of a covenant people, teachings regarding war, the sealing power, God as a God of miracles still today, the Americas as the promised land, and the love of God for all his children. Highly informative and easy to read, this commentary on the Book of Mormon provides stimulating views that complement the scriptures. It will be treasured by anyone who wishes to understand more fully the teachings of those whom the Lord called in the land of promise to testify of him.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, use and influence; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [81499]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:24
Parker, Jared T. “The Doctrine of Christ in 2 Nephi 31–32 as an Approach to the Vision of the Tree of Life.” In: The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (2011 Sperry Symposium), eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2011. 161–178.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
ID = [2633]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses  Size: 46447  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:59
Parry, Donald W. “The Cherubim, the Flaming Sword, the Path, and the Tree of Life.” In The Tree of Life: From Eden to Eternity, edited by John W. Welch and Donald W. Parry, 1–24. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden
ID = [2636]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:59
Perego, Ugo A. “The Book of Mormon and the Origin of Native Americans from a Maternally Inherited DNA Standpoint.” In No Weapon Shall Prosper, ed. Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35039]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 92581  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:18
Rees, Robert A. “Alma the Younger’s Seminal Sermon at Zarahemla.” In Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown, edited by Skinner, Andrew C., Davis, D. Morgan, and Griffin, Carl. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2011.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81776]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:39
Rhodes, Michael D., and J. Ward Moody, eds. Converging Paths to Truth: The Summerhays Lectures on Science and Religion. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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Many great scientists such as Newton and Einstein spoke and wrote freely of their religious thoughts and feelings, seeing no fundamental conflict between them and their science. Today there is a tendency to emphasize conflict more than harmony. Sometimes people of faith are criticized as blind, naive, or shallow, while scientists are painted as arrogant, unfeeling, or deceived. Educated dialogue between these two camps has too often been reduced to shallow platitudes or, even worse, silence. Truth is not in conflict with itself. Religious truth is established through revelation, and scientific inquiry has uncovered many facts that have thus far stood the test of time. It is incumbent upon us to seek insights into all truth to mesh together, where possible, its parts at their proper interface. We discover bridges between scientific and religious knowledge best if we pursue them through study, faith, and ongoing dialogue. The Summerhays lectures and this book are dedicated to discover and share insights on how the truths of revealed religion mesh with knowledge from the sciences. ISBN 978-0-8425-2786-6

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Ball, Terry B. “Faith and the Scientific Method.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 1–16. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > L — P > Lifelong Learning
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [35145]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 30108  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Brown, Rodney J. “In Your Mind and in Your Heart.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 17–36. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35146]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 37231  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Hansen, H. Kimball. “Concerning Astronomical References Found in the Scriptures.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 37–60. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35147]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 44227  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Jones, Steven E. “A Brief Survey of Sir Isaac Newton’s Views on Religion.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 61–78. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostasy
RSC Topics > G — K > Godhead
ID = [35148]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 30486  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Millet, Robert L. “The Quest for Truth: Science and Religion in the Best of All Worlds.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 79–100. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
RSC Topics > T — Z > Unity
ID = [35149]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 43002  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Moody, J. Ward. “Time in Scripture and Science: A Conciliatory Key?” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 101–122. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
ID = [35150]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 40412  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Rhodes, Michael D. “The Scriptural Accounts of the Creation: A Scientific Perspective.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 123–50. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the scriptural accounts of the Creation from a scientific point of view with particular emphasis on physics and astronomy, although of necessity I will also have to deal to some extent with biology, chemistry, and geology. The views expressed here are my own and are not meant to represent the views of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Brigham Young University. They are a distillation of my thoughts and conclusions over two decades of teaching and research.

Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [4714]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 54752  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:50
Whiting, Michael F. “Evolution and the Gospel: Seeking Grandeur in This View of Life.” In Converging Paths to Truth: The Summerhays Lectures on Science and Religion, edited by Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 151–68. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses
RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
ID = [4498]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 35602  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:35
Schaefer, Mitchell K. “‘The Testimony of Men’: William E. McLellin and the Book of Mormon Witnesses.” BYU Studies 50, no. 1 (2011): 99.
ID = [11088]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 14849  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:02
Slaughter, William W., and Richard E. Turley Jr. How We Got the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.
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Many Latter-day Saints are intrigued to learn that the Book of Mormon has changed over time. How We Got the Book of Mormon recounts the fascinating history of this work of scripture, from the golden plates to the present edition, explaining the changes that occurred with each major version. It is not a commentary or a traditional history book. With beautiful full-color visuals and remarkable photographs it tells the story of the history of this sacred text. This book will appeal to adult Latter-day Saints, as well as Sunday School, institute, and seminary students. The only book of its kind, How We Got the Book of Mormon will inspire readers to a deeper appreciation for the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., First Vision; Book of Mormon, origins; Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Book of Mormon; Doctrinal history, restoration
ID = [81514]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:24
Smith, Daymon M. The Abridging Works: The Epic and Historic Book of Mormon Arranged in Sequence of Composition. CreateSpace, 2011.
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The record translated and published in 1830 as the Book of Mormon was composed by Mormon and other authors in some sequence. Here at last we can read the text in its sequence of composition. The result is an utterly original reading of the Book of Mormon. This reading reveals surprises within the text itself. The biography of Mormon composed over three decades shapes the historical narrative; an original introduction to the earliest (and lost) abridgment is recovered from what is now called 3 Nephi; and a groundbreaking revision of the received tradition regarding the Small and Large Plates of Nephi is brought forward. Additional essays by the editor introduce evidence for an order of composition by Mormon, Moroni, and others. Material is presented that 1 Nephi was added in June 1829, and compiled from additional plates recovered from Cumorah. Other essays give new insights into the role of lineage in the transmission of records, speculate on an alternate history of the “lost leaves” of 1828, and introduce a theory of translation essential for scholarly study of the Book of Mormon. And happily, the text has been freed from the constraints of column and verse, and oriented to the epic and historic genres more appropriate for its wingspan and tragic grandeur, for appreciating the complexity of its composition. [Publisher]

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of; Book of Mormon, historicity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Spencer, Joseph M., and Jenny Webb, eds. Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: Reading 2 Nephi 26-27. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2011.
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This book makes public the results of a project sponsored by the Mormon Theology Seminar. The question driving the papers collected in this volume is the following: How does the Book of Mormon prophet Nephi read, rework, and repurpose the writings of the biblical prophet Isaiah? Each essay in this volume addresses an aspect of the complex relationship between Nephi and Isaiah, ranging from the question of what is at stake when one prophet retools the work of another to the question of how Nephi uses the words of Isaiah to outline the significance of the sealed gold plates to which he contributed. Opening the question concerning the relationship between the Bible and the Book of Mormon, this volume extends an invitation to each reader to continue the conversation. [Publisher]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual parallels; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, commentaries
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Tanner, John S. Notes from an Amateur: A Disciple’s Life in the Academy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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The word amateur derives from the Latin for “love.” An amateur is at root a lover—a lover of sport, science, art, and so forth. Tanner explains, “There is much to recommend the professional ethic, including rigor, methodology, high standards of review, and so forth. . . . Yet it is hoped that we also never cease to be amateurs in our professions—that is, passionate devotees of our disciplines.” This book gathers together brief messages entitled “Notes from an Amateur” that were periodically sent to the faculty at Brigham Young University by former academic vice president John S. Tanner. Tanner’s words reflect his years of experience as a scholar, an administrator, and a disciple, addressing with characteristic insight and wisdom an impressive range of topics from the seemingly mundane to the inspiring. This book is enhanced by the evocative art of Brian Kershisnik. ISBN 978-0-8425-2801-6

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Chapters

Tanner, John S. “Foreword.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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Tanner, John S. “In the Steps of Jesus.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35200]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5040  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “Substitute Teaching.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Lifelong Learning
ID = [35201]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4095  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “Student Teaching.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35202]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4660  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “Overheard by God.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Honesty
ID = [35203]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3656  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “Curious George and a Formula for Lifelong Learning.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Lifelong Learning
ID = [35204]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4174  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “Carpe Diem.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gratitude
ID = [35205]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4189  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “As for Years.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35206]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5242  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “Summer Reading.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Lifelong Learning
ID = [35207]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5818  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “God Within.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Lifelong Learning
ID = [35208]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5764  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “Treasure in Earthen Vessels.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35209]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3833  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “Final Exams.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
ID = [35210]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3894  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “Acceptable Sacrifice.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
ID = [35211]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4447  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:28
Tanner, John S. “With Holiness of Heart.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35212]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4122  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “Beehive and Portico.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
ID = [35213]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5395  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “Carrots, Vision, and Learning Outcomes at BYU.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [35214]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3936  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “Pruning.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35215]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3650  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “Of -Ites and BHAGs.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35216]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3846  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “Sportsmanship and Democracy.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35217]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4786  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “E Pluribus Unum.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Diversity
ID = [35218]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5133  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “‘Adiaphora’—Of Things Indifferent.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35219]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4603  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “Tolerance and Testimony.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
RSC Topics > T — Z > Tolerance
ID = [35220]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5202  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “Citizenship, CFS, and BYU’s Soul.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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Tanner, John S. “Research Loads.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35222]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4603  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “Thinking about Work.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35223]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4276  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “Work as Calling and Consecration.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Consecration
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Tanner, John S. “The Music of Morality.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Virtue
ID = [35225]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4969  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “On Beyond Y.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Lifelong Learning
ID = [35226]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4723  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:29
Tanner, John S. “Thoughts on a New Year.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35227]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4850  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “New Beginnings.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35228]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4366  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “Plans and Providence.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
ID = [35229]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4230  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “‘Such Stuff as Dream Are Made On’” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35230]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3232  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “Unfulfilled Dreams.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Forgiveness
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [35231]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4773  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “Good Friday.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35232]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4034  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “Grave Thoughts on Greatness and Goodness.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Virtue
ID = [35233]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4620  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “Patriots and Pioneers.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
ID = [35234]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4472  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “The Founders and the Faculty.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35235]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4550  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “Labor and Rest.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Sabbath
ID = [35236]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3827  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “Saving the Supernatural.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Spirit World
ID = [35237]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4606  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “In Praise of Praising.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gratitude
ID = [35238]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4385  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “So from the Beginning.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gratitude
ID = [35239]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3593  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “The Holy and the Jolly.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Christmas
ID = [35240]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4435  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “Discerning Divinity.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Divine Nature
ID = [35241]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5486  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Tanner, John S. “Finis Coronat Opus.” In Notes from an Amateur. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gratitude
ID = [35242]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 635  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:30
Walker, Ronald W. Qualities That Count: Heber J. Grant as Businessman, Missionary, and Apostle. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2011.
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Called as an Apostle at age 25, Heber J. Grant was acutely aware of his inadequacies. Feeling unseasoned and unsure, he questioned whether he had the “qualities that count” for such a position. Yet he took solace in his faith: “There is one thing that sustains me and that is the fact that all powers, of mind or body, come from god and that He is perfectly able and willing to qualify me for His work provided I am faithful in doing my part.” Despite insecurities, Grant always excelled. His single mother, Rachel Ivins Grant, gently fostered the tenacity, industry, and faith that permeated his life. This is the little-known story of Heber J. Grant and his values before he became Church President. “When a leader reaches distinction, we often wonder about his background, the experiences that influenced and molded his aspirations and character. Here, Ronald W. Walker has painstakingly accessed the most reliable sources, mined intimate details, and penetrated to the story behind the story. This is the finest work yet on the formative years of the Church’s seventh president.” —Truman Grant Madsen This book was simultaneously published as BYU Studies Journal volume 43 number 1.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Welch, John W., ed. Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 1820–1844 (Second Edition). Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2011.
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Joseph Smith had only one request of the publisher of the Chicago Democrat, to whom he directed his now-famous Wentworth Letter: All that I shall ask at his hands, is, that he publish the account entire, ungarnished, and without misrepresentation. Since 1959, BYU Studies has been a premier publisher of primary historical documents in LDS Church history. Continuing this tradition, Opening the Heavens gathers in one place the key historical collections documenting divine manifestations from 1820 to 1844. Gathered here are the historical documents concerning the First Vision, the translation of the Book of Mormon, the restoration of the priesthood, the many visions of Joseph Smith, the outpouring of keys at the Kirtland Temple, and the mantle of Joseph Smith passing to Brigham Young. Each collection of documents is preceded by a chapter explaining the event. As you read the accounts of divine manifestations in Opening the Heavens, the truth of the Restoration events becomes clearer. The original, eyewitness accounts will endure for generations, making this one of the most persuasive and influential Church history books you may ever read or own. Many new historical resources have become available since the first edition of Opening the Heavens. Newly discovered testimonies have been added to this second edition, and footnotes cite sources recently made available by the Joseph Smith Papers Project. This valuable collection offers remarkable access to the earliest historical sources. The ebook version of the second edition includes live links to online resources that contain images of original documents and information about their creation.

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Welch, John W., ed. The Journals of William E. McLellin, 1831–1836. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2011.
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For years, William E. McLellin (1806–1883) has been a mystery to Mormon historians. Converted in 1831, he served missions with Hyrum Smith, Samuel Smith, Parley Pratt, and others. He was also ordained one of the twelve original Latter-day Saint Apostles in 1835. Yet seeds of doubt and difficulty were already evident in his brief period of excommunication in 1832 and in various points of tension and later conflict with Church leaders. In the early 1980s, the fabled McLellin journals were reportedly located by the infamous document forger, Mark Hofmann. Little did anyone know that they were soon to be found in the holdings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which had acquired the journals in 1908. These six detailed and fascinating journals, written from 1831 to 1836 during McLellin’s most faithful years, now shed new light on the nature of early Mormon worship and doctrine, as well as on religious attitudes in America in the 1830s. They document his daily travels, meetings, preachings, healings, sufferings, and feelings. They offer many clues toward solving the mystery of McLellin in early Mormon history. McLellin died in Independence, Missouri, in 1883. Although no longer affiliated with any LDS church or party, he held firm to his testimony of the Book of Mormon and to the events he experienced and reported in these remarkable journals. “McLellin’s unusually full and literate journals open to view another side of Mormonism that was flourishing in the tiny hamlets and small towns of America.” — Jan Shipps “In early Mormon documents like McLellin’s journals, one finds all of the makings of a modern Acts of the Apostles.” — John W. Welch An essential source for anyone interested in the beginnings of Mormonism and the religious history of America. Copublished by the University of Illinois Press and BYU Studies, with permission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Welch, John W. “The Book of Mormon as the Keystone of Church Administration.” in A Firm Foundation, edited by David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and BYU Religious Studies Center, 2011.
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Welch, John W. “The Book of Mormon as the Keystone of Church Administration.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
ID = [35154]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history,welch  Size: 89887  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Welch, John W., and Donald W. Parry. The Tree of Life: From Eden to Eternity. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden
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Whittaker, David J., and Arnold K. Garr, eds. A Firm Foundation: Church Organization and Administration. Proceedings of The 2010 BYU Church History Symposium. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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The 2010 BYU Church History Symposium How did a church that started with just six official members blossom into a global organization of over fourteen million members? Authors such as Richard L. Bushman, John W. Welch, and Susan Easton Black show how Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and other leaders established the foundation upon which the Church was built. According to Welch, the Book of Mormon provides the foundational administrative principles of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, “not only its doctrines and instructions for personal living but also its many administrative guidelines.” He went on to say, “The administrative character and personality of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has indeed grown directly from the genetic material found in the Book of Mormon.” This book teaches how the individuals throughout Church history were inspired to restore and establish Christ’s Church in the latter days. ISBN 978-0-8425-2785-9

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Articles

Bushman, Richard Lyman. “Joseph Smith and Power.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35153]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 26781  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Bennett, Richard E. “‘The Circumference of the Apostleship’” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostasy
RSC Topics > A — C > Apostle
RSC Topics > G — K > Gift of the Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > L — P > Melchizedek Priesthood
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
ID = [35155]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 46585  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Ostler, Craig James. “The Articles and Covenants: A Handbook for New Branches.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [35156]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 25539  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Darowski, Joseph F. “Seeking After the Ancient Order: Conferences and Councils in Early Church Governance, 1830–34.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [35157]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 35249  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Staker, Mark Lyman. “Sharing Authority: Developing the First Presidency in Ohio.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
RSC Topics > G — K > High Priest
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [35158]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 50994  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Black, Susan Easton. “Early Quorums of the Seventies.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Endowment
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorums of the Seventy
ID = [35159]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 46501  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Walker, Ronald W. “Six Days in August: Brigham Young and the Succession Crisis of 1844.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Endowment
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
ID = [35160]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  brigham,church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 76544  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Woods, Fred E. “Men in Motion: Administering and Organizing the Gathering.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35161]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 53920  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Alford, Kenneth L. “A History of Mormon Catechisms.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35162]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 35193  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Benson, RoseAnn. “Primary Association Pioneers: An Early History.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > Q — S > Relief Society
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [35163]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 61952  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Peterson, Janet. “Young Women of Zion: An Organizational History.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Relief Society
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [35164]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 33602  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Alexander, Thomas G. “Church Administrative Change in the Progressive Period, 1898–1930.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
RSC Topics > G — K > General Authorities
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
RSC Topics > T — Z > Tithing
ID = [35165]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 49507  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Goodman, Michael A. “Correlation: The Early Years.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
ID = [35166]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 39655  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Mott, Elizabeth, and Sherry P. Baker. “From Radio to the Internet: Church Use of Electronic Media in the Twentieth Century.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35167]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 44080  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Hall, Dave. “Relief Society Educational and Social Welfare Work, 1900–1929.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Relief Society
RSC Topics > T — Z > Welfare
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [35168]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 31026  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Griffiths, Casey Paul. “Joseph F. Merrill and the Transformation of Church Education.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [35169]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 55368  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Moore, Theodore D., and William G. Hartley. “The Church’s Beautification Movement, 1937–47.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
RSC Topics > Q — S > Relief Society
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
RSC Topics > T — Z > Welfare
ID = [35170]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 72095  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Woodger, Mary Jane, and Jessica Wainwright Christensen. “Ardeth Greene Kapp’s Influence on the Young Women Organization.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
ID = [35171]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 40408  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Esplin, Scott C. “Tying It to the Priesthood: Harold B. Lee’s Restructuring of the Young Men Organization.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Aaronic Priesthood
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
ID = [35172]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 45917  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Livingstone, John P. “N. Eldon Tanner and Church Administration.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
ID = [35173]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 34525  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Hicks, Michael. “How to Make (and Unmake) a Mormon Hymnbook.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35174]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 31330  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Kimball, Edward L. “Events and Changes during the Administration of Spencer W. Kimball.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
RSC Topics > T — Z > Welfare
ID = [35175]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 21244  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Richards, A. LeGrand, and Jessie L. Embry. “Global Lessons from a Local Stake.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > Q — S > Relief Society
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
RSC Topics > T — Z > Welfare
ID = [35176]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 40965  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:26
Minert, Roger P. “Succession in German Mission Leadership during World War II.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [35177]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 31385  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:27
Cowan, Richard O. “The Seventies’ Role in Worldwide Church Administration.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
RSC Topics > G — K > General Authorities
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorums of the Seventy
ID = [35178]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 36770  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:27
Britsch, R. Lanier. “Missions and Missionary Administration and Organization.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorums of the Seventy
ID = [35179]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 31910  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:27
Whittaker, David J. “Mormon Administrative and Organizational History: A Source Essay.” In A Firm Foundation, eds. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Aaronic Priesthood
RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > A — C > Consecration
RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
RSC Topics > G — K > General Authorities
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorums of the Seventy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Relief Society
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
RSC Topics > T — Z > Tithing
RSC Topics > T — Z > Welfare
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [35180]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history  Size: 190425  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:27
Wilcox, Miranda. “Constructing Metaphoric Models of Salvation: Matthew 20 and the Middle English Poem Pearl.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 3 no. 1 (2011).
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The parable of the laborers in the vineyard in Matthew 20:1–6 demonstrates the possibilities and limitations of constructing metaphoric models of salvation. It also exposes the inadequacy of applying human economic analogies to divine relations and invites its audience to consider the function and purpose of using metaphors to understand spiritual concepts. An anonymous fourteenth-century Middle English poem called Pearl retells this parable and questions whether terrestrial concepts of value and exchange should frame salvation as a transaction based on merit. The poem demonstrates in metaphoric models that heavenly relationships, particularly salvation and grace, operate on a different scale, not one of terrestrial binary or comparative value but of celestial fulness.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [7026]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-sba  Size: 61876  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:37
Woods, Fred E. “The Latter-day Saint Edition of the King James Bible.” In The King James Bible and the Restoration, edited by Kent P. Jackson, 260–280. Provo, UT and Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book and BYU Religious Studies Center, 2011.
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During the early 1970s, a practical need arose for a Latter-day Saint edition of the King James Bible. As explained by George A. Horton Jr., director of curriculum production and distribution for the Church Educational System, three different Bibles were in circulation among Church members—one for adults, one for seminary students, and one for Primary children. Not only did this system create an element of chaos, but it also increased costs. [1] About this time, the Spirit of the Lord seemed to be hovering over several people in various organizations within the Church. Two of these people were Horton and his colleague Grant E. Barton, who was then serving as a member of the newly formed Meetinghouse Library Committee. [2] Horton and Barton were neighbors who carpooled together to the Church Office Building, using the occasion to discuss a desire to have one Bible as well as teaching aids for an LDS edition. [3] Barton, Horton, and another colleague decided to survey various organizations of the Church to help them decide “what the ideal characteristics/features would be of the ideal Bible that would be used by all.”

Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Edition of the Bible
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [2667]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,rsc-books  Size: 47601  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:00
Wright, Mark Alan. “‘According to Their Language, unto Their Understanding’: The Cultural Context of Hierophanies and Theophanies in Latter-day Saint Canon.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 3 no. 1 (2011).
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The prophet Nephi declared that the Lord speaks to his people “according to their language, unto their understanding” (2 Nephi 31:3). Religious beliefs are an integral part of a culture’s shared “language,” and the ways in which individuals interpret supernatural manifestations is typically mediated through their cultural background. The hierophanies recorded in Latter-day Saint canon directly reflect the unique cultural background of the individuals who witnessed them. This paper analyzes several distinct hierophanies witnessed by prophets in both the Old and New Worlds and discusses the cultural context in which such manifestations occur, which aids modern readers in obtaining a greater understanding of the revelatory process recounted in these texts.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7028]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-sba  Size: 33024  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:37
Insights. “New Book Features Scholarship on Tree of Life.” Insights 31, no. 2 (2011).
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The tree of life, an ancient and richly evocative symbol found in sacred art, architecture, and literature throughout the world, is the intriguing subject of a new book published by the Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book: The Tree of Life: From Eden to Eternity, edited by BYU professors John W. Welch and Donald W. Parry.

Keywords: tree of life; art; architecture; BYU
ID = [66974]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:58
Insights. “New JST Electronic Library Offers Added Features.” Insights 31, no. 2 (2011).
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Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible: Electronic Library brings together a wealth of information and recent scholarship on Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible. The electronic library, produced by the Religious Studies Center and the Maxwell Institute, also includes high-resolution images of every page of the original manuscripts, images and transcriptions of the earliest copies made from those manuscripts, and a collection of recently published studies based on the manuscripts. A short introductory essay precedes each manuscript. This collection also includes the entire 851-page book Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts, edited by Scott H. Faulring, Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews.

Keywords: translation; Bible; scholarship; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66975]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:58
Insights. “Nibley Fellowship Program Assists Rising Scholars.” Insights 31, no. 2 (2011).
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The Maxwell Institute sponsors 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 generation 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. Of particular interest is work done on the Bible, the Book of Mormon and other restoration scriptures, early Christianity, and ancient temples.

Keywords: sponsors; program; study; mission; scriptures
ID = [66977]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:58
Black, Sharon, and Bradley R. Wilcox. “188 Unexplainable Names: Book of Mormon Names No Fiction Writer Would Choose.” Religious Educator Vol. 12 no. 2 (2011).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
ID = [38228]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 28765  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:23
Carter, Edward L. “‘Entered at Stationers’ Hall’: The British Copyright Registrations for the Book of Mormon in 1841 and the Doctrine and Covenants in 1845.” BYU Studies 50, no. 2 (2011): 71.
ID = [11070]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,d-c  Size: 45974  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:02
Ehat, Stephen Kent. “‘securing’ the Prophet’s Copyright in the Book of Mormon: Historical and Legal Context for the So-called Canadian Copyright Revelation.” BYU Studies 50, no. 2 (2011): 4.
ID = [11069]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 64437  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:02
Maxwell, Robert L. “The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text.” BYU Studies 50, no. 2 (2011): 178.
ID = [11077]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 10402  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:02
Welch, John W. “The Book of Mormon as the Keystone of Church Administration.” Religious Educator Vol. 12 no. 2 (2011).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > A — C > Church Organization
ID = [38227]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ,welch  Size: 90310  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:23
Davis, D. Morgan. “The Perspective of History.” Insights 31, no. 3 (2011).
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The perspective of history can be sobering, even humbling. Not so recently, two men from the same faith tradition but different perspectives joined in a debate about whether and how a man whom they both acknowledged as a prophet could have seen what he said he saw and be who he claimed to be. As it unfolded, their discussion touched upon many aspects of what it means to have faith in such a person and in his revelations. The role of reason in relation to revelation, the relevance of history to faith, and the connection of language to perception were all explored. The power of poetry and other idioms of popular culture in establishing the credibility of one’s chosen narrative were on display. Their debate was not an isolated event; it was just one of many in an ongoing phenomenon of cultural and spiritual contestation and negotiation. And although the two men in this case lived eleven hundred years ago, that same process of debate that they engaged in is still under way in our own times and is very much a part of our cultural climate today.

Keywords: history; perspective; revelations; faith; popular culture
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [66980]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:58
Walker, Steven C. “Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide.” BYU Studies 50, no. 3 (2011): 165.
ID = [11064]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-03  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 23345  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:02
Aston, Warren P. “The First Archaeological Support for the Book of Mormon.” Meridian Magazine, January 5, 2011.
ID = [66558]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2011-01-05  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:42
Anderson, Douglas D. “‘All Things Shall Work Together for Your Good’” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Hawaii, January 25, 2011.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [70355]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2011-01-26  Collections:  bom,byuh-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:54
Aston, Warren P. “DeVere Baker and his Ocean Rafts.” Meridian Magazine, January 31, 2011.
ID = [66557]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2011-01-31  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:42
Ensign. “The Netherlands.” Ensign March 2011.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [59158]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-03-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 820  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:11
Goodwillie, Christian. “Shaker Richard McNemar: The Earliest Book of Mormon Reviewer.” Journal of Mormon History 37, no. 2 (Spring, 2011): 138-145.
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This article explores Shaker Richard McNemar’s life, and his 1831 review of the Book of Mormon. McNemar was involved in the Kentucky Revival movement, converted to Shakerism, and was present when Oliver Cowdery visited the Presbyterians in Union Village, Ohio. The author has also included a transcript of McNemar’s review, which includes a summary of the main points and McNemar’s criticism of the Mormon process of translation.

Keywords: Non-Mormon churches, Shakers; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Cowdery, Oliver
ID = [82030]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:53
Aston, Warren P. “Exploring Nephi’s BountifulBehind the Scenes of an Expedition.” Meridian Magazine, March 6, 2011.
ID = [66555]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2011-03-06  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:42
Arnold, Marilyn. “The Book of Mormon: Passport to Discipleship.” Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Studies, 2011.
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The fifth annual Neal A. Maxwell lecture was presented by Marilyn Arnold on March 10, 2011, at Brigham Young University. Arnold (PhD, University of Wisconsin--Madison) is emeritus professor of English at Brigham Young University. She describes how her love of literary scholarship meshed with her developing views of Christian discipleship as she discovered literary richness in the Book of Mormon. The lecture was sponsored by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Disciple; Gospel
ID = [663]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2011-03-10  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 42004  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:03
Aston, Warren P. “Did the Nephites Remember Bountiful?” Meridian Magazine, March 29, 2011.
ID = [66554]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2011-03-29  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Ferguson, Diane M. “Families That Pray Together.” Ensign, April 2011.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [59173]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8171  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:11
Scott, Richard G. “The Eternal Blessings of Marriage.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2011.
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The temple sealing has greater meaning as life unfolds. It will help you draw ever closer together and find greater joy and fulfillment.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [25808]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2011-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 10462  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:16
Aston, Warren P. “Is This the Wind that Blew Nephi to the Americas?” Meridian Magazine, May 9, 2011.
ID = [66553]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2011-05-09  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Spencer, Joseph M. “Prolegomena to Any Future Study of Isaiah in the Book or Mormon.” The Claremont Journal of Mormon Studies 1, no. 1 (May, 2011): 53-69.
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In this article, Spencer argues that understanding the important role of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon is essential to making sense of the Book of Mormon itself. He critiques what he calls “misguided approaches to Isaiah”, and from there he assesses Isaiah within the Book of Mormon and what his significance really is.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon, Bible and; Scriptures, textual criticism
ID = [82054]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-05-10  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:55
Jackson, Kent P. “Receiving.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, June 28, 2011.
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Learning how to receive is an antidote to pride. King Benjamin asked, “Are we not all beggars?” The answer is yes. He continued, “Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have?” Again the answer is yes.

Keywords: Humility; Service
ID = [69780]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2011-06-28  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:50
Ensign. “Defending My Thesis—and the Book of Mormon.” Ensign July 2011.
ID = [59330]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2407  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:12
Fields, Paul J. “Book of Mormon ‘Wordprint’ Analysis: How to do it wrong…and how to do it right.” Paper presented at the 2011 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2011.
ID = [32485]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2011-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Gardner, Brant A. “The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2011 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2011.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Joseph; Jr.; Latter-day Saint History (1820-1846); Smith
ID = [32491]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2011-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 32244  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Wray, Grover. “Maintaining Our Personal Liahonas.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, August 2, 2011.
ID = [71939]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2011-08-02  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:06
Hardy, Heather. “Alma’s Experiment in Faith: A Broader Context.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 44, no. 3 (Fall, 2011): 67-91.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81998]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:51
Rees, Robert A. “The Midrashic Imagination and the Book of Mormon.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 44, no. 3 (Fall, 2011): 44-66.
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The Jewish Midrash, which runs to some twenty volumes, is a treasure house of “rabbinical exegeses, extrapolations, interpretations and expansions on the Torah.” Traditional midrashim, based on both oral and written tradition, constitute an extensive library of Jewish insight into the possible interpretations of scripture. Here, Rees argues that Latter-day Saints should consider writing midrashim based on Restoration scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon. Since Latter-day Saints believe that the Book of Mormon was written by Israelites who began their long, exiled history in the New World with the Law and the Prophets up to Jeremiah, he stresses that it seems inviting to consider it a source, like the Torah, not only for interpretation but for invention, expansion, and imagination.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon; Mormon thought; Comparative religion, Judaism
ID = [81999]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Ensign. “The Story of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign October 2011.
ID = [59427]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4163  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Ensign. “Book of Mormon Time Line.” Ensign October 2011.
ID = [59428]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2595  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Ensign. “Who Wrote the Book of Mormon?” Ensign October 2011.
ID = [59429]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1524  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Ensign. “The Book of Mormon.” Ensign October 2011.
ID = [59430]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7236  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Ensign. “The Book of Mormon: A Witness with the Bible.” Ensign October 2011.
ID = [59436]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8471  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Ensign. “Common Questions about the Book of Mormon.” Ensign October 2011.
ID = [59447]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8877  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Andersen, Neil L. “The Book of Mormon: Strengthening Our Faith in Jesus Christ.” Ensign, October 2011.
ID = [59433]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 10488  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Aston, Warren P. “An Australian contribution to the Book of Mormon.” Australia Local Pages insert, ENSIGN magazine, October 2011, A3-A4.
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Illustrated article recounting the contributions of the late Ross Geddes to the Book of Mormon “Critical Text” project at BYU.

ID = [82197]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:16:03
Baird, Gina. “The Book of Mormon Spoke to Me.” Ensign, October 2011.
ID = [59444]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2803  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Bednar, David A. “Lehi’s Dream: Holding Fast to the Rod.” Ensign, October 2011.
ID = [59432]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8659  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Benson, Ezra Taft. “The Book of Mormon—Keystone of Our Religion.” Ensign, October 2011.
ID = [59437]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 16257  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Callister, Tad R. “The Book of Mormon—a Book from God.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2011.
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Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [21543]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 9679  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:46
Christofferson, D. Todd. “How to Study the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, October 2011.
ID = [59431]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4839  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Eyring, Henry B. “A Witness.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2011.
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The Book of Mormon is the best guide to learn how well we are doing and how to do better.

ID = [21538]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 11954  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:46
Ferraresi, Francesco. “I Put Moroni’s Promise to the Test.” Ensign, October 2011.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [59445]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2861  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Monson, Thomas S. “Precious Promises of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, October 2011.
ID = [59424]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3369  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Nelson, Russell M. “What the Book of Mormon Teaches about the Love of God.” Ensign, October 2011.
ID = [59426]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 5854  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Callister, Tad R. “The Book of Mormon—a Book from God.” Ensign, November 2011.
ID = [59473]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 9742  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Ensign. “Musical Brings Saints Together across Oceans and Time.” Ensign December 2011.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [59531]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2764  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:14
Hicks, Michael D. “Elder Price Superstar: The Book of Mormon, Current Broadway Musical.” Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought 44, no. 4 (Winter, 2011): 226-236.
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Review of The Book of Mormon, Current Broadway Musical. ”…And so here is this noisy, heartfelt, touching, gawdy and weirdly illuminating patchwork of tenderness and blasphemy that dares to go by the name of that most Mormon book, The Book of Mormon. In that regard, this musical is to Mormonism what Bernstein’s Mass was to Catholicism, a wildly exploitative trope on the faith’s core liturgy—though, in this case, without the brilliance of Bernstein.” [from the text]

Keywords: The Book of Mormon (musical); Book of Mormon; Literary arts, drama; Literary arts, criticism
ID = [82000]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
2012
BYU Studies, ed. Chiasmus and Book of Mormon Textual Studies. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on Hebraisms and chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, as well as articles discussing emendation of the text, naturalistic assumptions, wordprint analyses, variations between copies of the first edition, and more. Contents “Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon: A Preliminary Survey” John A. Tvedtnes “Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon” John W. Welch “Does Chiasmus Appear in the Book of Mormon by Chance?” Boyd F. Edwards and W. Farrell Edwards “When Are Chiasms Admissible as Evidence?” Boyd F. Edwards and W. Farrell Edwards “Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the Book of Mormon” Stan Larson “Naturalistic Assumptions and the Book of Mormon” Gary F. Novak “View of the Hebrews: Substitute for Inspiration?” Spencer J. Palmer and William L. Knecht “Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints” Wayne A. Larsen, Alvin C. Rencher, and Tim Layton “On Verifying Wordprint Studies: Book of Mormon Authorship” John L. Hilton “Variations between Copies of the First Edition of the Book of Mormon” Janet Jenson “Towards a Critical Edition of the Book of Mormon” Royal Skousen

ID = [75268]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:36
BYU Studies, ed. Doctrines in the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles that look at doctrines in the Book of Mormon, including resurrection, the allegory of the olive tree, and the appearance of Jesus Christ to the brother of Jared. Contents “The Doctrine of the Resurrection as Taught in the Book of Mormon” Robert J. Matthews “Explicating the Mystery of the Rejected Foundation Stone: The Allegory of the Olive Tree” Paul Y. Hoskisson “The Gospel of Jesus Christ as Taught by the Nephite Prophets” Noel B. Reynolds “‘Never Have I Showed Myself unto Man’: A Suggestion for Understanding Ether 3:15a” Kent P. Jackson Personal Essay: “Watermelons, Alma 32, and the Experimental Method” Joseph Thomas Hepworth Review of The Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5 Reviewed by David B. Honey

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75273]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:36
BYU Studies, ed. Joseph Smith in Vermont and New York. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking articles about Joseph Smith is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on young Joseph Smith’s leg surgery, the historical setting and early accounts of the First Vision, friends’ and family members’ recollections of Joseph’s early religious experiences, Joseph’s 1826 trial, and more. Contents “Joseph Smith’s Boyhood Operation: An 1813 Surgical Success” LeRoy S. Wirthlin “Awakenings in the Burned-over District: New Light on the Historical Setting of the First Vision” Milton V. Backman Jr. “The Earliest Documented Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision” Dean C. Jessee “Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Recollections of Joseph’s Meetings with Moroni” Kyle R. Walker “The Colesville Branch and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon” Larry C. Porter “Joseph Knight’s Recollection of Early Mormon History” Dean C. Jessee “Joseph Smith and the Manchester (New York) Library” Robert Paul “Money-Digging Folklore and the Beginnings of Mormonism: An Interpretive Suggestion” Marvin S. Hill “Joseph Smith’s 1826 Trial: The Legal Setting” Gordon A. Madsen

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [75288]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,church-history,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:37
BYU Studies, ed. Lehi and Nephi. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume examines the first two books of Nephi, with articles on focusing on the experiences and writings of the first two Book of Mormon prophets. Contents “Nephi’s Outline” Noel B. Reynolds “Lehi’s Personal Record: Quest for a Missing Source” S. Kent Brown “1 and 2 Nephi: An Inspiring Whole” Frederick W. Axelgard “The Israelite Background of Moses Typology in the Book of Mormon” Noel B. Reynolds “The Throne-Theophany and Prophetic Commission in 1 Nephi: A Form-Critical Analysis” Blake T. Ostler “The Psalm of Nephi: A Lyric Reading” Steven P. Sondrup “The Political Dimension in Nephi’s Small Plates” Noel B. Reynolds

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [75296]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:38
BYU Studies, ed. Science and the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on how the El Niño weather pattern may have made Lehi’s voyage to the Americas possible, geological insights into the destruction chronicled in 3 Nephi, and information about olives in antiquity. Contents “Lehi and El Niño: A Method of Migration” David L. Clark “In the Thirty and Fourth Year: A Geologist’s View of the Great Destruction in 3 Nephi” Bart J. Kowallis “‘Many Great and Notable Cities Were Sunk’: Liquefaction in the Book of Mormon” Benjamin R. Jordan “Recent Notes about Olives in Antiquity” Wilford M. Hess

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [75333]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:40
BYU Studies, ed. Social and Political Studies about the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles that explore comparisons between the American Revolution and Book of Mormon governments, Nephi’s justification of his ascent to leadership, protracted war in the Book of Mormon and in modern times, and much more. Contents “The Book of Mormon and the American Revolution” Richard Lyman Bushman “The Political Dimension in Nephi’s Small Plates” Noel B. Reynolds “Cosmic Urban Symbolism in the Book of Mormon” Steven L. Olsen “The Gadianton Robbers and Protracted War” Ray C. Hillam “Scriptural Perspectives on How to Survive the Calamities of the Last Days” Hugh Nibley

ID = [75335]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:40
BYU Studies, ed. The Book of Mormon as Literature. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles that look at literary aspects of the Book of Mormon, including a lyric reading of Nephi’s psalm, the exodus pattern and Moses typology in the book, the literary context that affected its acceptance in England in 1837, a comparison of the Book of Mormon with the Narrative of Zosimus, and even an analysis of the book’s purported verbosity. Contents “The Book of Mormon in the English Literary Context of 1837” Gordon K. Thomas “The Psalm of Nephi: A Lyric Reading” Steven P. Sondrup “The Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon” S. Kent Brown “The Israelite Background of Moses Typology in the Book of Mormon” Noel B. Reynolds “The Throne-Theophany and Prophetic Commission in 1 Nephi: A Form-Critical Analysis” Blake T. Ostler “The Treaty/Covenant Pattern in King Benjamin’s Address (Mosiah 1–6)” Stephen D. Ricks “The Narrative of Zosimus and the Book of Mormon” John W. Welch “More Than Meets the Eye: Concentration of the Book of Mormon” Steven C. Walker “Taste and Feast: Images of Eating and Drinking in the Book of Mormon” Richard Dilworth Rust “The ‘Perfect Pattern’: The Book of Mormon as a Model for the Writing of Sacred History” Eric C. Olson

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [75349]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:41
BYU Studies, ed. The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on Moroni’s visits, the Anthon transcript, the original Book of Mormon manuscript, the Dogberry Papers, copyright law in 1830, and more. Contents “A Survey of Pre-1830 Historical Sources Relating to the Book of Mormon” David A. Palmer “Where Were the Moroni Visits?” Russell R. Rich “The Anthon Transcript: People, Primary Sources, and Problems” Stanley B. Kimball “The Colesville Branch and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon” Larry C. Porter “The Original Book of Mormon Manuscript” Dean C. Jessee “The Dogberry Papers and the Book of Mormon” Russell R. Rich “Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon” Nathaniel Hinckley Wadsworth “‘Securing’ the Prophet’s Copyright in the Book of Mormon: Historical and Legal Context for the So-called Canadian Copyright Revelation” Stephen Kent Ehat “‘Entered At Stationers’ Hall’: The British Copyright Registrations for the Book of Mormon in 1841 and the Doctrine and Covenants in 1845” Edward L. Carter “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon in the Twentieth Century” Noel B. Reynolds

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [75354]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,church-history,d-c  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:41
BYU Studies, ed. Book of Mormon Archaeology and Anthropology. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on archaeological and anthropological aspects of the Book of Mormon, such as the use of the wheel in ancient America, Hagoth and the Polynesian tradition, the Mulekites, ancient writing in the Americas, and the use of metal plates in the ancient world. Contents “Archaeological Trends and the Book of Mormon Origins” John E. Clark “Notes on ‘Lehi’s Travels’” Robert J. Matthews “The Wheel in Ancient America” Paul R. Cheesman “Hagoth and the Polynesian Tradition” Jerry K. Loveland “The ‘Mulekites’” John L. Sorenson “Ancient Writing in the Americas” Paul R. Cheesman “The Book of Mormon as an Ancient Book” C. Wilfred Griggs “Metallic Documents of Antiquity” H. Curtis Wright “Two Ancient Roman Plates” John W. Welch and Kelsey D. Lambert “A Metallurgical Provenance Study of the Marcus Herennius Military Diploma” Michael J. Dorais and Garret L. Hart “An Analysis of the Padilla Gold Plates” Ray T. Matheny “Mormonism’s Encounter with the Michigan Relics” Mark Ashurst-McGee “Tools Leave Marks: Material Analysis of the Scotford-Soper-Savage Michigan Relics” Richard B. Stamps

ID = [75258]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:35
Ensign. “Captain Moroni.” Ensign January 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [59535]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 533  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:14
Ensign. “Children Delight in the Book of Mormon.” Ensign January 2012.
ID = [59547]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1836  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:14
Insights. “Nibley Fellows, 2011–2012.” Insights 32, no. 1 (2012).
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Each year the Maxwell Institute awards Nibley Fellowships to LDS students pursuing graduate degrees (usually PhDs) in fields of study directly related to the work of the Institute—primarily work on the Bible, the Book of Mormon, early Christianity, and the ancient Near East.

Keywords: Maxwell Institute; Nibley Fellowships; LDS; Bible; Book of Mormon
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Baker, LeGrand L. The Book of Mormon as an Ancient Israelite Temple: Nineteen class temple characteristics of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Books, 2012.
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The ancient Israelite temple in the Book of Mormon is veiled but it is not ambiguous. An in-depth study of the Book of Mormon within the spiritual/academic context of an ancient three dimensional temple will open the Book of Mormon temple to the full view of its reader, just as a spiritual/academic study of the three dimensional temple drama within the context of the Book of Mormon will give the activities within the Israelite three dimensional temple meanings that can open our mind to a new sense of eternity. The temple in the Book of Mormon invites us to a worldview that stretches our minds farther than the cosmic myth can reach and more profoundly than the coronation rites and the New Year’s drama can begin to unveil. But to those who do not know the legitimate three dimensional temple, that invitation is not extended. [From the text]

Keywords: Doctrinal history, Israel; Temples; Book of Mormon; Symbolism
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Bokovoy, David E. “‘Thou Knowest That I Believe’: Invoking The Spirit of the Lord as Council Witness in 1 Nephi 11.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 1 (2012): 1-23.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon features an esoteric exchange between the prophet Nephi and the Spirit of the Lord on an exceedingly high mountain. The following essay explores some of the ways in which an Israelite familiar with ancient religious experiences and scribal techniques might have interpreted this event. The analysis shows that Nephi’s conversation, as well as other similar accounts in the Book of Mormon, echoes an ancient temple motif. As part of this paradigm, the essay explores the manner in which the text depicts the Spirit of the Lord in a role associated with members of the divine council in both biblical and general Near Eastern conceptions. .

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Bowen, Matthew L. “Becoming Sons and Daughters at God’s Right Hand: King Benjamin’s Rhetorical Wordplay on His Own Name.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 2 (2012): 2-13.
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Royal sonship is a key theme of Mosiah 1–6, including King Benjamin’s seminal address at the temple in Zarahemla (Mosiah 2–5) on the occasion of his son Mosiah’s enthronement. Benjamin, however, caps this covenant sermon, not with an assertion of his son’s royal status and privileges, but with a radical declaration of his people’s royal rebirth (or adoption) as “ the children of Christ, his sons and his daughters” (Mosiah 5:7) and their potential enthronement at God’s “ right hand” (5:9). Similar to rhetorical wordplay involving proper names found in the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and other ancient texts, Benjamin’s juxtaposition of “sons”/“daughters” and the “right hand” constitutes a deliberate wordplay on his own name, traditionally taken to mean “son of the right hand.” The name of Christ, rather than Benjamin’s own name, is given to all his people as a new name—a “throne” name. However, he warns them against refusing to take upon them this throne name and thus being found “on the left hand of God” (5:10), a warning that also constitutes an allusion to his name. Benjamin’s ultimate hope is for his people’s royal, divine sonship/daughterhood to be eternally “sealed.”

Keywords: Covenant; King Benjamin; Name; Rhetoric; Sealed; Throne Name; Wordplay
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
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Calabro, David M. “‘Stretch Forth Thy Hand and Prophesy‘: Hand Gestures in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 21 no. 1 (2012).
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Often overlooked in scriptural text, hand and arm gestures are often used to convey meanings that complement the verbal lessons being taught. This article discusses the meaning and significance of four specific gestures referred to in the Book of Mormon: stretching forth one’s hand(s), stretching forth the hand to exert divine power, extending the arm(s) in mercy, and clapping the hands to express joys. Beyond the fascinating meanings of these gestures in the Book of Mormon are the correlations that can be seen in the biblical text and in other Near Eastern cultures. Also insightful, specifically in reference to Moses’s hand movements at the Red Sea, is the way in which the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and other extracanonical writings build on each other to give a fuller interpretive picture.

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Carr, Stephen L. “Another Idea for Nephi’s Ship.” Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum, 2012.
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Carter, Jewelene. “Read Your Book of Mormon.” Ensign, January 2012.
ID = [59556]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2695  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:14
Ellis, Stanley G. “The Book of Mormon and God’s Plan for Us.” Ensign, January 2012.
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Fields, Paul J., Matthew P. Roper, and G. Bruce Schaalje. “Stylometric Analyses of the Book of Mormon: A Short History.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 21 no. 1 (2012).
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The abundance of skeptical theories about who wrote the Book of Mormon has led many scholars to seek scientific data to discover the answer. One technique is stylometry. Having first been developed in the 1850s, stylometry seeks to find the ” wordprint” of a text. Although these stylistic studies are not as accurate as a human’s fingerprint, they can give researchers a good idea either of differences in style between authors or of who might have written a text from a list of possible authors. Beginning in the 1960s individuals have completed four major stylometric studies on the Book of Mormon, studies that varied in both findings and quality of research. In addition to these four studies, this article presents a fifth study—using extended nearest shrunken centroid (ENSC) classification—that incorporates and improves on the earlier research.

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Gutjahr, Paul. The Book of Mormon: A Biography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.
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Late one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited in his family’s farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas’ ancient peoples, and which would restore the pure Gospel message as Jesus had delivered it to them. Thus began the unlikely career of the Book of Mormon , the founding text of the Mormon religion, and perhaps the most important sacred text ever to originate in the United States. Here Paul Gutjahr traces the life of this book as it has formed and fractured different strains of Mormonism and transformed religious expression around the world. Gutjahr looks at how the Book of Mormon emerged from the burned-over district of upstate New York, where revivalist preachers, missionaries, and spiritual entrepreneurs of every stripe vied for the loyalty of settlers desperate to scratch a living from the land. He examines how a book that has long been the subject of ridicule--Mark Twain called it “chloroform in print”--has more than 150 million copies in print in more than a hundred languages worldwide. Gutjahr shows how Smith’s influential book launched one of the fastest growing new religions on the planet, and has featured in everything from comic books and action figures to feature-length films and an award-winning Broadway musical.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Mark Twain and; The Book of Mormon (musical); Book of Mormon; Scriptures, textual criticism; Book of Mormon, historicity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Halverson, Jared M. “‘Extravagant Fictions’: The Book of Mormon in the Antebellum Popular Imagination.” Master’s thesis, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University, 2012.
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Ever since rumors of a Golden Bible began circulating in the late 1820s, the Book of Mormon has occupied a singular place in the American popular imagination. It has been revered as scripture by Latter-day Saints and condemned as imposture by anti-Mormons for nearly two centuries, but what of Americas more moderate majority? Especially in the earliest days of its presence in print, how was the Book of Mormon seen by ordinary Americans, and what do their perceptions reveal about their day? This study analyzes the place of the Book of Mormon in the antebellum popular imagination as revealed through the lens of humor. A surprising number of the books early observers found something unmistakably humorous about its content and story of origin, and assumed that it was a piece of imaginative fiction. In expressing their views of the Mormon scripture, often in comic ways, they revealed much about the social and religious values they espoused, the cultural incongruities with which they were grappling, and the underlying assumptions that were being shaped in part by a uniquely American humor. Sounding a natural resonance with many of Americas comic chords, the Book of Mormon quickly achieved a certain cultural currency that was recognized by both humorists and polemicists, who often exploited humors rhetorical power. In the process, the Book of Mormon became and has remained a mythic presence in the national imagination.

Keywords: Humor; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon; Literary arts, fiction; Book of Mormon, American setting
ID = [81554]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:27
Hancock, Ralph C. “To Really Read the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 1 (2012): 191-195.
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Review of Grant Hardy. Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xix + 346 pp., with index. $29.95.

ID = [4397]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 7445  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:29
Hilton, John, III, and Jana Johnson. “Who Uses the Word Resurrection in the Book of Mormon and How Is It Used?” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 21 no. 2 (2012).
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The word resurrection is employed at varying frequencies in specific books and by individual writers in the Book of Mormon. Although Alma uses resurrection most often overall, Abinadi uses it more often per thousand words spoken. Some phrases in which resurrection is used in unique patterns by different speakers include power of the resurrection, first resurrection, and resurrection with the words time or with body. Some phrasal uses of resurrection in the Book of Mormon are not found in the Bible (such as resurrection and presence appearing together). This study of the usage of one individual word appears to show that individual voices are preserved in the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Holland, Jeffrey R. “Standing Together for the Cause of Christ.” Religious Educator Vol. 13 no. 1 (2012).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
RSC Topics > D — F > Discipleship
ID = [38203]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 19040  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:22
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “What’s in a Name? Sebus.” Insights 32, no. 1 (2012).
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When I first began studying Book of Mormon proper names more than 30 years ago, the name Sebus appeared to present a Gordian knot. Hebrew words, like other Semitic words in gen- eral, are most often built on a structure of three different consonants. This language feature emphasizes the consonants and their sequence and order. The problem with Sebus is that its first and third consonants, /s/ and /s/, are the same— something that is extremely rare in any Semitic language. That being the case, for a long time I shelved any attempt to etymologize Sebus.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Sebus; language; consonants
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Jensen, Jay E. “The Precise Purposes of the Book of Mormon.” In By Study and by Faith, eds. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2012.
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Livingstone, John P., and Richard E. Bennett. “‘Remember the New Covenant, Even the Book of Mormon’ (D&C 84:57).” In Go Ye into All the World, eds. Reid L. Neilson and Fred E. Woods. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2012.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
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Lund, John Lewis. Joseph Smith and the Geography of the Book of Mormon. Orem, Utah: The Communications Company, 2012.
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Joseph Smith and the Geography of the Book of Mormon begins by establishing Joseph Smith’s actual and verifiable words, which were subject to his review and correction during his lifetime, as a “Supreme Source” for the geography of the Book of Mormon. First- and second-hand accounts of what the Prophet Joseph said are referred to as “lesser sources.” Most of the confusion about the geography of the Book of Mormon results from lesser sources. One of the most undervalued and supreme sources of Joseph Smith’s teachings was an early church newspaper in Nauvoo, Illinois titled the Times and Seasons. By a “thus saith the Lord” revelation, Joseph assumed the editorship of the Times and Seasons from March of 1842 to October of 1842. Several editorials dictated and approved of by Joseph identified Zarahemla being in the Guatemala of 1842 and the “small or narrow” neck of land being in Central America. Once either Zarahemla or the narrow neck of land have been discovered, one has found the axis mundi of the primary American events of the Book of Mormon. A comprehensive Author Identification Study confirmed the Prophet Joseph’s authorship of the Times and Seasons articles in question. The details and methodology of the Author Identification Study are reported on in this book. Also the reasons why one should accept Joseph Smith’s words above other sources and his whereabouts during the editions of the Times and Seasons editorials in question. Other interesting findings about volcanoes, the Law of Moses and the calendars, and how the Gold Plates arrived in Palmyra, New York are found with the pages of this book. [Publisher]

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Publications (Mormon), Times and Seasons; Book of Mormon; Law of Moses; Historic archaeology, Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, historicity
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Lyon, T. Edgar, Jr. T. Edgar Lyon: A Teacher in Zion. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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A teacher at the Salt Lake Institute of Religion for three decades, T. Edgar Lyon regularly drew more students than could squeeze into his classroom. Lyon’s gift as a vivid storyteller made Church history “come alive.” Dr. Lyon, eyes twinkling, would ask: “Why did Brigham Young choose oxen over horses or mules to move wagons westward?” “Better gas mileage,” Lyon beamed: “They could survive on poor grass without supplemental grain, and they ate less in comparison to the weight they pulled.” Lyon always affirmed, “The testimony is in the details.” Lyon’s rich biography, revealed through an engaging narrative, explores his mission and mission presidency in the Netherlands, University of Chicago study under renowned biblical scholars, contributions to seminary and institute programs during the Church Educational System’s formative years, and work with the Nauvoo Restoration project.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75344]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,brigham,byu-studies,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:40
Midgley, Louis C. “Atheist Piety: A Religion of Dogmatic Dubiety.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 1 (2012): 111-143.
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Abstract: The “Special Feature” of this mass-market secular humanist magazine consists of an introduction to “America’s Peculiar Piety” followed by a miscellany of brief, nonscholarly essays critical of The Church of Jesus Christ. The questions posed in the introduction to this flagship atheist magazine go unaddressed in the essays. Some of the essays are personal exit stories by former Latter-day Saints. One is an effort by Robert M. Price to explain away the Book of Mormon without confronting its contents. This is done by ignoring the details of Joseph Smith’s career in order to picture him as the equivalent of a bizarre, emotionally conflicted figure like Charles Manson or as the embodiment of one of a wide range of mythical trickster figures like Brer Rabbit, Felix the Cat, or Doctor Who. The assumed link between these mythical or legendary figures and Joseph Smith is said to be a Jungian archetype lodged in his presumably deranged psyche, leading him to fashion the Book of Mormon.
Another essay merely mentions the well-known criticisms of Joseph Smith by Abner Cole (a.k.a. Obadiah Dogberry), while others complain that the faith of the Saints tends to meet emotional needs or that their religious community has various ways of reinforcing their own moral demands. In no instance do these authors see their own deeply held ideology as serving similar personal and community-sustaining religious functions.
All of the essays reflect a fashionable, dogmatic, naive, and deeply religious enmity toward the faith of Latter-day Saints. The essays are also shown to be instances of a modern militant atheism, which is contrasted with earlier and much less bold and aggressive doubts about divine things. The ideological links between those responsible for Free Inquiry and some critics on the fringes of the LDS community are also clearly identified.
Review of Tom Flynn et al. “America’s Peculiar Piety: Why Did Mormonism Grow? Why Does It Endure?” Free Inquiry, October/November 2011, 21–41.So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles . . . were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God [atheos] in the world. (Ephesians 2:11–12 NRSV).

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Midgley, Louis C. “Book Review: Latter-day Scripture: Studies in the Book of Mormon, by Robert M. Price.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 1 (2012): 145-150.
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Robert M. Price. Latter-day Scripture: Studies in the Book of Mormon. Self-published e-book, 2011 (http://www.eBookIt.com). 78 pp., no index, no pagination. $10.95.

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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 21 Issue 1. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 21 no. 1 (2012).
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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

Sorenson, John L., Lyle Fletcher, and Larry C. Porter. “Letters.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 21 no. 1 (2012).
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Letters praising the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture and responding to articles published therein.

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Cowan, Richard O. “Latter-day Saint Temples as Symbols.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 1 (2012): 2-11.
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Much of what is done in Latter-day Saint temples is symbolic. Temple symbolism, however, extends well beyond the ordinances performed within the temples. From the Kirtland Temple’s pulpits representing the different orders of the priesthood to the stones on the Salt Lake Temple representing the universe and one’s relationship to God, exterior temple symbolism complements the principles learned within. The architecture within temples also provides insights into the ordinances. In many temples, murals depicting the different kingdoms of glory and stairs leading to higher areas remind participants of their ascent to God. This article chronicles, in detail, the meanings and development of these and other symbols incorporated into the architecture of modern-day temples.

Keywords: Architecture; Early Church History; Kingdom of Glory; Kirtland Temple; Priesthood; Symbolism; Temple
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Hicks, Michael. “Emma Smith’s 1841 Hymnbook.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 1 (2012): 12-27.
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As specified by revelation, one of the responsibilities given to Emma Smith was to select hymns for the church. However, almost immediately after the revelation was given, tension arose as to who should compile the hymnbook and what its nature should be. This eventually led to more than one “official” hymn book for the church—the 1840 hymnbook created by the Quorum of the Twelve during their mission in England and Emma’s 1841 hymnbook. Whereas the apostles’ hymnbook focused mainly on restoration, millennial, and missionary topics, Emma’s felt more Protestant, focusing in many instances on the cross, the blood of Jesus, and grace. With the departure of the Saints from Nauvoo and Emma’s choice to remain behind, however, it was ultimately the apostles’ hymn book that was in a position to shape the hymnody for the present-day church.

Keywords: Early Church History; Emma Hale; Hymn; Music; Praise; Prayer; Smith
ID = [3273]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,farms-jbms  Size: 60818  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Gee, John. “Formulas and Faith.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 1 (2012): 60-65.
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The question of where Joseph Smith received the text of the Book of Abraham has elicited three main theories, one of which, held by a minority of church members, is that Joseph translated it from papyri that we no longer have. It is conjectured that if this were the case, then the contents of the Book of Abraham must have been on what nineteenth-century witnesses described as the “long roll.” Two sets of scholars developed mathematical formulas to discover, from the remains of what they believe to be the long roll, what the length of the long roll would have been. However, when these formulas are applied on scrolls of known length, they produce erratic or inconclusive results, thus casting doubt on their ability to accurately conclude how long the long roll would have been.

Keywords: Authorship; Book of Abraham; Faith; Formula; Pearl of Great Price; Translation
ID = [3276]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bmc-archive,farms-jbms  Size: 20166  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Oaks, Dallin H. “Worthy of Another Look: The Historicity of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 2 (2012): 66-72.
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In recent years the idea has been promoted that the Book of Mormon should be viewed as a great moral work but not as the actual history of peoples in the Americas. In this paper, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles defends the historicity of the Book of Mormon from the standpoint of faith and revelation. He demonstrates that scholarship cannot create faith and that secular evidence will never be able to prove or disprove the Book of Mormon. He also illustrates how the burden of negative proof lies squarely on the shoulders of skeptics, how God values the witness of revelation more than the witness of man, and how historians’ methodologies are unable to sufficiently account for the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon; Evidence; Historicity; Methodology; Negative Proof; Revelation
ID = [3277]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 29380  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 21 Issue 2. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 21 no. 2 (2012).
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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

Shirley, Keith. “Letter.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 21 no. 2 (2012).
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Letters praising the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture and responding to articles published therein.

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Olsen, Steven L. “The Covenant of the Chosen People: The Spiritual Foundations of Ethnic Identity in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 2 (2012): 14-29.
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The literary sophistication of the Book of Mormon is manifest at all levels of the text: vocabulary, rhetoric, narrative, and structure. A prime example of this craftsmanship is the concept of ethnicity, that is, how different social groups are defined and distinguished in the record. Nephi defines ethnicity by four complementary concepts: nation (traditional homeland), kindred (descent group), tongue (language group), and people (covenant community). While all four concepts are relevant to the Nephite record, people predominates. The term people is by far the most frequently used noun in the Book of Mormon and is the basis of a distinctive covenant identity given by God to Nephi. Following God’s law was the essential condition of this covenant and the basis of most of the sermons, exhortations, commentary, and other spiritual pleas of this sacred record. The covenant of the chosen people accounts for much of what befalls the Nephites and Lamanites, positive and negative, in this history. Mormon and Moroni follow Nephi’s covenant-based definition of ethnicity in their respective abridgments of the large plates of Nephi and the plates of Ether.

Keywords: Chosen People; Covenant; Ethnicity; Kindred; Lamanite; Large Plates of Nephi; Nation; Nephite; People; Plates of Ether; Tongue
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3280]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 64777  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Smith, Andrew C. “Deflected Agreement in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 2 (2012): 40-57.
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Deflected agreement is a grammatical phenomenon found in Semitic languages—it is ubiquitous in Arabic and found occasionally in Classical Hebrew. Deflected agreement is a plausible explanation for certain grammatical incongruities present, in translation, within the original and printer’s manuscripts and printed editions in the Book of Mormon in the grammatical areas of verbal, pronominal, and demonstrative agreement. This finding gives greater credence to the plausibility of the authenticity and historicity of the Book of Mormon. Additionally, the implications of this finding on Book of Mormon scholarship are discussed.

Keywords: Arabic; Authenticity; Deflected Agreement; Demonstrative Agreement; Grammar; Historicity; Language; Language - Hebrew; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Pronominal Agreement; Semitic; Structure; Verbal Agreement
ID = [3282]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 71001  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Skousen, Royal. “Worthy of Another Look: John Gilbert’s 1892 Account of the 1830 Printing of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 2 (2012): 58-72.
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In 1892, when John Gilbert was 90 years old, he made a statement about the process of setting the type for the Book of Mormon at the Grandin Print Shop. John was the compositor (or typesetter) for the 1830 edition of the book. He makes claims about the number of manuscript pages, the number of copies and the price, the number of ems (a measure of type width) per printed page, a comparison of manuscript versus printed pages, a description of the font, the process of receiving the pages to typeset, proofreading the title page, the decision not to correct grammatical errors, scribes for the printer’s manuscript, paragraphing and punctuation, capitalization in the manuscript, Gilbert’s taking work home to punctuate, and details about the signatures. In every aspect, Gilbert’s recollections are either precisely correct or easily explained.

Keywords: 1830 Book of Mormon; Early Church History; Gilbert; Grammar; John; NY; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Palmyra; Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Structure
ID = [3283]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 42268  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Peterson, Daniel C. “Books to Build Faith.” Insights 32, no. 1 (2012).
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I am sometimes contacted by people who are expe- riencing doubts about the claims of Mormonism or whose spouse or father or daughter has lost faith. I always ask what the specific issues might be, and I then try to address those or to locate colleagues or printed resources that might help resolve their concerns.

Keywords: Mormonism; faith; books; Book of Mormon
ID = [66984]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-insights,peterson  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:58
Plewe, Brandon S., S. Kent Brown, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard H. Jackson, eds. Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History, 2nd Edition. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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Mapping Mormonism brings together contributions from sixty experts in the fields of geography, history, Mormon history, and economics to produce the most monumental work of its kind. More than an atlas, this book also includes hundreds of timelines and charts, along with carefully researched descriptions, that track the Mormon movement from its humble beginnings to its worldwide expansion. A work of this magnitude rarely comes along. Mapping Mormonism’s first edition proved to be a landmark reference work in Mormon studies; now it is further improved and updated with the latest information in this second edition. This work covers the early Restoration, the settlement of the West, and the expanding Church, giving particular emphasis to recent developments in the modern Church throughout all regions of the world. Of all the books on Church history, Mapping Mormonism may be the single most effective work to date at giving an expansive vision of the rise of the LDS Church⿿a vision as vibrant as those who have led the way in building Zion. In 2012, Mapping Mormonism won the Mormon History Association Best Book Award and the Cartography and Geographic Information Society Best Atlas Award.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75300]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:38
Sheets, Kendal M., and Meredith Ray Sheets. The Book of Mormon: Book of Lies. McClean, VA: 1811 Press, 2012.
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“In Book of Mormon, Book of Lies, authors Meredith Ray Sheets and Kendal M. Sheets expose The Book of Mormon and the story surrounding its creation as one of the greatest deceptions in the history of America, if not the entire world. The result of twenty-five years of research, Book of Mormon, Book of Lies will alter the course of global religion, finance, and politics. Book of Lies proves that Smith’s manuscript, which he published in 1830, is nothing more than cleverly disguised plagiarism of The Travels of Marco Polo, the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World as recorded by his son, histories of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and travel journals… all readily available to Smith.” [Abstract]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Book of Mormon, origins; Anti-Mormon writings; Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, authorship
ID = [81512]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:24
Skinner, Andrew C., and Gaye Strathearn, eds. Third Nephi: An Incomparable Scripture. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book/Neal A. Maxwell Institute. 2012.
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If the Book of Mormon is considered the keystone of our religion, then perhaps Third Nephi could be considered the pinnacle of the Book of Mormon. Third Nephi provides a glimpse into those glorious moments when the Savior ministered to a group of Nephite people who trusted in his prophesied appearance. This collection of essays is compiled from lectures given during a two-day symposium on the book of Third Nephi held at BYU in 2008. The chapters investigate a variety of topics from both academic and doctrinal perspectives. The articles include discussions on what Jesus taught and did, as well as how Third Nephi fits into the larger purposes that are outlined in the Book of Mormon s title page: to show Israel what great things the Lord has done for their fathers that they may know the covenants of the Lord, and to convince both Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ.

Keywords: Jesus Christ; book; narrative; spiritual climax
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [76591]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:47
Smith, Sara D. “Finding Answers in the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, January 2012.
ID = [59548]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7451  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:14
Sorenson, John L. “An Open Letter to Dr. Michael Coe.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 1 (2012): 91-109.
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Abstract: In August 2011 John Dehlin conducted a three-part interview with famed Mesoamericanist Michael Coe. Dehlin operates the podcast series Mormon Stories, which features interviews discussing the faith and culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This article examines a large number of dubious claims made in those interviews, providing clarifications, responses, and references to numerous sources dealing with those issues. Much more detail will be forthcoming in Dr. Sorenson’s new book, Mormon’s Codex.

ID = [4393]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,sorenson  Size: 37761  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:29
Stott, Graham St. John. “Talking to Angels; Talking of Angels: Constructing the Angelology of the Book of Mormon.” Religion & Theology 19, no. 1-2 (2012): 92-109.
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“Vision narratives report experiences that cannot be confirmed because they cannot be shared. Those who see angels can only receive confirmation and reassurance from the way that their testimony is accepted by others. Taking the publication of the vision reports found in the Book of Mormon (1830) as an example of a visionary’s concern for validation, the paper shows how Joseph Smith, Jr. (the book’s ’author and translator’) could rely on his readers confirming – by their tacit assent to what they read – the truth of what he held to be his own revelatory experience. However, as Smith thought of the ministry of angels as a relational rather than a referential term, and brought all instances of revelation under this heading, there could be a diffference between what was described (and assented to) and what was experienced.” [Author]

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., angelic visitations; Belief; Angels; Smith, Joseph, Jr., visions
ID = [82058]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:55
Swift, Charles. “When Less Is More: The Reticent Narrator in the Story of Alma and Amulek.” Religious Educator Vol. 13 no. 1 (2012).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [38208]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 30924  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:22
Wayment, Thomas A., and John Gee. “Did Paul Address His Wife in Philippi?” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 4 no. 1 (2012).
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Using different methodological approaches and considerations, Thomas Wayment and John Gee each approach the question of whether Paul was speaking to his spouse in Philippians 4:3; their intent is to determine if the question can be answered with any degree of confidence. The related question of whether Paul was ever married is not addressed here, although that issue has been of interest since at least the second century AD and perhaps earlier. Instead, these authors consider only the question of whether a specific noun that is sometimes used to refer to a wife was intentionally used that way by Paul.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [7033]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-sba  Size: 52448  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Wetzel, David Scott. “Book of Mormon Atonement Doctrine Examined in Context of Atonement Theology in the Environment of its Publication.” MA thesis, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2012.
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Alexander Campbell, a contemporary of Joseph Smith, was the first to publish a critique of the Book of Mormon after actually having read it. Among other allegations, he arraigned that Joseph Smith wrote the book to resolve, with a voice of prophecy, theological issues contemporary to its publication. This study undertakes to examine Campbell’s charge with regard to atonement doctrine. To assess the statement, this study first identifies the controversies about atonement doctrine in the years prior to the publication of the Book of Mormon, in the Northeastern region of the United States. It then compares the teachings inherent to those controversies to Book of Mormon atonement doctrine. This study concludes that the doctrine in the Book of Mormon does appear to resolve some of the controversies surrounding the doctrine of the atonement in the time and place relative to its publication. However, on other important points of controversy, it does not resolve the issues. Furthermore, as it expounds atonement doctrine, it combines concepts in ways not germane to its environment. It does not fit any model of soteriology that was prevalent in the time period and place of its original publication.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Doctrinal history, atonement; Doctrinal history, salvation; Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Campbell, Alexander; Book of Mormon
ID = [81578]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:28
Williams, Clyde J. “Helping Children Love the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, January 2012.
ID = [59538]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4892  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:14
WIlliams, Frederick G. The Life of Dr. Frederick G. Williams: Counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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The Life of Dr. Frederick G. Williams: Counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith is a thoroughly researched documentary history of Frederick G. Williams and his immediate family. This book provides an intimate look at many significant events in the Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and pioneer Utah periods of Church history. Frederick G. Williams (1787–1842) was an important figure during the early days of the restoration of the gospel and the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as a missionary on the original mission to the Lamanites (1830–1831), was a personal scribe to the Prophet Joseph Smith for four years (1832–1836), participated in Zion’s Camp (1834), was Second Counselor in the First Presidency for five years (1832–1837), was a central figure in the miraculous events surrounding the Kirtland Temple dedication (1836), and for twelve years was the principal doctor for the Saints in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois until his death in 1842.

ID = [75364]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:41
Wright, Mark Alan, and Brant A. Gardner. “The Cultural Context of Nephite Apostasy.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 1 (2012): 25-55.
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Abstract: Nephite apostates turned away from true worship in consistent and predictable ways throughout the Book of Mormon. Their beliefs and practices may have been the result of influence from the larger socioreligious context in which the Nephites lived. A Mesoamerican setting provides a plausible cultural background that explains why Nephite apostasy took the particular form it did and may help us gain a deeper understanding of some specific references that Nephite prophets used when combating that apostasy. We propose that apostate Nephite religion resulted from the syncretization of certain beliefs and practices from normative Nephite religion with those attested in ancient Mesoamerica. We suggest that orthodox Nephite expectations of the “heavenly king” were supplanted by the more present and tangible “divine king.”.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [4390]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 61638  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:28
Grandy, David A. “Why Things Move: A New Look at Helaman 12:15.” BYU Studies Quarterly 51, no. 2 (2012): 99.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [11020]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 52088  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:02
Griffin, Tyler J. “Nephi: An Ideal Teacher of Less-Than-Ideal Students.” Religious Educator Vol. 13 no. 2 (2012).
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
RSC Topics > T — Z > Teaching the Gospel
ID = [38196]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 25158  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:21
Hilton, John, III. “‘Look! And I Looked’: Lessons in Learning and Teaching from Nephi’s Vision.” Religious Educator Vol. 13 no. 2 (2012).
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [38195]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 27416  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:21
Hilton, John, III. “Textual Similarities in the Words of Abinadi and Alma’s Counsel to Corianton.” BYU Studies Quarterly 51, no. 2 (2012): 39.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [11017]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 57727  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:02
Hopkin, Shon D. “Preparing Students to Receive Revelation: Insights from the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 13 no. 2 (2012).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [38197]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 34193  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:21
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “Volume Honors Professor’s Legacy of Scholarship, Faith.” Insights 32, no. 2 (2012).
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Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown compiles recent studies by two dozen scholars who respect Professor Brown and his scholar­ ship and whose own research in this Festschrift is worthy of its honoree. A recognized expert on early Christian literature and history and a past director of Ancient Studies at BYU, Brown has devoted his career not only to expanding the scholarly literature in his field but also to building the faith of believers through more popular works such as his literary/historical study of the Book of Mormon entitled From Jerusalem to Zarahemla and the seven­-part TV documen­tary Messiah: Behold the Lamb of God.

Keywords: Christian literature; ancient studies; BYU; faith
ID = [66989]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:59
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “What’s in a Name? Mormon—Part 1.” Insights 32, no. 2 (2012).
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Despite sporadic attempts to sideline the name Mormon in favor of “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter­day Saints,” it continues to be used as the most ubiquitous moniker for the Church. Members of the Church are known as “Mormons.” It appears in the title of the keystone publication of the Restoration, The Book of Mormon. Within the book bearing this name, Mormon is, firstof all, the name of the waters in the forest of Mormon (Mosiah 18:8; Alma 5:3) in the land of Mormon (Mosiah 18:30). Of course, Mormon is also the name of the military leader who abridged the Nephite records (Words of Mormon 1:1, 3; Mormon 1:1; 2:1).

Keywords: Mormon; Mormons; name; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [66990]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-02  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:59
Reynolds, Noel B. “Understanding Christian Baptism through the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 51, no. 2 (2012): 3-37.
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Early Christianity saw a wide proliferation of theories and practices concerning baptism, and now many Christians, including Mormons, commonly understand it as a means to repent and wash away one’s sins. But the Book of Mormon prophets taught that baptism is a covenant and a witnessing to God that one has already repented and commits to follow Jesus Christ, and that sins are remitted by the Holy Ghost.

Keywords: Baptism; Covenant; Remission of Sins
ID = [11015]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 64655  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:02
Ricks, Brian W. “James E. Talmage and the Doctrine of the Godhead.” Religious Educator Vol. 13 no. 2 (2012).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
RSC Topics > G — K > Godhead
ID = [38201]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 62927  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:21
Skousen, Royal. “Why was one sixth of the 1830 Book of Mormon set from the original manuscript?” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 2 (2012): 93-103.
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Abstract: Evidence from the manuscripts of the Book of Mormon (as well as internal evidence within the Book of Mormon itself) shows that for one sixth of the text, from Helaman 13:17 to the end of Mormon, the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon was set from the original (dictated) manuscript rather than from the printer’s manuscript. For five-sixths of the text, the 1830 edition was set from the printer’s manuscript, the copy prepared specifically for the 1830 typesetter to use as his copytext. In 1990, when the use of the original manuscript as copytext was first discovered, it was assumed that the scribes for the printer’s manuscript had fallen behind in their copywork, which had then forced them to take in the original manuscript to the 1830 typesetter. Historical evidence now argues, to the contrary, that the reason for the switch was the need to take the printer’s manuscript to Canada in February 1830 in order to secure the copyright of the Book of Mormon within the British realm. During the month or so that Oliver Cowdery and others were on their trip to nearby Canada with the printer’s manuscript, the 1830 typesetter used the original manuscript to set the type, although he himself was unaware that there had been a temporary switch in the manuscripts.

Keywords: Early Church History; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [4384]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 20579  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:28
Insights. “Third Nephi: An Incomparable Scripture— Proceedings of a Willes Center Symposium.” Insights 32, no. 3 (2012).
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The personal appearance of Jesus Christ as recorded in the book of 3 Nephi constitutes the narrative and spiritual climax of the Book of Mormon. Although the sacred account repeats and reinforces many of the Savior’s Old World teachings, many aspects of his New World ministry have no parallel elsewhere in scripture. In this light, Third Nephi: An Incomparable Scripture is a fitting title for a new book published by the Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book.

Keywords: Jesus Christ; book; narrative; spiritual climax
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [66997]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:59
Insights. “Lectures & Events.” Insights 32, no. 4 (2012).
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BYU Professor James Faulconer will give the Laura F. Willes Book of Mormon Lecture for 2012–13 on “Sealings and Mercies: Moroni’s Final Exhortation in Moroni 10.” The lecture will be held on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at 7:00 PM in the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center at Brigham Young University.

Keywords: lectures; events; Book of Mormon Lecture; BYU
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [66653]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:43
Insights. “Maxwell Institute Announces Nibley Fellows.” Insights 32, no. 4 (2012).
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Named in honor of the late Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh W. Nibley, the Maxwell Institute’s Nibley Fellowship Program is intended to help foster the next generation of faithful scholars by providing financial aid to students enrolled in accredited doctoral programs in areas of study related to the work and mission of the institute, including study of the Bible, early Christianity, the Book of Mormon and other restoration scriptures, and Mormon studies.

Keywords: Latter-day Saint; scholar; Hugh W. Nibley; generation
ID = [66654]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:43
Insights. “Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture: New Issue Released.” Insights 32, no. 4 (2012).
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The second issue of the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture for 2012 features five articles that delve into aspects of words in the Book of Mormon. The cover design reflects that unifying theme and presents word in various languages and scripts.

Keywords: journal; Book of Mormon; articles; theme; language
ID = [66657]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:43
Lyon, Jack M. “When Pages Collide: Dissecting the Words of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2012): 120.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
ID = [10994]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 29369  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:01
Roper, Matthew P. “Moses, Captain Moroni, and the Amalekites.” Insights 32, no. 4 (2012).
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After Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage and crossing of the Red Sea, another enemy, the Amalekites, attacked the camp on its pilgrimage to worship God at Sinai. Moses, in response to this cowardly act, directed Joshua to fight them. For his part, Moses would stand atop a nearby hill holding the rod of God. “And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.” Moses, however, was tired and could not always keep his hands up, so “Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun” (Exodus 17:8– 12, emphasis added), allowing Joshua and the men of Israel to prevail in the battle.

Keywords: Moses; Captain Moroni; Amalekites; Israel; battle
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [66651]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:43
Skousen, Royal. “Some Textual Changes for a Scholarly Study of the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2012): 99-117.
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Royal Skousen has been working on the critical text project of the Book of Mormon since 1988. He has concluded that there are three important findings resulting from the critical text project of the Book of Mormon. The first is that Joseph Smith received an English-language text word for word, which he read off to his scribe. The second is that the original English-language text itself was very precisely constructed; where textual error has occurred in its transmission, the earliest reading is usually the superior reading. The third is the identification of 256 changes in the text that make a difference in meaning or in the spelling of a name, changes that would show up in any translation of the book. This article presents thirty of the most significant of these 256 changes. All of the thirty changes discussed in this paper make a difference in meaning. Nearly all of them would show up when translating the text into a foreign language. The author has grouped the changes according to various types of change. In each case, he provides a brief summary of the evidence for the change and why it is significant for serious study of the text.

Keywords: Textual Criticism
ID = [10992]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-04  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 38200  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:01
Stenson, Matthew Scott. “Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision: Apocalyptic Revelations in Narrative Context.” BYU Studies Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2012): 155.
ID = [10997]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 54380  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:01
Anderson, Tory. “Working Hard, Working Together.” Ensign, February 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [59574]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-02-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3479  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:14
Aston, Warren P. “‘Up to & Down from’ Jerusalem — Further Indicators of a Real-World Origin.” Meridian Magazine, February 8, 2012.
ID = [66551]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-02-08  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Ensign. “Blueberries and the Book of Mormon.” Ensign April 2012.
ID = [59658]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2485  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:15
Fenton, Elizabeth. “‘There Cannot be Any More Bible’: American History as Sacred History in The Book of Mormon.” C19: The Society of 19th-Century Americanists Convention, Berkeley, CA: April 2012.
ID = [78836]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-04-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Richards, Stephen R. B. “Little Worlds.” Commencement, Brigham Young University, April 19, 2012.
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We are in the world—and we have come to this university—so that we ourselves might become microcosms of the Divine, that we might have “the image of God engraven” not only upon our countenances but also upon our very existences (Alma 5:19). Of all the microcosms in the world, surely the greatest is the man or woman who strives to become a reflection of the Savior.

Keywords: BYU; Divine Potential
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [69820]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-04-19  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:51
EchoHawk, Larry C. “Coming Together for Future Generations.” University Forum, Brigham Young University—Idaho, May 17, 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [74090]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-05-17  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:08:35
Ensign. “Book of Mormon Reenactment.” Ensign June 2012.
ID = [59756]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 811  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:15
Fleming, Stephen J. “Joseph Smith as the Philosopher-King: Neoplatonism in Early Mormon Political Thought.” Journal of Mormon History 38, no. 3 (Summer, 2012): 102-127.
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The article describes the political views of early Mormons, particularly religious leader Joseph Smith, Jr., as Neoplatonic, fitting the notion of a philosopher-king derived from the philosopher Plato. Topics include the practice of theurgy, which involved ritual union with the divine, among ancient Greek philosophers, political notions in the Book of Mormon, and Neoplatonism among the Christian Church Fathers. Also noted connections between the Radical Reformation and Mormonism, the performance of theurgical magic rites by Joseph Smith, and Smith’s views on U.S. political life.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., political activities; Assimilation; Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Book of Mormon, use and influence; Smith, Joseph, Jr., political thought; Ritualization
ID = [82029]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-06-01  Collections:  bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:53
Johnson, R. Val. “Obtaining the Spirit through Counseling Together.” Ensign, June 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [59747]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8761  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:15
Keyes, Randy. “Counseling Together in Marriage.” Ensign, June 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [59737]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 9361  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:15
Bradley, Don. “Piercing the Veil: Temple Worship in the Lost 116 Pages.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.
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We Latter-day Saints are temple-centered people. So were the Nephites. But what do we know about their temple worship, how it worked and what it was for? How was it even possible for the Nephites to observe the Mosaic rituals without the Levitical priesthood, the Aaronite high priest, and the Ark of the Covenant? And given that our temple worship today isn’t about animal sacrifice, what, if anything, does their temple worship have to do with ours? Critics, and even friendlier outside observers like Harold Bloom, have sometimes come away from reading the Book of Mormon—in Bloom’s case not reading it very much—but they’ve sometimes come away thinking that there isn’t much “Mormon-ism” in the book. Let’s see whether our exploration of temple themes in the Nephite narratives contradicts this or bears it out.

Keywords: Aminadi (Ancestor of Amulek); Ark of Cumorah; Ark of the Covenant; Book of Lehi; Early Church History; High Priest; Hill Cumorah; Interpreters; Law of Moses; Liahona; Lost 116 Pages; Mosiah the Elder; Sword of Laban; Temple
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [32499]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 22636  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Gardner, Brant A. “From the East to the West: The Problem of Directions in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.
ID = [32509]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 57350  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Holland, Jeffrey R. “Standing Together for the Cause of Christ.” Ensign, August 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [59816]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 14746  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:16
Perego, Ugo A. “Book of Mormon Genetics: A Reappraisal.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.
ID = [32507]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Skousen, Royal. “Do We Need to Make Changes to the Book of Mormon Text?” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.
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Keywords: Textual Criticism; Translation
ID = [32504]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 35900  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Sorenson, John L. “Reading Mormon’s Codex.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.
ID = [32502]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference,sorenson  Size: 43330  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Welch, John W. “Forty-five Years of Chiasmus Conversations, Criteria, and Creativity: What Chiasmus Proves and Does Not Prove.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.
ID = [32508]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference,welch  Size: 56163  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Goheen, Katherine. “Incentive for a Fresh Start: Rhetorical Analysis of the Tree of Life in I Nephi.” Restoration Studies 13 (Fall, 2012): 99-119.
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Goheen examines the rhetorical performance of the Tree of Life narrative in the First Book of Nephi in the Book of Mormon. She contextualizes his analysis within the 19th century world of Joseph Smith, Jr. and compares the Tree of Life narrative to a dream that Joseph Smith, Sr. reportedly had.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Sr., sources; Dreams; Book of Mormon, literary context; ’Tree of Life’ representations
ID = [82038]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Samuelson, Cecil O. “Character.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, September 4, 2012.
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I hope in our time together this morning we can think carefully and seriously about what we really are and, more important, what we desire and need to become. I am satisfied that this aim of a BYU education—to build character—cannot be neglected or diminished because all of the aims and the mission of this great university are so intimately related to one another.

Keywords: Character
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69841]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-09-04  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:51
Coleman, Gary J. “Come Unto Christ Through the Book of Mormon.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, September 18, 2012.
ID = [72612]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-09-18  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:10
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 36, ‘On the Morrow Come I into the World’ (2012).” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 19, 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6104]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-09-19  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 956  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Bokovoy, David E. “Holiness to the Lord: Biblical Temple Imagery in the Sermons of Jacob the Priest.” Paper presented at the 2012 Temple on Mount Zion Conference. September 22, 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [6854]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2012-09-22  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Hamblin, William J. “Jacob’s Sermon (2 Nephi 6-10) and the Day of Atonement.” Paper presented at the 2012 Temple on Mount Zion Conference. September 22, 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [6855]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2012-09-22  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Wright, Mark Alan. “Axes Mundi: A Comparative Analysis of Nephite and Mesoamerican Temple and Ritual Complexes.” Paper presented at the 2012 Temple on Mount Zion Conference. September 22, 2012.
ID = [6856]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2012-09-22  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Interpreter Foundation. “Willes Center Book of Mormon Lecture.” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 25, 2012.
ID = [5619]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-09-25  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 179  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
Wilks, T. Jeffrey. “Optimism and Joy in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, September 25, 2012.
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When you’re sitting there wondering if you can stand back up again, remember that sometimes the test is not about overcoming but about whether we will keep trying no matter how hard things seem to be. Never give up. Do all things cheerfully that lie in your power, and then stand still with the assurance that God will help you.

Keywords: Attitude; Joy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69845]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-09-25  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:51
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 37, ‘Whosoever Will Come, Him Will I Receive’ (2012).” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 27, 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6105]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-09-27  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1825  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Cook, Quentin L. “Can Ye Feel So Now?” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2012.
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Some in the Church believe they can’t answer Alma’s question with a resounding yes. They do not “feel so now.”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [21715]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 13514  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:49
Hawk, Larry J. Echo. “‘Come unto Me, O Ye House of Israel’” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2012.
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As we come unto our Savior, Jesus Christ, and purify our hearts, we will all be instruments in fulfilling the mighty promises of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [21742]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7135  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:49
Hilton, John, III. “Patterns of Prayer in the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, October 2012.
ID = [59884]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8977  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:16
Pieper, Paul B. “The Book of Alma: Lessons for Today.” Ensign, October 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [59880]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 9885  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:16
Interpreter Foundation. “Francis X. Clooney, S.J. provides a sympathetic reading of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 8, 2012.
ID = [5631]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-10-08  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 963  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 38, ‘Old Things Are Done Away, and All Things Have Become New’ (2012).” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 13, 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6106]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-10-13  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1017  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “New Book of Mormon Study Resource.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 15, 2012.
ID = [5634]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-10-15  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 392  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
Aston, Warren P. “What Columbus Discovered 520 Years Ago: Geography Made America Exceptional.” Meridian Magazine, October 17, 2012.
ID = [66549]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-10-17  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 39, ‘Behold, My Joy Is Full’ (2012).” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 24, 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6107]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-10-24  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 654  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 40, ‘Then Will I Gather Them In’ (2012).” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 3, 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6108]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-11-03  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 822  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “Royal Skousen to Lecture on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 12, 2012.
ID = [5646]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-12-12  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 388  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
Interpreter Foundation. “New Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture Released.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 14, 2012.
ID = [5648]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2012-12-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 669  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
2013
BYU Studies, ed. LDS Views on Early Christianity and Apocrypha. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2013.
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This compilation of articles exploring topics related to early Christianity is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on the Apocalypse of Peter, the Apocalypse of Adam, the Gospel of Judas, the development of the doctrines of God and creation, early Christian prayer circles, Masada fragments and the Qumran scrolls, and much more. Contents “Rediscovering Ancient Christianity” C. Wilfred Griggs “The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Mormon Perspective” S. Kent Brown “The Apocalypse of Peter: Introduction and Translation” S. Kent Brown and C. Wilfred Griggs “The Apocalypse of Adam” Stephen E. Robinson “The ‘Hymn of the Pearl’: An Ancient Counterpart to ‘O My Father’” John W. Welch and James V. Garrison “A Latter-day Saint Colloquium on the Gospel of Judas: A Note from the Editor” “A Latter-day Saint Colloquium on the Gospel of Judas: Media and Message” Richard N. Holzapfel “The Manuscript of the Gospel of Judas” S. Kent Brown “The ‘Unhistorical’ Gospel of Judas” Thomas A. Wayment “The Gnostic Context of the Gospel of Judas” Gaye Strathearn “Judas in the New Testament, the Restoration, and the Gospel of Judas” Frank F. Judd Jr. “The Apocryphal Judas Revisited” John W. Welch “The Expanding Gospel” Hugh W. Nibley “Ex Nihilo: The Development of the Doctrines of God and Creation in Early Christianity” Keith E. Norman “Clothed Upon: A Unique Aspect of Christian Antiquity” Blake T. Ostler “The Early Christian Prayer Circle” Hugh Nibley “The Masada Fragments, the Qumran Scrolls, and the New Testament” David Rolph Seely “The Noncanonical Sayings of Jesus” Stephen E. Robinson “Understanding Christian Baptism through the Book of Mormon” Noel B. Reynolds “‘With the Voice Together Shall They Sing’” Laurence P. Hemming “The Passing of the Church: Forty Variations on an Unpopular Theme” Hugh Nibley

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75292]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,new-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:37
Alford, Kenneth L., and D. Bryce Baker. “Parallels between Psalms 25–31 and the Psalm of Nephi.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [34906]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 36551  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Belnap, Daniel L., ed. By Our Rites of Worship: Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
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Winner of the Harvey B. Black and Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication Award (Gospel Scholarship in Ancient Scripture). While negative meanings are often attached to the words rite and ritual, these terms simply mean “with correct religious procedure; in the manner required, properly, duly, correctly, rightly, fittingly.” Thus, the term perfectly describes an array of practices within our church, including baptism, the laying on of hands, and temple ordinances. This book explores the relationship between the performance of priesthood ordinances (or rituals) and the power of godliness that is mentioned in Doctrine and Covenants 84. Just as in biblical and Book of Mormon times, rites are an essential part of God’s plan for his children. The messages in this book help us understand ritual and its profound role within the Church so that we are able to recognize the transforming power of our rites of worship. ISBN 978-0-8425-2741-2

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Articles

Belnap, Daniel L. “Introduction: Latter-day Saints and the Perception of Ritual.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
ID = [34873]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28446  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:08
van Beek, Walter E. A. “Ritual and the Quest for Meaning.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
ID = [34874]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 44617  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:08
Hoffmann, John P. “Culture, Cohesion, and Conceptualizing the Sacred.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
ID = [34875]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 64940  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:08
Head, Ronan James. “The Politics of Feasting in the Ancient Near East.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
ID = [34876]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 32453  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:08
Rhodes, Michael D. “The Eternal Nature of the Family in Egyptian Beliefs.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Abraham
ID = [34877]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 30790  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:08
Benson, RoseAnn. “The Marriage of Adam and Eve: Ritual and Literary Elements.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
ID = [34878]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 53632  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Gaskill, Alonzo L. “The ‘Ceremony of the Shoe’: A Ritual of God’s Ancient Covenant People.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
ID = [34879]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 42238  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Ricks, Stephen D. “The Doctrine of Baptism: Immersions at Qumran and the Baptisms of John, the Earliest Christians, and Book of Mormon Peoples.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
ID = [34880]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 47192  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Strathearn, Gaye. “Reading the Gospel of Philip as a Temple Text.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
ID = [34881]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 79795  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Belnap, Daniel L. “‘Those Who Receive You Not’: The Rite of Wiping Dust Off the Feet.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
RSC Topics > L — P > New Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
ID = [34882]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 130085  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Reeves, Aaron. “Embodied Authority: Priesthood Ordination and the Laws of the Mortal Body.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
ID = [34883]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 50716  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Stapley, Jonathan A. “‘Pouring in Oil’: The Development of the Modern Mormon Healing Ritual.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
ID = [34884]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 81996  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Jones, Megan Sanborn. “Imaging a Global Religion, American Style: Mormon Pageantry as a Ritual of Community Formation.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1946–Present
ID = [34885]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 64218  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Ing, Michael. “Ritual as a Process of Deification.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [34886]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 39916  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Millet, Robert L. “Sacramental Living: Reflections on Latter-day Saint Ritual.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [34887]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 36361  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Platt, Jennifer Brinkerhoff. “Sisters in Transition: Moving from the Buna Coffee Ritual to Relief Society.” In By Our Rites of Worship, ed. Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Relief Society
RSC Topics > T — Z > Word of Wisdom
ID = [34888]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 69895  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘In the Mount of the Lord It Shall Be Seen’ and ‘Provided’: Theophany and Sacrifice as the Etiological Foundation of the Temple in Israelite and Latter-day Saint Tradition.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 5 (2013): 201-223.
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Abstract: For ancient Israelites, the temple was a place where sacrifice and theophany (i.e., seeing God or other heavenly beings) converged. The account of Abraham’s “arrested” sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22) and the account of the arrested slaughter of Jerusalem following David’s unauthorized census of Israel (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21) served as etiological narratives—explanations of “cause” or “origin”—for the location of the Jerusalem temple and its sacrifices. Wordplay on the verb rāʾâ (to “see”) in these narratives creates an etiological link between the place-names “Jehovah-jireh,” “Moriah” and the threshing floor of Araunah/Ornan, pointing to the future location of the Jerusalem temple as the place of theophany and sacrifice par excellence. Isaac’s arrested sacrifice and the vicarious animal sacrifices of the temple anticipated Jesus’s later “un-arrested” sacrifice since, as Jesus himself stated, “Abraham rejoiced to see my day” (John 8:56). Sacrifice itself was a kind of theophany in which one’s own redemption could be “seen” and the scriptures of the Restoration confirm that Abraham and many others, even “a great many thousand years before” the coming of Christ, “saw” Jesus’s sacrifice and “rejoiced.” Additionally, theophany and sacrifice converge in the canonized revelations regarding the building of the latter-day temple. These temple revelations begin with a promise of theophany, and mandate sacrifice from the Latter-day Saints. In essence, the temple itself was, and is, Christ’s atonement having its intended effect on humanity. .

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [4354]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,moses,old-test  Size: 56711  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:26
BYU Religious Studies Center. Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament. The 42nd Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2013.
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The 42nd Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium The Psalmist asks, “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?” This year’s Sperry Symposium discusses ascending into the Lord’s mountain within the context of theophany, ancient temple worship, sacred space, sacrifice, offerings, and hymns and songs in the text of the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon. The scriptures contain a rich treasury of information of how ancient Israelites and the people in the Book of Mormon worshipped God and expressed themselves through ritual and devotions as found in the Psalms. These explorations of ancient temple worship help us to better understand and appreciate latter-day temple and worship traditions.

ID = [38790]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 2  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:55

Articles

Jackson, Kent P. “The Old Testament and Easter.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > D — F > Easter
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
ID = [34889]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 24369  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Belnap, Daniel L. “‘That I May Dwell among Them’: Liminality and Ritual in the Tabernacle.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34890]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 64664  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Douglas, Alex. “The Garden of Eden, the Ancient Temple, and Receiving a New Name.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
ID = [34891]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 32920  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The Tree of Knowledge as the Veil of the Sanctuary.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, The 42nd Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (26 October, 2013), edited by David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick and Matthew J. Grey. , 49–65. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2013.
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One thing that has always perplexed readers of Genesis is the location of the two special trees within the Garden of Eden. Although scripture initially applies the phrase “in the midst” only to the tree of life (Genesis 2:9), the tree of knowledge is later said by Eve to be located there too (see Genesis 3:3). In the context of these verses, the Hebrew phrase corresponding to “in the midst” literally means “in the center.” How can both trees be in the center?

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
RSC Topics > D — F > Devil
ID = [2678]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-10-26  Collections:  bom,bradshaw,moses,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 38857  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:01
Shannon, Avram R. “‘Come Near unto Me’: Guarded Space and Its Mediators in the Jerusalem Temple.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
ID = [34893]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 47888  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Gaskill, Alonzo L. “Clothed in Holy Garments: The Apparel of the Temple Officiants of Ancient Israel.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > High Priest
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > T — Z > Urim and Thummim
ID = [34894]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 54163  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Calabro, David M. “Gestures of Praise: Lifting and Spreading the Hands in Biblical Prayer.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34895]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 37162  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Lane, Jennifer Clark. “Worship: Bowing Down and Serving the Lord.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34896]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 33854  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:09
Pike, Dana M. “‘I Will Bless the Lord at All Times’: Blessing God in the Old Testament.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gratitude
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34897]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 45530  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Thompson, John S. “The Context of Old Testament Temple Worship: Early Ancient Egyptian Rites.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34898]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 54036  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Halverson, Jared M. “Swine’s Blood and Broken Serpents: The Rejection and Rehabilitation of Worship in the Old Testament.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34899]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 47901  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Rennaker, Jacob A. “Approaching Holiness: Sacred Space in Ezekiel’s Temple Vision.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
ID = [34900]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 41071  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Hardison, Amy Blake. “Theophany on Sinai.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
ID = [34901]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 34773  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Muhlestein, Kerry. “Darkness, Light, and the Lord: Elements of Israelite Theophanies.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
ID = [34902]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 58191  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Smith, Julie M. “‘The Lord . . . Bringeth Low, and Lifteth Up’: Hannah, Eli, and the Temple.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
ID = [34903]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 35625  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Skinner, Andrew C. “Seeing God in His Temple: A Significant Theme in Israel’s Psalms.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34904]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 46003  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Hilton, John, III. “Old Testament Psalms in the Book of Mormon.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34905]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 48257  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Hopkin, J. Arden, and Shon D. Hopkin. “The Psalms Sung: The Power of Music in Sacred Worship.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
RSC Topics > T — Z > Unity
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34907]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 51986  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
LeFevre, David A. “‘Give Me Right Word, O Lord’: The JST Changes in the Psalms.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
RSC Topics > D — F > First Vision
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34908]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 42077  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “The Great Jerusalem Temple Prophecy: Latter-day Context and Likening unto Us.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34909]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 43526  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Cowan, Richard O. “What Old Testament Temples Can Teach Us about Our Own Temple Activity.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), eds. David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, and Matthew J. Grey, 1–11. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
ID = [34910]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 46288  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:10
Caudle, Kirk L. “Joseph Smith and the Gift of Translation: The Development of Discourse About Spiritual Gifts During the Early Book of Mormon Translation Process (1828-1829).” International Journal of Mormon Studies 6 (2013): 109-131.
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“Although Mormons currently understand spiritual gifts to be inseparably connected with the gift of the Holy Ghost that is not how Joseph Smith apparently understood them before his baptism. … This essay focuses on the earliest ideas of concept of spiritual gifts as contained in the earliest revelations and translations of Joseph Smith from July 1828 through May 1829.”

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., spiritual gifts; Seer stones; Doctrine and Covenants, editions and translations; Doctrinal history, Holy Ghost; Spiritual gifts and experiences; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
ID = [82059]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:55
Christensen, Kevin. “Prophets and Kings in Lehi’s Jerusalem and Margaret Barker’s Temple Theology.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 177-193.
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For an introduction, see Benjamin L. McGuire, “Josiah’s Reform: An Introduction.”
For a counterpoint, see William J. Hamblin, “Vindicating Josiah.”
Abstract: King Josiah’s reign has come under increasing focus for its importance to the formation of the Hebrew Bible, and for its proximity to the ministry of important prophets such as Jeremiah and Lehi. Whereas the canonical accounts and conventional scholarship have seen Josiah portrayed as the ideal king, Margaret Barker argues Josiah’s reform was hostile to the temple. This essay offers a counterpoint to Professor Hamblin’s “Vindicating Josiah” essay, offering arguments that the Book of Mormon and Barker’s views and sources support one another.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [4366]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 29735  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:27
Christensen, Kevin. “Sophic Box and Mantic Vista: A Review of Deconstructing Mormonism.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 7 (2013): 113-179.
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A review of Deconstructing Mormonism: An Analysis and Assessment of the Mormon Faith (Cranford, N.J, American Atheist Press: 2011) by Thomas Riskas and of Myths, Models and Paradigms: A Comparative Study of Science and Religion (New York, Harper & Row: 1974) by Ian J. Barbour.
Abstract: Riskas’s Desconstructing Mormonism claims that believers are trapped in a box for which the instructions for how to get out are written on the outside of the box. He challenges believers to submit to an outsider test for faith. But how well does Riskas describe the insider test? And is his outsider test, which turns out to be positivism, just a different box with the instructions for how to get out written on its outside? Ian Barbour’s Myths Models and Paradigms provides instructions on how to get out of the positivistic box that Riskas offers, and at the same time provides an alternate outsider test that Mormon readers can use to assess what Alma refers to as “cause to believe.” The important thing, however, is that we are dealing here not with the old donnybrook between science and religion but with the ancient confrontation of Sophic and Mantic. The Sophic is simply the art of solving problems without the aid of any superhuman agency, which the Mantic, on the other hand, is willing to solicit or accept. ((Hugh Nibley, “Paths that Stray: Some Notes on the Sophic and Mantic” in Stephen Ricks, ed., The Ancient State, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 10 (Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1991), 380-–381.)).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [4333]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64597  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:24
Faulconer, James E. “Sealings and Mercies: Moroni’s Final Exhortations in Moroni 10.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 1 (2013): 4-19.
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This is not an essay in the usual sense. Instead, it is a close reading of Moroni 10, looking verse by verse at what Mornoi might be teaching us. The overarching question is, to what does Moroni exhort us as he seals his book and writes his final words? Examining each of Morni’s eight exhortations, Faulconer shows one way to study scriptures and perhaps to think about them afresh. In addition to the importantadmonition to pray about the truth of the Book of Mormon, he sees in this chapter a message of God’s mercy and of our need for charity.

Keywords: Charity; Exhortation; Mercy; Moroni (Son of Mormon); Scripture Study; Sealing
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3285]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 59217  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Fenton, Elizabeth. “Open Canons: Sacred History and American History in The Book of Mormon.” J19 : The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 1, no. 2 (2013): 339-361.
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This essay examines Joseph Smith’s 1830 publication, The Book of Mormon, within the context of early nineteenth-century efforts to produce and preserve documents relating to the history of the United States. The essay argues that Smith’s book poses a challenge to contemporary notions of history by destabilizing the idea of an ur-text through its manipulations of biblical stories and depictions of its own, fraught manuscript history. Ultimately, the essay concludes the Book of Mormon’s presentation of textual inadequacy, redundancy, and confusion serve its larger goal of revising Anglo-Protestant accounts of American history. Smith’s work presents readers with an image of Puritan settlers as destroyers rather than builders of “a city on a hill,” complicating nineteenth-century understandings of providential history and subsuming Protestantism into an alternate story of American Christianity.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, manuscripts; Comparative religion, Protestantism; Book of Mormon, American setting; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [82060]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:55
Gardner, Brant A. “From the East to the West: The Problem of Directions in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 3 (2013): 119-153.
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Abstract: The 1985 publication of John L. Sorenson’s An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon presented the best argument for a New World location for the Book of Mormon. For all of its strengths, however, one aspect of the model has remained perplexing. It appeared that in order to accept that correlation one must accept that the Nephites rotated north to what we typically understand as northwest. The internal connections between text and geography were tighter than any previous correlation, and the connections between that particular geography and the history of the peoples who lived in that place during Book of Mormon times was also impressive. There was just that little problem of north not being north. This paper reexamines the Book of Mormon directional terms and interprets them against the cultural system that was prevalent in the area defined by Sorenson’s geographical correlation. The result is a way to understand Book of Mormon directions without requiring any skewing of magnetic north.

ID = [4373]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64265  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:27
Gardner, Brant A. “When Hypotheses Collide: Responding to Lyon and Minson’s ‘When Pages Collide’” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 5 (2013): 105-119.
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Abstract: At the end of 2012, Jack M. Lyon and Kent R. Minson published “When Pages Collide: Dissecting the Words of Mormon.” They suggest that there is textual evidence that supports the idea that Words of Mormon 12-18 is the translation of the end of the previous chapter of Mosiah. The rest of the chapter was lost with the 116 pages, but this text remained because it was physically on the next page, which Joseph had kept with him.
In this paper, the textual information is examined to determine if it supports that hypothesis. The conclusion is that while the hypothesis is possible, the evidence is not conclusive. The question remains open and may ultimately depend upon one’s understanding of the translation process much more than the evidence from the manuscripts.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [4351]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 28545  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:25
Gee, John. “Whither Mormon Studies?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 93-130.
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Abstract: The proliferation of Mormon Studies is surprising, considering that many of the basic questions about the field have never been answered. This paper looks at a number of basic questions about Mormon Studies that are of either academic concern or concern for members of the Church of Jesus Christ. They include such questions as whether Mormon Studies is a discipline, whether those who do Mormon Studies necessarily know what is going on in the Church, or if they interpret their findings correctly, whether there is any core knowledge that those who do Mormon Studies can or should have, what sort of topics Mormon Studies covers or should cover and whether those topics really have anything to do with what Mormons actually do or think about, whether Mormon Studies has ulterior political or religious motives, and whether it helps or hurts the Kingdom. Is Mormon Studies a waste of students’ time and donors’ money? Though the paper does not come up with definitive answers to any of those questions, it sketches ways of looking at them from a perspective within the restored Gospel and suggests that these issues ought to be more carefully considered before Latter-day Saints dive headlong into Mormon Studies in general.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [4360]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64607  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:26
Gentry, Leland H. A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri from 1836 to 1839. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2013.
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This massive dissertation, originally over 500 pages in length, is filled with impressive details about the settlement, troubles, and expulsion of the Latter-day Saints from northern Missouri, 1836–1839. Since its approval at BYU in 1965, this doctoral dissertation has remained a standard reference work for serious historians. Carefully written and copiously footnoted, this study draws heavily on timeless primary sources as it probes the leading causes for the Mormon War in Missouri. Rapid colonization and the unique religious teachings and practices of the Latter-day Saints are among the main factors emphasized by Dr. Leland H. Gentry. Shortly after the founding of Kirtland, speculation increased among Church members as to the future location of “Zion,” the “New Jerusalem” spoken of in the Book of Mormon. A little over a year later, in the course of a visit to the extreme western edge of the American frontier, Joseph Smith was informed by the Lord that he was standing upon the very land “appointed and consecrated for the gathering of his saints, . . . the land of promise, and the place for the city of Zion.” The urge to get to Zion was strong among the Saints. So intense was the desire of some to settle upon the Land of Promise that they consummated the move in haste and without adequate preparation. Migrating families often found themselves entirely dependent upon the charity of their neighbors. The rapid migrations of so many poor and ill-equipped persons threw the Saints into direct conflict with the older and more established settlers of Missouri. The latter tended to view the rapid influx of Saints as an act designed to secure control of the lands surrounding their homes without legal purchase, a thing far from the heart of any true Saint. Thus while Mormonism had many distinct and unusual features, it had certain elements of affinity with its age. For one thing, it shared the common hope of a perfect society and even inculcated a practical plan for the attainment of the same. It shared the dream of a “Manifest Destiny” for America and turned its attention to the great unsettled West early in its history. Finally it recognized the importance of land in frontier economics and set about to secure as much as was practicable.

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Gillum, Gary P. “Written to the Lamanites: Understanding the Book of Mormon through Native Culture and Religion.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 6 (2013): 31-48.
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Abstract: Latter-day Saints have always been encouraged to seek the truth wherever it can be found. With the Book of Mormon being written especially to the Lamanites, we can assume that the more we know about Lamanite and Native American culture, the more we can understand, appreciate and gain insights as we read that inspired scripture. In this article the writer has compared examples from Native American culture and history to what we read in the Book of Mormon and experience as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most importantly, as we read through the eyes of a Native American, we can appreciate the divinity and authenticity of the Book of Mormon, since Joseph Smith could not have known Native American culture and history in the way it is described herein.
THE BOOK OF MORMON
AN ACCOUNT WRITTEN BY
THE HAND OF MORMON
UPON PLATES
TAKEN FROM THE PLATES OF NEPHI
Wherefore, it is an abridgment of the record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites—Written to the Lamanites, who are a remnant of the house of Israel; and also to Jew and Gentile—.

ID = [4343]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 31494  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:25
Hamblin, William J. “The Sôd of YHWH and the Endowment.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 147-154.
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Abstract: In the Hebrew Bible, the Sôd of God was a council of celestial beings who consulted with God, learned His sôd/secret plan, and then fulfilled that plan. This paper argues that the LDS endowment is, in part, a ritual reenactment of the sôd, where the participants observe the sôd/council of God, learn the sôd/secret plan of God, and covenant to fulfill that plan.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
Old Testament Scriptures > Job
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
ID = [4362]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 11454  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:26
Hamblin, William J. “Vindicating Josiah.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 165-176.
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For an introduction, see Benjamin L. McGuire, “Josiah’s Reform: An Introduction.”
For a counterpoint, see Kevin Christensen, “Prophets and Kings in Lehi’s Jerusalem and Margaret Barker’s Temple Theology”
Abstract: Margaret Barker has written a number of fascinating books on ancient Israelite and Christian temple theology. One of her main arguments is that the temple reforms of Josiah corrupted the pristine original Israelite temple theology. Josiah’s reforms were therefore, in some sense, an apostasy. According to Barker, early Christianity is based on the pristine, original pre-Josiah form of temple theology. This paper argues that Josiah’s reforms were a necessary correction to contemporary corruption of the Israelite temple rituals and theologies, and that the type of temple apostasy Barker describes is more likely associated with the Hasmoneans.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
ID = [4365]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 24462  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:26
Harris, Tod R. “The Book of Mormon: A Biography.” BYU Studies Quarterly 52, no. 1 (2013): 159.
ID = [10975]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 15966  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:01
Hilton, John, III. “Jacob’s Textual Legacy.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 2 (2013).
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While Jacob records 15,000 words in the Book of Mormon, he is often underappreciated, perhaps living in the shadow of his older brother Nephi. This study illustrates how Nephi, King Benjamin, and Moroni used Jacob’s words and expanded the influence of his literary legacy.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3298]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 50319  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:37
Hopkin, Shon D. “The Zoramites and Costly Apparel: Symbolism and Irony.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 1 (2013).
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The Zoramite narratives of Alma 31-35 and Alma 43-44 are richly symbolic accounts woven with many subtle details regarding the imporatnce of costly apparel and riches as an outward evidence of pride. This literary analysis focuses on how Mormon as editor structured the Zoramite narrative and used clothing as a metaphor to show the dangers of pride and the blessings afforded by humble adherence to God’s teachings and covenants. The Zoramite’s pride--as evidenced by their focus on costly apparel, gold, silver, and fine goods (Alma 31:24-25, 28)--competes with the foundational Book of Mormon teaching that the obedient will “ prosper in the land” (1 Nephi 4:14; Mosiah 1:7). The story deveops this tension between pride and true prosperity by employing the metaphor of clothing to set up several dramatic ironies.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3288]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 59548  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Larsen, David J. “Angels among Us: The Use of Old Testament Passages as Inspiration for Temple Themes in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 5 no. 1 (2013).
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A number of texts from the Qumran scrolls demonstrate the community’s interest in heavenly ascent and in communion with angels. This article lays out a pattern observable in some of the poetic/liturgical texts (for example, the Hodayot and other noncanonical psalms) in which the leader of the community is taken up into the divine council of God to be taught the heavenly mysteries, is appointed a teacher of those mysteries, and is then commissioned to share the teachings with his followers. Upon learning the mysteries, the followers are enabled to likewise ascend to heaven to praise God with the angels. In some texts, the human worshippers appear to undergo a transfiguration so that they become like the heavenly beings. This article further illustrates how these elements can be found together in a liturgical text known as the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice; their collective presence suggests that all were part of a ritual sequence. Finally, the article argues that these same elements, or traditions related to them, can be found in passages from the Old Testament.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [7041]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-sba,old-test  Size: 44764  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Larsen, Val. “In His Footsteps: Ammon₁ and Ammon₂.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 3 (2013): 85-113.
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Abstract: Mormon is a historian with a literary sensibility and considerable literary skill. Though his core message is readily apparent to any competent reader, his history nevertheless rewards close reading. Its great scope means that much that is said must be said by implication. And its witness of Christ is sometimes expressed through subtle narrative parallels or through historical allegory. This article focuses on parallel narratives that feature Ammon1 and Ammon2, with special attention to the allegorical account of Ammon2 at the waters of Sebus. To fully comprehend the power of the testimony of Christ that Mormon communicates in his Ammon narratives, readers must glean from textual details an understanding of the social and political context in which the narratives unfold. ((Peter Eubanks, Brant Gardner, Grant Hardy, and two reviewers at Interpreter read and helpfully commented on an a previous draft of this article.)).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [4371]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 58023  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:27
Larson, Stan, and John S. Dinger. Significant Textual Changes in The Book of Mormon: The first printed edition compared to the manuscripts and to the subsequent major LDS English printed editions. Salt Lake City, UT: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2013.
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The Book of Mormon is the scripture embraced by followers of Joseph Smith in his 1830s Latter-day Saint movement. Despite the faith of believers that the Book of Mormon is “the most correct of any book,” ever since Smith dictated the text to scribes in 1827, there have been significant modifications with each printing. Here, presented for the first time, is an easy-to-use, single volume correlating all the major changes to English language editions of the Book of Mormon. It includes the original manuscript, printer’s manuscript, and fifteen editions from 1830, 1837, 1840, 1841, 1849, 1852, 1879, 1888, 1902, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1911, 1920, and 1981. The presentation is simple and reader friendly. The base text is from an original 1830 edition, and bold lettering signals the altered text. Footnotes track changes over time, with details from the variant texts. Often these changes simply clarify minor issues of spelling, adding or deleting conjunctions or completing fragmented sentences. But at several important points, the changes transform the meaning of Joseph Smith’s canon. A major character in the book describes the symbolism of a dream he has and refers to “the Lamb of God” (Jesus) as “the Eternal Father,” a generic Trinitarian belief that Mormons now reject. The text was subsequently changed to read “the Lamb of the Son of the Eternal Father,” which reflecting the shift in belief among Mormons at the time, as they came to regard Deity as three separate beings with exalted human bodies. Other changes affect basic understandings of theology, race, and identity, which morph through printings and are tracked here in a clean, straightforward approach.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, manuscripts; Book of Mormon, printing; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, editions and translations; Book of Mormon, textual development
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McGuire, Benjamin L. “Josiah’s Reform: An Introduction.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 161-163.
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In 1951 in The Improvement Era, Sidney B. Sperry published a short article titled “Some Problems of Interest Relating to the Brass Plates.” In this article he outlines several problems including issues related to the Pentateuch, Jeremiah’s prophecies, The Book of the Law, and the Brass Plates themselves. In many ways, Sperry laid down a gauntlet that has been taken up many times by LDS scholars looking for answers that help to explain these issues in the Book of Mormon within the context of the best current biblical scholarship.

ID = [4364]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 4718  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:26
McGuire, Benjamin L. “The Late War Against the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 7 (2013): 323-355.
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Recently, the Exmormon Foundation held their annual conference in Salt Lake City. A presentation by Chris and Duane Johnson proposed a new statistical model for discussing authorship of the Book of Mormon. The study attempts to connect the Book of Mormon to a text published in 1816: The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain. The latter is a history of the war of 1812 deliberately written in a scriptural style. A traditional (non-statistical) comparison between this text and the Book of Mormon was apparently introduced by Rick Grunder in his 2008 bibliography Mormon Parallels. I will discuss only the statistical model presented by the Johnsons here.

ID = [4336]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64743  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:24
Muhlestein, Kerry, and Alexander L. Baugh. “Preserving the Joseph Smith Papyri Fragments: What Can We Learn from the Paper on Which the Papyri Were Mounted?” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 2 (2013).
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This article discusses possible explanations regarding the procedures Joseph Smith and his associates used in mounting the Joseph Smith Papyri fragments and their reasons for doing so. The backing materials, some of which contain drawings of a temple plan and plat sketches of northeastern Ohio townships, provide a valuable historical artifact that helps historians answer questions associated with the papyri. The dimensions, gluing techniques, and cutting patterns of the backing paper and papyri also help explain the mounting process, as does an examination of the handwriting on the backing paper. Careful analysis suggests that a portion of the backing material came from several sheets of paper glued together to make a large sheet on which plans for a temple were drawn. Historical evidence suggests that in late 1837 or early 1838, pieces of papyri were glued to this and other papers and cut into smaller pieces, some of which were put under glass to preserve the papyrus fragments from further deterioration.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3299]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 53438  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:37
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 22 Issue 1. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 1 (2013).
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Articles

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Front Matter.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 1 (2013).
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Muhlestein, Kerry. “The Religious and Cultural Background of Joseph Smith Papyrus I.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 1 (2013).
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Throughout its history, ancient Egyptian religion showed a remarkable capacity for adopting new religious ideas and characters and adapting them for use in an already existing system of worship. This process continued, and perhaps accelerated, during the Groco-Roman era of Egyptian history. Egyptian priests readily used foreign religious characters in their rituals and religious formulas, particularly from Greek and Jewish religions. Religious texts demonstrate that Egyptian priests knew of both biblical and nonbiblical accounts of many Jewish figures--especially Jehova, Abraham, and Moses--by about 200 BC. Knowing this religio-cultural background helps us understand how the priest in Thebes who owned Joseph Smith Papyrus I would have been familiar with stories of Abraham.

ID = [3286]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  abraham,farms-jbms  Size: 58681  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Gee, John. “Abraham and Idrimi.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 1 (2013): 34-39.
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Idrimi of Alalakh lived in Syria about a century after Abraham and left an autobiographical inscription that is the only such item uncovered archaeologically from Middle Bronze Age Syro-Palestine. The inscription of Idrimi and the Book of Abraham share a number of parallel features and motifs. Some of the parallels are a result of similar experiences in their lives and some are a result of coming from a similar culture and time.

Keywords: Abraham (Prophet); Ancient Near East; Archaeology; Idrimi
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
ID = [3287]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bmc-archive,farms-jbms,old-test  Size: 24559  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Roper, Matthew P. “How Much Weight Can a Single Source Bear? The Case of Samuel D. Tyler’s Journal Entry.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 1 (2013): 54-57.
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In 1838 a group of Latter-day Sints passed through Randolph County, Missouri, on their way to join the Sains at Far West. A journal entry by Samuel D. Tyler, a member of the church who traveled with this group, has led some students of the Book of Mormon to conclude that the Prophet Joseph Smith revealed the location of the ancient city of Manti spoken of in the Book of Mormon. A careful examination of the Tyler journal an dother historical sources suggests that this conclusion is unwarranted.

Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography – Heartland; Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Manti (Polity); Missouri; Smith
ID = [3289]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 13595  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Baugh, Alexander L. “Kirtland Camp, 1838: Bringing the Poor to Missouri.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 1 (2013): 58-61.
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In the spring and summer of 1838, the presidency of the Seventy in Kirtland organized Kirtland Camp to assist many of the poorer Church members living in Ohio to relocate to northern Missouri, a trek of more than eight hundred miles. Comprised of over five hundred individuals, including families, Kirtland Camp was the first Mormon company organized to assist in the migration of the Latter-day Saints in the history of the Church.

Keywords: Early Church History; Kirtland; Kirtland Camp; Migration; Ohio
ID = [3290]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,farms-jbms  Size: 14146  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Welch, John W. “Worthy of Another Look: Reusages of the Words of Christ.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 1 (2013).
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Jesus quoted key phrases, often in inverted order, from the Sermon on the Mount (3 Nephi 12-14) in subsequent Book of Mormon chapters (3 Nephi 15-28), thus demonstrating that the sermon was accepted as an authoritative text establishing and defning Jesus’s kingdom on earth. Although rarely considered in this light, Peter, James, Paul, and the gospel writers quoted from all parts of the Sermon on the Mount, similarly substantiating the authoritative functions of the sermon as a foundational text in early Chrsitiantiy. Literary analysis supports the ideas that these quotations were intentional, that an awareness of the sermon was widespread in the earliest decades of Christinaity, and that audiences to which Jesus and his apostles spoke were fmailiar with teachings and commandments found in the SErmon on the Mount.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “End Matter.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 1 (2013).
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 22 Issue 2. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 1 (2013).
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Articles

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Front Matter.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 2 (2013).
ID = [3293]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  farms-jbms  Size: 6292  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Wright, Mark Alan. “The Cultural Tapestry of Mesoamerica.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 4-21.
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Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica was populated by scores of distinctive cultural groups. Such groups are identified archaeologically by their stylistically unique material cultures, from small, portable ceramic objects to large-scale monumental architecture, as well as through distinctive artistic, religious, and linguistic evidence. Significant interaction took place between these distinctive peoples and cultures, and some major metropolitan areas were home to different ethnic groups. This paper offers a brief glimpse at some of the cultures that inhabited the major geographical regions of Mesoamerica throughout its threethousand-year history and explores the cultural diversity that existed within and between regions.

Keywords: Ancient America; Archaeology; Architecture; Culture; Mesoamerica
ID = [3294]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 61885  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Barney, Quinten Zehn. “Sobek: The Idolatrous God of Pharaoh Amenemhet III.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 22-27.
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The Joseph Smith Papyri have been a hot topic among scholars, especially since the resurfacing of fragments of the collection in the late 1960s. The facsimiles in particular have received much attention in scholarly circles, especially in relation to their accompanying explanations given by Joseph Smith. This article contributes evidence of the accuracy of Smith’s explanations, despite his lack of knowledge concerning Egyptology. Specifically, this article discusses the relationship between “ the idolatrous god of pharaoh” in Facsimile 1 with the Egyptian crocodile god, Sobek (also known as Sebek, Sobk, and Suchos), and his connection to the Middle Kingdom pharaoh Amenemhet III. Evidence both from historical texts and from archaeology demonstrates the important role Sobek played in the Fayyum region during the reign of Amenemhet III. Sobek was thus a likely candidate for the “ idolatrous god of pharaoh” of Facsimile 1 in the Book of Abraham.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Book of Abraham Facsimiles; Egypt; Egyptian; Joseph Smith Papyri; Pearl of Great Price; Sobek
ID = [3295]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bmc-archive,farms-jbms  Size: 22363  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:37
Smoot, Stephen O. “Council, Chaos, and Creation in the Book of Abraham.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 28-39.
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The Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price depicts the creation, including the motifs of the divine council, primeval chaos, and creation from preexisting matter. This depiction fits nicely in an ancient Near Eastern cultural background and has strong affinities with the depiction of the cosmos found in the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Near Eastern texts (especially Egyptian and Mesopotamian).

Keywords: Abraham (Prophet); Ancient Near East; Chaos; Cosmos; Council; Creation; Pearl of Great Price
ID = [3296]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bmc-archive,farms-jbms  Size: 52038  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:37
Olsen, Steven L. “Memory and Identity in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 40-51.
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Remember is one of the most frequently used verbs in the Book of Mormon. It is consistently used by its authors in a covenant context—establishing or renewing an eternal relationship with God, expressing and realizing the blessings of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and preserving the distinctive identity of a covenant people. The present study examines the complex and profound ways that the complementary concepts of memory, identity, and covenants express the meaning of the sacred Nephite history through the vocabulary and narrative structures of the text and postulates how and why the Nephites preserved this official record for posterity.

Keywords: Context; Covenant; Gospel; Identity; Jesus Christ; Memory; Narrative; Remember
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Fields, Paul J., Matthew P. Roper, and Atul Nepal. “Joseph Smith, The Times and Seasons, and Central American Ruins.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 2 (2013).
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During the time the Latter-day Saints lived in Nauvoo, John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood published Incidents of Travel in Central America, an illustrated report of the first discovery of ancient ruins in Central America by explorers. These discoveries caused great excitement among the Saints, and subsequently five editorials appeared in the Times and Seasons commenting on what these meant for the church. Although the author of the editorials was not indicated, historians have wondered if Joseph Smith penned them since he was the newspaper’s editor at the time. We examined the historical evidence surrounding the editorials and conducted a detailed stylometric analysis of the texts, comparing the writing style in the editorials with the writing styles of Joseph Smith, John Taylor, and Wilford Woodruff—the only men involved with the newspaper during the time the editorials were published. Both the historical and stylometric evidence point toward Joseph Smith as the most likely author of the editorials. Even if he did not write them alone, he took full responsibility for the contents of the newspaper during his editorial tenure when he stated, “ I alone stand for it.”

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Smith, Robert F. “Evaluating the Sources of 2 Nephi 1:13-15: Shakespeare and the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 2 (2013).
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The early and persistent claim that Joseph Smith quoted Shakespeare in the Book of Mormon fails to take into account the broader context of sources. Much closer parallels than Shakespeare are available in the Bible as well as in ancient Near Eastern literature. Indeed, the constellation of ideas about death expressed in 2 Nephi 1:13–15 fits that ancient Near Eastern context in several powerful ways—ways that belie the claim that Joseph Smith plagiarized Shakespeare.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [3301]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 22648  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:37
Gee, John. “Has Olishem Been Discovered?” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 104-107.
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News reports from 2013 identify the site of Oylum Höyük with both the city of Abraham and the ancient city of Ulišum. The latter has been identified with the Olishem of Abraham 1:10. While the preliminary reports are encouraging, the evidence upon which the archaeologists base their identifications has not yet been published. So while there is nothing against the proposed identifications, they are not proven either.

Keywords: Abraham (Prophet); Ancient Near East; Archaeology; Olishem; Pearl of Great Price
ID = [3302]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bmc-archive,farms-jbms  Size: 15834  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:37
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Book of Mormon Students Meet: Interesting Convention Held in Provo Saturday and Sunday.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 2 (2013).
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Excerpts from the Deseret Evening News of 25 May 1903 report on a convention at which Book of Mormon geography was discussed.

ID = [3304]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 7345  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:37
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Letter from Heber J. Grant.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 2 (2013).
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On 25 January 1928, President Heber J. Grant wrote a letter to a young woman in which he shares his love for the Book of Mormon and his testimony of its divinity.

ID = [3305]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 1603  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:37
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “End Matter.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 22 no. 2 (2013).
ID = [3303]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  farms-jbms  Size: 1902  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:37
Nicholson, Roger. “The Spectacles, the Stone, the Hat, and the Book: A Twenty-first Century Believer’s View of the Book of Mormon Translation.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 5 (2013): 121-190.
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Abstract: This essay seeks to examine the Book of Mormon translation method from the perspective of a regular, nonscholarly, believing member in the twenty-first century, by taking into account both what is learned in Church and what can be learned from historical records that are now easily available. What do we know? What should we know? How can a believing Latter-day Saint reconcile apparently conflicting accounts of the translation process? An examination of the historical sources is used to provide us with a fuller and more complete understanding of the complexity that exists in the early events of the Restoration. These accounts come from both believing and nonbelieving sources, and some skepticism ought to be employed in choosing to accept some of the interpretations offered by some of these sources as fact. However, an examination of these sources provides a larger picture, and the answers to these questions provide an enlightening look into Church history and the evolution of the translation story. This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process and how a faithful Latter-day Saint might view these as further evidence of truthfulness of the restored Gospel. .

ID = [4352]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64797  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:25
Olive, Phyllis Carol. The Lost Empires and Vanished Races of the Book of Mormon. Springville, Utah: Cedar Fort, Inc., 2013.
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Phyllis Carol Olive’s latest book, The Lost Empires and Vanished Races, provides a guide for readers searching to unravel the mysteries of a world that once played host to mankind’s ancient prophets. Her geographical descriptions, archeological insights, and sociological commentaries uncover the secrets of a land long-lost to the forgotten annals of history, and her work proudly stands as the most comprehensive exposé currently circulating in regard to ancient Book of Mormon scenes. Join Phyllis as she walks the various new-world territories frequently described in scripture, yet rarely understood by history; explore the fascinating political factors that led to endless cycles of war extensively recorded by ancient scriptural historians; and pursue compelling psychological avenues as you unveil the hidden motivations that sparked generations of inhabitants to live as they once lived in the enigmatic world of this lost American empire. [Book jacket]

Keywords: Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Book of Mormon; Historic archaeology, Book of Mormon
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Olsen, Liza. “The Tree of Life: From Eden to Eternity.” BYU Studies Quarterly 52, no. 1 (2013): 187.
ID = [10981]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 2999  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:01
Peterson, Daniel C. “Reflecting on Gospel Scholarship with Abū al-Walīd and Abū Ḥāmid.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 3 (2013): v-xxxii.
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The theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic Abu ?amid Mu?ammad b. Mu?ammad al-Ghazali (d. AD 1111 in his Persian hometown of Tus, after spending much of his career in Baghdad) has sometimes been characterized as the single most influential Muslim besides the Prophet Mu?ammad himself. The Andalusian philosopher and jurist Abu al-Walid Mu?ammad b. A?mad b. Rushd (d. AD 1198 in Marrakesh, modern-day Morocco, but ultimately buried in his family tomb in Córdoba, Spain) is generally considered to be the greatest medieval commentator—whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim—on the works of Aristotle. Often known as Averroës, a corruption of his Arabic name, Ibn Rushd was respected even by medieval Christians. For example, Dante Alighieri, in his immortal Inferno, placed him only on the rim of Hell—in the relatively benign Limbo of unbaptized infants—and not among the torturous punishments of Hell’s lower levels.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Rappleye, Neal. “Trusting Joseph.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 75-83.
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Abstract: The “first steps” of Mormon history are vital to the faith claims of the Latter-day Saints. The new volume Exploring the First Vision, edited by Samuel Alonzo Dodge and Steven C. Harper, compiles research into the historical veracity of Joseph Smith’s First Vision narrative which shows the Prophet to have been a reliable and trustworthy witness. Ultimately, historical investigation can neither prove nor disprove that Joseph had a theophany in the woods in 1820. Individuals must therefore reach their conclusions by some other means.
Review of Samuel Alonzo Dodge and Steven C. Harper, eds. Exploring the First Vision. Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2012. 338 pp. with index. $25.99If the beginning of the promenade of Mormon history, the First Vision and the Book of Mormon, can survive the crisis, then the rest of the promenade follows and nothing that happens in it can really detract from the miracle of the whole. If the first steps do not survive, there can be only antiquarian, not fateful or faith-full interest in the rest of the story.
Martin E. Marty ((Martin E. Marty, “Two Integrities: An Address to the Crisis in Mormon Historiography,” Journal of Mormon History 10 (1983): 9, capitalization altered.)).

ID = [4358]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 17702  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:26
Ricks, Stephen D. “Some Notes on Book of Mormon Names.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 155-160.
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Abstract: This study considers the Book of Mormon personal names Josh, Nahom, and Alma as test cases for the Book of Mormon as an historically authentic ancient document.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [4363]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 11579  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:26
Ricks, Stephen D. “A Note on Family Structure in Mosiah 2:5.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 6 (2013): 9-10.
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Mosiah 2:5 provides the reader of the Book of Mormon with new insights about Israelite-Nephite family structure. In a passage set during what John A. Tvedtnes has persuasively argued is the Feast of Tabernacles, we read: “And it came to pass that when they came up to the temple, they pitched their tents round about, every man according to his family, consisting of his wife, and his sons, and his daughters, and their sons and their daughters, from the eldest down to the youngest.”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [4339]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 3297  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:24
Robison, Elwin Clark. Gathering as One: The History of the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2013.
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The Salt Lake Tabernacle held the North American record for the widest unsupported interior space at its completion in 1867. Finished two years before the arrival of the railroad, it was constructed primarily of local stone, timber, and adobe. One of a long succession of buildings constructed to permit members of the Mormon faith to hear from their prophet, the Tabernacle accommodated over thirteen thousand people. A recent seismic upgrade provided a unique opportunity to view details of the historic building. Construction challenges, acoustics, the development of the organ, and subsequent alterations and upgrades are amply illustrated, providing a complete story of this magnificent edifice. Early meetings in the Mormon faith were held in private homes or outdoors. The first buildings constructed by the Church, the Kirtland and Nauvoo Temples, were multipurpose buildings that were woefully inadequate to accommodate the growing number of Saints. After arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young decided to construct a hall where thousands could attend services. The Salt Lake Tabernacle is a bold and daring building, setting a North American record for an unsupported interior span. Developed from bridge trusses, the building was frankly modern in the way it eschewed traditional ornamentation and styles and clearly expressed its form on the exterior. Brigham Young relied upon bridge builder Henry Grow and architects William Folsom and Truman O. Angell to realize the unprecedented structure. Grow tested the truss capacity with scale models and oversaw the construction of the lofty trusses. Folsom developed the initial plans, but then Angell worked out the details of the stand, seating, and gallery. Together they created an audience hall that seated approximately thirteen thousand and held as many as fifteen thousand with congregants standing in the aisles. The recent seismic upgrade of the building provided an opportunity to view many original details and finishes that were long hidden underneath later layers and additions. The upgrade allows the building to be of service continuing into the next century. Built from local materials and volunteer labor before the railroad arrived in the Great Basin, the Tabernacle stands as a witness to the collective sacrifice made by members of the Mormon faith. Driven from homes and disavowed by families, these early Saints made the arduous trek to the West to follow a prophet, and this remarkable building made it possible for many thousands of them to gather as one under a single roof.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Skousen, Royal. “The Original Text of the Book of Mormon and its Publication by Yale University Press.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 7 (2013): 57-96.
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An earlier version of the following paper was presented 5 August 2010 at a conference sponsored by FAIR, the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (now FairMormon). The text of this paper is copyrighted by Royal Skousen. The photographs that appear in this paper are also protected by copyright. Photographs of the original manuscript are provided courtesy of David Hawkinson and Robert Espinosa and are reproduced here by permission of the Wilford Wood Foundation. Photographs of the printer’s manuscript are provided courtesy of Nevin Skousen and are reproduced here by permission of the Community of Christ. The text of the Yale edition of The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text (2009) is copyrighted by Royal Skousen; Yale University Press holds the rights to reproduce this text.

ID = [4331]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 55542  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:24
Smith, Daymon M. A Cultural History of the Book of Mormon. Daymon M. Smith, 2013.
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This first volume of a cultural history of the Book of Mormon focuses on the earliest years of the text. In a new reading of Mormon history informed by the author’s expertise in anthropology and text analysis, the role of Restorationists in locating the Book of Mormon inside the cultural world of the Bible comes to the forefront. The notion of “metatext” is developed in order to explain how texts about the Book of Mormon informed the earliest readings of it, rendering it “scripture” in the genre familiar to Christians, and also shaped it to fit the tradition of Restoration widespread on the American frontier. As a group of Campbellites in late 1830 saw in the book their hoped-for restoration of the power of miracles, the Book of Mormon became the engine of a movement: the power had been restored. In this movement, Alexander Campbell’s Ohio group suffered a schism, and his remaining followers called the break off sect “Mormonites” in derision. This cultural history of the Book of Mormon presents a dramatically new way to understand that text and how it has been read and misread from the 1830s onward, as Restorationists took up the text--not for what it said--as a sign of miracles being restored to the true New Testament Church. This first volume is the sort of book you’ll either love or hate.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Campbell, Alexander
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Thompson, A. Keith. “Nephite insights into Israelite Worship Practices before the Babylonian Captivity.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 3 (2013): 155-195.
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Abstract: General historical consensus holds that synagogues originated before the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70, and therefore probably originated during the Babylonian captivity. The suggestion in Philo and Josephus that synagogues may have originated during the exodus was discredited by some historians in the 17th century, yet the Book of Mormon speaks of synagogues, sanctuaries, and places of worship in a manner which suggests that Lehi and his party brought some form of synagogal worship with them when they left Jerusalem around 600 BC. This essay revisits the most up to date scholarship regarding the origin of the synagogue and suggests that the Book of Mormon record provides ample reason to look for the origins of the synagogue much earlier that has become the academic custom.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Leviticus
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Welch, John W. “The Temple, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Gospel of Matthew.” In Mormonism and the Temple: Examining an Ancient Religious Tradition, edited by Gary A. Anderson, 61–107. Logan, UT: Academy for Temple Studies, 2013.
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Keywords: Intertextuality; Psalms; Sermon at the Temple; Sermon on the Mount; Temple Worship; Theology
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
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Welch, John W. “Toward a Mormon Jurisprudence.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 6 (2013): 49-84.
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Preface: The following article was published in the Regent University Law Review in the first number of its 2008-2009 volume, pages 79-103. The article is reprinted here by permission without any substantive modifications. Because law reviews are not easily available on the Web or elsewhere to most readers, I am pleased to give wider exposure to this first foray into the idea of a Mormon jurisprudence. Regent University is an Evangelical Christian institution.
This article grew mainly out of a talk that was delivered on February 14, 2004, to the first national meeting of the student chapters of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, held at Harvard Law School. Four years later, on February 13, 2008, Scott Adams, a third-year member of the law review at Regent University Law School contacted me and said that he was hoping to “put something together on Mormonism and the law,” to see if the law review might publish it. Scott rightly indicated that, according to his research, “no one has ever attempted to tackle the ambitious project of considering Mormonism, in general, and analyzing its potential implications on law (for example, how might an LDS judge see the law, as opposed to a Catholic).” Scott was thinking about writing a paper himself on natural law from an LDS perspective. I responded by suggesting that he contact Cole Durham, Francis Beckwith, and Nate Oman; and I offered to send him a copy of my Harvard speech, expressing interest in publishing that paper as a companion piece with his.
As it would soon turn out, the editor-in-chief and board of the Regent law review were very eager to publish my piece, especially if it could appear with another article presenting an “opposing viewpoint.” They suggested a member of their faculty, and after brief deliberations, all was agreed. In the end, however, no opposing or additional articles were forthcoming, and so this article was published on its own. I thank Scott and his fellow students for their help in checking and enriching the footnotes. They also had hopes that this publication would build good relationships between Evangelicals and future LDS students, which I too hope has occurred.
This essay tries to identify what a “Mormon” jurisprudence would, and would not, look like. Beyond its immediate relevance to legal thought, this article might have broader applications in helping LDS scholars in other disciplines to think about, for example, what a Mormon theory of literary criticism might look like, or what would be distinctive about a Mormon approach to political theory or to any other discipline. I believe that any such Mormon academic approach (1) would be solidly rooted in all LDS scripture, (2) would be inclusivistic, privileging fullness and openness over closure and completeness, and (3) would be fundamentally pluralistic and not reductionistic.
Obviously, this piece is just a beginning. There is much more to be done here. I have continued to work along these lines for the past decade and have published other things growing out of this paper, for example, a talk about rights and duties given at Stanford Law School, published in the Clark Memorandum (Fall, 2010), 26, http://www.jrcls.org/publications/clark_memo/issues/cmF10.pdf, and my Maeser lecture at Brigham Young University, available at http://byustudies.byu.edu/PDFLibrary/50.3WelchThy-08f4ba7e-d3a2-444f-bc8c-0ce842c12fc4.pdf.
I would hope next to articulate the specific implications of these ideas with respect to legal attitudes toward statutory construction, judicial activism, the spirit and letter of the law, justice and mercy, equality and freedom, pacifism and justifiable use of force, corrections and forms of punishment, degrees of fiduciary duties, types of contracts, the foundations of family law, the principles of constitutional law, and many other topics. This development would utilize historical, scriptural, logical, ethical, and other analyses.
Naturally, this article is neither complete nor comprehensive in scope. How could it truly exemplify my theory if it were otherwise? This was all I could cover in a brief presentation even to a group of bright law students gathered on a Valentine’s Day at Harvard. And I probably already had included enough here to bewilder most Baptist readers of the Regent University Law Review who were just then hearing for the first time about Mitt Romney and wondered how a Mormon might approach the law as the president of the United States.
That question, of course, is still up for grabs; and Latter-day Saints are more interested in political and legal issues than ever before. So I hope that readers may find this article still to be stimulating and, as reader Sid Unrau has commented, “well worth reading, contemplating, and building upon, … a valuable start for those who wish to further the subject.”.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Wunderli, Earl M. An Imperfect Book: What the Book of Mormon Tells Us about Itself. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2013.
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A major theme in the Book of Mormon is the depiction of Native Americans as descendants of ancient Hebrews. Other prominent ideas are the restoration of pure Christianity to an apostate world, the visit of Jesus to the western hemisphere, and recurring cycles of ruin and renewal. All of this raises the question: “Is all of this true?” Wunderli has made an avocation of examining this and related questions by digging deeply into the Book of Mormon and surveying the large body of research generated by scholars of various disciplines. He succinctly summarizes his own findings and this mass of often conflicting information, then adds his own trenchant analysis to the mix. Fascinating reading due to how Wunderli has structured the book as his own personal quest for answers, An Imperfect Book is an accessible but thorough overview of major controversies involving authorship, use of idiom, anachronisms, contrived names, borrowed passages, and prophecies made and fulfilled within the book’s own narrative frame. Wunderli includes a discussion of dozens of curiosities such as the relative absense of polygamists in a culture where one would expect it and sons named after their fathers (Alma junior), which one would not expect among ancient Israelites. Wunderli has examined the arguments and reduced the data to a collection of informative observations and reasoned arguments in an altogether readable work.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon, historicity; Book of Mormon, authorship
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Schwartz, Robert F. “Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, and the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 52, no. 2 (2013): 67-112.
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Game theory has been applied to a number of disciplines, including economics, law, politics, sociology, and Bible studies, but this article is the first serious attempt to apply it to the Book of Mormon narrative. One particularly important model in game theory is known as the Prisoner’s Dilemma, which emphasizes the possibility and benefits of cooperation in the face of conflict. The Book of Mormon account is an almost constant narrative based on conflict, first within the family of Lehi and then between two warring factions that arise from a split in that original Book of Mormon family. These conflicts tend to fit the Prisoner’s Dilemma model extremely well. In a final estimation, the Prisoner’s Dilemma and its application in the Book of Mormon provide another way of looking at the Book of Mormon’s core messages of atonement, redemption, and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Frederick, Nicholas J. “What Has Moroni to Do with John?” Religious Educator Vol. 14 no. 3 (2013).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
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Larsen, David J. “Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown.” BYU Studies Quarterly 52, no. 3 (2013): 191.
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Gardner, Brant A. “A Mesoamerican Context for the Book of Mormon is a Two-edged Sword.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 4, 2013.
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Goff, Alan. “Likening in the Book of Mormon: A Look at Joseph M. Spencer’s An Other Testament: On Typology.” BYU Studies Quarterly 52, no. 4 (2013): 152.
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Wirth, Diane E. “Revisiting the Seven Lineages of the Book of Mormon and the Seven Tribes of Mesoamerica.” BYU Studies Quarterly 52, no. 4 (2013): 77-88.
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The number seven was significant to the pre-Columbian communities of Mesoamerica, as it was in the Book of Mormon. A pan-Mesoamerica legend tells of a core people descended from seven tribes, which may coincide with the seven lineages mentioned three times in the Book of Mormon. While no verifiable evidence ties these two accounts together, a closer look at the Mesoamerican legend is warranted. This article examines numerous depictions of the seven tribes in Mesoamerican art contained in their lienzos (pieces of fabric with historical drawings or maps), illustrated books called codices, and post-Conquest documents that were shown to and translated for Spanish clergy, who made a record of the various accounts.

Keywords: Ancient America; Lehi (Prophet); Mesoamerica; Numerology; Tribes
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Tooley, Edgar. “Job Hunting According to Nephi.” Ensign, February 2013.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Details about Royal Skousen’s Upcoming Lectures on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 7, 2013.
ID = [5657]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-02-07  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 5052  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
Interpreter Foundation. “Kindle Edition of Grant Hardy’s Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition.” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 7, 2013.
ID = [5658]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-02-07  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 192  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
Frischknecht, David L. “Always Pray unto the Father in My Name (3 Nephi 18:19).” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, February 12, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [72629]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2013-02-12  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:10
Anderson, Robert D. “The Conquest of Humiliation: A Psychobiographical Inquiry into the Book of Mormon--Characters and Chronology.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 33, no. 1 (Spring, 2013): 154-169.
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The article outlines how and why the origins of the Book of Mormon once lay within the cerebral neocortex of its author, Joseph Smith, Jr., as it relates to the people and events that were a part of his life. It is said that psychobiography started with Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud’s attempt to analyze Italian scientist and artist Leonardo da Vinci in 1910. The explanation for complex behaviors in the history of Smith is that they were the result of supernatural commandments to him. It is noted that Smith claimed to supernaturally translate ancient Egyptian.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Smith, Joseph, Jr., psychohistory; Smith, Joseph, Jr., family life; Book of Mormon, authorship; Smith, Joseph, Jr., leg operation; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
ID = [82001]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Aston, Warren P. “Arabia’s Hidden Valley: A unique habitat in Dhofar captures Arabia’s past [English].” WildLife Middle East News, vol. 6 no. 4, 2-4 and front cover. Dubai: Wildlife Middle East News, March 2013.
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A brief introduction to the most fertile coastal location in Arabia, Khor Kharfot, highlighting its unusual flora and fauna and the reasons it remains little known even now. In English and Arabic

ID = [66572]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2013-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size: 11897  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:43
Jensen, Robin Scott, Gerrit John Dirkmaat, and Michael Hubbard MacKay. “The ‘Caractors’ Document: New Light on an Early Transcription of the Book of Mormon Characters.” Mormon Historical Studies 14, no. 1 (Spring, 2013): 131-152.
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The article discusses research concerning a document known as the “Caractors” and its relationship to the “Book of Mormon” and the gold plates associated with the “Book of Mormon,” and its significance to the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). It discusses the testimony of possible gold plates witness David Whitmer, the interpretative research of historian George Q. Cannon, and whether the document was the same as the document taken to scholar Charles Anthon from LDS convert Martin Harris.

Keywords: Cannon, George Q.; Anthon, Charles; Harris, Martin; Whitmer, John; Book of Mormon, Anthon transcript; Historical documents, importance of; Smith, Joseph, Jr., writing style
ID = [82035]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Skousen, Royal. “Royal Skousen’s Analysis of 2013 Edition of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 2, 2013.
ID = [4781]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-03-02  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 3324  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:56
Limb, Gordon. “Recognizing and Responding to the Promptings of the Spirit.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, March 5, 2013.
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As we learn to better recognize and respond to the promptings of the Spirit, we will find answers to our prayers and have increased capacity to know how and whether those promptings are from the Holy Ghost.

Keywords: Decision-making; Inspiration; Spirit
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69859]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2013-03-05  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:51
Batty, Greg. “Studying Conference Talks Together.” Ensign, April 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [60104]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2013-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1789  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:36
Dibb, Ann M. “Your Holy Places.” Delivered at the General Young Women Meeting of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2013.
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Whether [your holy places] are geographic or moments in time, they are equally sacred and have incredible strengthening power.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [21937]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2013-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 9091  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:53
Lloyd, R. Scott. “Book of Mormon: Gathering Israel, Preparing for Second Coming.” Ensign, April 2013.
ID = [60131]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2013-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2719  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:36
Aston, Warren P. “Why Arabia’s Hidden Valley is the Best Candidate for Bountiful.” Meridian Magazine, May 28, 2013.
ID = [66547]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-05-28  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Brown, Harold C. “All Things Work Together for Good.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, June 4, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [72644]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2013-06-04  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:11
Interpreter Foundation. “A Scholarly Testimony of the Book of Mormon, June 15-16.” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 7, 2013.
ID = [5693]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-06-07  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 282  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Interpreter Foundation. “New Blog: Ether’s Cave.” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 18, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [5694]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-06-18  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 201  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Interpreter Foundation. “Book of Mormon Onomasticon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 29, 2013.
ID = [5700]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-06-29  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 291  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Gaunt, LaRene Porter. “Walking the Trail of Hope—Together.” Ensign, July 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [60257]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2013-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2258  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:37
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: Preliminary: Nephi as Author.” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 4, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4793]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-07-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 5255  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:57
Halverson, Taylor. “‘O How Great the Goodness of Our God’ 2 Nephi 6-10.” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 5, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [4976]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-07-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 20712  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:12
Butterfield, Rex. “In Gratitude for the Omniscience of God.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, July 16, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
ID = [72651]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2013-07-16  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:11
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 1.” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 18, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4794]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-07-18  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 9928  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:57
Interpreter Foundation. “25 Years of Research: What We Have Learned About the Book of Mormon Text.” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 23, 2013.
ID = [6432]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-07-23  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 529  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:34
Interpreter Foundation. “The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text is now available in e-book format.” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 23, 2013.
ID = [5707]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-07-23  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 684  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 2.” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 27, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4796]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-07-27  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 7500  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:57
Wright, Mark Alan. “Heartland as Hinterland: The Mesoamerican Core and North American Periphery of Book of Mormon Geography.” Paper presented at the 2013 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2013.
ID = [32512]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2013-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 33004  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 3.” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 11, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4797]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-08-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 7028  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:57
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 4.” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 17, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4798]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-08-17  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 9622  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:57
Peterson, Daniel C. “Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Publishes Two Articles Discussing Hebrew and the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 20, 2013.
ID = [5716]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-08-20  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website,peterson  Size: 494  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 5.” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 25, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4799]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-08-25  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 9231  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:57
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 6.” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 1, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4801]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-09-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 5611  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:58
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 7.” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 14, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4802]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-09-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 11313  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:58
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 8.” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 21, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4805]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-09-21  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 11815  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:58
Gardner, Brant A. “Why Should We Be Concerned with Book of Mormon Geography?” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 28, 2013.
ID = [4806]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-09-28  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 8221  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:58
Interpreter Foundation. “Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum Conference Coming Soon!” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 2, 2013.
ID = [5722]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-10-02  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 9.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 5, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4807]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-10-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 8428  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:58
Interpreter Foundation. “Mark Wright to lead a tour of Mesoamerican sites.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 14, 2013.
ID = [5729]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-10-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 200  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 10.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 20, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4810]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-10-20  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 14262  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:58
Smoot, Stephen O. “The Imperative for a Historical Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 20, 2013.
ID = [4811]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-10-20  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 64824  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:58
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Древо познания как завеса храма (Святилища).” Russian translation of “The Tree of Knowledge as the Veil of the Sanctuary” in Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, edited by David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick and Matthew J. Grey. The 42nd Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (26 October, 2013), 49–65. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2013.
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One thing that has always perplexed readers of Genesis is the location of the two special trees within the Garden of Eden. Although scripture initially applies the phrase “in the midst” only to the tree of life (Genesis 2:9), the tree of knowledge is later said by Eve to be located there too (see Genesis 3:3). In the context of these verses, the Hebrew phrase corresponding to “in the midst” literally means “in the center.” How can both trees be in the center?

ID = [6487]  Type = book article  Date = 2013-10-26  Collections:  bom,bradshaw,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 3/27/24 19:22:03
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 11.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 26, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4812]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-10-26  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 19910  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:58
Schaalje, G. Bruce. “A Bayesian Cease-Fire in the Late War on the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 6, 2013.
ID = [4813]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-11-06  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 10386  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:59
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 12.” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 24, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4815]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-11-24  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 9200  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:59
Halverson, Taylor. “‘Remember the New Covenant, Even the Book of Mormon’ D&C 16-23.” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 29, 2013.
ID = [5157]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-11-29  Collections:  bom,d-c,interpreter-website  Size: 13518  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:26
Arnett, Josh. “Could I Share a Book of Mormon?” Ensign, December 2013.
ID = [60400]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2013-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1214  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:38
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 13.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 1, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4817]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-12-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 23311  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:59
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 14.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 8, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4818]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-12-08  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 14387  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:59
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 15.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 15, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4819]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-12-15  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 15871  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:59
Christensen, Roger G. “Ascending Together.” Graduation, Brigham Young University—Idaho, December 20, 2013.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [71977]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2013-12-20  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:06
Interpreter Foundation. “Ancient Temple Themes in the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 28, 2013.
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Gardner, Brant A. “Testing a Methodology: A Malaysian Setting for the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 29, 2013.
ID = [4821]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-12-29  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 34483  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:59
2014
BYU Studies, ed. Enoch and the Temple. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2014.
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This ebook contains three articles from a conference on Enoch and the temple that was cosponsored by BYU Studies in February 2013 at Utah State University and BYU. George Nickelsburg, an eminent biblical scholar, identifies much temple content in the book of 1 Enoch: Enoch’s commissioning and ascension into the heavenly sanctuary. David Larsen discusses ancient sources regarding a community ascending to heaven as a group. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw shows what ties together the stories about Adam, Eve, Enoch, and Noah in the Book of Moses. The answer, unexpectedly, has to do again with temple motifs, all of which culminate with Enoch in Moses 6–7. The original video presentations of these articles are also included. Finally, this ebook contains an article by Stephen D. Ricks discussing the prophetic commission of Enoch, which is a striking example of a “narrative” type of call (see Moses 6:23–36). This study considers the elements of the narrative call pattern; those elements of this form found in the prophetic commission of Enoch are examined and compared with the biblical narrative call passages. Contents “The Temple According to 1 Enoch” George W. E. Nickelsburg “Enoch and the City of Zion: Can an Entire Community Ascend to Heaven?” David J. Larsen “The LDS Story of Enoch as the Culminating Episode of a Temple Text” Jeffrey M. Bradshaw “The Narrative Call Pattern in the Prophetic Commission of Enoch (Moses 6)” Stephen D. Ricks Video Presentations from the conference “Enoch and the Temple”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75278]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,moses,temples  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:37
BYU Studies, ed. LDS Views on the Old Testament and Apocrypha. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2014.
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This compilation of articles exploring topics related to the Old Testament is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on the Hebrew Bible at the end of the first century, the prophetic commission of Enoch, Joseph as a type of Christ, Moses typology in the Book of Mormon, the Book of Enoch, the Ezekiel Mural at Dura Europos, Psalm 22, singular and plural address in the scriptures, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and more. Contents “Sacred Books: The Canon of the Hebrew Bible at the End of the First Century” Robert L. Maxwell “A Prologue to Genesis: Moses 1 in Light of Jewish Traditions” E. Douglas Clark “Behold I” by Kent P. Jackson “The Narrative Call Pattern in the Prophetic Commission of Enoch (Moses 6)” Stephen D. Ricks “Joseph as a Type of Christ in Syriac Literature” Kristian S. Heal “The Israelite Background of Moses Typology in the Book of Mormon” Noel B. Reynolds “Elisha and the Children: The Question of Accepting Prophetic Succession” Fred E. Woods “The Ezekiel Mural at Dura Europos: A Witness of Ancient Jewish Mysteries?” Jeffrey M. Bradshaw “‘Wisdom’ (Philosophy) in the Holy Bible” David H. Yarn Jr. “The Psalm 22:16 Controversy: New Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls” Shon Hopkin “‘My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me’” Shon Hopkin “Temple Worship and a Possible Reference to a Prayer Circle in Psalm 24” Donald W. Parry “‘The Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord’: The Anatomy of an Expression” Dana M. Pike “Singular and Plural Address in the Scriptures” James R. Rasband “A Bibliography of LDS Publications on the Old Testament (1830–2005)”

ID = [75293]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:37
BYU Studies, ed. The Temple. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2014.
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This compilation of articles on the temple doctrines and ordinances is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies and from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. This volume features articles on Nauvoo temple doctrines, the law of adoption, the 1877 commencement of endowments and sealings for the dead, prayer circles, and temple elements in ancient religious communities. Contents “Doctrine and the Temple in Nauvoo” by Larry C. Porter and Milton V. Backman Jr. “The Practice of Rebaptism at Nauvoo” by D. Michael Quinn “The Law of Adoption: One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830–1900” by Gordon Irving “Believing Adoption” by Samuel M. Brown “‘Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept’: Reflections on the 1877 Commencement of the Performance of Endowments and Sealings of the Dead” by Richard E. Bennett “‘Which Is the Wisest Course?’: The Transformation in Mormon Temple Consciousness, 1870–1898” by Richard E. Bennett “Latter-day Saint Prayer Circles” by D. Michael Quinn “Temple Worship and a Possible Reference to a Prayer Circle in Psalm 24” by Donald W. Parry “Clothed Upon: A Unique Aspect of Christian Antiquity” by Blake T. Ostler “Temple Elements in Ancient Religious Communities” by Brent J. Schmidt “Meanings and Functions of Temples” by Hugh W. Nibley “Latter-Day Saint Temple Worship and Activity” by Immo Luschin “Temple Recommend” by Robert A. Tucker “Temple President and Matron” by David H. Yarn Jr. and Marilyn S. Yarn “Administration of Temples” by Robert L. Simpson “Salvation of the Dead” by Elma Fugal “Family History, Genealogy” by David H. Pratt “Temple Ordinances” by Allen Claire Rozsa “Baptism for the Dead: LDS Practice” by H. David Burton “Baptism for the Dead: Ancient Sources” by Krister Stendahl “Washings and Anointings” by Donald W. Parry “Endowment” by Alma P. Burton “Prayer Circle” by George S. Tate “Garments” by Evelyn T. Marshall “Sealing Power” by David H. Yarn Jr. “Temple Sealings” by Paul V. Hyer “Eternal Marriage” by James T. Duke “Patriarchal Order of the Priesthood” by Lynn A. McKinlay “Born in the Covenant” by Ralph L. Cottrell Jr. “Holy of Holies” by Lyle Cahoon “Altar” by Bruce H. Porter “LDS Temple Dedications” by D. Arthur Haycock “Hosanna Shout” by Lael J. Woodbury “Temples through the Ages” by Stephen D. Ricks “History of LDS Temples from 1831 to 1990” by Richard O. Cowan “Kirtland Temple” by Keith W. Perkins “Nauvoo Temple” by Don F. Colvin “Salt Lake Temple” by Marion Duff Hanks “Endowment Houses” by Lamar C. Berrett “Freemasonry and the Temple” by Kenneth W. Godfrey

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [75367]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,church-history,temples  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:42
Ballard, Timothy. The Lincoln Hypothesis: A Modern-Day Abolitionist Investigates the Possible Connection Between Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and Abraham Lincoln. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2014.
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Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth US president during a very dark time in America’s history. Author Timothy Ballard explores the crucial role that President Lincoln played to bring this nation closer to heaven. Readers will see Lincoln as a man inspired of God who invoked a covenant relationship between America and its maker--not unlike the national covenants invoked by righteous leaders in the Book of Mormon. In addition, The Lincoln Hypothesis reveals documented evidence that Abraham Lincoln did, in fact, check out the Book of Mormon as he struggled with making some of the most critical decisions of his presidency. Did he read it? Did it influence him? Was the Book of Mormon a key factor in Lincoln’s success and the healing of a nation? The author states, as you read, you will, like a prosecutor reviewing a case, or like a jury determining a verdict, identify valuable pieces of evidence that can be fully substantiated. You will also identify pieces of evidence that cannot. I ask you to consider all the evidence and weigh it all accordingly. Through this study, many questions regarding the interplay between the restored gospel and the Civil War will be answered. New questions may emerge that will not be so easily answered. Either way, in the end you will find yourself on a most exhilarating investigative journey.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Abolitionism; Book of Mormon; Lincoln, Abraham
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Belnap, Daniel L. “‘And it came to pass…’: The Sociopolitical Events in the Book of Mormon Leading to the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of the Judges.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 no. 1 (2014).
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Benson, RoseAnn, and Shon D. Hopkin. “Finding Doctrine and Meaning in Book of Mormon Isaiah.” Religious Educator Vol. 15 no. 1 (2014).
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
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Berkey, Kimberly M. “Untangling Alma 13:3.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 (2014): 187-191.
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Alma 13:3 is occasionally cited by LDS commentators as evidence for the doctrine of premortal foreordination—an interpretation that unfortunately overlooks a key feature of the organization and terminology of Alma 13. This brief note begins to sort out this and other interpretive complexities by proposing that Alma 13:3b–9 be read as a clarifying expansion of Alma 13:3a.

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Foreordination; Premortal Life
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Bokovoy, David E. “The Word and the Seed: The Theological Use of Biblical Creation in Alma 32.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 (2014): 1-21.
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Alma 32 is a learned text on the topic of faith. The account incorporates creation imagery from the opening chapters of Genesis. Alma’s sermon follows a theological pattern in the Hebrew Bible where creation is used to encourage audiences to exercise faith in the present by considering the primordial past.Alma compares the “word of God” unto a seed, telling his audience that they are to be involved with “planting.” Thus, Alma’s sermon combines the two distinct creation views in the Genesis narratives, for God speaks the divine word in order to create in Genesis 1, and he plants seeds and trees to create his garden paradise in Genesis 2–3. By invoking the miracle of creation in the past into a present context of seed growth and recreation, Alma encourages his readers to fulfill the measure of their own creation by experimenting upon the divine word. Obtaining the type of faith Alma describes is therefore the very purpose of human existence, and it has been from the beginning.

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Creation; Faith; Imagery; Seed; Theology
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Bowen, Matthew L. “Founded Upon a Rock: Doctrinal and Temple Implications of Peter’s Surnaming.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 9 (2014): 1-28.
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Abstract: The famous Petros/petra wordplay in Matthew 16:18 does not constitute Jesus’s identification of Peter as the “rock” upon which his church would be built. This wordplay does however identify him with that “rock” or “bedrock” inasmuch as Peter, a small “seer-stone,” had the potential to become like the Savior himself, “the Rock of ages.” One aspect of that “rock” is the revelation that comes through faith that Jesus is the Christ. Other aspects of that same rock are the other principles and ordinances of the gospel, including temple ordinances. The temple, a symbol of the Savior and his body, is a symbol of the eternal family—the “sure house” built upon a rock. As such, the temple is the perfect embodiment of Peter’s labor in the priesthood, against which hell will not prevail.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘And There Wrestled a Man with Him’ (Genesis 32:24): Enos’s Adaptations of the Onomastic Wordplay of Genesis.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 10 (2014): 151-160.
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Abstract: In this brief note, I will suggest several instances in which the Book of Mormon prophet Enos utilizes wordplay on his own name, the name of his father “Jacob,” the place name “Peniel,” and Jacob’s new name “Israel” in order to connect his experiences to those of his ancestor Jacob in Genesis 32-33, thus infusing them with greater meaning. Familiarity with Jacob and Esau’s conciliatory “embrace” in Genesis 33 is essential to understanding how Enos views the atonement of Christ and the ultimate realization of its blessings in his life.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘What Thank They the Jews’? (2 Nephi 29:4): A Note on the Name ‘Judah’ and Antisemitism.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 12 (2014): 111-125.
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The Hebrew Bible explains the meaning of the personal and tribal name “Judah”—from which the term “Jews” derives—in terms of “praising” or “thanking” (*ydy/ydh). In other words, the “Jews” are those who are to be “praised out of a feeling of gratitude.” This has important implications for the Lord’s words to Nephi regarding Gentile ingratitude and antisemitism: “And what thank they the Jews for the Bible which they receive from them?” (2 Nephi 29:4). Gentile Christian antisemitism, like the concomitant doctrine of supersessionism, can be traced (in part) to widespread misunderstanding and misapplication of Paul’s words regarding Jews and “praise” (Romans 2:28-29). Moreover, the strongest scriptural warnings against antisemitism are to be found in the Book of Mormon, which also offers the reassurance that the Jews are still “mine ancient covenant people” (2 Nephi 29:4-5) and testifies of the Lord’s love and special concern for them.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Bray, Justin R., and Reid L. Neilson, eds. Exploring Book of Mormon Lands: The 1923 Latin American Travel Writings of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
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Described as “the most traveled man in the Church,” Andrew Jenson had been a lifelong globetrotter since his emigration from Denmark to Utah as a young boy in 1866. Although Jenson’s lifelong interest in the whereabouts of ancient Nephite and Lamanite ruins propelled him to visit the remote areas of Latin America, he returned with a powerful impression that the Latter-day gospel should be spread south, beyond the borders of Mexico. Jenson’s letters help readers better understand some of the events and experiences that seemingly led to the twentieth-century reopening of the South American Mission in 1925 by Church leaders. This book covers this important chapter from Jenson’s life and church history, which has rarely been told in over seven decades and is heretofore virtually unknown by most Mormon historians. ISBN 978-0-8425-2851-1

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Articles

Grover, Mark L. “Foreword.” In Exploring Book of Mormon Lands, eds. Justin R. Bray and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
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Brown, Matthew B., Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Stephen D. Ricks, and John S. Thompson, eds. Ancient Temple Worship: Proceedings of the Expound Symposium, 14 May 2011. Temple on Mount Zion 1. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014.
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The first volume in a series by Eborn Books and The Interpreter Foundation. The second title in this series is TEMPLE INSIGHTS. The Interpreter Foundation is a new organization, much like FARMS [The Foundation of Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.] Contributors and Chapters: 1. Cube, Gate and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern, by Matthew B. Brown. 2. The Tabernacle: Mountain of God in the Cultus of Israel, by L. Michael Morales. 3. Standing in the Holy Place: Ancient and Modern Reverberations, by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. 4. Understanding Ritual Hand Gestures of the Ancient World, by David Calabro. 5. The Sacred Embrace and the Sacred Handclasp, by Stephen D. Ricks. 6. Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: What the Psalms Can Tell Us, by David J. Larsen. 7. The Sod of YHWH and the Endowment, by William J. Hamblin. 8. Temples All the Way Down: Notes on the Mi\'raj of Muhammad, by Daniel C. Peterson. 9. The Lady at the Horizon: Egyptian Tree Goddess Iconography, by John S. Thompson. 10. Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica, by Mark Alan Wright. 11. Is Decrypting the Genetic Legacy of America\'s Indigenous Populations Key to the Historicity of the Book of Mormon? by Ugo A. Perego and Jayne E. Ekins.

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Brown, S. Kent. New Testament Commentary: The Testimony of Luke. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2014.
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Enthroned above all creation towers the exalted, glorified Christ. Descending into the darkest recesses of human agony and sin reaches the warm, caring Jesus. These two are the same person. Luke’s testimony introduces us to this man become God—God the Son. He comes into our world already bearing a divine nature, already carrying divine qualities. His birth is a miracle; he is “Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:11). The most distinguishing element of this line-by-line, word-by-word commentary is its use of Latter-­day Saint scriptures—the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Cove­nants, and the Pearl of Great Price—to illuminate Luke’s Gospel. For example, important LDS doctrines arise from Jesus’ activity in the spirit world immediately after his death. More than all other Gospel accounts, Luke captures the compassion and love of the Savior. Such sweet concern manifests itself particularly for the downtrodden and those forced to the margins of society. Within his text, Luke discloses the deep, divine love that runs through his narrative of the Christ. S. Kent Brown combines a lifetime of dedicated study of the ancient world with his reverence for the Bible and insights from restoration scripture to create a readable, relevant, and thought-provoking commentary on the Gospel according to Luke. Beautifully written with a unique sensitivity toward Jesus’ focus on family relationships, the sanctity of the home, and the dangers of materialism, this book invites a fresh view of the Savior’s ministry for a modern world. I am excited to consult it often for both my teaching and research. — Camille Fronk Olson, Chair, Department of Ancient Scripture, BYU Professor Brown’s commentary is an important scholarly achievement. I really cannot say enough about it. On a practical level, this commentary is spiritually enriching and would be a helpful guide for any Christian seeking a closer walk with the one who is the subject of Luke’s testimony. The test of any commentary is how well it makes old words seem young again, and how it illuminates the obscure by drawing overlooked connections while deepening the historical reality from which those words emerge. On that score Professor Brown’s book is a virtuoso performance. — Stephen H. Webb, Catholic Theologian S. Kent Brown is well known among LDS scholars, who have run out of superlatives to describe his work. He has produced the most important LDS commentary on Luke’s Gospel to date. This is his magnum opus, and a reader will be transported to the world of the New Testament to hear Jesus Christ’s voice as he ministered among the people more than two thousand years ago. — Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Professor of Church History, BYU When I have examined the pages of this book, I have come away with the impression of years of work, sensitivity of much thought, and clear writing. This book is a chest filled with glistening historic and spiritual gems. I have come away rewarded. — Richard L. Anderson, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Scripture, BYU While to be appreciated by scholars, The Testimony of Luke is also a useful resource for the lay reader seeking further insights to textual questions. — Emily Christensen, Deseret News

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Carmack, Stanford A. “A Look at Some ‘Nonstandard’ Book of Mormon Grammar.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 11 (2014): 209-262.
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Abstract: Much of the earliest Book of Mormon language which has been regarded as nonstandard through the years is not. Furthermore, when 150 years’ worth of emendations are stripped away,
the grammar presents extensive evidence of its Early Modern English character, independent in many cases from the King James Bible. This paper argues that this character stems from its divine translation.

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Couch, Robert. “Faith and Commodification.” In An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32, edited by Miller, Adam S. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014.
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Cranney, Carl J. “The Deliberate Use of Hebrew Parallelisms in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 (2014): 140-165.
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In his work on poetic parallelisms in the Book of Mormon, Donald W. Parry has demonstrated that that book is replete with Hebrew poetry and parallelisms such as chiasmus. Through analyzing individual texts, this paper seeks to determine whether the patterns Parry points out are deliberately included in the Book of Mormon. Texts selected for the analysis include those that (1) are self-contained with regard to the larger narrative, (2) are explicitly included as embedded documents, and (3) whose authorship is clearly stated or implied; twenty texts totaling 884 verses meet those criteria. After analyzing the percentage of each texts that has parallelisms, it becomes clear that texts created for oral recitation (sermons) have a substantially higher percentage of parallelisms than those created for written circulation (narratives, proclamations, and letters). Since a major purpose of poetic parallelisms is to facilitate memorization for oral delivery, this means we find parallelisms precisely where we would expect them to appear in the Book of Mormon, thus lending credence to the hypothesis that these parallelisms are deliberate and not accidental.

Keywords: Language; Language - Hebrew; Parallelism; Poetic; Poetry
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Dyk, Gerrit van. “The Two Translations of the Korean Book of Mormon.” The Worldwide Church: Mormonism as a Global Religion. The 2014 BYU Church History Symposium.
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Faulconer, James E. The Book of Mormon Made Harder. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2014.
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Latter-day Saint philosopher James E. Faulconer’s Made Harder series raises many more questions than it answers. And that is precisely the point. Faulconer wrote The Book of Mormon Made Harder on the premise that our scripture study is only as good as the questions we bring to the endeavor. While many books about the Book of Mormon provide useful shortcuts, chapter synopses, timelines, and memorizable bullet-points, this book consists almost entirely of challenging questions (with occasional commentary for clarity’s sake) because, in Faulconer’s experience, questions themselves are the key to reflective and deep scripture study. This book is intended to make reading harder—and therefore fresher—by priming your pondering pump with insightful study questions. So much of modern life is geared to finding faster and easier ways to do the same old things. The Made Harder series is proof that making things easier does not always make them better.

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Faulconer, James E. “Desiring to Believe: Wisdom and Political Power.” In An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32, edited by Miller, Adam S. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014.
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Gardner, Brant A. “Literacy and Orality in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 9 (2014): 29-85.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon is a literate product of a literate culture. It references written texts. Nevertheless, behind the obvious literacy, there are clues to a primary orality in Nephite culture. The instances of text creation and most instances of reading texts suggest that documents were written by and for an elite class who were able to read and write. Even among the elite, reading and writing are best seen as a secondary method of communication to be called upon to archive information, to communicate with future readers (who would have been assumed to be elite and therefore able to read), and to communicate when direct oral communication was not possible (letters and the case of Korihor). As we approach the text, we may gain new insights into the art with which it was constructed by examining it as the literate result of a primarily oral culture.

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Gardner, Brant A. “The Book with the Unintentionally Self-Referential Title.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 12 (2014): 1-32.
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Review of Earl M. Wunderli, An Imperfect Book: What the Book of Mormon Tells Us about Itself (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2013), 328pp + Appendices, Maps, and Index.
Earl M. Wunderli has written a book that works through the reasons he fell out of belief in the Book of Mormon. These are combined with issues that he has added to his original reasons. His presentation is clearly intended to suggest that what he found compelling will also be compelling to other readers. Should it? This review looks at how his arguments are constructed: his methodology, the logic of the analysis, and the way he uses his sources. Although he argues that it is the Book of Mormon that is the imperfect book, his construction of the arguments makes that designation ironic.

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Grover, Jerry D., Jr. Geology of the Book of Mormon. Vineyard, UT: n.p., 2014.
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Ever since the publication of the Book of Mormon, attempts have been made to place it in its geographical setting. Various geographical models are being debated. In a book that is the first of its kind, Jerry Grover, a professional civil engineer and geologist, utilizes geologic and geophysical analysis with clues in the Book of Mormon itself to provide an eye-opening placement of the Book of Mormon in its geologic setting. The book includes extensive details and a professional academic technical analysis of volcanoes, fault systems, meteorology, and unlike many approaches that cherry pick conveniently to fit preconceived ideas, the author takes on and explains and documents all Book of Mormon references to geology and meteorology. The author’s approach is meticulous and scientific. This book is a landmark event in Book of Mormon studies and is a book that must be read by every serious student of the Book of Mormon. The author is dedicating all proceeds from the book to additional scientific geologic and engineering studies to cast further light on the ancient setting of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica, Book of Mormon Geography, Earthquake, Geology, Natural Disasters, Volcanic Eruption
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Hales, Brian C. “Dissenters: Portraying the Church as Wrong So They can be Right Without It.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 10 (2014): 77-121.
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Abstract: This essay addresses the reasons many persons have left The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In particular, there are those who publicly assert the Church is not led by inspired leaders so they can feel at peace about their decision to leave it. One common argument used to justify their estrangement is the “Samuel Principle,” which ostensibly would require God to allow his followers on earth to go astray if they chose any level of unrighteousness. Problems with this interpretation are presented including examples from religious history that show that God’s primary pattern has been to call his errant followers to repentance by raising up righteous leaders to guide them. Also explored are the common historical events that dissenters often allege have caused the Church to apostatize. The notion that the Church and the “Priesthood” could be separate entities is examined as well. The observation that Church leaders continue to receive divine communication in order to fulfill numerous prophecies and that a significant number of completely devout Latter-day Saints have always existed within the Church, obviating the need for any dissenting movement, is discussed. In addition, several common scriptural proof-texts employed by some dissenters and their ultimate condition of apostasy are analyzed.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Hardy, Heather. “‘Saving Christianity’: The Nephite Fulfillment of Jesus’s Eschatological Prophecies.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 (2014): 22-55.
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Third Nephi testifies to the fulfillment of Jesus’s eschatological prophecies, even though Mormon, the prophet-historian who records the remarkable events, was unaware of the content of Jesus’s mortal teachings. He nevertheless recognizes Christ’s postresurrection visit as both the fulfillment of Nephite prophecy and the reenactment of particular episodes of their sacred history by incorporating numerous scriptural allusions into his account. Mormon’s independent witness in which he recounts a day of divine judgment, the coming of the Lord, and the inauguration of the kingdom of God within the timeframe Jesus had prescribed validates Jesus’s prophecies in Galilee and Judea. Despite the ironic incongruity between what was expected and how it was fulfilled, Mormon’s narrative confirms the New Testament’s proclamation and thus serves to save the credibility of Christianity that has long been challenged by the problem of the delayed parousia—that is, that Jesus’s prophecies of an imminent theocratic kingdom seem to have failed.

Keywords: Christianity; Eschatology; Jesus Christ; Mormon; Nephite; New Testament; Prophecy; Resurrection; Witness
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Hickman, Jared. “The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse.” American Literature 86, no. 3 (2014): 429-461.
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The Book of Mormon is perhaps best known in Americanist circles as a version of the Indians-as-Israelites theory. It features the racialized division of the progeny of the text’s founding diasporic Jewish figure, Lehi, into wicked “Lamanites,” who are cursed with “a skin of blackness” and were understood by the earliest readers to be the ancestors of Amerindian peoples, and the righteous “Nephites,” the fair-skinned narrators of The Book of Mormon. This essay shows how The Book of Mormon’s foundational raci(al)ist orthodoxy autodeconstructs, and in so doing not only offers a vision of racial apocalypse diametrically opposed to what would come to be known as Manifest Destiny—one resonant with contemporaneous Amerindian prophetic movements—but also challenges the literalist hermeneutics that found warrant for Euro-Christian colonization in the transcendental authority of “the Bible alone.”

Keywords: Lamanite, terminology; Doctrinal history, racial concepts; Book of Mormon; Race relations; Book of Mormon, literary context
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Jenson, Andrew. Exploring Book of Mormon Lands: The 1923 Latin American Travel Writings of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson. Provo, UT; Salt Lake City, UT: The Religious Studies Center, BYU ; Deseret Book Company, 2014.
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Described as “the most traveled man in the Church,” Andrew Jenson was a lifelong globetrotter since his emigration as a young boy from Denmark to Utah in 1866. Jenson’s mounting interest in the whereabouts of ancient Nephite and Lamanite ruins peaked in 1923 when he and his traveling companion, Thomas P. Page, embarked on a four-month exploration to remote areas of Latin America. Jenson returned with a powerful impression that the latter-day gospel should be spread south, beyond the borders of Mexico. His letters help readers better understand events and experiences that seemingly led to the reopening of the South American Mission in 1925. This book covers this important period in both Jenson’s life and Church history, which has rarely been told and is virtually unknown by most Mormon historians.

Keywords: Travelers’ accounts, 21st century; Book of Mormon; Latin America; Jenson, Andrew
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Kramer, Bradley J. “Three-Nephite Lore and Observing the Sacred: Some Observations.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 (2014): 192-196.
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Modern-day encounters with the Three Nephites (described in the Book of Mormon) are commonly referenced in LDS culture. While such accounts could stand as confirmations of Latter-day Saint scripture, they are regularly described as irrelevant to questions of salvation and exaltation and are relegated to the inessential realm of folklore. Closer anthropological analysis of LDS discourse surrounding the Three Nephites—from humor and its role in figuring Mormon sacredness to connections to Mormon narratives of Christ’s resurrection and millennial expectation—suggests that these accounts are richly significant, that things that seem to matter little can convey a great deal about the Mormon experience of the sacred.

Keywords: Folklore; Three Nephites
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Larsen, Val. “Restoration: A Theological Poem in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 10 (2014): 239-256.
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Abstract: The distinctive Mormon conception of God makes possible a logically coherent reconciliation of the facially incompatible laws of justice and mercy. The Book of Mormon prophet Alma clearly explains how these two great laws may be reconciled through the atonement and repentance that the atonement makes possible. Alma artfully illustrates the relationship between justice and mercy in a carefully crafted theological poem.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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McGuire, Benjamin L. “Nephi: A Postmodernist Reading.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 12 (2014): 49-78.
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Authors inevitably make assumptions about their readers as they write. Readers likewise make assumptions about authors and their intentions as they read. Using a postmodern framing, this essay illustrates how a close reading of the text of 1 and 2 Nephi can offer insight into the writing strategies of its author. This reading reveals how Nephi differentiates between his writing as an expression of his own intentions and desires, and the text as the product of divine instruction written for a “purpose I know not.” In order to help his audience understand the text in this context, Nephi as the author interacts with his audience through his rhetorical strategy, pointing towards his own intentions, and offering reading strategies to help them discover God’s purposes in the text.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Miller, Adam S., ed. An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014.
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This book is based on a novel idea: that Mormons do theology. “Doing theology” is different from weighing history, deciding doctrine, or inspiring devotion, though it sometimes overlaps with those things. Theology speculates. It experiments with questions, tests new angles, and pulls loose threads. It reads familiar texts in careful and creative new ways. In this collection of essays, six scholars theologically examine Alma chapter 32 in the Book of Mormon, which contains some of the most insightful verses about faith in the entire Latter-day Saint canon. Not only do these scholars shed new light on Alma 32, they also provide exemplary models for improved scripture study more generally.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Articles

Miller, Adam S. “An Experiment on the Word: Introduction.” In An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32, edited by Miller, Adam S. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014.
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Miller, Adam S. “Summary Report.” In An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32, edited by Miller, Adam S. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014.
ID = [81745]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Miller, Adam S. “You Must Needs Say that the Word is Good.” In An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32, edited by Miller, Adam S. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014.
ID = [81747]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Webb, Jenny. “It Is Well that Ye are Cast Out: Alma 32 and Eden.” In An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32, edited by Miller, Adam S. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81748]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Spencer, Joseph M. “Faith, Hope, and Charity: Alma and Joseph Smith.” In An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32, edited by Miller, Adam S. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81749]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Smith, Julie M. “So Shall My Word Be: Reading Alma 32 through Isaiah 55.” In An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32, edited by Miller, Adam S. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Miller, Adam S. “Bibliography.” In An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32, edited by Miller, Adam S. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014.
ID = [81752]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:38
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 23 Issue 1. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 no. 1 (2014).
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Articles

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Front Matter.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 no. 1 (2014).
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Editor’s Introduction.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 no. 1 (2014).
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Spencer, Joseph M. “Christ and Krishna: The Visions of Arjuna and the Brother of Jared.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 (2014): 56-80.
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A series of striking parallels between the vision of Arjuna recorded in the Bhagavad Gita and the vision of the brother of Jared in the Book of Mormon suggests the need for comparative work to be done on these two volumes of world scripture. This paper works through three interrelated points of contact between the two visions. First, it considers the epic context of each vision, context that provides conditions for the possibility of religious revolution. Second, it looks in detail at the respective religious revolutions produced by the two visions: the Hindu shift toward devotion and the Jaredite shift toward faith. Third, it outlines the theological significance of the principal difference such similarities bring into focus—namely, that between the conceptions of incarnation at work in Hinduism and Mormonism. Where the incarnational logic associated with Arjuna’s vision suggests that embodiment is temporary and instrumental for the divine, the corresponding incarnational logic associated with the brother of Jared’s vision suggests that embodiment is permanent and essential for the divine. The striking parallels between the visions of Arjuna and the brother of Jared thus help to highlight crucial but subtle theological differences between the respective religions associated with those visions.

Keywords: Arjuna; Bhagavad Gita; Brother of Jared; Buddhism; Jesus Christ; Theology; World Religion
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Owen, Paul L. “Theological Apostasy and the Role of Canonical Scripture: A Thematic Analysis of 1 Nephi 13-14.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 no. 1 (2014).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [3311]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 43919  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:38
Park, Benjamin E. “The Book of Mormon and Early America’s Political and Intellectual Tradition.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 (2014): 167-175.
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Review of Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America (2011), by David F. Holland, and American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War (2013), by Eran Shalev.

Keywords: Canon; Continuing Revelation; Old Testament; Politics; Revelation; United States History
ID = [3314]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 19508  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:38
Terry, Roger K. “The Book of Mormon Translation Puzzle.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 (2014): 176-186.
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Review of The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon (2011), by Brant A. Gardner.

Keywords: Early Church History; Translation
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Nicholson, Roger. “The Cowdery Conundrum: Oliver’s Aborted Attempt to Describe Joseph Smith’s First Vision in 1834 and 1835.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 27-44.
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Abstract: In 1834, Oliver Cowdery began publishing a history of the Church in installments in the pages of the Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. The first installment talks of the religious excitement and events that ultimately led to Joseph Smith’s First Vision at age 14. However, in the subsequent installment published two months later, Oliver claims that he made a mistake, correcting Joseph’s age from 14 to 17 and failing to make any direct mention of the First Vision. Oliver instead tells the story of Moroni’s visit, thus making it appear that the religious excitement led to Moroni’s visit.
This curious account has been misunderstood by some to be evidence that the “first” vision that Joseph claimed was actually that of the angel Moroni and that Joseph invented the story of the First Vision of the Father and Son at a later time. However, Joseph wrote an account of his First Vision in 1832 in which he stated that he saw the Lord, and there is substantial evidence that Oliver had this document in his possession at the time that he wrote his history of the Church. This essay demonstrates the correlations between Joseph Smith’s 1832 First Vision account, Oliver’s 1834/1835 account, and Joseph’s 1835 journal entry on the same subject. It is clear that not only did Oliver have Joseph’s history in his possession but that he used Joseph’s 1832 account as a basis for his own account. This essay also shows that Oliver knew of the First Vision and attempted to obliquely refer to the event several times in his second installment before continuing with his narrative of Moroni’s visit.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [4314]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 33150  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:23
Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks, eds. Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2014.
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The distinguished career of Truman G. Madsen has earned him wide respect in and outside of LDS circles as an outstanding teacher, scholar, researcher, speaker, university administrator, church leader, and religious ambassador. With the publication of Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, the Institute pays tribute to this remarkable man whose many accomplishments include helping to advance Book of Mormon scholarship and related interests of the Institute.
Edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks (each of whom also author a chapter), the 800-plus-page volume contains contributions by 31 scholars, 10 of who are not Latter-day Saints, reflecting the wide appeal of Madsen’s academic work and influence. The book is organized into five sections: “Philosophy and Theology,” “LDS Scripture and Theology,” “Joseph Smith and LDS Church History,” “Judaism,” and “The Temple.”

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Symposia and Collections of Essays
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2002

Articles

Ricks, Stephen D. “Ancient Views of Creation and the Doctrine of Creation ex Nihilo.” In Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks, 319—38. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Creation
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Seely, David Rolph. “Genesis 15 in Light of the Restoration.” In Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks, 339—64. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Restoration and Joseph Smith
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Skinner, Andrew C. “Joseph Smith Vindicated Again: Enoch, Moses 7:48, and Apocryphal Sources.” In Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks, 365—82. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Old Testament Topics > Moses
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Tvedtnes, John A. “The Higher and Lesser Laws.” In Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks, 383—406. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Law of Moses
ID = [67063]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:03
Madsen, Ann N. “‘His Hand Is Stretched Out Still’: The Lord’s Eternal Covenant of Mercy.” In Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks, 703—22. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Covenant [see also Ephraim, Israel, Jews, Joseph]
ID = [67064]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:03
2014
Perego, Ugo A., and Jayne E. Ekins. “Is Decrypting the Genetic Legacy of America’s Indigenous Populations Key to the Historicity of the Book of Mormon?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 12 (2014): 237-279.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon claims to be an ancient record containing a summary of a now-disappeared civilization that once lived in the American continent but originated in the Middle East. DNA studies focusing on the ancient migration of world populations support a North-East Asian origin of modern Native American populations arriving through the now-submerged land-bridge that once connected Siberia to Alaska during the last Ice Age, approximately 15,000 years ago. The apparent discrepancy between the Book of Mormon narrative and the published genetic data must be addressed in lieu of generally accepted population genetic principles that are efficient in large-scale population studies, but are somewhat weak and limitative in detecting genetic signals from the introgression of DNA by small groups of outsiders into a large, and well-established population. Therefore, while DNA can definitely provide clues about the ancient history of a people or civilization, it fails to provide conclusive proofs to support or dismiss the Book of Mormon as a true historical narrative.

ID = [4282]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 65290  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:20
Rappleye, Neal. “A Scientist Looks at Book of Mormon Anachronisms.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 10 (2014): 123-131.
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Review of Wade E. Miller, Science and the Book of Mormon: Cureloms, Cumoms, Horses & More (Laguna Niguel, California: KCT & Associates, 2010). 106 pages + viii, including two appendices and references cited, no index.
Abstract: Anachronisms, or out of place items, have long been a subject of controversy with the Book of Mormon. Several Latter-day Saints over the years have attempted to examine them. Dr. Wade E. Miller, as a paleontologist and geologist, offers a some new insights on this old question, especially regarding animals mentioned in the Book of Mormon, including a report on some preliminary research which might completely change the pre-Columbian picture for horses in America. Overall, this is an indispensable resource on Book of Mormon anachronisms.

ID = [4296]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 16590  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:21
Rappleye, Neal. “‘War of Words and Tumult of Opinions’: The Battle for Joseph Smith’s Words in Book of Mormon Geography.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 11 (2014): 37-95.
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Review of John L. Lund. Joseph Smith and the Geography of the Book of Mormon. The Communications Company, 2012. 209 pp. + xviii, including index.In the midst of this war of words and tumult of opinions, I often said to myself: What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong together? If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know it?
–Joseph Smith Jr.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [4286]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64694  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:21
Rappleye, Neal, and Stephen O. Smoot. “Book of Mormon Minimalists and the NHM Inscriptions: A Response to Dan Vogel.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 157-185.
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Abstract: Biblical “minimalists” have sought to undermine or de-emphasize the significance of the Tel Dan inscription attesting to the existence of the “house of David.” Similarly, those who might be called Book of Mormon “minimalists” such as Dan Vogel have marshaled evidence to try to make the nhm inscriptions from south Arabia, corresponding to the Book of Mormon Nahom, seem as irrelevant as possible. We show why the nhm inscriptions still stand as impressive evidence for the historicity of the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4322]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 62142  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:23
Rees, Robert A. “Inattentional Blindness: Seeing and Not Seeing The Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 12 (2014): 33-47.
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Review of Earl M. Wunderli, An Imperfect Book: What the Book of Mormon Tells Us about Itself (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2013), 328pp + Appendices, Maps, and Index.
Earl Wunderli, an attorney who has made a lifelong study of the Book of Mormon, concludes that the book is a product of Joseph Smith’s mind and imagination. In doing so, Wunderli marshals evidence and presents his argument as if he were an attorney defending a client in court. Unfortunately, Wunderli’s case suffers from the same weaknesses and limitations of other naturalist criticism in that it exaggerates Joseph Smith’s intellectual and cultural background and compositional skills while ignoring the Book of Mormon’s deep structure, narrative complexity, and often intricate rhetorical patterns.

ID = [4275]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 27843  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:20
Richards, A. LeGrand. Called to Teach: The Legacy of Karl G. Maeser. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
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Karl G. Maeser has rightfully been called the spiritual architect not only of Brigham Young University but also of the Church Educational System. As the first superintendent of Church Schools, he helped found and maintain over fifty academies and schools from Canada to Mexico. He helped develop the public education system in Utah and helped establish the Utah Teachers Association. The students he taught personally included future United States senators and members of the House of Representatives, a United States Supreme Court justice, university presidents, and many General Authorities. He translated twenty-nine hymns and about a third of the Doctrine and Covenants into German and founded Der Stern, the Church’s German magazine (now called the Liahona). Based on extensive research, Called to Teach describes the life of this remarkable man and outlines the impact of his legacy. ISBN 978-0-8425-2742-9

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Chapters

Richards, A. LeGrand. “Preface.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
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Richards, A. LeGrand. “Introduction.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34814]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 32382  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Karl’s Schooling.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
ID = [34815]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 60307  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Pestalozzi, Revolution, and Reaktion.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34816]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 64674  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “The Preparation of Karl’s Missionaries.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
ID = [34817]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 52515  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Adopted into the Kingdom of God.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
ID = [34818]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 30022  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “From Dresden to London, 1855–57.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
ID = [34819]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 66632  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “From Philadelphia to Salt Lake, 1857–60.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
ID = [34820]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 80067  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Teacher in Salt Lake, 1860–67.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34821]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 42710  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Maeser and Nineteenth-Century Educational Theory.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [34822]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 46347  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Mission to the Fatherland, 1867–70.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34823]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 78721  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Intellectual Rebellion at Home, 1869–72.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34824]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 40817  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Brigham Young versus Free Schools: A Battle for the Minds of the Young, 1870–75.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
ID = [34825]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  brigham,rsc-books  Size: 70966  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Beginnings of Brigham Young Academy 1876–84.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34826]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  brigham,rsc-books  Size: 55856  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “The Master Teacher.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > G — K > Honesty
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [34827]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 73988  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Maeser the Man.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
ID = [34828]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 53991  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Expanding the System like a Banyan Tree.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34829]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 72844  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Statehood in a Decade of Compromise.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34830]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 80681  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Maeser and Cluff: Competing Paradigms?” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
ID = [34831]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 40536  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Index.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
ID = [34832]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “School and Fireside: Maeser’s Legacy.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [34833]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 64251  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Ricks, Stephen D. “A Nickname and a Slam Dunk: Notes on the Book of Mormon Names Zeezrom and Jershon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 191-194.
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Even in the Bible, nicknames and dysphemisms—expressions whose connotations may be offensive to the hearer—are not rare and were equally so in other parts of the ancient and early medieval world. In 1 Samuel the ungenerous husband of Abigail rudely refused hospitality to the men of David, greatly angering them. David and his men were so incensed at his offense against the laws of hospitality that they intended to punish him for his boorish behavior before they were dissuaded from their plan by Abigail (1 Samuel 25:1-35). Shortly thereafter the husband died suddenly and mysteriously (1 Samuel 25:36-37). To all subsequent history his name was given as “Nabal,” which means either “churl” or “fool,” a rather harsh nickname that might also shade off to a dysphemism.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [4324]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 6768  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:23
Skousen, Royal. “A Brief History of Critical Text Work on the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 233-248.
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I begin this brief historical account of alternative work on the critical text of the Book of Mormon by including material that I wrote in an original, longer review of John S. Dinger’s Significant Textual Changes in the Book of Mormon (Smith-Pettit Foundation: Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013). The final, shorter review appears in BYU Studies 53:1 (2014). The Interpreter recently published Robert F. Smith’s review of Dinger. In these additional comments, I especially concentrate on work done in the 1970s by Stan Larson on the text of the Book of Mormon. In the latter part of this account, I discuss the more recent work of Shirley Heater in producing The Book of Mormon: Restored Covenant Edition.

ID = [4327]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 27952  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:23
Skousen, Royal. “Another Account of Mary Whitmer’s Viewing of the Golden Plates.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 10 (2014): 35-44.
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Carl T. Cox has graciously provided me with a new account of Moroni showing the Book of Mormon plates to Mary Whitmer (1778-1856), wife of Peter Whitmer Senior. Mary was the mother of five sons who were witnesses to the golden plates: David Whitmer, one of the three witnesses; and Christian Whitmer, Jacob Whitmer, John Whitmer, and Peter Whitmer Junior, four of the eight witnesses.
For a long time we have known that Mary Whitmer was also shown the plates. These accounts are familiar and derive from David Whitmer and John C. Whitmer (the son of John Whitmer). For comparison’s sake, I provide here two versions of their accounts (in each case, I have added some paragraphing).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [4293]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 13283  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:21
Skousen, Royal. “Changes in The Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 11 (2014): 161-176.
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Author’s preface: I originally gave this presentation in August 2002 at the LDS FAIR conference held in Orem, Utah. A transcript of this paper, based on the 2002 version, appears online at www.fairmormon.org. Since then I have published updated versions of the first half of that original presentation. The most recent history of the Book of Mormon critical text project can be found in my article “The Original Text of the Book of Mormon and its Publication by Yale University Press”, published in 2013 in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, volume 7, pages 57-96. Until now, I have not published a printed version of the second half of my original presentation, “Changes in the Book of Mormon”.
Abstract: In that part of the original article (here presented with some minor editing), I first describe the different kinds of changes that have occurred in the Book of Mormon text over the years and provide a fairly accurate number for how many places the text shows textual variation. Then I turn to five changes in the text (“the five chestnuts”) that critics of the Book of Mormon continually refer to. At the conclusion of the original article, I provide some specific numbers for the different types of changes in the history of the Book of Mormon text, including the number of changes introduced in The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text, the definitive scholarly edition of the Book of Mormon, published in 2009 by Yale University Press.

ID = [4288]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 27911  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:21
Skousen, Royal. “Volume 4 of the Critical Text of the Book of Mormon: Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon.” Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004-2009.
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The version available here online at Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a reproduction of the printed version of ATV, published in 2004–2009 by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, now a part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. No textual adjustments to the printed version have been made. ATV appears in six books and gives a complete analysis of all the important cases of textual variation (or potential variation) in the history of the Book of Mormon. It starts out with the title page of the Book of Mormon and the two witness statements, then turns to 1 Nephi and continues through the Book of Mormon to the end of Moroni.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [6741]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 8  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36

Books

Skousen, Royal. About this Online Edition of Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2014.
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The version available here online at Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a reproduction of the printed version of ATV, published in 2004–2009 by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, now a part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. No textual adjustments to the printed version have been made. ATV appears in six books and gives a complete analysis of all the important cases of textual variation (or potential variation) in the history of the Book of Mormon. It starts out with the title page of the Book of Mormon and the two witness statements, then turns to 1 Nephi and continues through the Book of Mormon to the end of Moroni.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [6742]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Skousen, Royal. Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon Part One: 1 Nephi 1 – 2 Nephi 10. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
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The version available here online at Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a reproduction of the printed version of ATV, published in 2004–2009 by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, now a part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. No textual adjustments to the printed version have been made. ATV appears in six books and gives a complete analysis of all the important cases of textual variation (or potential variation) in the history of the Book of Mormon. It starts out with the title page of the Book of Mormon and the two witness statements, then turns to 1 Nephi and continues through the Book of Mormon to the end of Moroni.

Keywords: 1 Nephi; 2 Nephi; Critical Text; Grammar; Joseph; Jr.; Smith; Structure; Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [6743]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Skousen, Royal. Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon Part Two: 2 Nephi 11 – Mosiah 16. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2005.
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The version available here online at Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a reproduction of the printed version of ATV, published in 2004–2009 by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, now a part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. No textual adjustments to the printed version have been made. ATV appears in six books and gives a complete analysis of all the important cases of textual variation (or potential variation) in the history of the Book of Mormon. It starts out with the title page of the Book of Mormon and the two witness statements, then turns to 1 Nephi and continues through the Book of Mormon to the end of Moroni.

Keywords: 2 Nephi; Critical Text; Enos; Grammar; Jacob; Jarom; Joseph; Jr.; Mosiah; Omni; Smith; Structure; Translation; Words of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [6744]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Skousen, Royal. Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon Part Three: Mosiah 17 – Alma 20. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2006.
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The version available here online at Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a reproduction of the printed version of ATV, published in 2004–2009 by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, now a part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. No textual adjustments to the printed version have been made. ATV appears in six books and gives a complete analysis of all the important cases of textual variation (or potential variation) in the history of the Book of Mormon. It starts out with the title page of the Book of Mormon and the two witness statements, then turns to 1 Nephi and continues through the Book of Mormon to the end of Moroni.

Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Critical Text; Grammar; Joseph; Jr.; Smith; Textual Variants
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [6745]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Skousen, Royal. Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon Part Four: Alma 21–55. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2007.
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The version available here online at Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a reproduction of the printed version of ATV, published in 2004–2009 by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, now a part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. No textual adjustments to the printed version have been made.

Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Critical Text; Grammar; Joseph; Jr.; Smith; Textual Variants
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6746]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Skousen, Royal. Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon Part Five: Alma 56 – 3 Nephi 18. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2008.
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The version available here online at Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a reproduction of the printed version of ATV, published in 2004–2009 by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, now a part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. No textual adjustments to the printed version have been made.

Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Critical Text; Grammar; Joseph; Jr.; Smith; Textual Variants
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6747]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Skousen, Royal. Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon Part Six: 3 Nephi 19 – Moroni 10. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2009.
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The version available here online at Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a reproduction of the printed version of ATV, published in 2004–2009 by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, now a part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. No textual adjustments to the printed version have been made. ATV appears in six books and gives a complete analysis of all the important cases of textual variation (or potential variation) in the history of the Book of Mormon. It starts out with the title page of the Book of Mormon and the two witness statements, then turns to 1 Nephi and continues through the Book of Mormon to the end of Moroni.

Keywords: 3 Nephi; 4 Nephi; Critical Text; Ether; Grammar; Joseph; Jr.; Mormon; Moroni; Smith; Structure; Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [6748]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Skousen, Royal. Reference Card for Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2014.
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The version available here online at Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a reproduction of the printed version of ATV, published in 2004–2009 by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, now a part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. No textual adjustments to the printed version have been made. ATV appears in six books and gives a complete analysis of all the important cases of textual variation (or potential variation) in the history of the Book of Mormon. It starts out with the title page of the Book of Mormon and the two witness statements, then turns to 1 Nephi and continues through the Book of Mormon to the end of Moroni.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [6749]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Skousen, Royal. “Significant Textual Changes in the Book of Mormon: The First Printed Edition Compared to the Manuscripts and to the Subsequent Major LDS English Printed Editions.” BYU Studies Quarterly 53, no. 1 (2014): 196.
ID = [10918]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 40540  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:01
Smith, Gregory L. “Cracking the Book of Mormon’s ‘Secret Combinations’?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 13 (2014): 63-109.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon has been explained by some as a product of Joseph Smith’s 19th century environment. Advocates of this thesis have argued that the phrase secret combinations is a reference to Freemasonry, and reflects Joseph’s preoccupation with this fraternity during the Book of Mormon’s composition in 1828–29. It is claimed that this phrase is rarely, if ever, used in a non-Masonic context during 1828–29, and that a type of “semantic narrowing” occurred which restricted the term to Freemasonry. Past studies have found a few counter-examples, which are reviewed, but none from during the precise years of interest. This study describes many newly-identified counterexamples, including: anti-Masonic authors who use the term to refer to non-Masonic groups, books translated in the United States, legislature bills, grand jury instructions, and works which so characterize slave rebellions, various historical groups and movements, Biblical figures, and religious groups. These examples are found before, during, and after the critical 1828–29 period. Examples from 1832 onward likewise demonstrate that no semantic shift occurred which restricted secret combination to Masonry. This element of the environmental hypothesis has now been robustly disproven.

ID = [4268]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64677  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:19
Smith, Robert F. “‘If There Be Faults, They Be Faults of a Man’” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 195-203.
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Review of John S. Dinger, ed., Significant Textual Changes in the Book of Mormon: The First Printed Edition Compared to the Manuscripts and to the Subsequent Major LDS English Printed Editions (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation/Signature Books, 2013); with foreword by Stan Larson; 418pp+ xxxvi; hardbound edition limited to 501 copies; ISBN 978-1-56085-233-9.

ID = [4325]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 15123  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:23
Smoot, Stephen O. “The Divine Council in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 12, no. 2 (January, 2014): 1-18.
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Keywords: divine council; Book of Mormon; Old Testament
ID = [82052]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:55
Spencer, Joseph M. “The Time of Sin.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 9 (2014): 87-110.
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Abstract: This essay provides a close theological reading of Helaman 13, the first part of the sermon of Samuel the Lamanite. Beginning from the insight that the chapter focuses intensely on time, it develops a theological case for how sin has its own temporality. Sin opens up a disastrous future, deliberately misremembers the past, and complicates the constitution of the present as the past of the future.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [4306]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 45919  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:22
Spendlove, Loren Blake. “Limhi’s Discourse: Proximity and Distance in Teaching.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 1-6.
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Abstract: The author introduces a syntactic technique known as “enallage”—an intentional substitution of one grammatical form for another. This technique can be used to create distance or proximity between the speaker, the audience, and the message. The author demonstrates how king Limhi skillfully used this technique to teach his people the consequences of sin and the power of deliverance through repentance.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
ID = [4311]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 8238  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:22
Spendlove, Loren Blake. “Understanding Nephi with the Help of Noah Webster.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 11 (2014): 97-159.
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Abstract: Dictionaries, especially Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language, can be useful and informative resources to help us better understand the language of the Book of Mormon. This article compares definitions of words and phrases found in the book of 1 Nephi, using Webster’s 1828 dictionary and the New Oxford American Dictionary as references. By comparing these two dictionaries, we can see how word usage and meanings have changed since the original publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830. We can also gain a greater appreciation of the text of the Book of Mormon in a way that its first readers probably understood it.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4287]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64968  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:21
Steinberg, Avi. The Lost Book of Mormon: A Quest for the Book That Just Might Be the Great American Novel. New York, New York: Doubleday, 2014.
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“Is The Book of Mormon a Great American Novel? Avi Steinberg thinks so. In this quirky travelogue—part fan nonfiction, part personal quest—he follows the trail laid out in Joseph Smith’s book. From Jerusalem to the ruined Mayan cities of Central America to upstate New York and, finally, to Jackson County, Missouri—the spot Smith identified as the site of the Garden of Eden—Steinberg traces The Book’s unexpected path and grapples with Joseph Smith’s demons—and his own. Literate and funny, personal and provocative, the genre-bending The Lost Book of Mormon boldly explores our deeply human impulse to write books, and affirms the abiding power of story.” [Publisher]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual parallels; Book of Mormon geography, South America; Book of Mormon, narrative criticism; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, American setting; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81527]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:25
Steinberg, Avi. The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2014.
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“Today the Book of Mormon, one of the most widely circulating works of American literature, continues to cause controversy -- which is why most of us know very little about the story it tells. Avi Steinberg wants to change that. A fascinated nonbeliever, Steinberg spent a year and a half on a personal quest, traveling the path laid out by Joseph’s epic. Threaded through this quirky travelogue is an argument for taking The Book of Mormon seriously as a work of American imagination. Literate and funny, personal and provocative, the genre-bending The Lost Book of Mormon boldly explores our deeply human impulse to write bibles and discovers the abiding power of story.” [Publisher]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon, use and influence; Book of Mormon, authorship; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81528]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:25
Top, Brent L., and Michael A. Goodman, eds. By Divine Design. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
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The prophets of God continually raise their warning voices and lovingly give counsel to strengthen our families and heighten the spirituality of our children. This is a gospel-centered “best practices” book for husbands and wives, fathers and mothers that is founded on prophetic teachings and substantiated by good science. This book will help readers gain new and important insights about our most important responsibilities in time and eternity—our families. By bringing together the “words of wisdom” from both religious sources and from the discoveries of solid research, families can be better equipped in their pursuit of success and happiness. ISBN 978-0-8425-2850-4

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [33250]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 12  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:30:54

Articles

Hill, E. Jeffrey. “Finding Life Harmony as We Struggle to Juggle.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > G — K > Happiness
ID = [34834]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 35261  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Goodman, Michael A. “The Influence of Faith on Marital Commitment.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
ID = [34835]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 52567  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Ogletree, Mark D. “Healing the Time-Starved Marriage.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Dating
RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
ID = [34836]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 74395  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
McClendon, Richard J., and Debra Theobald McClendon. “Commitment to the Covenant: LDS Marriage and Divorce.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sealing
ID = [34837]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 41547  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Newell, Lloyd D., Julie H. Haupt, and Craig H. Hart. “Rearing Children in Love and Righteousness: Latitude, Limits, & Love.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
ID = [34838]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 83277  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Erickson, Jenet Jacob. “Motherhood: Restoring Clarity and Vision in a World of Confusing Messages.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34839]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 52966  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Hill, E. Jeffrey, and David C. Dollahite. “Faithful Fathering.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > D — F > The Family: A Proclamation to the World
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
RSC Topics > Q — S > Stewardship
ID = [34840]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 45972  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Top, Brent L., and Bruce A. Chadwick. “A House of Faith: How Family Religiosity Strengthens Our Children.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
ID = [34841]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 54361  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Padilla-Walker, Laura M. “Helping Children Put On the Whole Armor of God: A Proactive Approach to Parenting Teenagers.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
ID = [34842]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 48498  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Reber, Jeffrey S., and Steven P. Moody. “Perils and Prospects of Parenting LDS Youth in an Increasingly Narcissistic Culture.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Happiness
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
ID = [34843]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 61080  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:07
Nelson, Larry J. “Emerging Adulthood: A Time to Prepare for One’s ‘Ministries’ in Life.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Dating
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
ID = [34844]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 57141  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:07
Nelson, Larry J., and Laura M. Padilla-Walker. “Parenting Lasts More Than 18 Years: Parenting Principles and Practices for Emerging-Adult Children.” In By Divine Design, eds. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
ID = [34845]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 49870  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:07
Tvedtnes, John A. “When Was Christ Born?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 10 (2014): 1-33.
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Abstract: Many people still believe that Jesus Christ was born on 25 December, either in 1 bc or ad 1. The December date is certainly incorrect and the year is unlikely.Lift up your head and be of good cheer; for behold, the time is at hand, and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world, to show unto the world that I will fulfil all that which I have caused to be spoken by the mouth of my holy prophets. Behold, I come unto my own, to fulfil all things which I have made known unto the children of men from the foundation of the world, and to do the will, both of the Father and of the Son—of the Father because of me, and of the Son because of my flesh. And behold, the time is at hand, and this night shall the sign be given. (3 Nephi 1:13–14).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [4292]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64815  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:21
Wright, Mark Alan. “Axes Mundi: Ritual Complexes in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 12 (2014): 79-96.
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Places are made sacred through manifestations of the divine or ritual activity. The occurrence of a theophany or hierophany or the performance of particular rituals can conceptually transform a place into an axis mundi, or the center of the world. A variety of such axes mundi are known from the archaeological record of Mesoamerica and the text of the Book of Mormon. I compare and contrast several distinctive types of such ritual complexes from Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon and argue that they served functionally and ideologically similar purposes.

ID = [4277]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 31291  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:20
Zinner, Samuel. “‘Zion’ and ‘Jerusalem’ as Lady Wisdom in Moses 7 and Nephi’s Tree of Life Vision: Reverberations of Enoch and Asherah in Nineteenth Century America.” In Textual and Comparative Explorations in 1 & 2 Enoch, edited by Samuel Zinner. Ancient Scripture and Texts 1, 239–273. Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
ID = [2669]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:01
Zinner, Samuel. “‘Zion’ and ‘Jerusalem’ as Lady Wisdom in Moses 7 and Nephi’s Tree of Life Vision.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 12 (2014): 281-323.
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Editor’s Note: This article is drawn from a chapter in Samuel Zinner’s new book entitled Textual and Comparative Explorations in 1 and 2 Enoch (Provo, UT: The Interpreter Foundation/Eborn Books, 2014). The book is now available online for purchase (e.g., Amazon, FairMormon Bookstore) and will be available in selected bookstores in October 2014. The other new temple books from Interpreter are also now available for purchase. Click here for more details.
The essay traces lines of continuity between ancient middle eastern traditions of Asherah in her various later Jewish, Christian, and Mormon forms. Especially relevant in Jewish texts are Lady Wisdom (Proverbs 8; Sirach 24; Baruch 3-4), Daughter of Zion (Lamentations; Isaiah); Lady Zion and Mother Jerusalem (4 Ezra), Binah in kabbalah etc. The divine feminine in the Jewish-Christian texts Odes of Solomon 19 and Shepherd of Hermas is examined, as well as in Pauline Christian texts, namely, the Letter to the Galatians and the writings of Irenaeus (Against Heresies and Apostolic Preaching). Dependence of Hermas on the Parables of Enoch is documented. The essay identifies parallels between some of the above ancient sources and traditions about Zion and other forms of the feminine divine in 19th century America, specifically in the Mormon scriptures (Moses 7 and Nephi 11). While recognizing the corporate nature of the Enochic city of Zion in Moses 7, the essay argues that this Zion also parallels the hypostatic Lady Zion of Jewish canonical and extracanonical scriptures, especially 4 Ezra. The essay also points how the indigenous trope of Mother Earth parallels forms of the divine feminine stretching from the ancient middle eastern Asherah, the Jewish Lady Wisdom and Shekhinah, the Christian Holy Spirit, to the Mormon Enochic Zion.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
ID = [4283]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 64317  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:20
Frederick, Nicholas J. “Mosiah 3 as an Apocalyptic Text.” Religious Educator Vol. 15 no. 2 (2014).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [38153]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2014-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 60095  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:19
Neilson, Reid L. “A Mormon and a Buddhist Debate Plural Marriage: The Letters of Elder Alma O. Taylor and the Reverend Nishijima Kakuryo, 1901.” BYU Studies Quarterly 53, no. 2 (2014): 94.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [10894]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 50953  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:01
Spencer, Joseph M. “What Can We Do? Reflections on 2 Nephi 25:23.” Religious Educator Vol. 15 no. 2 (2014).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [38152]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2014-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 39989  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:19
Volluz, Corbin T. “A Study in Seven: Hebrew Numerology in the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 53, no. 2 (2014): 57.
ID = [10890]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 67490  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:01
Jensen, Robin Scott. “David Hale’s Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 53, no. 3 (2014): 77.
ID = [10875]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-03  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 51571  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:00
Moran, OraLyn. “Moroni and Pahoran.” Religious Educator Vol. 15 no. 3 (2014).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [38149]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2014-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 27972  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:18
Rappleye, Neal. “Nephi the Good: A Commentary on 1 Nephi 1:1–3.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 3, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4822]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-01-03  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 52402  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:59
Webb, Chad H. “An Invitation to Study the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 15 no. 3 (2014).
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [38646]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2014-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 16922  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:47
Hopkin, Shon D. “The Children of Lehi and the Jews of Sepharad.” BYU Studies Quarterly 53, no. 4 (2014): 147.
ID = [10865]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 32796  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:00
Interpreter Foundation. “Book of Mormon Theology in Its Secular Context.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 5, 2014.
ID = [4823]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-01-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 17563  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:59
Rappleye, Neal. “Creating a List of ‘Standard Works’ on Book of Mormon Authenticity.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 5, 2014.
ID = [4824]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-01-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 40332  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:59
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 16.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 12, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4827]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-01-12  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 17780  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:00
Gardner, Brant A. “Another Suggestion for Reading 1 Nephi 1: 1-3.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 18, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4828]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-01-18  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 7951  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:00
Rappleye, Neal. “Models and Methods in Book of Mormon Geography: The Peruvian Model as a Test-Case.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 28, 2014.
ID = [4829]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-01-28  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 42696  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:00
Belnap, Daniel L. “The Book of Mormon and Modern Moral Relativism.” Ensign, February 2014.
ID = [60463]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2014-02-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 9154  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:38
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 17.” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 15, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4830]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-02-15  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 23829  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:00
Oman, Richard G. “The Tree of Life in LDS International Art.” University Forum, Brigham Young University—Idaho, February 20, 2014.
ID = [72686]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2014-02-20  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:11
Mohler, R. Albert. “Strengthen the Things That Remain.” Forum, Brigham Young University, February 25, 2014.
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Members of different faiths need to work together to affirm religious liberty, necessary in preserving human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing.

Keywords: Christianity; Divine Nature; Religion; Religious Freedom
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69905]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2014-02-25  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:51
Perry, Lee Tom. “Making a Positive and Lasting Difference Together.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Hawaii, February 25, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [71064]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2014-02-26  Collections:  bom,byuh-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:59
Ford, Clyde D. “The Book of Mormon, the Early Nineteenth-Century Debates over Universalism, and the Development of the Novel Mormon Doctrines of Ultimate Rewards and Punishments.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 47, no. 1 (Spring, 2014): 1-23.
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Ford reviews the spectrum of early nineteenth-century American Universalism at the time of the publishing of the Book of Mormon, the responses of some contemporary Christian theologians who opposed Universalism, the early Mormon positions in these disputes as contained in the Book of Mormon, and some contributions of Joseph Smith’s subsequent revelations. He argues that the Book of Mormon refutes “modern” Universalism; the Book of Mormon’s treatment of the restorationist doctrines of salvation is ambiguous; and reflections and discussions between Joseph Smith and other early Church members over the issues disputed between Universalists and their opponents resulted in several revelations that progressively defined an official Mormon interpretation of the Book of Mormon and resulted in a novel and complex schema of human salvation that incorporates theological elements of both traditional Protestant Christianity and restorationism.

Keywords: Doctrinal history, restoration; Smith, Joseph, Jr., revelations; Comparative religion, universalism; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
ID = [82004]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Johnson, Benjamin A., Sang Hyun Kim, and Bryan R. Warnick. “Hospitality in the Book of Mormon.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 47, no. 1 (Spring, 2014): 24-47.
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The article discusses hospitality in religious texts, focusing on the importance of hospitality in the Book of Mormon. Other topics include instances of hospitality in the Old Testament, examples of hospitality in stories from the Book of Mormon including Nephi and Zoram, Alma and Amulek, and Ammon and Aaron, and hospitality in the Book of Mormon homiliaries.

Keywords: Bible, use and influence; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Doctrinal history, hospitality
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [82003]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Palmer, Grant H. “Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd, Cumorah, and Moroni.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 34, no. 1 (Spring, 2014): 50-57.
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This article discusses the influence of Captain Kidd stories on Joseph Smith, suggesting that he searched for treasure often around the hill Cumorah, as well as a possible connection between Cumorah and the Comoro Islands.

Keywords: Historic sites, New York, Hill Cumorah; Smith, Joseph, Jr., occult, treasure seeking; Occult, treasure seeking
ID = [82002]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-03-01  Collections:  bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 12, ‘Fruitful in the Land of My Affliction’” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 8, 2014.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [6265]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-03-08  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website,old-test  Size: 875  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Aston, Warren P. “‘An Insistent Impression’” Meridian Magazine, March 30, 2014.
ID = [66544]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-03-30  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Eyring, Henry B. “A Priceless Heritage of Hope.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2014.
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When you choose whether to make or keep a covenant with God, you choose whether you will leave an inheritance of hope to those who might follow your example.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [22084]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2014-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 14525  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Aston, Warren P. “Finding the First Verifiable Book of Mormon Site.” Meridian Magazine, April 4, 2014.
ID = [66543]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-04-04  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Aston, Warren P. “Beginnings: The Discovery of Nephi’s Bountiful.” Meridian Magazine, April 11, 2014.
ID = [66542]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-04-11  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Heimerdinger, Chris. “The Book of Mormon: A Brilliant Mess.” The Interpreter Foundation website. April 12, 2014.
ID = [4831]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-04-12  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 32558  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:00
Townsend, Colby J. “The King James Bible in the Book of Moses, Part 1.” Rational Faiths. April, 12, 2014.
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With the recent publication of David Bokovoy’s Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis-Deuteronomy, many have wondered to what extent the Bible has had influence on the Book of Moses. The discussion has mainly revolved around the parts of the text that are obvious revisions of the Genesis creation chapters (Genesis 1, 2-3) that originate from different Israelite sources written centuries after the time of Moses. In response to and in order to make a contribution toward further understanding this topic I will look closely at the full text of the Book of Moses in the original manuscripts (as presented in BYU’s RSC publications) and locate the places of intertextuality. I will present the Book of Moses on a chapter by chapter basis until I arrive at the end, and after this is complete I will offer some thoughts on to what extent the KJV influenced the composition of the Book of Moses. This will take time for each of these posts to come out, and I hope that in the meantime others will utilize the work here to discuss the topic. My approach in these posts is based on my much larger project of locating textual dependence throughout the Book of Mormon on the King James Bible, a manuscript that will be published by Greg Kofford Books.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses
ID = [2671]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-04-12  Collections:  bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:01
Aston, Warren P. “The Discovery of Nephi’s Bountiful, Part 2.” Meridian Magazine, April 17, 2014.
ID = [66541]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-04-17  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Miller, Wade E. “Animals in the Book of Mormon: Challenges and Perspectives.” The Interpreter Foundation website. April 21, 2014.
ID = [4832]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-04-21  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 64889  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:00
Aston, Warren P. “Was Nephi’s Bountiful Populated? Does It Matter?” Meridian Magazine, April 24, 2014.
ID = [66539]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-04-24  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Aston, Warren P. “Timber for Nephi’s Ship.” Meridian Magazine, May 6, 2014.
ID = [66538]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-05-06  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:41
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 18.” The Interpreter Foundation website. May 17, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4833]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-05-17  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 13771  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:00
Gardner, Brant A. “Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 19:1-21.” The Interpreter Foundation website. May 24, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4834]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-05-24  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 15925  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:00
Lane, Keith H. “The Path We Walk Together.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Hawaii, May 27, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [71161]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2014-05-28  Collections:  bom,byuh-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:00
Fallon, Jennifer Grace. “That We May Rejoice Together.” Ensign, June 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [60617]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2014-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 9040  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:39
Baugh, Alexander L. “Joseph Smith: Seer, Translator, Revelator, and Prophet.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, June 24, 2014.
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When discussing Joseph Smith’s role as a translator, many only associate the Prophet with his role in the translation of the Book of Mormon. However, he successfully translated at least three additional ancient texts.

Keywords: Joseph Smith; Collection: Joseph Smith the Prophet; Podcast: Joseph Smith
ID = [69920]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2014-06-24  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:51
Aston, Warren P. “The Origins of the Nihm tribe of Yemen: A Window into Arabia’s Past.” Journal of Arabian Studies, vol. 4 issue 1, 134-48. University of Exeter: Centre for Gulf Studies, June 2014.
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Abstract: The 1999 excavation of the Barʾan complex at Maʾrib in Yemen yielded identical Sabaean inscriptions on three votive altars. These dedication texts list the donor’s grandfather as a member of the Nihm tribe, definitively establishing the presence of the tribal name to c.2,800 years ago. The name, rare in southern Arabia, can then be traced through a variety of other inscriptional, topographical and historical sources down to the present-day tribe and its lands. While the consonants NHM refer to ‘dressing stone by chipping’, and may appear in a variety of contexts, an etymological examination of its Semitic roots yields interesting pointers to the possible origins of the name. Multiple links in these roots to terminology such as ‘consoling’, ‘comforting’ and ‘complaining’ have led to the name being long associated with death and the processes of mourning. This paper, therefore, suggests the possibility of the name being specifically associated with a place of burial, perhaps a connection in the distant past to the extensive, still poorly understood, desert necropolis at the ʿAlam, Ruwayk and Jidran complex north of Maʾrib. Being able to firmly document, a specific tribal and topographical name for almost three millennia is significant. Such continuity of a tribal name, perhaps unique in Arabia, would have implications for our understanding of the processes of tribal naming, structure, and movements in pre-Islamic southern Arabia generally.

Keywords: Yemen; tribes; Nihm; NHM; Barʾan temple; Maʾrib; pre-Islamic Arabia
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Nelson, Russell M. “The Book of Mormon, the Gathering of Israel, and the Second Coming.” Ensign, July 2014.
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Smith, Judy M. “Nephi Answered My Question.” Ensign, July 2014.
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Aston, Warren P. “Khawr Kharfut (Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman) re-visited.” Co-author with Carl Phillips and Michele Degli Esposti for paper presented July 27, 2014 at the Seminar for Arabian Studies, British Museum, London.
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Paper reported initial findings of the first season of archaeological survey at Khor Kharfot, sponsored by the Khor Kharfot Foundation in April and May, 2014.

ID = [82196]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-07-27  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:16:03
Smith, Robert F. “The Preposterous Book of Mormon: A Singular Advantage.” Paper presented at the 2014 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2014.
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Stout, Jarolyn Ballard. “The Promise of Our Future Together.” Ensign, August 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [60672]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2014-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3495  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:40
Ensign. “Why I Love the Book of Mormon.” Ensign September 2014.
ID = [60721]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2014-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2467  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:40
Mayer, Eduard. “Open Your Book of Mormon.” Ensign, September 2014.
ID = [60720]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2014-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2328  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:40
McGrath, Michele. “Social Justice in the Book of Mormon.” Restoration Studies 15 (Fall, 2014): 145-153.
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“Social justice” has become a post-modern buzzword that carries political connotations in the United States today, but the concept itself is quite ancient and deeply scriptural. Grant Hardy notes that “The Book of Mormon, like the Bible, has strong opinions about what sorts of societies are more just or more righteous than others.” In fact, for those with eyes to see, “restoration scripture is bursting with opportunities for social justice exegesis.” [From the article]

Keywords: Race relations; Book of Mormon, RLDS and; Doctrinal history, justice and mercy
ID = [82040]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Terry, Roger. “Archaic Pronouns and Verbs in the Book of Mormon: What Inconsistent Usage Tells Us about Translation Theories.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 47, no. 3 (Fall, 2014): 53-80.
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Terry explores briefly the inconsistent usage of second-person pronouns in the English translation of the Book of Mormon. Based on clues in the text of the Book of Mormon itself and on the descriptive accounts left by Joseph and others, two general theories have arisen regarding this unusual translation process. Whether or not this is accurate, one thing is certain: Joseph Smith did not “translate” the Book of Mormon, not if people mean that translating involves having a sound understanding of the source language and culture and then converting a document from that language into the target language.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon, editions and translations; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Ensign. “Nephi’s Bows.” Ensign October 2014.
ID = [60752]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2014-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3896  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:40
Wong, Chi Hong (Sam). “Rescue in Unity.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2014.
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In order to assist the Savior, we have to work together in unity and in harmony. Everyone, every position, and every calling is important.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [22184]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2014-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 6309  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:05
Interpreter Foundation. “Announcing the Online Edition of Royal Skousen’s Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 7, 2014.
ID = [5777]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-10-07  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 947  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Ash, Michael R. “Is the Book of Mormon Historically ‘True’?” In 2014 BMAF Conference. Salt Lake City: Book of Mormon Archaeological Foundation, 2014.
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Keywords: Historicity, Scripture Study, Smith, Joseph, Jr.
ID = [76672]  Status = Type = conference paper  Date = 2014-10-18  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:52
Nasr, Vali. “The Challenge of the Middle East: A Personal Journey into Global Strategy.” Forum, Brigham Young University, October 21, 2014.
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The issues tying the United States and the Middle East together are not simple. From oil, to terrorism, to Isis, Vali Nasr explains why maintaining interactions with the Middle East is crucial at this time.

Keywords: Politics
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69939]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2014-10-21  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:52
Peterson, Daniel C. “The Yale Book of Mormon text goes into its third printing.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 21, 2014.
ID = [5780]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-10-21  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website,peterson  Size: 632  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘I Have Done According to My Will’: Reading Jacob 5 as a Temple Text.” Paper presented at the 2014 Temple on Mount Zion Conference. October 25, 2014.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [6868]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2014-10-25  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Aston, Warren P. “Reflections from Nephi’s Land of Bountiful.” Meridian Magazine, November 2, 2014.
ID = [66536]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-11-02  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:40
Valdeon, Roberto. “Joseph Smith’s Use of Pseudo-Intralingual and Intersemiotic Translation in the Creation of the Mormon Canon: The Book of Mormon, the Bible, and the Book of Abraham.” Across Languages and Cultures 15, no. 2 (December, 2014): 219-241.
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“The 19th century Book of Mormon, which was at the base of the creation and spread of a new religious movement in the United States, has been used as an example of what translation scholars have called pseudo-translations (Toury 1995, 2005; Hermans 2007; Vidal 2010). However, the Mormon canon is based upon other documents, also presented as translations to Mormon believers. This paper examines the use of translation as the instrument of normalization of the Mormon movement. The first sections provide a short introduction to the emergence of Mormonism in New York State and to the role of translation in the spread of Christianity. From here we move to study the three types of translations Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church, claimed to have resorted to for the production of his three major works, i.e. The Book of Mormon, the translation of the Bible and the Book of Abraham. In other words, pseudo-translation, interlingual translation and intersemiotic translation. The final section contends that translation is the key element that gives cohesion to the three. It also discusses a controversial component of the original “translated” doctrine : the allegations that racism is present in the original works and the ways in which the Church has coped with such allegations.” [Abstract from Article]

Keywords: Pearl of Great Price; Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham; Bible, Joseph Smith’s translation; Book of Mormon; Smith, Joseph, Jr., translator; Egyptian papyri; pseudotranslation; intralingual translation; intersemiotic translation
ID = [82023]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-12-01  Collections:  abraham,bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:53
Interpreter Foundation. “Save the Date! Book of Mormon Language Conference 14 March 2015.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 20, 2014.
ID = [5787]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-12-20  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 309  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Interpreter Foundation. “Five Misunderstandings Of The Book of Mormon Text That Veils Discovery Of Its Geography.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 21, 2014.
ID = [4838]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-12-21  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 18521  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:00
2015
Ash, Michael R. Bamboozled by the CES Letter. N.p., 2015.
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In April 2013 Jeremy T. Runnells published a PDF booklet entitled, “Letter to a CES Director.” This booklet, which is now typically referred to as the “CES Letter,” catalogs Runnells’ concerns and reason why he left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Runnells has worked hard to make his booklet available to people everywhere (and in several languages) and has, unfortunately, been the agent for leading at least a few other believers out of Mormonism. Sadly, most of those who have been bamboozled by the “CES Letter” are Latter-day Saints who were blind-sided by scholarly-sounding interpretations of challenging data. In my opinion, however, the “CES Letter” creates a caricature of Mormonism. The arguments are fundamentally flawed and do not accurately represent either Mormonism or the only logical interpretations of the data. Unfortunately, the reason the “CES Letter” has enjoyed any success is that most Latter-day Saints have never been exposed to some of the more complex matters in early Mormon history. On average, the typical Latter-day Saint has never needed to think outside of the box on Mormon-related philosophical, historical, or scholarly issues. “Bamboozled by the ‘CES Letter’” explains why these controversial issues need not kill a testimony. Interpretation matters. Many lay members, as well as educated Mormon scholars, are fully aware of every topic discussed in the “CES Letter” but continue strong in their faith because they recognize that there are logical interpretations which can be integrated with their belief in Mormonism. There are answers to the concerns raised by the “CES Letter,” and those answers can be supported by current scholarship as well as harmonized with the acceptance of Mormon truth claims.

Keywords: Apologetics, Book of Abraham, Book of Mormon, CES Letter, Early Church History, Eight Witnesses, First Vision, Kinderhook Plates, Polygamy, Priesthood, Prophets, Scripture Study, Temples, Testimony, Three Witnesses, Translation
ID = [75431]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:45
Aston, Warren P. Lehi and Sariah in Arabia: The Old World Setting of the Book of Mormon. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Publishing, 2015.
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A 21st Century re-examination of the most-read book to emerge from the Western Hemisphere, the Book of Mormon. As Mormonism grows into a world faith, the veracity of its founding scripture has never been more important. The three decades of Arabian exploration reported in Lehi and Sariah in Arabia identifies specific locations for the 8 year journey described in the text, allowing Nephi’s account to emerge with new clarity and enhanced plausibility.

Keywords: Arabia, Bountiful (Old World), Khor Kharfot, Lehi',s Trail, Nahom, Oman, Wilderness, Yemen
ID = [75430]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:45
Austin, Michael. “Avi Steinberg, The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015).
ID = [3327]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 20982  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:39
Bateman, Merrill J. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon to Restore Plain and Precious Truths.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
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Baugh, Alexander L., and Reid L. Neilson, eds. Conversations with Mormon Historians. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
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The sixteen interviews in this volume tell the stories of remarkable men and women who have made careers out of researching, writing, and teaching about the past. Friends and colleagues conducted these conversations over a decade or so. All were subsequently published in the Mormon Historical Studies journal or Religious Educator periodical, and now are brought together as a single book of personal essays. As we review and reflect on the personal lives and remarkable careers featured in this volume, we sense that many of these historians feel that they were prepared or given a definite sense of mission. Both editors, who are becoming foremost Church historians in their own right, have been the beneficiaries of many mentors in the field and the recipients of a remarkable heritage of Mormon historians who have taken them under their wings and helped them become contributors to the telling of LDS history. ISBN 978-0-8425-2890-0

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Hall, Dave, and Thomas G. Alexander. “Thomas G. Alexander.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, 1–32. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
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Smith, Alex D., and James B. Allen. “James B. Allen.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Vision
ID = [34734]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 70456  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Darowski, Joseph F., Kay Darowski, and Richard Lloyd Anderson. “Richard Lloyd Anderson.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34735]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 62441  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Harper, Steven C., and Milton V. Backman Jr. “Milton V. Backman.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Vision
ID = [34736]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 37272  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Baugh, Alexander L., and LaMar C. Berrett. “LaMar C. Berrett.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34737]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 34206  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Frederickson, Kristine Wardle, and Claudia L. Bushman. “Claudia L. Bushman.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34738]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 55882  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Woodworth, Jed L., and Richard Lyman Bushman. “Richard Lyman Bushman.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [34739]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 92519  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Godfrey, Matthew C., and Kenneth W. Godfrey. “Kenneth W. Godfrey.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34740]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 79633  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Jensen, Robin Scott, and Dean C. Jessee. “Dean C. Jessee.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34741]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 53757  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Ward, Maurine Carr, and Stanley B. Kimball. “Stanley B. Kimball.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34742]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 76786  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Madsen, Carol C., and Sheree Maxwell Bench. “Carol Cornwall Madsen.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34743]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 65933  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Baugh, Alexander L., and Robert J. Matthews. “Robert J. Matthews.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
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Baugh, Alexander L., and Max H. Parkin. “Max H Parkin.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [34745]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 79380  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:01
Peterson, John A., and Charles S. Peterson. “Charles S. Peterson.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34746]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 85432  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:01
Walker, Kyle R., and Larry C. Porter. “Larry C. Porter.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34747]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 67764  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:01
Williams, Nathan H., and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. “Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34748]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 53907  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:01
Bennett, Richard E. “Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
ID = [34709]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 32863  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Berkey, Kimberly M. “Temporality and Fulfillment in 3 Nephi 1.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015): 53-83.
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This paper puts 3 Nephi 1 in conversation with Helaman 14 in order to argue for a complex relationship between temporality and the fulfillment of prophecy. In addition to echoing Matthew 5:17–18 in order to place a structural emphasis on fulfillment, 3 Nephi 1 portrays a series of Nephite misunderstandings about the nature of time and fulfillment that are then counteracted by the cosmic signs of Samuel the Lamanite. What Samuel’s signs ultimately show is that fulfillment of prophecy is best understood as the beginning of a new era rather than as a conclusion, and that this temporal reorientation makes repentance possible. After discussing how Samuel’s signs implicitly correct Nephite temporality, the paper concludes with a brief reflection on the implications for the Book of Mormon as a whole, arguing that the Book of Mormon is intended to function as a sign that likewise orients readers to a new experience of time.

Keywords: Prophecy; Samuel the Lamanite; Temporality; Time
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [3321]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 75783  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:39
Blumell, Lincoln H., Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges, eds. Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World. Proceedings of the 2013 BYU Church History Symposium. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
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The 2013 BYU Church History Symposium This volume is a collection of essays by prominent LDS scholars–including keynote speakers Richard Bushman and David Holland–that discuss the interest in the ancient world shared by Joseph Smith and the early Latter-day Saints. Topics include Joseph Smith’s fascination with the ancient Americas, his interaction with the Bible, his study of Hebrew and Greek, his reading of Jewish and Christian apocryphal writings, and his work with the Book of Abraham in the context of nineteenth-century Egyptology. Together, these essays demonstrate that Joseph Smith’s interests in antiquity played an important role in his prophetic development as he sought to recover ancient scripture, restore the ancient Church, and bring the Latter-day Saints into fellowship with the sacred past. ISBN 978‐0‐8425‐2966‐2

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
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Articles

Wayment, Thomas A. “Joseph Smith’s Developing Relationship with the Apocrypha.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, Brigham Young University Church History Symposium, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey and Andrew H. Hedges, 331–355. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2015.
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Several approaches to interpreting Joseph Smith’s use of the so-called Jewish and Christian apocryphal literature have been employed both by critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereafter LDS), and by those professing faith in the Church and whose interests may be classified as apologetic. These approaches span the range of being probative of Joseph Smith’s restoration of lost texts and scripture and being dismissive of Mormonism generally, because its sacred religious texts are founded on flagrant plagiarism of apocryphal literature.[1] Before one can answer the most important historical question at hand, how Joseph Smith used the Apocrypha and what relationship that body of literature had to early Mormon writings, it seems prudent to first of all establish some controls on the discussion. This is necessary because previous discussions have largely contented themselves with drawing out parallels between apocryphal writings and early Mormon publications without any discussion of whether or not Joseph Smith had access to the texts under discussion. Moreover, a wide variety of modern translations of ancient apocryphal texts are often employed when there is no possible way that someone living in the early nineteenth century could have known them. This is particularly important when citing phrases or words that Joseph Smith might have incorporated into the language of his revelations.

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible
RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Bushman, Richard Lyman. “Joseph Smith’s Place in the Study of Antiquity in Antebellum America.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
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Holland, David F. “American Visionaries and Their Approaches to the Past.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
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Bennett, Richard E. “‘A Very Particular Friend’—Luther Bradish.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34689]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history,rsc-video  Size: 38555  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:57
MacKay, Michael Hubbard. “‘Git Them Translated’: Translating the Characters on the Gold Plates.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
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Wright, Mark Alan. “Joseph Smith and Native American Artifacts.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
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Roper, Matthew P. “Joseph Smith, Central American Ruins, and the Book of Mormon.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
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Jackson, Kent P. “Joseph Smith’s Biblical Antiquity.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
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Frederick, Nicholas J. “Of ‘Life Eternal’ and ‘Eternal Lives’: Joseph Smith’s Engagement with the Gospel of John.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
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Bowman, Matthew. “The Spectrum of Apostasy: Mormonism, Early Christianity and the Quest for True Religion in Antebellum America.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostasy
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Grey, Matthew J. “‘The Word of the Lord in the Original’: Joseph Smith’s Study of Hebrew in Kirtland.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
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Welch, John W. “Joseph Smith’s Awareness of Greek and Latin.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
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Blumell, Lincoln H. “Palmyra and Jerusalem: Joseph Smith’s Scriptural Texts and the Writings of Flavius Josephus.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Abraham
RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
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Heal, Kristian S. “Patristic Writings in Early Mormon Periodicals.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostasy
RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism for the Dead
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Gee, John. “Joseph Smith and Ancient Egypt.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
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Muhlestein, Kerry. “Joseph Smith’s Biblical View of Egypt.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34702]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history,rsc-video,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 45530  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Hauglid, Brian M. “The Book of Abraham and the Egyptian Project: ‘A Knowledge of Hidden Languages’” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Abraham
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Blythe, Christopher J. “Dale E. Luffman, The Book of Mormon’s Witness to Its First Readers.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015).
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘Most Desirable Above All Things’: Onomastic Play on Mary and Mormon in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 13 (2015): 27-61.
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Abstract: The names Mary and Mormon most plausibly derive from the Egyptian word mr(i), “love, desire, [or] wish.” Mary denotes “beloved [i.e., of deity]” and is thus conceptually connected with divine love, while Mormon evidently denotes “desire/love is enduring.” The text of the Book of Mormon manifests authorial awareness of the meanings of both names, playing on them in multiple instances. Upon seeing Mary (“the mother of God,” 1 Nephi 11:18, critical text) bearing the infant Messiah in her arms in vision, Nephi, who already knew that God “loveth his children,” came to understand that the meaning of the fruit-bearing tree of life “is the love of God, which sheddeth itself abroad in the hearts of the children of men; wherefore it is the most desirable above all things” (1 Nephi 11:17-25). Later, Alma the Elder and his people entered into a covenant and formed a church based on “love” and “good desires” (Mosiah 18:21, 28), a covenant directly tied to the waters of Mormon: Behold here are the waters of Mormon … and now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God … if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized …?”; “they clapped their hands for joy and exclaimed: This is the desire of our hearts” (Mosiah 18:8-11). Alma the Younger later recalled the “song of redeeming love” that his father and others had sung at the waters of Mormon (Alma 5:3-9, 26; see Mosiah 18:30). Our editor, Mormon, who was himself named after the land of Mormon and its waters (3 Nephi 5:12), repeatedly spoke of charity as “everlasting love” or the “pure love of Christ [that] endureth forever” (Moroni 7:47-48; 8:16-17; 26). All of this has implications for Latter-day Saints or “Mormons” who, as children of the covenant, must endure to the end in Christlike “love” as Mormon and Moroni did, particularly in days of diminishing faith, faithfulness, and love (see, e.g., Mormon 3:12; contrast Moroni 9:5).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Bowen, Matthew L. “Father Is a Man: The Remarkable Mention of the Name Abish in Alma 19:16 and Its Narrative Context.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 77-93.
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Abstract: The mention of “Abish” and a “remarkable vision of her father” (Alma 19:16) is itself remarkable, since women and servants are rarely named in the Book of Mormon text. As a Hebrew/Lehite name, “Abish” suggests the meaning “Father is a man,” the midrashic components ʾab- (“father”) and ʾîš (“man”) being phonologically evident. Thus, the immediate juxtaposition of the name “Abish” with the terms “her father” and “women” raises the possibility of wordplay on her name in the underlying text. Since ʾab-names were frequently theophoric — i.e., they had reference to a divine Father (or could be so understood) — the mention of “Abish” (“Father is a man”) takes on additional theological significance in the context of Lamoni’s vision of the Redeemer being “born of a woman and … redeem[ing] all mankind” (Alma 19:13). The wordplay on “Abish” thus contributes thematically to the narrative’s presentation of Ammon’s typological ministrations among the Lamanites as a “man” endowed with great power, which helped the Lamanites understand the concept of “the Great Spirit” (Yahweh) becoming “man.” Moreover, this wordplay accords with the consistent Book of Mormon doctrine that the “very Eternal Father” would (and did) condescend to become “man” and Suffering Servant.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Bowen, Matthew L. “Getting Cain and Gain.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 15 (2015): 115-141.
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Abstract: The biblical etiology (story of origin) for the name “Cain” associates his name with the Hebrew verb qny/qnh, “to get,” “gain,” “acquire,” “create,” or “procreate” in a positive sense. A fuller form of this etiology, known to us indirectly through the Book of Mormon text and directly through the restored text of the Joseph Smith Translation, creates additional wordplay on “Cain” that associates his name with murder to “get gain.” This fuller narrative is thus also an etiology for organized evil—secret combinations “built up to get power and gain” (Ether 8:22–23; 11:15). The original etiology exerted a tremendous influence on Book of Mormon writers (e.g., Nephi, Jacob, Alma, Mormon, and Moroni) who frequently used allusions to this narrative and sometimes replicated the wordplay on “Cain” and “getting gain.” The fuller narrative seems to have exerted its greatest influence on Mormon and Moroni, who witnessed the destruction of their nation firsthand — destruction catalyzed by Cainitic secret combinations. Moroni, in particular, invokes the Cain etiology in describing the destruction of the Jaredites by secret combinations. The destruction of two nations by Cainitic secret combinations stand as two witnesses and a warning to latter-day Gentiles (and Israel) against building up these societies and allowing them to flourish.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
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Bowen, Matthew L., and Pedro Olavarria. “Place of Crushing: The Literary Function of Heshlon in Ether 13:25-31.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 227-239.
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Abstract: The name Heshlon, attested once (in Ether 13:28), as a toponym in the Book of Mormon most plausibly denotes “place of crushing.” The meaning of Heshlon thus becomes very significant in the context of Ether 13:25–31, which describes the crushing or enfeebling of Coriantumr’s armies and royal power. This meaning is also significant in the wider context of Moroni’s narrative of the Jaredites’ destruction. Fittingly, the name Heshlon itself serves as a literary turning point in a chiastic structure which describes the fateful reversal of Coriantumr’s individual fortunes and the worsening of the Jaredites’ collective fortunes. Perhaps Moroni, who witnessed the gradual crushing and destruction of the Nephites, mentioned this name in his abridgement of the Book of Ether on account of the high irony of its meaning in view of the Jaredite war of attrition which served as precursor to the destruction of the Nephites.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [4262]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 32282  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:19
Brown, S. Kent. “Missionaries in War and Peace (Helaman 4–5).” In An Eye of Faith, eds. Kenneth L. Alford and Richard E. Bennett. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
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BYU Religious Studies Center. The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder. The 44th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2015.
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The 44th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium The 2015 Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium explored the modern miracle of the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon. Featuring a keynote address by Elder Merrill J. Bateman discussing the Book of Mormon’s restoration of plain and precious truths, this volume describes the development of the teenage seer Joseph Smith Jr. and includes marvelous accounts of the many witnesses to the plates. It tells the story of the Book of Mormon, from Joseph Smith’s translation of the sacred record to the process of financing and printing the first edition, and concludes with its message rolling forth to many nations—to “every kindred, tongue, and people.”

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Articles

Harper, Steven C. “The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
ID = [34705]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 48092  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Sweat, Anthony. “Hefted and Handled: Tangible Interactions with Book of Mormon Objects.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
ID = [34706]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 41647  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Dirkmaat, Gerrit J., and Michael Hubbard MacKay. “Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
RSC Topics > T — Z > Urim and Thummim
ID = [34707]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 49994  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Haws, JB. “The Lost 116 Pages Story: What We Do Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Might Know.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, edited by Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull, 81–102. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [34708]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 57110  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Harper, Steven C. “The Eleven Witnesses.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
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Easton-Flake, Amy, and Rachel Cope. “A Multiplicity of Witnesses: Women and the Translation Process.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34711]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 51650  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Dirkmaat, Gerrit J., and Michael Hubbard MacKay. “Joseph Smith’s Negotiations to Publish the Book of Mormon.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
ID = [34712]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 42002  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Chatelain, Jeremy J. “The Early Reception of the Book of Mormon in Nineteenth-Century America.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
ID = [34713]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 62668  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:59
Griffiths, Casey Paul. “The Book of Mormon among the Saints: Evolving Use of the Keystone Scripture.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34714]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 69977  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:59
Chou, Po Nien (Felipe), and Petra Chou. “‘To Every Nation, Kindred, Tongue, and People’” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
ID = [34715]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 78512  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:59
Ludlow, Jared W. “‘They Are Not Cast Off Forever’: Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
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Hopkin, Shon D. “‘To the Convincing of the Jew and Gentile That JESUS Is the CHRIST’” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Miracles
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Carmack, Stanford A. “What Command Syntax Tells Us About Book of Mormon Authorship.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 13 (2015): 175-217.
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Abstract: The variety of command syntax found in the Book of Mormon is very different from what is seen in the King James Bible. Yet it is sophisticated and principled, evincing Early Modern English linguistic competence. Interestingly, the syntactic match between the 1829 text and a prominent text from the late 15th century is surprisingly good. All the evidence indicates that Joseph Smith would not have produced the structures found in the text using the King James Bible as a model, nor from his own language. The overall usage profile of command syntax seen in the Book of Mormon strongly supports the view that the Lord revealed specific words to Joseph Smith, not simply ideas.

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Carmack, Stanford A. “The Implications of Past-Tense Syntax in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 119-186.
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Abstract: In the middle of the 16th century there was a short-lived surge in the use of the auxiliary did to express the affirmative past tense in English, as in Moroni «did arrive» with his army to the land of Bountiful (Alma 52:18). The 1829 Book of Mormon contains nearly 2,000 instances of this particular syntax, using it 27% of the time in past-tense contexts. The 1611 King James Bible — which borrowed heavily from Tyndale’s biblical translations of the 1520s and ’30s — employs this syntax less than 2% of the time. While the Book of Mormon’s rate is significantly higher than the Bible’s, it is close to what is found in other English-language texts written mainly in the mid- to late 1500s. And the usage died out in the 1700s. So the Book of Mormon is unique for its time — this is especially apparent when features of adjacency, inversion, and intervening adverbial use are considered. Textual evidence and syntactic analysis argue strongly against both 19th-century composition and an imitative effort based on King James English. Book of Mormon past-tense syntax could have been achieved only by following the use of largely inaccessible 16th-century writings. But mimicry of lost syntax is difficult if not impossible, and so later writers who consciously sought to imitate biblical style failed to match its did-usage at a deep, systematic level. This includes Ethan Smith who in 1823 wrote View of the Hebrews, a text very different from both the Bible and the Book of Mormon in this respect. The same may be said about Hunt’s The Late War and Snowden’s The American Revolution.
Editor’s note: Because of the complex typesetting of this article, it has not been reproduced on this webpage. The reader is referred to the PDF version to view the article.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Carmack, Stanford A. “Why the Oxford English Dictionary (and not Webster’s 1828).” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 15 (2015): 65-77.
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In order to properly consider possible meaning in the Book of Mormon (BofM), we must use the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Royal Skousen opened the door to this approach, but unfortunately many have resisted accepting it as valid or have not understood the advantages inherent in it. The usual method of consulting Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language has serious drawbacks. First, that approach is based on the incorrect assumption that the English language of the text is Joseph Smith’s own language or what he knew from reading the King James Bible (kjb). That incorrect assumption leads us to wrongly believe that nonbiblical lexical meaning in the BofM is to be sought in 1820s American English, or even perhaps from Smith making mistakes in his attempt to imitate biblical language (which is a canard). Second, by using Webster’s 1828 dictionary we can easily be led astray and form inaccurate judgments about old usage and we can miss possible meaning in the text.

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Carter, Eric. “Book of Mormon in the Battlefield.” Ensign, January 2015.
ID = [60859]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3901  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:41
Dirkmaat, Gerrit John, and Michael Hubbard McKay. From Darkness unto Light: Joseph Smith’s Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT : Salt Lake City, UT: Religious Studies Center ; Deseret Book, 2015.
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This book provides a detailed description of the process by which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. Drawing from firsthand accounts of Joseph himself and the scribes who served with him, From Darkness unto Light explores the difficulties encountered in bringing forth this book of inspired scripture. Recent insights and discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers project have provided a fuller, richer understanding of the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon. This book helps readers understand that the coming forth of the Book of Mormon was a miracle. Faith and belief are necessary ingredients for one to come to know that Joseph Smith performed the work of a seer in bringing the sacred words of the Book of Mormon from darkness unto light.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
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Eck, Nichole. “Counsel Together Oft: Family Councils for Couples.” Ensign, January 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [60858]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7552  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:41
Frederick, Nicholas J. “Evaluating the Interaction between the New Testament and the Book of Mormon: A Proposed Methodology.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24 (2015): 1-30.
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This article puts forward a methodology for identifying and classifying phrases from the New Testament that are present within the Book of Mormon text at a phrasal level. The need for such a methodology has arisen because of a recent rise in close textual studies of the Book of Mormon and its relationship to the Bible. The methodology proposed by this study suggests that terms such as quotation, allusion, and echo—terms popular in biblical studies—be avoided because of the implication that the author of the Book of Mormon was consciously relying upon the language of the Bible. While this may be true, the use of language implying a reliance risks derailing useful textual studies in favor of debates over provenance. Additionally, because not all potential interactions with the New Testament are easily identifiable, this paper proposes a series of criteria that can be applied to potential phrases to determine the likelihood that a given phrase should be studied as a valid New Testament interaction. Finally, this paper proposes three levels of classification, based upon how well a given phrase meets the criteria laid out in the study

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Language; Methodology; New Testament; Parallel; Provenance; Textual Studies
ID = [3319]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 68377  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:38
Gardner, Brant A. Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2015.
ID = [77225]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Gardner, Brant A. “Two Authors: Two Approaches in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015): 254-259.
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Nephi and Mormon, the two writers responsible for the largest amount of text in the Book of Mormon, both similarly used reference material and quotations in their work. Despite that basic similarity, the way each writer used those references and quotations is quite different.

Keywords: Authorship; Intertextuality; Mormon; Nephi; Quotation; Translation
ID = [3334]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 12410  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:40
Gardner, Brant A., and Mark Alan Wright. “John L. Sorenson’s Complete Legacy: Reviewing Mormon’s Codex.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 209-221.
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Mormon’s Codex: An Ancient American Book is unquestionably a monument to an impressive career defending, defining, and explaining the Book of Mormon. John L. Sorenson has been for the New World setting of the Book of Mormon what Hugh Nibley was for the Old World setting. From his earliest 1952 publications using anthropology and geography to defend the Book of Mormon to the 2013 publication of Mormon’s Codex, Sorenson has been the dominant force in shaping scholarly discussions about the Book of Mormon in its New World setting. With an impressive 714 pages of text with footnotes, Mormon’s Codex is physically an appropriate capstone to his long publishing career.

ID = [4260]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 31060  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:19
Grover, Jerry D., Jr. Ziff, Magic Goggles, and Golden Plates: Etymology of Zyf and a Metallurgical Analysis of the Book of Mormon Plates. Provo, UT: Grover Publishing, 2015.
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The identification of the mysterious material ziff from the Book of Mormon was a mystery from the time of the initial publication of the Book of Mormon until now. Finally, the linguistic and metallurgical meaning of ziff has been determined. Jerry Grover, a professional civil engineer, geologist, and translator has been able to determine the ancient term for ziff and to define its meaning, both anciently in the Old World and in the New World setting of the Book of Mormon. In addition, a detailed metallurgical analysis of the material and techniques used to construct the Book of Mormon plates has also been completed. The author’s approach is meticulous and scientific. This book is a significant event in Book of Mormon studies and is a book that must be read by every serious student of the Book of Mormon and of Mesoamerican studies. The author is dedicating all proceeds from the book to additional scientific studies to cast further light on the ancient setting of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Brass Plates, Gold Plates, Metallurgy, Plates, Ziff
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Grover, Jerry D., Jr. Translation of the “Caractors” Document. Self-Published, 2015.
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A small scrap of paper entitled “Caractors” that contained characters copied from the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated has remained an enigma for more than a hundred years. Finally, the characters have been successfully translated. In a book that is the first of its kind, Jerry Grover, a professional civil engineer, geologist, and translator, has been able to crack the code of the “reformed Egyptian.” The author’s approach is meticulous and scientific. This book is a landmark event in Book of Mormon studies and is a book that must be read by every serious student of the Book of Mormon and of Mesoamerican studies. The author is dedicating all proceeds from the book to additional scientific studies to cast further light on the ancient setting of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Anthon Transcript, Caractors, Early Church History, Mesoamerica, Smith, Joseph, Jr., Translation
ID = [75451]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Gwilliam, Ezra. “Dear Son: Lessons from Moroni Chapter 9.” Religious Educator Vol. 16 no. 1 (2015).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
ID = [38480]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 23083  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:37
Hatem, Jad. Postponing Heaven: The Three Nephites, the Bodhisattva, and the Mahdi. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2015.
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Christianity, like other world religions, surprisingly acknowledges the existence of a plurality of human messiahs. In this comparative work, philosopher Jad Hatem examines Mormonism’s Three Nephites, Buddhism’s Bodhisattva, and Islam’s Mahdi—distinctive messianic figures who postpone Heaven, sacrificially prolonging their lives for the benefit of humankind. Originally published in French, this translation includes two additional papers written by Jad Hatem dealing with aspects of Latter-day Saint belief and a new interview between Hatem and Latter-day Saint philosopher James E. Faulconer.

ID = [81721]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:36
Hatem, Jad. “The Fundamental Law of Opposition: Lehi and Schelling.” Element : A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology 6, no. 2 (2015): 18-Jul.
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In The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion, Sterling McMurrin considers what I’ve called the theorem of Lehi, according to which there must necessarily be an opposition in all things. McMurrin offers up two possible interpretations: First, evil exists to make good possible such that God creates or allows evils to the favor of a greater good. Related to this is that idea that evil is necessary to experience and appreciated the value of good. A second option is that rather than stipulating that the opposition must exist with a purpose in mind, it is content with observing that evil exists as a matter of metaphysical necessity. In this view, God is not responsible for the creation or allowance of evil. In this article, I defend a scheme that combines the first option (a teleology of evil) with a theme that belongs to the second (divine limitation), which guarantees God’s innocence. What is excluded is the idea that evil exists as a matter of fact. My purpose is to integrate Lehi’s theorem into a dynamic theodicy that utilizes Friedrich Shelling’s dialectic philosophy, and to do so without removing it from its Mormon context.

Keywords: Doctrinal history, good and evil; Mormon thought, theology
ID = [82062]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:55
Haws, JB. “Why the Book of Mormon Deserves More Twenty-First-Century Readers: A Question of Complexity.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015).
ID = [3325]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 30421  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:39
Hopkin, Shon D., and John Hilton III. “Samuel’s Reliance on Biblical Language.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 24 no. 1 (2015).
ID = [3320]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 49513  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:39
Hull, Kerry. “War Banners: A Mesoamerican Context for the Title of Liberty.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015): 84-118.
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The title of liberty fashioned by Moroni represented a rallying point for those who would defend the most cherished aspects of Nephite culture: families, religion, peace, and freedom. A key facet of the title of liberty incident is its deep-rooted martial setting, suggesting that the title of liberty functioned as a war banner. Numerous aspects of the title of liberty episode related to warfare and battle standards fit comfortably in an ancient Mesoamerican context. Additionally, various linguistic and poetic features in the details surrounding the title of liberty in Alma 46 closely correlate to Mesoamerican traditions, indicative of a common cultural origin.

Keywords: Culture; Mesoamerica; Title of Liberty; War Banners; Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3322]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 75218  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:39
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Mormon. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Mormon, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
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Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Title Page of the Book of Mormon. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Mormon, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study, Title Page, Translation
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Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of 3 Nephi. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: 3 Nephi, Commentary, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of 4 Nephi. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: 4 Nephi, Commentary, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
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Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Helaman. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Helaman, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [75436]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:45
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Moroni. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Moroni, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [75437]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Mosiah. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Mosiah, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [75438]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the First Book of Nephi. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: 1 Nephi, Commentary, Ishmael, Laman (Son of Lehi), Lehi (Prophet), Lemuel (Son of Lehi), Nephi, Prophet, Revelation, Sam, Sariah, Scripture Study, Zoram (Servant of Laban)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [75439]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Second Book of Nephi. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: 2 Nephi, Commentary, Isaiah, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [75440]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Plethora of Plates: A Teaching Perspective. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Brass Plates, Commentary, Gold Plates, Large Plates of Nephi, Metals, Plates, Plates of Ether, Plates of Mormon, Plates of Moroni, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study, Small Plates of Nephi
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [75441]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Alma. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Alma (Book), Commentary
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [75442]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Enos. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Enos, Prophet, Repentance, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [75443]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Ether. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Ether, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75444]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Jacob. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Jacob, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [75445]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Jarom. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Jarom, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
ID = [75446]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Omni. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Omni, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
ID = [75447]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Words of Mormon. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study, Words of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
ID = [75448]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Jensen, Robin Scott. “Abner Cole and The Reflector: Another Clue to the Timing of the 1830 Book of Mormon Printing.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015).
ID = [3332]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 15932  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:40
Larsen, Val. “A Mormon Theodicy: Jacob and the Problem of Evil.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 15 (2015): 239-266.
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Abstract: Lehi’s son Jacob was troubled by a great theological mystery of his and our day — the problem of evil. If God is both all good and all-powerful, how is it possible for the world to be so full of human and natural evils? Jacob was able to elicit from the Lord responses to the question of why He permits evil to flourish in this world. The Lord elucidates the perennial problem of evil for Jacob and us in three distinct genres and at three different levels of abstraction: at a metaphysical level in a philosophical patriarchal blessing, at a concrete level in the history of the emerging Nephite political economy, and in the Allegory of the Olive Tree.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [4249]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64825  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:18
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat. From Darkness unto Light: Joseph Smith’s Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
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Although both members and academics alike often think of this story as well known, recent insights and discoveries associated with the efforts by the Church History Department to publish The Joseph Smith Papers have provided a fuller, richer understanding of the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon. This book was written to provide a detailed explanation of how Joseph Smith and the scribes who served with him described the process of translating the gold plates and the difficulties encountered as they sought to publish the completed book. ISBN 978-0-8425-2888-7

ID = [33239]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:30:54
Miasnik, Chris. “Where in Cincinnati Was the Third Edition of the Book of Mormon Printed?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 35-53.
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Abstract: The third edition of the Book of Mormon was stereotyped and printed in Cincinnati in 1840. The story of the Church’s printer, Ebenezer Robinson, accomplishing this mission has been available since 1883. What has remained a mystery is exactly where in Cincinnati this event took place; there is no plaque marking the spot, no walking tour pamphlet, no previous images, and its history contains conflicting documentation. This article will attempt to untangle the mystery by using old descriptions, maps of the area, and images. I also honor the printer, Edwin Shepard, whose metal and ink made this edition a reality.

Keywords: Early Church History
ID = [4253]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 37677  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:18
Midgley, Louis C. “Careless Accounts and Tawdry Novelties.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 16 (2015): 63-73.
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Review of Lofte Payne. Joseph Smith the Make-Believe Martyr: Why the Book of Mormon Is America’s Best Fiction. Victoria, BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2006. xxi + 331 pp., with appendix and index. $23.10 (paperback).
Abstract: The faith of Latter-day Saints is rooted in Joseph Smith’s recovery of the Book of Mormon, which presents itself as an authentic ancient text and divine special revelation. Book-length efforts to explain away these two grounding historical claims began in 1834, and have never ceased. They are often the works of disgruntled former Saints. In 1988 Loftes Tryk self-published an amusing, truly bizarre, seemingly countercult sectarian account of the Book of Mormon. In 2006, now under the name Lofte Payne, he again opined on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. He discarded the notion that Joseph Smith was a demon. He now claims that the Book of Mormon was Joseph’s sly, previously entirely unrecognized covert effort to trash all faith in divine things. In this review, Payne’s explanation is compared and contrasted with books by Alan D. Tyree, a former member of the RLDS First Presidency, and Dale E. Luffman, a recent Community of Christ Apostle, as well as that of Robert M. Price, a militant atheist, and Grant Palmer, and also the Podcraft of John Dehlin, all of whom have in similar ways opined that the Book of Mormon is frontier fiction fashioned by Joseph Smith from ideas floating around his immediate environment.

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Murphy, Ryan. “Book of Mormon Authorship: Unity and Validity.” Master’s thesis, Baltimore: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2015.
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The Book of Mormon is a controversial text that has a lot of history and makes many claims in regards to authorship. In this study, the Book of Mormon is analyzed using latent semantic analysis to identify if the book as a whole has authorship unity and validity. Authorship unity would suggest only one author wrote the book. Authorship validity would suggest the authors within the text who claim authorship make a valid claim, in the sense that their writings within the Book of Mormon are of uniform authorship. Authorship unity and authorship validity are conflicting terms for this study, meaning both cannot be true about the Book of Mormon since it claims multi-authorship

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Authorship, stylometric analysis; Book of Mormon, authorship
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 24 Issue 1. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24 no. 1 (2015).
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Articles

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Front Matter.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015).
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Perry, Michael F. “The Supremacy of the Word: Alma’s Mission to the Zoramites and the Conversion of the Lamanites.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015): 119-137.
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This article explores the connection between Alma’s mission to the Zoramites in Alma 31 and the mass Lamanite conversion in Helaman 5, which occurs in part because the Lamanites who are intent on killing Nephi and Lehi in prison remember the teachings of Alma, Amulek, and Zeezrom delivered to the Zoramites decades earlier. This reading demonstrates that Alma’s mission to the Zoramites is not a failure, as some commentators have suggested; in fact, the eventual positive impact of the Zoramite mission readily compares to the success enjoyed by the sons of Mosiah among the Lamanites. This article also suggests that Mormon’s lengthy war narrative at the end of the book of Alma can be read as a literary unit designed in part to show, as Alma hoped and predicted at the outset of his Zoramite mission, that the word of God (at least eventually) has a “more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else” (Alma 31:5).

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Amulek; Conversion; Faith; Missionary Work; Word; Zoramite (Apostate Group)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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Sproat, Ethan. “Skins as Garments in the Book of Mormon: A Textual Exegesis.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015): 138-165.
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Traditional interpretations of the various-colored or cursed skins in the Book of Mormon have asserted variations of two basic perspectives: first, the Book of Mormon describes God as darkening the flesh pigmentation of some wicked peoples as a mark of a curse; or alternately, the descriptions of “white” skins and “dark” skins in the Book of Mormon are only metaphorical descriptions and not necessarily descriptions of flesh pigmentation. However, a careful textual analysis of all the relevant terms and passages in the Book of Mormon (and its closest literary analog, the King James Version of the Bible) strongly suggests that the various-colored skins in the Book of Mormon can be understood more coherently as a kind of authoritative garment. The relevant texts further lend themselves to associating such garment-skins with both the Nephite temple and competing Lamanite claims to kingship. Ultimately, this exegesis suggests that such garment-skins (as the mark of the Lamanites’ curse) can be understood as being self-administered, removable, and inherited in the same way that authoritative vestments in the King James Version are self-administered, removable, and inherited.

Keywords: Curse; Exegesis; Garments; King James Bible; Lamanite; Metaphor; Nephite; Skins; Temple
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Spencer, Joseph M. “The Self-Critical Book of Mormon: Notes on an Emergent Literary Approach.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015): 180-193.
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This essay examines the shared literary approach to the Book of Mormon in recent essays by Elizabeth Fenton and Jared Hickman. These two scholars use the literary tool of deconstruction to investigate ways in which the Book of Mormon not only presents a narrative but also offers an implicit critique of its own narrative. Each sees this selfcritical or deconstructive aspect of the Book of Mormon as central to the volume’s historical and political force, a means by which the book could subtly but powerfully work against major assumptions in nineteenth-century American culture. Although they share this methodology, Fenton and Hickman use it for slightly different aims or go to slightly different lengths with it. These differences help to clarify both the usefulness of and the potential dangers or temptations inherent to the deconstructive interpretation of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Literary; Literature; Narrative
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Welch, Rosalynde Frandsen. “Joseph M. Spencer, An Other Testament: On Typology.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015).
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Thomas, John Christopher. “Book of Mormon Pneumatology.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015): 217-230.
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Despite the fact that the Book of Mormon contains frequent mentions of the Spirit by a variety of names and titles, little attention has been devoted to the pneumatology of the Book of Mormon. This study seeks to identify the broad contours of Book of Mormon pneumatology based on the claims of the book itself. The categories examined include the divinity, nature, and form of the Holy Ghost; the Holy Ghost and prophecy; the Holy Ghost and power; the Holy Ghost’s influence on individuals; the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues; the communication of the Holy Ghost; and the Spirit’s striving with “man”; as well as other dimensions of the book’s pneumatology.

Keywords: Divinity; Holy Ghost; Names; Nature; Pneumatology; Prophecy; Title
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Webb, Jenny. “Death, Time, and Redemption: Structural Possibilities and Thematic Potential in Jacob 7:26.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015): 231-237.
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Jacob 7:26 has often been noted for its pathos and nostalgia. A close reading of the verse finds that these effects result from the author’s own problematic family relationships, specifically Jacob’s troubled relationship with his older brothers, Laman and Lemuel, who have potentially hated him since his birth because of his position and alignment with Nephi. While Nephi seeks reconciliation with his brothers, Jacob seeks redemption as a healing of a preexistent family breach. In other words, Jacob seeks sealing. This emphasis on sealing can be seen in his temporal orientation, which simultaneously looks toward the past as the source of the family conflict and toward the future (through Enos) as the ongoing hope for the family’s eventual healing.

Keywords: Death; Enos; Jacob (Son of Lehi); Laman (Son of Lehi); Lemuel (Son of Lehi); Nephi (Son of Lehi); Redemption; Sherem; Structure; Theme; Time
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
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Wendt, Candice. “Mormon’s Question.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015): 248-253.
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In Moroni 7:20, Mormon raises a question that deserves close attention in Book of Mormon studies: “How is it possible that ye can lay hold upon every good thing?” In relation to questions of culture, space, mortal limitations, and time, Mormon’s question and the answers he poses are rich with potential for scholarly work and deeper understanding of discipleship. Close contemporary readings of Mormon’s sermon could challenge and enlarge spiritual perspective, sensitivity to God’s grace, and relationships in the world.

Keywords: Grace; Mormon (Prophet); Scholarship
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Royal Skousen and Robin Scott Jensen, eds., Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, Part 1: Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 24, no. 1 (2015).
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Peterson, Daniel C. “Toward Ever More Intelligent Discipleship.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 16 (2015): vii-xvi.
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Abstract: The temporarily rather comfortable “fit” between the Restored Gospel and American civic religion is a thing of the past, and we contemporary Latter-day Saints seem to find ourselves in a more and more marginalized position, theologically and socially. This was where our predecessors, both earlier in this dispensation and among the first Christians, were located, and it may not be an altogether bad thing. It will, for instance, force us to take our beliefs more seriously, less casually. And it may well drive us back to the unique resources provided by the Restoration, which have much to offer.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Rappleye, Neal. “Lehi the Smelter: New Light on Lehi’s Profession.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 223-225.
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A strong case has been made by John A. Tvedtnes and Jeffrey R. Chadwick that Lehi was a metalworker by profession. Although the text gives several indications of Nephi’s (and by implications, Lehi’s) familiarity with the craft of working metals, prominent Book of Mormon scholar John L. Sorenson nonetheless disagreed with this assessment on the grounds that, “it would be highly unlikely that a man who had inherited land and was considered very wealthy (1 Nephi 3:25) would have been a metalworker, for the men in that role tended to be of lower social status and were usually landless.” More recent findings, however, are changing the picture.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Rappleye, Neal. “‘The Great and Terrible Judgments of the Lord’: Destruction and Disaster in 3 Nephi and the Geology of Mesoamerica.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 15 (2015): 143-157.
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Review of Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Geology of the Book of Mormon. Vineyard, UT: Self-Published, 2014. 233 pp. +xi, including index and references. $39.99.
Abstract: Over recent decades, several Latter-day Saint scholars and scientists have offered analysis and comparison to geologic events and the destruction recorded in 3 Nephi 8-9. Jerry Grover makes an important contribution to this literature as he provides background on geologic processes and phenomena, details the geologic features of the Tehuantepec region (Mesoamerica), and applies this information to not only the description of 3 Nephi 8-9, but other incidents in the Book of Mormon likely connected to geologic events. In doing so, Grover yields new insights into the narratives he examines, and adds clarity to geographic details that have been subject to varying interpretations. .

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Rappleye, Neal. “The Deuteronomist Reforms and Lehi’s Family Dynamics: A Social Context for the Rebellions of Laman and Lemuel.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 16 (2015): 87-99.
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Over the last few years, several Latter-day Saint scholars have commented on how the socio-religious setting of Judah in the late-seventh century bc informs and contextualizes our reading of the Book of Mormon, especially that of 1 and 2 Nephi. Particular emphasis has been placed on how Lehi and Nephi appear to have been in opposition to certain changes implemented by the Deuteronomists at this time, but Laman’s and Lemuel’s views have only been commented on in passing. In this paper, I seek to contextualize Laman and Lemuel within this same socio-religious setting and suggest that, in opposition to Lehi and Nephi, they were supporters of the Deuteronomic reforms.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
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Rappleye, Neal. “Learning Nephi’s Language: Creating a Context for 1 Nephi 1:2.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 16 (2015): 151-159.
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It was not long after the Book of Mormon was published before Nephi’s statement that he wrote using “the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians” (1 Nephi 1:2) started raising eyebrows. It has continued to perplex even the best LDS scholars, who have put forward no fewer than five different interpretations of the passage. Some have even pointed out that there seems to be no logical reason for Nephi’s statement, since anyone who could read the text would know what language it was written in.
I suggest that the reason the phrase has remained hard to interpret is that Nephi’s statement continues to be interpreted without any context. And this is so despite the fact that Egyptian writing by Israelite scribes has been known and attested to in Nephi’s very time period since at least the 1960s. Though Latter-day Saint scholars have known and written about these writings, they have generally used them just as evidence for the Book of Mormon or to bolster support for preexisting theories about Nephi’s language, rather than using those texts to create a context in which Nephi’s statement can be interpreted.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Roper, Matthew P. “The Treason of the Geographers: Mythical ‘Mesoamerican’ Conspiracy and the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 16 (2015): 161-205.
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Abstract: The claim that God revealed the details of Book of Mormon geography is not new, but the recent argument that there was a conspiracy while the Prophet was still alive to oppose a revealed geography is a novel innovation. A recent theory argues that the “Mesoamerican theory” or “limited Mesoamerican geography” originated in 1841 with Benjamin Winchester, an early Mormon missionary, writer, and dissident, who rejected the leadership of Brigham Young and the Twelve after 1844. This theory also claims that three unsigned editorials on Central America and the Book of Mormon published in the Times and Seasons on September 15 and October 1, 1842 were written by Benjamin Winchester, who successfully conspired with other dissidents to publish them against the will of the Prophet. Three articles address these claims. This first article addresses two questions: Did Joseph Smith, as some have claimed, know the details of and put forth a revealed Book of Mormon geography? Second, what is a Mesoamerican geography and does it constitute a believable motive for a proposed Winchester conspiracy?.

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Roper, Matthew P. “John Bernhisel’s Gift to a Prophet: Incidents of Travel in Central America and the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 16 (2015): 207-253.
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Abstract: The claim that God revealed the details of Book of Mormon geography is not new, but the recent argument that there was a conspiracy while the Prophet was still alive to oppose a revealed geography is a novel innovation. A recent theory argues that the “Mesoamerican theory” or “limited Mesoamerican geography” originated in 1841 with Benjamin Winchester, an early Mormon missionary, writer, and dissident, who rejected the leadership of Brigham Young and the Twelve after 1844. This theory also claims that three unsigned editorials on Central America and the Book of Mormon published in the Times and Seasons on September 15 and October 1, 1842, were written by Benjamin Winchester, who successfully conspired with other dissidents to publish them against the will of the Prophet. Three articles address these claims. The first article addressed two questions: Did Joseph Smith, as some have claimed, know the details of and put forth a revealed Book of Mormon geography? Second, what is a Mesoamerican geography and does it constitute a believable motive for a proposed Winchester conspiracy? This second article provides additional historical background on the question of Joseph Smith’s thinking on the Book of Mormon by examining the influence of John L. Stephen’s 1841 work, Incidents of Travel in Central America, upon early Latter-day Saints, including Joseph Smith.

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Skousen, Royal. “Tyndale Versus More in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 13 (2015): 1-8.
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In 1526 William Tyndale’s English-language The New Testament started showing up in England, printed in the Low Lands and smuggled into England because it was an illegal book. It represented an unapproved translation of the scriptures into the English language. In theory, a translation would have been allowed if the Church had approved it in advance. In reality, the Church was not interested in any translation of the scriptures since that would allow lay readers to interpret the scriptures on their own and to come to different conclusions regarding Church practices and doctrine. Moreover, scripture formed a fundamental role in the rise of the Protestant Reformation and, in particular, Lutheranism, which King Henry VIII had officially opposed, in the governing of his realm and in his own writings in defense of the Catholic Church (for which the Church had honored him with the title of Defender of the Faith).

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Skousen, Royal. “Restoring the Original Text of the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 107-117.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, under the editorship of Royal Skousen, began in 1988 and is now nearing completion. In 2001, facsimile transcripts of the two Book of Mormon manuscripts (volumes 1 and 2 of the critical text) were published by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). From 2004 to 2009 the six books of volume 4 of the critical text, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, were published, also by FARMS. Parts 1 and 2 of volume 3 of the critical text, The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon, will be published in early 2015. These two parts will describe all the grammatical editing that the Book of Mormon text has undergone, from 1829 up to the present. When all six parts of volume 3 of the critical text have been published, volume 5 of the critical text, A Complete Electronic Collation of the Book of Mormon, will be released. Within the next couple years, the Joseph Smith Papers will publish photographs of the two Book of Mormon manuscripts, along with transcriptions based on volumes 1 and 2 of the critical text. Nearly all of the work of the project has involved the knowledge and periodic involvement of the Scriptures Committee of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The project itself, however, remains independent of the Church, and none of its findings have involved any ecclesiastical approval or endorsement.

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Smith, Gerald E. Schooling the Prophet: How the Book of Mormon Influenced Joseph Smith and the Early Restoration. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, 2015.
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Joseph Smith wasn’t merely the Book of Mormon’s prophetic translator - he was also a student of the sacred record. Schooling the Prophet offers evidence that the Latter-day Saint prophet was quietly influenced by one of the most important sources of religious thought and sacred protocol that he knew - the Book of Mormon - on issues such as the nature of God, priesthood, and the temple.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Book of Mormon, use and influence
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Smith, Troy J. The War Against Christianity: History and Geography of Ancient America in the Book of Mormon. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, Inc., 2015.
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In ancient America, one small band of Christians spent centuries on the brink of annihilation. This fascinating look at the geographical, political, and religious subcultures of the Book of Mormon shows how Nephite Christianity fared against the barbaric paganism that dominated that part of the world. Backed by scriptural evidence, this book will profoundly change the way you read the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon
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Spencer, David E. Captain Moroni’s Command: Dynamics of Warfare in the Book of Mormon. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, Inc., 2015.
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“Join the ranks and fight alongside Captain Moroni in this in-depth look at the wars, battles, and conflicts in the book of Alma war chapters. In this book, you’ll discover: what made the Nephites successful even when they were outnumbered; how the Nephites’ military strategies provide further proof of the Book of Mormon’s authenticity; why Mormon focused so much attention on the Alma war chapters; how Moroni follows the timeless principles of war; and why these wars transformed both Nephite and Lamanite societies.” [From back of book]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Study; Book of Mormon, evidence; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Spencer, Stan. “Reflections of Urim: Hebrew Poetry Sheds Light on the Directors-Interpreters Mystery.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 187-207.
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Abstract: In the early editions of the Book of Mormon, Alma refers to the Nephite interpreters as directors. Because director(s) elsewhere refers to the brass ball that guided Lehi’s family through the wilderness, Alma’s use of the term was apparently considered a mistake, and directors was changed to interpreters for the 1920 edition of the Book of Mormon. There are reasons, however, to believe that Alma’s use of directors was intentional. I present contextual evidence that Alma was actually using the Hebrew word urim, which was later translated into English as directors (for the interpreters) and director (for the brass ball), and biblical evidence that those translations are appropriate. Alma may have called the instruments urim to emphasize their sacred importance. As English prose, Alma’s discussion of these sacred instruments is wordy and at times confusing. As Hebrew poetry built around the word urim, it makes more sense. Alma’s apparent sophisticated use of this word suggests that he had a thorough understanding of the ancient connotations of urim and remarkable talent as a classical Hebrew poet.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Spendlove, Loren Blake. “Say Now Shibboleth, or Maybe Cumorah.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 15 (2015): 33-63.
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Abstract: The Deseret Alphabet represents a bold but failed attempt by 19th century LDS Church leaders to revolutionize English language orthography. As 21st century members of the LDS Church, we can benefit from this less than successful experiment by studying the 1869 Deseret Alphabet Book of Mormon and learning how early church members most likely pronounced Book of Mormon names.

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Stubbs, Brian D. Exploring the Explanatory Power of Semitic and Egyptian in Uto-Aztecan. Provo, UT: Grover Publications, 2015.
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Believers and non-believers have both assembled their separate sets of misconceptions about the Book of Mormon. So as truth emerges, everyone gets to be surprised in some ways, including the author. Previous thoughts on Book of Mormon language have been tEthered to the text. As a linguist, knowledgeable in Egyptian and Semitic languages, and as a leading authority in a relevant Native American language family, the author brings togEther evidence for an enlightening line of language history from Nephi to Now. His studies in comparative Uto-Aztecan clarify a number of Book of Mormon language matters.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Thompson, A. Keith. “Who Was Sherem?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 1-15.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon’s first anti-Christ, Sherem, “came among” the Nephites before their first generation was ended. Because he was an eloquent believer in the Law of Moses, there has been a variety of surmise as to his background. Was he a Lamanite, or a Jaredite or Mulekite trader? Was his presence among the separated Nephites evidence of early interaction between the Nephites and other civilisations in Nephite lands from the time of their first arrival? This short article reviews the various suggestions about Sherem’s identity and suggests he was most likely a descendant of the original Lehite party but that his identity was purposely suppressed so as not to give him more credibility than he deserved.

Keywords: Antichrist; Jacob (Son of Lehi); Sherem
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
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Thompson, A. Keith. “The Doctrine of Resurrection in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 16 (2015): 101-129.
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Abstract: The doctrine of resurrection was taught by Lehi and Jacob among the first Nephites but was not mentioned again in the record until the time of Abinadi, perhaps 350 years later. In the court of King Noah that doctrine and the idea of a suffering Messiah who would bear the sins of his people and redeem them, were heresies and Abinadi paid for them with his life. While Abinadi’s testimony converted Alma1 and the doctrine of the resurrection inspired Alma2 after his conversion, it was a source of schism in the church at Zarahemla along lines that remind us of the Sadducees at Jerusalem. The doctrine of the resurrection taught in the Book of Mormon is a precursor to the doctrine now understood by the Latter-day Saints in the light of modern revelation. One example is that the Nephite prophets used the term first resurrection differently than we do. But perhaps the most remarkable thing about the way that the doctrine of resurrection develops in the Book of Mormon, is that it develops consistently. That consistency bears further testimony to the prophetic mission of Joseph Smith. He could not have done that by himself.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [4229]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64865  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:17
Welch, John W., Gordon A. Madsen, and Jeffrey N. Walker, eds. Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith’s Legal Encounters. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2015.
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Joseph Smith believed in sustaining the law. This book presents his main legal encounters in the context of his day. Party to more than two hundred suits in the courts of New York, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and elsewhere, he faced criminal charges as well as civil claims and collection matters. In the end, he was never convicted of any crime, and he paid his debts. These incidents were significant institutionally as well as personally. Eleven legal scholars analyze these legal encounters. Topics cover constitutional law, copyright, disorderly conduct, association, assault, marriage, banking, land preemptive rights, treason, municipal charters, bankruptcy, guardianship, habeas corpus, adultery, and freedom of the press. A 53-page legal chronology presents key information about Joseph’s life in the law. An appendix provides biographies of sixty lawyers and judges with whom he was involved, some being the best legal minds of his day. This book is for anyone interested in the life of Joseph Smith, whether general readers, historians, lawyers, or law students. Each chapter tells a fascinating story based on controlling legal documents—many just recently discovered—that allow detailed legal analysis and accurate understanding. The full book is available for free here: Sustaining the Law, edited by Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. walker, and John W. Welch Individual chapters: Preface Introduction Joseph Smith and the Constitution The Smiths and Religious Freedom Jesse Smiths 1814 Church Tax Protest Standing as a Credible Witness in 1819 Being Acquitted of a Disorderly Person Charge in 1826 Securing the Book of Mormon Copyright in 1829 Organizing the Church as a Religious Association in 1830 Winning against Hurlbuts Assault in 1834 Performing Legal Marriages in Ohio in 1835 Looking Legally at the Kirtland Safety Society Tabulating the Impact of Litigation on the Kirtland Economy Losing Land Claims and the Missouri Conflict in 1838 Imprisonment by Austin Kings Court of Inquiry in 1838 Protecting Nauvoo by Illinois Charter in 1840 Suffering Shipwreck and Bankruptcy in 1842 and Beyond Serving as Guardian under the Lawrence Estate 1842-1844 Invoking Habeas Corpus in Missouri and Illinois Defining Adultery under Illinois and Nauvoo Law Legally Suppressing the Nauvoo Expositor in 1844 Legal Chronology of Joseph Smith Lawyers and Judges in the Legal Cases of Joseph Smith Glossary of Early Nineteenth-Century Legal Terms Contributors Index

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75343]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,church-history,smith-joseph-jr,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:40
WIlliams, Frederick G. Poets of Mozambique: A Bilingual Selection. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2015.
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There are twenty-seven poets represented in this bilingual anthology and over 130 poems; these range from the sixteenth century to the present but with the bulk coming from the twentieth century. There is also a broad range of topics and political points of view, as well as a diversity of racial and cultural ethnicity represented among the poets. But whether they were native African, Portuguese-born, or mestizo, the principle guiding criterion for their inclusion is their poems’ inherent literary value.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75325]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:39
Wirth, Diane E. “Celestial Visits in the Scriptures, and a Plausible Mesoamerican Tradition.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 55-75.
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Abstract: Scriptural accounts of celestial beings visiting the earth are abundant in both the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Whether a descending deity or angelic beings from celestial realms, they were often accompanied by clouds. In this paper a short analysis of the various types of clouds, including imitation clouds (incense), will be discussed. The relation between the phenomenon of supernatural beings, sometimes in clouds, may have had a great influence on descendants of Book of Mormon cultures. For these people, stories that were told from one generation to the next would have been considered ancient mythological lore. It may be plausible that future generations attempted to duplicate the same type scenario of celestial beings speaking and visiting their people. These events were sometimes recorded in stone.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [4254]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 42330  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:18
Wright, Mark Alan. “Heartland as Hinterland: The Mesoamerican Core and North American Periphery of Book of Mormon Geography.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 13 (2015): 111-129.
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Abstract: The best available evidence for the Book of Mormon continues to support a limited Mesoamerican model. However, Alma 63 indicates that there was a massive northward migration in the mid-first century bc. I argue that these north-bound immigrants spread out over the centuries and established settlements that were geographically distant from the core Nephite area, far beyond the scope of the text of the Book of Mormon. I introduce the Hinterland Hypothesis and argue that it can harmonize the Mesoamerican evidence for the Book of Mormon with Joseph Smith’s statements concerning Nephite and Lamanite material culture in North America. Archaeological and anthropological evidence is used to demonstrate that migrations and cultural influence did in fact spread northward from Mesoamerica into North America in pre-Columbian times.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [4269]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 39030  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:19
Mdletshe, Khumbulani Desmond. “Diversity: The Strength of Book of Mormon Prophets.” Religious Educator Vol. 16 no. 2 (2015).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Chastity
RSC Topics > D — F > Diversity
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
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Reynolds, Noel B. “The Gospel According to Nephi: An Essay on 2 Nephi 31.” Religious Educator Vol. 16 no. 2 (2015).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > G — K > Gospel of Jesus Christ
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Toit, Herman du. “Minerva Teichert’s The Seduction of Corianton.” BYU Studies Quarterly 54, no. 2 (2015): 162-165.
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A previously unknown oil sketch by Minerva Teichert (1888–1976), the pioneering LDS woman artist, was recently acquired by an art collector when it came up for sale in Salt Lake City. This small painting depicts the temptation of Corianton, a son of Alma in the Book of Mormon. The painting had been owned for many years by a Wyoming rancher who received it from Teichert as a birthday gift when he was a boy in the early 1950s. This article introduces The Seduction of Corianton, including a full-color scan of the painting.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [10828]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 7231  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:00
Johnson, Daniel L. “‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses.” BYU Studies Quarterly 54, no. 3 (2015): 149-179.
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The suggestion of horses and chariots in pre–Columbian America has long been an easy target for critics of the Book of Mormon. In spite of difficulties in defending this claim, and although the evidence is incomplete, the geological and archaeological record does provide support for horses and even wheeled vehicles in ancient America. Several theories that attempt to address the issue of pre–Columbian horses are examined in this article, some of which are mutually exclusive. Therefore, not all can be correct. Evidence presented in this article includes (1) archaeological evidence for large animals used for draft and transportation; (2) wheeled artifacts showing a person or animal riding on an obviously artificial wheeled platform; (3) the possibility that Book of Mormon peoples referred to native animals such as the Baird’s tapir with names such as horse that they were familiar with; (4) early accounts suggesting that Native Americans had horses too early for them to come from strays that escaped the Spanish conquistadors, especially since the Spanish kept very careful records of their horses; (5) the prevalence of the pinto or piebald horse among Native Americans and its relative absence among Spanish expeditions; (6)images in Mesoamerican art that might depict horses; (7) evidence that horses survived far longer after the last ice age than previously thought; and (8) the question of the Bashkir Curly.

Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Ancient America - North America; Ancient America - South America; Animals; Book of Mormon Geography - Mesoamerica; Horses
ID = [10810]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-03  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 50351  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:00
Rees, Robert A. “John Milton, Joseph Smith, and the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 54, no. 3 (2015): 6-18.
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This comparison of Joseph Smith and John Milton focuses on their literary output and especially the preparation each had for dictating a long religious work, in Milton’s case Paradise Lost and in Smith’s the Book of Mormon. Most notable authors, including Milton, had a long apprenticeship that involved writing several “try works,” practice works that served as tutorials and stepping stones preparing their authors for their magnum opus. Joseph Smith had no such trial period for learning how to weave together intricate subplots, multitudes of characters, and historical background detail. Milton, in particular, had all the advantages of a first-rate English education. Smith, by contrast,had the most meager of educational opportunities. According to his wife, at the time he dictated the Book of Mormon, he “could neither write nor dictate a coherent and well-worded letter.” In spite of these disadvantages, Smith dictated most of the Book of Mormon over a period of less than three months, whereas Milton’s dictation of Paradise Lost took place over more than a decade. While it has been popular since 1830 for critics to debunk or diminish the Book of Mormon, it has stood the test of time in more ways than one.

Keywords: Authorship; Early Church History; John; Joseph; Jr.; Literature; Milton; Smith; Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Rust, Richard Dilworth. “Beholding the Tree of Life: A Rabbinic Approach to the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 54, no. 3 (2015): 184.
ID = [10813]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-03  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 7604  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:00
Schmidt, Brent J. “Grace in the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 54, no. 4 (2016): 119-134.
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Teachings about grace in the Book of Mormon are more at home in the worlds of the Bible and the ancient Mediterranean than in the modern understanding that grace is a free, unearned gift. The Book of Mormon teaches that grace is part of a covenant that places requirements on the receiver. Grace manifests God’s goodness to humankind and is closely aligned with mercy and Christ’s Atonement to meet the demands of justice and make salvation possible. It parallels the meanings of hesed (mercy) from the Old Testament and the concept that all gifts give rise to reciprocal obligations, which prevailed in the ancient world.

Keywords: Doctrine; Grace
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Interpreter Foundation. “David Bokovoy on ‘Holiness to the Lord: Biblical Temple Imagery in the Sermons of Jacob the Priest’” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 17, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [5116]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-01-17  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 539  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:25
Interpreter Foundation. “William Hamblin on ‘Jacob’s Sermon (2 Nephi 6-10) and the Day of Atonement’” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 31, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [5117]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-01-31  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 499  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:25
Interpreter Foundation. “Mark Alan Wright on ‘Axes Mundi: A Comparative Analysis of Nephite and Mesoamerican Temple and Ritual Complexes’” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 8, 2015.
ID = [5118]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-02-08  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 527  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:25
Interpreter Foundation. “Announcing a Conference: Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 16, 2015.
ID = [5791]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-02-16  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 760  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Aston, Warren P. “The Gold Plates of King Darius.” Meridian Magazine, March 3, 2015.
ID = [66535]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-03-03  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:40
Interpreter Foundation. “Reminder of Saturday’s Conference: Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 12, 2015.
ID = [5793]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-03-12  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 775  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Carmack, Stanford A. “Exploding the Myth of Unruly Book of Mormon Grammar.” Paper presented at the 2015 Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon Conference. March 14, 2015.
ID = [6883]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2015-03-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Frederick, Nicholas J. “‘Full of grace, mercy, and truth’: The New Testament in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2015 Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon Conference. March 14, 2015.
ID = [6885]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2015-03-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Interpreter Foundation. “2015 Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon Conference.” March 14, 2015. Sponsored by BYU Studies and the Interpreter Foundation. Provo, Utah.
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Microfilms, Films and Videos

Peterson, Daniel C. “Welcome to 2015 Exploring the Complexities Conference.” Paper presented at the 2015 Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon Conference. March 14, 2015.
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Martin, Jan J. “Charity, Priest, and Church versus Love, Elder, and Congregation.” Paper presented at the 2015 Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon Conference. March 14, 2015.
ID = [6884]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2015-03-14  Collections:  interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Skousen, Royal. “A theory! A theory! We have already got a theory, and there cannot be any more….” Paper presented at the 2015 Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon Conference. March 14, 2015.
ID = [6886]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2015-03-14  Collections:  interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Welch, John W. “Concluding Remarks at 2015 Exploring the Complexities Conference.” Paper presented at the 2015 Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon Conference. March 14, 2015.
ID = [6887]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2015-03-14  Collections:  interpreter-website,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:36
Burton, Linda K. “We’ll Ascend Together.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2015.
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Linda K. Burton teaches that as men and women keep their covenants and strengthen each other, all can reach their full potential.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [22309]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2015-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 366  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:06
Pearson, Kevin W. “Stay by the Tree.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2015.
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Kevin W. Pearson explains how Lehi’s vision of the tree of life teaches us what we must do to endure to the end.

ID = [22401]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2015-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 8123  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:06
Ringwood, Michael T. “Truly Good and without Guile.” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2015.
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Michael T. Ringwood teaches that we can become like Shiblon in the Book of Mormon as we are truly good and without guile.

ID = [22347]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2015-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 9745  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:06
Interpreter Foundation. “Videos Now Available of 2015 Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon Conference.” The Interpreter Foundation website. April 9, 2015.
ID = [5124]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-04-09  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 567  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:25
Ensign. “Book of Mormon in 110 Languages.” Ensign May 2015.
ID = [61019]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 967  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:42
Burton, Linda K. “We’ll Ascend Together.” Ensign, May 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [60980]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12196  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:42
Eyring, Henry B. “Families Can Be Together Forever.” Ensign, June 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [61036]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4076  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:42
Interpreter Foundation. “Matthew L. Bowen on ‘‘I Have Done According to My Will’: Reading Jacob 5 as a Temple Text’” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 11, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [5130]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-06-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 525  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:25
Holland, Matthew S. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, July 2015.
ID = [61086]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 16087  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:43
Paustenbaugh, Jennifer. “When Your Bow Breaks.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, July 7, 2015.
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Like Nephi, each one of us is likely to experience the breaking of a bow—a major life challenge that has all the makings of a personal or family disaster or one that has all the makings of an opportunity to grow.

Keywords: Trials; Collection: Overcoming Adversity; Podcast: Come; Follow Me; Podcast: Overcoming Adversity
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Interpreter Foundation. “Daniel C. Peterson welcomes to ‘2015 Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon’” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 19, 2015.
ID = [5135]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-07-19  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 565  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:25
Interpreter Foundation. “Stanford Carmack on ‘Exploding the Myth of Unruly Book of Mormon Grammar: A Look at the Excellent Match with Early Modern English’” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 25, 2015.
ID = [5136]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-07-25  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 558  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:25
Gardner, Brant A. “History and Historicity in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.
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Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon Geography - Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon Historicity
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Hilton, Joni. “Can I Get a Book of Mormon?” Ensign, August 2015.
ID = [61135]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2290  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:43
Interpreter Foundation. “Jan J. Martin on ‘Charity, Priest, and Church versus Love, Elder, and Congregation: The Book of Mormon’s connection to the debate between William Tyndale and Thomas More’” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 15, 2015.
ID = [5137]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-08-15  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 564  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:25
Interpreter Foundation. “Nick Frederick on ‘‘Full of grace, mercy, and truth’: Exploring the Complexities of the Presence of the New Testament within the Book of Mormon’” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 30, 2015.
ID = [5138]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-08-30  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 574  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:25
Barfield, Kelly L. “Becoming Christlike: Mosiah 3:19.” Ensign, September 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [61156]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 327  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:43
Merrill, Gary. “Using DNA to Discover the Origins of Hiram Page, Witness to the Book of Mormon.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 35, no. 2 (Fall, 2015): 181-189.
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The article describes how DNA was used to discover the probable identity of the parents and family of Hiram Page, a central figure of the early Mormon movement. The primary subjects of the DNA study were a 5th generation descendant of Hiram Page and a 5th generation descendant of Philander Page and the testing was done by Family Tree DNA while the Page DNA surname project was used for comparison together with YSearch, the online Y-DNA database.

Keywords: Page, Hiram; Family history; Book of Mormon, witnesses
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Interpreter Foundation. “John W. Welch’s Concluding Remarks at 2015 Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 27, 2015.
ID = [5140]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-09-27  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 568  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:25
Tvedtnes, John A. “The Hilt Thereof Was of Pure Gold.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 4, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4842]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-10-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 8944  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:01
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 1, ‘The Keystone of Our Religion’” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 8, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [6109]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-11-08  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 911  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 2, ‘All Things According to His Will’” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 8, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [6110]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2015-11-08  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 864  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 3, The Vision of the Tree of Life.” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 8, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 4, ‘The Things Which I Saw While I Was Carried Away in the Spirit’” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 19, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 5, ‘Hearken to the Truth, and Give Heed unto It’” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 19, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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McMurray, Peter. “A Voice Crying from the Dust: The Book of Mormon as Sound.” Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought 48, no. 4 (Winter, 2015): 3-44.
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This article discusses the conundrum of written scripture’s attempt to convey doctrines and experiences that generally included audio and/or visual, such as visions, voices from heaven, and sermons. It highlights three levels of aural logics in the Book of Mormon : the book’s repeated self-characterization as “a voice crying from the dust,” the undermining of the stability of writing by sounding and hearing in the larger narrative of the book, and the process of producing the book in the 1820’s.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon; Scriptures
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Aston, Warren P. Lehi and Sariah in Arabia: the Old World Setting of the Book of Mormon. Bloomington IN:Xlibris Publishing, 2015.
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A 21st Century re-examination of the most-read book to emerge from the Western Hemisphere, the Book of Mormon. As Mormonism grows into a world faith, the veracity of its founding scripture has never been more important. The three decades of Arabian exploration reported in Lehi and Sariah in Arabia identifies specific locations for the 8 year journey described in the text, allowing Nephi’s account to emerge with new clarity and enhanced plausibility.

Keywords: Arabia; Bountiful (Old World); Khor Kharfot; Lehi’s Trail; Nahom; Oman; Wilderness; Yemen
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Horne, Dennis B. “Thoughts on Evidences for the Historical Authenticity of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 27, 2015.
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2016
Aston, Warren P. “Khor Kharfot, Dhofar Archaeological Survey.” The BFSA Bulletin, No. 21, 18-19. London: British Foundation for the Study of Arabia, 2016.
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A survey of the extensive human traces at the site was completed in 2014 by the Texas-based Khor Kharfot Foundation (www.khor-kharfot-foundation.com), which has had collaboration with Sultan Oaboos University (SOU) and assistance from Dhofar University. Fieldwork will commence in 2016 in collaboration with Oman’s Ministry of Heritage and Culture, as Warren Aston reports.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Arabia; Archaeology; Bountiful; Khor Kharfot; Oman
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Austin, Michael. Buried Treasures: Reading the Book of Mormon Again for the First Time. Salt Late City, UT: By Common Consent Press, 2016.
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“The forty-four short essays in this volume were all published on the By Common Consent blog between January and December of 2016. They are a record of my year-long engagement with the text of the Book of Mormon. I have made very few changes in the essays beyond some light copy editing and removing a handful of very dated references to political and cultural events of that year. These are not scholarly articles, or even well-thought-out personal essays; rather, they are a record of a deeply personal experiment upon the word…they show…that the Book of Mormon is a profound and complex text full of sophisticated narrative devices, recurring themes and patterns, and big ideas that can sustain a high level of critical analysis.” [Author]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, use and influence; Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon
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Barney, Quinten Zehn. “Samuel the Lamanite, Christ, and Zenos: A Study of Intertextuality.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 159-170.
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Abstract: During Christ’s mortal ministry at Jerusalem, his teachings often drew upon the writings of Isaiah, Moses, and other prophets with whom his audience was familiar. On the other hand, Christ never seems to quote Nephi, Mosiah, or other Book of Mormon prophets to the Jews and their surrounding neighbors, despite being the ultimate source for their inspired writings. It is because of this apparent confinement to Old Testament sources that intertextual parallels between the words of Christ in Matthew 23–24 and the words of Samuel the Lamanite in Helaman 13–15 jump out as intriguing. This paper explores the intertextual relationship between these chapters in Helaman and Matthew and suggests that the parallels between these texts can be attributed to a common source available to both Samuel and Christ, the writings of the prophet Zenos.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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Baugh, Alexander L. “The Testimonies of the Book of Mormon Witnesses.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Berkey, Kimberly M. “Works of Darkness: Secret Combinations and Covenant Displacement in the Book of Mormon.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
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Bowen, Gregory A. “Sounding Sacred: The Adoption of Biblical Archaisms in the Book of Mormon and other 19th Century Texts.” PhD diss., Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2016.
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“The Book of Mormon is a text published in 1830 and considered a sacred work of scripture by adherents of the Latter-day Saint movement. Although written 200 years later, it exhibits many linguistic features of the King James translation of the Bible. Such stylistic imitation has been little studied, though a notable exception is Sigelman & Jacoby (1996). Three hypotheses are considered: that this is a feature of 19th century religious texts, and the Book of Mormon adopts the style of its genre as a religious text; that this is a feature of translations of ancient texts, and the Book of Mormon adopts the style of its genre as a purported translation of ancient records; that Joseph Smith, who produced the Book of Mormon, absorbed the idiom of the King James Bible and used it in his writings generally. A selection of 19th century religious and translated texts are evaluated, along with personal letters of Joseph Smith, with consideration given to a wide range of archaic features, including lexemes, morpho-syntactic features, and idiomatic expressions. The rates are compared to those in the King James Bible and to the Corpus of Historical American English, which serves as a control for 19th century usage.” [Author]

Keywords: Writing style, 19th century; Bible, use and influence; Smith, Joseph, Jr., writings; Smith, Joseph, Jr., Bible and
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘He Is a Good Man’: The Fulfillment of Helaman 5:6-7 in Helaman 8:7 and 11:18-19.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 17 (2016): 165-170.
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Abstract: Mormon, as an author and editor, was concerned to show the fulfillment of earlier Nephite prophecy when such fulfillment occurred. Mormon took care to show that Nephi and Lehi, the sons of Helaman, fulfilled their father’s prophetic and paranetic expectations regarding them as enshrined in their given names — the names of their “first parents.” It had been “said and also written” (Helaman 5:6-7) that Nephi’s and Lehi’s namesakes were “good” in 1 Nephi 1:1. Using onomastic play on the meaning of “Nephi,” Mormon demonstrates in Helaman 8:7 that it also came to be said and written of Nephi the son of Helaman that he was “good.” Moreover, Mormon shows Nephi that his brother Lehi was “not a whit behind him” in this regard (Helaman 11:19). During their lifetimes — i.e., during the time of the fulfillment of Mosiah’s forewarning regarding societal and political corruption (see Mosiah 29:27) that especially included secret combinations — Nephi and Lehi stood firm against increasingly popular organized evil.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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Bowen, Matthew L. “Nephi’s Good Inclusio.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 17 (2016): 181-195.
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Abstract: As John Gee noted two decades ago, Nephi is best explained as a form of the Egyptian word nfr, which by Lehi’s time was pronounced neh-fee, nay-fee, or nou-fee. Since this word means “good,” “goodly,” “fine,” or “fair,” I subsequently posited several possible examples of wordplay on the name Nephi in the Book of Mormon, including Nephi’s own autobiographical introduction (1 Nephi 1:1: “I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents … having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God”). It should be further pointed out, however, that Nephi also concludes his personal writings on the small plates using the terms “good” and “goodness of God.” This terminological bracketing constitutes a literary device, used anciently, called inclusio or an envelope figure. Nephi’s literary emphasis on “good” and “goodness” not only befits his personal name, but fulfills the Lord’s commandment, “thou shalt engraven many things … which are good in my sight” (2 Nephi 5:30), a command which also plays on the name Nephi. Nephi’s autobiographical introduction and conclusion proved enormously influential on subsequent writers who modeled autobiographical and narrative biographical introductions on 1 Nephi 1:1-2 and based sermons — especially concluding sermons — on Nephi’s “good” conclusion in 2 Nephi 33. An emphasis in all these sermons is that all “good”/“goodness” ultimately has its source in God and Christ.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘They Were Moved with Compassion’ (Alma 27:4; 53:13): Toponymic Wordplay on Zarahemla and Jershon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 233-253.
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Abstract: As in Hebrew biblical narrative, wordplay on (or play on the meaning of) toponyms, or “place names,” is a discernable feature of Book of Mormon narrative. The text repeatedly juxtaposes the toponym Jershon (“place of inheritance” or “place of possession”) with terms inherit, inheritance, possess, possession, etc. Similarly, the Mulekite personal name Zarahemla (“seed of compassion,” “seed of pity”), which becomes the paramount Nephite toponym as their national capital after the time of Mosiah I, is juxtaposed with the term compassion. Both wordplays occur and recur at crucial points in Nephite/Lamanite history. Moreover, both occur in connection with the migration of the first generation Lamanite converts. The Jershon wordplay recurs in the second generation, when the people of Ammon receive the Zoramite (re)converts into the land of Jershon, and wordplay on Zarahemla recurs subsequently, when the sons of these Lamanite converts come to the rescue of the Nephite nation. Rhetorical wordplay on Zarahemla also surfaces in important speeches later in the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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Bowen, Matthew L. “Onomastic Wordplay on Joseph and Benjamin and Gezera Shawa in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 255-273.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon contains several quotations from the Hebrew Bible that have been juxtaposed on the basis of shared words or phrases, this for the purpose of interpreting the cited scriptural passages in light of one another. This exegetical technique — one that Jesus himself used — came to be known in later rabbinic times as Gezera Shawa (“equal statute”). In several additional instances, the use of Gezera Shawa converges with onomastic wordplay. Nephi uses a Gezera Shawa involving Isaiah 11:11 and Isaiah 29:14 twice on the basis of the yāsap verb forms yôsîp/yôsīp (2 Nephi 25:17 and quoting the Lord in 2 Nephi 29:1) to create a stunning wordplay on the name “Joseph.” In another instance, King Benjamin uses Gezera Shawa involving Psalm 2:7, 2 Samuel 7:14, and Deuteronomy 14:1 (1–2) on the basis of the Hebrew noun bēn (“son”; plural bānîm, bānôt, “sons” and “daughters”) on which to build a rhetorical wordplay on his own name. This second wordplay, which further alludes to Psalm 110:1 on account of the noun yāmin (“right hand”), was ready-made for his temple audience who, on the occasion of Mosiah’s coronation, were receiving their own “endowment” to become “sons” and “daughters” at God’s “right hand.” The use of Gezera Shawa was often christological — e.g., Jacob’s Gezera Shawa on (“stone”) in Jacob 4:15–17 and Alma’s Gezera Shawa on Zenos’s and Zenock’s phrase “because of thy Son” in Alma 33:11–16 (see Alma 33:4 17). Taken together, these examples suggest that we should pay more attention to scripture’s use of scripture and, in particular, the use of this exegetical practice. In doing so, we will better discern the messages intended by ancient prophets whose words the Book of Mormon preserves.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘My People Are Willing’: The Mention of Aminadab in the Narrative Context of Helaman 5-6.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 19 (2016): 83-107.
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Abstract: Aminadab, a Nephite by birth who later dissented to the Lamanites, played a crucial role in the mass conversion of three hundred Lamanites (and eventually many others). At the end of the pericope in which these events are recorded, Mormon states: “And thus we see that the Lord began to pour out his Spirit upon the Lamanites, because of their easiness and willingness to believe in his words” (Helaman 6:36), whereas he “began to withdraw” his Spirit from the Nephites “because of the wickedness and the hardness of their hearts” (Helaman 6:35). The name Aminadab is a Semitic/Hebrew name meaning “my kinsman is willing” or “my people are willing.” As a dissenter, Aminadab was a man of two peoples. Mormon and (probably) his source were aware of the meaning of Aminadab’s name and the irony of that meaning in the context of the latter’s role in the Lamanite conversions and the spiritual history of the Nephites and Lamanites. The narrative’s mention of Aminadab’s name (Helaman 5:39, 41) and Mormon’s echoes of it in Helaman 6:36, 3 Nephi 6:14, and elsewhere have covenant and temple significance not only in their ancient scriptural setting, but for latter-day readers of the Book of Mormon today.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘See That Ye Are Not Lifted Up’: The Name Zoram and Its Paronomastic Pejoration.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 19 (2016): 109-143.
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Abstract: The most likely etymology for the name Zoram is a third person singular perfect qal or pôʿal form of the Semitic/Hebrew verb *zrm, with the meaning, “He [God] has [is] poured forth in floods.” However, the name could also have been heard and interpreted as a theophoric –rām name, of which there are many in the biblical Hebrew onomasticon (Ram, Abram, Abiram, Joram/Jehoram, Malchiram, etc., cf. Hiram [Hyrum]/Huram). So analyzed, Zoram would connote something like “the one who is high,” “the one who is exalted” or even “the person of the Exalted One [or high place].” This has important implications for the pejoration of the name Zoram and its gentilic derivative Zoramites in Alma’s and Mormon’s account of the Zoramite apostasy and the attempts made to rectify it in Alma 31–35 (cf. Alma 38–39). The Rameumptom is also described as a high “stand” or “a place for standing, high above the head” (Heb. rām; Alma 31:13) — not unlike the “great and spacious building” (which “stood as it were in the air, high above the earth”; see 1 Nephi 8:26) — which suggests a double wordplay on the name “Zoram” in terms of rām and Rameumptom in Alma 31. Moreover, Alma plays on the idea of Zoramites as those being “high” or “lifted up” when counseling his son Shiblon to avoid being like the Zoramites and replicating the mistakes of his brother Corianton (Alma 38:3-5, 11-14). Mormon, perhaps influenced by the Zoramite apostasy and the magnitude of its effects, may have incorporated further pejorative wordplay on the Zoram-derived names Cezoram and Seezoram in order to emphasize that the Nephites had become lifted up in pride like the Zoramites during the judgeships of those judges. The Zoramites and their apostasy represent a type of Latter-day Gentile pride and apostasy, which Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni took great pains to warn against.
“For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted” (Luke 14:11).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Bowen, Matthew L. “Alma — Young Man, Hidden Prophet.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 19 (2016): 343-353.
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Abstract: The biographical introduction of Alma the Elder into the Book of Mormon narrative (Mosiah 17:2) also introduces the name Alma into the text for the first time, this in close juxtaposition with a description of Alma as a “young man.” The best explanation for the name Alma is that it derives from the Semitic term ǵlm (Hebrew ʿelem), “young man,” “youth,” “lad.” This suggests the strong probability of an intentional wordplay on the name Alma in the Book of Mormon’s underlying text: Alma became “[God’s] young man” or “servant.” Additional lexical connections between Mosiah 17:2 and Mosiah 14:1 (quoting Isaiah 53:1) suggest that Abinadi identified Alma as the one “to whom” or “upon whom” (ʿal-mî) the Lord was “reveal[ing]” his arm as Abinadi’s prophetic successor. Alma began his prophetic succession when he “believed” Abinadi’s report and pled with King Noah for Abinadi’s life. Forced to flee, Alma began his prophetic ministry “hidden” and “concealed” while writing the words of Abinadi and teaching them “privately.” The narrative’s dramatic emphasis on this aspect of Alma’s life suggests an additional thread of wordplay that exploits the homonymy between Alma and the Hebrew root *ʿlm, forms of which mean “to hide,” “conceal,” “be hidden,” “be concealed.” The richness of the wordplay and allusion revolving around Alma’s name in Mosiah 17–18 accentuates his importance as a prophetic figure and founder of the later Nephite church. Moreover, it suggests that Alma’s name was appropriate given the details of his life and that he lived up to the positive connotations latent in his name.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Bowen, Matthew L. “The Scalp of Your Head: Polysemy in Alma 44:14–18.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016): 39-45.
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Abstract: The fear that Moroni’s soldier’s speech (Alma 44:14) aroused in the Lamanite soldiers and the intensity of Zerahemnah’s subsequently redoubled anger are best explained by the polysemy (i.e., multiple meanings within a lexeme’s range of meaning) of a single word translated “chief” in Alma 44:14 and “heads” in Alma 44:18. As editor of a sacred history, Mormon was interested in showing the fulfilment of prophecy when such fulfilment occurred. Mormon’s description of the Lamanites “fall[ing] exceedingly fast” because of the exposure of the Lamanites’ “bare heads” to the Nephites’ swords and their being “smitten” in Alma 44:18 — just as “the scalp of their chief” was smitten and thus fell (Alma 44:12–14) — pointedly demonstrates the fulfilment of the soldier’s prophecy. In particular, the phrase “bare heads” constitutes a polysemic wordplay on “chief,” since words translated “head” can alternatively be translated “chief,” as in Alma 44:14. A similar wordplay on “top” and “leader” in 3 Nephi 4:28–29, probably again represented by a single word, also partly explains the force of the simile curse described there.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘O Ye Fair Ones’ — Revisited.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016): 315-344.
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Abstract: The best explanation for the name “Nephi” is that it derives from the Egyptian word nfr, “good,” “goodly,” “fine,” “fair,” “beautiful.” Nephi’s autobiographical wordplay on his own name in his self-introduction (and elsewhere throughout his writings) revolves around the evident meaning of his name. This has important implications for how the derived gentilic term “Nephites” was understood over time, especially among the Nephites themselves. Nephi’s early ethno-cultural descriptions of his people describe them as “fair” and “beautiful” (vis-à-vis the Lamanites). These early descriptions subsequently become the basis for Nephite ethno-cultural self-perceptions. The Nephites’ supposition that they were the “good” or “fair ones” was all too frequently at odds with reality, especially when Nephite “chosenness” was understood as inherent or innate. In the end the “good” or “fair ones” fell (Mormon 6:17‒20), because they came to “delight in everything save that which is good” (Moroni 9:19). The Book of Mormon thus constitutes a warning against our own contemporary cultural and religious tendency toward exceptionalism. Mormon and Moroni, like Nephi their ancestor through his writings on the small plates, endeavor through their own writing and editorial work to show how the “unbelieving” descendants of the Nephites and Lamanites can again become the “good” and the “fair ones” by choosing to come unto Christ, partaking of his “goodness,” and doing the “good” stipulated by the doctrine of Christ.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Boyce, Duane. “The Ammonites Were Not Pacifists.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016): 293-313.
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Abstract: Although it is common to believe that the Ammonites were pacifists, the report of their story demonstrates that this is a mistake. Appreciating the Ammonites’ non-pacifism helps us think more clearly about them, and it also explains several features of the text. These are textual elements that surprise us if we assume that the Ammonites were pacifists, but that make perfect sense once we understand that they were not. Moreover, in addition to telling us that the Ammonites were not pacifists, the text also gives us the actual reason the Ammonites came to eschew all conflict — and we learn from this why significant prophetic leaders (from King Benjamin to Alma to Mormon) did not reject the sword in the same way. The text also reveals the intellectual flaw in supposing that the Ammonites’ early acts of self-sacrifice set the proper example for all disciples to follow.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Boyce, Duane. “Reclaiming Jacob.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 107-129.
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Abstract. A chapter of Adam Miller’s Future Mormon concerns Jacob’s encounter with Sherem in Jacob 7. While novel, Miller’s treatment of Jacob and Sherem appears inadequate. He overlooks features of the text that seem to subvert his unconventional conclusions about them. This essay identifies a number of such matters, falling in four major categories, and shares thoughts on the need for perspective when discussing Jacob’s conduct — or the conduct of any prophet, for that matter. It also highlights the jeopardy we face of being the second group to fall for Sherem’s lies.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
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Brown, Amanda Colleen. “Out of the Dust: An Examination of Necromancy as a Literary Construct in the Book of Mormon.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 14, no. 2 (January, 2016): 27-37.
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Because it is commonly interpreted as a prophecy of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, Isaiah 29: 4 is a foundational scripture within the Latter-day Saint faith. However, one exegetical interpretation of this passage suggests necromancy is a thematic literary element. The definition of ancient necromancy carries greater literary weight than normally colloquially understood by Latter-day Saints, and uncovering the proper context and traditions through a literary interpretation establishes an interesting metaphor of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. Furthermore, defining the literary components harnessed by the original writers to exhibit YHWH’s elevated cultic status, as compared to proclaimed “foreign” religious practices, is essential in this discussion. Finally, theorizing that these literary elements are congruous with Book of Mormon passages would suggest that a reinterpretation of scripture in Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni is requisite. Indeed, the metaphor goes far beyond the basic concept of necromancy, thus providing a new perspective on ancient traditions and concepts. These ideas include: that the text itself is purported to speak out of the ground, that the necromancer has a very specific role, and that YHWH’s involvement in ancient Israelite court revelation is preeminent.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, origins; Bible, use and influence
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Brown, S. Kent. “Nice Try, But No Cigar: A Response to Three Patheos Posts on Nahom (1 Nephi 16:34).” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 19 (2016): 149-152.
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Abstract: A series of three Patheos posts on the subject of Nahom rings out-of-tune bells all over the place.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Calabro, David M. “Joseph Smith and the Architecture of Genesis.” In The Temple: Ancient and Restored. Proceedings of the 2014 Temple on Mount Zion Symposium, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Donald W. Parry. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Volume 3. 165–181. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2016.
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During his lifetime, Joseph Smith revealed at least four versions of what I will refer to as the “Genesis account,” which consists of the creation of the world, the experiences of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, and the events that befell them and their near posterity following the expulsion from the garden. These four versions each differ in important ways from the biblical text in Genesis, and they also differ one from another. The versions of the Genesis account include the following:

(1) scattered references found in the Book of Mormon;
(2) the biblical account as revised in the Book of Moses;
(3) the account in the Book of Abraham; and
(4) the version presented in the temple endowment.

I will focus on the second of these, the Book of Moses, especially chapters 1-7, which were revealed to Joseph Smith from June to December 1830. Many have already pointed out temple-related themes that abound in these chapters.

I will take these discoveries a step further, arguing that Moses 1-7 is fundamentally a ritual text whose elements are adapted to the physical features of the temple of Solomon. I will then discuss how this reading of the Book of Moses might interact with modern scholarship on the biblical book of Genesis, and finally how this reading of Moses can provide insight into ritual performances both ancient and modern

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses
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Carmack, Stanford A. “The More Part of the Book of Mormon Is Early Modern English.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 33-40.
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Royal Skousen has done an excellent job of summarizing the use of the construction “the more part of + ‹ NOUN PHRASE ›” (and close variants) in the Book of Mormon at Helaman 6:21 in his Analysis of Textual Variants. In this phrase, the adjective more conveys an obsolete meaning of ‘greater’. My concern here is to compare Book of Mormon usage to that of the King James Bible and the textual record and to place it in its proper time.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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Carmack, Stanford A. “Joseph Smith Read the Words.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 41-64.
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2 Nephi 27:20, 22, 24
wherefore thou shalt read the words which I shall give unto thee. . .Wherefore when thou hast read the words which I have commanded thee . . .the Lord shall say unto him that shall read the words that shall be delivered him.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Carmack, Stanford A. “The Case of the {-th} Plural in the Earliest Text.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 79-108.
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Abstract: The earliest text of the Book of Mormon employs the {-th} plural — for example, “Nephi’s brethren rebelleth” — in a way that is substantially similar to what is found in many writings of the Early Modern period. The earliest text neither underuses nor overuses the construction, and it manifests inflectional variation and differential usage rates typical of Early Modern English. The totality of the evidence tells us that the Book of Mormon is most reasonably classified as a 16th- or 17th-century text, not as a 19th-century text full of biblical hypercorrections.
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Carmack, Stanford A. “The Case of Plural Was in the Earliest Text.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 109-137.
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Abstract: Because it is primarily an Early Modern English text (in terms of its English language), the earliest text of the Book of Mormon understandably employs plural was — for example, “the words which was delivered” (Alma 5:11). It does so in a way that is substantially similar to what is found in many writings of the Early Modern period ­— that is, it manifests the syntactic usage, variation, and differential rates typical of that era.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Davis, William L. “Performing Revelation: Joseph Smith and the Creation of The Book of Mormon.” PhD diss., Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, 2016.
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In 1830, Joseph Smith Jr. published The Book of Mormon and subsequently founded a new American religion. According to Smith, The Book of Mormon represented the English translation of an authentic record, written in “Reformed Egyptian,” concerning ancient Israelites who migrated to the Americas in approximately 600 B.C.E. Smith’s purported translation of this sacred history, however, did not occur by traditional means. Rather than directly consulting the record and providing an English rendition, Smith employed a method of divination by placing a “seer stone” into the bottom of his hat, holding the hat to his face to shut out all light, and then he proceeded to dictate the entire text of The Book of Mormon in an extended oral performance, without the aid of notes or manuscripts. By his side, Smith’s scribes wrote down the entire text verbatim in the moment Smith uttered them. As a result, at over 500 printed pages, The Book of Mormon stands as one of the longest recorded oral performances in the history of the United States. This dissertation aims to uncover some of the primary techniques of oral performance that Smith used in the construction of his work. Oratorical skill constituted a critical mode of public and private discourse in the culture of the early American nation; and, as I will argue, the text of The Book of Mormon reveals key characteristics of Smith’s techniques in oral performance that, in turn, reflect the oratorical training of the age. Drawing on Smith’s exposure to a kaleidoscope of cultural institutions that inculcated oratorical skills--focusing specifically on formal and informal education, Sunday school training and revivalism, folk magic practices, semi-extemporaneous Methodist preaching and exhorting, and the fireside storytelling culture of early America--this dissertation will demonstrate how these related cultural streams of oral performance converged in Smith’s production of The Book of Mormon, providing him with the necessary skills and techniques to produce and recite his massive Christian epic through the medium of the spoken word.

Keywords: Performing arts; Revelation and revelations; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
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Douglas, Alex. “David E. Bokovoy. Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis–Deuteronomy. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2014.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 8 no. 1 (2016).
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David Bokovoy’s most recent book, Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis–Deuteronomy, represents a fresh and much-needed perspective on how Latter-day Saints can simultaneously embrace both scholarship and faith. This book is the first in what is anticipated to be a three-volume set exploring issues of authorship in the Old Testament published by Bokovoy with Greg Kofford Books. Bokovoy uses current scholarship on the Pentateuch as a springboard for discussing LDS perspectives on scripture, revelation, and cultural influence. To my knowledge, this is the first book-length attempt to popularize the classical Documentary Hypothesis among Latter-day Saints, and Bokovoy does an exemplary job of tackling this issue head-on and taking an unflinching view of its implications for how we understand Restoration scriptures such as the Book of Moses, the Book of Abraham, and the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Old Testament; Biblical studies; religious scholarship; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
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Easton-Flake, Amy. “Beyond Understanding: Narrative Theory as Expansion in Book of Mormon Exegesis.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016): 116-138.
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The vibrant fields of narratology and biblical narrative criticism provide common ground from which scholars who either accept or reject the historical reality of the Book of Mormon may speak to one another. To encourage research that may speak across divisions, this article provides a theoretical overview of some of the major areas within the narrative-critical approach (i.e., the intricacies and subtleties of setting, plot, narrative time, characters, point of view, narrators, and implied readers). The applied analysis of select Book of Mormon passages that accompany these overviews illustrates how borrowing from more established fields may expose new considerations, explain different aspects of the text, make familiar narratives fresh, and stimulate greater appreciation for its literary design.

Keywords: Exegesis; Literary Analysis; Narrative; Narrative Criticism
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Eliason, Eric A. “Seer Stones, Salamanders, and Early Mormon ‘Folk Magic’ in the Light of Folklore Studies and Bible Scholarship.” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 1 (2016): 73-93.
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The 2015 publication of an Ensign article on, and especially photos of, one of Joseph Smith’s seer stones still owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints caused quite a sensation in the blogosphere. Mormon studies as a discipline has struggled to make sense of seer stones too. These responses are understandable, considering how often communities tend to presume little change in ritual practice over time and how identity groups tend to see others’ actually quite similar practices—separated by time or culture—as superstitious and our own as pious and commonsensical. This essay, by folklorist Eric Eliason, seeks to bring to bear the insights of both folklore scholarship and folklore-informed ancient Near Eastern scholarship on the issue of early Mormon seer stones in particular and American frontier folk magic in general.

Keywords: Bible; Early Church History; Folklore; Magic; Seer Stones
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Fenton, Elizabeth. “Understanding the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016): 37-51.
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This essay evaluates Grant Hardy’s Understanding the Book of Mormon, particularly assessing Hardy’s claim that narrative theory can allow readers from a variety of perspectives to (at least temporarily) sidestep the Book of Mormon’s controversial history and engage with the text as a literary artifact. The paper argues that Hardy’s approach facilitates a deeper understanding of the book’s complex deployments of narrative voice and temporality but ultimately cannot efface the interpretive differences that stem from such divergent positions as belief and unbelief.

Keywords: Mormon (Prophet); Moroni (Son of Mormon); Narrative Theory; Narrator; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Fields, Paul J. “Zarahemla Revisited: Neville’s Newest Novel.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 17 (2016): 13-61.
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Abstract: This article is the third in a series of three articles responding to the recent assertion by Jonathan Neville that Benjamin Winchester was the anonymous author of three unsigned editorials published in Nauvoo in 1842 in the Times and Seasons. The topic of the unsigned editorials was the possible relationship of archeological discoveries in Central America to places described in the Book of Mormon narrative. The first article shows that, contrary to Neville’s claims, Winchester was not a proponent of a Mesoamerican setting for the Book of Mormon, but rather a hemispheric one. Since this was a view commonly held by early Mormons, his ideas did not warrant any anonymity for their dissemination. The second article shows that, also contrary to Neville’s claims, Joseph Smith was not opposed to considering Central American geographic parallels to the Book of Mormon. The Prophet even seemed to find such possibilities interesting and supportive of the Book of Mormon. This third article shows that despite Neville’s circumstantial speculations, the historical and stylometric evidence is overwhelmingly against Winchester as the author of the Central America editorials.

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Fluhman, J. Spencer, and Brent L. Top, eds. Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life's Work of Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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A single volume cannot accurately measure the influence of a beloved colleague, but this one nevertheless stands as modest evidence of Robert L. Millet’s prodigious impact over a career that spanned nearly four decades. His retirement provided an opportunity to gather some of us who count him as a mentor, colleague, and friend. We offer this collection of essays as a monument to his remarkable career as an administrator, teacher, and writer. That these pieces range across topics, disciplines, and even religious traditions seems especially appropriate given Millet’s own broad reach. His students number in the thousands, his readers number perhaps ten times that number, and his friends in academia, the Church Educational System (CES) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and around the globe in many faiths would be difficult to number indeed. Both in terms of his staggering literary production and in his broad collection of colleagues, it is not an overstatement to place Bob Millet among the most influential Latter-day Saint voices of the past quarter century. We who count ourselves grateful recipients of his generous influence hope this volume’s collective thinking, faith, and lively conversation form a worthy “thank you” to our cherished colleague and friend. ISBN 978-0-8425-2968-6

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Top, Brent L. “‘The First Principles of Man Are Self-Existent with God’” In Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet, ed. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top, 3–22. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
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Olson, Camille Fronk. “To Know God Is Life Eternal.” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
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Newell, Lloyd D. “Instruments or Agents? Balancing Submissiveness and Anxious Engagement in Heavenly Father’s Plan.” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
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Dahl, Larry E. “Filling the Immensity of Space.” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > L — P > Light of Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Personal Revelation
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Cowan, Richard O. “Blessings Promised to the Faithful.” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > G — K > Gospel of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
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Bennett, Richard E. “From Calvary to Cumorah.” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
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Welch, John W. “Symbolism in the Parable of the Willing and Unwilling Two Sons in Matthew 21.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top, 97–116. Provo: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2016.
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Deeply valuable symbolism is thoroughly embedded in two of Jesus’ parables, both of which begin, “A certain man had two sons.” The more famous of these two is commonly called parable of the prodigal son, found in Luke 15. The less often mentioned can be called the parable of the willing and unwilling two sons, found in Matthew 21. Even people who have written much and taught profoundly about the parables of Jesus have rarely had much to say about this brief text, which is nevertheless freighted with significantly authoritative cargo. In explicating this lesser-known of the two-sons parables, I hope to honor and recognize Robert L. Millet for his consummate willingness to do the will of the Father and to go down this day to work in his vineyard, wherever the needs may be found.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
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Skinner, Andrew C. “The Divine Principle of Friendship.” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Charity
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
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Muhlestein, Kerry, and Megan Hansen. “‘The Work of Translating’” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Abraham
RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
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Hoskisson, Paul Y., and Stephen O. Smoot. “Was Noah’s Flood the Baptism of the Earth?” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
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Pike, Dana M. “The ‘Spirit’ that Returns to God in Ecclesiastes 12:7.” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
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Blomberg, Craig L. “Unveiling Revelation and a Landmark Commentary Series.” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
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Mouw, Richard J. “Mormons and Evangelicals in Dialogue.” In Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet, ed. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top, 231–48. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Birch, Brian D. “Mormonism and the Heresies.” In Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet, ed. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top, 249–63. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
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Willson, Cory B. “Atoning Grace on Progression’s Highway.” In Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);>, ed. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top, 269–90. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
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Haws, JB. “Embers and Bonfires.” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1946–Present
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Judd, Daniel K. “Sin, Guilt, and Grace.” In Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet, ed. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top, 311-28. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
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Hopkin, Shon D. “Salvation by Grace, Rewards of Degree by Works.” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
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Okholm, Dennis L. “What is Christianity?” In Let Us Reason Together, eds. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Frederick, Julie. “Seals, Symbols, and Sacred Texts: Sealing and the Book of Mormon.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
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Gardner, Barbara Morgan. “A Century of LDS Church Schools in Mexico Influenced by Lamanite Identity.” In The Worldwide Church, eds. Michael A. Goodman and Mauro Properzi. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Gardner, Brant A. “Beauty Way More Than Skin Deep.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016): 345-347.
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Review of Royal Skousen, Robin Scott Jensen, eds., The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations Volume 3, Part 1: Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon 1 Nephi–Alma 35 (Salt Lake City: The Church Historian’s Press, 2015). pp 575. $89.99.
Abstract: All of the volumes in the Joseph Smith Papers series are beautifully presented, with important photographic and excellent typographic versions of the texts. This volume continues by providing this treatment for the Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Gardner, Brant A. “Perhaps Close can Count in More than Horseshoes.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 21 (2016): 235-238.
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Review of Gerald E. Smith, Schooling the Prophet: How the Book of Mormon Influenced Joseph Smith and the Early Restoration (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2015). pp 305. $19.95.
Abstract: Schooling the Prophet provides a good survey of many early Latter-day Saint doctrines. It suggests that there is a causal link between the Book of Mormon and those doctrines. Sometimes it makes the case; many times it is close but doesn’t quite support the thesis of the book.

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Gardner, Brant A. “Translating the Book of Mormon.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Gardner, Brant A. “Anachronisms in the Book of Mormon.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34622]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:53
Hales, Brian C. “Dating Joseph Smith’s First Nauvoo Sealings.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016): 1-16.
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Abstract: In the October 2015 issue of The Journal of Mormon History, Gary Bergera presents a richly illustrated article, “Memory as Evidence: Dating Joseph Smith’s Plural Marriages to Louisa Beaman, Zina Jacobs, and Presendia Buell” (95–131). It focuses on a page from the “Historian’s Private Journal,” which Bergera dates to “specifically September or thereabouts” of 1866 (99). Wilford Woodruff’s handwriting on that page describes Joseph Smith’s plural marriage sealings and dates his marriage to Louisa Beaman to “May 1840,” to Zina Huntington on “October 27, 1840,” to Presendia Huntington on “December 11, 1840,” and also to Rhoda Richards on “June 12, 1843.” The first three dates on the historian’s document are important, as Bergera explains: “If accurate, Woodruff’s record not only pushes back the beginnings of Joseph Smith earliest Nauvoo plural marriage by a year but it also requires that we reevaluate what we think we know — and how we know it — about the beginnings of LDS polygamy” (95–96). The key question is whether the information on that page can be considered “accurate” in light of other available documents dealing with these plural sealings. During the remaining thirty-four pages of the article, Bergera presents an argument that 1840, not 1841, is the most reliable year for the Prophet’s earliest Nauvoo plural unions. This essay examines why his analysis of the records appears to be incomplete and his conclusions problematic.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Hales, Laura Harris, ed. A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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A Reason for Faith was written to do just as the title implies: provide reasons for faith by offering faithful answers to sincere questions. Before the Internet, historical and doctrinal questions not addressed in LDS Church curriculum were mostly found in the scholarly articles of academic journals. This is no longer the case. These topics are now widely debated and discussed online and in other forums. And when members of the LDS Church come across information that is unfamiliar, they may feel surprise, fear, betrayal, or even anger. Respected LDS scholars have teamed with Laura Harris Hales to offer help in A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine and Church History. Together these authors have spent an average of 25 years researching these topics. Their depth of knowledge and faith enables them to share reliable details, perspective, and context to both LDS doctrine and Church history. The information in these essays can begin an exciting process of discovery for readers as they learn from a source they can trust. Each chapter is engaging and thought-provoking, providing an invaluable resource for both the merely curious and the seriously concerned. ISBN 978-1-9443-9401-1

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Hales, Laura Harris. “Prologue.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Bushman, Richard Lyman. “Joseph Smith and Money Digging.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34619]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:53
Harper, Steven C. “Remembering the First Vision.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34620]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:53
Barney, Ronald O. “The Restoration of the Priesthoods.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34624]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:53
Jackson, Kent P. “Isaiah in the Book of Mormon.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Muhlestein, Kerry. “The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Bradley, Don, and Mark Ashurst-McGee. “The Kinderhook Plates.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Hales, Brian C., and Laura Harris Hales. “The Practice of Polygamy.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34628]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:54
Hales, Brian C. “Joseph Smith’s Practice of Plural Marriage.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34629]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:54
Harper, Steven C. “Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saint Temple Endowment Ceremony.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34630]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:54
Reeve, W. Paul. “Race, the Priesthood, and Temples.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34631]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:54
Perego, Ugo A. “Finding Lehi in America through DNA Analysis.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34632]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:54
McBaine, Neylan. “Latter-Day Saint Women in the Twenty-First Century.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34633]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:54
Mansfield, Ty. “Homosexuality and the Gospel.” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Bailey, David H. “Science and Religion: Friends or Foes?” In A Reason for Faith, ed. Laura H. Hales. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Halverson, Taylor. “Reading 1 Nephi With Wisdom.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 279-293.
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Abstract: Nephi is the prototypical wise son of the Wisdom tradition. As Proverbs advocates that a wise man cherishes the word of God, so Nephi cherishes the words of the wise. Nephi’s record begins with a declaration of his upbringing in the Wisdom tradition and his authenticity and reliability as a wise son and scribe (1 Nephi 1:1–3). His is a record of the learning of the Jews — a record of wisdom. If the Wisdom tradition is a foundation for Nephi’s scribal capabilities and outlook, perhaps the principles and literary skills represented by the scribal Wisdom tradition constitute the “learning of the Jews” that Nephi references so early in his account. Thus, if Nephi’s is a record of the learning of the Jews — a record of wisdom — we would be wise to read it with Wisdom — that is, through the lens of ancient Israelite and Middle Eastern Wisdom traditions.
Wisdom cries out [from the dust]”
(Proverbs 1:20).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Hamilton, Kevin S. “The Converting Power of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, January 2016.
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Handley, George B. “On the Moral Risks of Reading Scripture.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
ID = [81838]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Hardy, Grant R. “The Book of Mormon Book Club.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016): 139-153.
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Grant Hardy responds to the six essays written about Understanding the Book of Mormon. He pairs up the authors and imagines conversations between them, as in a book club exchange. He acknowledges their comments and expresses interest in ongoing dialogues fostered by the ideas in his book.

Keywords: Apologetics; Formatting; Historicity; Literary Analysis; Literature; Narrative; Scripture Study
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Hardy, Heather, and Grant R. Hardy. “How Nephi Shapes His Readers’ Perceptions of Isaiah.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
ID = [81835]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Hawkins, Alan J., Thomas W. Draper, and David C. Dollahite, eds. Successful Marriages and Families: Proclamation Principles and Research Perspectives. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2016.
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Issued by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve in 1995, “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” has instructed and inspired Latter-day Saints throughout the world, including many LDS scholars who seek to strengthen and defend marriages and families. This new volume, edited by Alan Hawkins, David Dollahite, and Thomas Draper, all of The School of Family Life at Brigham Young University, draws together the best of their latest findings.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Hopkin, Shon D. “Seeing Eye to Eye: Nephi’s and John’s Intertwining Visions of the Tree of Life.” In Apocalypse: Reading Revelation 21-22, edited by Smith, Julie M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2016.
ID = [81757]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi,new-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:38
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “Was Joseph Smith Smarter Than the Average Fourth Year Hebrew Student? Finding a Restoration-Significant Hebraism in Book of Mormon Isaiah.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 17 (2016): 151-158.
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Abstract: The brass plates version of Isaiah 2:2, as contained in 2 Nephi 12:2, contains a small difference, not attested in any other pre-1830 Isaiah witness, that not only helps clarify the meaning but also ties the verse to events of the Restoration. The change does so by introducing a Hebraism that would have been impossible for Joseph Smith, the Prophet, to have produced on his own.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Hull, Kerry. “Two Case Studies on the Development of the Concept of Religion: The New Testament and the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 17 no. 1 (2016).
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
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Lindsay, Jeff. “The Yoke of Christ: A Light Burden Heavy With Meaning.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 171-217.
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Abstract: Christ’s famous call to take his yoke upon us in Matthew 11 may merit more analysis than it has commonly received. Taking up the yoke may have connections to other things that are taken upon us as well, including the name of Christ, temple covenants, priestly robes, and sacred anointing. These all reflect a relationship of obedience and service to the Master, who set the example by taking the heaviest yoke of all upon him, including the yoke-like beam of the cross that he carried to Golgotha and the full weight of human sin and misery as he suffered for us. Our yoke is easy, and the burden of the cross we are called to take up (Matthew 16:24; 3 Nephi 12:30) is light indeed relative to what he bore or to bearing the weight of our own sins. However, his call, while rooted in grace, implies actual effort and work, not belief alone. It is a call for faithful service, linked to him in sacred covenants most fully expressed in the sacred temple. A review of ancient scripture, early Christian writing, some Jewish perspectives, and modern revelation gives us insights into the richness of meaning that may be associated with taking upon us the yoke of Christ and entering into his rest.“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
— Matthew 11: 28–30.

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Lindsay, Jeff. “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 1 of 2.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 19 (2016): 153-239.
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Abstract: The Arabian Peninsula has provided a significant body of evidence related to the plausibility of Nephi’s account of the ancient journey made by Lehi’s family across Arabia. Relatively few critics have seriously considered the evidence, generally nitpicking at details and insisting that the evidences are insignificant. Recently more meaningful responses have been offered by well educated writers showing familiarity with the Arabian evidences and the Book of Mormon. They argue that Nephi’s account is not historical and any apparent evidence in its favor can be attributed to weak LDS apologetics coupled with Joseph’s use of modern sources such as a detailed map of Arabia that could provide the name Nahom, for example. Further, the entire body of Arabian evidence for the Book of Mormon is said to be irrelevant because Nephi’s subtle and pervasive incorporation of Exodus themes in his account proves the Book of Mormon is fiction. On this point we are to trust modern Bible scholarship (“Higher Criticism”) which allegedly shows that the book of Exodus wasn’t written until long after Nephi’s day and, in fact, tells a story that is mere pious fiction, fabricated during or after the Exile.
There were high-end European maps in Joseph’s day that did show a place name related to Nahom. Efforts to locate these maps anywhere near Joseph Smith have thus far proved unsuccessful. But the greater failure is in the explanatory power of any theory that posits Joseph used such a map. Such theories do not account for the vast majority of impressive evidences for the plausibility of Nephi’s account of the journey through Arabia (e.g., remarkable candidates for Bountiful and the River Laman, the plausibility of the eastward turn after Nahom). They do not explain why one obscure name among hundreds was plagiarized — a name that would have the good fortune of later being verified as a genuine ancient tribal name present in the right region in Lehi’s day. More importantly, theories of fabrication based on modern maps ignore the fact that Joseph and his peers never took advantage of the impressive Book of Mormon evidence that was waiting to be discovered on such maps. That discovery would not come until 1978, and it has led to many remarkable finds through modern field work since then. Through ever better maps, exploration, archaeological work, and other scholarly work, our knowledge of the Arabian Peninsula has grown dramatically from Joseph’s day. Through all of this, not one detail in the account of Lehi’s Trail has been invalidated, though questions remain and much further work needs to be done. Importantly, aspects that were long ridiculed have become evidences for the Book of Mormon. There is a trend here that demands respect, and no mere map from Joseph’s day or even ours can account for this.
As for the Exodus-based attack, yes, many modern scholars deny that the Exodus ever happened and believe the story was fabricated as pious fiction well after 600 bc. But this conclusion does not represent a true consensus and is not free from bias and blindness. The Exodus-based attack on the Book of Mormon ultimately is a case where a weakness in biblical evidence from Egypt is used to challenge the strength of Book of Mormon evidence from Egypt’s neighbor to the east, the Arabian Peninsula. We will see that there are good reasons for the absence of evidence from Egypt, and yet abundant evidence that the Exodus material interwoven in Nephi’s account could have been found on the brass plates by 600 bc. The absence of archaeological evidence for Israel’s exodus from Egypt and the chaos in the many schools of modern biblical scholarship do not trump hard archaeological, geographical, and other evidence from the Arabian Peninsula regarding Lehi’s exodus.
We will see that some of the most significant strengths of the Book of Mormon have not been turned into weaknesses. Indeed, the evidence from Arabia continues to grow and demands consideration from those willing to maintain an open mind and exercise a particle of faith.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Lindsay, Jeff. “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 2 of 2.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 19 (2016): 247-326.
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Abstract: The Arabian Peninsula has provided a significant body of evidence related to the plausibility of Nephi’s account of the ancient journey made by Lehi’s family across Arabia. Relatively few critics have seriously considered the evidence, generally nitpicking at details and insisting that the evidences are insignificant. Recently more meaningful responses have been offered by well educated writers showing familiarity with the Arabian evidences and the Book of Mormon. They argue that Nephi’s account is not historical and any apparent evidence in its favor can be attributed to weak LDS apologetics coupled with Joseph’s use of modern sources such as a detailed map of Arabia that could provide the name Nahom, for example. Further, the entire body of Arabian evidence for the Book of Mormon is said to be irrelevant because Nephi’s subtle and pervasive incorporation of Exodus themes in his account proves the Book of Mormon is fiction. On this point we are to trust modern Bible scholarship (“Higher Criticism”) which allegedly shows that the book of Exodus wasn’t written until long after Nephi’s day and, in fact, tells a story that is mere pious fiction, fabricated during or after the Exile.
There were high-end European maps in Joseph’s day that did show a place name related to Nahom. Efforts to locate these maps anywhere near Joseph Smith have thus far proved unsuccessful. But the greater failure is in the explanatory power of any theory that posits Joseph used such a map. Such theories do not account for the vast majority of impressive evidences for the plausibility of Nephi’s account of the journey through Arabia (e.g., remarkable candidates for Bountiful and the River Laman, the plausibility of the eastward turn after Nahom). They do not explain why one obscure name among hundreds was plagiarized — a name that would have the good fortune of later being verified as a genuine ancient tribal name present in the right region in Lehi’s day. More importantly, theories of fabrication [Page 248]based on modern maps ignore the fact that Joseph and his peers never took advantage of the impressive Book of Mormon evidence that was waiting to be discovered on such maps. That discovery would not come until 1978, and it has led to many remarkable finds through modern field work since then. Through ever better maps, exploration, archaeological work, and other scholarly work, our knowledge of the Arabian Peninsula has grown dramatically from Joseph’s day. Through all of this, not one detail in the account of Lehi’s Trail has been invalidated, though questions remain and much further work needs to be done. Importantly, aspects that were long ridiculed have become evidences for the Book of Mormon. There is a trend here that demands respect, and no mere map from Joseph’s day or even ours can account for this.
As for the Exodus-based attack, yes, many modern scholars deny that the Exodus ever happened and believe the story was fabricated as pious fiction well after 600 bc. But this conclusion does not represent a true consensus and is not free from bias and blindness. The Exodus-based attack on the Book of Mormon ultimately is a case where a weakness in biblical evidence from Egypt is used to challenge the strength of Book of Mormon evidence from Egypt’s neighbor to the east, the Arabian Peninsula. We will see that there are good reasons for the absence of evidence from Egypt, and yet abundant evidence that the Exodus material interwoven in Nephi’s account could have been found on the brass plates by 600 bc. The absence of archaeological evidence for Israel’s exodus from Egypt and the chaos in the many schools of modern biblical scholarship do not trump hard archaeological, geographical, and other evidence from the Arabian Peninsula regarding Lehi’s exodus.
We will see that some of the most significant strengths of the Book of Mormon have not been turned into weaknesses. Indeed, the evidence from Arabia continues to grow and demands consideration from those willing to maintain an open mind and exercise a particle of faith.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Lindsay, Jeff. “‘Arise from the Dust’: Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon. Part 1: Tracks from the Book of Moses.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 179–232.
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis
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Lindsay, Jeff. “‘Arise from the Dust’: Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon (Part 1: Tracks from the Book of Moses).” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 179-232.
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Abstract: In light of Noel Reynolds’ hypothesis that some material in the Book of Moses may have been present on the brass plates that Nephi used, one may wonder if Nephi or other authors might also have drawn upon the use of chains in the Book of Moses, particularly Satan’s “great chain [that] veiled … the earth with darkness” (Moses 7:26) and the “chains of darkness” (Moses 7:57). Though the phrase “chains of darkness” is not used in the Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 1:23, quoting Lehi, combines chains and obscurity, where obscurity can have the meaning of darkness. In fact, there may be a Hebraic wordplay behind Lehi’s words when he tells his wayward sons to “come forth out of obscurity and arise from the dust,” based on the similarity between the Hebrew words for “obscurity” and “dust.” The association between dust and chains and several other newly found linkages to Book of Moses material is enriched by a study of Walter Brueggemann on the covenant-related meanings of “rising from the dust” and “returning to the dust” in the Bible, a topic we explore in Part 2.
Then, after showing how dust-related themes in the Book of Mormon can enhance our understanding of several important passages, we build on that knowledge in Part 3 to “dust off” the most famous chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, where we will show that some apparent gaps and wordy regions in the complex chiastic structure of Alma 36 are more compact and meaningful than we may have realized. Both dust-related themes and themes from the Book of Moses assist in better appreciating the richness of that masterpiece of Hebraic poetry. Overall, a small amount of exploration motivated by Reynolds’ work may have led to several interesting finds that strengthen the case for Book of Moses content on the brass plates and deepen our appreciation of the use of ancient Near Eastern dust themes in the Book of Mormon, that majestic “voice from the dust.”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Lindsay, Jeff. “‘Arise from the Dust’: Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon (Part 2: Enthronement, Resurrection, and Other Ancient Motifs from the ‘Voice from the Dust’).” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 233-277.
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Abstract: In light of Noel Reynolds’ hypothesis that some material in the Book of Moses may have been present on the brass plates that Nephi used, one may wonder if Nephi or other authors might also have drawn upon the use of chains in the Book of Moses. Further examination of this connection points to the significance of the theme of “dust” in Lehi’s words and the surrounding passages from Nephi and Jacob, where it can involve motifs of covenant keeping, resurrection, and enthronement. Recognizing the usage of dust-related themes in the Book of Mormon can enhance our understanding of the meaning and structure of several portions of the text. An appeal to the Book of Mormon’s use of dust may also help fill in some gaps in the complex chiastic structure of Alma 36 (to be treated in Part 3) and add meaning to other portions of that “voice from the dust,” the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Lindsay, Jeff. “‘Arise from the Dust’: Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon (Part 3: Dusting Off a Famous Chiasmus, Alma 36).” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 295-318.
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Abstract: In light of Noel Reynolds’ hypothesis that some material in the Book of Moses may have been present on the brass plates that Nephi used, exploration of concepts related to chains in the Book of Moses led to several insights involving a group of related motifs in the Book of Mormon where shaking off Satan’s chains and rising from the dust are linked, as discussed in Parts 1 and 2. Here we argue that an appeal to the Book of Mormon’s use of dust may fill in some gaps in the complex chiastic structure of Alma 36 and strengthen the case that it is a carefully crafted example of ancient Semitic poetry.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Linford, Matthew R. “The Parable of the Benevolent Father and Son.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 149-178.
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Abstract: A discussion is presented on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, including the departure of the young man into a faraway land, his return, and the welcome he received from his father. To better understand the cultural significance of this story, a Middle Eastern scholar (Kenneth Bailey) is referenced. The prodigal son breaks his father’s heart when he leaves home, but at the same time his older brother fails in his duty to his family. The father in the parable represents Christ, who is seen to take upon himself the shame of his returning boy and later of his older brother. The reinstatement of the prodigal son is confirmed by the actions of the father, who embraces him, dresses him in a robe, puts shoes on his feet, has a ring placed on his finger, brings him into his house, and kills the fatted calf for him. These actions have deep gospel and cultural significance. The older son’s failure to come into the feast for his brother is a public insult to his father, and his words to his father in the courtyard are a second public insult. The Parable of the Prodigal Son is shown to be similar to other stories from the scriptures, including Jesus’s meal with Simon the Pharisee (Luke 7:36–43), the Parable of the Man and His Great Supper (Luke 14:16–24), the Parable of the King and His Son’s Wedding (Matthew 22:2–14), and Lehi’s dream in 1 Nephi 8. Consistent elements across these stories include a feast/meal, a male authority figure who initiates or invites others to the feast, well-to-do guests who refuse the invitation, their criticism of the host of the feast and their fellowman, an application of grace, and the presence of the less favored individuals at the feast at the end of the stories. It is shown that the prodigal son represents the publicans and sinners of Jesus’s day, while the older son represents the scribes and Pharisees. Emphasis is placed on the remarkable countercultural and benevolent role played by the father/patriarch in these stories.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and Nicholas J. Frederick. Joseph Smith’s Seer Stones. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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This book discusses the origins of Joseph Smith’s seer stones and explores how Joseph used them throughout his life in a way that goes beyond translating the Book of Mormon. It also traces the provenance of the seer stones once they leave his possession. The authors also examine how the Book of Mormon itself provides a storyline about the history of seer stones, which also helped Joseph Smith learn about his own prophetic gifts. Finally, this book explores how Joseph Smith took his own experiences with seer stones and created a theology of seer stones that became closely linked with his unique doctrines of exaltation. ISBN 978-1-9443-9405-9

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Miner, Alan C. “Book of Ether, Chapter 1.” In Step by Step through the Book of Mormon: A Collection of Cultural Commentary. Vol. 7. Springville, UT: N.P., 2016.
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Book of Ether, Chapter 1

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Muhlestein, Kerry. “Assessing the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Introduction to the Historiography of their Acquisitions, Translations, and Interpretations.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 17-49.
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Abstract: The Book of Abraham has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention since some of the papyri once owned by Joseph Smith were rediscovered. A focus of this attention has been the source of the Book of Abraham, with some contending that the extant fragments are the source, while others have argued that the source is either other papyri or something else altogether. New investigations suggest that, while the relationship between papyri and text is not clear, it is clear that the fragments are not the source and that the method of translation was not the Kirtland Egyptian Papers. Additionally, further investigations into the source of the Book of Abraham as well as the interpretations of the facsimiles have made it clear that much of the controversy about the Book of Abraham has been based on untested assumptions. Book of Abraham studies have made significant strides forward in the last few decades, while some avenues of research are in need of further pursuit.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture Volume 25 Issue 1. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25 no. 1 (2016).
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Articles

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Front Matter.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016).
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Editor’s Introduction.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016).
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Hauglid, Brian M., Mark Alan Wright, Joseph M. Spencer, and Janiece Lyn Johnson. “A Journal of Book of Mormon Studies Retrospective: Twenty-Five Years of Scholarship.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016).
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Understanding Understanding the Book of Mormon: An Interview with Grant Hardy.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016).
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Peterson, Daniel C. “An Apologetically Important Nonapologetic Book.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016): 52-75.
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In Understanding the Book of Mormon, Grant Hardy applies his unusual background in the history of historiography to the Book of Mormon, using the same techniques of literary analysis that are fruitfully employed in the study of classical Chinese, classical Greek, and other historical writing. He is able to identify very distinct historiographical approaches for Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni. While he brackets the question of whether or not they were actually distinct historical persons, the most intuitively obvious reading of his work strongly suggests that they were—a proposition that has profound implications for the controversy surrounding the origin and authorship of the Book of Mormon

Keywords: Apologetics; Historicity; Mormon (Prophet); Moroni (Son of Mormon); Narrator; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Riess, Jana. “Comprehending the Book of Mormon through Its Editors.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016): 76-84.
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Grant Hardy’s 2010 book Understanding the Book of Mormon changed the landscape of Book of Mormon studies by paying careful attention to the role of that scripture’s three primary editors, who were also narrators. Hardy teases out the specific personality of each one: Nephi, a theologian concerned with his legacy and place in history; Mormon, a historian whose choice and placement of primary sources often reveals as much as his own narration; and Moroni, the wandering survivor of one dying civilization who chose to focus his brief record on the fall of a previous one. Through detailed textual criticism, Hardy invites readers to better understand the complexity and richness of the Book of Mormon

Keywords: History; Mormon (Prophet); Moroni (Son of Mormon); Narrative; Narrative Analysis; Narrator; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Theology
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Stokes, Adam O. “Mixing the Old with the New: The Implications of Reading the Book of Mormon from a Literary Perspective.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016).
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Thomas, John Christopher. “A View from the Outside—An Appreciative Engagement with Grant Hardy’s Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016).
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Neilson, Reid L., and R. Mark Melville, eds. A Historian in Zion: The Autobiography Of Andrew Jenson, Assistant Church Historian. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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The Autobiography of Andrew Jenson, first published in 1938 by the Deseret News Press in Salt Lake City, Utah, tells the personal story of a Danish Mormon convert who eventually served as Assistant Church Historian of the LDS Church for over forty years. The author mined his voluminous personal journals and assembled Church records to tell the story of the Restoration of the gospel since the 1850s when he arrived in Utah as a European immigrant. Through his synthesized research, writing, and reflections, readers come away with deeper appreciation for the men and women whose lives constitute Mormon history. Jenson told their stories together with his life experiences, creating an important window into the Mormon past. ISBN 978-1-944394-00-4

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Neilson, Reid L. “The Making of a Mormon Historian in Zion.” In A Historian in Zion, eds. Reid L. Neilson and R. Mark Melville. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
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Newton, Dennis. “Nephi’s Change of Heart.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016): 261-291.
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Abstract: How long did it take Nephi to compose his portions of the “small account?” Careful text analysis and data mining suggest that “Nephi’s” texts may have been composed across periods as great as forty years apart. I propose a timeline with four distinct periods of composition. The merits of this timeline are weighed, and some thoughts are explored as to how this timeline alters the reader’s perceptions of Nephi. The net effect is that Nephi becomes more sympathetic, more personable, and more relatable as his record progresses and that the totality of Nephi’s writings are best understood and interpreted when the factor of time is considered. .

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Newton, Dennis. “Nephi’s Use of Inverted Parallels.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 79-106.
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Abstract: Did Nephi intentionally use chiasmus in his writings? An analysis of fifteen multi-level chiasm candidates in Nephi’s writings demonstrates a high statistical probability (99%+) that the poetic form was used intentionally by Nephi but only during two specific writing periods. This finding is buttressed by further analysis, which reveals a clear and unexpected literary pattern for which Nephi seems to have reserved his usage of chiasmus. The nature of obedience is a major theme in Nephi’s writings, and he regularly employed chiasms to explore the topic early in his writings. After a period during which he discontinued use of the technique, he returned to the poetic device toward the end of his life to signal a significant shift in his thoughts on the topic of obedience.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Perego, Ugo A. “The Changing Forms of the Latter-day Saint Sacrament.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 1-16.
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Abstract: Partaking of bread and water each Sunday is a fundamental part of the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — a solemn moment in which the mortal Savior’s mission and ministry are remembered and pondered by those who partake individually and as a congregation. This paper explores instructions provided by the Savior himself as found in the Mormon canon of scriptures, together with a review of how this practice has changed over time as part of the LDS Church liturgy. Moreover, the meaning associated with this sacred ordinance is analyzed by way of the Savior’s teachings in ancient scripture through Mormon prophets in modern times, particularly in light of a more recent emphasis shared by the LDS Church leadership.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3720]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 39358  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:10
Peterson, Daniel C. “Reflecting on the ‘Marks of Jesus’” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016): vii-xxxii.
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Abstract: Loss, pain, and suffering are too often, it seems, co-sojourners through our lives. To one degree or another, we all become familiar with these elements of a life lived in an imperfect world. It is inevitable — and virtually universal — that such companions foster questions about the meaning of life and whether there is a God who is the author, director, and finisher of that meaning. For those who conclude that God is real and has part in our lives, suffering can have or acquire eternal significance, enhanced by the personal realization that God, too, suffers and has suffered. In the Christian paradigm, God shares our suffering and we, in turn, share in His. In the depths of our sorrow we have, literally, a “co-sufferer” sharing our journey. As Christians, we are called upon to take upon ourselves the name of Christ. This act not only gives us a new name, but may require us to bear loss, pain, and suffering as did Christ — to acquire the “marks of Jesus” in our own lives. Indeed, for some, such bearing may be a key part of becoming what God plans for us to become.For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Peterson, Daniel C. “Many Witnesses to a Marvelous Work.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016): 247-260.
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Review of Dennis Largey, Andrew Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull, eds. The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in cooperation with Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, 2015, pp 308.
Abstract: At the end of October each year, speakers from the Church Educational System, as well as other gospel scholars, gather at Brigham Young University to make presentations at the Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder is a compilation of the addresses given at the forty-fourth symposium, in 2015. This volume does not so much delve into the doctrine of the Book of Mormon as it studies the history behind its coming into the world. Just as the doctrine itself is inspirational, the story behind the coming forth of the Book of Mormon serves as an inspiration and a testament to its truthfulness.

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Peterson, Daniel C. “The Small Voice.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): vii-xii.
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Abstract: Revelation comes in various forms, some of them spectacular and some of them extremely subtle. The scriptures and the history of the Restoration offer numerous examples across the entire spectrum. Whatever its form, however, divine revelation remains divine revelation, and it is the avowed mission of the Interpreter Foundation to thoughtfully ponder such revelation, to try to explicate its meaning, and to illustrate its richness. In turn, such examination can itself provide an opportunity for personal revelation—both for the examiners and, we hope, for those who read or hear the results of their work.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Rappleye, Neal. “‘Idle and Slothful Strange Stories’: Book of Mormon Origins and the Historical Record.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016): 21-37.
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Abstract: From the very beginning, Joseph’s story about the origins of the Book of Mormon seemed wild and unbelievable. Today, however, Joseph’s account enjoys a high degree of corroboration from (1) eyewitness accounts confirming Joseph’s possession of actual metal plates and other artifacts, with some even corroborating the involvement of an angel in providing access to the record; (2) eyewitness reports on the process of producing the text; and (3) evidence from the original manuscript. This evidence is reviewed here, and the implications it has for the Book of Mormon’s origin are considered. .

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Rappleye, Neal. “‘With the Tongue of Angels’: Angelic Speech as a Form of Deification.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 21 (2016): 303-323.
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Abstract: The “tongue of angels”
has long been a point of interest to Latter-day Saints, who wonder whether it really is as simple as speaking under the influence of the Spirit or if it might mean something more. Drawing on the structure of Nephi’s record and the interactions with angels that Nephi recorded, we learn that this notion of speaking with the tongue of angels has connections with ancient Israelite temple worship and the divine council. Nephi places the act of speaking with the tongue of angels at the culmination of a literary ascent, where one must pass through a gate (baptism) and by a gatekeeper (the Holy Ghost). This progression makes rich allusions to imagery in the visions of Lehi, Nephi, and Isaiah, where these prophets were brought into the presence of the Lord, stood in the divine council, and were commissioned to declare the words of the Lord. Nephi’s carefully crafted narrative teaches that all are both invited and commanded to follow the path that leads to entrance into the Lord’s presence, and ultimately grants membership into the heavenly assembly.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
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Rees, Robert A. “Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance: An Update.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 19 (2016): 1-16.
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Abstract: This is a follow-up to my article, “Joseph Smith and the American Renaissance,” published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought in 2002.
My purpose in writing that article was to consider Joseph Smith in relation to his more illustrious contemporary American authors — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. In that article I tried to demonstrate that in comparison with these writers, Joseph Smith did not possess the literary imagination, talent, authorial maturity, education, cultural milieu, knowledge base, or sophistication necessary to produce the Book of Mormon; nor, I argued, had he possessed all of these characteristics, nor was the time in which the book was produced sufficient to compose such a lengthy, complex, and elaborate narrative. This addendum takes the comparison one step further by examining each writer’s magnum opus and the background, previous writings, and preliminary drafts that preceded its publication — then comparing them with Joseph Smith’s publication of the Book of Mormon. That is, each of the major works of these writers of prose, fiction, and poetry as well as the scriptural text produced by Joseph Smith has a history — one that allows us to trace its evolution from inception to completion. .

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Scales, Laura Thiemann. “A New ‘Mormon Moment’?: The Book of Mormon in Literary Studies.” Literature Compass 13, no. 11 (2016): 735–743.
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Despite deep popular interest in Mormon culture, scholars have not given significant attention to the religion’s central scripture. The Book of Mormon is relevant to literary studies at a moment when the turn to religion and debates over the secularization thesis have captured scholarly attention. Until recently, scholarship on The Book of Mormon was largely polemical and divided between apologists and skeptics. The rise of the new Mormon history beginning in the 1960s helped bring studies of Mormonism tentatively into the mainstream academy. Historians and scholars of religious studies have examined the reception of The Book of Mormon, the rise of the religion in early American culture, and the story of its founder, Joseph Smith. By studying the long-neglected internal workings of the text, literary critics have the opportunity to bring new scholarly techniques to bear on this highly influential American scripture. [Article’s abstract]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, use and influence; Book of Mormon, literary context
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Scripture Central. “What Does It Mean to Be a Martyr?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #1. January 1, 2016.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Hyrum Smith; Martyr; Martyrdom; Witness; Testimony; Church History; Restoration
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Seely, David Rolph. “‘We Believe the Bible to Be the Word of God, as Far as It Is Translated Correctly’: Latter-Day Saints and Historical Biblical Criticism.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 8 (2016): 64–86.
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This study presents the basic Latter-day Saint beliefs about the Bible and documents the relationship between these beliefs and the approach and results of historical biblical criticism. Latter-day Saints believe the Bible is the word of God but do not believe it is inerrant or sufficient and thus is supplemented by other revealed ancient texts—most notably the Book of Mormon. Latter-day Saints believe in the pursuit of truth through “study and faith” and are thus not opposed to intellectual examination of scripture. In fact LDS scholars selectively use biblical critical methods in defending of their scripture. At the same time Mormons are defensive about the historicity of the Bible and the Book of Mormon—and thus find themselves with a tradition of conflict with the results of modern biblical criticism that challenge these assumptions. A growing number of LDS scholars in the church who are trained in the historical critical approach to scripture has resulted in renewed discussions and studies about the relationship between faith and scholarship. These discussions are enhanced by a greater openness in the church regarding the critical study of its history, and the results of this approach have also generated biblical and Book of Mormon studies relating to historical critical issues.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis
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Skousen, Royal. Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Volume 3, Part 1 and Part 2: Grammatical Variation, The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2016.
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These newest books in The Book of Mormon Critical Text Project analyze every basic type of editorial change or grammatical variation in the Book of Mormon, beginning with the handwritten manuscripts and considering every major printed edition. Each of the sixty-eight grammatical sections in these books describes the usage in the original text and shows how it has been altered, either consciously or accidentally, over time. Each section also compares Book of Mormon usage with biblical usage.

ID = [75261]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:36
Skousen, Royal. Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Volume 3, Part 3 and Part 4: The Nature of the Original Language of the Book of Mormon, The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2016.
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The Nature of the Original Language (NOL) continues the analysis of the Book of Mormon text that was begun in Grammatical Variation (GV), parts 1 and 2 of volume 3 of the critical text, published in 2016. In that first work, Royal Skousen (with the collaboration of Stanford Carmack), discussed all the editing that the Book of Mormon has undergone, in its manuscript transmission and in the printed editions from 1830 up to the current edition.

ID = [75262]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:36
Skousen, Royal, and Robin Scott Jensen. The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, UT: The Church Historian’s Press, 2016.
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[2016 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Documentary Editing] “Volume 3 of the Revelations and Translations series, published in 2015, presents the most complete early text of the Book of Mormon—the printer’s manuscript.” [Publisher]

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., prophecies; Smith, Joseph, Jr., historiography; Award Winner; Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Smith, Joseph, Jr., record keeping; Smith, Joseph, Jr., sources; Joseph Smith Papers Project; Smith, Joseph, Jr., history; Smith, Joseph, Jr., writings
ID = [81513]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:24
Smith, Gregory L. “‘From the Sea East Even to the Sea West’: Thoughts on a Proposed Book of Mormon Chiasm Describing Geography in Alma 22:27.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 19 (2016): 355-382.
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Abstract: Jonathan Neville, an advocate of the “Heartland” geography setting for the Book of Mormon, claims to have identified a novel chiastic structure that begins in Alma 22:27. Neville argues that this chiasmus allows the reconstruction of a geography that stretches south to the Gulf of Mexico in the continental United States. One expert, Donald W. Parry, doubts the existence of a fine-tuned chiasmus in this verse. An analysis which assumes the presence of the chiasmus demonstrates that multiple internal difficulties result from such a reading. Neville’s reading requires two different “sea west” bodies of water: one “sea west” placed at the extreme north of the map and a second sea to the west of Lamanite lands, but neither is to the west of the Nephites’ land of Zarahemla. Neville’s own ideas also fail to meet the standards he demands of those who differ with him. These problems, when combined with other Book of Mormon textual evidence, make the geography based upon Neville’s reading of the putative chiasmus unviable.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3769]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 55070  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:14
Smoot, Stephen O. “The ‘Fiery Darts of the Adversary’ in 1 Nephi 15:24.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 5-9.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [3774]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 11528  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:15
Smoot, Stephen O. “Telling the Story of the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 19 (2016): 67-82.
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Review of MacKay, Michael Hubbard and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, From Darkness unto Light: Joseph Smith’s Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon, Provo, UT, and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University and Deseret Book, 2015. pp. 256 + xvii, including notes and index. $24.99
Abstract: The book From Darkness unto Light: Joseph Smith’s Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon by Michael Hubbard MacKay and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat is an outstanding resource for anyone interested in early Latter-day Saint history and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. It provides a compelling narrative about the recovery, translation, and publication of the Book of Mormon that utilizes the most cutting-edge historical scholarship available today.

ID = [3759]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 38994  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:13
Smoot, Stephen O. “Mormonism at Oxford and What It Signifies.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 19 (2016): 241-245.
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Review of Terryl Givens and Philip L. Barlow. The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). 647 pp. + index. $150.00
Abstract: The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism is a welcomed addition to the current scholarly discussion surrounding the history, theology, and culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It should be read and studied by all interested students of Mormonism and signals that the scriptures, theology, and history of the Latter-day Saints are all increasingly being taken seriously in mainstream academia.

ID = [3765]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 10945  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:14
Smoot, Stephen O. “Reading A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 21 (2016): 291-301.
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Review of John Christopher Thomas, A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon: A Literary and Theological Introduction, Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2016. 448 pp. + bibliography. $24.95.

ID = [3740]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 25993  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:12
Spencer, Joseph M. An Other Testament: On Typology. Second Edition. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
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How should we read the Book of Mormon? And does the Book of Mormon itself have anything to say about it? Joseph Spencer follows the lead of Nephite prophets who interpreted Isaiah and other prophets typologically—according to “types” and “shadows”—in order to preach salvation through Jesus Christ. By focusing on history, memory, time, repentance, and conversion, An Other Testament explores what it means to believe God provided the Book of Mormon to change a person like you and a world like ours.

ID = [81709]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:35
Spencer, Joseph M. The Vision of All: Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2016.
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[2016 Association for Mormon Letters Finalist for Religious Non-fiction] “In The Vision of All, Joseph Spencer draws on the best of biblical and Latter-day Saint scholarship to make sense of the so-called “Isaiah chapters” in the first two books of the Book of Mormon. Arguing that Isaiah lies at the very heart of Nephi’s project, Spencer insists on demystifying the writings of Isaiah while nonetheless refusing to pretend that Isaiah is in any way easy to grasp. Presented as a series of down-to-earth lectures, The Vision of All outlines a comprehensive answer to the question of why Nephi was interested in Isaiah in the first place. Along the way, the book presents both a general approach to reading Isaiah in the Book of Mormon and a set of specific tactics for making sense of Isaiah’s writings. For anyone interested in understanding what Isaiah is doing in the Book of Mormon, this is the place to start.” [Publisher]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Bible and; Book of Mormon, commentaries; Award Winner; Book of Mormon, importance of; Book of Mormon, narrative criticism; Book of Mormon
ID = [81526]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:25
Spencer, Joseph M. “The Book, the Words of the Book: What the Book of Mormon Says about Its Own Coming Forth.” Religious Educator Vol. 17 no. 1 (2016).
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
ID = [38456]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 41698  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:36
Spencer, Joseph M. “On the Dating of Moroni 8-9.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 131-148.
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Abstract: Students of the Book of Mormon who have attempted to establish a rough (internal) date for the composition of Mormon’s two letters in Moroni 8–9 have come to different and inconsistent conclusions. Nonetheless, there seems to be evidence enough from the text to arrive at reasonably certain conclusions as to when the letters are supposed to have originated. At the same time, the fact that the text never bothers to state the exact circumstances under which the letters were produced is theologically suggestive. What might be the interpretive and especially theological implications that follow from the establishment of rough dates for the letters? This essay argues from textual evidence that the reader should understand the two letters to have been written at rather different times: Moroni 8 in the years 345–50, and Moroni 9 in the years 375–80. It then draws interpretive and theological conclusions about the import of these dates: principally that Moroni’s inclusion of the letters forces readers to recognize that Mormon’s history is inventive and theologically motivated.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3725]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 45921  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:10
Spencer, Joseph M. “The Book of Mormon as Biblical Interpretation: An Approach to LDS Biblical Studies.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 8 no. 1 (2016).
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Recent years have witnessed a growing recognition in the academy that the Book of Mormon deserves closer attention than it has received. Not surprisingly, adherents to the various Mormon faiths have long read the book with some care. But larger numbers of believing and nonbelieving academics have come to recognize that, despite its often didactic style and relative literary artlessness, the Book of Mormon exhibits remarkable sophistication. This is perhaps nowhere truer than in those passages where the volume interacts—whether explicitly or implicitly—with biblical texts (always in or in relation to the King James rendering). Close reading of the Book of Mormon makes clear that Mormonism’s founding text models a profoundly inventive biblical hermeneutic that deserves a place in the burgeoning field of reception history. How does Mormon scripture understand and react to particular biblical texts, and what might be learned about the potential meanings of those biblical texts in light of such interactions?

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Biblical studies; religious scholarship
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [7061]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-sba  Size: 67425  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Spencer, Joseph M. “Nephi, Isaiah, and Europe.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
ID = [81834]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Spencer, Joseph M., and Jenny Webb. Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27. 2nd Edition. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
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Nephi’s adoration of the words of Isaiah has puzzled many readers of the Book of Mormon. What does Nephi’s reading and repurposing of the biblical prophet suggest about the nature of prophecy and scripture study? Six scholars of the Mormon Theology Seminar address these and other questions in Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah. By shedding new light on this particular scriptural text, these essays provide exemplary models for improved scripture study.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual parallels; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, commentaries
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [81722]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test  Size:   Children: 13  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:36

Articles

Spencer, Joseph M., and Jenny Webb. “Introduction.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
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Spencer, Joseph M., and Jenny Webb. “Summary Report.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
ID = [81833]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Webb, Jenny. “Slumbering Voices: Death and Textuality in 2 Nephi.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [81836]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Spencer, Joseph M., and Jenny Webb. “Appendix 1: Nephi’s Text and Its Sources.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
ID = [81840]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Spencer, Joseph M., and Jenny Webb. “Appendix 2: Isaiah Appropriated.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
ID = [81841]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Spencer, Joseph M., and Jenny Webb. “Appendix 3: Isaiah Edited.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
ID = [81842]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Spencer, Joseph M., and Jenny Webb. “Appendix 4: Cross-References.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
ID = [81843]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Spencer, Joseph M., and Jenny Webb. “Appendix 5: Further Reading.” In Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: 2 Nephi 26-27, edited by Spencer, Joseph M., and Webb, Jenny. Sheffield, UK: Salt Press, 2016.
ID = [81844]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:43
Spencer, Stan. “The Faith to See: Burning in the Bosom and Translating the Book of Mormon in Doctrine and Covenants 9.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 219-232.
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Abstract: Doctrine and Covenants 9:7–9 is conventionally interpreted as the Lord’s description of the method by which the Book of Mormon was translated. A close reading of the entire revelation, however, suggests that the Lord was not telling Oliver Cowdery how to translate but rather how to know whether it was right for him to translate and how to obtain the faith necessary to do so. Faith would have enabled Oliver Cowdery to overcome his fear and translate, just as it would have enabled Peter (in Matthew 14) to overcome his fear and walk on water.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [4407]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,interpreter-journal  Size: 35701  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:30
Spendlove, Loren Blake, and Tina Spendlove. “Turning to the Lord With the Whole Heart: The Doctrine of Repentance in the Bible and the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016): 177-246.
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Abstract: Repentance is considered one of the foundational principles of the gospel. As demonstrated in this article, there is a harmony in how repentance is portrayed in the Old Testament, New Testament, and Book of Mormon. In all three books the principle of repentance is shown to be a two-part process of turning away from sin and returning to the Lord through good works. Just as faith has been called “active belief,” repentance could be called “active remorse,” and must be accompanied by good works to be effective in our lives. The goal and end result of sincere repentance is a turning to the Lord with the whole heart, enabling us to return to the presence of God. .

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
ID = [3749]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 64475  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:12
Thayne, Stanley J. “The Blood of Father Lehi: Indigenous Americans and the Book of Mormon.” PhD diss., Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016.
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The Book of Mormon, published in New York in 1830, has been described and understood by many Mormons to be a “history of the American Indians.” It tells of a family who left Jerusalem around 600 BCE and migrated to a “Promised Land,” generally understood to be the American continents, and who became the progenitors of Indigenous American peoples. As a text produced by Euroamericans, the Book of Mormon can be situated as part of a larger colonial imaginary that envisions Native peoples as lost Israelites. However, many American Indian people have converted to Mormonism or have grown up in the Mormon faith. For many, the Book of Mormon narrative has become an integral part of their Indigenous identity and subjectivity. This dissertation is an ethnographic exploration and analysis of how the Book of Mormon informs the Indigenous subjectivities of Indigenous American Latter-day Saints (Mormons). It is based on fieldwork conducted in Catawba, Shoshone, and Confederated Blackfoot nations.

Keywords: Identity, sense of; Native Americans, Shoshoni; Doctrinal history, racial concepts; Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Book of Mormon, Native Americans and; Cardston, Alberta, Canada; Native Americans, Mormon views of; Native Americans, Catawba
ID = [81574]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:28
Thomas, John Christopher. A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon: A Literary and Theological Introduction. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2016.
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“In this monograph, Pentecostal New Testament scholar John Christopher Thomas offers a constructive, critical reading of the Book of Mormon that focuses on a variety of issues often under-represented in the literature currently available. Utilizing narrative analysis, Thomas begins with an investigation of the book’s overall structure detected by means of literary markers in the text. He next presents an extended reading of the narrative contents of the book focusing on its literary and theological dimensions. This close reading enables the construction of a ’Theology of the Book of Mormon’ that explores the major theological emphases that emerge from the narrative analysis of the book. The study next traces the book’s reception amongst followers and opponents alike, as well as its impact in the areas of music, art, and disastrous interpretations of the book. The Book of Mormon and Pentecostalism are then placed into dialogue through historical analyses of early Pentecostal thought on the book and the movements it spawned, before a comparison of the theological heart of Pentecostalism and the book is given. Finally, issues of origins are discussed by an examination of the earliest story of the book’s origins, the major complications of this story, and the proposal of a taxonomy of various reading strategies offered in the light of these complications.” [Abstract]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, commentaries; Comparative religion, Pentecostal
ID = [81531]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:25
Thompson, A. Keith. “Joseph Smith and the Doctrine of Sealing.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 21 (2016): 1-21.
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Abstract: Brian Hales has observed that we cannot understand Joseph Smith’s marriage practices in Nauvoo without understanding the related theology. However, he implies that we are hampered in coming to a complete understanding of that theology because the only primary evidence we have of that theology is the revelation now recorded as Section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants and a few entries in William Clayton’s journal. This paper argues that we have more primary evidence about Joseph Smith’s sealing theology than we realize. The accounts we have of the First Vision and of Moroni’s first visits in 1823 have references to the sealing power embedded in them, ready for Joseph to unpack when he was spiritually educated enough to ask the right questions.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
ID = [3732]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,interpreter-journal,old-test,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 52254  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:11
Thompson, A. Keith. “Were We Foreordained to the Priesthood, or Was the Standard of Worthiness Foreordained? Alma 13 Reconsidered.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 21 (2016): 249-274.
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Abstract: Alma 13:3–4 is often interpreted as Book of Mormon confirmation of the doctrine that all those who are ordained to the Priesthood on the earth were foreordained to receive that Priesthood in the pre-existence as a result of their exceeding faith and good works. That interpretation is inconsistent with the 1978 revelation on Priesthood. A contextual reading of the account of Alma2’s ministry to the people of Ammonihah also suggests that Alma2 was not telling the men of Ammonihah that they (or anyone else) had been foreordained to receive the Priesthood. Rather, Alma2 was teaching that what we now call worthiness was ordained as the standard for ordination to the Priesthood before the foundations of this earth were laid. If the people of Ammonihah demonstrated their worthiness by repenting of their sins, they could qualify to receive the ordinances of the Melchizedek Priesthood and enter into the rest of the Lord as many of the ancients had done. The manner in which men were ordained to the Priesthood and in which its ordinances were administered was intended to show the people how they should look to Christ for redemption.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3738]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 61899  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:11
Tolley, Kevin L. “To ‘See and Hear’” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 139-158.
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The world of the Nephite nation was born out of the world of seventh century bc Jerusalem. The traditions and tragedies of the nation of Judah set the stage for what would happen over the next ten centuries of Book of Mormon history. In his opening statements, Nephi tells of an explosion of divinely commissioned ministers preaching in the holy city. He declares that Jerusalem was a place of “many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they must repent” (1 Nephi 1:4). Nephi alludes to the prophetic service of Jeremiah (c. bc 626-587), Zephaniah (c. bc 640-609, Obadiah (c. bc 587), Nahum2 Habakkuk, Urijah, and possibly many others. This disproportionate number of prophets in the city was accompanied by an increasing wave of imitators. Amidst this apparent competition between valid and invalid prophetic representatives, Jeremiah sets a standard of who can be trusted in this visionary arena. As Stephen Smoot has written, “The Book of Mormon exhibits, in many respects, an intimate familiarity with ancient Israelite religious concepts. One such example is the Book of Mormon’s portrayal of the divine council. Following a lucid biblical pattern, the Book of Mormon provides a depiction of the divine council and several examples of those who were introduced into the heavenly assembly and made partakers in divine secrets.” It is this rich heritage of prophetic representatives of deity that so richly influenced Book of Mormon authors. Of these many prophets who were actively preaching in Jerusalem, Jeremiah stands out in Nephi’s writings (1 Nephi 5:13; 7:14). Jeremiah continues to be an influence on Nephite culture throughout their history (Helaman 8:20; cf. 3 Nephi 19:4). It will be Jeremiah’s writings that will influence the Nephite perspective on “Call Narratives” and views of the “Divine Council” throughout the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [4404]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 48404  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:29
Underwood, Grant, ed. Voyages of Faith: Explorations in Mormon Pacific History. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2016.
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Accounts of the pioneers’ trek across the plains have inspired Latter-day Saints of different lands and cultures for generations. But as the Church becomes more global, there are other histories to tell. Voyages of Faith is a new book that tells one of those histories. The first compilation of its kind, Voyages brings together scholarly research, personal reminiscences and stories of inspiration and faith of Latter-day Saints in the Pacific Islands over the last 150 years. Contributors to the book include native Pacific Islanders, notably Chieko N. Okazaki, the first non-Caucasian called to the Relief Society, Young Women’s and Primary general boards. While some chapters are scholarly in focus, others give insight into the emotions and experiences of contemporary Polynesian Latter-day Saints. Voyages chronicles early LDS Church life in the pacific, missionary work and pacific temples. There is even an account written by a surviving Church member from the Kalaupapa leper colony. The content is drawn from presentations made during the last 20 years to the Mormon Pacific Historical Society, an organization dedicated to gathering, recording and publishing LDS history of the Pacific area. Grant Underwood, BYU historian and editor of Voyages, said although the stories within the volume are about Pacific Islanders, they will inspire all who read them. This book relates wonderful accounts of ordinary people receiving extraordinary blessings, said Underwood. It’s inspirational for readers to know that God has been dealing with his children all over the world. Underwood said the publication of Voyages illustrates the worldwide nature of the Church. Stories of faith and courage can come from any culture and inspire any culture, he said. Polynesians have had many wonderful spiritual experiences that can hearten Saints everywhere. Voyages of Faith is the second volume in the Studies in Latter-day Saint History series published by the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Wilkinson, Greg. “Reading and Receiving: An Interpretation of Moroni’s Promise(s).” Religious Educator Vol. 17 no. 1 (2016).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [38457]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 21830  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:36
Woods, Fred E., and Jean G. Huysmans. “The Consecrated Service of Elder John W. F. Volker: The Netherlands Mission.” Religious Educator Vol. 17 no. 1 (2016).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [38459]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 97634  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:36
Black, Sharon, Bradley R. Wilcox, Wendy Baker Smemoe, and Bruce L. Brown. “Absence of ‘Joseph Smith’ in the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 17 no. 2 (2016).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [38447]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 45709  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:36
Christensen, Janeen. “The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism.” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 2 (2016): 205.
ID = [10779]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 3071  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:00
Olsen, Steven L. “From Darkness unto Light: Joseph Smith’s Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 2 (2016): 191.
ID = [10774]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 8957  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:00
Scripture Central. “An Apostle’s Witness.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #2. January 2, 2016.
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Keywords: Jeffrey R. Holland; Apostle; Witness; Joseph Smith; Testimony; Book of Mormon; General Conference; Church History; General Authority; Restoration
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8334]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 4842  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Stenson, Matthew Scott. “Answering for His Order: Alma’s Clash with the Nehors.” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 2 (2016): 127.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [10766]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 52031  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:00
Black, Sharon, Bradley R. Wilcox, and Kyle C. Lyons. “Book of Mormon Citations in General Conference, 1965–2014.” Religious Educator Vol. 17 no. 3 (2016).
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [38442]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 55631  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:35
Staker, Mark Lyman. “Schooling the Prophet: How the Book of Mormon Influenced Joseph Smith and the Early Restoration.” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2016): 183.
ID = [10760]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-03  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 7476  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:00
Larsen, David J. “Death Being Swallowed Up in Netzach in the Bible and the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2016): 123-134.
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One way to read the Book of Mormon is to be attentive to ways in which it comes across as a translated text. Being mindful of this is wise, because all translations—even inspired translations—lose something of the primary language, particularly as meanings shift when words are rendered into the vocabulary or idioms of the target language. While the exact nature of the original language used by Abinadi, Ammon, Aaron, or Mormon is unknown, the English text of the Book of Mormon gives helpful hints. Two passages (1 Ne. 1:2 and Morm. 9:32–33) suggest that Egyptian and Hebrew elements were found in the language used by Book of Mormon speakers and writers, which allows present-day scholars to look for places where the current translation displays these elements. This article suggests a possible connection between three Book of Mormon passages and a Hebrew word with a wide semantic range—a range that appears to be reflected quite purposefully in the English translation of these three passages in the books of Mosiah and Alma. That Hebrew word is netzach.

Keywords: Aaron (Son of King Mosiah); Abinadi (Prophet); Ammon (Son of King Mosiah); Death; Egyptian; Language; Language - Hebrew; Mormon (Prophet); Netzach
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [10735]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-04  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 23935  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Scripture Central. “Are There Mistakes in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #3. January 4, 2016.
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Keywords: Title Page; Moroni; Critical Text; Textual Variants; Textual Criticism; mistakes; Book of Mormon Translation; Book of Mormon; Church History; Restoration
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8333]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 16626  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Did Ancient Israelites Write in Egyptian?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #4. January 5, 2016.
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Keywords: Egyptian; Egypt; Hieratic; Language; Hebrew; Archaeology; Ancient Israel; Ancient Near East; Top KnoWhys; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8332]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10187  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Did Lehi Use the Poetry of the Ancient Bedouin?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #5. January 6, 2016.
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Keywords: Poetry; Bedouin; Arabia; Desert; Lehi; Hugh Nibley; Ancient Near East; Nephi; Ancient Israel; Language; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8331]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8104  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Does Nephi Always Go Down to the Wilderness and Up to Jerusalem?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #6. January 7, 2016.
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Keywords: Jerusalem; Elevation; Holy Ascent; Geography; Topography; Ancient Near East; Ancient Israel; Ancient Judaism; Ancient Israelite Religion; Sacred Space; Law of Moses; Mountain; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8330]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6260  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Did Jerusalem Have Walls Around It?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #7. January 8, 2016.
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Keywords: Jerusalem; Walls; Joseph Smith; Emma Smith; Book of Mormon Translation; Archaeology; Ancient Israel; Ancient Near East; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8329]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 4957  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Halverson, Taylor. “1 Nephi 12-14. Nephi’s Grand Vision.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 9, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4977]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-09  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 18764  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:12
Scripture Central. “Were Any Ancient Israelite Women Named Sariah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #8. January 11, 2016.
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Keywords: Sariah; Elephantine; Etymology; Book of Mormon Names; Names; Hebrew; Archaeology; Dead Sea Scrolls; Ancient Near East; Ancient Israel; Language; Women; Onomastics; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8328]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5424  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “How Could Lehi Offer Sacrifices Outside of Jerusalem?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #9. January 12, 2016.
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Keywords: Sacrifice; Temples; Law of Moses; Law; Legal; Altar; Bible; Old Testament; Dead Sea Scrolls; Jerusalem; Lehi; Nephi; Ancient Israel; Ancient Judaism; Ancient Near East; Arabia; Lehi’s Journey to the Promised Land
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8327]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7456  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “What Fruit is White?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #10. January 13, 2016.
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Keywords: Lehi’s Dream; Fruit; White; Tree of Life; Ancient Israelite Religion; Ancient Judaism; Pseudepigrapha; Apocrypha; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8326]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5709  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Write His Small Plates?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #11. January 14, 2016.
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Keywords: Small Plates; Politics; Kingship; Gold Plates; Plates of Nephi
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
ID = [8325]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 5777  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Did Pre-Christian Prophets Know About Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #12. January 15, 2016.
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Keywords: Heavenly Father; Jesus Christ; God; Yahweh; El; Ancient Israelite Religion; Ancient Canaanite Religion; Ancient Near East; New Testament; Old Testament; Bible; Ancient Judaism; Hebrew; Names; Book of Mormon Names; Etymology; Archaeology; Ancient Israel; Divine Council; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8324]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8476  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 6, ‘Free to Choose Liberty and Eternal Life’” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 17, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [6114]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-17  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 998  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 7, ‘I Know in Whom I Have Trusted’” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 17, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [6115]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-17  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 858  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Scripture Central. “What Does the Virgin Mary Have to Do with the Tree of Life?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #13. January 18, 2016.
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Keywords: Divine Mother; Mary; Jesus Christ; Tree of Life; Lehi’s Dream; Ancient Israelite Religion; Ancient Canaanite Religion; Ancient Judaism; Ancient Near East; Asherah; Heavenly Mother
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8323]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6834  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “What was the Great and Terrible Gulf in Lehi’s Dream?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #14. January 19, 2016.
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Keywords: Gulf; Lehi’s Dream; Tree of Life; Wadi; Water; Desert; Hell; Lehi’s Journey to the Promised Land; Ancient Near East; Geography; Ancient Israel; Arabia; Top KnoWhys; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8322]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5918  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Were Plain and Precious Doctrines Lost?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #15. January 20, 2016.
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Keywords: Apocalypse; Apostasy; Plain and Precious; Prophecy; Early Christian Church; Baptism; Doctrine; Sacrament; Prayer Circles; Bible
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8321]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9241  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Are There Really Only Two Churches?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #16. January 21, 2016.
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Keywords: Doctrine; Opposition; Lamb of God; God; Church of the Lamb; Church of the Devil; Strait and Narrow; Eternal Life; Satan; Devil; Christianity; Hell
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8320]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8082  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “How Did God Call His Prophets in Ancient Times?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #17. January 22, 2016.
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Keywords: Prophets; Prophecy; Calling; Divine Council; Heavenly Ascent; Holy Ascent; Heaven; Throne Theophany; Bible; Old Testament; Isaiah; Ezekiel; Jeremiah; Samuel; Amos; Habakkuk; King Benjamin; Brother of Jared; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [8319]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8345  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “What are the ‘Fiery Darts of the Adversary’ Spoken of by Nephi?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #18. January 25, 2016.
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Keywords: Fiery Darts; Adversary; Satan; Psalms; Assyria; Lachish; Ancient Warfare; Ancient Near East; Bible; Old Testament; Archaeology; Ancient Israel; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8318]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 4202  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Who Called Ishmael’s Burial Place Nahom?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #19. January 26, 2016.
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Keywords: Nahom; Marib; Archaeology; Arabia; Saudi Arabia; Nephi; Lehi; Lehi’s Journey to the Promised Land; Names; Book of Mormon Names; Etymology; Hebrew; Altar; Desert; Arabic; Language; Top KnoWhys; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8317]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8728  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Would Nephi Call the Ocean ‘Irreantum"?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #20. January 27, 2016.
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Keywords: Irreantum; Ocean; Etymology; Hebrew; Egyptian; Egypt; Nephi; Names; Book of Mormon Names; Lehi’s Journey to the Promised Land; Ancient Near East; Arabia; Promised Land; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8316]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5638  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Did Ancient People Sail the Seas?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #21. January 28, 2016.
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Keywords: Sailing; Transoceanic; Ancient Seafaring; Nephi; Lehi; Lehi’s Journey to the Promised Land; Promised Land; Ancient Near East; Archaeology; Arabia; Mesoamerica; New World; Ocean; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8315]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11409  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “What Kind of Ore did Nephi Use to Make the Plates?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #22. January 29, 2016.
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Keywords: Gold Plates; Tumbaga; Nephi; Ore; Metallurgy; Temples; Mesoamerica; Silver; Gold; Archaeology; New World; Promised Land; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8314]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-01-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9478  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Ensign. “Changed by the Book of Mormon.” Ensign February 2016.
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Scripture Central. “How Might Isaiah 48-49 be ‘Likened" to Lehi’s Family?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #23. February 1, 2016.
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Keywords: Isaiah; Nephi; Lehi; Family; Likening; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Smith, Hank R. “What Can the Book of Mormon Teach Us about Happiness?” Ensign, February 2016.
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Scripture Central. “Who is the Servant of Isaiah 49/1 Nephi 21?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #24. February 2, 2016.
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Keywords: Isaiah; Nephi; Joseph Smith; Jesus Christ; Servant; Ancient Israel; Prophecy; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8312]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7906  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Whom Did Nephi Quote in 1 Nephi 22?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #25. February 3, 2016.
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Keywords: Isaiah; Nephi; Zenos; Intertextuality; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8311]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 4898  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Interpreter Foundation. “Video Presentation: ‘These Were Days Never to Be Forgotten’: The Witnesses to the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 4, 2016.
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Scripture Central. “Did Lehi Quote Shakespeare?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #26. February 4, 2016.
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Keywords: Shakespeare; Lehi; Afterlife; Underworld; Ancient Near East; Nephi; Death; Hell; Ancient Israelite Religion; Bible; Old Testament; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Scripture Central. “Was the Requirement of a ‘Broken Heart" Known Before the Time of Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #27. February 5, 2016.
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Keywords: Broken Heart; Contrite Spirit; Sacrifice; Law of Moses; Psalms; Lehi; Bible; Nephi; Old Testament; Ancient Israelite Religion; Ancient Judaism; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8309]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6423  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Halverson, Taylor. “2 Nephi 1. Resurrecting Deep Sleepers.” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 6, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Halverson, Taylor. “2 Nephi 6-10. Jacob’s Masterful Discourse.” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 6, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
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Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 8, ‘O How Great the Goodness of Our God’” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 8, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [6116]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-08  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1019  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 9, ‘My Soul Delighteth in the Words of Isaiah’” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 8, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Scripture Central. “What are the Origins of Lehi’s Understanding of the Fall?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #28. February 8, 2016.
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Keywords: Fall; Lehi; Atonement; Plan of Salvation; Nephi; Bible; Old Testament; Apocrypha; Pseudepigrapha; Ancient Near East; Ancient Israelite Religion; Afterlife; Ancient Judaism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [4692]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-08  Collections:  bom,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:49
Scripture Central. “What are the Origins of Lehi’s Understanding of the Fall?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #28. February 5, 2016.
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Keywords: Fall; Lehi; Atonement; Plan of Salvation; Nephi; Bible; Old Testament; Apocrypha; Pseudepigrapha; Ancient Near East; Ancient Israelite Religion; Afterlife; Ancient Judaism
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Scripture Central. “Should 2 Nephi 1:1 - 4:12 Be Called the ‘Testament of Lehi"?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #29. February 9, 2016.
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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [8307]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10164  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Is ‘Nephi’s Psalm’ Really a Psalm?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #30. February 10, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8306]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8603  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Did Ancient Israelites Build Temples Outside of Jerusalem?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #31. February 11, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8305]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11057  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Did Jacob Refer to Ancient Israelite Autumn Festivals?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #32. February 12, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [8304]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8293  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 10, ‘He Inviteth All to Come unto Him’” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 14, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [6118]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 840  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 11, ‘Press Forward with a Steadfastness in Christ’” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 14, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [6119]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 826  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 12, ‘Seek Ye for the Kingdom of God’” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 14, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [6120]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 838  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 13, ‘The Allegory of the Olive Trees’” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 14, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [6121]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 856  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Scripture Central. “When Does the Book of Mormon First Talk About the Plan of Salvation?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #33. February 15, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8303]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10625  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Does Jacob Choose a ‘Monster’ as a Symbol for Death and Hell?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #34. February 16, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [8302]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8184  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Does Jacob Declare so Many ‘Woes’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #35. February 17, 2016.
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Keywords: Woes; Jacob; Moses; Law of Moses; Law; Legal; Ten Commandments; Covenants; Ancient Israelite Religion; Ancient Judaism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
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Scripture Central. “Why Does an Angel Reveal the Name of Christ to Jacob?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #36. February 18, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [8300]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10060  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Who Are the Witnesses of Christ in 2 Nephi?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #37. February 19, 2016.
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Keywords: Witness; Nephi; Isaiah; Jesus Christ; Jacob; Law of Witnesses; Law; Legal; Testimony; Three Witnesses; Jeffrey R. Holland; Christianity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8299]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 4939  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 14, ‘For a Wise Purpose’” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 20, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
ID = [6122]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-20  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 875  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Scripture Central. “What Vision Guides Nephi’s Choice of Isaiah Chapters?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #38. February 22, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephi; Isaiah; Bible; Old Testament; Nephite Prophetic View; Jews; Gentiles; Jesus Christ; Prophecy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8298]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7394  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Can Textual Studies Help Readers Understand the Isaiah Chapters in 2 Nephi?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #39. February 23, 2016.
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Keywords: Textual Criticism; Critical Text; Isaiah; Joseph Smith; Joseph Smith Translation; Nephi; Textual Variants; Church History; Book of Mormon Translation; Restoration
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8297]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10433  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Aston, Warren P. “Did Anyone Else in History ever Mention Nephi’s Bountiful?” Meridian Magazine, February 24, 2016.
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Scripture Central. “How Did Nephi Read Isaiah as a Witness of Christ’s Coming?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #40. February 24, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8296]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7323  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Has the Prophecy of the Lord’s House Established in the Mountains been Fulfilled?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #41. February 25, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8295]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7595  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Do Early Nephite Prophets Speak about the Scattering of the Jews?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #42. February 26, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8294]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6556  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 15, ‘Eternally Indebted to Your Heavenly Father’” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 27, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [6123]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-27  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 884  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Proctor, Scott, and Maurine Proctor. “Nephi’s Bountiful: Archaeological Dig: Was There a Holy Place of Worship at Nephi’s Bountiful?” Meridian Magazine, February 29, 2016.
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Proctor, Scott, and Maurine Proctor. “Nephi’s Bountiful: Archaeological Dig: Was There a Holy Place of Worship at Nephi’s Bountiful?” Meridian Magazine, February 29, 2016.
ID = [76460]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-29  Collections:  bom  Size: 15045  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Lehi ‘Suppose" the Existence of Satan?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #43. February 29, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8293]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10972  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Ensign. “Creating a Joyful Marriage—Together.” Ensign March 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Fenton, Elizabeth. “A Future in Ruins: The Anarchiad, The Book of Mormon, and the Excavation of Early America.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Annual Meeting, State College, PA: March 2016.
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Scripture Central. “What is the Day of the Gentiles?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #44. March 1, 2016.
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Keywords: Gentiles; Isaiah; Nephi; Jews; Nephite Prophetic View; Early Christian Church; Christianity; Promised Land; Restoration
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Scripture Central. “Did Interactions with ‘Others" Influence Nephi’s Selection of Isaiah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #45. March 2, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephi; Isaiah; New World; Gentiles; Promised Land
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Scripture Central. “What Do Nephi and Isaiah Say about the End Times?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #46. March 3, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8290]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7240  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “How Does Nephi Help Us Understand Isaiah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #47. March 4, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8289]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7277  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Halverson, Taylor. “Jacob 1-4. Seek the Kingdom of God.” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 5, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [4981]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 16952  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:13
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 16, ‘Ye Shall Be Called the Children of Christ’” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 6, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [6124]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-06  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 874  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “How Does Nephi Use Isaiah to Teach Us to Avoid Pride?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #48. March 7, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Scripture Central. “Why is the Lord’s Hand ‘Stretched Out Still"?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #49. March 8, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8287]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8179  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Quote Isaiah 11 to Joseph Smith?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #50. March 9, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8286]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6526  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Does Nephi Quote a Temple Psalm While Commenting on Isaiah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #51. March 10, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8285]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6578  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Does Nephi Use Isaiah 29 as Part of His Own Prophecy?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #52. March 11, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8284]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10717  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Would a Book Be Sealed?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #53. March 14, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephi; Isaiah; Sealed; Ancient Near East; Legal; Law; Ancient Law; Ancient Documents; Gold Plates; Gold
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8283]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 5188  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Ringwood, Michael T. “The Power of the Book of Mormon.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, March 15, 2016.
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Scripture Central. “Who Are the ‘Few" Who Were Permitted to See the Plates?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #54. March 15, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
ID = [8282]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11932  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “How Does the Devil Lead Us Astray?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #55. March 16, 2016.
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Keywords: Isaiah; Nephi; Devil; Satan; Adversary; Opposition
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Scripture Central. “Why Is There a Need for the Testimony of Two Nations?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #56. March 17, 2016.
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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [8280]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8670  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “What Does it Mean to be a White and Delightsome People?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #57. March 18, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8279]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12412  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “What is the Doctrine of Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #58. March 21, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8278]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6215  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “What is the Purpose of Baptism in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #59. March 22, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Scripture Central. “What is it to Speak with the Tongue of Angels?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #60. March 23, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8276]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10546  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi End His Sacred Record with His Testimony of the Redeemer?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #61. March 24, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephi; Testimony; Witness; Jesus Christ; Atonement
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8275]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7437  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Does Jacob Quote So Much from the Psalms?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #62. March 25, 2016.
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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Leviticus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8274]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6761  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why is the Book of Mormon a Classic?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #63. March 26, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [8273]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12221  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “What Does the Book of Mormon Say About Polygamy?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #64. March 28, 2016.
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Keywords: Polygamy; Jacob; Abraham; King David; Solomon; Mesoamerica; Women; Marriage; Chastity; Law; Legal
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8272]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7016  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 17, ‘A Seer-Becometh a Great Benefit to His Fellow Beings’” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 29, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [6125]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-29  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 900  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 18, ‘God Himself-Shall Redeem His People’” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 29, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [6126]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-29  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 842  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 19, ‘None Could Deliver Them but the Lord’” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 29, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [6127]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-29  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 868  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jacob Call his Record the ‘Plates of Jacob"?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #65. March 29, 2016.
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Keywords: Jacob; Nephi; Lehi; Gold Plates; Plates of Lehi; Plates of Nephi; Plates of Jacob; Martin Harris; 116 pages
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [8271]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6750  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jacob Share the Allegory of the Olive Tree?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #66. March 30, 2016.
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Keywords: Jacob; Allegory of the Olive Tree; Intertextuality; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [8270]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6395  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Interpreter Foundation. “Upcoming Lectures: Editing Out the ‘Bad Grammar’ in the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 31, 2016.
ID = [5817]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-31  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 765  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:29
Scripture Central. “Is Anything Known of the Prophet Zenos Outside of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #67. March 31, 2016.
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Keywords: Jacob; Zenos; Allegory of the Olive Tree; Pseudo Philo; Prophets; Bible; Old Testament; Apocrypha; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [8269]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-03-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9519  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Rioux, Emilien. “Teach Them to Read the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, April 2016.
ID = [61442]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1607  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:45
Scripture Central. “Why Do Church Leaders Frequently Testify of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #68. April 1, 2016.
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Keywords: LDS General Conference; LDSconf; General Conference; Book of Mormon; General Authority
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8268]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 4421  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Simkins, Heather. “My Mother’s Testimony of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, April 2016.
ID = [61433]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3486  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:45
Scripture Central. “Why Do Certain ‘Treasured Words’ Appear So Repeatedly in General Conference Talks?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #69. April 2, 2016.
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Keywords: LDSconf; LDS General Conference; General Conference; Intertextuality; General Authority
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8267]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6002  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “What are the Roots of Zenos’s Allegory in the Ancient World?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #70. April 4, 2016.
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Keywords: Allegory of the Olive Tree; Zenos; Jacob; Ancient Near East; Paul; Bible; Old Testament; New Testament; Ancient Israel
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [8266]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6365  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Did Zenos Give So Many Details about Raising Good Olives?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #71. April 5, 2016.
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Keywords: Allegory of the Olive Tree; Zenos; Jacob; Olives; Botany; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [8265]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8580  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Aston, Warren P. “The longest Voyage: Lehi’s Journey to the Promised Land.” Meridian Magazine website, April 6, 2016.
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Illustrated discussion about what is certain and what remains unknown in regard to the Lehite voyage. Promoted as material extracted from the newly released Lehi and Sariah in Arabia.

ID = [82195]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-04-06  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:16:03
Scripture Central. “Was the Book of Mormon Used as the First Church Administrative Handbook?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #72. April 6, 2016.
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Keywords: Early Church History; Church Organization; Joseph Smith; Restoration; Apostle
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8264]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8744  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Did Sherem Die?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #73. April 7, 2016.
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Keywords: Jacob; Sherem; Legal; Law; Law of Moses; Blasphemy; Death
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [8263]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6504  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Do the Authors on the Small Plates Follow a Pattern?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #74. April 8, 2016.
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Keywords: Small Plates; Gold Plates; Nephi; Jacob; Enos; Jarom; Omni; Amaron; Chemish; Abinadom; Amaleki; Words of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
ID = [8262]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6496  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Are Horses Mentioned in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #75. April 11, 2016.
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Keywords: Horses; Enos; Book of Mormon Translation; Archaeology; Anachronism; Mesoamerica; Top KnoWhys
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [8261]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 17681  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Halverson, Taylor. “Mosiah 4-6: Children of Christ.” The Interpreter Foundation website. April 12, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [4982]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-12  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 16696  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:13
Scripture Central. “Why Were Genealogies Important to Book of Mormon Peoples?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #76. April 12, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephi; Jacob; Omni; Jarom; Enos; Small Plates; Genealogy; Mesoamerica; Lineage History; Politics; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
ID = [8260]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7654  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why was Coriantumr’s Record Engraved on a ‘Large Stone"?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #77. April 13, 2016.
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Keywords: Omni; Mesoamerica; Stelae; Archaeology; Coriantumr; Jaredites; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
ID = [8259]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10648  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why is ‘Words of Mormon’ at the End of the Small Plates?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #78. April 14, 2016.
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Keywords: Words of Mormon; Small Plates; Mormon; Literary Device; Ancient Near East; Subscriptio; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
ID = [8258]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5216  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Is the Theme of Kingship So Prominent in King Benjamin’s Speech?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #79. April 15, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; King Benjamin; Plan of Salvation; Atonement; Covenants; Ancient Israel; Coronation; Kingship
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
ID = [8257]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6491  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Nephites Stay in Their Tents During King Benjamin’s Speech?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #80. April 18, 2016.
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Keywords: King Benjamin; King Benjamin’s Speech; Feast of Tabernacles; Ancient Israel; Ancient Israelite Religion; Ancient Near East; Autumn Festivals; Mosiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8256]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6789  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Do the Scriptures Compare Hell to an Unquenchable Fire?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #81. April 19, 2016.
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Keywords: Hell; Psalms; Bible; Old Testament; King Benjamin; Mosiah; Ancient Near East
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8255]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7588  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Horne, Dennis B. “Additional Witnesses of the Coming Forth and Content of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. April 20, 2016.
ID = [4845]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-20  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 18658  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:01
Scripture Central. “Why Does King Benjamin Emphasize the Blood of Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #82. April 20, 2016.
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Keywords: King Benjamin; Mosiah; Blood; Mesoamerica; Jesus Christ; Atonement; Kingship; Sacrament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
ID = [8254]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11307  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Did King Benjamin Use Poetic Parallels So Extensively?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #83. April 21, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; King Benjamin; Parallelism; Hebrew; Old Testament; Literary Device; Chiasmus; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8253]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8634  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Were Benjamin and Mosiah Such Beloved and Effective Leaders?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #84. April 22, 2016.
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Keywords: Benjamin; Mosiah; Leadership; Charity; Humility; Service
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8252]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5356  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 20, ‘My Soul Is Pained No More’” The Interpreter Foundation website. April 23, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6128]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-23  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 858  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Are Mormon’s Extensive Quotations of Limhi Significant?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #85. April 25, 2016.
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Keywords: Limhi; Mosiah; Joseph Smith; Ancient Near East; Ancient History; Speeches; Mormon; Gold Plates; Redaction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8251]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 4702  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why is a Seer Greater than a Prophet?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #86. April 26, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; King Benjamin; Seer; Urim and Thummim; Prophets; Joseph Smith; Ancient Israelite Religion; Priest; Book of Mormon Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8250]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9484  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “How Can Barley in the Book of Mormon Feed Faith?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #87. April 27, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; Agriculture; Barley; North America; Mesoamerica; Botany; Anachronism; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8249]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5395  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Mormon Mention Wine, Vineyards, and Wine-presses?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #88. April 28, 2016.
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Keywords: Archaeology; Botany; Agriculture; Mosiah2; Wine; Alcohol; Mesoamerica; Hebrew; Anachronism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8248]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6986  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Would Noah’s Priests Quiz Abinadi on Isaiah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #89. April 29, 2016.
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Keywords: Abinadi; Mosiah; King Noah; Zeniff; Isaiah; Legal; Law of Moses; Law
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8247]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-04-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7549  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 21, ‘Alma… Did Judge Righteous Judgments’” The Interpreter Foundation website. May 1, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6129]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 878  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Townsend, Colby J. “Appropriation and Adaptation of J Material in the Book of Mormon.” Thesis for Honors Degree, Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, World Languages and Cultures, University of Utah, 2016.
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This study explores the influence of the King James Bible (KJV) on the Book of Mormon (BM) by examining how the BM appropriates and adapts the text of the J source of the Pentateuch-a narrative strand from Genesis to Deuteronomy-and weaves phrases, ideas, motifs, and characters into the text. I identify the full range of influence of the J source of the Pentateuch on the text of the BM in Part II, and then analyze the use of Gen. 2-4 in its own literary context, in ancient sources, and finally in the BM. Through close reading and analysis the study highlights the gaps between the meaning of Gen. 2-4 in its own literary context and the way that the BM interprets its themes and overall message. The BM employs a thoroughly 19th century American- Christian worldview in both its use of the J source and its interpretation of that important text. This study has important implications for BM studies broadly and for historical-critical studies of the BM in particular. Moving forward, BM studies will need to grapple with the heavy influence that the KJV had on the composition of the BM. Past studies have identified limited influence of the KJV on the text for several reasons, but whatever the reasons it is clear that there are specific ways to move the field forward. Studies have focused on the block quotations of Isaiah in the BM, and some have explored the use of Sermon on the Mount in 3 Nephi and other portions of the text. Unfortunately, there are very few studies that have attempted to broaden the scope and look at the influen ce of a larger section of the KJV and its more subtle uses throughout the entire BM It is my hope that this study can be a stepping-stone of sorts for future work. I have looked specifically at how the BM uses parts of Genesis through Deuteronomy, but this leaves the door open to exploring the influence of any and all of the other parts of the KJV and their influence on the text of the BM.

Keywords: 2 Nephi; 3 Nephi; Documentary Hypothesis; Intertextuality; Isaiah; King James Bible; Sermon on the Mount; Source Criticism; Textual Criticism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses
ID = [2690]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2016-05-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,moses  Size: 451049  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:02
Scripture Central. “Did Abinadi Prophesy During Pentecost?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #90. May 2, 2016.
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Keywords: Abinadi; King Noah; Mosiah; Legal; Law of Moses; Pentecost; Ancient Israelite Religion; Shavuot; Ancient Judaism; Psalms
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8246]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8912  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “Why Did Abinadi Talk About the Suffering Messiah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #91. May 3, 2016.
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Keywords: Abinadi; King Noah; Mosiah; Isaiah; Jesus Christ; Atonement; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8245]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8930  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Scripture Central. “How is Christ Both the Father and the Son?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #92. May 4, 2016.
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Keywords: Jesus Christ; Heavenly Father; Abinadi; King Noah; God; Benjamin; Mesoamerica; Trinity; Deity Complex; Roles of Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8244]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9610  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Does Abinadi Use the Phrase ‘the Bands of Death"?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #93. May 5, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; Abinadi; King Noah; Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; Death; Jesus Christ; Messiah; Resurrection
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8243]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9383  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Abinadi Stretch Forth His Hand as He Prophesied?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #94. May 6, 2016.
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Keywords: Abinadi; King Noah; Hands; Gestures; Ancient Near East; Moses; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8242]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 4760  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Book of Mormon Prophets Speak of Future Events as if They Had Already Happened?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #95. May 9, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; King Noah; Abinadi; Isaiah; Bible; Old Testament; Literary Device; Ancient Near East
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8241]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8375  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “North American Book of Mormon Geography.” The Interpreter Foundation website. May 10, 2016.
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Scripture Central. “Why was Abinadi Scourged with Faggots?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #96. May 10, 2016.
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Keywords: Abinadi; King Noah; Mosiah; Mesoamerica; North America; Martyr; Textual Amendation; Death; Top KnoWhys; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8240]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7306  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Halverson, Taylor. “Mosiah 12-16. Martyr in Disguise.” The Interpreter Foundation website. May 11, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [4983]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 8927  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:13
Scripture Central. “At Baptism, What Do We Covenant to Do?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #97. May 11, 2016.
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Keywords: Baptism; Covenants; Mosiah; Alma1; Waters of Mormon; Holy Ghost; Atonement
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8239]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 4608  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “North American Book of Mormon Geography: The River Sidon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. May 12, 2016.
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Scripture Central. “Why did the Lamanites Break Their Treaty with King Limhi?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #98. May 12, 2016.
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Keywords: Abinadi; Alma1; Mosiah; King Noah; Lamanites; Ancient Near East; Legal; Hebrew; Covenants; Women
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8238]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7675  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Which Nephite King Had the Gift of Interpretation?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #99. May 13, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; Limhi; King Benjamin; Seer; Jaredites; Critical Text; Textual Criticism; Gold Plates
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8237]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8536  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Video Now Available of Skousen-Carmack Lecture ‘Editing Out the ‘Bad Grammar’ in the Book of Mormon’” The Interpreter Foundation website. May 15, 2016.
ID = [6438]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-15  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 798  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:34
Scripture Central. “Why Did King Limhi Think Gideon’s Escape Plan Would Work?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #100. May 16, 2016.
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Keywords: Limhi; Gideon; Alcohol; Word of Wisdom; Mosiah; Bible; New Testament; Apocrypha; Judtih
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8236]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,d-c  Size: 6201  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Mosiah Talk So Much About Priesthood Authority?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #101. May 17, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; Nephi; Lehi; Levites; Ancient Near East; Ancient Israelite Religion; Temples; Priest; Priesthood; Melchizedek
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Leviticus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8235]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9409  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Does the Lord Make our Burdens Light?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #102. May 18, 2016.
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Keywords: King Noah; Waters of Mormon; Alma; Amulon; Slavery; Baptism; Prayer; Burdens; Bible; Old Testament; Exodus; Refugees
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8234]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 5949  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Has An Artifact That Relates to the Book of Mormon Been Found?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #103. May 19, 2016.
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Keywords: Archaeology; Mulek; Mosiah; Zedekiah; Jeremiah; Bible; Old Testament; Zarahemla; Mulekites; Babylon; Hebrew; Etymology; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [8233]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6494  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Was Mosiah a Type of Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #104. May 20, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; Alma; Zarahemla; Etymology; Hebrew; Limhi; Legal; Savior; Jesus Christ; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8232]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5386  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Angel Speak to Alma With a Voice of Thunder?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #105. May 23, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma1; Mosiah2; Angels; Ancient Near East; God; Ancient Israelite Religion; Bible; Old Testament; Jehovah; Yahweh; Psalms; Mesoamerica; Jesus Christ; Thunder; Lightning
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8231]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7936  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Peterson, Blake E. “Do We Really Believe?” Devotional, Brigham Young University, May 24, 2016.
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When you are faced with the question of whether you really believe some principle of the gospel, I encourage you to hold fast to the things that you know are true because the answers to the rest will come to you in time.

Keywords: Faith; Testimony; Podcast: Come; Follow Me
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [70019]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-05-24  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:52
Scripture Central. “What Do the Jaredites Have to Do With the Reign of the Judges?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #106. May 24, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; Sons of Mosiah; Jaredites; Limhi; Ether; Alma; Mormon; Moroni; Zarahemla; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8230]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7760  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Were Judges Elected in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #107. May 25, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; Alma; Reign of the Judges; Legal; Chief Judge; King; Mesoamerica; Government; Politics
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8229]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8073  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nehor Suffer an ‘Ignominious’ Death?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #108. May 26, 2016.
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Keywords: Reign of the Judges; Nehor; Nephite Government; Church Organization; Chief Judge; Alma; Mesoamerica; Priestcraft; Death; Law of Moses; Legal; Law; Ancient Israelite Religion
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8228]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8177  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Were the Amlicites and Amalekites Related?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #109. May 27, 2016.
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Keywords: Amlici; Reign of the Judges; Amlicites; Amalekites; Textual Variants; Critical Text; Textual Criticism
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8227]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6770  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Book of Mormon Prophets Discourage Nephite-Lamanite Intermarriage?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #110. May 30, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Apostasy; Amlici; War; Lamanites; Curse; Race; Intermarriage; Marriage; Nehor; Ancient Israelite Religion; Ancient Israel
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8226]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9532  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma Add ‘Chains of Hell’ to Abinadi’s Phrase ‘Bands of Death’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #111. May 31, 2016.
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Keywords: Abinadi; Alma; Bands of Death; Death; Bible; Psalms; Old Testament; Hebrew; Chains of Hell; Hell
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8225]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-05-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9384  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma Ask Church Members Fifty Probing Questions?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #112. June 1, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Covenants; Psalms; Bible; Old Testament; Temples; Zarahemla; Ancient Israel; Ancient Israelite Religion; King Benjamin
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8224]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10513  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma Need to ‘Establish the Order of the Church’ in Zarahemla Again?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #113. June 2, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; King Mosiah; Zarahemla; Nehor; Church; Nephite Church; Apostasy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8223]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9283  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Does Alma Mention Three Kinds of Paths in One Verse?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #114. June 3, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Nephite Church; Zarahemla; Strait and Narrow; Temples; Tree of Life; John the Baptist; Shepherd; Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; Isaiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8222]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10289  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 22, ‘Have Ye Received His Image in Your Countenances?’” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 4, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6130]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 839  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma Bless and Thank God After Eating?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #115. June 6, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Amulek; Ammonihah; Angels; Eating; Prayer; Ancient Judaism; Ancient Israel; Mishnah; Dead Sea Scrolls; Bible; Old Testament; Moses
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8221]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6407  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “What does it Mean to ‘Prosper in the Land’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #116. June 7, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Ammonihah; Prosperity; Parallelism; Nephi; Lehi; Hebrew; Poetry; Blessings; Riches; Wealth
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8220]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6700  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why is Amulek’s Household Significant?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #117. June 8, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Amulek; Family; Mesoamerica; Mesoamerican Household Compound; Women; Children
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8219]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5677  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Would Zeezrom Attempt to Bribe Amulek?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #118. June 9, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Amulek; Zeezrom; Ammonihah; Mormon; Legal; Monetary System; Silver; Bribery; Law of Moses; Money
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8218]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6941  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma Teach His Opponents about the Temple?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #119. June 10, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Amulek; Zeezrom; Temples; Fall; Adam; Eve; Garden of Eden; Resurrection; Final Judgment; Ammonihah; Jesus Christ; Atonement; Priesthood; Melchizedek
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8217]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10924  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 23, ‘More Than One Witness’” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 11, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6131]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 811  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 24, ‘Give Us Strength According to Our Faith-in Christ’” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 11, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6132]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 821  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 25, ‘They Taught with Power and Authority of God’” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 11, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6133]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 900  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma Talk about Melchizedek?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #120. June 13, 2016.
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Keywords: Priesthood; Melchizedek; Melchizedek Priesthood; Alma; Ammonihah; Amulek; Repentance; Temples; Nehor; Apostasy; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8216]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10500  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “What Kind of Earthquake Caused the Prison Walls to Fall?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #121. June 14, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Amulek; Ammonihah; Prison; Earthquake; Mesoamerica; Geology; Miracles; Moses; Exodus
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8215]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6999  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did the People of Sidom Go to the Altar for Deliverance?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #122. June 15, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Amulek; Ammonihah; Sidon; Zarahemla; Satan; Death; Legal; Altar; Deliverance; Sacrifice; Bible; Old Testament; Exodus; Lehi; Nephi
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8214]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7764  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was the City of Ammonihah Destroyed and Left Desolate?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #123. June 16, 2016.
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Keywords: Ammonihah; Law; Legal; Ancient Israel; Bible; Old Testament; Deuteronomy; Destruction; Zarahemla; Death; Alma; Amulek; Missionary Work; Law of Moses
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8213]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11685  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma and Amulek Preach in Synagogues?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #124. June 17, 2016.
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Keywords: Synagogues; Ancient Israelite Religion; Ancient Judaism; Alma; Amulek; Ammonihah; Zoramites; Etymology; Hebrew; Greek; Temples
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8212]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10375  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Servants Present Lamoni with the Arms of His Enemies?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #125. June 20, 2016.
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Keywords: Ammon; Arms; Dismemberment; Ancient Near East; Ancient Warfare; Egypt; Canaanite; Mesopotamia; Mesoamerica; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8211]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13509  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “What is the Nature and Use of Chariots in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #126. June 21, 2016.
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Keywords: Chariots; Ancient Near East; Mesoamerica; Ammon; King Lamoni; Warfare; Bible; Old Testament; Hebrew; Maya; Wheels; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8210]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 16578  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Abish Mentioned by Name?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #127. June 22, 2016.
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Keywords: Abish; Women; Alma; Hebrew; Etymology; Lamoni; Visions; God; Jesus Christ; Heavenly Father; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8209]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8821  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “What Did it Mean to be ‘King Over All the Land’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #128. June 23, 2016.
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Keywords: Zeniff; Mosiah; Sons of Mosiah; Mesoamerica; Ancient Near East; Kingship; Monarchy; Ancient Israel; Lamoni; Alma; Lamanites; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
ID = [8208]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12514  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Mormon Include Flashbacks in His Narrative?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #129. June 24, 2016.
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Keywords: Flashback; Gideon; Alma; Zarahemla; Mosiah; Ammon; Lamoni; Aaron; Manti; Madoni; Mormon; Redaction; Ammonihah; Anti-Nephi-Lehies; Zoramites; Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8207]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 3944  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Mormon Give So Many Details About Geography?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #130. June 27, 2016.
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Keywords: Geography; Zarahemla; Internal Geography; Mesoamerica; North America; South America; American Continent; Mormon’s Map; Consistency; Complexity; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8206]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 17733  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Converted Lamanites Call Themselves Anti-Nephi-Lehies?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #131. June 28, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; Alma; Conversion; Anti-Nephi-Lehies; Curse; Etymology; Egyptian; Greek; Ancient Israel
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8205]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8511  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “What is the Symbolism of the Stained Swords of the Anti-Nephi-Lehies?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #132. June 29, 2016.
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Keywords: Anti-Nephi-Lehies; Amlicites; Mesoamerica; Amulonites; Law of Moses; Law; Death; Murder; War; Weapons; Stain; Blood; Swords; Day of Atonement; Seven; Covenants; Jesus Christ; Atonement; Repentance
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8204]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7615  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Ammon Borrow So Much from Tradition in Alma 26?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #133. June 30, 2016.
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Keywords: Ammon; Intertextuality; Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; Jacob; King Benjamin; Alma; Joel; Allegory of the Olive Tree; Zenos; King Lamoni; Literacy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezra/Nehemiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Old Testament Scriptures > Daniel
ID = [8203]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-06-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10333  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Jershon Called a Land of Inheritance?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #134. July 1, 2016.
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Keywords: Anti-Nephi-Lehies; Lamanites; Ammon; Nephites; Etymology; Hebrew; Jershon; Law; Law of Moses; Amlicites; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8202]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7601  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Fasting and Prayer Accompany Nephite Mourning?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #135. July 3, 2016.
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Keywords: Zarahemla; Lamanites; Nephites; Anti-Nephi-Lehies; Jershon; Warfare; Sorrow; Mourning; Fasting; Prayer; Ancient Israel; Bible; Old Testament; Esther; Psalms; Exodus; Parallelism
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Esther
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8201]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8142  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma Wish to Speak ‘with the Trump of God’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #136. July 5, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Angels; Missionary Work; Jubilee; Law of Moses; Ancient Israel; King Benjamin; Mosiah; Sabbatical; Day of Atonement; Trumpet; Horn; Joy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8200]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11729  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Alma’s Wish Sinful?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #137. July 6, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Angels; Sin; Sons of Mosiah; Chief Judge; High Priest; Joy; Missionary Work; Jubilee
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8199]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12419  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Korihor Cursed with Speechlessness?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #138. July 7, 2016.
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Keywords: Korihor; Anti-Christ; Alma; Miracles; God; Nehor; Legal; Ancient Law; Speechlessness; Zoramites; Ancient Near East; Law of Moses; Binding Spells; Curse
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8198]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9128  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma Repeat the Lord’s Name Ten Times While in Prayer?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #139. July 8, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Korihor; Nephites; Zoramites; Lamanites; Prayer; God; Jehovah; Ancient Judaism; Repetition; Atonement; Jesus Christ; Covenants
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8197]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8200  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 26, ‘Converted unto the Lord’” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 11, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6134]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 785  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma Use Creation Imagery in His Sermon on Faith?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #140. July 11, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Zoramites; Antionum; Faith; Zenos; Isaiah; Light; Creation; Hebrew; Tree of Life; Fall; Atonement; Resurrection; Adam; Eve; Lamoni; Nephites
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8196]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8690  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “What Are the Nephite Articles of Faith?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #141. July 12, 2016.
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Keywords: Articles of Faith; Moses; Nephites
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8195]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7246  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Must There be an Infinite and Eternal Sacrifice?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #142. July 13, 2016.
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Keywords: Zoramites; Atonement; Amulek; Alma; Sacrifice; Mesopotamia; Ancient Near East; Ancient Law; Ancient Israel; Bible; Old Testament; Mesoamerica; Bloodletting; Animal Sacrifice; Law of Moses; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8194]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11860  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was the Zoramite Defection So Disastrous?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #143. July 14, 2016.
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Keywords: Zoramites; Korihor; Alma; Amulek; People of Ammon; Nephites; Lamanites; Antionum; Geography; Mesoamerica; Zarahemla; Ancient Israel; Egypt; Babylon; Zedekiah; Lehi; Military; Warfare; Captain Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8193]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9374  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Alma Converted?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #144. July 15, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Conversion; Chiasmus; Angels; Poetry; Parallelism; Hebrew; Literature; Jesus Christ; Atonement; Repentance; Joy; Mesoamerica
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8192]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14434  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Skousen, Royal. “Editing Out the ‘Bad Grammar’ in the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 15, 2016.
ID = [4855]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-15  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 540  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:02
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 27, ‘All Things Denote There Is a God’” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 16, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6135]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-16  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 829  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 28, ‘The Word Is in Christ unto Salvation’” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 16, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6136]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-16  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 879  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Was a Stone Used as an Aid in Translating the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #145. July 18, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Helaman; Gazelem; Prophecy; Stone; Light; Illuminating Stones; Urim and Thummim; Seer Stone; Joseph Smith; Seer; Book of Mormon Translation; Folk Magic
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8191]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 15273  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Did Alma Counsel His Sons During the Passover?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #146. July 19, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Zoramites; Passover; Wisdom; Ancient Judaism; Legal; Ancient Law; Corianton; Shiblon; Helaman; Chiasmus
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8190]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14385  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Corianton’s Sin So Serious?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #147. July 20, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Helaman; Shiblon; Corianton; Immorality; Sexual Transgression; Murder; Chastity; Ministry; Missionary Work; Unpardonable Sin; Denying the Holy Ghost; Legal
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8189]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7234  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Corianton So Concerned About The Resurrection?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #148. July 21, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Corianton; Resurrection; Lehi; Jacob; King Mosiah; Abinadi; King Noah; Nehor; Philosophy; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8188]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8972  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why and How Did Alma Explain the Meaning of the Word ‘Restoration"?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #149. July 22, 2016.
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Keywords: Corianton; Alma; Resurrection; Restoration; Nehor; Ancient Law; Law of Moses; Justice; Final Judgment; Bible; Old Testament; Exodus; Ancient Near East; Chiasmus; Parallelism; Poetry; Hebrew
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8187]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8332  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 29, ‘Give Ear to My Words’” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 24, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6137]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-24  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 817  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 30, ‘The Great Plan of Happiness’” The Interpreter Foundation website. July 24, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6138]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-24  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 824  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Does Alma Mention ‘the Plan’ Ten Times in His Words to Corianton?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #150. July 25, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Corianton; Plan of Salvation; Plan of Redemption; Numerology; Ancient Near East; Bible; Old Testament; Ten
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8186]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11192  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Moroni’s Young Age an Advantage?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #151. July 26, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; Mormon; Nephites; Lamanites; War Chapters; Warfare; Military; Moroni; Captain Moroni; Youth; Technology; Armor; Weapons; Fortifications; Prophets; Prayer; Millennials; Mesoamerica
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8185]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 17265  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Would Zerahemnah Not Swear an Oath to Moroni?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #152. July 27, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; War Chapters; Warfare; Nephites; Lamanites; Moroni; Zerahemnah; Weapons; Ancient Near East; Covenants; Oaths; Scalp; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8184]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9557  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Did Seeking a King Get in the Way of Sustaining a Prophet?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #153. July 28, 2016.
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Keywords: Alma; War Chapters; Helaman; Missionary Work; Amalickiah; Dissension; Mesoamerica; Maya; Cosmology; Kingship; Kingmen
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8183]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8849  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Quote the Patriarch Jacob about a Piece of Joseph’s Coat?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #154. July 29, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephites; War Chapters; Amalickiah; Moroni; Captain Moroni; Warfare; Title of Liberty; Joseph; Genesis; Garment; Joseph Smith; Bible; Old Testament; Ancient Israel; Mesoamerica; War Banners; Tribes of Israel
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8182]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-07-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6975  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Ensign. “Nurturing Families Together.” Ensign August 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [61583]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2296  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:46
Deane, Morgan. “Climbing a Tree to Find a Fish: Insurgency in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.
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Keywords: Gadianton Robbers; Insurgency; Robbers; Thieves; Warfare
ID = [32552]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 43234  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Fullmer, David. “Ten Reasons I Love the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, August 2016.
ID = [61589]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2121  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:46
McGuire, Benjamin L. “The Book of Mormon as a Communicative Act: Translation in Context.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation
ID = [32564]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 49666  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Odekirk, Sally Johnson. “Youth and Family History Come Together.” Ensign, August 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [61606]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2373  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:46
Peterson, Daniel C. “The Logic-Tree of Life, or, Why I Can’t Manage to Disbelieve.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.
ID = [32565]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference,peterson  Size: 44679  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Roper, Matthew P. “‘To Inflict the Wounds of Death’: Mesoamerican Swords and Cimeters in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.
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Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Ancient America - North America; Anti-Nephi-Lehies; Archaeology; Cimeter; Macuahuitl; Metallurgy; Sword; Sword of Laban; Vered Jericho; Warfare; Weaponry
ID = [32553]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 33357  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Scripture Central. “Why Did Mormon See Captain Moroni as a Hero?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #155. August 1, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Alma; Moroni; Captain Moroni; Nephites; Warfare; War Chapters; Amalickiah; Liberty; Title of Liberty; Freedom; Fortifications; Family; Military; Repentance; Hell
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8181]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8707  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Skousen, Royal, and Stanford A. Carmack. “Finishing up the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project: An Introduction to The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Conjectural Emendation; Critical Text; Foreign Language Translation; Grammar; Language – Early Modern English; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon’ Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon
ID = [32555]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 54488  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Stubbs, Brian D. “Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.
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Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Ancient America - North America; Language - Egyptian; Language - Phoenician; Language - Semitic; Language - Uto-Aztecan
ID = [32556]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 17319  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Watson, Faith S. “Do You Know These Book of Mormon Heroes?” Ensign, August 2016.
ID = [61597]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12578  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:46
Scripture Central. “How Did Democracy Help the Nephites Conquer Their Enemies?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #156. August 2, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephites; Lamanites; War Chapters; Warfare; Mormon; Amalickiah; Moroni; Democracy; Politics; Freedom
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8180]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8954  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why are There So Many War Chapters in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #157. August 3, 2016.
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Keywords: War Chapters; Warfare; Military; Nephites; Lamanites; Alma; Zarahemla; Amlici; Ammonihah; Nehor; People of Ammon; Jershon; Zoramites; Antionum; Moroni; Captain Moroni; Paanchi; Pahoran; Helaman; Kishkumen; Tubaloth; Gadianton Robbers; Moronihah; Cezoram; Giddianhi; Zemnarihah; Jacob; Lachoneus
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8179]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12275  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “What Was the Nature of Nephite Fortifications?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #158. August 4, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephites; Lamanites; War Chapters; Warfare; Moroni; Captain Moroni; Fortifications; Military; Mesoamerica; Archaeology; Heartland; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8178]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11835  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Would Pahoran Not Allow the Law to Be Amended?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #159. August 5, 2016.
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Keywords: Pahoran; Chief Judge; War Chapters; Warfare; Government; Kingship; Nephite Judges; Ten Commandments; Moses; Bible; Old Testament; Exodus; Ancient Law; Law of Moses; Covenants; Title of Liberty; Moroni; Captain Moroni; Liberty; Religious Freedom; Legal
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8177]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10296  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Teancum Slay Amalickiah on New Year’s Eve?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #160. August 8, 2016.
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Keywords: Moroni; Captain Moroni; War Chapters; Warfare; Military; Amalickiah; Teancum; Bountiful; Nephites; Lamanites; Ammoron; New Year; Ancient Near East; Omen; Mesoamerica; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8176]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7338  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Old Were the Stripling Warriors?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #161. August 9, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephites; Lamanites; Anti-Nephi-Lehies; War Chapters; Warfare; Military; Stripling Warriors; Helaman; Youth; Courage; Faith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8175]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5939  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Ammoron Determined to Avenge the Blood of His Brother?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #162. August 10, 2016.
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Keywords: Ammoron; Lamanites; Zoram; Amalickiah; Teancum; Nephites; War Chapters; Warfare; Military; Blood; Vengeance; Ancient Law; Law of Moses; Goel; Redeemer; Hebrew; Moroni; Captain Moroni; Legal
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8174]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8992  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Christensen, Craig C. “Put Your Trust in God: The Admonition of Alma to His Sons.” Commencement, Brigham Young University, August 11, 2016.
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I invite you to consider how you will demonstrate your trust in God throughout your lives. What will you do to show God that you trust Him above everything else—above your own wisdom and especially above the wisdom of the world?

Keywords: Parenthood; Self-Discipline; Trust
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [70029]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-08-11  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:52
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Change His Mind about Exchanging Prisoners with Ammoron?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #163. August 11, 2016.
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Keywords: Mulek; Bountiful; Moroni; Captain Moroni; Ammoron; Epistles; Prisoners; War Chapters; Warfare; Ancient Near East; Zoramites
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8173]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7894  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Realistic are Nephite Battle Strategies?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #164. August 12, 2016.
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Keywords: War Chapters; Warfare; Military; Nephites; Lamanites; Strategy; Joseph Smith; Authenticity; Historicity; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8172]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7797  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 31, ‘Firm in the Faith of Christ’” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 13, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6139]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-13  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 809  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 32, ‘They Did Obey…Every Word of Command with Exactness’” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 13, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [6140]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-13  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 866  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Stripling Warriors Perform Their Duties ‘With Exactness’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #165. August 15, 2016.
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Keywords: War Chapters; Warfare; Nephites; Lamanites; Military; Stripling Warriors; People of Ammon; Helaman; Ammoron; Ancient Near East; Ancient Israel; Canaanite; Moses; Bible; Old Testament; Joshua
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Joshua
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8171]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 5486  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Is the Presence of Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon Significant?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #166. August 16, 2016.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Parallelism; Hebrew; Poetry; Literary Device; Greek; Historicity; Authenticity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8170]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9208  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Did Helaman’s Army Maintain Faith While Being Cut Off from Provisions?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #167. August 17, 2016.
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Keywords: Moroni; Captain Moroni; War Chapters; Warfare; Military; Helaman; Epistles; Nephites; Lamanites; Zarahemla; Provisions; Food; Mesoamerica; People of Ammon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8169]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11184  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Moroni’s Correspondence with Pahoran Significant?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #168. August 18, 2016.
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Keywords: War Chapters; Warfare; Alma; Moroni; Captain Moroni; Pahoran; Nephites; Lamanites; Nephihah; Chief Judge; Ammoron; Epistles
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8168]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5534  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Refer to Vessel Impurity in Condemning the Central Government?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #169. August 19, 2016.
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Keywords: Pahoran; Moroni; Captain Moroni; Alma; Bible; Old Testament; Leviticus; Law of Moses; Ritual Purity; Ancient Judaism; Purity; Cleanliness; New Testament; Jesus Christ; Matthew; Mark; Psalms; Temples
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Leviticus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8167]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10445  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Teancum Captured and Killed?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #170. August 22, 2016.
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Keywords: Teancum; Amalickiah; War Chapters; Warfare; Military; Alma; Nephites; Lamanites; Ammoron; Moroni; Captain Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8166]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5316  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Mormon Mention Hagoth?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #171. August 23, 2016.
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Keywords: Hagoth; Ship; Sailing; Nephites; Lamanites; Mormon; Zarahemla; Land Northward; Geography; Scattering of Israel; Pacific Islands; Polynesians; Mesoamerica
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8165]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12559  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Was a Void in Leadership Dangerous for the Nephites?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #172. August 24, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Reign of the Judges; Helaman; Alma; Pahoran; Nephites; Lamanites; Chief Judge; Paanchi; Pacumeni; Mosiah; Nephite Judges; Kishkumen; Gadianton; Gadianton Robbers; Assassination; Politics; Secret Combinations; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8164]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8739  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why was Helaman’s Servant Justified in Killing Kishkumen?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #173. August 25, 2016.
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Keywords: Pahoran; Pacumeni; Helaman; Gadianton; Kishkumen; Reign of the Judges; Chief Judge; Mormon; Teancum; Amalickiah; Death; Assassination; Nephi; Laban; Legal
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8163]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12575  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “When Did Cement Become Common in Ancient America?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #174. August 26, 2016.
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Keywords: Cement; Mormon; Nephites; Land Northward; Industry; Building; Mesoamerica; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8162]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10573  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Did the Nephites Become Weak in Such a Short Time?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #175. August 29, 2016.
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Keywords: Zarahemla; Nephites; Lamanites; Amalickiah; Ammoron; Alma; Pride; Prosperity; Warfare; Wealth; Gadianton Robbers; Moronihah; Helaman
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8161]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6959  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Helaman Compare Christ to a Rock?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #176. August 30, 2016.
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Keywords: Helaman; Nephi; Lehi; Jesus Christ; Rock; Redeemer; Son of God; Old Testament; Bible; Psalms; Isaiah; Deuteronomy; Satan; Arrows; Weapons; Whirlwinds; Ancient Near East; Assyria; Moses; Refuge; Storm; Hail
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8160]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10335  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was Chiasmus Used in Nephite Record Keeping?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #177. August 31, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Abridgment; Redaction; Large Plates; Historical Annals; Chiasmus; Zedekiah; Jesus Christ; Jehovah; Yahweh; Reign of the Judges; Helaman; Land of Nephi; Zarahemla; Hebrew; Poetry; Authenticity
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8159]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-08-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9943  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Jones, Jakob R. “‘Gathered Together in My Name’” Ensign, September 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [61637]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 11895  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:46
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Prophesy Near ‘the Highway Which Led to the Chief Market?’” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #178. September 1, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Nephites; Lamanites; Helaman; Nephi; Tower; Prayer; Chief Market; Mesoamerica; Economy; Funeral; Death; Wealth; Pride; Secret Combinations; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8158]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10778  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Rely on Earlier Testimonies of Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #179. September 2, 2016.
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Keywords: Zarahemla; Nephi; Jesus Christ; Law of Moses; Helaman; Moses; Brazen Serpent; Old Testament; Bible; Psalms; Genesis; Isaiah; Zenos; Zenock; Ezias; Jeremiah; Mulek; Lehi; Deuteronomy
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [8157]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9250  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 33, ‘A Sure Foundation’” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 5, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [6141]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 781  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 34, ‘How Could You Have Forgotten Your God?’” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 5, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [6142]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 826  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Could Seantum be Convicted Without Any Witnesses?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #180. September 5, 2016.
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Keywords: Legal; Helaman; Nephi; Chief Judge; Seezoram; Seantum; Reign of the Judges; Murder; Death; Blood; Law of Moses; Witnesses; Law of Witnesses; Bible; Old Testament; Deuteronomy; Ancient Israel; Joshua; Obedience; Ancient Law; Mormon; Gadianton Robbers
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Old Testament Scriptures > Joshua
Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8156]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6163  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why is There Temple Imagery in Helaman 10?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #181. September 6, 2016.
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Keywords: Helaman; Nephi; Angels; Temples; Divine Council; Ancient Near East; Ancient Israel; Prophets; Visions; Throne Theophany; Lehi; Mountain; Sealing Power; High Priest; Chief Judge; Gadianton Robbers; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8155]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9739  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Did Nephi Use the Power to Seal on Earth and in Heaven?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #182. September 7, 2016.
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Keywords: Helaman; Nephi; Sealing Power; Famine; Drought; Miracles; Bible; Old Testament; Elijah; War; Heaven; Priesthood; King Benjamin
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8154]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7896  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Mormon Say the Children of Men are Less than the Dust of the Earth?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #183. September 8, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Earth; Sun; Astronomy; Cosmology; Bible; Old Testament; Ancient Near East; Mesoamerica; Heliocentrism; Geocentrism
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8153]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8828  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Samuel Make Such Chronologically Precise Prophecies?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #184. September 9, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephites; Zarahemla; Samuel the Lamanite; Christmas; Lamanites; Prophecy; Jesus Christ; Birth of Christ; Death of Christ; Mesoamerica; Calendar; Baktum; Hotun; Katun; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8152]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 14128  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why did Samuel Rely So Heavily on the Words of Past Prophets?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #185. September 12, 2016.
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Keywords: Prophecy; Samuel the Lamanite; Nephites; Jesus Christ; Birth of Christ; Helaman; King Benjamin; Hebrew; Poetry; Zenos; Names of Christ; Lamanites; Zarahemla; Bible; Old Testament; Christmas
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8151]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8970  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Samuel Say the Lord ‘Hated’ the Lamanites?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #186. September 13, 2016.
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Keywords: Samuel the Lamanite; Helaman; Love; Hate; Covenants; Bible; Solomon; David; Ancient Near East; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8150]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8961  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Does Mormon State that ‘Angels Did Appear unto Wise Men’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #187. September 14, 2016.
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Keywords: Helaman; Mormon; Angels; Alma; Wise Men; Birth of Christ; Lehi; Death of Christ; Jesus Christ; Christmas; King Benjamin; Amlicites; Samuel the Lamanite; Prophecy; Second Coming
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8149]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 5424  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 36, ‘On the Morrow Come I into the World’” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 15, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6144]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-15  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 805  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 35, ‘Repent and Return unto the Lord’” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 15, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [6143]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-15  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 832  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “How was There a Night Without Darkness?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #188. September 15, 2016.
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Keywords: Samuel the Lamanite; Zarahemla; Birth of Christ; Darkness; Light; Astronomy; Day; Night; Russia; Miracles; Jesus Christ; Mesoamerica; Aztec; Supernova; Christmas; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8148]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12053  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Were Many Nephites So Quick to Disbelieve the Signs of Christ’s Coming?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #189. September 16, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Birth of Christ; Satan; Adversary; Lie; Miracles; Gadianton Robbers; Nephites; Lamanites; Christmas
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8147]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6538  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why was Giddianhi So Polite?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #190. September 19, 2016.
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Keywords: Birth of Christ; Lachoneus; Gadianton Robbers; Giddianhi; Epistles; Politeness; Civility; Diplomacy; Ancient Near East; Egypt; Assyria; Literature; Rhetoric; Nephites; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8146]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14700  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Gadianton Robbers Wear a Lamb Skin?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #191. September 20, 2016.
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Keywords: Gadianton Robbers; Nephites; Lamanites; Lamb of God; Jesus Christ; Sheep; Mesoamerica; North America; Lambs; Law of Moses; Temples; Military; Warfare; War; Sacrifice; Names; Names of Christ; Animal Sacrifice; Atonement; Blood; Skin
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8145]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13594  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did the People Cut Down the Tree after Hanging Zemnarihah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #192. September 21, 2016.
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Keywords: Zemnarihah; Gadianton Robbers; Nephites; Death; Hanging; Execution; Law of Moses; Ancient Near East; Curse; Mesoamerica; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8144]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8748  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Deliver the Plates on September 22?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #193. September 22, 2016.
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Keywords: Moroni; Joseph Smith; Gold Plates; Feast of Tabernacles; Rosh Hashanah; Ancient Judaism; Ancient Near East; Ancient Israel; Law of Moses; New Year; Messiah; Jesus Christ; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8143]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10159  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Mormon Introduce Himself in 3 Nephi 5?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #194. September 23, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Editor; Redaction; 116 pages; Jesus Christ; Gold Plates; Witnesses
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8142]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11185  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 37, ‘Whosoever Will Come, Him Will I Receive’” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 24, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6145]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-24  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 816  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Did the ‘Pride Cycle’ Destroy the Nephite Nation?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #195. September 26, 2016.
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Keywords: Pride; Gadianton Robbers; Nephites; Peace; Prosperity; Chief Judge; Assassination; Ancient Near East; Canaanite; Ancient Israel; Zion; Enoch
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8141]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7301  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Dollahite, David C. “Receiving the Eternal.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, September 27, 2016.
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My friends, wherever you find yourself spiritually, I say to you in love and humility: I know that God lives and will answer your sincere prayers.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Conversion; Podcast: Come; Follow Me
ID = [70041]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-09-27  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:52
Scripture Central. “How Was Nephi, Son of Nephi, Similar to John the Baptist?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #196. September 27, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephi; Helaman; John the Baptist; Bible; New Testament; Jesus Christ; Forerunner; Prophecy; Repentance; Angels; Baptism; Messenger; Elias; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8140]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5917  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “What Caused the Darkness and Destruction in the 34th Year?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #197. September 28, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephi; Lehi; Death of Christ; Destruction; Earthquake; Darkness; Lightning; Thunder; Zenos; Samuel the Lamanite; Mormon; Prophecy; Volcano; Geology; Geography; Mesoamerica; Jesus Christ; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8139]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 13836  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Tell All People to Sacrifice a Broken Heart and a Contrite Spirit?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #198. September 29, 2016.
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Keywords: Jesus Christ; Destruction; Death of Christ; Sacrifice; Animal Sacrifice; Broken Heart; Contrite Spirit; New Testament; Bible; Nephites; Lamanites; Nephi; Lehi; Old Testament; Psalms; Atonement; Law of Moses; Commandments
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8138]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9698  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Is there Precedent for General Conference in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #199. September 30, 2016.
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Keywords: Church History; General Conference; LDS General Conference; LDSconf; General Authority; Church; Church Organization; Joseph Smith; Gathering; Nephi; Jacob; King Benjamin; Alma; Limhi; Mosiah; Nephites; Instruction; Ancient Israel; Israelite Festivals; Law of Moses; Passover; Pentecost; Rosh Hashanah; Day of Atonement; Feast of Tabernacles; Abinadi
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8137]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-09-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9447  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Curtis, LeGrand R., Jr. “There Is Power in the Book.” Delivered at the Priesthood Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2016.
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The greatest power of the Book of Mormon is its impact in bringing us closer to Jesus Christ.

ID = [22710]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 10812  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:06
Floyd, Ben. “Captain Moroni Helped Me Teach Middle School.” Ensign, October 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [61681]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2363  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:47
Stevenson, Gary E. “Look to the Book, Look to the Lord.” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2016.
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Can you see the Book of Mormon as your keystone, your spiritual center of strength?

ID = [22693]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 2131  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:06
Uchtdorf, Dieter F. “Learn from Alma and Amulek.” Delivered at the Priesthood Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2016.
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It is my hope that those who have strayed from the path of discipleship will see with their hearts and learn from Alma and Amulek.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [22714]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 11414  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:06
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 38, ‘Old Things Are Done Away, and All Things Have Become New’” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 2, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6146]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-02  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 833  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Christ Compare Himself to a Hen?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #200. October 3, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8136]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10785  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Has 3 Nephi Been Called ‘the Focal Point, the Supreme Moment’ in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #201. October 4, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8135]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9692  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did the People Fall Down at the Feet of Jesus?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #202. October 5, 2016.
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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8134]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12043  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Deliver a Version of the Sermon on the Mount at the Temple in Bountiful?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #203. October 6, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8133]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10351  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Is the Lord’s Prayer Different in 3 Nephi?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #204. October 7, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8132]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13279  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Halverson, Taylor. “3 Nephi 17-19. Christ’s Visit to the Americas.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 9, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [4984]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-09  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 12929  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:13
Halverson, Taylor. “3 Nephi 7. A Reflection Upon Human Unrighteousness.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 9, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [4985]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-09  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 3654  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:13
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Say that Some Well-Intentioned People Will Be Told to Depart?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #205. October 10, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
ID = [8131]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10124  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 39, ‘Behold, My Joy Is Full’” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 11, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6147]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 808  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 40, ‘Then Will I Gather Them In’” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 11, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6148]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 852  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 41, ‘He Did Expound All Things unto Them’” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 11, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [6149]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 798  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “What Makes 3 Nephi the Holy of Holies of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #206. October 11, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8130]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8806  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Say That There Were ‘Other Sheep’ Who Would Hear His Voice?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #207. October 12, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8129]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9169  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why is the Sermon at the Temple Echoed throughout the Rest of 3 Nephi?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #208. October 13, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8128]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8182  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Minister to the People One by One?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #209. October 14, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8127]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8583  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Has 3 Nephi Been Called the Crown Jewel of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #210. October 17, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8126]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11895  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Savior Emphasize His Risen Body in the Nephite Sacrament?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #211. October 18, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8125]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8412  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
LDS Perspectives [pseud. of Laura Harris Hales]. “LDS Perspectives Podcast: Book of Mormon Central with Neal Rappleye.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 19, 2016.
ID = [5406]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-19  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 582  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:27
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Allude to the Priestly Blessing in Numbers 6?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #212. October 19, 2016.
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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8124]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9702  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Is 3 Nephi Important for Understanding the Godhead?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #213. October 20, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8123]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9353  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Mix Together Micah and Isaiah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #214. October 21, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
ID = [8122]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 13012  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 42, ‘This Is My Gospel’” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 23, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
ID = [6150]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-23  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 799  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 43, ‘How Could Ye Have Departed from the Ways of the Lord?’” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 23, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [6151]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-23  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 821  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Who is the Servant Spoken of by Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #215. October 24, 2016.
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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8121]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11065  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Quote All of Isaiah 54?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #216. October 25, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8120]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9836  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Would Jesus Call Isaiah’s Words Great?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #217. October 26, 2016.
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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8119]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 13799  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Give the Nephites Malachi’s Prophecies?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #218. October 27, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
ID = [8118]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9415  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Will God Turn the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #219. October 28, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
ID = [8117]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12334  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Are Children So Prominent in 3 Nephi?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #220. October 31, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8116]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-10-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9210  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Callister, Tad R. “The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?” Devotional, Brigham Young University, November 1, 2016.
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Why is it so important for you individually to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon? Because if you do, it will become your personal iron rod.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Collection: Joseph Smith the Prophet; Podcast: Joseph Smith; Podcast: Recent Speeches
ID = [70045]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-11-01  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:52
Scripture Central. “Why Must We Do What Jesus Did?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #221. November 1, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8115]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9980  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Uchtdorf, Dieter F. “Learn from Alma and Amulek.” Ensign, November 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [61704]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 11490  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:47
Scripture Central. “Why Is 3 Nephi Sometimes Called the ‘Fifth Gospel’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #222. November 2, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8114]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14274  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Was the 3 Nephites’ Wish Helpful for Mormon and Moroni?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #223. November 3, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8113]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6757  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Mormon End Third Nephi with Such Serious Woes?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #224. November 4, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8112]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6615  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Peace Last So Long in 4 Nephi?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #225. November 7, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
ID = [8111]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12695  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “What Do We Know about Mormon’s Upbringing?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #226. November 8, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [8110]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14628  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Mormon Write So Little about His Own Time Period?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #227. November 9, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [8109]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7357  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why is the 10-Year Peace Treaty Important?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #228. November 10, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8108]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10176  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
LDS Perspectives [pseud. of Laura Harris Hales]. “LDS Perspectives Podcast: Nephi and Isaiah with Joseph Spencer.” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 11, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [5408]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-11  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website,old-test  Size: 1352  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:27
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Lamanites Sacrifice Women and Children to Idols?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #229. November 11, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [8107]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14054  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “What Was Mormon’s Purpose in Writing the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #230. November 14, 2016.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [8106]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12904  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Could So Many People Have Died at the Battle of Cumorah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #231. November 15, 2016.
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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8105]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10860  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “How Did Mormon React to Seeing His People Slain?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #232. November 16, 2016.
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Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [8104]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7421  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Write So Many Farewells?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #233. November 17, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Moroni; Farewell; Editor; Redaction; Abridgment; Gold Plates; Ether; Conclusion; Final Nephite Battle; Cumorah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8103]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12219  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:41
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Conclude His Father’s Record with 22 Commands?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #234. November 18, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Moroni; Hebrew; Poetry; Acrostic Poem; Alphabet; Bible; Old Testament; Lamentations; Psalms; Egyptian; Covenants
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [8102]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10747  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Ether Begin with Such a Long Genealogy?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #235. November 21, 2016.
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Keywords: Jaredites; Moroni; Ancient Near East; King List; Lineage History; Genealogy; Mesoamerica; Sumeria; Maya; Ether; Coriantor; Moron; Ethem; Ahah; Seth; Shiblom; Com; Coriantum; Amnigaddag; Aaron; Heth; Hearthom; Lib; Kish; Corom; Levi; Kim; Morianton; Riplakish; Shez; Emer; Omer; Shule; Kib; Orihah; Jared; Chiasmus; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8101]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10609  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Where Does the Word ‘Deseret’ Come From?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #236. November 22, 2016.
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Keywords: Ether; Jared; Brother of Jared; Deseret; Bee; Ancient Near East; Egyptian; Hebrew; Etymology; Mesopotamia; Industry; Utah; Mormon; Moroni; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8100]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8453  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Use Temple Imagery While Telling the Brother of Jared Story?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #237. November 23, 2016.
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Keywords: Ether; Jared; Brother of Jared; Temples; Moroni; Prophets; Ancient Israel; High Priest; Mountain; Fall; Garden of Eden; Finger of God; Hand of God; Moses; Bible; Old Testament; Exodus; Psalms; Leviticus; Daniel; Numbers; Isaiah; Proskynesis; Worship; Body of God; Veil; Creation; Jesus Christ; Jehovah; Urim and Thummim; Shining Stones; Endowment
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Scriptures > Leviticus
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Old Testament Scriptures > Daniel
ID = [8099]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11130  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
LDS Perspectives [pseud. of Laura Harris Hales]. “LDS Perspectives Podcast: Lehi in America with Brant Gardner.” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 24, 2016.
ID = [5410]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-24  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1053  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:27
Scripture Central. “Why Should We Take the Time to Give Thanks to God?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #238. November 24, 2016.
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Keywords: Mosiah; Benjamin; Jesus Christ; Christ in America; Nephi; Lehi; Sabbath; Alma; Amulon; Waters of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8098]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9422  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Do So Many of Mormon’s Teachings Appear in Ether 4 and 5?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #239. November 25, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Moroni; Ether; Brother of Jared; Intertextuality; Faith; Hope; Charity; Prophets
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8097]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11904  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Where did the Brother of Jared Get the Idea of Shining Stones?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #240. November 28, 2016.
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Keywords: Ether; Brother of Jared; Shining Stones; Tzohar; Ancient Judaism; Ancient Near East; Noah’s Ark; Bible; Old Testament; Genesis; Tower of Babel; Urim and Thummim; Talmud; Midrash; Liahona; Faith; Jesus Christ; Light of the World
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [8096]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 13572  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Is The Book of Ether an Epic?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #241. November 29, 2016.
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Keywords: Ether; Epic; Poetry; Ancient Near East; Oral Tradition; Jaredites; Archaeology; Mesoamerica; Writing; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [8095]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7862  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Comment So Much Throughout Ether?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #242. November 30, 2016.
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Keywords: Ether; Jaredites; Moroni; Editor; Redaction; Mormon; Plates of Ether; Nephites; Lamanites; Jared; Brother of Jared; Witnesses; Joseph Smith; Abridgment
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8094]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-11-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6848  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Snakes Infest Jaredite Lands During a Famine?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #243. December 1, 2016.
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Keywords: Heth; Ether; Jaredites; Famine; Serpents; Snakes; Drought; Rivers; Birds of Prey; Migration; Geography; Mesoamerica; Volcano; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [8093]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10223  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Riplakish Construct a Beautiful Throne?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #244. December 2, 2016.
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Keywords: Mesoamerica; Olmec; Thrones; Riplakish; Ether; Jaredites; Archaeology; Altar; King; Politics; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [8092]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11244  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 44, ‘I Speak unto You As If Ye Were Present’” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 4, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [6152]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 828  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 45, ‘Never Has Man Believed in Me As Thou Hast’” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 4, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [6153]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 842  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 46, ‘By Faith All Things Are Fulfilled’” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 4, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [6154]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 694  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Mormon Include the Rise and Fall of Two Nations?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #245. December 5, 2016.
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Keywords: Nephites; Lamanites; Jaredites; Mesoamerica; Olmec; Maya; History; Archaeology; Chronology; Destruction; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [8091]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11928  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Must a Trial of Faith Precede a Witness of Truth?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #246. December 6, 2016.
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Keywords: Faith; Ether; Jaredites; Moroni; Trial of Faith; Alma; Amulek; Ammon; Lamanites; Missionary Work; Prison; Zarahemla; Mosiah; Sons of Mosiah; Brother of Jared; Shining Stones; Nephi; Moses; Three Nephites
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8090]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10638  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Do the Prophets Speak of Multiple Jerusalems?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #247. December 7, 2016.
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Keywords: Jerusalem; New Jerusalem; Prophecy; Enoch; Ether; Jaredites; Moroni; Promised Land; Ancient Israel; Jesus Christ; Covenants; John; Bible; New Testament; Revelation; Zion; Hebrews; Abraham; Melchizedek; Old Testament; Genesis; Pseudepigrapha; Temples; Dead Sea Scrolls; Ezekiel; God; Elohim; Heavenly Father; Heaven
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [8089]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10437  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Could Shiz Move and Breathe After Being Beheaded?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #248. December 8, 2016.
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Keywords: Ether; Jaredites; Shiz; Coriantumr; Warfare; Military; Death; Beheading; Medical; Neuropathy; Moroni; Decapitation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8088]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6096  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Keep Writing?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #249. December 9, 2016.
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Keywords: Ether; Moroni; Mormon; Redaction; Editor; Abridgment; Nephites; Lamanites; Jaredites; Death; Warfare; War; Christ in America; Holy Ghost; Priesthood
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8087]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 5635  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Where did Moroni Get the Sacramental Prayers from?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #250. December 12, 2016.
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Keywords: Moroni; Nephites; Sacrament; Christ in America; Jesus Christ; Atonement; Intertextuality; King Benjamin; Mosiah; Prayer
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8086]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7084  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Was Singing Hymns a Part of Nephite Worship Services?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #251. December 13, 2016.
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Keywords: Moroni; Church Organization; Music; Singing; Hymns; Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; Temples; Ancient Israel; Ancient Judaism; Priest; Dead Sea Scrolls; New Testament; Jesus Christ; Last Supper; Early Christian Church; Nephi; Lehi; Alma; Zarahemla; King Benjamin; Angels; Heaven; Heavenly Ascent; Feast of Tabernacles
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8085]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9148  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Should People Study the Same Scriptures Over and Over Again?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #252. December 14, 2016.
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Keywords: Mormon; Moroni; Jesus Christ; Christ in America; Faith; Meekness; Nephites; Lamanites; Covenants
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8084]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6292  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Include Mormon’s Condemnation of Infant Baptism?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #253. December 15, 2016.
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Keywords: Moroni; Mormon; Baptism; Infant Baptism; Nephites; Mesoamerica; Aztec; Epistles; Early Christian Church; Church Organization; Jesus Christ; Repentance; Children
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8083]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9647  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Will God Manifest the Truth of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #254. December 16, 2016.
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Keywords: Moroni; Testimony; Holy Ghost; Moroni’s Promise; Revelation; Sealed
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8082]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11476  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 47, ‘To Keep Them in the Right Way’” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 18, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [6155]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-18  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 705  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 48, ‘Come unto Christ’” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 18, 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [6156]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-18  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 716  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
Scripture Central. “How Does the Book of Mormon Help Date the First Christmas?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #255. December 21, 2016.
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Keywords: Christmas; Birth of Christ; Bible; New Testament; Jesus Christ; Dating; Chronology; Death of Christ; Herod the Great; Matthew; Mark; Luke; John; Nephites; Darkness; Star; Mesoamerica; Calendar
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8081]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-12-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12183  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
2017
Aston, Warren P. “In Search Of Mormon’s Hill.” In BMAF-BMC Book of Mormon Conference. Provo, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2017.
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LDS explorer and researcher, Warren Aston, details some of his expeditions into Central America.

Keywords: Ancient America, Archaeology, Cumorah, Hill Cumorah, Mesoamerica
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Aston, Warren P. “Long And Winding Road To Bountiful.” In BMAF-BMC Book of Mormon Conference. Provo, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2017.
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LDS explorer and researcher, Warren Aston, shares some details about discovering one of the mostly like candidates for the Book of Mormon location Bountiful. He also explains some ruins found at this location.

Keywords: Ancient Near East, Arabia, Archaeology, Bountiful (Old World), Khor Kharfot
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Austin, Michael. “How the Book of Mormon Reads the Bible: A Theory of Types.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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Typology is one of those words whose meaning shifts dramatically with the position of its user. For religious believers studying the scriptures, typology is a mode of history-the belief that certain events and people should be understood as both fully historical and fully allegorical at the same time. To the unbeliever (or the believer in different things), typology is a mode of rhetoric-a connecting strategy that writers use to create retroactive links between otherwise unrelated stories or that readers use to infer connections between otherwise unconnected things. Those in the first group see the repetition of key narrative elements from the Old Testament to the New Testament-say, birth narratives in which both Moses and Jesus escape from an infanticidal massacre ordered by a despot-as a fundamental part of how sacred history works ( see Exodus 1:22 and Matthew 2:16-18).

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Axelgard, Frederick W. “More Than Meets the Eye: How Nephite Prophets Managed the Jaredite Legacy.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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This paper looks closely and critically at how the Nephite prophets dealt with the records of the Jaredites as the text of the Book of Mormon itself presents these dealings. 1 It questions unspoken assumptions that often pervade discussions of these records and of how record keepers from King Mosiah2 to Moroni managed them. It asks, for example, whether Mormon could realistically have taken on the task of preparing the abridgment of Jaredite history found in the book of Ether. It also challenges the idea that Moroni wrote the book of Ether only because Mormon did not have time to do so, suggesting instead that Moroni’s role in preserving the Jaredite legacy was his own unique commission from the Lord. These questions are part of my appeal for a fundamental reconsideration of the roles played by the key actors who handled the Jaredite records.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [81894]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:46
Baird, Brian J. “Understanding Jacob’s Teachings about Plural Marriage from a Law of Moses Context.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 227-237.
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Abstract: This paper reviews the Book of Mormon prophet Jacob’s proscription against plural marriage, arguing that the verses in Jacob 24–30 should be interpreted in a Law of Moses context regarding levirate marriage, by which a man was responsible for marrying his dead brother’s wife if that brother died before having an heir. I also review how these verses have been used in arguments for and against plural marriage, and how levirate marriage practices worked in Mosaic tradition.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [3694]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 25926  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:08
Benson, RoseAnn. “The Title of Liberty and Ancient Prophecy.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 23 (2017): 299-307.
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Abstract: Captain Moroni cites a prophecy regarding Joseph of Egypt and his posterity that is not recorded in the Bible. He accompanies the prophecy with a symbolic action to motivate his warriors to covenant to be faithful to their prophet Helaman and to keep the commandments lest God would not preserve them as he had Joseph.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3718]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 23044  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:10
Blythe, Christopher James. “‘A Very Fine Azteck Manuscript’: Latter-day Saint Readings of Codex Boturini.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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THE BooK OF MORMON presented itself as a history of previously unidentified New World civilizations with origins in the ancient Near East. To defend its claims of historicity, believers pointed to the work’s correspondence with the Bible and their own spiritual witnesses. They also insisted that, independent of their supernatural access to this ancient world, archaeological discoveries had authenticated and would continue to authenticate the book’s historical claims. This article documents the all-but-forgotten Latter-day Saint use of Codex Boturini-a sixteenth-century Mesoamerican codex depicting the Mexica (i.e., Aztec) migration from their mythical homeland Atzlan to Tenochtitlan, the seat of the empire’s government-as physical evidence for Book of Mormon history. In the perspective of these Saints, the pictorial manuscript was an independent record of the Book of Mormon. For decades, Mormons published images from Codex Boturini (or described them) alongside commentary that translated the pictographs through a Mormon lens.

ID = [81896]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:46
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘Their Anger Did Increase Against Me’: Nephi’s Autobiographical Permutation of a Biblical Wordplay on the Name Joseph.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 23 (2017): 115-136.
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Abstract: Nephi’s record on the small plates includes seven distinct scenes in which Nephi depicts the anger of his brethren against him. Each of these scenes includes language that recalls Genesis 37:5‒10, 20, the biblical scene in which Joseph’s brothers “hate him yet the more [wayyôsipû ʿôd] for his dreams and for his words” because they fear that he intends to “reign” and to “have dominion” or rule over them (Genesis 37:8). Later, they plot to kill him (Genesis 37:20). Two of these “anger” scenes culminate in Nephi’s brothers’ bowing down before him in the same way that Joseph’s brothers bowed down in obeisance before him. Nephi permutes the expression wayyôsipû ʿôd in terms of his brothers’ “continuing” and “increasing” anger, which eventually ripens into a hatred that permanently divides the family. Nephi uses language that represents other yāsap/yôsîp + verbal-complement constructions in these “anger” scenes, usage that recalls the name Joseph in such a way as to link Nephi with his ancestor. The most surprising iteration of Nephi’s permuted “Joseph” wordplay occurs in his own psalm (2 Nephi 4:16‒35).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘This Son Shall Comfort Us’: An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 23 (2017): 263-298.
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Abstract: From an etiological perspective, the Hebrew Bible connects the name Noah with two distinct but somewhat homonymous verbal roots: nwḥ (“rest”) and nḥm (“comfort,” “regret” [sometimes “repent”]). Significantly, the Enoch and Noah material in the revealed text of the Joseph Smith Translation of Genesis (especially Moses 7–8) also connects the name Noah in a positive sense to the earth’s “rest” and the Lord’s covenant with Enoch after the latter “refuse[d] to be comforted” regarding the imminent destruction of humanity in the flood. The Book of Mormon, on the other hand, connects the name Noah pejoratively to Hebrew nwḥ (“rest”) and nḥm (“comfort” and “repentance” [regret]) in a negative evaluation of King Noah, the son of Zeniff. King Noah causes his people to “labor exceedingly to support iniquity” (Mosiah 11:6), gives “rest” to his wicked and corrupt priests (Mosiah 11:11), and anesthetizes his people in their sins with his winemaking. Noah and his people’s refusal to “repent” and their martyring of Abinadi result in their coming into hard bondage to the Lamanites. Mormon’s text further demonstrates how the Lord eventually “comforts” Noah’s former subjects after their “sore repentance” and “sincere repentance” from their iniquity and abominations, providing them a typological deliverance that points forward to the atonement of Jesus Christ.
“Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.” (Isaiah 49:13).

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 8 — Noah
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘If Ye Will Hearken’: Lehi’s Rhetorical Wordplay on Ishmael in 2 Nephi 1:28–29 and Its Implications.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 157-189.
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Abstract: Nephi’s preservation of the conditional “first blessing” that Lehi bestowed upon his elder sons (Laman, Lemuel, and Sam) and the sons of Ishmael, contains a dramatic wordplay on the name Ishmael in 2 Nephi 1:28–29. The name Ishmael — “May El hear [him],” “May El hearken,” or “El Has Hearkened” — derives from the Semitic (and later Hebrew) verb šāmaʿ (to “hear,” “hearken,” or “obey”). Lehi’s rhetorical wordplay juxtaposes the name Ishmael with a clustering of the verbs “obey” and “hearken,” both usually represented in Hebrew by the verb šāmaʿ. Lehi’s blessing is predicated on his sons’ and the sons of Ishmael’s “hearkening” to Nephi (“if ye will hearken”). Conversely, failure to “hearken” (“but if ye will not hearken”) would precipitate withdrawal of the “first blessing.” Accordingly, when Nephi was forced to flee from Laman, Lemuel, and the sons of Ishmael, Lehi’s “first blessing” was activated for Nephi and all those who “hearkened” to his spiritual leadership, including members of Ishmael’s family (2 Nephi 5:6), while it was withdrawn from Laman, Lemuel, the sons of Ishmael, and those who sympathized with them, “inasmuch as they [would] not hearken” unto Nephi (2 Nephi 5:20). Centuries later, when Ammon and his brothers convert many Lamanites to the truth, Mormon revisits Lehi’s conditional blessing and the issue of “hearkening” in terms of Ishmael and the receptivity of the Ishmaelites. Many Ishmaelite-Lamanites “hear” or “hearken” to Ammon et al., activating Lehi’s “first blessing,” while many others — including the ex-Nephite Amalekites/Amlicites — do not, thus activating (or reactivating) Lehi’s curse.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘I Kneeled Down Before My Maker’: Allusions to Esau in the Book of Enos.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 29-56.
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Abstract: The Book of Enos constitutes a brief literary masterpiece. A close reading of Enos’s autobiography reveals textual dependency not only on 1 Nephi 1:1-2 and Genesis 32–33, but also on earlier parts of the Jacob Esau cycle in Genesis 25, 27. Enos’s autobiographical allusions to hunting and hungering serve as narrative inversions of Esau’s biography. The narrative of Genesis 27 exploits the name “Esau” in terms of the Hebrew verb ʿśh/ʿśy (“make,” “do”). Enos (“man”) himself incorporates paronomastic allusions to the name “Esau” in terms of ʿśh/ʿśy in surprising and subtle ways in order to illustrate his own transformation through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. These wordplays reflect the convergence (in the Genesis narratives) of the figure of Esau before whom Jacob bows and whom he embraces in reconciliation with the figure of the divine “man” with whom Jacob wrestles. Finally, Enos anticipates his own resurrection, divine transformation, and final at-one-ment with the Lord in terms of a clothing metaphor reminiscent of Jacob’s “putting on” Esau’s identity in Genesis 27.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘He Did Go About Secretly’: Additional Thoughts on the Literary Use of Alma’s Name.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 197-212.
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Abstract: Mormon describes Alma the Younger’s “go[ing] about secretly” to destroy the church that his father, Alma the Elder, had established (Mosiah 27:8–10), this as a narratalogical inversion of that period when Alma the Elder “went about privately” teaching the words of Abinadi and establishing a church “that it might not come to the knowledge of the king” (Mosiah 18:1–6). In Mosiah 27:10, Mormon subtly reworks Alma the Younger’s autobiographical statement preserved in Alma 36:6, adding in the former passage a word rendered “secretly” to create a midrashic or interpretive pun on the name Alma, echoing the meaning of the Semitic root ʿlm, “hide,” “conceal”). Mosiah 27:8–10 contains additional language that evokes the introduction of the name Alma in the Book of Mormon (at first in terms of ʿelem [“young man”] but also in terms of the homonymous root ʿlm) in Mosiah 17:2–4 but also re-invokes allusions in the latter passage to Mosiah 14:1 (Isaiah 53:1).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Bowen, Matthew L. “Jacob’s Protector.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 229-256.
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Abstract: The name Jacob (yaʿăqōb) means “may he [i.e., God] protect,” or “he has protected.” As a hypocoristic masculine volitive verbal form,
it is a kind of blessing upon, or prayer on behalf of the one so named that he will receive divine protection and safety (cf. Deuteronomy 33:28). Textual evidence from Nephi’s writings suggests that his brother Jacob’s protection was a primary concern of their parents, Lehi and Sariah. Lehi saw Nephi as the specific means of divine protection for Jacob, his “first born in the wilderness.” Moreover, the term “protector” is used twice in LDS scripture, in both instances by Jacob himself (2 Nephi 6:2; Jacob 1:10), this in reference to Nephi, who became the “great protector” of the Nephites in general and Jacob in particular. All of the foregoing is to be understood against the backdrop of the patriarch Jacob’s biography. Lehi, Nephi, Jacob, and Enos all expressed their redemption in terms reminiscent of their ancestor Jacob’s being “redeemed … from all evil,” a process which included Jacob “wrestling” a divine “man” and preparing him to be reconciled to his estranged brother by an atoning “embrace.” Mormon employed the biblical literary etymology of the name Jacob, in the terms “supplant,” “usurp,” or “rob” as a basis for Lamanite accusations that Nephites had usurped them or “robbed” them of their birthright. Mormon, aware of the high irony, shows that the Gadianton [Gaddianton] robbers take up the same polemic. The faithful Lehites, many of whom were descendants of two Jacobs, prayed “May the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, protect this people in righteousness, so long as they shall call on the name of their God for protection” (3 Nephi 4:30). By and large, they enjoyed the God of Jacob’s protection until they ceased to call upon their true protector for it.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Bowman, Matthew. “Book Reviews.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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In his foreward to this book, Richard Bushman praises it for its meticulous attention to the historian’s craft. Michael MacKay and Gerrit Dirkmaat have served as editors on the Documents series of the Joseph Smith Papers Project-spending months documenting, annotating, and organizing the surviving historical material from the early years of Joseph Smith’s religious career-and their experience with those primary sources shines in this volume. They have tracked down scraps of information in archives from New York to Utah, from obscure nineteenth-century publications as far-flung as the Ohio Observer and the Milwaukee Sentinel, and even from much better-known sources like the Joseph Smith revelations, which they have reread with a keen eye for detail and often-missed nuance.

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Calabro, David M. “Lehi’s Dream and the Garden of Eden.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 26 (2017): 269-296.
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Abstract: Lehi’s dream in 1 Nephi 8 and Nephi’s related vision in 1 Nephi 11–14 contain many features related to the biblical garden of Eden, including most prominently the tree of life. A close reading of the features of Lehi’s dream in light of the earliest Book of Mormon text shows further similarities to the biblical garden, suggesting that the setting of Lehi’s dream is actually the garden of Eden. But the differences are also informative. These include both substantive features absent from the biblical Eden and differences in the language used to describe the features. Many of the variant features are also found in other ancient creation accounts. In view of these observations, it is likely the Book of Mormon presupposes a variant account of the garden of Eden. This variant account forms the backdrop for Lehi’s dream and for other references to the garden in the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
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Carmack, Stanford A. “How Joseph Smith’s Grammar Differed from Book of Mormon Grammar: Evidence from the 1832 History.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 239-259.
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Abstract: Some of the grammar of Joseph Smith’s 1832 History is examined. Three archaic, extra-biblical features that occur quite frequently in the Book of Mormon are not present in the history, even though there was ample opportunity for use. Relevant usage in the 1832 History is typical of modern English, in line with independent linguistic studies. This leads to the conclusion that Joseph’s grammar was not archaizing in these three types of morphosyntax which are prominent in the earliest text of the Book of Mormon. This corroborating evidence also indicates that English words were transmitted to Joseph throughout the dictation of the Book of Mormon.

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Carmack, Stanford A. “On Doctrine and Covenants Language and the 1833 Plot of Zion.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 26 (2017): 297-380.
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Abstract: Contrary to the generally accepted view, it seems likely that much of the wording of the Doctrine and Covenants was transmitted to Joseph Smith as part of the revelatory process. Apparent bad grammar and a limited reading of “after the manner of their language” (D&C 1:24) have led to the received view that “the language of the revelations was Joseph Smith’s.”
This judgment, however, is probably inaccurate. Abundant cases of archaic forms and structures, sometimes overlapping with Book of Mormon usage, argue for a different interpretation of “after the manner of their language.” Scholars have chosen, for the most part, to disregard the implications of a large amount of complex, archaic, well-formed language found in both scriptural texts. As for the 1833 Plot of Zion, transmitted words in Doctrine and Covenants revelations, a key statement by Frederick G. Williams, and a small but significant amount of internal archaic usage mean that the layout, dimensions, and even some language of the city plat were specifically revealed as well.

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Carmack, Stanford A. “Barlow on Book of Mormon Language: An Examination of Some Strained Grammar.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 185-196.
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Abstract: Comments made by Philip Barlow on Book of Mormon language for an Oxford-published book are examined. Inaccuracies are pointed out, and some examples are given that show matching with 1611 King James usage as well as with other earlier usage. One important conclusion that can be drawn from this study is that those who wish to critique the English language of the Book of Mormon need to take the subject more seriously and approach it with genuine scholarship, instead of repeating earlier errors. This has a direct bearing on forming accurate views of Joseph Smith and Book of Mormon translation.
There are some errors which is easilier persuaded unto than to some truths.
Henry, Earl of Monmouth (translator)
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Dale, Bruce E. “How Big A Book? Estimating the Total Surface Area of the Book of Mormon Plates.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 261-268.
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Abstract: We do not have the Book of Mormon metal plates available to us. We cannot heft them, examine the engravings, or handle the leaves of that ancient record as did the Three Witnesses, the Eight Witnesses, and the many other witnesses to both the existence and nature of the plates. In such a situation, what more can we learn about the physical nature of the plates without their being present for our inspection? Building on available knowledge, this article estimates the total surface area of the plates using two independent approaches and finds that the likely surface area was probably between 30 and 86 square feet, or roughly 15% of the surface area of the paper on which the English version of the Book of Mormon is now printed.

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Deane, Morgan. “Experiencing Battle in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 23 (2017): 237-252.
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Abstract: Historical chronicles of military conflict normally focus on the decisions and perspectives of leaders. But new methodologies, pioneered by John Keegan’s Face of Battle, have focused attention on the battle experience of the common soldier. Applying this methodology to a careful reading of details within the Book of Mormon shows an experience in battle that is just as horrific as it is authentic.

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Densley, Steven T., Jr. “Heralding a New Age of Book of Mormon Scholarship.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 223-228.
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A review of John W. Welch, Neal Rappleye, Stephen O. Smoot, David J. Larsen, and Taylor Halverson, eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the Book of Mormon is True. Covenant Communications, Inc., 2017, 380 pages including endnotes and biographical material. $34.99 (paperback).
Abstract: Book of Mormon Central has produced a fantastic resource for students and teachers of the Book of Mormon. Knowing Why updates prior discoveries and provides new and interesting insights based upon solid scholarship.

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Ellsworth, Daniel T. “Their Imperfect Best: Isaianic Authorship from an LDS Perspective.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 1-27.
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Abstract: For Latter-day Saints, the critical scholarly consensus that most of the book of Isaiah was not authored by Isaiah often presents a problem, particularly since many Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon are assigned post-exilic dating by critical scholars. The critical position is based on an entirely different set of assumptions than most believers are accustomed to bring to scripture. This article surveys some of the reasons for the critical scholarly position, also providing an alternative set of assumptions that Latter-day Saints can use to understand the features of the text.
I have a tradition from my grandfather’s house that the same communication is revealed to many prophets, but no two prophesy in the identical phraseology.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Frederick, Nicholas J. “‘The Intent for Which It Was Given’: How the Book of Mormon Teaches the Value of Scripture and Revelation.” Religious Educator Vol. 18 no. 1 (2017).
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
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Gardner, Richard D. “Consecration Brings Forth Zion, Not Just Disaster Relief: An Examination of Scholarly and Prophetic Statements on the Law of Consecration.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 26 (2017): 123-226.
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Abstract: Active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints covenant to obey the law of consecration, and although I have long felt we discuss it too little, more Saints seem to be taking notice. Various historical and doctrinal opinions have been expressed on the law and on the “united order,” including some insightful and some unusual opinions by Kent W. Huff in his book Joseph Smith’s United Order.
Using this book along with the contributions of several other scholars and Church leaders as a basis for discussion, I explore the history, meaning, and future of the “united order” as part of the larger law of consecration. Starting as an eleven-man organization in charge of Church business and operating under consecration principles, the united order — actually called the united firm — transformed into the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. According to historians, most Church members did not even know of its existence, let alone participate in it. Traditional understanding is that the firm’s consecration model provided the pattern for the Saints to follow. An alternative interpretation, described by Kent Huff, is that the Saints’ only real attempt at a formal consecration effort was for disaster relief. In fact, according to Huff, the Saints in general did not deed their property to the Church as we’ve learned in Church history classes. He further argues that even the former-day Saints in the City of Enoch, the early Christians in Jerusalem, and the Nephites right after Christ’s visit didn’t really have all things in common in the way most of us have imagined. I disagree with this interpretation and provide evidence against it, but I appreciate the historical information and several philosophical insights that Huff provides. Other scholars and historians challenge the widely-held notions that 1) tithing is a lower law, given because the Saints failed to live the full law of consecration, and that 2) a formal form of consecration (the united order) will eventually return. I advocate instead for the traditional understanding of the law of consecration and stewardship as taught by Church leaders, believing it is the path toward both freedom and equality the world is looking for, and I explain why I believe it — or a similar program — will eventually be reinstated.

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Gillum, Gary P. “Miracles in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 181-184.
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Review of Alonzo L. Gaskill, Miracles of the Book of Mormon: A Guide to the Symbolic Messages, 2015, Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 447 pp. + bibliography, appendix of Brief Biographical Sketches of Ancient and Modern Non-LDS Sources Cited, index, etc. Hardbound. $27.99.
Abstract: Author Alonzo L. Gaskill has used his considerable scholarly and spiritual skills to provide the reader with a book that describes and applies to our lives the miracles found in the Book of Mormon, some of which may have slipped the reader’s eyes, mind, and heart.

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Grover, Jerry D., Jr. “Translation Of The ’Caractors’ Document.” In BMAF-BMC Book of Mormon Conference. Provo, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2017.
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Jerry Grover explains his methodology and some of his numerical translations from the “caractors” document.

Keywords: Anthon Transcript, Book of Mormon, Caractors Document, Language, Translation
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Grover, Jerry D., Jr. Sumerian Roots of Jaredite-Derived Names and Terminology in the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Challex Scientific Publications, 2017.
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The origin of Book of Mormon Jaredite names has been an enigma since the publication of the Book of Mormon. In a book that is the first of its kind, Jerry Grover, a professional civil engineer, geologist and translator has been able to reconstruct the Jaredite names from ancient Sumerian. The author’s approach is meticulous and scientific. This book is a landmark event in Book of Mormon studies and is a book that must be read by every serious student of the Book of Mormon and of Mesoamerican studies. The author is dedicating all proceeds from the book to additional scientific studies to cast further light on the ancient setting of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Ancient America, Ancient Near East, Archaeology, Jaredite, Language, Language - Hebrew, Mesoamerica, Name, Sumerian
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Grover, Jerry D., Jr. Evidence of the Nehor Religion in Mesoamerica. Provo, UT: Challex Scientific Publishing, 2017.
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The prophecies of Abinadi in the Book of Mormon, his sacrificial death, and the deaths of his murderers all correlate with Maya rituals and ceremonies. The later order of Nehor, having common elements with the King Noah syncretic religion, also correlates with known Mesoamerican religious practices, one correlation being the Principal Bird Deity and its manifestations. Two other religious traditions, the “Great Spirit” and Amalekites, are derivatives of the Nephite religion.

Keywords: Abinadi (Prophet), Amalekite (Nephite Apostate Group), Ancient America, Great Spirit, King Noah, Maya, Mesoamerica, Nehor, Prophecy
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Hales, Brian C. “Joseph Smith: Monogamist or Polygamist?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 117-156.
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Abstract: In the past decades much of the debate regarding Joseph Smith and plural marriage has focused on his motivation — whether libido or divine inspiration drove the process. Throughout these debates, a small group of observers and participants have maintained that Joseph did not practice polygamy at any time or that his polygamous sealings were nonsexual spiritual marriages. Rather than simply provide supportive evidence for Joseph Smith’s active involvement with plural marriage, this article examines the primary arguments advanced by monogamist proponents to show that important weaknesses exist in each line of reasoning.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Halverson, Taylor. “Covenant Patterns in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon.” In BMAF-BMC Book of Mormon Conference. Provo, UT: Book of Mormon Central , 2017.
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Taylor Halverson presents Covenant Patterns in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon

Keywords: Ancient Near East, Covenant, King David, Kingship, Old Testament
ID = [76673]  Status = Type = conference paper  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:52
Halverson, Taylor. “Deuteronomy 17:14–20 as Criteria for Book of Mormon Kingship.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 24 (2017): 1-10.
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Abstract: Deuteronomy 17:14–20 represents the most succinct summation in the Bible of criteria for kingship. Remarkably, the Book of Mormon narrative depicts examples of kingship that demonstrate close fidelity to the pattern set forth in Deuteronomy 17 (e.g., Nephi, Benjamin, or Mosiah II) or the inversion of the expected pattern of kingship (e.g., king Noah). Future research on Book of Mormon kingship through the lens of Deuteronomy 17:14–20 should prove fruitful.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
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Handley, George B. “Reading and the Menardian Paradox in 3 Nephi.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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In the Old World Jesus taught, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6), yet in the New World he says, “Blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost” (3 Nephi 12:6). Attention, understandably, has been given to the differences, large and small, between the Sermon on the Mount as recounted in the New Testament and the similar sermon given in the New World. At times, we note slight shifts in emphasis (here in the New World, for example, Jesus makes this promise to “all”), more complete understandings (we are filled specifically with the influence of the Holy Ghost), and so on. And these differences raise compelling questions about the possibility that plain and precious truths were lost in translation in the Bible but are restored again in the Book of Mormon. The differences might also suggest the importance of a shifting context that moves Jesus to vary his speech. One wonders if one version is more authoritative than the other. But there is an additional question the two accounts of Christ’s sermon raise. What do readers make of the fact that in most cases the wording is exactly coincident? What might that signify?

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Hoskisson, Paul Y., and Daniel C. Peterson. “To Seek the Law of the Lord” Essays in Honor of John W. Welch. Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, 2017.
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This volume presents a collection of essays dedicated to the life and work of a great scholar, John W. Welch, a polymath who is known to his many friends as “Jack.” It honors a man who has contributed prodigiously—as author, editor, and organizer—to a growing body of rigorous, faithful Mormon scholarship.Volumes such as this, which celebrate the life and career of an esteemed colleague, are typically described with the German term \"festschrift,\" a word that denotes not only festive celebration but esteem, respect, and gratitude for contributions that deserve to be honored. We deliberately use the word \"honor\" in the subtitle of this book, intending to express precisely those sentiments.Those who have watched and worked with Jack over many years of extraordinarily rich productivity have sometimes wondered whether he ever sleeps. All have benefited enormously from his work and remarkable insights.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Hoxworth, Kellen. “Strains of the Enlightenment: Making Belief in American Secularism and African Difference in.” Modern Drama (2017): 1-23.
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This article argues that the 2011 Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, best known for its parody of Mormon religious beliefs, uses what Sara Ahmed terms “affective economies” to paradoxically remake American beliefs in secular rationality. Whereas Richard Schechner posits a strict division between “make-believe” and “make-belief” performances, The Book of Mormon demonstrates how the “make-believe” of Broadway makes beliefs and feelings in its audiences through circulations of affect. This article traces how such affects and beliefs are imbricated with national impressions about religious, racial, and sexual difference, particularly through the musical’s Mormon and black African characters. By attending to the musical’s impressions of Mormons and Africans, it deconstructs the musical’s tacit investments in American secularism and rationality through its circulation of “common sense” ideas about religious and racial others.

Keywords: The Book of Mormon (musical); Blacks, Africa; Performing arts, theater; Comparative religion, African; Uganda
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Jolley, Elliott. “Gazelem the Jaredite.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 85-105.
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Abstract: Alma refers to Gazelem in his instructions to his son Helaman in Alma 37:23. This article proposes and explores the concept of identifying Gazelem as a Jaredite seer. Other theories of the identity of Gazelem are addressed in this article but not explored in depth. It discusses the full context of Alma’s words, the Jaredite secret combinations and their oaths, Gazelem’s seer stone, and the Nephite interpreters. Additionally, it proposes a possible timeline that Gazelem lived among the Jaredites. It also discusses the usage of “Gazelam” as a substitute name for Joseph Smith in early editions of the Doctrine and Covenants.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Kerr, Jason A. “‘Virtue’ in Moroni 9:9.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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Latter-day Saint discussion of chastity often include Moroni 9:9 because of its suggestion that “chastity and virtue” constitute “that which is most dear and precious above all things:’ The verse also says, however, that people can be “deprived” of chastity and virtue by the violence of rape. For the prophet Mormon, the Nephites’ actions in Moriantum exceed “this great abomination of the Lamanites;’ which involved “feed[ing] the women upon the flesh of their husbands, and the children upon the flesh of their fathers” (Moroni 9:8). Mormon’s strong language aims to condemn the rapists, not their victims. Using the verse to teach about chastity, though, invites interpretation from the perspective of the victims, which raises the question of what it means to understand chastity and virtue as something of which a person can be deprived, passively, by another. Such passive loss of virtue runs strongly contrary to LDS teaching about agency, including those rooted in Book of Mormon passages like 2 Nephi 2, with the consequence that victims of sexual abuse or assault can be made to feel guilty for sins that are not their own.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [81898]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:46
Lindsay, Jeff. “The Great and Spacious Book of Mormon Arcade Game: More Curious Works from Book of Mormon Critics.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 23 (2017): 161-235.
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Abstract: A novel theory for the origins of Lehi’s vision of the Tree of Life has been offered by Rick Grunder, who argues that the story was inspired by a June 1829 visit to Rochester where Joseph could have seen a “great and spacious building,” a river, an iron railing, and even fruit trees. The purported source for the great and spacious building, the Reynolds Arcade, has even been suggested by one critic as a place where Joseph might have found “rare maps,” such as a map of Arabia that could have guided his fabrication of Lehi’s trail. As beautiful as such theories may be to their champions, they utterly fail to account for Nephi’s text.
Among the shortcomings of Grunder’s theory and creative extensions of it, the timing is problematic, for Joseph’s visit to Rochester likely occurred well after 1 Nephi was dictated. The proposed parallels offer little explanatory power for Book of Mormon creation. (For comparison, two online appendices for this article have been provided to illustrate how interesting random parallels can be found that may be more compelling than those Grunder offers.
) Further, any inspiration from a visit to Rochester as the plates of Nephi were being translated fails to account for the influence of Lehi’s vision and Nephi’s text on other portions of the Book of Mormon that were translated long before Joseph’s trip to Rochester. Finally, Nephi’s account of the vision of the Tree of Life and surrounding text cannot be reasonably explained by Grunder’s theory of last-minute fabrication inspired by Rochester or by any other theory of modern fabrication, as it is far too rooted in the ancient world and far too artfully crafted to have come from Joseph Smith and his environment.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [3714]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64622  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:10
Lindsay, Jeff. “The Book of Mormon Versus the Consensus of Scholars: Surprises from the Disputed Longer Ending of Mark, Part 1.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 283-321.
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Abstract: Following the account of the ministry of Christ among the Nephites as recorded in the Book of Mormon, Christ gave a charge to His New World disciples (Mormon 9:22–25). These words are very similar to the commission of Christ to His apostles at the end of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9–20). According to the consensus of modern Bible scholars, Christ did not speak those words; they are a later addition. If so, this is a problem for the Book of Mormon. Fortunately, recent modern scholarship offers compelling reasons for overturning the old consensus against the longer ending of Mark. Some of the factors from modern scholarship that indirectly help overcome a potentially serious objection to and apparent weakness in the Book of Mormon also help us better appreciate its strength as we explore unifying themes derived from an ancient Jewish perspective. In this Part 1 of a two-part series, we look at the evidence for the unity of Mark and the plausibility of Mormon 9:22–25. In Part 2 we examine further Book of Mormon implications from the thematic evidence for the unity of Mark.

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Lindsay, Jeff. “The Book of Mormon Versus the Consensus of Scholars: Surprises from the Disputed Longer Ending of Mark, Part 2.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 323-365.
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Abstract: Following the account of the ministry of Christ among the Nephites as recorded in the Book of Mormon, Christ gave a charge to His New World disciples (Mormon 9:22–25). These words are nearly like the commission of Christ to His apostles at the end of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9–20). According to the general consensus of modern Bible scholars, Christ did not speak those words; they are a later addition. If so, this is a problem for the Book of Mormon. Fortunately, recent modern scholarship offers compelling reasons for overturning the old consensus against the longer ending of Mark. Some of the factors from modern scholarship that indirectly help overcome a potentially serious objection to and apparent weakness in the Book of Mormon also help us better appreciate its strength as we explore unifying themes derived from an ancient Jewish perspective. Part 1 of this two-part series looked at the evidence for the unity of Mark and the plausibility of Mormon 9:22–25. In Part 2, we examine further Book of Mormon implications from the thematic evidence for the unity of Mark.

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Lindsay, Jeff. “The Next Big Thing in LDS Apologetics: Strong Semitic and Egyptian Elements in Uto-Aztecan Languages.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 26 (2017): 227-267.
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Review of Brian D. Stubbs, Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now (Blanding, UT: Four Corners Digital Design, 2016) and Exploring the Explanatory Power of Semitic and Egyptian in Uto-Aztecan (Provo, UT: Grover Publications, 2015).
Abstract: Following several articles and presentations over the past two decades on tantalizing finds linking Uto-Aztecan languages with Near Eastern languages, LDS linguist Brian Stubbs has recently published two significant works offering extensive details and documentation. The more comprehensive volume intended for scholars and serious students of language is Exploring the Explanatory Power of Semitic and Egyptian in Uto-Aztecan, a highly technical work providing 1,528 sets of cognates with intricate details linking Uto-Aztecan languages with two versions of Semitic and with Egyptian. This is followed by an analysis of puzzles in Uto Aztecan explained by Egyptian and Semitic ties as well as an exploration of grammatical and morphological parallels and many other details that further strengthen the case for an ancient connection to Near Eastern languages. Stubbs has made his work more accessible to general LDS readers with a less technical and highly readable work, Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now, that relates his findings to the Book of Mormon and what we can infer about the languages of Book of Mormon peoples. The changes in those languages, correspond remarkably well with the infusions of Near Eastern language that can be seen in abundance in Uto-Aztecan. Numerous questions remain that may require lifetimes of further research, but the meticulous foundation Stubbs has laid must not be treated like past amateurish and erroneous efforts over the centuries to find Hebrew in Native American languages. This is a serious, scholarly work that rises above the standards typically used to establish authentic language families. The evidence for, say, Hebrew in Uto-Aztecan is actually more impressive than the linguistic evidence for Hebrew influence in Yiddish. While implications for these finds on the Book of Mormon can be overstated, what Stubbs has uncovered may be among the most impressive scholarly finds related to the Book of Mormon.

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Ludlow, Jared W. “‘After All We Can Do’ (2 Nephi 25:23).” Religious Educator Vol. 18 no. 1 (2017).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
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Madsen, Ann N. “The Healing and Exalting Powers of Christ Weave Together at Easter.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 61-65.
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Abstract: In this personal essay, Ann Madsen reflects on the ways in which the healing power of Christ converges with His exalting power at Easter. Cold gives way to warmth, pride to submission, and reflection to sanctification. The weekly Sacrament provides a time for cleansing, renewal, and drawing our thoughts toward the Lord. The path leads to us becoming like Him.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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McMurtry, Benjamin. “The Amlicites and Amalekites: Are They the Same People?” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 25 (2017): 269-281.
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Abstract: Royal Skousen’s Book of Mormon Critical Text Project has proposed many hundreds of changes to the text of the Book of Mormon. A subset of these changes does not come from definitive evidence found in the manuscripts or printed editions but are conjectural emendations. In this paper, I examine one of these proposed changes — the merging of two dissenting Nephite groups, the Amlicites and the Amalekites. Carefully examining the timeline and geography of these groups shows logical problems with their being the same people. This paper argues that they are, indeed, separate groups and explores a plausible explanation for the missing origins of the Amalekites.

Keywords: Amalekite (Nephite Apostate Group); Amlicite; Critical Text; Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3697]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 29692  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:08
Miller, Adam S. A Dream, a Rock, and a Pillar of Fire: Reading 1 Nephi 1. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2017.
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The first chapter of 1 Nephi may be the most read in all of Mormon scripture. But beyond its veneer of familiarity, its substance remains shadowed by a host of contextual and theological questions. The papers collected in this volume offer theological readings that draw on careful examinations of 1 Nephi 1’s structure and literary details to explore questions about Lehi’s world, the nature of revelation, the problem of suffering, and the promised Messiah.

Keywords: Mormon thought, theology; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, commentaries; Scriptures
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Miner, Alan C. “Brief History of the Knowledge of the Literary Structures and Language of Ancient Scripture Up Until the Time of the Book of Mormon.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, A Covenant Record of Christ’s People, Volume 1: Introduction, 153-177. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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Brief History of the Knowledge of the Literary Structures and Language of Ancient Scripture Up Until the Time of the Book of Mormon

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Miner, Alan C. “Chronological List of English Reader-Friendly Sources on Hebrew-like Literary Language and Structures That Relate to the Book of Mormon.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, A Covenant Record of Christ’s People, Volume 1: Introduction, 179-242. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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Chronological List of English Reader-Friendly Sources on Hebrew-like Literary Language and Structures That Relate to the Book of Mormon

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Miner, Alan C. “Chronological List of Pertinent Writings on Bible Quotations and Language Uses That Are Part of the Book of Mormon.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, A Covenant Record of Christ’s People, Volume 1: Introduction, 243-261. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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Chronological List of Pertinent Writings on Bible Quotations and Language Uses That Are Part of the Book of Mormon

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 14.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 111-120. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 14

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 15.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 121-130. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 15

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 16.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 131-142. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 16

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Miner, Alan C. “Title Page of the Book of Mormon.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 1-4. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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Title Page of the Book of Mormon

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 17.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 143-160. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 17

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 2.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 15-20. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 2

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 18.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 161-168. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 18

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 19.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 169-178. Vol. 1. Springville,UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 19

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 20.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 179-196. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 20

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 21.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 187-196. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc.,, 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 21

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 22.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 197-209. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 22

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Miner, Alan C. “Some Notes on the General Literary Structure of the Entire First Book of Nephi.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 211-233. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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Some Notes on the General Literary Structure of the Entire First Book of Nephi

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 3.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 21-30. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 3

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 4.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 31-40. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 4

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 5.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 41-46. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 5

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 6.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 47-48. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 6

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 7.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 49-56. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 7

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Preface.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 5-6. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Preface

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 8 (8:1-9:1).” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 57-65. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 8 (8:1-9:1)

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 9 (9:2-9:6).” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 67-69. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 9 (9:2-9:6)

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 1.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 7-14. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 1

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 10.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 71-78. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 10

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 11.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 79-88. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 11

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 12.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 89-94. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 12

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Miner, Alan C. “1 Nephi Chapter 13.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land, 95-110. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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1 Nephi Chapter 13

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Miner, Alan C. Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, A Covenant Record of Christ’s People, Volume 1: Introduction. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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Keywords: Literary Structure, Parallelism, Rhetoric, Stylometry
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Miner, Alan C. Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, Volume 1: Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land. Vol. 1. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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Keywords: Literary Structure, Parallelism, Rhetoric
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Morrill, Susanna. “Women and the Book of Mormon: The Creation and Negotiation of a Latter-day Saint Tradition.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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The following article by Susanna Morrill first appeared in Historicizing “Tradition” in the Study of Religion, ed. Steven Engler and Gregory Price Grieve (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2005), 127-44. We believe that it has, unfortunately, not received the attention it deserves for the light it sheds on the ways the Book of Mormon has been received by its readers. Morrill writes from the perspective that the Book of Mormon is a product of the nineteenth-century, but we feel that all stand to learn much from her analysis. We would like to express our gratitude to Professor Morrill, as well as to De Gruyter, for allowing us to reprint the essay. Similarly, she ruefully recounted her visit to Phoenix, a city originally settled and then given up by Mormon pioneers.

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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies Volume 26. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Front Matter.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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Pulsipher, J. David. “Buried Swords: The Shifting Interpretive Ground of a Beloved Book of Mormon Narrative.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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In November 2014 Latter-day Saint children around the world participated in a ritual that would probably seem odd to outsiders-they buried some swords. These weren’t actual weapons, of course, only sketches of swords upon which the children were instructed to “write a wrong choice… such as ’fighting with my brother’ or ’telling a lie.’” They then “buried” these swords by “crumpling their papers or throwing them away.” Similarly, in February 2010 a small group of teenagers stood with their own paper swords around a freshly dug hole on their church’s property. “I had my class write down a behavior of theirs, if they had one, which might be considered an act of ’rebellion to God,’” recalled their teacher. “Their challenge was to pick one thing they were serious about stopping. I asked them to pick something they felt they could put aside… forever.”

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Reynolds, Noel B. “Biblical Merismus in Book of Mormon Gospel References.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2015 annual Society of Biblical Literature meeting, November 23, 2015, in Atlanta, Georgia. 1. See Noel B. Reynolds, “The Gospel of Jesus Christ as Taught by the Nephite Prophets;’ BYU Studies 31/3 (1991): 31-50; and Noel B. Reynolds, “The Gospel according to Mormon;’ Scottish Journal of Theology 68/2 (2015): 218-34 doi:10.1017/ S003693061500006X. 2. Inclusio is a common technique used by biblical writers to mark off a text unit by repeating at the end of the unit a word or phrase or sentence used at the beginning. These three Book of Mormon passages are marked off with obvious inclusios featuring “the doctrine of Christ;’ “this is my doctrine;’ and “this is my gospel” respectively. While Nephi constructed the first, the second two are embedded in the material quoted from Jesus Christ. In “Chiastic Structuring of Large Texts: Second Nephi as a Case Study;’ publication pending, I demonstrate that 2 Nephi can be read as a series of thirteen inclusios arranged to provide a chiastic structure to the book that also communicates his principal thesis.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Smith, Julie M. “An Analysis of Benjaminite and Markan Christology.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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The term Christology refers to the presentation of the life and nature of Jesus Christ. The purpose of this essay is to explore King Benjamin’s Christology (see Mosiah 3), to consider its similarities to that found in the Gospel of Mark, and to explore some implications of Benjamin’s Christology. Christology is often described as being on a continuum from low (which emphasizes the human nature of Jesus) to high (which emphasizes his divine nature). It is definitely the case that Benjamin’s description of Jesus contains elements of a high Christology since he begins by describing Jesus as “the Lord Omnipotent who reigneth, who was, and is from all eternity to all eternity” (Mosiah 3:5). Yet the very next line describes Jesus as “dwell[ing] in a tabernacle of clay” (Mosiah 3:5), which reflects a decidedly low Christology. This emphasis on the mortal nature of Jesus continues as Benjamin relates at length Jesus’s physical suffering (see Mosiah 3:7).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
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Spencer, Joseph M. “The Structure of the Book of Alma.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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Since John Welch discovered Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon fifty years ago, students of the volume have paid attention to textual structures. Unfortunately, little attention has yet been paid to book-length structures, structures organizing larger stretches of the Book of Mormon. Analysis of whole books within the Book of Mormon has largely remained in a preliminary phase.3 In this note, however, I lay out what appears to be the intentional organizational structure of the book of Alma.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “A Book of Mormon Bibliography for 2016.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 26 (2017).
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The Maxwell Institue is currently making efforts to update the work of Donald Parry, Jeanette Miller, and Sandra Thorne, who prepared the volume A Comprehensive Annotated Book of Mormon Bibliography (1996). This earlier work is now available at the Maxwell Institutes website (see http:/ /publications.mi.byu.edu/book/ a-comprehensive -annotated-book-of-mormon-bibliography/), and updates will also be made available on the Institute’s website. To assist in this effort, the editors of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies have decided to include in each issue of the Journal a bibliography of scholarly work published on the Book of Mormon during the previous year. We have therefore made efforts to discover all work of an academic nature published during 2016 for inclusion in the following bibliography. The work has been undertaken primarily by Matthew Roper and Alex Criddle.

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Olive, Phyllis Carol. The Prophesied Coming of Christ: Book of Mormon, Native America, and Latter-day Prophecies of the Second Coming. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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“The Second Coming of Christ has been prophesied from the very beginning of this earth, and after millennia of prophecies, we are beginning to see their fulfillment in these last days. This insightful book looks back at prophecies from the Book of Mormon, from various Native American tribes, and from prophets of the restored gospel. Today, we are living the fulfillment of these prophesies living in the eleventh hour. It is more important than ever that we are prepared, for as we look back at history, mankind has either risen in glory because of their righteousness or fallen because of sin. In the end, you must ask yourself, On this scale, where do we stand today?” [PUBLISHER]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Native Americans and; Book of Mormon; Prophecies
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Peterson, Daniel C. “The Book of Mormon Witnesses and Their Challenge to Secularism.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): vii-xxviii.
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There has been much comment recently on the growth in numbers of the religious “nones.” Not all of them are actually non-theists, but secularism or naturalism is undoubtedly on the rise — and Latter-day Saints have not escaped damage from the trend. Several recent books and articles have sought to help their readers live with doubt, cope with uncertainty, or find value or joy in the Mormon community even when some, most, or perhaps even all of its founding narrative has come to seem untenable. I believe, however, that naturalism should be directly challenged and that the Book of Mormon is among our best tools for doing so. And the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon are, in turn, some of our best evidences for its truth — and the only “secular” evidence that the Lord himself has provided.

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Reynolds, Noel B. “On Doubting Nephi’s Break Between 1 and 2 Nephi: A Critique of Joseph Spencer’s An Other Testament: On typology.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 85-102.
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Abstract: In 2012 Joseph Spencer published an analysis of 1st and 2nd Nephi that interprets a phrase in 1 Nephi 19:5 as implying the true break in Nephi’s writings is not between the two scriptural books we now use but rather to be found at the end of 2 Nephi 5 and that the spiritual core (the “more sacred part”) of the small plates is in 2 Nephi chapters 6–30. In this essay I have mobilized several arguments from the canons of literary interpretation and basics of the Hebrew language to demonstrate that this starting point for Spencer’s interpretation of Nephi’s writings is seriously flawed.
[Editor’s Note: This paper repeatedly refers to three passages in which Nephi distinguishes his large and small plates projects. For convenience, the version of those passages from the Critical Text Project are fully provided in Appendix 1.].

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Rogers, Brent M., ed. Documents, Volume 5: October 1835–January 1838, 69–88. Joseph Smith Papers. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2017.
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Roper, Matthew P. “Howlers In The Book Of Mormon.” In BMAF-BMC Book of Mormon Conference. Provo, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2017.
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LDS Researcher Matt Roper explains some criticisms of the Book of Mormon which have since turned into evidences for the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Criticism, Language, Mesoamerica, Name, Onomastics, Weaponry
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Rosenvall, Lynn A., and David L. Rosenvall. A New Approach to Studying The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Pleasant Grove, UT: The Olive Leaf Foundation, 2017.
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“While considering ways of making the precepts of the Book of Mormon more readily available to the reader, it was concluded it may be possible to isolate by some distinguishing format the doctrinal precepts and at the same time render this rather complex volume of scripture more comprehensible for reading and pondering. The formatting has been enhanced by adding margin indents, two type sizes, and spaces between textual subdivisions.” [Authors]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, editions and translations; Book of Mormon; Scriptures
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Russell, Collin Charles. “Meeting Zoram.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 24 (2017): 11-26.
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Abstract: Zoram, the servant of Laban, is a character from the Book of Mormon who is only mentioned a few times and on whom little information is given. This article analyzes what information is given in the Book of Mormon and contextualizes its historical background, all coupled with the observations of Latter-day Saint Church leaders and scholars. Insight is provided concerning Zoram’s Hebraic descent in the tribe of Manasseh and his working duties under Laban’s command, along with how all this affected his role in assisting Lehi’s family. The meaning of his name in Hebrew and possible correlations to the meaning of his life’s events are explained. The oath between Nephi and Zoram is discussed, and the debate regarding whether Zoram was a slave or servant is addressed, to show that he was likely a free servant.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Scripture Central. “Book of Mormon Central, One Year Later.” In BMAF-BMC Book of Mormon Conference. Provo, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2017.
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Neal Rappleye, Operations Manager and Researcher at Book of Mormon Central, reviews with a panel the progress of Book of Mormon Central.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Scripture Study
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Sharp, Daniel B., and Matthew L. Bowen. “Scripture Note—‘For This Cause Did King Benjamin Keep Them’: King Benjamin or King Mosiah?” Religious Educator Vol. 18 no. 1 (2017).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
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Skinner, Andrew C. “Review of An Other Testament: On Typology.” Religious Educator Vol. 18 no. 1 (2017).
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Skousen, Royal. Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Volume 4: Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, 2nd Edition. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2017.
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We are pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of volume 4 of Royal Skousen’s Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. This six-book set, entitled Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon (ATV), fulfills the central task of the critical text project, to restore the original text of the Book of Mormon to the extent possible using scholarly means. In the six books of ATV, Skousen discusses every substantive change to words or phrases in the text as well as changes in the spelling for about a dozen Book of Mormon names. ATV also includes a brief discussion of every type of grammatical change that the text has undergone over the years. (A complete discussion that lists every individual grammatical change was published last year in the two-volume set Grammatical Variation, also available from BYU Studies.) The changes in the second edition (ATV2) include: 37 new write-ups (34 of these involve suggested changes to the text, nearly all of which have come from independent readers). 8 additional substantive changes to the Book of Mormon text, besides the 606 substantive changes first published in 2009 by Yale University Press in The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text. 60 earlier write-ups in ATV1 now thoroughly revised for ATV2. 101 addenda items in ATV1 now in their appropriate place in ATV2, so that everything reads correctly in a single sequence (there is no longer a need to consult any addenda for later corrections or revisions to previous analyses). This second edition is truly a limited edition: only 250 copies of the six-book set have been printed.

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Smith, Gerald E. “Improvisation and Extemporaneous Change in the Book of Mormon (Part 1: Evidence of an Imperfect, Authentic, Ancient Work of Scripture).” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 23 (2017): 1-44.
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Abstract: Joseph Smith made various refining changes to the Book of Mormon text, most of them minor and grammatical in nature. However, one type of textual change has been virtually unstudied in Book of Mormon scholarship: extemporaneous change that was present the moment Smith dictated the original text to his scribes. This type of change appears to have been improvisational, a fix or repair made in the middle of a thought or expression. I study these improvisations in depth — where they might appear historically, their purpose, and their authorship — in two articles. The evidence points to ancient authors and editor-engravers whose extemporaneous changes appeared during the early layers of the Book of Mormon’s construction. In this paper, Article One, we study the improvisations found in the quoted ancient texts of ancient prophets, then in the embedded texts of authors who improvise, and finally in the improvisational narratives of the major editor-engravers — Mormon, Nephi, and Moroni. The findings tell us much about the Book of Mormon as scripture, and about the construction and compilation of scripture by ancient editors and authors.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Smith, Gerald E. “Improvisation and Extemporaneous Change in the Book of Mormon (Part 2: Structural Evidences of Earlier Ancient versus Later Modern Constructions).” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 23 (2017): 53-90.
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Abstract: Joseph Smith made various refining changes to the Book of Mormon text, most of them minor grammatical in nature. However, one type of textual change has been virtually unstudied in Book of Mormon scholarship: extemporaneous change that was present the moment Smith dictated the original text to his scribes. This type of change appears to have been improvisational, a fix or repair made in the middle of a thought or expression. I study these improvisations in depth — when they appeared historically, their purpose, and their authorship. The evidence of Article One points to ancient authors and editor-engravers whose extemporaneous changes appeared during the early layers of the Book of Mormon’s construction. But how were these improvisations affected by later contributors? In this paper, Part 2, we study the improvisational work of Moroni as compiler, finishing-editor, and conservator, and of Joseph Smith as modern translator. The findings tell us much about the Book of Mormon as scripture, and about the construction and compilation of scripture by ancient editors and authors.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Smoot, Stephen O. “The Divine Council in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 155-180.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon purports to be a record that originates from the ancient Near East. The authors of the book claim an Israelite heritage, and throughout the pages of the text can be seen echoes of Israelite religious practice and ideology. An example of such can be seen in how the Book of Mormon depicts God’s divine council, a concept unmistakably found in the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament). Recognizing the divine council in both the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon may help us appreciate a more nuanced understanding of such theological terms as “monotheism” as well as bolster confidence in the antiquity of the Nephite record.
“I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the host of heaven standing beside him to the right and to the left of him” (1 Kings 22:19 NRSV).
“He saw God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of angels in the attitude of singing and praising their God” (1 Nephi 1:8).

Keywords: Bible; Book of Mormon; Divine Council; Language - Hebrew; Old Testament
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Spencer, Stan. “Seers and Stones: The Translation of the Book of Mormon as Divine Visions of an Old-Time Seer.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 24 (2017): 27-98.
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Abstract: Joseph Smith used the term the Urim and Thummim to refer to the pair of seer stones, or “interpreters,” he obtained for translating the Book of Mormon as well as to other seer stones he used in a similar manner. According to witness accounts, he would put the stone(s) in a hat and pull the hat close around his face to exclude the light, and then he would see the translated text of the Book of Mormon. By what property or principle these stones enabled Joseph Smith to see the translated text has long been a matter of conjecture among Mormons, but the stones have commonly been understood as divinely powered devices analogous to the latest human communications technology. An alternative view, presented here, is that the stones had no technological function but simply served as aids to faith. In this view, the stones did not themselves translate or display text. They simply inspired the faith Joseph Smith needed to see imaginative visions, and in those visions, he saw the text of the Book of Mormon, just as Lehi and other ancient seers saw sacred texts in vision. Although Joseph Smith also saw visions without the use of stones, the logistics of dictating a book required the ability to see the translated text at will, and that was what the faith-eliciting stones would have made possible. And now he translated them by the means of those two stones.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
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Sudholt, Jonathan. “Unreadability Is the Reader’s Problem: The Book of Mormon’s Critique of the Antebellum US Public Sphere.” Radical Americas 2, no. 1 (2017): 1-34.
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This article reads The Book of Mormon as an attack on the incoherence of American nationalism – as, specifically, a book about the inevitability of its own irrelevance. That is, its primary objection is that in order for Joseph Smith to get any attention at all within the unruly public sphere of Jacksonian America, he had to write a book that would get him the wrong kind of attention – attention as a religious fanatic rather than as a critic of the culture that creates religious fanatics. Joseph Smith believed there was something rotten at the heart of America, but, being an uneducated farm boy from western New York, he had no way to express his anger in a manner that would allow him to be taken seriously. He could only be an ‘authority’ with regard to religion, and religious authority, being ubiquitous, was no authority at all. Smith tracks the way the American public sphere forced its marginalized persons to criticize it from a disadvantageous position, and the way those critiques were turned to the establishment’s advantage. For Joseph Smith, freedom of speech in America has always been a tool of the political elites to keep the poor from speaking effectively.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., thought; Smith, Joseph, Jr., education; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon, commentaries
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Tate, Charles D., Jr., and Monte S. Nyman. Fourth Nephi to Moroni: From Zion to Destruction. Provo, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 2017.
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“As the final installment in the book of Mormon Symposium series, this volume examines the last four books of the Nephite record : 4 Nephi, Mormon, Ether, and Moroni. Perhaps more than any other part in the Book of Mormon, this section powerfully portrays the cycle through which the ancient inhabitants of America passed many times-the cycle that took them from righteousness to wickedness, from Zion to destruction. Twenty-five contributors here explore the details of this tragic cycle-as it occurred in both the Nephite and the Jaredite civilizations-and also discuss many related doctrinal and historical issues. Realizing the Book of Mormon’s relevance to our day, the writers further take the opportunity to point out the many modern applications.” [Publisher]

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, American setting; Book of Mormon, historicity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Thompson, A. Keith. “Apostate Religion in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 191-226.
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Abstract: Nephite missionaries in the first century BC had significant difficulty preaching the gospel among Nephites and Lamanites who followed Zoramite and Nehorite teaching. Both of these groups built synagogues and other places of worship suggesting that some of their beliefs originated in Israelite practice, but both denied the coming or the necessity of a Messiah. This article explores the nature of Zoramite and Nehorite beliefs, identifies how their beliefs and practices differed from orthodox Nephite teaching, and suggests that some of these religious differences are attributable to cultural and political differences that resonate in the present

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Welch, John W. “The Miraculous Timing of the Translation of the Book of Mormon.” in Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 1820–1844, 2nd edition, ed. John W. Welch, 121–125. Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and BYU Press, 2017.
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Welch, John W., David J. Larsen, Neal Rappleye, Stephen O. Smoot, and Taylor Halverson. Knowing Why: 137 Evidences that the Book of Mormon is True. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2017.
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“A KnoWhy is a short essay… about some brief historical, archaeological, cultural, linguistic, literary, legal, devotional, or prophetic insight in the Book of Mormon. Individually, these pieces are about very specific topics: knowing why Nephi wrote in Egyptian (chapter 5), knowing why Jacob talked about polygamy (chapter 64), knowing why Abinadi was ’scourged’ with faggots (chapter 93), or knowing why Alma would talk about Melchizedek (chapter 117). In many cases, we profess less-than-definitive answers, but rather offer some reasons for why these things might be as they are in the Book of Mormon. As a collective body, these KnoWhys provide more than possible answers to specific questions. Combined, they are about knowing why the Book of Mormon is amazing, knowing why it is beautiful, knowing why it speaks to our hearts and minds so powerfully, knowing why it is so uniquely inspiring, and ultimately knowing why the Book of Mormon is true in so many ways.” [Editors]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, commentaries; Book of Mormon, importance of; Book of Mormon, miscellaneous; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Wells, Anita Cramer. “Bare Record: The Nephite Archivist, The Record of Records, and the Book of Mormon Provenance.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 24 (2017): 99-122.
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Abstract: This paper looks at the Book of Mormon through the lens of library science and the concept of archival provenance. The Nephites cared deeply about their records, and Mormon documented a thorough chain of custody for the plates he edited. However, ideas of archival science and provenance are recent developments in the western world, unknown to biblical authors or to anyone at Joseph Smith’s time. Understanding this aspect of Mormon’s authorship and Joseph Smith’s translation provides additional evidence to the historical validity of the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [3704]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 55015  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:09
Call, Michael J. “Reading Competency in the Book of Mormon: Abish and Other Model Readers.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 2 (2017): 59.
ID = [10698]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 22892  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Christofferson, D. Todd. “‘America Reads’ and the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 18 no. 2 (2017).
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
ID = [38413]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2017-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 28986  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:34
Dundas, Gregory Steven. “Kingship, Democracy, and the Message of the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 2 (2017): 7-58.
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Gregory Steven Dundas offers a detailed reading of governmental forms in the Book of Mormon in the context of other ancient civilizations. He makes the case that democracy was almost unknown in the ancient world and that nearly all people assumed that kingship was the best form of government. This makes King Mosiah’s decision to implement a form of democracy (elected judges) among the Nephites a significant aberration. Dundas also argues convincingly that, contrary to what moderns might assume, this early form of democracy did not fare very well. As soon as the system of judges was in place, significant and repeated challenges to it arose and eventually resulted in the collapse of this particular form of government.

Keywords: Chief Judge; Democracy; Government; Judgeship; King Mosiah; Monarchy; Nephite
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [10697]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 64698  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Jordan, Benjamin R. “Geology of the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 2 (2017): 156.
ID = [10703]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 6501  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Reynolds, Noel B. “How ‘Come unto Me’ Fits into the Nephite Gospel.” Religious Educator Vol. 18 no. 2 (2017).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [38414]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2017-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 33488  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:34
Scripture Central. “Was Nephi’s Slaying of Laban Legal?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #256. January 2, 2017.
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Keywords: Legal; Law; Ancient Law; Law of Moses; Nephi; Laban; Lehi; Jerusalem; Murder; Death; Drunkeness; Ancient Near East; Bible; Old Testament; Numbers; Judges; Ancient Israel
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
ID = [8080]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10237  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Wayment, Thomas A. “The Book of Mormon’s Relevance Today.” Religious Educator Vol. 18 no. 2 (2017).
ID = [38623]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2017-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 1922  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:46
Hilton, John, III. “Samuel and His Nephite Sources.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2017): 115.
ID = [10683]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-03  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 40214  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Reynolds, Noel B. “The Ancient Doctrine of the Two Ways and the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2017): 49-78.
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The Bible describes a bifurcated world in which God bids, commands, and teaches the people he has created to follow him in the way of righteousness, and in which the devil leads people into wickedness. This way of seeing things surfaces explicitly in various texts and is known among scholars as the Doctrine of the Two Ways. While the same teaching has been noticed in the Book of Mormon, there is as yet no study that examines the Book of Mormon presentations systematically to identify the ways in which they might follow any of the ancient versions of the Two Ways doctrine, or the ways in which these might feature original formulations. In this article, Noel Reynolds shows that the Book of Mormon writers did retain most elements of the earliest biblical teaching, but with enriched understandings and original formulations of the Doctrine of the Two Ways in their prophetic teachings. He documents twelve exemplary passages in the Book of Mormon that explicitly refer to two paths or ways and assesses the extent to which these follow or vary from each other or from Jewish and Christian models.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Church of the Devil; Commandment; Doctrine; Jacob (Son of Lehi); Jesus Christ; King Benjamin; Lehi (Prophet); Mormon (Prophet); Nephi (Son of Helaman); Nephi (Son of Lehi); Opposition: Church of the Lamb of God; Righteousness; Two Ways; Wickedness
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [10680]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-03  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 64021  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Green, Spencer L. “Postponing Heaven: The Three Nephites, the Bodhisattva, and the Mahdi.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 4 (2017): 189.
ID = [10676]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 8584  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Miller, Wade E., and Matthew P. Roper. “Animals in the Book of Mormon: Challenges and Perspectives.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 4 (2017): 133.
ID = [10671]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 64988  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Scripture Central. “Why Doctrinal Mastery?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #257. January 4, 2017.
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Keywords: Doctrinal Mastery; Teaching; Gospel; Doctrine; Scriptures; Knowledge; Godhead; Plan of Salvation; Atonement; Jesus Christ; Restoration; Prophets; Revelation; Priesthood; Ordinances; Covenants; Marriage; Family; Commandments
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8079]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6520  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Lord Speak to Men ‘According to Their Language’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #258. January 6, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Joseph Smith; Doctrine and Covenants; Book of Commandments; Nephi; Ancient Israel; Theophany; Divine Council; God; Ancient Near East; Mesoamerica; Alma; Mosiah; Zeezrom; Lamoni; Ammon; Nephites; Prophets; Commandments
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8078]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,d-c  Size: 10069  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Has the Location of Nephi’s Bountiful Been Discovered?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #259. January 9, 2017.
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Keywords: Bountiful; Nephi; Lehi; Arabia; Promised Land; Sailing; Nahom; Dhofar; Khor Kharfot; Archaeology; Botany; Geography; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8077]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 17626  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Acquiring Spiritual Knowledge: Act in Faith.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #260. January 11, 2017.
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Keywords: Faith; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Holy Ghost; Revelation; Nephi; Laman; Lemuel; Zeezrom; Lamoni; King Lamoni; Alma; Aaron; Nephites; Lamanites; Liahona; Lehi; Covenants
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8076]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11053  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Where Did Joseph Smith Get His Doctrinal Ideas About Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #261. January 13, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Joseph Smith; Wentworth Letter; Articles of Faith; God; Heavenly Father; Jesus Christ; Holy Ghost; Godhead; King Benjamin; Atonement; Salvation; Doctrine and Covenants; Nehor
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8075]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,d-c  Size: 7786  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Work So Hard to Preserve the Wisdom He Had Received?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #262. January 16, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephi; Plates of Nephi; Wisdom; Hebrew; Ancient Judaism; Egyptian; Ancient Near East; Wisdom Literature; Bible; Old Testament; Proverbs; Laban; Tree of Life; Knowledge; Scriptures
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8074]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9009  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Believe the Lord Would Prepare a Way?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #263. January 18, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephi; Lehi; Laban; Commandments; Plates of Brass; Scriptures; Law of Moses; Chiasmus; Hebrew; Poetry; Jerusalem; Wilderness; Doctrinal Mastery; Seminary
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8073]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8811  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Are there Multiple Accounts of Joseph Smith&’s and Alma’s Visions?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #264. January 20, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Joseph Smith; First Vision; History; Alma the Younger; Conversion; Restoration; Bible; New Testament; Paul
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8072]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14783  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Did Enos Liken the Scriptures to His Own Life?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #265. January 23, 2017.
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Keywords: Likening; Scriptures; Enos; Bible; Old Testament; Jacob; Esau; Bethel; Covenants; Prayer; God; Word Play; Hebrew; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [8071]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9228  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Interpreter Foundation. “Scripture Roundtable: D&C Gospel Doctrine Lesson 4, ‘Remember the New Covenant, Even the Book of Mormon".” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 24, 2017.
ID = [6169]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-24  Collections:  bom,d-c,interpreter-website  Size: 1167  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:32
LDS Perspectives [pseud. of Laura Harris Hales]. “LDS Perspectives Podcast: The Book of Mormon as Literature.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 25, 2017.
ID = [5411]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-25  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1415  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:27
Scripture Central. “How Are the Book of Mormon’s Teachings About the Godhead Unique?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #266. January 25, 2017.
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Keywords: God; Heavenly Father; Jesus Christ; Holy Ghost; Godhead; Bible; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8070]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8597  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Were Three Key Witnesses Chosen to Testify of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #267. January 27, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephi; Three Witnesses; Witnesses; Law of Witnesses; Moroni; Oliver Cowdery; Martin Harris; David Whitmer; Joseph Smith; Sword of Laban; Urim and Thummim; Liahona; Priesthood; Church History; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8069]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 17073  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Is Lehi Depicted as Similar to Moses?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #268. January 30, 2017.
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Keywords: Lehi; Nephi; Moses; Bible; Old Testament; Exodus; Deuteronomy; Prophets; Jerusalem
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
ID = [8068]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-01-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11313  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Gannaway, Trish. “To What Are You Tethered?” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, January 31, 2017.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [72844]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-01-31  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:12
Scripture Central. “Why Did Lehi Teach that the Fall was Necessary?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #269. February 1, 2017.
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Keywords: Lehi; Nephi; Creation; Fall; Atonement; Adam; Eve; Temples; Ancient Israel; Ancient Near East; Genesis; Hebrew; Death; Tribes of Israel; Jesus Christ; Children; Family; Parallelism; Joy; Happiness
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8067]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11606  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Important was Oliver Cowdery in Bringing Forth the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #270. February 3, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Oliver Cowdery; Joseph Smith; Restoration; Book of Mormon Printing; Book of Mormon Translation; Scribe; Witness; Witnesses; Missionary Work; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8066]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11586  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Use Chiasmus to Testify of Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #271. February 6, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Hebrew; Poetry; Bible; Old Testament; Nephi; Jesus Christ; Jacob; Isaiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8065]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9374  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Where Can You Best Learn about God’s Plan of Salvation?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #272. February 8, 2017.
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Keywords: Plan of Salvation; King Lamoni; Alma; Ammon; Benjamin; King Benjamin; Abinadi; Jacob; Nephi; Lehi; Brother of Jared; Creation; Fall; Atonement; Adam; Eve; Resurrection
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8064]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10836  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Book of Mormon Come Forth as a Miracle?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #273. February 10, 2017.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Church History; Book of Mormon Translation; Seer Stone; Seer; Oliver Cowdery; Emma Smith; Urim and Thummim; Martin Harris; Critical Text; Textual Criticism; Original Manuscript; Printer’s Manuscript; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8063]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 20261  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Interpreter Foundation. “14th Annual Book of Mormon Conference.” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 13, 2017.
ID = [5833]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-13  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 811  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:30
Scripture Central. “Why were the People of Ammon Exempted from Military Duty?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #274. February 13, 2017.
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Keywords: Death; Murder; Warfare; Military; Anti-Nephi-Lehies; Ammon; People of Ammon; Covenants; Nephites; Jershon; Law of Moses; Bible; Old Testament; Ancient Law; Legal; Law; Ancient Judaism; Helaman; Stripling Warriors
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8062]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12067  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Are Atonement, Resurrection, Judgment, and Redemption Interconnected?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #275. February 15, 2017.
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Keywords: Jesus Christ; Atonement; Resurrection; Repentance; Alma; King Benjamin; Blood; Gethsemane; Love of God; Love
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8061]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10318  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Where Does the Book of Mormon Declare the First Principles and Ordinances of the Gospel?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #276. February 17, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Joseph Smith; Wentworth Letter; Articles of Faith; Baptism; Repentance; Gift of the Holy Ghost; Holy Ghost; Endure to the End; Bible; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8060]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8770  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Does Jacob Describe God as a Divine Warrior?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #277. February 20, 2017.
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Keywords: Jacob; Divine Warrior; Jehovah; Jesus Christ; Chaos Monster; Creation; Bible; Old Testament; Exodus; Ancient Near East; Covenants; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [8059]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10626  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Say That All Are Alike Unto God?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #278. February 22, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephi; Jews; Gentiles; Racism; Ancient Near East; Syria; Old Testament; Bible; Elisha; Naaman; Ancient Israel; Temples; Ten Commandments; Love of God
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8058]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7836  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Joseph and Oliver Seek Authority to Baptize?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #279. February 24, 2017.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Church History; Oliver Cowdery; Joseph Smith; Priesthood; Baptism; Aaronic Priesthood; John the Baptist; Christ in America; Mosiah; Alma the Younger
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8057]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12765  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Hasn’t Lehi’s DNA Been Found?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #280. February 27, 2017.
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Keywords: DNA; Geography; Science; Ancient Near East; Lehi; Genetic Drift; Population; Founder Effect; Evidence
ID = [8056]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-02-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14362  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why is the Book of Mormon So Important to the Restoration?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #281. March 1, 2017.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon; Restoration; Church History; Nephites; Lamanites; Apostasy; Joseph Smith; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [8055]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8643  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Lord Quote the Book of Mormon When Reestablishing the Church?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #282. March 3, 2017.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Church History; Oliver Cowdery; Peter Whitmer Sr.; Organization of the Church; Book of Mormon Translation; Christ in America; Doctrine and Covenants; Sacrament; Baptism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8054]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,d-c,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 9966  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Interpreter Foundation. “Skousen and Carmack’s 2016 FairMormon Conference Presentation ‘Finishing up the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project’ Now Available.” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 4, 2017.
ID = [5834]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 408  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:30
Scripture Central. “Why did Mormon Emphasize the Zoramites’ Costly Apparel?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #283. March 6, 2017.
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Keywords: Alma; Amulek; Zoramites; Rameumptom; Clothing; Jewelry; Pride; Humility; Nephites; Lamanites; Warfare; Military; Armor
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8053]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10092  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Does the Book of Mormon Teach about Prophets?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #284. March 8, 2017.
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Keywords: Prophets; Prophecy; Samuel the Lamanite; Nephi; Alma the Younger; Bible; Old Testament; Miriam; Deborah; Huldah; Ancient Near East; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8052]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9890  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Where Did Joseph Smith Get His Teachings on the Family?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #285. March 10, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Restoration; Joseph Smith; Family; Marriage; Children; Emma Smith; Love; Lehi; Sariah; Nephi; Daughters of Ishmael; Lineage History
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8051]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9403  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Have the Valley of Lemuel and the River Laman Been Found?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #286. March 13, 2017.
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Keywords: Lehi; Nephi; Valley of Lemuel; River Laman; Archaeology; Ancient Near East; Wadi; Geography; Arabia; Saudi Arabia; Red Sea; Jerusalem; Lehi’s Journey to the Promised Land; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8050]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11646  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Lehi Teach About the ‘Two Ways’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #287. March 15, 2017.
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Keywords: Lehi; Nephi; Jacob; Testament of Lehi; Two Ways; Agency; Jesus Christ; Devil; Church of the Lamb; Church of the Devil; Bible; Old Testament; Deuteronomy; Moses; Tree of Life; Satan; Adversary; Fall; Atonement
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
ID = [8049]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9879  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Role Does the Book of Mormon Play in Missionary Work?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #288. March 17, 2017.
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Keywords: Missionary Work; Gentiles; Nephi; Joseph Smith; Church History; Book of Mormon Printing
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8048]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11930  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Aston, Warren P. “In Search Of Mormon’s Hill.” In BMAF-BMC Book of Mormon Conference. Provo, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2017, March 18, 2017.
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LDS explorer and researcher, Warren Aston, details some of his expeditions into Central America.

Keywords: Ancient America; Archaeology; Cumorah; Hill Cumorah; Mesoamerica
ID = [66567]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2017-03-18  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:42
Aston, Warren P. “The Long And Winding Road To Bountiful.” In BMAF-BMC Book of Mormon Conference. Provo, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2017 March 18, 2017.
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LDS explorer and researcher, Warren Aston, shares some details about discovering one of the mostly like candidates for the Book of Mormon location Bountiful. He also explains some ruins found at this location.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Arabia; Archaeology; Bountiful (Old World); Khor Kharfot
ID = [66568]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2017-03-18  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:42
Scripture Central. “What Does the Book of Mormon Teach about the Priesthood?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #289. March 20, 2017.
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Keywords: Priesthood; Nephi; Alma; Limhi; Church History; Restoration
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8047]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12666  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Where Did Joseph Smith Get His Ideas about the Physical and Spiritual Gathering of Israel?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #290. March 22, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Gathering of Israel; Gathering; Scattering of Israel; Assyria; Babylon; Zion; Ancient Israel; House of Israel; Tribes of Israel
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8046]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10228  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Did Martin Harris Help Bring Forth the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #291. March 24, 2017.
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Keywords: Martin Harris; Joseph Smith; Church History; Book of Mormon Translation; Book of Mormon Printing; 116 pages; Three Witnesses; Gold Plates; Charles Anthon; Oliver Cowdery; David Whitmer; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8045]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 15771  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Say That People Had to Learn Things Line Upon Line?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #292. March 27, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephi; Lehi; Devil; Satan; Line Upon Line; Knowledge; Bible; Old Testament; Isaiah; Hebrew
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8044]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10403  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Unique Doctrines Did the Lord Reveal through the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #293. March 29, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Restoration; Joseph Smith; Plain and Precious; Godhead; Plan of Salvation; Heavenly Father; Jesus Christ; Holy Ghost; Priesthood; Fall; Atonement; House of Israel
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8043]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 15990  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Did President Gordon B. Hinckley Emphasize the Importance of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #294. March 31, 2017.
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Keywords: Gordon B. Hinckley; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8042]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-03-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10711  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Monson, Thomas S. “The Power of 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 2017.
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I implore each of us to prayerfully study and ponder the Book of Mormon each day.

ID = [22843]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 2226  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:07
Scripture Central. “Why Did Alma Ask about Having God’s Image Engraven upon One’s Countenance?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #295. April 3, 2017.
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Keywords: Alma; Jesus Christ; Mesoamerica; Deity Masks; Engraven in your Countenance; North America; South America; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8041]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 15252  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Are Ordinances So Important?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #296. April 5, 2017.
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Keywords: Ordinances; Ancient Israel; Hebrew; Law; Legal; Law of Moses; Bible; Old Testament; King David; Solomon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8040]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10188  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Can the Book of Mormon Help Saints Live the Law of Consecration?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #297. April 7, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Consecration; Joseph Smith; King Benjamin; Alma; Amulek; Wealth
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8039]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10226  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Must One Pray Always to Endure to the End?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #298. April 10, 2017.
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Keywords: Prayer; Endure to the End; Nephi; Angels; Holy Ghost
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [8038]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7849  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Did the Book of Mormon Help the Early Saints Understand Spiritual Gifts?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #299. April 12, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Kirtland; Missouri; New Testament; Acts; Pentecost; Gifts of the Spirit; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8037]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10623  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Does the Book of Mormon Help Date Christ’s Death?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #300. April 14, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephites; Christ in America; Bible; New Testament; Easter; Jesus Christ; Crucifixion; Resurrection; Atonement; Chronology; Gospels; Sabbath; Passover
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8036]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13642  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Did King Benjamin’s Speech Lead to Nephite Democracy?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #301. April 17, 2017.
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Keywords: Mosiah; Democracy; Reign of the Judges; Monarchy; Government; Nephite Government; Covenants; King Benjamin; New Name; Bible; Old Testament; Psalms
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8035]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10900  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Can the Book of Mormon Strengthen Marriages and Families?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #302. April 19, 2017.
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Keywords: Lehi; King Benjamin; Family; Marriage; Covenants
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [8034]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10225  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why is the Sabbath Day Needed?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #303. April 21, 2017.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Church History; Sabbath; Alma; Baptism; Commandments; Ten Commandments
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8033]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 9361  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Say an Angel Had Revealed the Name Jesus Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #304. April 24, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephi; Isaiah; Jesus Christ; Critical Text; Textual Criticism; Names of Christ; Book of Mormon Translation; Original Manuscript
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8032]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 13004  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Lord Require People to Live the Laws of Tithing and Fasting?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #305. April 26, 2017.
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Keywords: Christ in America; Tithing; Fasting; Church History; Sons of Mosiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8031]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7669  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Can One ‘Feast upon the Words of Christ’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #306. April 28, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephi; Tree of Life; Lehi; Ezekiel; Bible; Old Testament; Bread of Life; Manna; Temple Shewbread; Temples; Ancient Israel; Sacrament; Sabbath; Scriptures
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [8030]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-04-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10493  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Monson, Thomas S. “The Power of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, May 2017.
ID = [61916]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2017-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2211  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:48
Scripture Central. “Why Did King Benjamin Say That His People Would be Sons and Daughters at God’s Right Hand?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #307. May 1, 2017.
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Keywords: Mosiah; King Benjamin; Hebrew; Children; Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; Etymology
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8029]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9762  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Are Acts of Service Related to Wisdom?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #308. May 3, 2017.
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Keywords: Service; King Benjamin; Wisdom; Bible; Old Testament; Proverbs; Wisdom Literature; Hebrew; Poetry; Parallelism; Gradation; Atonement; Humility; Divine Kingship
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8028]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11534  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Does the Book of Mormon Teach about the Temple?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #309. May 5, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Temples; Nephites; Ancient Israel; Solomon’s Temple; Christ in America; Jacob; King Benjamin; Alma; Revelation; Ordinances
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8027]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 15719  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Abinadi Use a Disguise?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #310. May 8, 2017.
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Keywords: Abinadi; King Noah; Disguise; Bible; Old Testament; Moses; Saul
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8026]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 13251  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Can One Overcome the Natural Man?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #311. May 10, 2017.
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Keywords: King Benjamin; Natural Man; Humility; Children; Adoption; Holy Ghost; Adam; Eve; The Fall; Service; Atonement
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8025]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8430  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Are There So Many Different Names for the Plan of Salvation?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #312. May 12, 2017.
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Keywords: Plan of Salvation; Names; God; Jesus Christ; Atonement; Alma; Amulek; Death; Church History; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8024]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10703  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Zenos Quote from Psalm 46 in His Prophecy of Christ’s Death?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #313. May 15, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephi; Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; End Times; Second Coming
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8023]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12794  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Did King Benjamin Teach His People to Trust God More?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #314. May 17, 2017.
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Keywords: King Benjamin; King Benjamin’s Speech; God; Faith; Old Testament; Bible; Psalms
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8022]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9839  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Does the Book of Mormon Teach about the Afterlife?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #315. May 19, 2017.
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Keywords: Death; Plan of Salvation; Church History; Alma; Corianton; Final Judgment; Resurrection
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8021]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8054  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Say Serpents Could Fly?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #316. May 22, 2017.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Numbers; Deuteronomy; Moses; Ancient Israel; Brazen Serpent; Serpents; Egypt; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
ID = [8020]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9100  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Would Mankind ‘Unavoidably Perish’ without the Atonement of Jesus Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #317. May 24, 2017.
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Keywords: Atonement; Alma; Amulek; Zoramites; Seed; Faith; Word of God; Scriptures; Chiasmus; Humility; Adam and Eve; The Fall
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8019]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9791  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Did the Early Saints Learn about the Second Coming from the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #318. May 26, 2017.
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Keywords: Second Coming; Church History; Joseph Smith; Bible; Old Testament; Isaiah; Prophecy; Restoration; Missionary Work; Tribes of Israel; House of Israel; Jerusalem; New Jerusalem; Secret Combinations
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8018]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10496  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Lehi Divide His People into Seven Tribes?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #319. May 29, 2017.
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Keywords: Lehi; Nephi; Jacob; Joseph; Laman; Lemuel; Zoram; Ishmael; Nephites; Lamanites; Lemuelites; Jacobites; Ishmaelites; Josephites; Zoramites; House of Israel; Tribes of Israel; Testament of Lehi; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [8017]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9684  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Nephites Practice Baptism?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #320. May 31, 2017.
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Keywords: Alma; King Noah; Baptism; Waters of Mormon; Covenants; Mosiah; Limhi; Mormon; Etymology; Sacrament; Egyptian
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8016]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-05-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6269  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
McDannell, Colleen. “Mexicans, Tourism, and Book of Mormon Geography.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 50, no. 2 (Summer, 2017): 1-52.
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Using recent theoretical work developed by historian of American religions Robert A. Orsi, I argue that in order for the Book of Momron to have a vivid and compelling immediacy it has to be “enlivened.” … Within tourism to Book of Mormon sites, however, one family of tour guides use what I will call “fragmentary presence” to bring life to the sites. [From the text]

Keywords: Tourism; Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Mexico; Missiology, and tourism
ID = [82008]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-06-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Scripture Central. “How Does the Book of Mormon Help Explain the Origins of the Word of Wisdom?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #321. June 2, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Joseph Smith; Kirtland; School of the Prophets; Emma Smith; Drunkeness; Alcohol; Limhi; Captain Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [8015]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,d-c  Size: 8399  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why You Should Care About the Nephite Weights and Measures System.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #322. June 5, 2017.
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Keywords: King Mosiah; Weights; Measures; Nephites; Money; Monetary System; Ancient Near East; Mesopotamia; Silver; Gold; Barley; Economy; Politics; Reign of the Judges; Prosperity; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8014]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9467  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Did Alma Reveal about the Savior’s Mission?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #323. June 7, 2017.
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Keywords: Alma; Gideon; Chiasmus; Atonement; Hebrew; Bible; Old Testament; Isaiah; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8013]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7381  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Is It Good to Seek Both Spiritual and Secular Learning?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #324. June 9, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Study; Knowledge; Scriptures; Faith; Kirtland; Joseph Smith; School of the Prophets; Nephi; Language; King Benjamin; Mosiah; Alma; Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8012]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14189  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Lehi Quote from a Psalm of Repentance In His Dream?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #325. June 12, 2017.
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Keywords: Lehi’s Dream; Tree of Life; Lehi; Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; Intertextuality; Repentance; Atonement; Joy; Fruit; Ancient Israel; Ancient Israelite Religion; Love of God
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [8011]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7194  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Does Alma Say about Avoiding Sexual Sin?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #326. June 14, 2017.
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Keywords: Alma; Alma the Younger; Corianton; Sexual Transgression; Immorality; Law of Moses; Self Mastery
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8010]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11458  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Can People Today Avoid Being Destroyed Like the Nephites Were?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #327. June 16, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Joseph Smith; Hiram Page; Revelation; Prophets; Nephites; Final Nephite Battle; Samuel the Lamanite; Destruction; Prophecy; Obedience
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8009]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9282  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Does Archaeology Reveal about Warfare During Early Nephite Times?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #328. June 19, 2017.
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Keywords: Archaeology; Evidence; Mesoamerica; War; Warfare; Weapons; Nephites; Jarom
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
ID = [8008]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12856  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Can Wickedness Never Bring Happiness?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #329. June 21, 2017.
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Keywords: Alma; Corianton; Missionary Work; Sexual Transgression; Sin; Joy; Happiness; Chiasmus; Hebrew; Bible; Old Testament; Cain and Abel; Commandments; Obedience; Atonement
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8007]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9332  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Did the Book of Mormon Teach Early Church Leaders about the Order and Offices of the Priesthood?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #330. June 23, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Priesthood; Aaronic Priesthood; Melchizedek Priesthood; Jesus Christ; Christ in America
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8006]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8587  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What if Martin Harris Didn’t Lose all of the 116 Pages?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #331. June 26, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Joseph Smith; Martin Harris; Words of Mormon; Mosiah; King Benjamin; Printer’s Manuscript; Book of Mormon Translation; 116 pages
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [8005]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10075  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Helaman Want His Sons to Remember to Build upon the Rock?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #332. June 28, 2017.
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Keywords: Helaman; Nephi; Lehi; Jesus Christ; Rock; Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; Deuteronomy; Isaiah
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8004]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7836  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Does the Book of Mormon Prepare Missionaries to Sacrifice, Serve, and Preach?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #333. June 30, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Missionary Work; Sons of Mosiah; Ammon; Lamoni; Joseph Smith; Emma Smith; John Murdock
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [8003]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-06-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8722  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Much Could Joseph Smith Have Known about Chiasmus in 1829?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #334. July 3, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Chiasmus; Book of Mormon Translation; Biblical Studies; Joseph Smith; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8002]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 15351  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Does It Mean to Be Perfect?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #335. July 5, 2017.
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Keywords: Christ in America; Perfection; New Testament; Jesus Christ; Sermon on the Mount; Matthew
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8001]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 15257  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Who Was Zelph?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #336. July 7, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Joseph Smith; Zion’s Camp; Zelph; Geography; Final Nephite Battle; Nephites; Lamanites
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [8000]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 17479  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Counts as Chiasmus?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #337. July 10, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Criteria; Ancient Near East; Methodology; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7999]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 17313  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Does the Gospel Bring Us unto Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #338. July 12, 2017.
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Keywords: Christ in America; Holy Ghost; Jesus Christ; Atonement; Repentance; Sanctification; Gospel
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7998]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8062  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Did the Book of Mormon Teach the Early Saints about Enduring Persecution?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #339. July 14, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Persecution; Joseph Smith; Hyrum Smith; Alma; Amulon; Mormon; Nehor
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7997]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6817  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Did Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Authors Use Chiasmus?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #340. July 16, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Bible; Old Testament; New Testament; Mark; Genesis; Ancient Near East; Gilgamesh; Ancient Greek; Hebrew; Poetry; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Topics > Literary Aspects
ID = [7996]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10779  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Clark, Kim B. “Read the Book of Mormon Every Day.” Graduation, Brigham Young University—Idaho, July 18, 2017.
ID = [72874]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-07-18  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:12
Scripture Central. “What Can We Learn from the Savior’s First Words at Bountiful?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #341. July 19, 2017.
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Keywords: Christ in America; Jesus Christ; Nephites; Lamanites; Bountiful; Messiah; Light of the World; Light; Atonement
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7995]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8779  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Where Does the Name Nauvoo Come From?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #342. July 21, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Nauvoo; Joseph Smith; Hebrew; Bible; Old Testament; Isaiah; Abinadi; Zion; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [7994]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10233  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Can Chiasmus Survive Translation?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #343. July 24, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Translation; Parallelism; Hebrew; Bible; Old Testament; New Testament; Ancient Greek; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Topics > Literary Aspects
ID = [7993]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10457  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Does Jesus Say that ‘Ye Must Watch and Pray Always’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #344. July 26, 2017.
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Keywords: Christ in America; Prayer; Nephites; Second Coming; Hebrew; Remember; Bible; Old Testament; New Testament; Watch
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7992]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8800  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Is It Important to Keep Records?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #345. July 28, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Joseph Smith; Records; Nephi; Mormon; Gold Plates
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7991]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11332  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Was Chiasmus Known to Ancient American Writers?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #346. July 31, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Poetry; Mesoamerica; Maya; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7990]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 19604  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Erekson, Keith A. “Witnessing the Book of Mormon: The Testimonies of Three, Eight, and Millions.” Paper presented at the 2017 FairMormon Conference. August, 2017.
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Keywords: David; Eight Witnesses; Latter-day Saint History (1820-1846); Lucy Mack; Mary; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Smith; Three Witnesses; Whitmer; Whitmer
ID = [32615]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 56036  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Gardner, Brant A. “The Book of Mormon as a Seer Stone: Having Faith In and Through the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2017 FairMormon Conference. August, 2017.
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Keywords: Faith; Revelation; Seer stone
ID = [32612]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Griffin, Tyler J. “Book of Mormon Geographical References: Internal Consistency Taken to a New Level.” Paper presented at the 2017 FairMormon Conference. August, 2017.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography – Internal Geography
ID = [32611]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 36880  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Rappleye, Neal. “‘Put Away Childish Things’: Learning to Read the Book of Mormon Using Mature Historical Thought.” Paper presented at the 2017 FairMormon Conference. August, 2017.
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Keywords: Allegory of the Olive Tree; Amarna Letters; Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Archaeology; Barley; Book of Mormon Anachronisms; Cement; Chariots; Education; Horses; Jerusalem (Old World); Land of Jerusalem; Language - Reformed Egyptian; Loan Shift; Metallurgy; Mulek (Son of King Zedekiah); Nahom; Revelation
ID = [32613]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 121796  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Scripture Central. “How Do Commandments Bring Us Peace and Happiness?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #347. August 2, 2017.
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Keywords: Commandments; Ten Commandments; Law of Moses; Nephites; Bible; Old Testament; Happiness
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7989]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11599  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Do the Bible and Book of Mormon Help Us Understand the Sealing Power?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #348. August 4, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Sealing Power; Elijah; Bible; Old Testament; New Testament; Revelation; Jesus Christ; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7988]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10255  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Can We Learn from 10 of the Best Chiasms in the Book of Mormon? Part 1.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #349. August 7, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Hebrew; Poetry; Atonement; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7987]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 13207  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Interpreter Foundation. “The City of Lehi-Nephi Name Change – by J. Theodore Brandley.” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 9, 2017.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [4859]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-09  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 2659  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:03
Scripture Central. “How Does Grace Help Us Overcome Weakness?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #350. August 9, 2017.
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Keywords: Ether; Jaredites; Moroni; Weakness; Humility; Grace
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7986]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7613  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Does God Sometimes Allow His Saints to Be Martyred?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #351. August 11, 2017.
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Keywords: Martyr; Martyrdom; Joseph Smith; Hyrum Smith; Carthage Jail; Church History; Abinadi; Anti-Nephi-Lehies; Ammonihah; Alma; Amulek
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7985]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12016  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Can We Learn from 10 of the Best Chiasms in the Book of Mormon? Part 2.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #352. August 14, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Hebrew; Poetry; King Benjamin; Alma; Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7984]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 16056  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Was Chiasmus Discovered in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #353. August 16, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Hebrew; Poetry; Mosiah; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7983]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14628  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Worthen, Kevin J. “Alumni of Your Alma Mater.” Commencement, Brigham Young University, August 17, 2017.
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In this setting today it is worth noting that the two terms we hear often at graduation—alma mater and alumni—both originally referred to a special relationship, one very much like but also different from that between a parent and a child.

Keywords: Education
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [70078]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-08-17  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:52
Scripture Central. “How Did Brigham Young Help Take the Book of Mormon to the World?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #354. August 18, 2017.
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Keywords: Brigham Young; Church History; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7982]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,brigham  Size: 10807  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Can We Learn from 10 of the Best Chiasms in the Book of Mormon? Part 3.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #355. August 20, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Hebrew; Poetry
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7981]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13258  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Can Trials of Faith Lead to Spiritual Growth?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #356. August 23, 2017.
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Keywords: Ether; Faith; Trial of Faith; Adversity; Jaredites; Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [7980]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10295  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Was Lehi’s Journey Similar to the Mormon Pioneers’ Trek West?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #357. August 25, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Lehi; Nauvoo; Winter Quarters; Pioneers
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7979]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14457  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Does Chiasmus Prove Anything about the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #358. August 28, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Book of Mormon; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7978]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 16539  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Worthen, Kevin J. “BYU: A Unique Kind of Education.” University Conference, Brigham Young University, August 28, 2017.
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There are at least two key ways in which we are already distinctive from most other universities. And when you put these two features together, I believe they make us truly unique in ways that are consistent with our prophetically approved mission.

Keywords: BYU; Education
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [70083]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-08-28  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:52
Scripture Central. “How Important Was It to Moroni that We Pray about the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #359. August 30, 2017.
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Keywords: Moroni; Prayer; Holy Ghost; Testimony
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7977]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6527  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Ensign. “The Book of Mormon: Truly a Miracle.” Ensign September 2017.
ID = [62073]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2017-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1378  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:49
Petersen, Mark E. “The Book of Mormon: Truly a Miracle.” Ensign, September 2017.
ID = [62079]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2017-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2114  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:49
Sanchez, Joshua. “A Burned Book of Mormon.” Ensign, September 2017.
ID = [62066]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2017-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 5316  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:49
Scripture Central. “Why Does God Sometimes Send Angels to Help People?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #360. September 1, 2017.
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Keywords: Angels; Church History; Pioneers; Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7976]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-09-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6638  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Does It Really Mean to Have Charity?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #361. September 5, 2017.
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Keywords: Charity; Moroni; Love; Love of God; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7975]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-09-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7804  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Does Zion Flourish in the Wilderness?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #362. September 7, 2017.
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Keywords: Wilderness; Pioneers; Zion; Nephi; Lehi; Lehi’s Journey to the Promised Land; Laman; Lemuel; Laban; Liahona
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7974]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-09-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10263  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Can the Old Testament Covenants Help Us Understand the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #363. September 12, 2017.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Sinai; Moses; Exodus; David; Jerusalem; Zion; Lehi; Divine Warrior; Nephites; Nephi
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
ID = [7973]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-09-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 13349  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Do We Need Prophets?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #364. September 14, 2017.
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Keywords: Prophets; Seer; Lehi; Alma; Nephi; Jesus Christ; Gospel; Godhead; Testimony; Mesoamerica; Moses; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7972]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-09-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10191  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Can Honest Labor and Self-Reliance Bring Lasting Happiness?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #365. September 19, 2017.
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Keywords: Labor; Church History; Work; Brigham Young; Pioneers; Utah; Deseret; King Noah; Zeniff
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7971]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-09-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,brigham  Size: 9865  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Were the Plates Present During the Translation of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #366. September 21, 2017.
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Keywords: Plates; Gold Plates; Joseph Smith; Book of Mormon Translation; Emma Smith; Martin Harris; David Whitmer; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7970]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-09-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 15042  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Does it Really Mean to be Blessed For Keeping the Commandments?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #367. September 26, 2017.
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Keywords: Commandments; King Benjamin; Mosiah; Happiness; Joy; Blessings; Trials; Adversity; Bible; Old Testament; Proverbs; Hebrew
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7969]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-09-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9018  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Should We Read the Book of Mormon Daily?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #368. September 28, 2017.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon; General Conference; Scriptures
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7968]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-09-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9567  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Callister, Tad R. “God’s Compelling Witness: The Book of Mormon.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2017.
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The Book of Mormon is God’s compelling witness of the divinity of Jesus Christ, the prophetic calling of Joseph Smith, and the absolute truth of this Church.

ID = [22972]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 9267  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:07
Nelson, Russell M. “The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2017.
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In a most miraculous and singular way, the Book of Mormon teaches us of Jesus Christ and His gospel.

ID = [22933]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 2345  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:07
Scripture Central. “How Do the Covenants in the Scriptures Apply to Me Today?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #369. October 3, 2017.
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Keywords: Zeniff; Covenants; Bible; Old Testament; Zarahemla; Land of Nephi; Mosiah; Lamanites; Famine; Law of Moses; Limhi
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7967]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-10-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10211  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Jesus Quote the Words of Malachi 3-4 in 3 Nephi 24-25?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #370. October 5, 2017.
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Keywords: Christ in America; Bible; Old Testament; Malachi; Genealogy; Family History; Church History; Joseph Smith; Moroni; Elijah; Priesthood; Sealing Power; Covenants; Ordinances; Temples
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
ID = [7966]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-10-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 14084  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Does Nephi State that We Are Saved by Grace ‘After All We Can Do"?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #371. October 10, 2017.
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Keywords: Grace; Jesus Christ; Atonement; Nephi; King Benjamin
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7965]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-10-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6224  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why is Joy Associated with Temple Work in the Scriptures?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #372. October 12, 2017.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; Joy; Temples; King David; Christ in America; Ancient Israel
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7964]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-10-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9616  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Do the Blessings in the Scriptures Apply to us Today?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #373. October 17, 2017.
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Keywords: Covenants; Bible; Old Testament; Deuteronomy; Leviticus; Ancient Israel; Nephites; Blessings; Prosperity
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Leviticus
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7963]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-10-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11353  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Can We Learn From Abish’s Member-missionary Work?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #374. October 19, 2017.
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Keywords: Alma the Younger; Ammon; King Lamoni; Abish; Missionary Work
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7962]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-10-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8180  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Connect Isaiah’s Prophecies with Joseph Who Was Sold into Egypt?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #375. October 24, 2017.
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Keywords: Lehi; Joseph of Egypt; Bible; Old Testament; Genesis; Nephi; Isaiah; Word Play; Hebrew; Mormon; Prophecy; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [7961]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-10-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10532  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Were the ‘Other Records’ Nephi Saw in Vision?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #376. October 26, 2017.
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Keywords: Records; History; Nephi; Lehi; Bible; Manuscripts; Dead Sea Scrolls; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7960]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-10-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8310  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Mormon Use the Phrase ‘Secret Combinations?’” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #377. October 31, 2017.
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Keywords: Gadianton Robbers; Secret Combinations; Freemasonry; Covenants; Oaths
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7959]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-10-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12067  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Callister, Tad R. “God’s Compelling Witness: The Book of Mormon.” Ensign, November 2017.
ID = [62139]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2017-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 9455  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:50
Nelson, Russell M. “The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?” Ensign, November 2017.
ID = [62126]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2017-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12676  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:50
Wyatt, Allen L. “Enos—Wrestling a Man and Seeing God’s Face.” The Interpreter Foundation website. November 1, 2017.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [5847]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-11-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1693  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:30
Scripture Central. “What Does the Book of Mormon Say about the Armor of God?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #378. November 2, 2017.
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Keywords: Armor of God; Warfare; Military
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7958]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-11-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13229  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “How Can We Be Strengthened by Lucy Mack Smith’s Testimony of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #379. November 7, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Lucy Mack Smith; Joseph Smith; Gold Plates; Urim and Thummim
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7957]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-11-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8009  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What is the Purpose of Democracy in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #380. November 9, 2017.
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Keywords: Democracy; Reign of the Judges; King Benjamin; King Mosiah; King Noah
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Judges
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7956]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-11-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8929  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Quirl, Zeph. “The Miraculous Book of Mormon.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, November 14, 2017.
ID = [72899]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-11-14  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:12
Scripture Central. “How Can We Stop the Cycle of Revenge?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #381. November 14, 2017.
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Keywords: Revenge; Mourning; Death; Ishmael; Lehi; Nephi; Nahom; Forgiveness; Justice; God
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7955]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-11-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8528  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Scripture Central. “What Does the Book of Mormon Teach about Families?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #382. November 16, 2017.
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Keywords: Family; Bible; Old Testament; Exodus; Israelites; Tribes of Israel; Moses; Nephites; Mulekites
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7954]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-11-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11407  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Is Prosperity Defined in Nephi’s Small Plates?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #383. November 21, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephites; Lamanites; Mormon; Nephi; Covenants; Prosperity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
ID = [7953]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-11-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11672  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Can We Be Thankful During Times of Hardship?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #384. November 23, 2017.
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Keywords: Gratitude; Thanksgiving; Lehi; Nephites; War Chapters
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7952]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-11-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9255  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Can Sally Conrad’s Witness of the Book of Mormon Strengthen Our Faith?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #385. November 28, 2017.
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Keywords: Sally Conrad; Witnesses; Gold Plates; Church History; Three Witnesses; Eight Witnesses; David Whitmer; Angel Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7951]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-11-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7123  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Did Emma Smith Help Bring Forth the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #386. November 30, 2017.
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Keywords: Emma Smith; Book of Mormon Translation; Joseph Smith; Gold Plates; Witnesses; Angel Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7950]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-11-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13357  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Ashton, Brian K. “Happiness, Deceit, and Small Things.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, December 5, 2017.
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I promise that if you will feast upon the scriptures daily, especially the Book of Mormon, you will invite the Spirit into your life and you will naturally pray daily, repent more often, and find it easier to attend church and partake of the sacrament weekly.

Keywords: Happiness; Holy Ghost; Satan; Podcast: Recent Speeches
ID = [70091]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2017-12-05  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:53
Scripture Central. “Why Doesn’t God Punish Us the Moment We Sin?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #387. December 5, 2017.
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Keywords: Mormon; Nephites; Lamanites; Grace; Adam; Eve; Fall; Atonement; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [7949]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-12-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7791  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Bother Studying the Textual Variants in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #388. December 7, 2017.
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Keywords: Church History; Joseph Smith; Oliver Cowdery; David Whitmer; Printer’s Manuscript; Original Manuscript; Book of Mormon Translation; Miracles
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
ID = [7948]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-12-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9343  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Can Stylometry Tell Us about Book of Mormon Authorship?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #389. December 12, 2017.
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Keywords: Stylometry; Book of Mormon Authorship; Joseph Smith; Oliver Cowdery; Solomon Spalding; Word Print Studies; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7947]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-12-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 28660  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Impact Do My Actions Have on Others?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #390. December 14, 2017.
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Keywords: Zoramites; Alma the Younger; Corianton; Seven Tribes; Missionary Work; War Chapters; Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7946]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-12-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8572  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Are So Few Women Mentioned in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #391. December 19, 2017.
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Keywords: Women; Literacy; Bible; Old Testament; Gender; Ancient Near East; Ancient America
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7945]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-12-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9603  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did the Wise Men Give Jesus Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #392. December 21, 2017.
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Keywords: Gold; Frankincense; Myrrh; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Messiah; Priest; Crucifixion; Resurrection
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7944]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-12-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8566  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Can the Book of Mormon Survivors Give Us Hope?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #393. December 26, 2017.
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Keywords: Lehi; Nephi; Jacob; Jerusalem; Alma; Abinadi; Alma the Younger; Amulek; Mormon; Ether; Moroni; Depression; Tragedy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7943]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-12-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11041  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Did the Nephites Have a ‘Holiday Season’ Like We Do Today?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #394. December 28, 2017.
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Keywords: Nephites; Christmas; King Benjamin; Sukkot; Feast of Tabernacles; Rosh Hashanah; Yom Kippur; Day of Atonement; New Year
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7942]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-12-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12817  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
2018
Aston, Warren P. “Notes on the Book of Mormon’s Old World Setting.” In Cumorah - The Journal of Book of Mormon Geography, Volume 1, eds. Bret A. Eborn, George Potter, Nick Galieti, 114-121. Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2018.
ID = [66566]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:42
Barney, Kevin L. “What’s in a Name? Playing in the Onomastic Sandbox.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 29 (2018): 251-272.
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Abstract: Name as Key-Word brings together a collection of essays, many of them previously published, whose consistent theme is exploring examples of onomastic wordplay or puns in Mormon scripture in general and the Book of Mormon in particular. Without a knowledge of the meaning of these names, the punning in the scriptural accounts would not be recognized by modern English readers. Exploring the (probable) meanings of these names helps to open our eyes to how the scriptural authors used punning and other forms of wordplay to convey their messages in a memorable way.
Review of Matthew L. Bowen, Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture (Salt Lake City: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2018). 408 pp., $24.95.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3636]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 51149  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:04
Belnap, Daniel L. “The Abinadi Narrative, Redemption, and the Struggle of Nephite Identity.” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, ed. Shon D. Hopkin, 27–66. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [34308]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 97818  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Berkey, Kimberly M. “The Lord’s Prayer(s) in Jacob 7.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [81821]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Bowen, Matthew L. “Abish, Theophanies, and the First Lamanite Restoration.” Religious Educator Vol. 19 no. 1 (2018).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
ID = [38397]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 60191  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:33
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘Possess the Land in Peace’: Zeniff’s Ironic Wordplay on Shilom.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 115-120.
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Abstract: The toponym Shilom likely derives from the Semitic/Hebrew root š-l-m, whence also the similar-sounding word šālôm, “peace,” derives. The first mention of the toponym Shilom in Zeniff’s record — an older account than the surrounding material and an autobiography — occurs in Mosiah 9:6 in parallel with Zeniff’s mention of his intention to “possess the land in peace” (Mosiah 9:5). The language and text structure of Mosiah 9:5‒6 thus suggest a deliberate wordplay on Shilom in terms of šālôm. Zeniff uses the name Shilom as a point of irony throughout his brief royal record to emphasize a tenuous and often absent peace between his people and the Lamanites.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [3645]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 8684  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:05
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘Swearing by Their Everlasting Maker’: Some Notes on Paanchi and Giddianhi.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 155-170.
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Abstract: This brief article explores Paanchi and Giddianhi as names evidencing the Egyptian onomastic element –anchi/anhi/ʿnḫ(i) and the potential literary significance of these two names in the context of Mormon’s narrative detailing the formation of the oath-bound secret combinations sworn with oath-formulae upon one’s “life” (cf. Egyptian ʿnḫ, “life”; “live”; “swear an oath [by one’s life]”). It also explores the implications for Mormon’s telling of Nephite history during his own time.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [3648]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 39973  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:05
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘And the Meek Also Shall Increase’: The Verb yāsap in Isaiah 29 and Nephi’s Prophetic Allusions to the Name Joseph in 2 Nephi 25–30.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 5-42.
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Abstract: Beyond his autobiographic use of Joseph’s name and biography, Nephi also considered the name Joseph to have long-term prophetic value. As a Semitic/Hebrew name, Joseph derives from the verb yāsap (to “add,” “increase,” “proceed to do something,” “do something again,” and to “do something more”), thus meaning “may he [God] add,” “may he increase,” or “may he do more/again.” Several of the prophecies of Isaiah, in which Nephi’s soul delighted and for which he offers extensive interpretation, prominently employ forms of yāsap in describing iterative and restorative divine action (e.g., Isaiah 11:11; 26:15; 29:14; cf. 52:1). The prophecy of the coming forth of the sealed book in Isaiah 29 employs the latter verb three times (Isaiah 29:1, 14, and 19). Nephi’s extensive midrash of Isaiah 29 in 2 Nephi 25–30 (especially 2 Nephi 27) interpretively expands Isaiah’s use of the yāsap idiom(s). Time and again, Nephi returns to the language of Isaiah 29:14 (“I will proceed [yôsīp] to do a marvelous work”), along with a similar yāsap-idiom from Isaiah 11:11 (“the Lord shall set his hand again [yôsîp] … to recover the remnant of his people”) to foretell the Latter-day forthcoming of the sealed book to fulfill the Lord’s ancient promises to the patriarch. Given Nephi’s earlier preservation of Joseph’s prophecies regarding a future seer named “Joseph,” we can reasonably see Nephi’s emphasis on iterative divine action in his appropriation of the Isaianic use of yāsap as a direct and thematic allusion to this latter-day “Joseph” and his role in bringing forth additional scripture. This additional scripture would enable the meek to “increase,” just as Isaiah and Nephi had prophesied. “May [God] Add”/“May He Increase”.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [3603]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 63321  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:02
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘They Shall No More Be Confounded’: Moroni’s Wordplay on Joseph in Ether 13:1-13 and Moroni 10:31.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 91-104.
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Abstract: In two related prophecies, Moroni employs an apparent wordplay on the name Joseph in terms of the Hebrew idiom (lōʾ) yôsîp … ʿôd (+ verbal component), as preserved in the phrases “they shall no more be confounded” (Ether 13:8) and “that thou mayest no more be confounded” (Moroni 10:31). That phraseology enjoyed a long currency within Nephite prophecy (e.g., 1 Nephi 14:2, 15:20), ultimately having its source in Isaiah’s prophecies regarding Jerusalem/Zion (see, for example, Isaiah 51:22; 52:1– 2; 54:2–4). Ether and Moroni’s prophecy in Ether 13 that the Old Jerusalem and the New Jerusalem would “no more be confounded” further affirms the gathering of Israel in general and the gathering of the seed of Joseph in particular.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Bowen, Matthew L. Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2018.
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Throughout the Bible, understanding the meaning of names of important people and places is often crucial to understanding the message of the ancient authors. In other words, names of people and places serve as \"key-words\" that can help unlock the intended messages of scripture.Since the Book of Mormon is an ancient record rooted in Old Testament traditions, it is not surprising that similar patterns of wordplay emerge from its pages. Besides their important tole as key-words in scriptural interpretation, the names of people and places may also provide our clearest glimpses into the text that existed on the plates from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. In many instances, the names of important Book of Mormon people and places are directly related to words matching the most-likely Hebrew and Egyptian origins for those names. Textual and contextual clues suggest that this matching was done deliberately in order to enhance literary beauty and as an aid to understanding. In some cases, authorial wordplay can be verified by a close analysis of matching text structures. In others, the wordplay can be verified by using the Bible as a \"control\" text. A wealth of philological, onomastic, and textual evidence suggests that the Book of Mormon, like the Bible, is the work of ancient authors rather than of a rural nineteenth-century man of limited literary attainments. Knowing more about these names enriches our understanding of the stories that these authors tell.

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Bowen, Matthew L., and Loren Blake Spendlove. “‘Thou Art the Fruit of My Loins’: The Interrelated Symbolism and Meanings of the Names Joseph and Ephraim in Ancient Scripture,.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 273-298.
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Abstract: To the ancient Israelite ear, the name Ephraim sounded like or connoted “doubly fruitful.” Joseph explains the naming of his son Ephraim in terms of the Lord’s having “caused [him] to be fruitful” (Genesis 41:52). The “fruitfulness” motif in the Joseph narrative cycle (Genesis 37–50) constitutes the culmination of a larger, overarching theme that begins in the creation narrative and is reiterated in the patriarchal narratives. “Fruitfulness,” especially as expressed in the collocation “fruit of [one’s] loins” dominates in the fuller version of Genesis 48 and 50 contained in the Joseph Smith Translation, a version of which Lehi and his successors had upon the brass plates. “Fruit” and “fruitfulness” as a play on the name Ephraim further serve to extend the symbolism and meaning of the name Joseph (“may he [God] add,” “may he increase”) and the etiological meanings given to his name in Genesis 30:23–24). The importance of the interrelated symbolism and meanings of the names Joseph and Ephraim for Book of Mormon writers, who themselves sought the blessings of divine fruitfulness (e.g., Lehi, Nephi, and Jacob), is evident in their use of the fuller version of the Joseph cycle (e.g., in Lehi’s parenesis to his son Joseph in 2 Nephi 3). It is further evident in their use of the prophecies of Isaiah and Zenos’s allegory of the olive tree, both of which utilize (divine) “fruitfulness” imagery in describing the apostasy and restoration of Israel (including the Northern Kingdom or “Ephraim”).

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
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Bowman, Matthew. “Introduction.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
ID = [81734]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Bowman, Matthew. “The Profession of Nehor and the Holy Order of God: Theology and Society in Ammonihah.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
ID = [81736]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Bowman, Matthew, and Rosemary Demos. A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
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The twelfth and thirteenth chapters of the Book of Mormon’s Alma contain a theologically rich and often misunderstood text—a brief discourse to the people of Ammonihah exploring the nature of redemption and the establishment of God’s holy order of priesthood. In this collection of essays, eight scholars examine Alma’s words from a broad range of disciplines and analytical approaches, from literary criticism to philosophy to comparative religious history. Their interpretive experiments open this text up to theological insights that inform devotion and prompt deep inquiry.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Articles

Bowman, Matthew, and Rosemary Demos. “Summary Report.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
ID = [81735]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Gore, David Charles. “Conversing and Calling in Alma 12 and 13.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81737]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Demos, Rosemary. “Angels and a Theology of Grace.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
ID = [81738]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Rees, Robert A. “The Heart in Alma 12 and 13.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81739]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Taylor, Sheila. “Obtaining Divine Mercy.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
ID = [81740]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Spencer, Joseph M. “Seams, Cracks, and Fragments: Notes on the Human Condition.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
ID = [81741]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Miller, Adam S. “A Preparatory Redemption.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
ID = [81742]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Jeffries, Bridget Jack. “Called and Ordained: A Priesthood of All Believers in Alma 13.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81743]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Bradley, Don. “Building the Temple of Nephi: Early Mormon Perceptions of Cumorah and the New Jerusalem.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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As a new faith’s purported “Gold Bible” began rolling off the presses at the E. B. Grandin print shop, the public was curious to know the nature of that faith. Protestant sects proliferated wildly during the Second Great Awakening, particularly in the fertile soil of upstate New York’s “Burned-over District:’ And restorationists, like the Christian primitivist Disciples of Christ, who aimed to restore the New Testament Church, were a familiar breed among them. Such sects provided the best model for what the public might expect Palmyra’s new faith to become, but actual information was still hard to come by.

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Brown, Amanda Colleen. “Toward a Deeper Understanding: How Onomastic Wordplay Aids Understanding Scripture.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 29 (2018): 247-250.
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Abstract: Matthew L. Bowen’s book compels readers to consider both the Book of Mormon’s construction and the significance of names in the text. Bowen and his coauthors invite readers to contemplate not only scripture but its stages of construction to completion, be they first draft, editing, final abridgement, or translation. Bowen’s work reveals how, in the endeavor to sacralize the act of scripture reading, specific details like names and their meanings can invigorate one’s understanding of the narrative and its theology, preventing such reading from becoming a rote endeavor.
Review of Matthew L. Bowen, Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture (Salt Lake City: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2018). 408 pp., $24.95.

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BYU Religious Studies Center. Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God: The Person and Work of Jesus in the New Testament. The 47th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2018.
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The 47th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium While Jesus and his disciples were at or near Caesarea Philippi, Peter testified that Jesus was “the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Martha had a similar divine testimony, proclaiming, “I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.” In much the same way, a standard part of Latter-day Saint discourse includes bearing testimony that “Jesus is the Christ,” but what do we mean when we say that Jesus is the Christ? This volume compiles essays given at a BYU Sidney B. Sperry Symposium that uniquely address such questions from a Latter-day Saint perspective, bringing together both biblical scholarship and Restoration insights that invite us to come to Christ and apply gospel teachings to real life.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Marriott, Neill F. “Becoming True Disciples of Jesus Christ.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [34197]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 17064  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:28
Millet, Robert L. “One Eternal God: The Latter-day Saint Doctrine of the Father and the Son.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [34198]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 26893  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:28
Skinner, Andrew C. “In Praise of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: The Culmination of His Saving Work.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34199]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 44891  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:28
Olson, Camille Fronk. “We Believe and Are Sure.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [34200]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 31353  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Griffin, Tyler J. “Matthew’s Portrayal of Jesus: Son of David, a New Moses, and Son of God.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34201]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 51377  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Easton-Flake, Amy. “Marcan Christology: Narrating the Christ.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Sabbath
ID = [34202]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 41929  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Huntsman, Eric D. “Luke’s Jesus: The Compassionate and Saving Son of God.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [34203]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 47273  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Lane, Jennifer Clark, and Keith H. Lane. “God Incarnate: The Word Made Flesh.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34204]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 32785  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Strathearn, Gaye. “Johannine Christology through the Lens of Three of Its Dialogues.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34205]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 46087  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Matson, Joshua M. “The Fourth Gospel and Expectations of the Jewish Messiah.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34206]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 34109  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Wayment, Thomas A. “‘Each Person Has a Hymn’: The Creator-Savior Hymns.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34207]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 46744  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Frederick, Nicholas J., and Frank F. Judd Jr. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Paul: Presenting a Deeper, Full Christology.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
ID = [34208]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 57033  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Draper, Richard D. “‘By His Own Blood He Entered in Once into the Holy Place’: Jesus in Hebrews 9.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > High Priest
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34209]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 31539  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Frederick, Nicholas J. “The Paradoxical Lamb and the Christology of John’s Apocalypse.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [34210]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 42754  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Ellison, Mark D. “Preserving or Erasing Jesus’s Humanity: Tensions in 1-2 John, Early Christian Writings, and Visual Art.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34211]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 36462  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Combs, Jason Robert. “‘Christ’ after the Apostles: The Humanity and Divinity of the Savior in the Second Century.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [34212]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 65531  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Underwood, Grant. “Condescension and Fullness: LDS Christology in Conversation with Historic Christianity.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34213]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 56091  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
LeFevre, David A. “Christology in the Joseph Smith Translation of the Gospel.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34214]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 51000  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Wilcox, Bradley R. “The Parable of the Talents.” The 47th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2018.
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Articles

Marriott, Neill F. “Becoming True Disciples of Jesus Christ.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [34197]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 17064  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:28
Millet, Robert L. “One Eternal God: The Latter-day Saint Doctrine of the Father and the Son.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [34198]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 26893  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:28
Skinner, Andrew C. “In Praise of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: The Culmination of His Saving Work.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34199]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 44891  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:28
Olson, Camille Fronk. “We Believe and Are Sure.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [34200]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 31353  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Griffin, Tyler J. “Matthew’s Portrayal of Jesus: Son of David, a New Moses, and Son of God.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34201]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 51377  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Easton-Flake, Amy. “Marcan Christology: Narrating the Christ.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Sabbath
ID = [34202]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 41929  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Huntsman, Eric D. “Luke’s Jesus: The Compassionate and Saving Son of God.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [34203]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 47273  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Lane, Jennifer Clark, and Keith H. Lane. “God Incarnate: The Word Made Flesh.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
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Strathearn, Gaye. “Johannine Christology through the Lens of Three of Its Dialogues.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [34205]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 46087  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Matson, Joshua M. “The Fourth Gospel and Expectations of the Jewish Messiah.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34206]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 34109  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Wayment, Thomas A. “‘Each Person Has a Hymn’: The Creator-Savior Hymns.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34207]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 46744  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Frederick, Nicholas J., and Frank F. Judd Jr. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Paul: Presenting a Deeper, Full Christology.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
ID = [34208]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 57033  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Draper, Richard D. “‘By His Own Blood He Entered in Once into the Holy Place’: Jesus in Hebrews 9.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > High Priest
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34209]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 31539  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Frederick, Nicholas J. “The Paradoxical Lamb and the Christology of John’s Apocalypse.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [34210]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 42754  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Ellison, Mark D. “Preserving or Erasing Jesus’s Humanity: Tensions in 1-2 John, Early Christian Writings, and Visual Art.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34211]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 36462  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Combs, Jason Robert. “‘Christ’ after the Apostles: The Humanity and Divinity of the Savior in the Second Century.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [34212]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 65531  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Underwood, Grant. “Condescension and Fullness: LDS Christology in Conversation with Historic Christianity.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34213]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 56091  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
LeFevre, David A. “Christology in the Joseph Smith Translation of the Gospel.” In Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, eds. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34214]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 51000  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Calabro, David M. “An Inviting Exploration.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 49-56.
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Abstract: This informative and very readable volume, targeted to a Latter day Saint audience, serves as an introduction to the Apocrypha and an exploration of Latter-day Saint views of the books. Even those already familiar with the Apocrypha will find this book insightful in the Latter-day Saint approaches it brings to bear. Even so, the book touches too lightly on some issues, including the extent of the Apocrypha, the phenomenon of pseudonymity, and the reasons for the current exclusion of the Apocrypha from the Latter-day Saint canon.
Review of Jared W. Ludlow, Exploring the Apocrypha from a Latter-day Saint Perspective (Springville, Utah: CFI, 2018). 234 pp. $16.99.

ID = [3605]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 16568  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:02
Carmack, Stanford A. “Is the Book of Mormon a Pseudo-Archaic Text?” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28 (2018): 177-232.
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Abstract: In recent years the Book of Mormon has been compared to pseudo-biblical texts like Gilbert J. Hunt’s The Late War (1816). Some have found strong linguistic correspondence and declared that there is an authorial relationship. However, comparative linguistic studies performed to date have focused on data with low probative value vis-à-vis the question of authorship. What has been lacking is non-trivial descriptive linguistic analysis that focuses on less contextual and more complex types of data, such as syntax and morphosyntax (grammatical features such as verb agreement and inflection), as well as data less obviously biblical and/or less susceptible to conscious manipulation. Those are the kinds of linguistic studies that have greater probative value in relation to authorship, and that can determine whether Joseph Smith might have been able to produce Book of Mormon grammar. In order to determine whether it is a good match with the form and structure of pseudo-biblical writings, I investigate nearly 10 kinds of syntax and morphosyntax that occur in the Book of Mormon and the King James Bible, comparing their usage with each other and with that of four pseudo-biblical texts. Findings are summarized toward the end of the article, along with some observations on biblical hypercorrection and alternative LDS views on Book of Mormon language.

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Keywords: Book of Mormon Authorship; Grammar; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; King James Bible; Late War; Linguistic Analysis; Pseudo-Biblical Style; Smith; Syntax; Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3650]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64823  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:05
Christensen, Kevin. “Playing to an Audience: A Review of Revelatory Events.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 65-114.
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Review of Ann Taves, Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies in the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2016, 366 pages with notes and index $29.93 (paperback).
Abstract: Ann Taves’s book offers a comparative look at the origins of three groups, among them Mormonism. While she does not address the issue of competing explanations by each group about their origins or how to best navigate among them in terms that are not self-referential, that crucial circumstance is modeled by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. So I, too, have a pattern that applies to my arguments just as much it does to those offered by Professor Taves. Where her book attempts to solve the puzzle of Joseph Smith, my review offers a test of her rules for puzzle solving. This includes comparisons with the standard approach to document testing cited by Hugh Nibley, looking at key aspects of her argument and treatment of sources, and by considering Richard L. Anderson’s crucially relevant study of imitation gospels compared to the Book of Mormon. My own response should be tested not just as secular or religious, but against standards that are dependent on neither secular nor religious grounds. That is, to be valid, my response should argue “Why us?” in comparison to her case, rather than just declare that what she offers is “Not us.” We can decide situationally whether to define key concepts such as religion, spirituality, theology, and ministry or sit back and track how others are defining them. Either stance has its strengths and liabilities. Each allows us to see some things while obscuring others. The key is to figure out what we want to see under any given circumstances.
The current paradigm is going toward a non-faith-based study, which has no future. By this I do not mean simply that the study is not faith-based; it is based on non-faith, so criticism does not mean close study; it so often means destructive study. New paradigms emerge from those aware of the crisis, who recognize the situation is not likely to be remedied by the methods that caused it.

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3644]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64797  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:05
Clark, David L. “‘If I Pray Not Amiss’” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 63-76.
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Abstract: In 2
Nephi, it is suggested that the Lord answers prayers but that requests made in prayer should not violate some kind of standard that would make them “amiss.” This undefined standard most likely excludes many prayers requesting immunity from those conditions of mortality which all mortals accepted and embraced with great enthusiasm in the great Council in Heaven. However, except for limited latter-day explanations of that great conference, our eager acceptance of all details of the conditions of mortality did not carry over into mortal memory. Consequently, when we request exemption from those conditions joyfully endorsed in premortal time, perhaps many qualify for the “prayers amiss” category. Exceptions from mortal conditions are granted only for divine and sometimes incomprehensible purposes.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [3607]  Status = Type = bn  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 30871  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:02
Clayson, Jocelyn Jones. “Tools and Instruments.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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In Alma 26:2, the Nephite Christian missionary Ammon asks his brothers, “What great blessings has [God] bestowed upon us? Can ye tell?” Having been quite successful in his endeavors, Ammon answers his own question by stating that he and his brothers “have been made instruments in the hands of God” (Alma 26:3). The phrasing seems self-explanatory: Ammon and his brothers are tools God uses to “bring about this great work’’ (Alma 26:3).1 Yet just a verse later, Ammon appears to confuse the metaphor when he commends his brothers: “The field is ripe and blessed are ye, for ye did thrust in the sickle, and did reap with your might” (Alma 26:5). Here, it is not the missionaries who are instruments, but rather they are the ones who use instruments. Are Ammon and his brethren tools in the hands of God? Or do they use tools (sickles) to reap a harvest of souls? And what does it mean to be an “instrument”? Using this passage as a springboard, I will look more generally at the use of language concerning tools, instruments, and weapons in the writings attributed to Mormon in the Book of Mormon. Key, in my view, is a comparison, carefully woven, between the sons of Mosiah and the Anti-Nephi-Lehies.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81916]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Cowan, Richard O. “A Beacon on a Hill: The Los Angeles Temple.” Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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President David O. McKay was intimately involved with the planning and construction of this largest temple that the Church had ever built. Its operation reflects some of the challenges the Church faced in the changing cultural climate of Southern California. This volume is a comprehensive history of the Los Angeles Temple. The text is illustrated with more than a hundred photographs of the construction, groundbreaking, installation of the angel Moroni, and cornerstone ceremony—many of which have not been previously published. This book is also enhanced with beautiful illustrations using modern artwork and photographs. Among the more notable artwork is the exquisite cover painting of the Los Angeles Temple by Kendall Davenport titled “A More Excellent Hope” (see more of Kendall’s artwork online at www.kendalldavenport.com ). ISBN 978-1-9443-9435-6

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Chapters

Cowan, Richard O. “Preface.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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Cowan, Richard O. “Beginnings.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34254]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 15232  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “The Temple Site.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34255]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 22153  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “Postwar Revival of Temple Planning.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34256]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 39392  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “Constructing the Temple.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34257]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 64274  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “Open House and Dedication.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
ID = [34258]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 87430  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “The Temple in Operation.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Endowment
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
ID = [34259]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 52301  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “Building Bridges.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Christmas
RSC Topics > D — F > Family History
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34260]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 38925  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “The Temple as a Source of Blessing.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > D — F > Endowment
RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > D — F > Family History
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > L — P > Parenting
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Relief Society
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sealing
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
ID = [34261]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 134619  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “Time Line of Key Events.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34262]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4749  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “Title History of the Los Angeles Temple Site.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34263]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 1536  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “Remarks at the Groundbreaking of the Los Angeles Temple.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34264]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 23358  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “Site Dedicatory Prayer.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34265]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4986  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “President William Noble Waite’s Reports in General Conference.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34266]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 13283  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “Talks Given at the Cornerstone Laying.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34267]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 20189  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Cowan, Richard O. “Contents of the Cornerstone Box.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34268]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 2044  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Cowan, Richard O. “Cornerstone Dedicatory Prayer.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34269]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 8978  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Cowan, Richard O. “Official Proclamations.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34270]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4743  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Cowan, Richard O. “First Presidency Messages at Temple Dedication Opening Session.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34271]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 35312  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Cowan, Richard O. “Temple Dedicatory Prayer.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34272]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 10832  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Cowan, Richard O. “Presidents and Matrons of the Los Angeles Temple.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34273]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 20039  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Cowan, Richard O. “Leaders of the Los Angeles Temple.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34274]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 2977  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Cowan, Richard O. “Glossary of Latter-day Saint Terms.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34275]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 9980  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Cowan, Richard O. “Index.” In A Beacon on a Hill. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34276]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 17115  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Easton-Flake, Amy. “Infant Salvation: Book of Mormon Theology in a Nineteenth-Century Context.” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, ed. Shon D. Hopkin, 233–62. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34315]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 67909  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Embry, Jessie, J. Spencer Fluhman, and D. Morgan Davis. “End Matter.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
ID = [81918]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Erdmann, Angela. “Subjective Objects: ‘The Book of Pukei’ and Early Critical Response to The Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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Given the remarkable story of the discovery and divine translation of gold plates hidden in a hill by an ancient Amerindian prophet, nineteenth- century readers could be forgiven for expecting an exotic new set of doctrines in The Book of Mormon. Instead, what many readers found (when they bothered to read the book at all) was an often dull, frequently complicated narrative with the veneer of biblical language and themes. Where they expected to find a heretical “Gold Bible’’ designed to supplant and erase biblical authority, they instead found chapters lifted directly from the Bible itself. The Book of Mormon was a strange document indeed, having at once a “foundational role’’ in but also a “theological irrelevance’’ to a newly created religion, so that it was actually “the miracle the work embodied, not the doctrine it presented, that gave offense.”

ID = [81908]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:46
Frederick, Nicholas J. “The Book of Mormon and Its Redaction of the King James New Testament: A Further Evaluation of the Interaction between the New Testament and the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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The text of the King James Bible plays a significant role in the composition of the Book of Mormon. While there have been studies that have attempted to identify what biblical passages are present in the Book of Mormon, not nearly enough effort has been spent exploring how those passages are used throughout the text. For example, one can readily identify the textual parallels between Alma 5:48 and John 1: 14, due to the sharing of phrases such as “full of grace and truth’’ and “only-begotten son:’ This type of research is useful in and of itself. But simply identifying what passages the texts share in common without exploring how the Book of Mormon integrates the biblical text into its own textual composition leaves a great deal unexplored.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81904]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:46
Gervais, Timothy, and John L. Joyce. “‘By Small Means’: Rethinking the Liahona.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 207-232.
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Abstract: The Liahona’s faith-based functionality and miraculous appearance have often been viewed as incongruous with natural law. This paper attempts to reconcile the Liahona to scientific law by displaying similarities between its apparent mechanisms and ancient navigation instruments called astrolabes. It further suggests the Liahona may have been a wedding dowry Ishmael provided to Lehi’s family. The paper displays the integral connection Nephi had to the Liahona’s functionality and how this connection more clearly explains the lack of faith displayed by Nephi’s band during the journey than traditional conceptions of its faith-based functionality.
“Yet I will say with regard to miracles, there is no such thing save to the ignorant — that is, there never was a result wrought out by God or by any of His creatures without there being a cause for it. There may be results, the causes of which we do not see or understand, and what we call miracles are no more than this — they are the results or effects of causes hidden from our understandings … [I]t is hard to get the people to believe that God is a scientific character, that He lives by science or strict law, that by this He is, and by law He was made what He is; and will remain to all eternity because of His faithful adherence to law. It is a most difficult thing to make the people believe that every art and science and all wisdom comes from Him, and that He is their Author.”
— Brigham Young.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3614]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,brigham,interpreter-journal  Size: 59697  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:03
Godfrey, Donald G. “Frontiers Coming Together.” In In Their Footsteps. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
RSC Topics > A — C > Christmas
RSC Topics > D — F > Dating
RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > G — K > Honesty
RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
RSC Topics > L — P > Parenting
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34326]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 119877  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:36
Grover, Jerry D., Jr. The Swords of Shule: Jaredite Land Northward Chronology, Geography, and Culture in Mesoamerica. Provo, UT: Challex Scientific Publishing, 2018.
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The Olmec civilization has long been considered to be the Jaredite civilization. New evidence is presented here that provides a reliable correlation of chronology between Mesoamerican archaeology and the Jaredite timeline. New etymological and scientific evidence now provides a method of establishing a more detailed geography of the “land northward” referred to throughout the Book of Mormon, the Old World point of departure of the Jaredites, and Olmec cultural elements reflected in the Book of Mormon text.

Keywords: Ancient America, Book of Mormon Geography, Chronology, Culture, Jaredite, Mesoamerica, Metallurgy, Native Americans - Olmec, Recordkeeping, Ritual, Shule, Weaponry
ID = [75456]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:47
Hales, Brian C. “Changing Critics’ Criticisms of Book of Mormon Changes.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 49-64.
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Abstract: In early 1830 Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon, a 269,938-word volume that discusses religious themes intermingled with a history of ancient American peoples.
Claiming it was scripture like the Bible,
in 1841 he declared it to be “the most correct of any book on earth and the keystone of our religion.”
Yet, many changes in the text of the Book of Mormon can be detected when comparing the original manuscript to the version available today. These changes have served as a lightning rod for some critics who imply that a divinely inspired book should not require any alterations. This article examines the types of changes that have occurred while trying to assign levels of significance and identify Joseph’s motives in making those alterations in the 1837 and 1840 reprintings of the book.

ID = [3643]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 34317  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:05
Halverson, Taylor. “Why Did Northern Israel Fall to the Assyrians? A Weberian Proposal.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 163-178.
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Abstract: This article is centered on possible causes for the fall of Israel and, secondarily, Judah. The topic is not new. The very destruction of these ancient kingdoms may be the cause for the production of much of the Biblical literature that drives our interpretive enterprise. My proposal is that Max Weber’s socio-political theories of power and domination, sometimes called the tripartite classification of authority, may provide a fruitful lens by which to understand some of the reasons Judah persisted for more than a century after the fall of Israel. Specifically, I wish to investigate whether the lack of routinization of charismatic authority was a contributing factor in Israel’s fall.
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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3612]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 36288  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:03
Hardy, Grant R. The Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and the Religious Studies Center, 2018.
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This edition is a study version of the Book of Mormon, introducing the text and the history behind each chapter and the history behind each prophet that has written in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, historicity
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Hardy, Grant R. “Approaching Completion: The Book of Mormon Critical Text Project: A Review of Royal Skousen’s Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon and The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon: Grammatical Variation.” BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 1 (2018): 159.
ID = [10652]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 54449  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Hawker, Jim. “Let There Be a Famine in the Land.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 305-330.
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Abstract: The drought recorded in Helaman 11 is probably the only dated, climate-related event in the entire Book of Mormon that could have left a “signature” detectable over 2,000 years after it occurred. Typical methods to detect this kind of event using dendrochronology (the study of tree rings) or sediment cores from lake beds either do not go back far enough in time or are not of high enough resolution to detect the event described in Helaman 11. However, over the last 15 to 20 years, various researchers have turned to analyzing stalagmites collected from caves to reproduce the precipitation history of a given area. These analysis methods are now producing results approaching the 1–year resolution of dendrochronology, with 2 sigma (95%) dating accuracies on the order of a decade. There is an ongoing debate with regard to where the events in the Book of Mormon took place. One of the proposed areas is Mesoamerica, specifically in southern Mexico and Guatemala. This paper will test the hypothesis that the drought described in the Book of Helaman took place in Mesoamerica using the results of precipitation histories derived from the analysis of three stalagmites compared to determine if there is evidence that a drought took place in the expected time frame and with the expected duration.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [3617]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 58306  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:03
Hilton, John, III. “Abinadi’s Legacy: Tracing His Influence through the Book of Mormon.” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, ed. Shon D. Hopkin, 93–116. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > A — C > Church Organization
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [34310]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 50746  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Hilton, John, III, and Jana Johnson. “The Word Baptize in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 29 (2018): 65-80.
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Abstract: The word baptize appears 119 times in the Book of Mormon; three speakers (Jesus Christ, Mormon, and Nephi) account for 87% of all of these usages. Each of these individuals have distinctive patterns in how they use the word baptize, indicating that each speaker has his own unique voice. When one accounts for the fact that Christ says relatively fewer words than Mormon, it is evident that per 1,000 words spoken, Jesus Christ uses the word baptize more than any other speaker in the Book of Mormon. This finding holds true for Christ’s words both in and outside of 3 Nephi. Among other patterns, we demonstrate that Jesus Christ associates his name with baptism more than any other Book of Mormon speaker and that Christ is responsible for 58% of the Book of Mormon’s invitations to be baptized. Additional patterns and their implications are discussed.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [3624]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 36201  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:04
Hopkin, Shon D., ed. Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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Under the guidance of some of the best thinkers on the Book of Mormon, the Abinadi narrative springs to life as each chapter approaches Abinadi’s story and words from a different perspective. Whether viewed through a sociopolitical, literary, theological, philosophical, or historical lens, new insights and a new appreciation for the richness of Abinadi’s discourse will help readers reignite their passion for the beauty and depth of the Book of Mormon. This volume is written for an informed, Latter-day Saint audience and seeks to make a contribution with other high-quality research and writing being done on the Book of Mormon. It is produced by members of Brigham Young University’s Book of Mormon Academy, a group of scholars dedicated to research on the Book of Mormon. Each of the members brings a different area of expertise to bear on the Abinadi narrative. As that narrative is viewed from a variety of angles, its richness, beauty, and profound meaning come more clearly into focus. ISBN 978-1-9443-9426-4

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Ludlow, Jared W. “‘A Messenger of Good and Evil Tidings’: A Narrative Study of Abinadi.” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, ed. Shon D. Hopkin, 1–26. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Law of Moses
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [34307]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 60792  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Judd, Frank F., Jr. “Conflicting Interpretations of Isaiah in Abinadi’s Trial.” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, ed. Shon D. Hopkin, 67–90. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
RSC Topics > L — P > Law of Moses
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [34309]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  old-test,rsc-books  Size: 56216  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Frederick, Nicholas J. “‘If Christ Had Not Come into the World’” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, ed. Shon D. Hopkin, 117–138. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [34311]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 45929  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Hopkin, Shon D. “Isaiah 52–53 and Mosiah 13–14.” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, ed. Shon D. Hopkin, 139–66. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sabbath
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34312]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,rsc-books  Size: 61788  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Hull, Kerry. “An ‘East Wind’: Old and New World Perspectives.” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, ed. Shon D. Hopkin, 167–208. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34313]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 93943  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Hull, Kerry, and Mark Alan Wright. “Ethnohistorical Sources and the Death of Abinadi.” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, ed. Shon D. Hopkin, 209–30. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
ID = [34314]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 44726  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Spencer, Joseph M. “As Though, As Though Not: Time, Being, and Negation.” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, ed. Shon D. Hopkin, 263–86. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34316]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 59642  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Johnson, Janiece Lyn. “Becoming a People of the Books: Early Converts and the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27, no. 1 (2018): 1–43.
ID = [77236]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Johnson, Janiece Lyn. “Becoming a People of the Books: Toward an Understanding of Early Mormon Converts and the New Word of the Lord.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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Leather-bound copies of the first edition of the 586-page Book of Mormon were published and sold beginning March 26, 1830. Before there was a prophet, there was a translator-legally the “author and proprietor” of the Book. The title page told of the plates written “by the spirit of Prophecy and Revelation’’ from which the Book originated. Before the publication was complete, Joseph Smith had encouraged Oliver Cowdery that “a great call for our books” had already commenced. The Book emerged before there was any church to join. The rest would come later; initially individuals decided how they would respond to this “Golden Bible.” Was it counterfeit or divine? Was it the “greatest piece of superstition’’ or a “revelation from God”? What would it be to them?

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Jordan, Benjamin R., and Warren P. Aston. “The Geology of Moroni’s Stone Box: Examining the Setting and Resources of Palmyra.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 233-252.
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Abstract: The story of Joseph Smith retrieving gold plates from a stone box on a hillside in upstate New York and translating them into the foundational text of the Restoration is well known among Latter-day Saints. While countless retellings have examined these events in considerable detail, very few have explored the geological aspects involved in this story. In particular, none have discussed in detail the geological materials that would have been required by the Nephite prophet Moroni ca. ad 421 to construct a sealed container able to protect the gold plates from the elements and from premature discovery for some fourteen centuries. This paper reports the outcomes from a field investigation into what resources would have been available to Moroni in the Palmyra area. It was conducted by the authors in New York state in October 2017.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3615]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 29854  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:03
Keogh, Benjamin. “‘With the help of these’: Words of Mormon 1 :18.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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The little book entitled Words of Mormon has long been a puzzle, including as it does a number of ambiguous passages and two seemingly distinct parts. In this brief note, I focus primarily on just one such ambiguity-Mormon’s use of “these” in verse 18-in an attempt to show that the whole of the book is much more complete and coherent than has been previously thought. It may be also that the Lord’s “wise purpose[s]” (Words of Mormon 1:7) are more expansive than has generally been supposed. In verse 18, Mormon notes three causes behind the establishment of peace among King Benjamin’s people: (1) “these;’ (2) Benjamin’s labor “with all [his] might…and… faculty,” and (3) “the prophets.” The most immediate question is, To what does “these” refer? One option is verse 16’s “the holy prophets.” However, given the specific mention of “the prophets” as the third cause, this first approach seems unlikely.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
ID = [81917]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Leahy, Sean. “‘Learned’ and ‘Unlearned’ Reading in The Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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In recalling his “First Vision” in 1820, Joseph Smith writes of the “anxieties” over the “contests of [the] parties of religionists” that drove him to seek solace in scripture and “attempt to pray vocally” for the first time in his young life. Smith describes turning to the Epistle of James, a reading that precipitated his calling out for an answer to his “anxieties.” The reply to Smith’s “vocal” prayer initiated a course of events that ultimately led to the publication of The Book of Mormon in March 1830. Since then, the story of the plates whose translation constitutes the text The Book of Mormon has provoked nearly as much-if not more-attention than the exceedingly complex narrative itself. The experience of reading the text poses challenges, though not because of its tedium (as Mark Twain suggested) or the demands it places on one’s willingness to suspend disbelief; instead, the challenges it poses derive, I will argue, from the way in which reading itself is figured in the text. This paper intends to take up the problem of reading and The Book of Mormon, which I believe the text presents but does not fully resolve.

ID = [81909]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:46
Lindsay, Jeff. “The Possibility of Janus Parallelism in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 1-20.
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Abstract: Janus parallelism, a tool evident in ancient Hebrew poetry, is documented at some length by Scott B. Noegel in Janus Parallelism in the Book of Job, which I recently reviewed. Since the authorship of Job predates the removal of the Lehites from Jerusalem, this tool may have been available to writers in the Book of Mormon. While we do not have the original text to analyze wordplays in the original language, it may be possible to apply some of the cases considered by Noegel to find remnants of related “polysensuous” wordplays that might have been present in the original text or to consider other previously proposed wordplays that may include a Janus-like aspect.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Job
ID = [3640]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 43604  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:05
Lindsay, Jeff. “A Valuable LDS Resource for Learning from the Apocrypha.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 57-62.
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Abstract: Latter-day Saints are often aware that the Apocrypha contains valuable sacred material along with some “interpolations of men,” but few know how to approach those ancient texts and what they could learn from them. A new book by Jared W. Ludlow provides a helpful tool to guide LDS readers in appreciating the Apocrypha and exploring the material in these highly diverse sacred documents.
Review of Jared W. Ludlow, Exploring the Apocrypha from a Latter-day Saint Perspective (Springville, Utah: CFI, 2018). 234 pp. $16.99. Never repeat a conversation, and you will lose nothing at all. With friend or foe do not report it, and unless it would be a sin for you, do not reveal it; for someone may have heard you and watched you, and in time will hate you. Have you heard something? Let it die with you. Be brave, it will not make you burst! Having heard something, the fool suffers birth pangs like a woman in labor with a child. Like an arrow stuck in a person’s thigh, so is gossip inside a fool.
Ecclesiasticus, aka The Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sira,
aka Sirach 19:7–12. .

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
ID = [3606]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 8910  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:02
Lindsay, Jeff. “Orson Scott Card’s ‘Artifact or Artifice’: Where It Stands After Twenty-five Years.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 253-304.
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Abstract: When Orson Scott Card wrote “The Book of Mormon: Artifact or Artifice?” in 1993, he applied keen skills as an author of fiction to help readers understand how to detect the many hidden assumptions an author brings into a text. Subtle details such as the choice of what to explain or what not to explain to readers can quickly reveal the era and environment of the author. The value of Card’s analysis is reconsidered in light of extensive Book of Mormon studies since 1993 and has been found, for the most part, to have withstood the test of time well, like the Book of Mormon itself.

ID = [3616]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64911  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:03
Lindsay, Jeff. “Too Little or Too Much Like the Bible? A Novel Critique of the Book of Mormon Involving David and the Psalms.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 29 (2018): 31 - 64.
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Abstract: A recent graduate thesis proposes an intriguing new means for discerning if the Book of Mormon is historic or not. By looking at Book of Mormon references to David and the Psalms, the author concludes that it cannot be the product of an ancient Jewish people and that it is, instead, the result of Joseph Smith’s “plagiarism” from the Bible and other sources. This paper examines the author’s claims, how they are applied to the Book of Mormon, and proposes points the author does not take into consideration. While the author is to be congratulated for taking a fresh perspective on the Book of Mormon, ultimately his methodology fails and his conclusions fall flat.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
ID = [3623]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 64681  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:04
Madsen, Ann N., and Shon D. Hopkin. Opening Isaiah: A Harmony. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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Winner of the Harvey Black and Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication Award (Gospel Scholarship in Ancient Scripture), Opening Isaiah provides what has never before been provided to Latter-day Saints. It brings all important versions of Isaiah—King James, Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith Translation, Dead Sea Scrolls, and the modern New Revised Standard Version—into comparison for readers to help them clearly see the similarities and differences in each one. Readers can thus study Isaiah’s writings with a focus on the inspired texts themselves. In addition to beautiful maps that guide the reader through the geography of Isaiah’s day, the editors have carefully provided guidance in footnotes to untangle difficult passages, point to important symbolism, and reveal historical context. This book may become the most important resource on Isaiah you will ever purchase. ISBN 978-1-9443-9430-1

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
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Martin, Jan J. “The Theological Value of the King James Language in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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In 1831, Alexander Campbell (1788-1866), the founder of the Disciples of Christ Church and leader in the early nineteenth-century religious reformation known as the Restoration, published a short pamphlet entitled Delusions: An Analysis of the Book of Mormon: With an Examination of Its Internal and External Evidences, and a Refutation of Its Pretences to Divine Authority. In the pamphlet, Campbell argued that the Book of Mormon was a linguistic hodgepodge, “patched up and cemented with ’And it came to pass’ - ’I sayeth unto you’-’Ye saith unto him’-and all the King James’ haths, dids and doths-in the lowest imitation of the common version:’ He insisted that “it has not one good sentence in it, save the profanation of those sentences quoted from the Oracles of the living God:’ For Campbell, the seventeenth-century English in the Book of Mormon demonstrated that Joseph Smith was a fraud.

ID = [81905]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:46
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. Commitment to the Covenant: Strengthening the Me, We, and Thee of Marriage. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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In recent decades, prophets have repeatedly emphasized how a strong marriage and family are the basis of a robust society; they have counseled and warned of the many modern obstacles that can erode a healthy family life. This book draws on inspiring personal stories, research from sociology and psychology, and doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ to present key principles that, when applied, will help a marriage thrive. The authors use three broad content areas—the things we each need to do personally to improve our marriage (Me), the things we need to do together as a couple to strengthen our marital relationship (We), and ways we can more fully involve God in our marriage relationship (Thee). This three-part approach is theoretical and practical and will help guide you to a successful and happy marriage. ISBN 978-1-9443-9431-8

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Chapters

McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Preface.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Commitment to the Covenant.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “The Power of Commitment.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Bounce Back and Move Forward.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > G — K > Gratitude
RSC Topics > G — K > Hope
RSC Topics > T — Z > Trials
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘I Forgive You’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Forgiveness
RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Close to You.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Dating
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘They Twain Shall Be One Flesh’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Charity
RSC Topics > T — Z > Unity
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘The Spirit of Contention Is Not of Me’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “For Richer or for Poorer.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > L — P > Parenting
RSC Topics > T — Z > Tithing
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘Holding Fast to the Rod of Iron’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘Safety in Counsel’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Happiness
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘We are a Covenant-Making People’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sealing
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Appendix: In Sickness and in Health.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Bibliography.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Index.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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Miller, Adam S. “Reading Signs or Repeating Symptoms.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
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Miller, Adam S., and Joseph M. Spencer, eds. Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
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The Book of Mormon’s Jacob chapter 7 focuses on a dramatic showdown between Sherem, a defender of the Mosaic tradition, and Jacob, a prophet who views the Mosaic law as dead in light of what he calls “the doctrine of Christ.” The papers collected in this volume offer theological readings of this Book of Mormon chapter that draw on Jacob 7’s structure and literary details to illuminate key themes like law, family, prayer, mourning, and messianic time. Includes contributions from Jana Riess, Kimberly M. Berkey, Adam S. Miller, Jacob Rennaker, Jeremy Walker, Joseph M. Spencer, Jenny Webb, and Sharon J. Harris.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
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Articles

Spencer, Joseph M. “Introduction.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
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Miller, Adam S., and Joseph M. Spencer. “Summary Report.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
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Riess, Jana. “‘There Came a Man’: Sherem, Scapegoating, and the Inversion of Prophetic Tradition.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
ID = [81819]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Rennaker, Jacob. “Divine Dream Time: The Hope and Hazard of Revelation.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
ID = [81822]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Spencer, Joseph M. “Weeping for Zion.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Front Matter.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “A Book of Mormon Bibliography for 2017.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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The Maxwell Institute continues to make efforts to collect bibliographical information for all writings of a scholarly nature focused on the Book of Mormon in a substantial way. The work for this year’s bibliography has been undertaken by Amanda Buessecker. The editors would again like to encourage readers of the Journal to send information regarding any publications of a scholarly nature focused on the Book of Mormon that have escaped our attention. These can be sent to jbms@byu.edu.

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Norton, Shawna. “Land as Regenerative Space in The Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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The Book of Mormon presents a tale of the plight and flight of a family from biblical Jerusalem, stitched together through a variety of narrators. As the title page claims, this book contains the record of the Nephite people, descendants of Lehi, who was commanded by God to leave Jerusalem in order to save his family from destruction. From that command, the text becomes one of movement and escape, so that the Nephite race can avoid destruction. As this story is one about avoiding annihilation, it necessarily becomes one of reproduction: How do the Nephites reproduce the people of God to spread the word of God?

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Paulsen, David L. The Collected Writings of David L. Paulsen, Volume 2: The Nature of God. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2018.
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David L. Paulsen, professor emeritus of the Brigham Young University Philosophy Department, is one of the most prominent LDS theologians. His writings span an impressive array of topics. BYU Studies has collected all his articles, book chapters, and reviews and arranged them by topic in three impressive ebooks, of which this is the second. In this second volume, readers will find Paulsen’s writings on the nature of God, including early Mormon modalism and other myths, the social model of the Trinity in 3 Nephi, the corporeality of God, divine determinateness, and the logically and ontologically possible proofs of God’s existence.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Peterson, Paul C. “To Be Learned Is Good, If One Stays on the Rails.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 77-90.
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Abstract: This review essay looks at certain problematical issues in the recently published collection of essays honoring Latter-day Saint historian Richard Lyman Bushman. Problems emerge from the title itself, “To Be Learned is Good,” as a result of the failure to note that the Book of Mormon passage “To be learned is good” is a conditional statement. In addition, since these essays are billed as “Essays on Faith and Scholarship,” it is odd most of them do not touch on this subject at all. I examine four essays in depth, including Adam Miller’s “Christo-Fiction, Mormon Philosophy, and the Virtual Body of Christ,” which is offered as a form of clarifying Mormon philosophy but provides more confusion than clarification. Jared Hickman’s essay, “The Perverse Core of Mormonism: The Book of Mormon, Genetic Secularity, and Messianic Decoloniality,” presents Mormonism as a religion that has much in common with Marxism, Frantz Fanon, and Sean Coulhard. While not as bold as Hickman, Patrick Mason looks at Mormonism as a modern religion and suggests that premodern thinkers are largely irrelevant to Mormonism and the modern world. Mason argues that “Mormonism is a religion that could meaningfully converse with modern philosophies and ideologies from transcendentalism, liberalism, and Marxism.” I discuss the weaknesses of this view. Attention is also given to the distinction between apologetics and “Mormon Studies” that arise from essays by Grant Wacker, Armand Mauss, Terryl Givens, and Brian D. Birch, who suggests “‘a methodological pluralism’” in approaching Mormon studies. I note that several of the essays in this volume are worthy of positive note, particularly those by Bushman himself, Mauss (who does address the presumed theme of the book), Givens, Mauro Properzi, and Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye (who also addresses the titled theme of the book in a most engaging manner).
Review of J. Spencer Fluhman, Kathleen Flake, and Jed Woodworth, eds., To Be Learned is Good: Essays on Faith and Scholarship in Honor of Richard Lyman Bushman (Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2017). 368 pp. $24.56 (hardcover).
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Properzi, Mauro. “Pushing through Life’s Pilgrimage Together.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 29 (2018): 81-84.
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Abstract: Walking for 500 miles in a foreign country through heat, arduous terrain, and many inconveniences is difficult enough. Add to the equation a man in a wheelchair, and the task appears impossible. The solution? Determination, humility, humor, faith, love, and someone, or many, who give you a push. I’ll Push You is a true story and parable for life that will give readers hope and encouragement.
Review of Patrick Gray & Justin Skeesuck, I’ll Push You: A Journey of 500 Miles, Two Best Friends, and One Wheelchair (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2017). 296 pp. $24.99 (hardback); $15.99 (paperback).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3625]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 8255  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:04
Rappleye, Neal. “‘The Time is Past’: A Note on Samuel’s Five-Year Prophecy.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 29 (2018): 21-30.
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Abstract: The story of believers being nearly put to death before the appearance of the sign at Christ’s birth is both inspiring and a little confusing. According to the Book of Mormon, the sign comes in the 92nd year, which was actually the sixth year after the prophecy had been made. There is little wonder why even some believers began to doubt. The setting of a final date by which the prophecy must be fulfilled, however, suggests that until that day, there must have been reason for even the nonbelievers to concede that fulfillment was still possible; yet after that deadline it was definitively too late. An understanding of Mesoamerican timekeeping practices and terminology provides one possible explanation.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [3622]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 17865  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:04
Reynolds, Noel B. “The Status of Women in Old Testament Marriage.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 233-236.
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Review of Gordon Paul Hugenberger, Marriage as a Covenant: A Study of Biblical Law and Ethics Governing Marriage Developed from the Perspective of Malachi (Supplements to Vetus Testam, Book 52). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1994. Pp. xx + 414. Paperback reprint edition with a modified subtitle published in 2014 by WIPF & STOCK, Eugene, Oregon. 343 pages, plus bibliography and four indices.
Abstract: In his book Marriage as a Covenant, author Gordon Paul Hugenberger begins with the late 20th century Bible-studies insight that in Israel, covenants were devices used to make binding on unrelated persons the same obligations blood relatives owed to each other. So by covenant, marriage partners became one bone and flesh. This thorough study of the Hebrew Bible and related literatures argues that the view of marriage as a covenant in Malachi 2:10‒16 echoes the first marriage in Genesis 2 and is consistent with the other passages in the Bible that have often been mistakenly interpreted to promote a patriarchalist view denigrating the position of wives vis-à-vis their husbands.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
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Reynolds, Noel B. “The Gospel According to Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 29 (2018): 85-104.
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Abstract: Although scholarly investigation of the Book of Mormon has increased significantly over the last three decades, only a tiny portion of that effort has been focused on the theological or doctrinal content of this central volume of LDS scripture. This paper identifies three inclusios that promise definitions of the doctrine or gospel of Jesus Christ and proposes a cumulative methodology to explain how these definitions work. This approach reveals a consistently presented, six-part formula defining “the way” by which mankind can qualify for eternal life. In this way the paper provides a starting point for scholarly examinations of the theological content of this increasingly influential religious text. While the names of the six elements featured in Mormon’s gospel will sound familiar to students of the New Testament, the meanings he assigns to these may differ substantially from traditional Christian discourse in ways that make Mormon’s characterization of the gospel or doctrine of Christ unique. The overall pattern suggested is a dialog between man and God, who initially invites all people to trust in Christ and repent. Those who respond by repenting and seeking baptism will be visited by fire and by the Holy Ghost, which initiates a lifelong interaction, leading the convert day by day in preparation for the judgment, at which she may finally be invited to enter the kingdom of God.Editor’s Note: This article was published originally in an international theological journal and is reprinted here as a service to the LDS community with minor revisions, updates, and edits included. See Noel B. Reynolds, “The Gospel according to Mormon,” Scottish Journal of Theology 68:2 (2015), 218-34. doi: 10.1017/S003693061500006X.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Riddick, Jared. “An Ancient Survival Guide: John Bytheway’s Look at Moroni.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 1-4.
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Abstract: Moroni’s years of wandering alone after the battle of Cumorah have been often discussed, but not in the context of how they impacted his writing and editorial work. John Bytheway’s latest offering provides us insight into the man Moroni and how his isolation impacted the material that he left for his latter-day readers.
Review of John Bytheway, Moroni’s Guide to Surviving Turbulent Times. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017). 159 pp., $11.99.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Slayton, Jessica. “‘There cannot be any more Bible!’: Nineteenth-Century Visual Art and the Production of Memory in The Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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The Book of Mormon, told by a variety of narrators over a period of hundreds of years, is deeply concerned with remembrance and the written production of memory. As each narrator grows old and finishes his time recording the events of his people, he hands down the plates to a son or other trusted, younger male companion to continue writing the history and preserving the memories of their people. In this paper, I’d like to argue that nineteenth-century visual art becomes a continuation of the concern for and production of memory so present in The Book of Mormon itself. The book’s proclamation of itself as Bible-“And because my words shall hiss forth-many of the Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible”-establishes its reliance on its own participation in the production of memory and highlights its own limited ability (given its status as a completed text) to continue the process of memory generation. I will first examine how The Book of Mormon presents the recording of memory and then turn to C. C. A. Christensen as a case study on how visual art entered the Mormon religious sphere in the nineteenth century as a way of re-recording the stories.

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Smith, Alana. “Messianic Time and The Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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Walter Benjamin famously claimed that “only a redeemed mankind is granted the fullness of its past-which is to say, only for a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation a l’ordre du jour. And that day is Judgment Day.” The Book of Mormon (1830) posits a pathway to redemption for believers and organizes all time around the coming of Christ. I aim to use Benjamin’s model of messianic time to interpret the complicated formal and narrative temporalities in The Book of Mormon and to offer a possible answer to the question, “Why did The Book of Mormon materialize when and where it did?” The Book of Mormon anticipates its own appearance in the nineteenth century. This temporal peculiarity authorizes my reading of the sacred text in its economic and historical context. I will argue that Joseph Smith’s discovery and translation of the plates he unearthed on a hillside in Palmyra, New York, presented a challenge to the capitalist perception of time that threatened to further disenfranchise Smith and others in the Burned-over District.

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Smith, Andrew C. “Abinadi: A Minor Prophet, A Major Contributor.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 261-272.
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Abstract: The new edited volume Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, from the Book of Mormon Academy, is a valuable contribution to Book of Mormon studies. It should find a wide audience and stimulate greater and deeper thinking about the pivotal contributions of Abinadi to the Book of Mormon. It should, however, not be considered the end of the conversation. This review discusses the volume’s importance within Book of Mormon scholarship generally. It also highlights certain valuable contributions from each of the authors, and points out places where more can be said and deeper analysis is needed.
Review of Shon D. Hopkin, ed. Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise (Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book, 2018), 404 pp. $27.99.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
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Smith, Gregory L. “Gossamer Thin: 2 Nephi’s ‘Flaxen Cord’ and the Anti-Masonic Thesis.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 331-370.
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Abstract: Some have seen evidence of anti-Masonic rhetoric in the Book of Mormon and cite 2 Nephi 26:22 in support of this theory, since Satan leads sinners “by the neck with a flaxen cord.” It is claimed that this is a reference to Masonic initiation rituals, which feature a thick noose called a cable-tow or tow-rope. Examining the broader rhetorical context of 2 Nephi demonstrates that the “flaxen cord” more likely refers to something slight and almost undetectable. To test this hypothesis, I undertake a survey of the use of the phrase flaxen cord in 19th century publications. I also examine analogous phrases from the Bible. I examine fifty examples, seven of which are excluded because they do not contain enough information to support either claim. Of the remaining 43 examples, a full two-thirds (67%) describe a cord that is trivial or easily snapped. Only 7% denote a thick, strong rope, and 17% describe a thin rope that is strong. Given (1) the rhetorical context of 2 Nephi, (2) an expression that usually refers to a cord of trivial thickness and strength, and (3) virtually all poetic, scriptural, or allegorical uses imply fragility, the evidence overwhelmingly contradicts the anti-Masonic thesis.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Smoot, Stephen O. “Approaching Abinadi.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 257-260.
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Abstract: The recently released Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, a new book from Brigham Young University’s Book of Mormon Academy, offers readers multidisciplinary approaches to Mosiah 11–17 that highlight the literary, historical, and doctrinal richness of the story of Abinadi. Students and scholars of the Book of Mormon are sure to benefit greatly from this new volume.
Review of Shon D. Hopkin, ed. Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book, 2018), 404 pp. $27.99.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
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Smoot, Stephen O. “Et Incarnatus Est: The Imperative for Book of Mormon Historicity.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 125-162.
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Abstract: Some have come to insist that the Book of Mormon should be read as inspired fiction, which is to say that readers, including Latter-day Saints, should abandon any belief in the Book of Mormon as an authentic ancient text and instead should see it as an inspired frontier novel written by Joseph Smith that may act as scripture for those who follow his teachings. This paper provides reasoning to reject this proposition as not only logically incoherent but also theologically impotent.
It raises the objection that this position fundamentally undercuts the credibility of Joseph Smith. The Prophet’s direct claims concerning the coming forth of the Book of Mormon as well as how the Book of Mormon presents itself to the world do not easily permit any leeway for a “middle ground” on this matter.
The Book of Mormon must be read as an ancient,
not as a modern book. Its mission, as described by
the book itself, depends in great measure for
its efficacy on its genuine antiquity.
—Hugh Nibley.

ID = [3611]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64637  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:03
Sorenson, John L. “Bibliography of John Leon Sorenson.” Edited by Robert F. Smith., 2018.
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Keywords: Ancient America, Anthropology, Archaeology, Bibliography, Mesoamerica, Transoceanic Voyage
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Spencer, Joseph M. “Teaching The Book of Mormon at the University of Vermont: An Interview with Elizabeth Fenton.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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Elizabeth Fenton’s first book-Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture-appeared in 2011. The next year, she began presenting work on the Book of Mormon, first in a conference paper at the annual convention of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and then in an invited lecture at the University of Maryland titled “Why Americanists Should Read The Book of Mormon.” In 2013, she published her conference presentation from the previous year in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. The next year, Fenton organized a panel at C19 focused on the Book of Mormon, which drew the attention of Jared Hickman and opened the door to an important collaborative project, soon to come to fruition in the form of Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, a collection of essays by various scholars forthcoming from Oxford University Press. In 2016, Fenton presented again at C19 on the Book of Mormon (this time in a comparative study involving The Anarchiad), and she also published in the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies a review essay focused on Grant Hardy’s Understanding the Book of Mormon. The past five or six years have, for Fenton, been focused in a remarkable way on literary study of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [81906]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:46
Stevenson, Russell W. “Reckoning with Race in the Book of Mormon: A Review of Literature.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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Scholars of Mormonism have seen a deluge of race literature on the Book of Mormon flow over the past five years. Compared to the robust scholarship on the use of biblical literature in constructing race, Mormonism strikes one as the particularly colorful character who showed up late to the party. For a faith system that has started to imagine itself in global terms, the implications of this recent increase are profound and invite commentary from a variety of disciplines ranging from literary criticism to forensic anthropology. This review essay holds humble aspirations for itself: to trace the basic contours of racialization and deracialization in the Book of Mormon’s historiographical record, illustrating how the contestedness of the racial narrative reflects a variety of needs for Mormon reception of the Book of Mormon text. To close, I will speak to the Book of Mormon’s relevance as a point of entry for undermining Anglo-Saxon knowledge control.

ID = [81912]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Stokes, Adam Oliver. “‘Skin’ or ‘Scales’ of Blackness? Semitic Context as Interpretive Aid for 2 Nephi 4:35 (LOS 5:21).” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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Few verses in the Book of Mormon are as problematic and controversial as 2 Nephi 4:35 (LDS 5:21). Critics of the Book of Mormon have routinely pointed to this verse and its reference to Lamanites receiving a “skin of blackness” as evidence of racism and racist theology in Mormonism’s sacred scriptures. The verse has also failed to escape ridicule in pop-cultural depictions of Mormonism, as seen most recently in the hit Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon. The verse and its interpretation are of perennial interest to readers of the Book of Mormon, believing or not, since the racial stance of the volume seems to center around the interpretation of the passage.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [81915]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Thomas, John Christopher. “The Book of Mormon in American Missions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Religious Educator Vol. 19 no. 1 (2018).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
ID = [38396]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 75787  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:33
Thomas, John Christopher, and Joseph M. Spencer. “Book Reviews.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
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The unique role and function of the book of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon has rightly been of interest to a variety of readers, both scholarly and popular. A quick review of a portion of the literature reveals something of its ongoing appeal. For the most part, these studies have focused on explaining the reason for the extensive quotations of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon and/ or offering a rationale for the numerous differences between the text(s) of Isaiah cited in the Book of Mormon and the text(s) of lsaiah found in a variety of other places including the King James Version of the Bible. Often these studies have been related to the larger issue of Joseph Smith’s involvement in the production of the Book of Mormon. Though a number of these studies are fascinating and merit careful reading, what has been missing, in my estimation, is a sustained treatment of the topic from the perspective of a close theological reading of the text. In other words, most of these studies have focused on the production end of the question-What did Joseph Smith or Nephi use and what may be learned by the actions of the author?-while much less attention has been focused on the product end of the question-specifically, What theological role and function do the Isaiah quotes (and their variants) play in the Book of Mormon, and what might be learned by a careful literary and theological examination of them? Thanks to the work under discussion, considerable progress has been made toward filling this lacuna.

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Tracy, Austin A. “Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet.” BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 1 (2018): 219.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [10661]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 3085  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Tullis, F. LaMond. Martyrs in Mexico: A Mormon Story of Revolution and Redemption. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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“What bravery! They died with their boots on!” remarked one of the Zapatista executioners about the surreal way local Church leaders Rafael Monroy and Vicente Morales had stood to receive the fusillade of bullets that pierced their bodies. The terror of facing an execution squad notwithstanding, no cowering, begging, or hysterics marred their calm and stalwart resolution to not renounce their faith. The Zapatista commander had given them that option. The men responded by reaffirming their religious convictions, emphasizing that the only arms they possessed were not the concealed military weapons they were accused of hiding but rather their sacred texts—the Bible and the Book of Mormon. The book first examines the founding of the LDS Church in the village of San Marcos in Hidalgo, Mexico, amid the trials of the Mexican Revolution of 1910–17 and the martyrdom of two members. The second part explores the trials of developing and organizing the faith in the state of Hidalgo up through the 1950s. This book is a riveting story of Mexican members and their country’s society, economy, and polity. ISBN 978-1-9443-9432-5

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Chapters

Tullis, F. LaMond. “Illustrations.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34277]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Tullis, F. LaMond. “Foreword.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34278]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 3942  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Tullis, F. LaMond. “Acknowledgments.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34279]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4602  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Tullis, F. LaMond. “Milieu of the Martyrs.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34280]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 32586  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Tullis, F. LaMond. “The Monroys’ Curiosity.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > L — P > Parenting
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34281]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 71549  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Tullis, F. LaMond. “Prelude to the Martyrdoms.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34282]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 33271  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Tullis, F. LaMond. “The Executions.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34283]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 19427  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Tullis, F. LaMond. “The Aftermath.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34284]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 21524  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Tullis, F. LaMond. “Institutionalizing the Church in San Marcos and Environs.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostle
ID = [34285]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 87018  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:33
Tullis, F. LaMond. “San Marcos Mormons Embrace Temporal Progress and Development.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34286]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 61298  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
Tullis, F. LaMond. “The Genes of the Martyrs.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34287]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 17503  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
Tullis, F. LaMond. “Afterword.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34288]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 1610  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
Tullis, F. LaMond. “Bibliography.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34289]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 21862  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
Tullis, F. LaMond. “Index.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34290]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 11375  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
Tullis, F. LaMond. “About the Author.” In Martyrs in Mexico. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34291]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 1436  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
Van Orden, Bruce A. We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout: The Life and Times of W. W. Phelps. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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In this comprehensive and compelling biography, learn of the trials and triumphs of W. W. Phelps, early Latter-day Saint leader, printer, scribe, ghostwriter, and monumental hymn writer. He printed the Book of Commandments and other early standard works. He was one of the “council of presidents” that guided the Church in Kirtland in 1835–36. Phelps continued to be the leading light in newspaper publishing in Nauvoo and was Joseph Smith’s political clerk in governing Nauvoo and running for the US presidency, also playing a key role in the Council of Fifty. He went west with the Saints, helped propose the “State of Deseret,” and published prose and poetry in the Deseret News and his Deseret Almanac. Phelps’s strong feelings sometimes put him at odds with Church leaders, and he was excommunicated three times, rejoining each time. ISBN 978-1-9443-9436-3

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Chapters

Van Orden, Bruce A. “Acknowledgments.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34215]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 2519  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Abbreviations.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34216]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 8727  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:29
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Introduction.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34217]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 11591  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “The Man, The Church, And Seeking Zion.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34218]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 15498  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Youth In Rural New Jersey And New York.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Youth
ID = [34219]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 33551  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Young Adult Life And Marriage.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34220]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 21961  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Anti-Masonic Partisan And Newspaper Editor.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34221]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 27783  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Conversion To Mormonism.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
ID = [34222]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 24565  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Dedicating The Land Of Zion.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34223]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 33070  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “‘Printer Unto The Church’” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > A — C > Consecration
ID = [34224]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 33434  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “‘Zion Must Increase In Beauty’” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34225]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 27228  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “The Evening And The Morning Star.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34226]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 34501  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Challenges Mount In Missouri.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34227]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 23056  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Terror In Jackson County.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34228]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 43669  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Driven From Jackson County.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
ID = [34229]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 38736  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Importuning The Government.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34230]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 35522  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Attempting To Redeem Zion.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34231]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 45093  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Joseph’s Scribe And Associate In Kirtland.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine and Covenants
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [34232]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 55701  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “The Phelps Family.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Endowment
RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > L — P > Parenting
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34233]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 48840  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:30
Van Orden, Bruce A. “The Book of Abraham.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Abraham
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [34234]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  abraham,rsc-books  Size: 50658  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Doctrinal Exponent, 1831-1836.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Second Coming
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34235]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 43345  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “The Kirtland Temple And Endowment of Power.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Endowment
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temples
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34236]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 49173  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Return To Missouri.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
ID = [34237]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 41168  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “The Bottom Falls Out.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [34238]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 59942  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Hell To Pay In Missouri.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Presidency
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34239]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 68655  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “The Returning Prodigal.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34240]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 50889  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Historical Scribe In Nauvoo.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [34241]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 29109  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Newspaper Editing And Ghostwriting.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Abraham
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [34242]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 64553  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Political Clerk In Nauvoo.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [34243]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 77561  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Martyrdom And Succession.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > Marriage
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34244]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 70365  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Interpreter Of Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo Doctrines.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Spiritual Gifts
ID = [34245]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 59983  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Aide To The Apostles.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Endowment
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
ID = [34246]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 88274  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Helping Create Deseret.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34247]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 57613  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Declining Years And Death.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Endowment
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34248]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 74160  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Prolific Hymnist.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34249]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 38557  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:31
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Epilogue.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34250]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 5943  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Van Orden, Bruce A. “Index.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34251]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 44378  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Van Orden, Bruce A. “About the Author.” In We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34252]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 675  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:32
Wilcox, Bradley R., Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Bruce L. Brown, and Sharon Black. “Comparing Book of Mormon Names with Those Found in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works: An Exploratory Study.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 105-124.
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Abstract: The works of Tolkien and the Book of Mormon have been compared in a variety of ways by multiple authors and researchers, but none have looked specifically at the unusual names found within both. Wordprint studies are one tool used in author attribution research, but do authors use specific sounds more than others — consciously or subconsciously — when selecting or inventing names? Some research suggests they may and that their patterns could create a “sound print” or phonoprint. This constitutes a fresh and unusual path of research that deserves more attention. The purpose of this exploratory study was to see if phonoprints surfaced when examining Dwarf, Elf, Hobbit, Man, and other names created by Tolkien and Jaredite, Nephite, Mulekite, and Lamanite names found in the Book of Mormon. Results suggest that Tolkien had a phonoprint he was unable to entirely escape when creating character names, even when he claimed he based them on distinct languages. In contrast, in Book of Mormon names, a single author’s phonoprint did not emerge. Names varied by group in the way one would expect authentic names from different cultures to vary. Although much more research needs to be done to establish the validity and reliability of using phonoprints for author identification, this study opens a door for future research.

ID = [3610]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 43860  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:03
Zaugg, Holt. “Questions in the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 19 no. 1 (2018).
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [38398]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 42468  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:33
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “Dating the Departure of Lehi from Jerusalem.” BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 2 (2018): 6-51.
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Dating the departure of Lehi from Jerusalem is problematic and has resulted in various proposed dates, most falling between 597 and 587 BC, which do not allow for 600 years to elapse between the departure and the birth of Christ in late 5 BC or early 4 BC. In this article, the author introduces a variety of evidence to show that Lehi’s departure can be dated to sometime in late 605 BC. Much of this evidence results from an understanding of the state of affairs in ancient Judah during the reigns of Judean kings Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah. The author introduces supporting evidence from the Book of Mormon account and also shows why other dating models reach untenable conclusions.

Keywords: Chronology; Jerusalem (Old World); Lehi (Prophet)
ID = [10633]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 64457  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Scripture Central. “Why Is David Whitmer’s Witness of the Book of Mormon So Compelling?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #395. January 2, 2018.
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Keywords: Church History; David Whitmer; Joseph Smith; Witnesses; Three Witnesses; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7941]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13809  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Smith, Andrew C. “Dealing with Difficulty in Scripture: Divine Violence in the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator Vol. 19 no. 2 (2018).
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [38390]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 59916  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:32
Balli, Tyler. “LDS Hispanic Americans and Lamanite Identity.” Religious Educator Vol. 19 no. 3 (2018).
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Diversity
ID = [38383]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 58767  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:32
Reynolds, Noel B. “Understanding the Abrahamic Covenant through the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 3 (2018): 39-74.
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The revival of scholarly interest in Abraham in recent decades provides a timely opportunity to explore the contemporary findings of biblical scholars from a Latter-day Saint perspective. This review leads to an in-depth exploration of how the Lord’s covenants with Abraham were understood by the Nephite prophets in the Book of Mormon, how their perspectives compare with contemporary biblical scholarship, and how the Nephite perspective may modify or expand standard Latter-day Saint approaches to understanding the Abrahamic covenant. This article identifies three interrelated streams of covenant discourse in the Book of Mormon—each defined by its respective focus on the (1) Lehite covenant, (2) Abrahamic covenant, or (3) gospel covenant. Though these three streams of covenant discourse are closely related, each is distinct in purpose. Nephite prophets integrated these three in unique ways to develop one larger understanding of God’s use of covenants to bring salvation to the world.

Keywords: Abraham (Prophet); Abrahamic Covenant; Covenant; Salvation
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Covenant [see also Ephraim, Israel, Jews, Joseph]
ID = [10614]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-03  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies,old-test  Size: 64582  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Rust, Richard Dilworth. “The Book of Mormon and Patriarchal Blessings: Reflections by an Ordained Patriarch.” Religious Educator Vol. 19 no. 3 (2018).
ID = [38385]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 33413  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:32
Skousen, Royal. “The Language of the Original Text of the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 3 (2018): 81-110.
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During the thirty years Royal Skousen has been working on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, he has discovered certain words and phrases that appear on the surface to be either ungrammatical or stylistically unusual. Some critics have claimed that these phrases are Joseph Smith’s dialect mixed with a crude imitation of the language of the King James Bible. But many of these phrases can be tied to Early Modern English, in use from 1530 to 1730. Skousen also identifies phrases from the King James Bible that are skillfully woven into the Book of Mormon text in unexpected ways as well as numerous issues that Protestants argued over during the 1500s and 1600s, such as infant baptism. Although the Book of Mormon contains elements from Early Modern English, it is not an Early Modern English text. It is unique. This article summarizes examples and discussion found in parts three and four of volume three of the Critical Text publications, titled The Nature of the Original Language (NOL).

Keywords: Critical Text; Early Modern English; Textual History; Translation
ID = [10617]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-03  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 57231  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:59
Erekson, Keith A. “Elvis Has Left the Library: Identifying Forged Annotations in a Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 4 (2018): 51.
ID = [10591]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 40096  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:58
Koller, Eve. “An Egyptian Linguistic Component in Book of Mormon Names.” BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 4 (2018): 139-148.
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There are several names in the Book of Mormon—such as Zenephi, Zenos, and Zenock—that look as though they are composed of scriptural names (Nephi, Enos, Enoch, and so forth) with different forms of a z-prefix that might mean “son of ” or “descendant of.” This article proposes that the names Zenephi Zenos, Zenock, and Cezoram incorporate the names of other Book of Mormon or biblical individuals and the Egyptian pin-tail duck hieroglyph, represented by the morpheme se-/ze-, which denotes filiation with these ancestors. If this hypothesis is accurate, it could provide insight into some aspects of the structure of the language of the Book of Mormon and could also reveal information about Book of Mormon naming practices and genealogical lineages of the people who received these names.

Keywords: Language - Egyptian; Linguistics; Zenephi; Zenock/Zenoch (Prophet); Zenos (Prophet)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [10596]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-04  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 14898  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:58
Scripture Central. “How Do the Book of Moses and Book of Mormon Help Us Understand the Endowment?” Book of Mormon Central, KnoWhy #396, January 4, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Temples; Heavenly Ascent; Endowment; Moses; Nephi; Pearl of Great Price; Book of Moses
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4691]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,moses,old-test  Size: 10501  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:48
Welch, John W. “Timing the Translation of the Book of Mormon: ‘Days [and Hours] Never to Be Forgotten’” BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 4 (2018): 10.
ID = [10590]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,welch  Size: 64571  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:58
Scripture Central. “Why Would God Choose an Uneducated Man to Translate the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #397. January 9, 2018.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Church History; First Vision; Education; Restoration; Angel Moroni; Gold Plates
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7939]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 14966  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How a Tangent About Foreordination Helps Explain Repentance.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #398. January 11, 2018.
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Keywords: Alma the Younger; Ammonihah; Repentance; Premortal Life; Priesthood; Premortality; Plan of Salvation; Foreordained
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7938]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7312  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Curtis, LeGrand R., Jr. “Humbly Combining Heart and Mind.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, January 16, 2018.
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One of the important things that happened to me during my days as a student at BYU was that I came to appreciate what can happen as the mind and the heart, or the spirit, work together.

Keywords: Holy Ghost; Humility; Knowledge; Wisdom
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [70095]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-01-16  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:53
Scripture Central. “Is It Possible That a Single Author Wrote the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #399. January 16, 2018.
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Keywords: Stylometry; Word Print Studies; Book of Mormon Authorship; Joseph Smith; Church History; Sidney Rigdon; Solomon Spalding; Oliver Cowdery; Parley P. Pratt; W. W. Phelps; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7937]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 13824  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Do We Have Three Different Accounts of the Creation?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #400. January 18, 2018.
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Keywords: Creation; Old Testament; Bible; Moses; Abraham; Adam; Eve; Lehi; Nephi; Job; Ezekiel; Ancient Near East; Chaos Monster; Jesus Christ; Atonement
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Job
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [7936]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9755  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Was the Sword of Laban Like?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #401. January 23, 2018.
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Keywords: Archaeology; Evidence; Metallurgy; Ancient Israel; Laban; Nephi; Sword of Laban
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7935]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14062  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why We Still Have to Cling to the Iron Rod Even Though the Path is Strait.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #402. January 25, 2018.
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Keywords: Tree of Life; Lehi; Iron Rod; Bible; Old Testament; Genesis; Garden of Eden; The Fall; Adam; Eve
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7934]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 14596  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Could Lehi Travel from Jerusalem to the Red Sea in 3 Days?” Book of Mormon Central website, February 1, 2018.
ID = [76459]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-01  Collections:  bom  Size: 4102  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:39
Scripture Central. “What Does an Ancient Book About Enoch Have to Do With Lehi’s Dream?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #404. February 1, 2018.
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Keywords: Tree of Life; Enoch; Book of Moses; Book of Enoch; Mist of Darkness; Hell; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [4693]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,moses,old-test  Size: 7191  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:49
Waddell, W. Christopher. “The Book of Mormon: ‘A Standard unto My People’” Ensign, February 2018.
ID = [62239]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-02-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 13908  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:50
Scripture Central. “Why Were the Three Witnesses Shown the Liahona?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #405. February 6, 2018.
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Keywords: Liahona; Ark of the Covenant; Ancient Israel; Solomon’s Temple; Nephite Temple; Three Witnesses; Joseph Smith; Church History; Bible; Old Testament; Exodus
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7931]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11734  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Does The Book of Mormon Use a Hebrew Pun on King Noa’s Name?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #406. February 8, 2018.
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Keywords: Abinadi; King Noah; Hebrew; Word Play; Etymology; Noah’s Ark; Bible; Old Testament; Genesis; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7930]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7449  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Are There Other Ancient Records Like the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #407. February 13, 2018.
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Keywords: Plates; Gold Plates; History; Ancient Near East; Ancient Israel; Archaeology; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [7929]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14046  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Can We Receive the Blessings of the Abrahamic Covenant?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #408. February 15, 2018.
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Keywords: Old Testament; Bible; Abraham; Abrahamic Covenant
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7928]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8353  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Is There Evidence That Joseph Smith Possessed a Urim and Thummim and Breastplate?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #409. February 20, 2018.
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Keywords: Urim and Thummim; Breastplate; Joseph Smith; Mormon; Moroni; Church History; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7927]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12228  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Parts of the Old Testament Were on the Plates of Brass?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #410. February 22, 2018.
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Keywords: Melchizedek; Pentateuch; Books of Moses; Plates of Brass; Bible; Old Testament; Moses; Alma
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7926]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12064  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Was the Sword of Laban So Important to Nephite Leaders?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #411. February 27, 2018.
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Keywords: Sword of Laban; Laban; David and Goliath; David; Goliath; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
ID = [7925]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 25938  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
LDS Perspectives [pseud. of Laura Harris Hales]. “Abinadi with Shon Hopkin.” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 28, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [5452]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-28  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 679  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
Scripture Central. “How Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac Illuminates the Atonement.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #412. March 1, 2018.
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Keywords: Jacob; Law of Moses; Bible; Old Testament; Genesis; Abraham; Isaac; Ishmael; Sarah; Hagar; Mary; Jesus Christ; Crucifixion; Atonement
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [7924]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-03-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12064  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Can We Know What to Believe about Joseph Smith’s Personal Character?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #413. March 6, 2018.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Church History; Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7923]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-03-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 14181  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Does the Book of Mormon Use an Ancient Storytelling Technique?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #414. March 8, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Genesis; Isaac; Rebekah; Ammon; Missionary Work; Marriage; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7922]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-03-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6641  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephite Authors Use Repetitive Resumption?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #415. March 13, 2018.
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Keywords: Literary Device; Repetitive Resumption; Ether; Ancient Near East; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [7921]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-03-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10913  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
LDS Perspectives [pseud. of Laura Harris Hales]. “Old Testament People and Places – Jared Ludlow.” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 14, 2018.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
ID = [5453]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-03-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website,old-test  Size: 1293  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
Peters, John D. “Lessons on Faith from Alma and Elsewhere.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Hawaii, March 13, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [71001]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-03-14  Collections:  bom,byuh-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:59
Scripture Central. “How Was Nephi Similar to Joseph of Egypt?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #416. March 15, 2018.
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Keywords: Nephi; Joseph of Egypt; Laman; Bible; Old Testament; Genesis
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7920]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-03-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7837  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Were Joseph Smith’s Translation Instruments Like the Israelite Urim and Thummim?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #417. March 20, 2018.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Church History; Urim and Thummim; Ancient Israel; High Priest; Seer Stone; Book of Mormon Translation
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7919]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-03-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 14650  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Lehi Likened the Scriptures to Himself.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #418. March 22, 2018.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Joseph of Egypt; Lehi; Nephi; Likening
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7918]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-03-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 7528  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What the Exodus Teaches Us about the Atonement.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #419. March 27, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Alma; Exodus; Moses
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7917]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-03-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6813  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Were Nephite Prophets Familiar with the Passover Tradition?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #420. March 29, 2018.
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Keywords: Easter; Passover; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7916]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-03-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12676  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Nelson, Russell M. “As We Go Forward Together.” Ensign, April 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [62297]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7384  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:51
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Include the Story of the Broken Bow?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #421. April 3, 2018.
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Keywords: Nephi; Bow; Ancient Near East
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7915]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-04-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 6770  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why the Book of Mormon’s Depiction of a Loving God Fits with the Old Testament.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #422. April 5, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Love
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7914]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-04-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7069  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Is the Book of Mormon’s Depiction of Guerrilla Warfare Realistic?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #423. April 10, 2018.
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Keywords: Warfare; Gadianton Robbers; Military History; Secret Combinations; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [7913]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-04-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10727  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How the Law of Moses Teaches about the Atonement.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #424. April 12, 2018.
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Keywords: Ancient Israel; Law of Moses; Legal; Jesus Christ; Atonement; Nephites
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7912]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-04-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7633  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Does Mormon Teach Us about Ministering as Angels?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #425. April 17, 2018.
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Keywords: Angels; Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7911]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-04-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7370  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Don’t We Know the Names of the Angels in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #426. April 19, 2018.
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Keywords: Old Testament; Bible; Angels; Balaam; Balak; Alma the Younger
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7910]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-04-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8980  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Are Rod and Sword Connected to the Word of God?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #427. April 24, 2018.
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Keywords: Iron Rod; Tree of Life; Nephi
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7909]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-04-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9781  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Worthen, Kevin J. “‘College Song’” Commencement, Brigham Young University, April 26, 2018.
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I can predict with a high degree of certainty that there will be many times in your postgraduate life when you will face decisions that will ultimately be determined by whether you are motivated by pride and riches on the one hand or whether you are moved to act consistently with truths that resonate in your heart and in your mind on the other.

Keywords: BYU; Pride; Unity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [70109]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-04-26  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:53
Scripture Central. “How is the Use of Deuteronomy in the Book of Mormon Evidence for its Authenticity?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #428. April 27, 2018.
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Keywords: Old Testament; Bible; Deuteronomy; Law of Moses; King Josiah; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
ID = [7908]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-04-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 5788  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Is There Evidence of Sunken Cities in Ancient America?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #429. May 1, 2018.
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Keywords: Archaeology; Evidence; Mesoamerica; Lake Atitlan; Christ in America
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7907]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8525  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Moroni Speak of Pulling Down Pride?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #430. May 3, 2018.
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Keywords: Pride; Ancient Near East; Bible; Old Testament; Mesoamerica; Stelae; Military
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7906]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11855  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Where Did the Book of Mormon Happen?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #431. May 8, 2018.
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Keywords: Geography; Book of Mormon; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7905]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14906  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “KnoWhy OTL18A — Did Joshua ‘Utterly Destroy’ the Canaanites?” The Interpreter Foundation website. May 10, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Leviticus
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Old Testament Scriptures > Joshua
ID = [5963]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-10  Collections:  bom,bradshaw,interpreter-website,old-test  Size: 64746  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:30
Scripture Central. “What is the Difference Between ‘Robbers" and ‘Thieves" in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #432. May 10, 2018.
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Keywords: Gadianton Robbers
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [7904]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7249  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Have LDS Women Shared the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #433. May 15, 2018.
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Keywords: Women; LDS; Church History
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7903]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7961  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Should Readers Pay Close Attention to the Mulekites?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #434. May 17, 2018.
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Keywords: Omni; Mulek; Mulekites; Zedekiah; Jerusalem; Zarahemla
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
ID = [7902]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9360  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Did ‘Others’ Influence Book of Mormon Peoples?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #435. May 22, 2018.
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Keywords: Nephites; Jaredites; Lehites; Mulekites; New World; Anthropology; Others
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [7901]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9844  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How the Book of Mormon and the Old Testament Help Us Understand What it Means to be Redeemed.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #436. May 24, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Ruth; Redeemer
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Ruth
ID = [7900]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7492  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Do the Psalms Quoted in the Book of Mormon Teach about the Temple?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #437. May 29, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; Temples
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7899]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 11220  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Do Biblical Psalms of Lament Show Up in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #438. May 31, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Psalms; Intertextuality
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7898]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-05-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9531  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Gray, Darius. “Moving Forward Together.” Ensign, June 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [62417]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3951  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:51
Townsend, Colby J. “’Behold, Other Scriptures I Would that Ye Should Write’: Malachi in the Book of Mormon.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 51, no. 2 (Summer, 2018): 103-138.
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Despite its significance as the final book of the Christian Old Testament, the New Testament shows no explicit knowledge of the book of Malachi. In the case of the Book of Mormon this is true up until 3 Nephi 24 with the formal citation of Malachi by Jesus when he visits the Nephites at the temple in Bountiful. The fact that the Book of Mormon shows no direct knowledge of the text of Malachi until 3 Nephi 24 is intriguing because there are many quotations, allusions, and echoes throughout the text prior to this part of the book. This is interesting for many reasons. First, with this in mind, students of the Book of Mormon can study those places in the text where Malachi is used and analyze them through source-critical means to answer the following questions: (1) How does the Book of Mormon utilize a text from the Bible, in this case the book of Malachi? (2) How is the text similar and how is it different? (3) Are there any significant differences between the two? Second, the use of Malachi in the Book of Mormon is dependent solely on the King James Version of the Bible, which will be demonstrated below. This has implications for understanding how the Book of Mormon came to be written. Third, the sections where the Book of Mormon uses the text of Malachi can substantially help us obtain a better grasp of the composition date of those sections in the Book of Mormon. They provide evidence against a “tight control” translation theory, which has been offered by a number of scholars on the translation process of the Book of Mormon. [by author]

Keywords: Bible, textual parallels; Book of Mormon, Bible and; Scriptures, textual parallels
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [82009]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-06-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Scripture Central. “Why Are Certain Biblical Psalms Used by Book of Mormon Authors?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #439. June 7, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Psalms
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7897]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-06-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 18838  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Did Prophets Such as Ezekiel Know the Writings of Zenos?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #440. June 12, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Ezekiel; Intertextuality; Allegory of the Olive Tree; Jacob
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [7896]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-06-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6873  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Who Were the ‘Many Prophets’ in Jerusalem During Lehi’s Time?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #441. June 14, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Prophets; Lehi; Jeremiah; Jerusalem; Ancient Israel; Zedekiah
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [7895]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-06-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6209  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Want to Know the Mysteries of God?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #442. June 19, 2018.
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Keywords: Mysteries; Divine Council; Nephi; Lehi; Theophany; Visions; God; Jesus Christ; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7894]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-06-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6956  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Book of Mormon Authors Use Colophons?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #443. June 21, 2018.
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Keywords: Colophons; Ancient Near East; Egyptian; Nephi; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7893]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-06-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12653  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How is the Phrase ‘Make a Record" an Evidence for the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #444. June 26, 2018.
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Keywords: Gold Plates; Bible; Old Testament; Ancient Near East; Literature; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7892]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-06-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,d-c,old-test  Size: 6481  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Is So Good about Nephi’s Name?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #445. June 28, 2018.
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Keywords: Nephi; Pun; Hebrew; Egyptian; Ancient Near East; Word Play; Names; Onomastics; Etymology; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7891]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-06-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12854  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Ensign. “The Book of Mormon Changes Lives.” Ensign July 2018.
ID = [62448]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7550  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:52
Benson, Ezra Taft. “The Book of Mormon Brings Abundance.” Ensign, July 2018.
ID = [62463]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2058  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:52
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Mormon Warn that a Lake of Fire and Brimstone Awaits Sinners in the Afterlife?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #446. July 3, 2018.
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Keywords: Egyptian; Ancient Egypt; Book of the Dead; Lake of Fire; Fire; Afterlife; Eternal Life; Spiritual Death; Evidence
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7890]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-07-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 15798  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Can We Be Delivered through the Lord’s Tender Mercies?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #447. July 5, 2018.
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Keywords: Tender Mercies; Nephi
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7889]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-07-05  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12286  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Nephi Clarify That the Messiah Was the Savior of the World?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #448. July 10, 2018.
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Keywords: Jesus Christ; Ancient Israel; Messiah; Savior; Hebrew; Greek; Bible; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7888]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-07-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7797  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Does the Abish Story Signal About the Resurrection?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #449. July 12, 2018.
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Keywords: Ammon; Abish; King Lamoni; Resurrection; Ancient Near East; Mesoamerica
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7887]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-07-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7717  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Can an Ancient Christian Text Tell us About the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #450. July 17, 2018.
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Keywords: Didache; Early Christian Church; Bible; New Testament; Moroni; Sacrament; Priesthood; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7886]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-07-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8395  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Some in Lehi’s Time Believe that Jerusalem Could Not Be Destroyed?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #451. July 19, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Hezekiah; Assyria; Jerusalem
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > General Articles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7885]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-07-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7448  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Was on the Lost 116 Pages?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #452. July 24, 2018.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Church History; Martin Harris; 116 pages; Book of Lehi; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7884]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-07-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 11065  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Do the Kinderhook Plates Reveal About Joseph Smith’s Gift of Translation?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #454. July 31, 2018.
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Keywords: Kinderhook Plates; Church History; Joseph Smith; Frauds; Hoaxes; Translation; Egyptian
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7882]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-07-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14224  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Hobbs, Dan. “An Old Book of Mormon.” Ensign, August 2018.
ID = [62501]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2564  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:52
Lindsay, Jeff. “‘Arise from the Dust’: Digging into a Vital Book of Mormon Theme.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.
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Keywords: Abinadi; Brass Plates; Chiasmus; Covenant; Dust; Dust of the Earth; Five Books of Moses; Isaiah (Book); King Benjamin’s Speech; Lehi (Prophet); Moroni (Son of Mormon); Nephi (Son of Lehi); Priests of King Noah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [32634]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 46758  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Miller, Wade E. “The Presence of Pre-Columbian Horses in America.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.
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Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Ancient America - North America; Book of Mormon Anachronisms; Geology; Horses; Paleontology
ID = [32631]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 41331  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Riley, Sara. “‘Even as Moses’ Did’: The Use of the Exodus Narrative in Mosiah 11-18.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [32624]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference,old-test  Size: 29754  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Spackman, Randall P. “Chronological Structure and Symbolism in the Small Plates of Nephi - Presentation Handout.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.
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Keywords: Chronology; Recordkeeping; Small Plates of Nephi
ID = [32629]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 36482  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Scripture Central. “What Does Mary Whitmer Teach Us About Enduring Trials?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #455. August 2, 2018.
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Keywords: Mary Whitmer; Church History; Witnesses; Gold Plates; Angel Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7881]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9134  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Is the Path to Eternal Life ‘Strait’ or ‘Straight"?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #456. August 7, 2018.
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Keywords: Strait and Narrow; Eternal Life; Nephi; Hebrew; Poetry
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7880]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8703  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Did It Mean for Lehi to be a Visionary Man?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #457. August 9, 2018.
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Keywords: Lehi; Visions; Seer; Hebrew; Hebraism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7879]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8158  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How is the Name Zoram Connected with Pride?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #458. August 14, 2018.
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Keywords: Zoram; Zoramites; Hebrew; Word Play; Pride; Etymology; Onomastics; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7878]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-14  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9599  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Hafen, Jonathan O. “If You Want to Go Far, Go Together.” Commencement, Brigham Young University, August 16, 2018.
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May your positive memories of BYU stay with you throughout your life. May your BYU connections continue to be a strong influence in all that you do. May you know that you will always be welcome here on campus on this consecrated ground.

Keywords: Friendship; Success
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [70121]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-08-16  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:53
Scripture Central. “Why Are Lehi’s First Visions So Similar to Much Later Apocalyptic Writings?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #459. August 16, 2018.
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Keywords: Apocalypse; Lehi; Visions; Divine Council
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7877]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11775  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Jones, Joy D. “‘Look unto Him in Every Thought’” Devotional, Brigham Young University, August 21, 2018.
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Obviously we cannot completely control the events that come at us daily, but we can indeed control the worthwhileness of those events. We worship an omniscient God and know that “all things wherewith you have been afflicted shall work together for your good, and to my name’s glory, saith the Lord.”

Keywords: Agency; Decision-making
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [70125]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-08-21  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:53
Scripture Central. “Why Are People Exhausted by Powerful Spiritual Experiences?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #460. August 21, 2018.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Church History; First Vision; Lamoni; Lehi; Ammon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7876]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 9666  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Frederick, Nicholas J. “Intertextuality in the Book of Mormon.” In LDS Perspectives Podcast. Interview by Laura Harris Hales, Episode 92.
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In this episode of the LDS Perspectives Podcast, Laura Harris Hales interviews scholar Nicholas (Nick) J. Frederick about New Testament intertextuality in the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses
ID = [4596]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-22  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website,moses  Size: 3345  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:42
Scripture Central. “Where Is the Narrative Transition in 1 Nephi?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #461. August 23, 2018.
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Keywords: Nephi; Small Plates; Gold Plates
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7875]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9914  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Was It Significant that Nephi Was Made ‘a Ruler and a Teacher’ Over His Brethren?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #462. August 28, 2018.
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Keywords: Old Testament; Jacob; Esau; Joseph of Egypt; Solomon; Nephi; Laman; Lemuel; Birthright
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7874]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8028  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Could Nephi Have Known about Jeremiah’s Imprisonment?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #463. August 30, 2018.
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Keywords: Jeremiah; Nephi; Lehi; Zedekiah; Jerusalem; Book of Mormon Central
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [7873]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10457  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Interpreter Foundation. “Coming Event: Lecture on a New Publication, The Nature of the Original Language of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 4, 2018.
ID = [5856]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1013  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:30
Scripture Central. “Who Were the ‘Elders of the Jews’ Mentioned by Zoram?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #464. September 4, 2018.
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Keywords: Ancient Israel; Ancient Judaism; Zoram; Nephi; Laban; Jerusalem
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7872]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8061  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Many Others Traveled with Lehi to the Promised Land?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #465. September 6, 2018.
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Keywords: Lehi; Nephi; Lehi’s Journey to the Promised Land; New World; Nahom; Bountiful; Solomon’s Temple
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7871]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 9643  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Was Lehi Familiar with Zenos’s Allegory of the Olive Tree?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #466. September 11, 2018.
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Keywords: Zenos; Lehi; Tree of Life; Allegory of the Olive Tree; House of Israel; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [7870]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8173  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Mormon Say We Must Worship God with Our Whole Soul?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #467. September 13, 2018.
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Keywords: Law of Moses; Sacrifice
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7869]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8120  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Does Chiasmus Teach Us to Reverse the Pride Cycle?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #468. September 18, 2018.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Pride; Prosperity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7868]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11185  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Peterson, Daniel C. “Celebrating Two New Books in the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 20, 2018.
ID = [4872]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-20  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website,peterson  Size: 6148  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:04
Scripture Central. “Why Are Lehi’s Visions Like Those of Other Prophets in His Day?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #469. September 20, 2018.
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Keywords: Lehi; Visions; Prophets; Ezekiel
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [7867]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 13762  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Is There Evidence for Book of Mormon Highways in Ancient America?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #470. September 25, 2018.
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Keywords: Archaeology; Mesoamerica; Maya; Guatemala; Lamoni; Christ in America; Roads; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7866]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 16160  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Can Nephi’s Vision Be Called an Apocalypse?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #471. September 27, 2018.
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Keywords: Nephi; Apocalypse; Assyria; Visions; Underworld
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7865]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9806  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Bednar, David A. “Gather Together in One All Things in Christ.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2018.
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The power of the Savior’s gospel to transform and bless us flows from discerning and applying the interrelatedness of its doctrine, principles, and practices.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [23122]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 407  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:07
Bowen, Shayne M. “The Role of the Book of Mormon in Conversion.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2018.
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We are gathering Israel for the last time and are doing so with the Book of Mormon, one of the most powerful tools of conversion.

ID = [23176]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 10523  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:07
Clarke, Mckenna. “4 Lessons from Joseph Smith’s Bringing Forth the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, October 2018.
ID = [62570]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2779  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:52
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Mormon Mention Cimeters?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #472. October 2, 2018.
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Keywords: Weapons; Ancient Near East; Ancient Warfare; Mesoamerica; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7864]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11878  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Book of Mormon Prophets Quote Long Passages of Scripture?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #473. October 4, 2018.
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Keywords: Speeches; Old Testament; Literacy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7863]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7147  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Are There So Many Similarities between the Dreams of Lehi and Joseph Smith, Sr.?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #474. October 9, 2018.
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Keywords: Tree of Life; Joseph Smith Sr; Lucy Mack Smith; Visions; Iron Rod
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7862]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 18709  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “When Did Lehi Leave Jerusalem?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #475. October 11, 2018.
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Keywords: Lehi; Chronology; Jerusalem; Calendar
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7861]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13416  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Does Nephi Begin by Saying ‘I, Nephi . . .’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #476. October 16, 2018.
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Keywords: Nephi; Ancient Near East; Plates of Nephi; Parents; Records; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7860]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8218  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “When Did Mormon Write His Letter Recorded in Moroni 9?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #477. October 18, 2018.
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Keywords: Mormon; Moroni; Records; Dating
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7859]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13457  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Owen, Stephen W. “Strength and Safety Through Gathering.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, October 23, 2018.
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I believe something powerful happens anytime we gather as God’s covenant people anywhere in the world, no matter how many people the gathering may include. That power can be difficult to describe, but perhaps these words of the Savior explain it best: “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”.

Keywords: Church Membership; Church Organization; Covenants; Discipleship; Safety; Unity; Podcast: Come; Follow Me; Podcast: Recent Speeches
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [70133]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-10-23  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:53
Scripture Central. “Why Are Later Jewish Sources Relevant to Texts in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #478. October 23, 2018.
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Keywords: Ancient Judaism; Zemnarihah; Gadianton Robbers; Rabbinics
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7858]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9983  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
LDS Perspectives [pseud. of Laura Harris Hales]. “The Apocrypha with Jared Ludlow.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 24, 2018.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
ID = [5472]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-24  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website,old-test  Size: 4211  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
Scripture Central. “How is the Day of Atonement Understood in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #479. October 25, 2018.
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Keywords: Day of Atonement; Sacrifice; Animal Sacrifice; Cleanliness; Atonement; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7857]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12892  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Interpreter Foundation. “Presentation on The Nature of the Original Language of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 29, 2018.
ID = [6447]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-29  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 765  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:34
Scripture Central. “Why Is the Book of Mormon’s Historical Authenticity So Important?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #480. October 30, 2018.
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Keywords: Historicity; Joseph Smith; Plates; Moroni; Jesus Christ; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7856]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-10-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 17221  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Bednar, David A. “Gather Together in One All Things in Christ.” Ensign, November 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [62588]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12567  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:53
Bowen, Shayne M. “The Role of the Book of Mormon in Conversion.” Ensign, November 2018.
ID = [62606]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 11693  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:53
Scripture Central. “Why Is So Little Said about the Timing of Christ’s Temple Ministry?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #481. November 1, 2018.
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Keywords: Christ in America; Resurrection; Nephites; Chronology; Temples; Holy of Holies
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7855]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-11-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9417  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Must Christ’s True Church Be Called after His Name?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #482. November 6, 2018.
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Keywords: Names; Christ; Church; Gospel; Prophets; Scriptures
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7854]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-11-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9917  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “The Miraculous Translation of the Book of Mormon into Ukrainian.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #483. November 8, 2018.
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Keywords: Ukraine; Book of Mormon Translation; Language
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7853]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-11-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8989  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Is the Book of Mormon So Focused on Jesus Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #484. November 13, 2018.
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Keywords: Jesus Christ; Book of Mormon; Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7852]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-11-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11776  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Thomas B. Marsh was Led to the Book of Mormon Without Knowing It.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #485. November 15, 2018.
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Keywords: Church History; Book of Mormon Printing; Testimony
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7851]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-11-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7124  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Who Are the Lamanites?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #486. November 20, 2018.
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Keywords: Lamanites; Early Church History; Restoration; Ancestors
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7850]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-11-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 20155  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Role Should Scholarship Play in Studying the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #487. November 22, 2018.
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Keywords: Scholarship; History; Geography; Literature; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7849]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-11-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 15707  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “The Simple Miracle That Helped the Whitmers Further the Book of Mormon.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #488. November 27, 2018.
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Keywords: Early Church History; Service; David Whitmer; Miracles
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7848]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-11-27  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7580  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Where is the Location of the Hill Cumorah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #489. November 29, 2018.
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Keywords: Hill Cumorah; Geography; Angel Moroni; Final Nephite Battle; Gold Plates; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7847]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-11-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 18001  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Burt, Claudette Bybee. “The Book of Mormon: A Special Gift.” Ensign, December 2018.
ID = [62668]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2018-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2188  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:53
Scripture Central. “Does the Book of Mormon Really Have ‘Bad’ Grammar?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #490. December 4, 2018.
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Keywords: Textual Criticism; Textual Variants; Weakness; Language; Printer’s Manuscript
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [7846]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-12-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10506  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Are the Words of the Book of Mormon Like ‘One That Hath a Familiar Spirit’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #491. December 6, 2018.
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Keywords: Familiar Spirit; Isaiah; Nephi; Likening; Angel Moroni; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7845]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-12-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 14645  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Were Lehi and Nephi Guided by Angelic Escorts in Their Visions?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #492. December 11, 2018.
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Keywords: Angels; Apocalypse; Visions
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7844]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-12-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13144  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Should Latter-day Saints Beware Fraudulent Artifacts?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #493. December 13, 2018.
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Keywords: Hoaxes; Frauds; Church History
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7843]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-12-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 17780  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Is the Book of Mormon ‘Another Testament of Jesus Christ’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #494. December 18, 2018.
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Keywords: Another Testament; Covenants; Title Page; Scriptures
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7842]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-12-18  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7229  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Mormon Talk about a ‘Land of Jerusalem’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #495. December 20, 2018.
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Keywords: Jerusalem; Dead Sea Scrolls; Archaeology; Historicity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7841]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-12-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12832  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
2019
Allis-Pike, Jane. “Words from the Wise: Alma 36-39 through the Lens of Proverbs 1-9.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [34080]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 37455  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Anderson, Gary N. Mormonism and the Temple: Examining An Ancient Religious Tradition. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2019.
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Mormonism and the Temple: Examining an Ancient Religious Tradition contains the proceedings of the Academy for Temple Studies conference held under the same title on the campus of Utah State University on 29 October 2012, and includes the following presentations: • Restoring Solomon’s Temple by Margaret Barker • Chapel, Church, Temple, Cathedral: Lost Parallels in Mormon and Catholic Worship by Laurence Paul Hemming • Questions and Answers with Margaret Barker and Laurence Hemming • The Temple, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Gospel of Matthew by John W. Welch • A Divine Mother in the Book of Mormon? by Daniel C. Peterson • Temples—Bridges of Eternity by LeGrande Davies • The Temple, the Book of Revelation, and Joseph Smith by John L. Fowles

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Belnap, Daniel L. “‘And Now My Son, I Have Somewhat More to Say’: Corianton’s Concerns, Alma’s Theology, and Nephite Tradition.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Restoration of the Gospel
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
ID = [34078]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 65712  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Belnap, Daniel L. “‘And he was Anti-Christ’: The Significance of the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of the Judges, Part 2.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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For the Nephites, the sixteenth year of the reign of the judges was tremendously difficult. The arrival of the people of Ammon, in itself an incredible disruption of Nephite society, precipitated a battle, which Mormon describes as a “tremendous battle; yea, even such an one as never had been known among all the people in the land from the time Lehi left Jerusalem’’ (Alma 28:2). The dead, we are told, were not counted due to their enormous number. These events compounded the pre-existing struggles that resulted from the sociopolitical fallout from the reforms of Mosiah. Though Alma 30:5 suggests that all is well in Zarahemla during the seventeenth year of the reign of the judges, the events of the next year and half, the eighteenth year, belie this peace. Within this span, the Nephites exploded in two separate, but related, political conflagrations: (1) the secession of the inhabitants of Antionum from the greater Nephite community, and (2) the civil war spearheaded by Amalickiah. But prior to both of these events came Korihor.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81924]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Bentley, Nancy. “Kinship, The Book of Mormon, and Modern Revelation.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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“In this essay I examine The Book of Mormon as a latter-​day Book of the Dead, a purportedly ancient text that reveals truths for a modern world. Unlike the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in The Book of Mormon the keys to securing a place in the afterlife are not spells or incantations but—​as befits a modern people—​a true knowledge of American history and a Christian reformation of family and kin life that is necessary for salvation. The distinctive way it connects ancient and modern worlds can be illuminated through comparison with other contemporary efforts to join the living and the dead. I compare The Book of Mormon with Morgan’s secular ethnology and (more briefly) with the New Religion founded by Handsome Lake, two other transformations of kinship thinking that were rooted in western New York and that rested on textualizing voices of the dead. In all three cases, spiritual truths encrypted in the deep past are cross-​fertilized with the modern doctrine of self-​making through contract. The disparities among them, however, can teach us as much about secularity as it does about American religion.” [Author]

Keywords: Kinship; Native Americans, Mormons and; Book of Mormon, Native Americans and; Book of Mormon
ID = [82093]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:57
Berkey, Kimberly M. “‘Retain All Their Oaths’: Lehitic Covenant and Secret Combinations in Alma 37.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
ID = [34087]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 45035  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Berkey, Kimberly M. “Narrative Doubling and the Structure of Helaman.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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The Book of Helaman is a segment of the Book of Mormon whose study is both imperative and complicated in underappreciated ways. The imperative behind the book of Helaman’s study lies in the text’s significance for the self-conception of the Book of Mormon as well as its mythmaking function for the early Saints in their imaginative mapping of the American West. Like the Book of Mormon, Helaman traffics in buried texts that disclose signs and covenants and makes explicit the latent Lamanite frame that undergirds the Book of Mormon as a whole. It presents, as well, the Book of Mormon’s most robust account of secret combinations-a group that then entranced the text’s earliest readers to such a degree that they used this characterization to imbue their landscape with religious significance, describing the mountains surrounding the Salt Lake Valley as “the abode of the spirits of Gadianton robbers.” To understand the Book of Mormon’s sense of itself as a material artifact, to clarify the theological status of the Lamanites, and to explore the way the Book of Mormon helped sculpt a sense of place for early Latter-day Saints, close attention to the book of Helaman is an unavoidable prerequisite.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [81923]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Black, Susan Easton, and Larry C. Porter. Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2019.
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Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the Book of Mormon reveals the compelling story of a man who had seen angels and knew Joseph Smith was a prophet but who nevertheless struggled to keep his faith in the prophetic calling of Joseph Smith and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. His is a story of fascination with worldly honors, flirtations with apostasy, and pride that nearly cost him the joy of his later years in the West. It is the biography of a witness who clung tenaciously to his testimony of the Book of Mormon. Well-known historians Susan Black and Larry Porter have written a landmark biography of Martin Harris, one of the most important figures in early Church history. Joseph Smith relied on his generosity and goodwill to publish the Book of Mormon, of which he was one of the Three Witnesses. But Latter-day Saints in the twenty-first century know relatively little about him, especially the decades he spent away from the Restoration—until now. This biography deserves a place on the bookshelves of historians and other interested Church members. Strongly recommend. Reid L. Neilson Assistant Church Historian and Recorder The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints This deeply researched book examines the life of one of Joseph Smith’s closest associates in the Church’s early years. It tells us more about signifi­cant episodes, such as the printing of the Book of Mormon, than anyone has ever known. Most important, it helps us reassess the character of Martin Harris, a key contributor to the Restoration. Harris emerges as a man of substance and judgment, a fitting witness to the angel and the plates. The book explains how he fell away and then returned but at no time backed away from his testimony. Richard Lyman Bushman Author, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling As one of the earliest believers in Joseph Smith’s spiritual claims, Martin Harris figured prominently in the early events of the Restoration. He observed firsthand many of the sacred scenes associated with the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, assisted in its translation, was one of the book’s Three Witnesses, financed its publication, and was one of the first converts baptized into the Church of Christ. Authors Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter have produced an insightful, informative, well-­documented biography of Martin Harris’s lifelong religious sojourn—a life characterized by integrity, faith, and generosity, but most of all, testimony. This is solid, down-to-earth biographical history at its best. Alexander L. Baugh Professor, Church History and Doctrine, BYU

ID = [75301]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:38
Bowen, Matthew L. “Messengers of the Covenant: Mormon’s Doctrinal Use of Malachi 3:1 in Moroni 7:29–32.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 111-138.
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Abstract: Although not evident at first glance, shared terminology and phraseology in Malachi 3:1 (3 Nephi 24:1) and Moroni 7:29–32 suggest textual dependency of the latter on the former. Jesus’s dictation of Malachi 3–4 to the Lamanites and Nephites at the temple in Bountiful, as recorded and preserved on the plates of Nephi, helped provide Mormon a partial scriptural and doctrinal basis for his teachings on the ministering of angels, angels/messengers of the covenant, the “work” of “the covenants of the Father,” and “prepar[ing] the way” in his sermon as preserved in Moroni 7. This article explores the implications of Mormon’s use of Malachi 3:1. It further explores the meaning of the name Malachi (“[Yahweh is] my messenger,” “my angel”) in its ancient Israelite scriptural context and the temple context within which Jesus uses it in 3 Nephi 24:1.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
ID = [3591]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 63497  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:00
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘And They Shall Be Had Again’: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in Moses 1:41 in View of the So-called Canon Formula.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 297-304.
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Abstract: Moses 1:41 echoes or plays on the etymological meaning of the name Joseph — “may he [Yahweh] add,” as the Lord foretells to Moses the raising up of a future figure through whom the Lord’s words, after having been “taken” (away) from the book that Moses would write, “shall be had again among the children of men.” Moses 1:41 anticipates and employs language reminiscent of the so-called biblical canon formulas, possible additions to biblical texts meant to ensure the texts’ stability by warning against “adding” or “diminishing” (i.e., “taking away”) from them (e.g., Deuteronomy 4:2; 5:22 [MT 5:18]; 12:32 [MT 13:1]; cf. Revelation 22:18– 19). This article presupposes that the vision of Moses presents restored text that was at some point recorded in Hebrew.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses
ID = [3584]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,moses,old-test  Size: 17297  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:00
Bowen, Matthew L. “Shazer: An Etymological Proposal in Narrative Context.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 1-12.
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Abstract: In 1 Nephi 16:13–14, Nephi mentions the name Shazer as a toponym the Lehite clan bestowed on a site in western Arabia “four days” journey south-southeast of the valley of Laman. The Lehites used this site as a base camp for a major hunting expedition. A footnote to the first mention of the name Shazer in the 1981 and 2013 Latter-day Saint editions of the Book of Mormon has virtually enshrined “twisting, intertwining” as the presumed meaning of this toponym. However, the structure of Nephi’s text in 1 Nephi 16:12–13 suggests that the name Shazer serves as the bracketing for a chiastic description of the Lehites’ hunting expedition from the site. This chiasm recommends hunting as a possible starting point for seeking a more precise etymology for Shazer, one related to food supply. Consequently, I briefly argue for Shazer as a Semitic word (possibly also a loanword from an Old Arabic dialect) and a close cognate with both Hismaic šaṣar (“young gazelle,” plural šaṣr) and Arabic šaṣara (a type of “gazelle”).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [3558]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 23222  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
Bowen, Matthew L. “Look to the Lord! The Meaning of Liahona and the Doctrine of Christ in Alma 37-38.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
ID = [34081]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 41052  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Boyce, Duane. “Text as Afterthought: Jana Riess’s Treatment of the Jacob-Sherem Episode.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 123-140.
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Review of Jana Riess, “‘There Came a Man’: Sherem, Scapegoating, and the Inversion of Prophetic Tradition,” in Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, eds. Adam S. Miller and Joseph M. Spencer (Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2017), 17 pages (chapter), 174 pages (book).
Abstract: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute recently published a book on the encounter between Jacob and Sherem in Jacob 7. Jana Riess’s contribution to this volume demonstrates the kind of question-asking and hypothesis formation that might occur on a quick first pass through the text, but it does not demonstrate what obviously must come next, the testing of those hypotheses against the text. Her article appears to treat the text as a mere afterthought. The result is a sizeable collection of errors in thinking about Jacob and Sherem.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
ID = [3561]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 45632  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
Boyce, Duane. “Jacob Did Not Make a False Prediction.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 161-174.
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Review of Adam S. Miller, “Reading Signs or Repeating Symptoms,” in Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, eds. Adam S. Miller and Joseph M. Spencer (Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2017), 10 pages (chapter), 174 pages (book).

Abstract. The Neal A. Maxwell Institute recently published a volume on the encounter between Jacob and Sherem in Jacob 7. Adam Miller’s contribution to this book is a reiteration of views he published earlier in his own volume. One of Miller’s claims is that Jacob made a false prediction about the reaction Sherem would have to a sign if one were given him — an assertion that is already beginning to shape the conventional wisdom about this episode. This shaping is unfortunate, however, since the evidence indicates that this view of Jacob’s prediction is a mistake. Once we see this, it is easier to avoid other mistakes that seem evident in Miller’s approach.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3563]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 32212  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
Bradley, Don. The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s Missing Stories. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford, 2019.
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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Ryan Dahle. “Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn on Ancient Manuscripts When He Translated the Story of Enoch?: Recent Updates on a Persistent Question.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 305-374.
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Abstract: In this article, we offer a general critique of scholarship that has argued for Joseph Smith’s reliance on 1 Enoch or other ancient pseudepigrapha for the Enoch chapters in the Book of Moses. Our findings highlight the continued difficulties of scholars to sustain such arguments credibly. Following this general critique, we describe the current state of research relating to what Salvatore Cirillo took to be the strongest similarity between Joseph Smith’s chapters on Enoch and the Qumran Book of Giants — namely the resemblance between the name Mahawai in the Book of Giants and Mahujah/Mahijah in Joseph Smith’s Enoch account. We conclude this section with summaries of conversations of Gordon C. Thomasson and Hugh Nibley with Book of Giants scholar Matthew Black about these names. Next, we explain why even late and seemingly derivative sources may provide valuable new evidence for the antiquity of Moses 6–7 or may corroborate details from previously known Enoch sources. By way of example, we summarize preliminary research that compares passages in Moses 6–7 to newly available ancient Enoch texts from lesser known sources. We conclude with a discussion of the significance of findings that situate Joseph Smith’s Enoch account in an ancient milieu. Additional work is underway to provide a systematic and detailed analysis of ancient literary affinities in Moses 6–7, including an effort sponsored by Book of Mormon Central in collaboration with The Interpreter Foundation.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
ID = [3570]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,bradshaw,interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 64360  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
Brown, Amanda Colleen. “Never Static, Never Simple: One Woman’s Conversations Within the Marginalia of If Truth Were a Child.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 257-266.
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Review of George B. Handley, If Truth Were A Child: Essays, (Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2019), 253 pp. $19.99 (paperback).
Abstract: George B. Handley challenges his readers to reevaluate conventional definitions of truth and the approaches they employ to define their own truths. He argues that the individual quest for truth should include as many available resources as possible, whether those resources are secular or religious. His framework of intellectual and religious experience allows him to discuss truth in the context of literary theory and of the events that shaped his own faith. My review focuses on four themes: balancing experience and learning, balancing the individual and the community, balancing answers and faith, and balancing individual readings of holy texts. Ultimately, Handley’s discussion of those themes gives readers the tools to navigate the current public discourse more effectively, empowering them to look beyond their own perspectives to discover the good in everyone and find balance in their lives.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3567]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 22445  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
Brown, Samuel Morris. “‘To Read the Round of Eternity’: Speech, Text, and Scripture in The Book of Mormon.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter explores the relationship between oral and written communication, claiming that the Book of Mormon argues against scripture’s ability to stand alone. It discusses the corruptibility of written text and the importance of a modern seer in rendering ancient scripture relevant and understandable.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, comparative linguistics
ID = [82094]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:57
BYU Religious Studies Center. Give Ear to My Words: Text and Context of Alma 36–42. The 48th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2019.
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The 48th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium Alma’s deeply personal writings to his sons contain some of the most informative doctrinal discussions in scripture. Originating out of the love and concern of a parent, these chapters present salient teachings on key gospel principles, proper behaviors, and correct theology. Here the pure doctrines of God’s merciful plan of redemption through his Son, Jesus Christ, are laid plain. This volume compiles essays given at a BYU Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Drawing on both academic training and dedicated study of the scriptures, the authors in this volume provide valuable new contexts to understand Alma’s doctrinal expositions. Tad R. Callister, former Sunday School General President, was the keynote speaker. The diversity of scholarship from this book’s contributors provides this book with valuable new contexts to help readers understand Alma’s doctrinal expositions. The range of topics covered, and the contrasting perspectives will appeal to a broad audience and speak to many different people at different levels.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [38796]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 2  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:55

Articles

Callister, Tad R. “What Is the Purpose of Suffering?” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > G — K > Hope
RSC Topics > T — Z > Trials
ID = [34069]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 39449  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Ellison, Mark D. “Beyond Justice: Reading Alma 42.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34070]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 58838  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Sharp, Ryan H. “Alma, Ambiguity, and the Development of Doctrinal Understanding.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [34071]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 44717  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Sharp, Daniel B. “Justice, Mercy and the Atonement in the Teachings of Alma to Corianton.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Restoration of the Gospel
ID = [34072]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 27705  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Ludlow, Jared W. “Alma’s Loving Counsel to His Sons about the Law of Justice.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > G — K > Happiness
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Restoration of the Gospel
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [34073]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 40566  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Lane, Jennifer Clark. “Born of God- Partaking of the Fruit.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > D — F > Forgiveness
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [34074]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 39326  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Shannon, Avram R. “Law of God/God of Law: The Law of Moses in Alma’s Teachings to Corianton.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Law of Moses
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Restoration of the Gospel
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
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Judd, Frank F., Jr. “Alma and the Sacred Things.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
ID = [34076]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 52960  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
LeFevre, David A. “Records and Relics: Convenantal Transition in Alma 37.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
ID = [34077]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 40062  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Spencer, Joseph M. “Women and Nephite Men: Lessons from the Book of Alma.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34079]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 38452  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Tolley, Kevin L. “Alma 36: A Call to Repentance, a Prophetic Call.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [34082]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 47910  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Ogletree, Mark D. “Alma as an Intentional Father.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > L — P > Parenting
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [34083]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 37297  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Korth, Byran B. “Parents Teaching Children to Believe in Christ: ‘An Echo of a Celestial Pattern’” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > T — Z > Teaching the Gospel
ID = [34084]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 56165  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Hardy, Grant R. “Nurturing Faith: Literary Patterning in the Book of Alma.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
ID = [34085]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 38703  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Hardy, Heather. “Well-Crafted Counsel.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
ID = [34086]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 41958  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Taeger, Stephan. “Alma’s Chiasmus as Transformative Vicarious Experience.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
ID = [34088]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 32298  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Reynolds, Noel B. “Rethinking Alma 36.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [34089]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 37198  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Gardner, Brant A. “Mormon the Writer: Turning History into Story.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [34090]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 47320  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Wilcox, Bradley R. “Repentance: Progress, Not Punishment.” The 48th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2019.
ID = [38865]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:59

Articles

Callister, Tad R. “What Is the Purpose of Suffering?” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > G — K > Hope
RSC Topics > T — Z > Trials
ID = [34069]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 39449  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Ellison, Mark D. “Beyond Justice: Reading Alma 42.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34070]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 58838  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Sharp, Ryan H. “Alma, Ambiguity, and the Development of Doctrinal Understanding.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [34071]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 44717  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Sharp, Daniel B. “Justice, Mercy and the Atonement in the Teachings of Alma to Corianton.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Restoration of the Gospel
ID = [34072]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 27705  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Ludlow, Jared W. “Alma’s Loving Counsel to His Sons about the Law of Justice.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > G — K > Happiness
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Restoration of the Gospel
RSC Topics > Q — S > Salvation
ID = [34073]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 40566  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Lane, Jennifer Clark. “Born of God- Partaking of the Fruit.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > D — F > Forgiveness
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [34074]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 39326  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Shannon, Avram R. “Law of God/God of Law: The Law of Moses in Alma’s Teachings to Corianton.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > G — K > Justice
RSC Topics > L — P > Law of Moses
RSC Topics > L — P > Mercy
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Restoration of the Gospel
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
ID = [34075]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 51452  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
Judd, Frank F., Jr. “Alma and the Sacred Things.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
ID = [34076]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 52960  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:21
LeFevre, David A. “Records and Relics: Convenantal Transition in Alma 37.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
ID = [34077]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 40062  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Spencer, Joseph M. “Women and Nephite Men: Lessons from the Book of Alma.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34079]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 38452  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Tolley, Kevin L. “Alma 36: A Call to Repentance, a Prophetic Call.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [34082]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 47910  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Ogletree, Mark D. “Alma as an Intentional Father.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > L — P > Parenting
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [34083]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 37297  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Korth, Byran B. “Parents Teaching Children to Believe in Christ: ‘An Echo of a Celestial Pattern’” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > T — Z > Teaching the Gospel
ID = [34084]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 56165  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Hardy, Grant R. “Nurturing Faith: Literary Patterning in the Book of Alma.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
ID = [34085]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 38703  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Hardy, Heather. “Well-Crafted Counsel.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
ID = [34086]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 41958  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Taeger, Stephan. “Alma’s Chiasmus as Transformative Vicarious Experience.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
ID = [34088]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 32298  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Reynolds, Noel B. “Rethinking Alma 36.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [34089]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 37198  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Gardner, Brant A. “Mormon the Writer: Turning History into Story.” In Give Ear to My Words, eds. Kerry Hull, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Hank R. Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [34090]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 47320  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:22
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. Dating Scripture Events. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2019.
Display Abstract  

Jeffrey R. Chadwick, in three landmark articles published in BYU Studies Quarterly, discusses accurately dating key scriptural events. The first article (2010) presents evidence from historical and scriptural sources suggesting that Jesus Christ was born in December of the year 5 BC, rather than in April of 1 BC as commonly claimed in traditional Latter-day Saint sources. The second article (2015) is a follow-up to the first and lays out a more complex collection of evidence pointing to the day and date of Jesus’s crucifixion and death as a Thursday early in April of AD 30, thirty-three years and three months after his birth. The third article (2018) assembles a vast array of historical and archaeological data suggesting that the date of Lehi’s departure from Jerusalem must have been late in the year 605 BC, some six hundred years prior to Jesus’s birth in December of 5 BC.

ID = [75270]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,new-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:36
Christensen, Kevin. “Light and Perspective: Essays from the Mormon Theology Seminar on 1 Nephi 1 and Jacob 7.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 25-70.
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Abstract: The Mormon Theology Seminar has produced two volumes of essays exploring 1 Nephi 1 on Lehi’s initial visions, and Jacob 7 on the encounter with Sherem. These essays provide valuable insights from a range of perspectives and raise questions for further discussion both of issues raised and regarding different paradigms in which scholars operate that readers must navigate.
Review of Adam S. Miller, ed., A Dream, a Rock, and a Pillar of Fire: Reading 1 Nephi 1 (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2017), 140 pp., $15.95.

Review of Adam S. Miller and Joseph M. Spencer, eds., Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7 (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2017), 148 pp., $15.95.

[I]t would be foolish to ignore an avenue that could potentially provide new insights into the Book of Mormon narrative.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
Old Testament Scriptures > Jeremiah/Lamentations
ID = [3588]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 64648  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:00
Coviello, Peter. “How the Mormons Became White: Scripture, Sex, Sovereignty.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter discusses race in the Book of Mormon, claiming that while racism is prevalent in the book, another defining theme is that of the self-destruction of an imperialist society. This chapter also comments on relations between Latter-day Saint colonists and Native Americans.

Keywords: Native Americans, Mormons and; Imperialism; Book of Mormon; Native Americans, Mormon views of
ID = [82095]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:57
Crapo, Richley. “Lehi, Joseph, and the Kingdom of Israel.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 289-304.
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Abstract: I present evidence of two priesthoods in the Jewish Bible: an Aaronite priesthood, held by Aaron and passed down through his descendants; and a higher Mushite priesthood, held not only by Moses and his descendants but also by other worthy individuals, such as Joshua, an Ephraimite. The Mushite priests were centered in Shiloh, where Joshua settled the Ark of the Covenant, while the Aaronites became dominant in the Jerusalem temple. Like Joshua, the prophet Lehi, a descendant of the northern tribe of Manasseh, held the higher priesthood. His ministry, as recounted in the Book of Mormon, demonstrates four characteristics that show a clear connection to his ancestors’ origins in the northern Kingdom of Israel: (1) revelation through prophetic dreams, (2) the ministry of angels, (3) imagery of the Tree of Life, and (4) a positive attitude toward the Nehushtan tradition. These traits are precisely those which scholarship, based on the Documentary Hypothesis, attributes to texts in the Hebrew Bible that originated in the northern Kingdom of Israel rather than in Judah.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
ID = [3569]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 34862  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
Dale, Bruce E., and Brian Dale. “Joseph Smith: The World’s Greatest Guesser (A Bayesian Statistical Analysis of Positive and Negative Correspondences between the Book of Mormon and The Maya).” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 77-186.
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Abstract: Dr. Michael Coe is a prominent Mesoamerican scholar and author of a synthesis and review of ancient Mesoamerican Indian cultures entitled The Maya.
Dr. Coe is also a prominent skeptic of the Book of Mormon. However, there is in his book strong evidence that favors the Book of Mormon, which Dr. Coe has not taken into account. This article analyzes that evidence, using Bayesian statistics. We apply a strongly skeptical prior assumption that the Book of Mormon “has little to do with early Indian cultures,” as Dr. Coe claims. We then compare 131 separate positive correspondences or points of evidence between the Book of Mormon and Dr. Coe’s book. We also analyze negative points of evidence between the Book of Mormon and The Maya, between the Book of Mormon and a 1973 Dialogue article written by Dr. Coe, and between the Book of Mormon and a series of Mormon Stories podcast interviews given by Dr. Coe to Dr. John Dehlin. After using the Bayesian methodology to analyze both positive and negative correspondences, we reach an enormously stronger and very positive conclusion. There is overwhelming evidence that the Book of Mormon has physical, political, geographical, religious, military, technological, and cultural roots in ancient Mesoamerica. As a control, we have also analyzed two other books dealing with ancient American Indians: View of the Hebrews and Manuscript Found. We compare both books with The Maya using the same statistical methodology and demonstrate that this methodology leads to rational conclusions about whether or not such books describe peoples and places similar to those described in The Maya.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3577]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 64863  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:59
Deane, Morgan. “A Nourishing and Accessible Read.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 305-306.
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Review of Michaela Stephens, To Defend Them By Stratagem: Fortify Yourself with Book of Mormon War Tactics (Gilbert, AZ: Lion’s Whelp Publications, 2018). 246 pp. $12.99 (paperback).
Abstract: Sometimes it is easy to overlook, disregard, or discount the “war chapters” in the Book of Mormon. Michaela Stephens’ new book about these chapters deserves wider attention, as it is an excellent study resource that provides valuable devotional and academic insights while remaining accessible to lay readers.

ID = [3585]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 3334  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:00
Easton-Flake, Amy. “‘Arise From the Dust, My Sons, and Be Men’: Masculinity in The Book of Mormon.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter compares masculinity in the Book of Mormon with the masculine ideals of the 19th century. “The Book of Mormon’s prescription for ideal manhood critiques the American culture that it enters, engages with some of the most pressing religious and gender questions of the nineteenth century (such as continuing revelation, sola scriptura, increasing materialism, and changing gender dynamics and responsibilities), and provides the precedent for the religion Joseph Smith founded—​ a religion that, in its nineteenth-​century context, called for its followers to gather to communal societies, to labor spiritually to convert others to their faith, to place fathers as the moral heads of the home, and to seek direct communication with the Lord. To learn how to succeed at such aspirations, nineteenth-​century Church members needed only to look to the examples of their spiritual forefathers in The Book of Mormon.” [Author]

Keywords: Gender roles; Masculinity; Book of Mormon
ID = [82096]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:57
Ewell, Janet Hessell. “Seeing Psalms as the Libretti of a Holy Drama.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 259-276.
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Abstract: Psalms was the favorite Old Testament book at Qumran and in the New Testament; the Book of Mormon contains more than three dozen allusions to Psalms. While Psalms contains both powerful, poetic words of comfort and doctrinal gems, many psalms also seem to careen between praise, warning, comfort, military braggadocio, and humility, sometimes addressing the Lord, sometimes speaking in the voice of the Lord or his prophets. The texts that most strongly exhibit such abrupt shifts may yield greater meaning if they are read as scripts or libretti of a sacred, temple- based drama.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
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Fenton, Elizabeth. “Nephites and Israelites: The Book of Mormon and the Hebraic Indian Theory.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter discusses the origins of Native Americans. It claims that in providing for a Hebraic origin of Native Americans, the Book of Mormon opens the door for other peoples, histories, and texts to be revealed.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Native Americans and; Book of Mormon; Native Americans, origins of
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Fenton, Elizabeth, and Jared Hickman, eds. Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Articles

Williams, R. J. “The Ghost and the Machine: Plates and Paratext in The Book of Mormon.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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In this chapter, the author discusses attempts to examine the nature of the Book of Mormon without considering its historicity. The author concludes that it is impossible to separate the work from its own historicity, and that part of the book’s value lies in that fact.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, printing; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, historicity
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Sayre, Jillian J. “Books Buried in the Earth: The Book of Mormon, Revelation, and the Humic Foundations of the Nation.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter examines the importance of written text in the Book of Mormon and the way in which its writers transcend time, communicating directly with readers in the present day. It argues that the Latter-day Saint community is influenced largely by voices from the past, and that similarly, America’s national culture formed due to the societal connections created by print culture.

Keywords: Social and cultural history; Social and cultural history, American setting; Book of Mormon
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Gutjahr, Paul. “Orson Pratt’s Enduring Influence on The Book of Mormon.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter explores Orson Pratt’s significant influence on textual aspects of the Book of Mormon, describing various editions of the book he was directly involved in editing. It emphasizes his attention to ease of access and understanding for readers.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, printing; Book of Mormon, editions and translations; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, Orson Pratt and
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Hardy, Grant R. “The Book of Mormon and the Bible.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter draws parallels between the Book of Mormon and the Bible, examining the two from multiple perspectives including Americanism, diction, and intertextuality.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual parallels; Book of Mormon, Bible and; Book of Mormon
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Shalev, Eran. “An American Book of Chronicles: Pseudo-​Biblicism and the Cultural Origins of The Book of Mormon.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter examines the Book of Mormon in light of the popular pseudo-biblical genre of the time period in which it was published. It hypothesizes that the Book of Mormon could not have gained the traction it did if not for the existence of contemporary texts written in biblical style.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual parallels; Book of Mormon, Bible and; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon, American setting
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Scales, Laura Thiemann. “‘The Writing of the Fruit of Thy Loins’: Reading, Writing, and Prophecy in The Book of Mormon.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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“The Book of Mormon is the story of how ancient Israelites established a civilization in the Americas, but it is also the story of the book itself : how the records were acquired, composed, labored over, protected, lost, abridged, preserved for a thousand years, and finally buried so that the plates could, as prophesied, be discovered by Joseph Smith centuries later. The prominence of the reader and writer is not just an incidental feature of this scripture, but is essential to the Mormon understanding of the relationship between human and divine. This essay identifies three key narrative features of The Book of Mormon : the centrality of readers and witnesses to the creation of scripture, the primacy of the act of writing in revelation and prophecy, and the mediation that allows a single person to inhabit multiple narrative categories. Biblical prophets, especially “writing prophets” like Jeremiah and Ezekiel, share some features with the prophets of The Book of Mormon , such as first-​person narration and dialogue with God. Yet there is little biblical precedent for The Book of Mormon’s intense focus on its own textuality and its own narrative practices or for the ways in which prophets transcend their passive, anointed roles and become authors of scripture in their own right. Its insistent textuality does, however, link The Book of Mormon to other scriptural and prophetic forms that arose in the antebellum United States. While the Mormon prophets vary in their literary style, narrative techniques, and personal presence, the centrality of reading, writing, and the system of scripture-​craft is persistent.” [Author]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon
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Shreve, Grant. “Nephite Secularization ; or, Picking and Choosing in The Book of Mormon.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter describes secularization among the Nephites. It claims that the Book of Mormon attempts to solve problems of secularity faced by Joseph Smith in early 19th-century America.

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Book of Mormon, use and influence; Book of Mormon
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Spencer, Joseph M., and Kimberly M. Berkey. “‘Great Cause to Mourn’: The Complexity of The Book of Mormon’s Presentation of Gender and Race.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter discusses gender and race in the Book of Mormon through the teachings of Samuel and Jacob, examining the way each prophet speaks to and about women and racial “others.”

Keywords: Race relations; Gender roles; Book of Mormon, women; Book of Mormon
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Thayne, Stanley J. “‘We’re Going to Take Our Land Back Over’: Indigenous Positionality, the Ethnography of Reading, and The Book of Mormon.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter argues that Indigenous Americans-- by virtue of being Indigenous-- are positioned significantly in relation to the Book of Mormon. The chapter provides a reading of the Book of Mormon by a Catawba woman, examining her perspective on passages regarding Gentiles, Zionism, and geography.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Native Americans and; Native Americans, origins of; Native Americans, Catawba
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Givens, Terryl L. “The Book of Mormon and the Reshaping of Covenant.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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“Jan Shipps noted decades ago that the appearance of The Book of Mormon in 1830 was so shrouded in supernatural claims involving gold plates, “magic spectacles,” and ancient Christians that many non-​Mormons “wonder how any intelligent person could ever accept it as true.” One answer may be found in the ways in which the record appropriates and reshapes an extensive language and theology of covenant that would have been powerfully resonant to nineteenth-​century readers. The Book of Mormon emerges in the context of the period’s pervasive pseudo-​biblicism and, more particularly, within a long tradition of covenantal rhetoric. The book is replete with Midrash-​like texts built around Isaiah, aspects of Israelite religion, Jewish protagonists, and temple building. At the same time, the book is introduced by its final editor as an assurance to an American remnant of Israel of “the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off.” The term covenant further occurs almost 200 times—​ but undergoes particular permutations that endow the concept with recontextualized and therefore new shades of meaning. A consideration of the scripture’s engagement with and reconfigurations of covenant theology can go a long way, then, toward explaining its initial successful reception. The Book of Mormon’s new covenant theology also proves absolutely essential to Smith’s own restoration project—​which would consist of implementing his particular vision of the gospel as the “new and everlasting covenant.” Finally, The Book of Mormon serves the essential function of Puritan covenant theology by itself embodying an alternative means of salvational certitude, both in its alleged concrete facticity and in modeling the possibility of personal, dialogic revelation from God to each seeking individual.” [Author]

Keywords: Doctrinal history, covenant theology; Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon
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Hutchins, Zachary McLeod. “‘I Lead the Way, like Columbus’: Joseph Smith, Genocide, and Revelatory Ambiguity.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This introduction gives an overview of the Book of Mormon and its origins. It describes the unique aspects the Book of Mormon presents to Americanist literary critics, including that of its claim to divine origin, its anachronism, and its centrality to the foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, American setting; Book of Mormon, historicity
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Whitley, Edward Keyes. “Book of Mormon Poetry.” In Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Elizabeth Fenton, and Jared Hickman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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This chapter explores elements of Book of Mormon poetry including symbols, form, and allusion.

Keywords: Literary arts; Book of Mormon; Literary arts, poetry
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Frederick, Nicholas J. “The Bible and the Book of Mormon: A Review of Literature.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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The enigmatic relationship between the Book of Mormon and the Bible goes all the way back to one of its earliest reviewers, Restorationist Alexander Campbell, who noted inconsistencies between the two. Campbell addressed the Book of Mormon text’s conflation of the Old and New Covenants, differing on details such as Jesus’s birthplace and, in particular, how much the Book of Mormon’s pre-Christian peoples anticipated New Testament events. The Book of Mormon prophet Lehi, Campbell wrote, “developed the records of Matthew, Luke, and John, six hundred years before John the Baptist was born.” From the time of Campbell and into the present day, much of Book of Mormon scholarship has pivoted around this issue. How could a text that claims origins prior to the canonization of the New Testament interact so explicitly with the New Testament text? And what of the Old Testament content, in particular Isaiah, strewn throughout its pages? For many years, those who saw the Book of Mormon as purely the product of the mind of Joseph Smith interpreted these interactions as a sign of indirect influence at best and plagiarism at worst. In response, those who were willing to subscribe to divine origins developed several possible solutions, such as the ideas that Book of Mormon authors had access to “untainted” biblical manuscripts that have since disappeared; or that they had a level of prescience in writing. However, in recent years, this apologetic-or-critical sentiment of arguing why the Bible is present in the Book of Mormon has begun to wane in favor of further exploring how the Bible is present in the Book of Mormon. The intent of this literature review is to lay out the different scholarship trajectories related to the presence of the Bible in the Book of Mormon.

ID = [81928]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:48
Gardner, Brant A. “Read This Book: A Review of the Maxwell Institute Study Edition of the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 139-142.
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Abstract: The Maxwell Institute Study Edition of the Book of Mormon is an important tool for personal and class study of the Book of Mormon. Not only does it provide a better reading experience, it has important features that enhance study.
Review of Grant Hardy, ed. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Maxwell Institute Study Edition (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University / Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2018). 648 pp. $35.00 (paperback).

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Gore, David Charles. The Voice of the People: Political Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2019.
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“In our era of heated political discourse, the Book of Mormon makes a surprisingly serious contribution to understanding our social troubles. David Gore argues that this Latter-day scripture invites readers to cultivate a sober, wakeful approach to political discourse. To eschew self-indulgent politics in favor of a politics oriented toward others. Being with others and being for others is never easy. But by shouldering this work to persuade and be persuaded of the good we can make our political situation more prosperous and more enduring.”

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Political Rhetoric in; Book of Mormon; Politics, Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, historicity
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Hales, Brian C. “Curiously Unique: Joseph Smith as Author of the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 151-190.
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Abstract: The advent of the computer and the internet allows Joseph Smith as the “author” of the Book of Mormon to be compared to other authors and their books in ways essentially impossible even a couple of decades ago. Six criteria can demonstrate the presence of similarity or distinctiveness among writers and their literary creations: author education and experience, the book’s size and complexity, and the composition process and timeline. By comparing these characteristics, this essay investigates potentially unique characteristics of Joseph Smith and the creation of the Book of Mormon.

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Hardy, Grant R., ed. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ: Maxwell Institute Study Edition. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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This exquisitely produced volume presents the official Latter-day Saint edition of the Book of Mormon in an attractive, accessible, readable version that brings to Latter-day Saints the helpful features that have been part of standard Bible publishing for decades: paragraphs, quotation marks, poetic stanzas, section headings, and superscripted verse numbers. The latest Latter-day Saint scholarship is reflected in its brief, thoughtfully considered footnotes, although the focus is always on the text itself—its wording, structure, and interconnections—allowing the book’s sacred message to be heard anew. The Maxwell Institute Study Edition is ideally suited to both new readers of the Book of Mormon and also those who know the book well and have loved its teachings and testimony of Christ for many years. ISBN 978-1-9443-9465-3

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Articles

Hardy, Grant R. “Introduction.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Testimony of Three Witnesses.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Testimony of Eight Witnesses.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Testimony of Emma Smith.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Brief Explanation about the Book of Mormon.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Brief History of the Text.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Abbreviations.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Using the Study Edition.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “1 Nephi.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
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Hardy, Grant R. “2 Nephi.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
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Hardy, Grant R. “Jacob.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
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Hardy, Grant R. “Enos.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
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Hardy, Grant R. “Jarom.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
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Hardy, Grant R. “Omni.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
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Hardy, Grant R. “Words of Mormon.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
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Hardy, Grant R. “Mosiah.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
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Hardy, Grant R. “Alma.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Hardy, Grant R. “Helaman.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
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Hardy, Grant R. “3 Nephi.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
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Hardy, Grant R. “4 Nephi.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
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Hardy, Grant R. “Mormon (Chapters 1-7).” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Mormon (Chapters 8-9).” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Ether.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Hardy, Grant R. “Moroni.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Hardy, Grant R. “Maps and Charts.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Hardy, Grant R. “Joseph Smith’s Statements on the Book of Mormon.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37221]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:20
Hardy, Grant R. “Stories of the Translation.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37222]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:20
Hardy, Grant R. “General Notes.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37223]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:20
Hardy, Grant R. “Literary Parallelism.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37224]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:20
Hardy, Grant R. “Index of Names.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37225]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:21
Hardy, Grant R. “Reference Guide to the Book of Mormon.” In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, ed. Grant Hardy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37226]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:21
Hilton, John, III, Ryan H. Sharp, Bradley R. Wilcox, and Jaron Hansen. “Gentiles in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 267-288.
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Abstract: The word Gentiles appears 141 times in the Book of Mormon (the singular Gentile appears only five times.) It appears more frequently than key words such as baptize, resurrection, Zion, and truth. The word Gentiles does not appear with equal frequency throughout the Book of Mormon; in fact, it appears in only five of its fifteen books: 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, 3 Nephi, Mormon, and Ether. Additionally, Book of Mormon speakers did not say Gentiles evenly. Some speakers said the word much less often than we might expect while others used it much more. Nephi1 used Gentiles the most (43 times), and Christ Himself used it 38 times. In addition to analyzing which speakers used the word, this study shows distinctive ways in which Book of Mormon speakers used this word.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3568]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 46455  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
Huntsman, Eric D., and S. Kent Brown. New Rendition: The Testimony of Luke. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2019.
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The New Rendition of the Gospel of Luke provides a modern English translation of Luke’s Greek text. It is excerpted from The Testimony of Luke by S. Kent Brown. This Rendition was created mainly by Eric D. Huntsman. Luke lays claim to writing more than any other New Testament author. With his Gospel and Book of Acts, this second-generation Christian’s portrait of the world out of which Jesus and his church arose is beyond measure. Here, readers will discover a newly opened window into the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, offering a welcoming vista warmed by the presence of the caring and compassionate Son of God and graced by the personalities, stories (especially of women), and parables (such as the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son) that only Luke has preserved. This Rendition is part of the BYU New Testament Commentary series. This scholarly project aims to create a faithful modern English translation together with a full, in-depth, carefully researched Latter-day Saint commentary for each book on the New Testament. More of the New Rendition and commentary volumes will be added in coming months and years. As of the beginning of 2019, volumes have been published on Mark, Luke, First Corinthians, and Revelation.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75314]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,new-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:39
Jones, Clifford P. “The Record of My Father.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 9-32.
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Abstract: In 1 Nephi 1:16–17, Nephi tells us he is abridging “the record of my father.” The specific words Nephi uses in his writings form several basic but important patterns and features used repeatedly by Nephi and also by other Book of Mormon writers. These patterns and features provide context that appears to indicate that Nephi’s abridgment of Lehi’s record is the third-person account found in 1 Nephi 1:4 through 2:15 and that Nephi’s first-person account of his own ministry begins in 1 Nephi 2:16.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3573]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 57359  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:59
Kelling, Arno Schmidt Hans-Wilhelm, John Durham Peters, and Joseph M. Spencer. “The Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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If perhaps I am certain of nothing else, I am indeed certain of one thing: I cannot resist holy books. Understand me correctly, however. I regard all of them highly-the fiery bass voices of the Qur’an; Gautama’s all-tolerating claptrap of wisdom; the large compendium of Jewish cultural history called the Old Testament-but I refuse steadfastly to link the word “truth’’ with any of them. Whoever imagines that he possesses the truth has lost it in that very same instant. Truth has no meaning for us. Nothing would be more unfortunate than some kind of 5 percent clause of the Spirit, and nothing more ridiculous than when one prophet calls out another as a fanatic. Not one Church, but rather fundamentally Churches; not one Sacred Scripture, but rather numerous Sacred Scriptures. Hence, if you wish, a resigned-but in my experience quite therapeutic-agnosticism as foundation, yet at the same time a tireless hunt for one’s own mistakes and one’s own lack of knowledge-and, besides that, working diligently.

ID = [81927]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley, eds. The Rise of the Latter-day Saints: The Journals and Histories of Newel Knight. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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Newel Knight (1800–1847) was one of the very earliest Latter-day Saint converts and maintained a lifelong friendship and close association with Joseph Smith Jr. The journals of Newel Knight are part of a handful of essential manuscript sources that every historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints relies on to understand its early history. He was one of a few early converts to provide an eyewitness account of the founding events in Church history, including the rise and fall of the Church in Missouri, miraculous healings, legal battles, the construction and dedication of the Kirtland Temple, the first marriage performed by Joseph Smith Jr., the martyrdom, and the cold, difficult exodus from Illinois to Winter Quarters. Knight’s history has always been a difficult source to use because it was never published in one volume until now. This book brings together his various accounts into one place to tell the story of the rise of the Latter-day Saints. ISBN 978-1-9443-9483-7

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [33188]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 10  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:30:50

Articles

MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley. “Acknowledgments.” In The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, eds. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37168]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 744  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley. “Introduction.” In The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, eds. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37170]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 26383  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley. “New York, Ohio, and Missouri, 180-1834.” In The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, eds. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Devil
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [37171]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 141591  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley. “Kirtland, 1834-36.” In The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, eds. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37172]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 40881  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley. “Missouri, 1836-39.” In The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, eds. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37173]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 45988  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:18
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley. “Nauvoo, 1839-45.” In The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, eds. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
ID = [37174]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 85934  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:18
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley. “The Nauvoo Exodus and the ‘Mountain Expedition,’ 1845-46.” In The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, eds. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
ID = [37175]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 97866  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:18
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley. “Bibliography.” In The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, eds. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37176]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 17836  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:18
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley. “Index.” In The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, eds. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37177]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 12591  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:18
MacKay, Michael Hubbard, and William G. Hartley. “About the Editors.” In The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, eds. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
ID = [37178]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 1105  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:18
Mdletshe, Khumbulani Desmond. “Leadership Lessons from the Book of Mormon: Nephi as a Case Study.” Religious Educator Vol. 20 no. 1 (2019).
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
ID = [38372]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 35515  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:31
Mitton, George L. “The Crucifixion as a Mockery, Witness, and Warning of the Judgment.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 39-52.
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Abstract: In its action, setting, and arrangement, the crucifixion may be viewed as a stark mockery of the final judgment scene. This article provides a brief review of the relevant scriptures, considered together with some related apocryphal and other early Christian writings of interest in regard to the crucifixion. These sources point to the interpretation that the gospel writers saw in the crucifixion a striking symbolism that can provide a strong reminder, witness, and warning of the coming judgment. The Lord is seen in the crucifixion as at once representing His humility in submitting Himself to be judged and, conversely, His authority and power to be the judge of all. The crucifixion signifies the concept of a reciprocal or two-way judgment, as emphasized in the Book of Mormon, where mankind first judges the Lord, and later are to be judged accordingly by Him in return.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3575]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 33832  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:59
Moffat, Riley M., Fred E. Woods, and Brent R. Anderson. “Liahona, the Labor Missionaries, and Preparing for Temple Blessings (1950-59).” In Saints of Tonga. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34058]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 80123  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:20
Morris, Larry E. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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“The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon presents and examines the primary sources surrounding the origin of the foundational text of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the most successful new religion of modern times.The scores of documents transcribed and annotated in this book include family histories, journal entries, letters, affidavits, reminiscences, interviews, newspaper articles, and book extracts, as well as revelations dictated in the name of God. From these texts emerges the captivating story of what happened (and what was believed or rumored to have happened) between September 1823 - when the seventeen-year-old farm boy Joseph Smith announced that an angel of God had directed him to an ancient book inscribed on gold plates - and March 1830, when the Book of Mormon was first published. By compiling for the first time a substantial collection of both first- and secondhand accounts relevant to the inception of the divine revelation - or clever fraud - that launched a new world religion, A Documentary History makes a significant contribution to the rapidly growing field of Mormon Studies.” [Publisher]

Keywords: Historiography, Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon, American setting; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81497]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:24
Muhlestein, Kerry. “Prospering in the Land: A Comparison of Covenant Promises in Leviticus and First Nephi 2.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 287-296.
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Abstract: A careful examination of the Abrahamic covenant, as contained in Leviticus 26, and the covenant established with the Lehites during their exodus to the New World, found in 1 Nephi 2, shows deliberate similarities. These similarities are important to understand, as the role of covenant is central in both ancient Israelite practice and current Latter-day Saint theology.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Leviticus
ID = [3583]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,old-test  Size: 22760  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:59
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies Volume 28. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
ID = [81888]  Status = Type = book, compendium  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 16  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:45

Articles

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “Front Matter.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
ID = [81920]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Turley, Kylie N. “Alma’s Hell: Repentance, Consequence, and the Lake of Fire and Brimstone.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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Alma The Younger’s missionary journey to Ammonihah is one of the most disturbing episodes in the Book of Mormon: scriptures are burned (Alma 14:8); converted males are “cast out” and stoned by former friends (Alma 14:7); Amulek, a respected citizen, and Alma, high priest of the church and retired chief judge, are spit upon, mocked, imprisoned, stripped naked, humiliated, starved, and beaten (Alma 14:4-22); and innocent women and children are “cast into the fire” and burned to death (Alma 14:8). Alma and Amulek are “carried… forth to the place of martyrdom;’ and forced to “witness” (Alma 14:9) the “pains of the women and children’’ as they are “consuming in the fire” (Alma 14:10). These events, the Ammonihahite disregard for human life, and the fire are horrifying and extraordinarily cruel.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81921]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Talmage, Jeremy. “Black, White, and Red All Over: Skin Color in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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In June of 1830, the first Latter-day Saint missionary Samuel Smith journeyed through the backcountry of western New York hoping to find parties interested in the recently published Book of Mormon. Advertising the volume as “a history of the origin of the Indians;’ he attempted to sell copies of the book his brother Joseph claimed to have translated from golden plates given to him by an angel. An etiological tale of the ancient inhabitants of the continent, the Book of Mormon described the emergence of two tribes: the righteous Nephites and wicked Lamanites. After the Lamanites’ rebellion against their relatives, the Book of Mormon recounted how God afflicted them for their iniquity. Whereas they were once “white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome;’ they became cursed with “a skin of blackness.” In the ensuing ethnic conflict, the black-skinned Lamanites ultimately triumphed over their “white” kin, overrunning and annihilating the Nephites to become the ancestors of modern-day Native Americans.

ID = [81922]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Swift, Charles. “‘The Lord slayeth the wicked’: Coming to Terms with Nephi Killing Laban.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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Many would agree that the most disturbing narrative in all of the Book of Mormon is that of Nephi being commanded to slay Laban. Few encourage their friends to turn to that passage when introducing the book. It is the rather detailed account of what appears to be an unconscionable act. Its closest parallel elsewhere in scripture is the story of Abraham and Isaac, with the all-important difference that, for Nephi, there was no ram in the thicket. How can we justify a man coming upon another man lying in a street, completely helpless, incapacitated because he is passed out from being drunk, and that first man decapitating the second man, stealing his sword and clothing, and then impersonating him so he could steal a most precious item from his treasury and lead one of his servants away from his household? On the surface, this is what appears to be happening. The fact that Nephi feels led by the Spirit to commit this act may be of little comfort to us as members of society since “few, if any of us, would want to live in a society where individual citizens are free to kill drunken fellow citizens-however guilty the drunk may be-because the citizen feels he has been constrained by God to do so.”

ID = [81925]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Peters, John Durham. “Arno Schmidt among Comic Commentators on the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) was one of the most important, prolific, and original of postwar German authors. His magnum opus, Zettels Traum (1970), appeared in 1,360 large-font, signed typescript copies that each weighed 12 kilos and resembled another intimidating modernist text, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, in its experiments with genre, fascinating density, multilingual citations, jokey allusiveness, and mythic grandeur. Like Joyce, Schmidt pushed boundaries of all kinds and sometimes got into hot water with those who found his writings sexually and religiously indecent. As an author, his work is hard to classify; he is sometimes called an “avant-garde traditionalist:’ In personal belief, he was an atheist, though one who was curious about the many forms that belief can take; he opens his essay on the Book of Mormon, for instance, by confessing his soft spot for holy books. A fierce critic of both West and East Germany, he was politically neither a Marxist, nor a social democrat, nor a straight-up conservative, though his attacks on mass society and choice to live his last two decades in relative isolation in a remote hamlet in Lower Saxony have led some critics to detect conservative sympathies. But he was also a clear anti-Nazi and was disgusted at what his country had done. Perhaps by living in a remote spot with his wife, Alice, also a writer whose work was not appreciated until later, he simply wanted to maintain his artistic integrity and stay aloof from the cultural establishment. By any account, he was a lone wolf, anxious not to be pinned down.

ID = [81926]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:47
Welch, Rosalynde Frandsen. “How to Do Things with Doubt.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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With fears of faith crisis and disaffection rising like seawater, Latter-day Saint apologetic discourse has gone forth, like Noah’s dove, in search of living branches in which the sap runs. Defenders of the faith, including those addressed here, have returned with new academic sophistication, new critical interpretations, and new methods to address doubt among Latter-day Saints. In this review essay, I propose a pair of critical terms, the semantic and the performative, with which to consider this new apologetic discourse. I open with a brief reading of chapters 8 and 11 of 1 Nephi-Lehi’s dream of the tree and Nephi’s messianic vision-which, I’ll argue, offer a neat bifocal lens with which to consider these two modes of religious expression.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [81929]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:48
Stuart, Joseph R. “Reading Race, Reading Scripture: Assessing Recent Historical Works on Race and the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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Different approaches to reading The Book of Mormon have influenced the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ teachings from 1830 to the present day. Scholars have long recognized that the definition of “Lamanites,” one of the primary groups described in the book, has shaped missionary work, Church policy, and public outreach. Indeed, in the Doctrine and Covenants, Joseph Smith received a revelation sending four missionaries to preach “among the Lamanites,” perhaps the first justification for preaching among Indigenous peoples. Recent teachings have expanded the definition of Lamanite to include Native and Indigenous peoples on both American continents as well as Polynesians

ID = [81930]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:48
Rogers, Chris. “A Review of the Afro-Asiatic:Uto-Aztecan Proposal.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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The purpose of this piece is to review the long-distance genetic linguistic relationship between languages of the Afro-Asiatic language family and the Uto-Aztecan language family suggested in Stubbs’s Exploring the Explanatory Power of Semitic and Egyptian in Uto-Aztecan and Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now. While such a suggestion is not novel, a linguistic connection between the New World and the Old World is especially appealing to readers of the Book of Mormon. Such a connection can potentially provide a way to determine specific cultural and social facts about the peoples and civilizations described throughout the Book of Mormon. Nevertheless, when not established by rigorous methods and scientific principles, such proposals lead to the incorrect identification of genetic linguistic relationships and unfounded extra-linguistic conclusions.

ID = [81931]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:48
Weeden, Kirk. “‘Lifted up in the pride of their eyes’: Pride and Cultural Distinction in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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Latter-day Saints affirm that “the Book of Mormon was… written for our day.” For the believer, it is no wonder that the book contains numerous accounts of inequality. Without exception, the dynamic force in these accounts is pride, which in most cases is manifest in cultural pretentiousness and exhibitionism. While the various faces and consequences of pride and its relationship to culture in the Book of Mormon have been the subject of Latter-day Saint literature, there has, to date, been no reading of the Book of Mormon that attempts to provide a structural account of pride and its relationship to culture-that is to say, no analysis of the systematic relationship between the two. To do so would require reading the Book of Mormon with a sociological lens, an approach that, at least for the purposes of this paper, might be regarded as complementary to a theological interpretation.

ID = [81932]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:48
Ulrich, Michael. “King Mosiah’s Address.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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King Benjamin’s address is well known to readers of the Book of Mormon and is often quoted in devotional contexts. The address marks the transition between two great kings of Nephite history: Benjamin and Mosiah. It is also a moment of teaching and of testimony for the old king. From that point on, the people are officially called by the name of Christ. Another moment of teaching and of popular commitment occurs in the Book of Mosiah, although it receives less attention: the address given by King Mosiah and Alma the Elder when the latter’s people arrive in Zarahemla (reported in Mosiah 25). The aim of this brief research note is to underline commonalities between Mosiah’s address and King Benjamin’s address and to suggest that both form part of a larger trend in Nephite institutions, a trend that changes the depth of Nephite religious and political institutions.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81933]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:48
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “End Matter.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
ID = [81934]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:48
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. “A Book of Mormon Bibliography for 2018.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019).
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Balli, Tyler. “LDS Hispanic Americans and Lamanite Identity.” Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 19/3 (2018): 92-115. Belnap, Daniel L. “The Abinadi Narrative, Redemption, and the Struggle for Nephite Identity:’ In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, edited by Hopkin, 27-66.

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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies Volume 27. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 27 (2018).
ID = [81887]  Status = Type = book,compendium  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size:   Children: 18  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:45
Peterson, Christopher J. “‘Our Leaders Were Mighty’: Identifying Modern Leadership Philosophies in the Book of Mormon.” MA thesis, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2019.
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“The Book of Mormon was not preserved to teach modern leadership styles, nor does its usefulness depend on how it does or does not connect to these leadership theories. However, an analysis of the leadership qualities and practices exhibited by leaders in the Book of Mormon could help leaders in the Church to use to Book of Mormon for inspiration and guidance. This paper analyzed the leadership decisions exhibited by Captain Moroni and identified remarkable similarities to transformational leadership and its four components. Nephi, on the other hand, showed a servant leader mentality. Both of these leaders achieved remarkable levels of success, consistent with the current literature on both styles of leadership.” [Author]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Study; Book of Mormon, use and influence; Leadership; Nephi (Book of Mormon figure)
ID = [81571]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:28
Peterson, Daniel C. “Compassion as the Heart of the Gospel.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): vii-xvi.
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Abstract: The Greek philosopher Aristotle, clearly one of the world’s great geniuses, created the concept of the “unmoved mover,” which moves “other things, but is, itself, unmoved by anything else.” This label became the standard Jewish, Christian, and Muslim description of an impersonal God — a God without body, parts or passions — a concept that has, for nearly 20 centuries, dominated western theology, philosophy, and science. The problem for thinkers in these religious traditions is that the God depicted in the Bible and the Qur’an is plainly personal. A careful review of the Bible and modern scripture reveals a “compassionate, feeling” God. Numerous scriptures confirm that God, in fact, “feels more deeply than we can even begin to imagine.”.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3571]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,peterson  Size: 22156  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:59
Rappleye, Neal. “Revisiting ‘Sariah’ at Elephantine.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 1-8.
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Abstract: Jeffrey R. Chadwick has previously called attention to the name ŚRYH (Seraiah/Sariah) as a Hebrew woman’s name in the Jewish community at Elephantine. Paul Y. Hoskisson, however, felt this evidence was not definitive because part of the text was missing and had to be restored. Now a more recently published ostracon from Elephantine, which contains a sure attestation of the name ŚRYH as a woman’s name without the need of restoration, satisfies Hoskisson’s call for more definitive evidence and makes it more likely that the name is correctly restored on the papyrus first noticed by Chadwick. The appearance of the name Seraiah/Sariah as a woman’s name exclusively in the Book of Mormon and at Elephantine is made even more interesting since both communities have their roots in northern Israel, ca. the eighth–seventh centuries BCE.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [3572]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 16156  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:59
Reynolds, Noel B. “‘Come unto Me’ as a Technical Gospel Term.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 1-24.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon repeatedly outlines a six-part definition of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but most writers within the book refer to only two or three of them at a time in a biblical rhetorical device called merismus. Throughout the scriptures, the term “come unto Christ” in its many forms is used as part of these merisms to represent enduring to the end. This article examines the many abbreviations of the gospel, connects the phrase “come unto Christ” with enduring to the end, and discusses some of the alternate uses of these types of phrases.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [3587]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 50577  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:00
Reynolds, Noel B. “The Language of the Spirit in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 187-222.
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Abstract: This study provides students of the Book of Mormon with the first comprehensive analysis of the many ways in which the word “spirit” is used in that volume of scripture. It demonstrates how the titles “Holy Ghost,” “Spirit of God,” “Spirit of the Lord,” “Holy Spirit,” and “the Spirit” are used interchangeably to refer to the third member of the Godhead. It also shows that the Holy Ghost was understood to be a separate being. The analysis is thoroughly integrated with scholarly studies of references to the spirit (rûah) in the Hebrew Bible. The functions of the Holy Ghost are also identified and explained.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [3565]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64583  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
Rhodes, Michael D., and Richard D. Draper. New Rendition: The Epistle to the Hebrews. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2019.
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The rendering of the Greek text of the Epistle to the Hebrews into modern English presents a flowing and easily understood translation of one of the most beautiful biblical studies of the nature and ministry of Christ. The English rendering comes from an extensive and excellent Commentary entitled The Epistle to the Hebrews by Richard D. Draper and Michael D. Rhodes forthcoming in 2019. This translation seeks to correct one of the major problems the King James translators were unable to overcome. These men were classists and knew well the power and beauty of the Attic prose of Plato and Aristotle. Unfortunately, “the rubbed down and difficult Greek” of the New Testament era held a number of mysteries they were unable to solve. This left a number of passages, especially in the dense and difficult writings of the epistles, very hard to understand in their translation. In this new rendering of the Greek text, the current translators have attempted to present the true sense of the New Testament writings as faithfully and clearly as possible in modern English. It strives to balance the esoteric details of a text with the importance of communicating the breadth of its meaning as clearly as possible to English readers. Sometimes grammatical and syntactical forms that make good sense in Greek seem stilted, odd, and even weird when translated word for word into English. The translators’ purpose has been to render the Greek in such a way that an educated reader could readily understand its meaning. They have consistently tried to avoid an overly “literal” translation, which would likely obscure original intents. They have, therefore, followed Bruce Metzger’s dictum to be “as literal as possible, but as free as necessary” in order to communicate to the English reader the meaning of the text. This Rendition is part of the BYU New Testament Commentary series. This scholarly project aims to create a faithful modern English translation together with a full, in-depth, carefully researched Latter-day Saint commentary for each book on the New Testament. As of 2019, volumes have been published on Mark, Luke, First Corinthians, and Revelation. More of the New Rendition and commentary volumes will be added in coming months and years.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Rhodes, Michael D., and Richard D. Draper. New Rendition: The Revelation of John the Apostle. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2019.
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The New Rendition of the book of Revelation provides a modern English translation of the Greek text while remaining true to the Apostle John’s intent. This translation is excerpted from The Revelation of John the Apostle by Richard D. Draper and Michael D. Rhodes. The text of Revelation in the King James Version seems oblique and in some cases inexplicable, but this New Rendition clarifies many misunderstood or misinterpreted passages and helps make John’s powerful testimony more understandable and applicable to the modern disciple. The authors have studied, taught, and published scholarly works on the book of Revelation for decades and aim to make the text accessible with this version. Insights into the meaning of this grand apocalyptic book are drawn from early Christian perspectives, Latter-day Saint scriptures, and a panoply of references to churches, angels, trumpets, seals, signs, beasts, and elders leading to the great marriage supper of the Lamb of God and the establishment of the celestial New Jerusalem. This Rendition is part of the BYU New Testament Commentary series. This scholarly project aims to create a faithful modern English translation together with a full, in-depth, carefully researched Latter-day Saint commentary for each book on the New Testament. More of the New Rendition and commentary volumes will be added in coming months and years. As of 2019, volumes have been published on Mark, Luke, First Corinthians, and Revelation.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75313]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,new-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:39
Rhodes, Richard D., and Michael D. Draper. New Rendition: Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2019.
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The New Rendition of the book First Corinthians provides a modern English translation of the Greek text while remaining true to Paul’s intent. This translation is excerpted from Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians by Richard D. Draper and Michael D. Rhodes. This new version clarifies many previously vague or misunderstood passages and enlightens the text for today’s readers. This epistle is particularly interesting and important to faithful Christians interested in the Apostle Paul’s testimonies of knowledge, revelation, purity, gifts of the spirit, the sacrament, charity, the resurrection, baptism for the dead, heavenly glory, and many other topics crucial to the life of righteousness. This Rendition is part of the BYU New Testament Commentary series. This scholarly project aims to create a faithful modern English translation together with a full, in-depth, carefully researched Latter-day Saint commentary for each book on the New Testament. More of the New Rendition and commentary volumes will be added in coming months and years. As of 2019, volumes have been published on Mark, Luke, First Corinthians, and Revelation.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75309]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,new-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:38
Scripture Central. “How Can the Book of Mormon Provide Peace and Meaning to Those in Military Service?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #496. January 1, 2019.
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Keywords: Military; Warfare; War; War Chapters; Alma; Amulek; Mormon; Captain Moroni
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7840]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9929  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Skousen, Royal. Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Volume 3, Part 5: The King James Quotations in the Book of Mormon, The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2019.
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In this part 5 of volume 3 of the critical text, we identify one more use of Early Modern English – in fact, a very specific one – in the original text of the Book of Mormon, namely, quotations from the King James Bible.

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Smith, Alex D., Christian K. Heimburger, and Christopher James Blythe, eds. Documents, Volume 9: December 1841–April 1842, 251–64. Joseph Smith Papers. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2019.
ID = [82238]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:16:05
Smith, Julie M. New Rendition: The Gospel according to Mark. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2019.
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The New Rendition of the Gospel of Mark provides a modern English translation of Mark’s earliest known Greek texts. It is excerpted from The Gospel according to Mark by Julie M. Smith. There is no such thing as perfect translation, even theoretically. This Rendition reflects Julie Smith’s deliberate choice to translate as literally as possible in order to aid the reader in appreciating the literary features of Mark’s text. These include purposeful repetitions, awkward constructions, intentional word choices, and similar features. One exception to the principle of strictly literal translation is that the Greek idioms in Mark are translated with comparable English idioms. A second exception is for culturally specific expressions. For example, “the fourth watch” is translated as “when night was ending,” and “over three hundred denarii” is rendered as “over a year’s wages.” But aside from these two exceptions, the quest for authentic literalism is the overriding concern—even at the cost of smoothness and elegance. There is no doubt that this Rendition will strike the reader as infelicitous at first. But hewing closely to the source text outweighs, in this context, the benefits of attempting to improve the source. This New Rendition will sound a little foreign to LDS readers accustomed to the distinctive register of the King James Version—which strikes the modern reader as elegant, formal, and magisterial. But because the New Rendition more closely reflects the original tone of Mark’s text, readers soon experience this dynamic Gospel more as it would have sounded to a first-century audience: not antiquated, lofty, or reverent but rather common, plain, and impressive. This Rendition is part of the BYU New Testament Commentary series. This scholarly project aims to create a faithful modern English translation together with a full, in-depth, carefully researched commentary for each book on the New Testament. More of the New Rendition and commentary volumes will be added in coming months and years. As of 2019, volumes have been published on Mark, Luke, First Corinthians, and Revelation.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Smoot, Stephen O. “Feasting on the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 143-150.
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Abstract: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship has recently published a new study edition of the Book of Mormon. Edited by Grant Hardy, the Maxwell Institute Study Edition (MISE) incorporates important advances in Book of Mormon scholarship from the past few decades while grounding the reader’s experience in the text of the Book of Mormon. The reformatted text presented in the MISE improves the readability of the Book of Mormon, while footnotes, charts, bibliographies, and short explanatory essays highlight the strides made in recent years related to Book of Mormon scholarship. The MISE is a phenomenal edition of the Book of Mormon that is representative of the sort of close attention and care Latter-day Saints should be giving the text.
Review of Grant Hardy, ed. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Maxwell Institute Study Edition (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University / Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2018). 648 pp. $35.00 (paperback).

ID = [3593]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 16139  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:00
Spencer, Stan. “What Did the Interpreters (Urim and Thummim) Look Like?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 223-256.
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Abstract: The interpreters were a pair of seer stones used by Book of Mormon prophets and provided to Joseph Smith for translating the Nephite record. Martin Harris described them as two white, marble- like stones that could be looked into when placed in a hat. Joseph Smith described them as spectacles with which he could read the record and later as two transparent stones set in the rim of a bow. Others described them as smooth stones, diamonds, or glasses. Reconciling these various descriptions and determining the actual appearance of the interpreters requires an assessment of the credibility of each source and an understanding of how the interpreters were used in translating. It also requires an understanding of how words such as glasses, transparent, and diamonds were used in Joseph Smith’s day, particularly in reference to seer stones. An assessment of the various descriptions of the interpreters in light of these factors lends support to both Martin Harris’s and Joseph Smith’s accounts. By these accounts, the interpreters were smooth, mostly white, perhaps translucent stones set in a long metal frame. Although they superficially resembled eyeglasses, the stones were set much too far apart to be worn as such. They were not clear like eyeglasses but were transparent in the sense that they, like other seer stones, could be “looked into” by a person gifted as a seer of visions.

Keywords: Early Church History; Nephite Interpreters; Seer stone; Translation; Urim and Thummim
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3566]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64250  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
Terry, Roger K. “The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ: Maxwell Institute Study Edition.” BYU Studies Quarterly 58, no. 1 (2019): 175.
ID = [12391]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 3137  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:12
Townsend, Colby J. “Rewriting Eden with the Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America.” Master of Arts Thesis. Utah State University, 2019.
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The colonists living in the new United States after the American War for Independence were faced with the problem of forming new identities once they could no longer recognize themselves, collectively or individually, as subjects of Great Britain. After the French Revolution American politicians began to weed out the more radical political elements of the newly formed United States, particularly by painting one of the revolution’s biggest defenders, Thomas Paine, as unworthy of the attention he received during the American War for Independence, and fear ran throughout the states that an anarchic revolution like the French Revolution could bring the downfall of the nation. State, local, and regional organizations sprang up to fight Jacobinism, the legendary secret group of murderers and anarchists that fought against the French government.

This distressing situation gave rise to new literature that sought to describe the “real” origins and background of Jacobinism in the War in Heaven and in Eden, and a new movement against Jacobinism was established. Fears about the organization of secret societies did not wane in the decades after the French Revolution, but worsened in the last half of the 1820s when a Freemason, William Morgan, disappeared under mysterious circumstances in connection to an exposé of Masonry he had written. Most Americans assumed that Freemasons had abducted and murdered Morgan in order to keep their oaths and rites secret.

One influential early American who was influenced by this socio-historical was Joseph Smith, Jr., the founding prophet of Mormonism. Smith interpreted the Eden narrative in light of the movement against secret societies, and literary motifs common to anti-Jacobin literature during the period provided language and interpretive strategies for understanding the Eden narrative that would influence how Smith produced his new scripture. Only a few months after the publication of the Book of Mormon Smith edited the version of Eden found there into the text of the Bible itself and made the biblical narrative conform to the version found in the Book of Mormon through his own revisions and additions.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses
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Wayment, Thomas A. The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
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This new translation from the best available Greek manuscripts renders the New Testament text into modern English and is sensitive to Latter-day Saint beliefs and practices. This translation is readable and accessible for a wide range of readers. The original paragraph structure of the New Testament is restored and highlights features such as quotations, hymns, and poetic passages. New and extensive notes provide alternative translations, commentary on variant manuscript traditions, and historical insights. Where applicable, the Joseph Smith Translation has been included. The notes contain the most complete list of cross-references to New Testament passages in the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants that has ever been assembled. Brigham Young said, “If [the Bible] be translated incorrectly, and there is a scholar on the earth who professes to be a Christian, and he can translate it any better than King James’s translators did it, he is under obligation to do so, or the curse is upon him. If I understood Greek and Hebrew as some may profess to do, and I knew the Bible was not correctly translated, I should feel myself bound by the law of justice to the inhabitants of the earth to translate that which is incorrect and give it just as it was spoken anciently. Is that proper? Yes, I would be under obligation.” Check out these podcasts about this book: Latter-day Saint MissionCast podcast LDS Perspectives podcast, and the Cultural Hall podcast. Here is a BYU Universe article: BYU Professor Publishes Modern Translation of The New Testament and a fascinating audio podcast entitled Insights on the Nativity and the New Testament. Also, here are some reviews of this book: The Interpreter, Deseret Book, and Amazon. ISBN 978-1-9443-9467-7

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Wilcox, Bradley R., Bruce L. Brown, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Sharon Black, and Dennis L. Eggett. “Comparing Phonemic Patterns in Book of Mormon Personal Names with Fictional and Authentic Sources: An Exploratory Study.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 105-122.
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Abstract: In 2013 we published a study examining names from Solomon Spalding’s fictional manuscript, J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional works, and nineteenth-century US census records. Results showed names created by authors of fiction followed phonemic patterns that differed from those of authentic names from a variety of cultural origins found in the US census. The current study used the same methodology to compare Book of Mormon names to the three name sources in the original study and found that Book of Mormon names seem to have more in common with the patterns found in authentic names than they do with those from fictional works. This is not to say that Book of Mormon names are similar to nineteenth- century names, but rather that they both showed similar patterns when phonotactic probabilities were the common measure. Of course, many more invented names and words from a variety of authors and time periods will need to be analyzed along with many more authentic names across multiple time periods before any reliable conclusions can be drawn. This study was exploratory in nature and conducted to determine if this new line of research merits further study. We concluded it does.

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Woodger, Mary Jane. “‘Put the Pieces Back Together’” In Mission President or Spy. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34189]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 44702  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:28
Farnes, Alan Taylor. “Scripture Note: A Fresh Approach to Moroni’s Promise.” Religious Educator Vol. 20 no. 2 (2019).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
RSC Topics > G — K > Gifts of the Spirit
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > Q — S > Spiritual Gifts
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Moore, Richard G. “What We Learn from Alma’s Messages to His Sons.” Religious Educator Vol. 20 no. 2 (2019).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
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Spencer, Joseph M. “Is Not This Real?” BYU Studies Quarterly 58, no. 2 (2019): 87-105.
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The question at the heart of the exchange between Korihor and Alma in the Book of Mormon concerns knowledge, what Alma calls the real. This essay probes Korihor’s appraisal of the Nephite’s Christian devotion, sorting out the basic stakes of his argument, and then looks at how Alma slowly and belatedly develops a full response to Korihor. Deviating from traditional interpretations of the parable of the seed of faith, Spencer illustrates that Alma effectively displaces knowledge as a core value, arguing that faith not only is not lesser than knowledge but also goes beyond knowledge and produces something of infinitely more value. Although one can know the truth of Christ and know it perfectly, faith continues beyond knowledge because faith aims not at acquiring knowledge, but at eternal life.

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Faith; Knowledge; Korihor; Parable
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
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Hales, Brian C. “Naturalistic Explanations of the Origin of the Book of Mormon: A Longitudinal Study.” BYU Studies Quarterly 58, no. 3 (2019): 105-148.
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Joseph Smith and his followers declared the Book of Mormon’s supernatural origin—that it was a divinely inspired translation of an ancient-American record, acquired by Joseph through visions and the help of an angel. This explanation, however, was widely rejected by outsiders from the outset. Within weeks after the Book of Mormon’s first pages came off the press, critics promoted “naturalistic explanations”—so called because they are based on scientific observation or natural phenomena—that rejected the possibility of a divine, supernatural origin of the Book of Mormon. To varying degrees, these naturalistic theories continue to be perpetuated today. This article examines the most popular naturalistic explanations for the Book of Mormon longitudinally, which will enable readers to better understand them and why they have waxed and waned in popularity over time.

Keywords: Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Naturalistic Explanations for the Book of Mormon; Smith; Translation
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Aston, Warren P. “Into Arabia: Lehi and Sariah’s Escape from Jerusalem, Perspectives Suggested by New Fieldwork.” BYU Studies Quarterly 58, no. 4 (2019): 99.
ID = [10336]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 38855  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:57
Boyce, Duane. “Captain Moroni’s Revelation.” BYU Studies Quarterly 58, no. 4 (2019): 155-159.
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Moroni reports receiving a revelation in which the Lord told him, “If those whom ye have appointed your governors do not repent of their sins and iniquities, ye shall go up to battle against them” (Alma 60:33). Because Pahoran, the chief governor of the Nephites at the time, turns out to be innocent of the charges contained in Moroni’s revelation, it is easy to think that Moroni’s revelation is mistaken in some way. Textual clues, however, suggest the revelation and its accompanying epistle were directed not only to Pahoran but also to many other generals, who were likely guilty of the sins mentioned by Moroni. Thus, contrary to previous thinking, Moroni’s revelation may have, in fact, been accurate.

Keywords: Captain Moroni; Pahoran (Chief Judge); Revelation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [10338]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-04  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 7118  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:57
Harrell, Charles R. “A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12?13.” BYU Studies Quarterly 58, no. 4 (2019): 77.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [10345]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 47720  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:57
Pack, Robert T. “Mary Whitmer and Moroni: Experiences of an Artist in Creating a Historical Painting.” BYU Studies Quarterly 58, no. 4 (2019): 128.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [10343]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 22510  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:57
Scripture Central. “Where is the Land of Promise?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #497. January 8, 2019.
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Keywords: Geography; Promised Land; Zion; American Continent; Mesoamerica; North America; South America; Heartland
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7839]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-01-08  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11775  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Does Prophecy Shape the Book of Mormon’s Content and Structure?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #498. January 15, 2019.
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Keywords: Prophecy; Prophets; Nephi; Mormon; Abinadi; Samuel the Lamanite; Remember; Second Coming; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
ID = [7838]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-01-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 26863  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
LDS Perspectives [pseud. of Laura Harris Hales]. “Studying the Book of Mormon with Grant Hardy.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 16, 2019.
ID = [5477]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-01-16  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 3552  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:28
Scripture Central. “What Does It Really Mean to Be a Good Person?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #499. January 24, 2019.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; New Testament; God; Jesus Christ; Heavenly Father
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7837]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-01-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 6037  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Is the Book of Mormon Musical?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #500. January 31, 2019.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Musical; Music; Ancient Israel; Temples; Nephi; Nephi’s Psalm; Singing; Poetry; Hebrew
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [7836]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-01-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13302  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Does It Mean to Be ‘Born Again?’” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #501. February 7, 2019.
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Keywords: Baptism; Alma the Younger; Born Again; Jesus Christ; Repentance; Atonement
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7835]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-02-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 15002  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Is the Book of Mormon Like Any Other Nineteenth Century Book?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #502. February 16, 2019.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Book of Mormon Translation; Oliver Cowdery; View of the Hebrews; Solomon Spaulding; Ethan Smith; Late War; Plagiarism; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Old Testament Scriptures > Psalms/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Song of Solomon
ID = [7834]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-02-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 20684  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Does the ‘Mosiah-First’ Translation Sequence Strengthen Faith?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #503. February 22, 2019.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Translation; Joseph Smith; Church History; Small Plates; Large Plates; Mosiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7833]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-02-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 20128  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Can We All Learn about Repentance from the Tragic Loss of the 116 Book of Mormon Pages?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #504. March 1, 2019.
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Keywords: Church History; Martin Harris; Joseph Smith; 116 pages; Book of Mormon Translation; Atonement; Repentance; Witnesses
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [7832]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-03-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13068  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Shields, Steven L. “Embaye Melekin and the Book of Mormon as an African Bible.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 39, no. 1 (Spring, 2019): 133-143.
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“Steve Shields presents the argument of Eritrean-born Embaye Melekin that the Book of Mormon conforms more closely to the geography, culture, and lore of Africa than to the Americas.” [Publisher]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, use and influence; Book of Mormon; Africa
ID = [82010]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Scripture Central. “What Makes Mankind an Enemy to God?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #505. March 7, 2019.
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Keywords: Natural Man; Adam and Eve; The Fall; Atonement; Jesus Christ; King Benjamin
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7831]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-03-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10283  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Is the Timing of the Book of Mormon’s Translation So ‘Marvelous’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #506. March 15, 2019.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Church History; Book of Mormon Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7830]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-03-15  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 18352  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Was Joseph Smith the ‘Author’ of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #507. March 22, 2019.
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Keywords: Joseph Smith; Church History; Book of Mormon Translation; Book of Mormon Authorship
ID = [7829]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-03-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 17753  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Christ Perform Miracles?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #508. March 28, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament; Jesus Christ; Miracles
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7828]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-03-28  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11594  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Was the Transfiguration of Jesus and the Three Nephites a Temple-Like Experience?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #509. April 4, 2019.
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Keywords: Transfiguration; Three Nephites; Endowment; Temples; Theophany; Jesus Christ; Apostles
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7827]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-04-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 18911  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Should Readers Pay Attention to the Book of Mormon’s Editorial Promises?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #510. April 11, 2019.
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Keywords: Mormon; Redaction; Editor; Prophecy; Complexity; Evidence; Literature
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7826]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-04-11  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 35457  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Does the Book of Mormon Teach Us about the Resurrection?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #511. April 20, 2019.
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Keywords: Easter; Resurrection; New Testament; Come Follow Me; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7825]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-04-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8083  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Is the Book of Mormon Like Other Ancient Metal Documents?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #512. April 25, 2019.
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Keywords: Archaeology; Evidence; Gold Plates; Writing; Plates; Metallurgy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [7824]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-04-25  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 19032  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Mormon and Moroni Write in Reformed Egyptian?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #513. May 2, 2019.
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Keywords: Egyptian; Ancient Near East; Egypt; Hebrew; Demotic; Hieratic; Joseph Smith; Book of Mormon Translation; Nephite Interpreters; Gold Plates; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7823]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-05-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 19119  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Did Martin Harris Consult with Scholars like Charles Anthon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #514. May 7, 2019.
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Keywords: Charles Anthon; Anthon Transcript; Martin Harris; Luther Bradish; Samuel Mitchell; Joseph Smith; Book of Mormon Translation; Gold Plates
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
ID = [7822]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-05-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 19070  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Do We Know About the ‘Anthon Transcript’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #515. May 9, 2019.
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Keywords: Egyptian; Caractors Document; Anthon Transcript; Charles Anthon; Martin Harris; Samuel Mitchell; Book of Mormon Translation; Joseph Smith; Church History
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
ID = [7821]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-05-09  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 16636  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Mosiah Refer to the Exodus Narrative?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #516. May 16, 2019.
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Keywords: Abinadi; Moses; Alma; Joshua; Exodus; Old Testament; Bible; Typology
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Scriptures > Joshua
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7820]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-05-16  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12886  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Does It Mean to Love God with ‘All Thy Mind’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #517. May 23, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament; Come Follow Me; Ancient Judaism; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7819]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-05-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10916  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Does the Book of Mormon Warn Against Seeking after Riches?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #518. May 30, 2019.
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Keywords: Riches; Wealth; Prosperity; Lehi; Jacob
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [7818]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-05-30  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13618  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Hales, Brian C. “Automatic Writing and the Book of Mormon: An Update.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 52, no. 2 (Summer, 2019): 1-35.
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Attributing the Book of Mormon’s origin to supernatural forces has worked well for Joseph Smith’s believers, then as well as now, but not so well for critics who seem certain natural abilities were responsible. For over 180 years, several secular theories have been advanced as explanations. The more popular hypotheses include plagiarism (of the Solomon Spaulding manuscript), collaboration (with Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, etc.), mental illness (bipolar, dissociative, or narcissistic personality disorders),6 and Joseph’s intellect (with help from the Bible, View of the Hebrews, parallelism, or his environment). Even today the topic remains controversial without general consensus.

Keywords: Seer stones; Book of Mormon, authorship; Smith, Joseph, Jr., education; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
ID = [82011]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-06-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Marriott, Neill F. “Let’s Go Together.” Ensign, June 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [62915]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2019-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8439  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:55
Morris, Larry E. “Empirical Witnesses of the Gold Plates.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 52, no. 2 (Summer, 2019): 59-84.
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Due to the fact that visiting with angels isn’t part of the normal human experience, it makes it hard for historians to prove that it happened through an academic investigation. The best way, as discussed by the author, to determine what really happened is by studying other individual’s first-hand accounts about the Gold Plates.

ID = [82013]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-06-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Roesler, Rebecca A. “Plain and Precious Things Lost: The Small Plates of Nephi.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 52, no. 2 (Summer, 2019): 85-106.
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This article by Rebecca A. Roesler discusses the significance of Nephi’s small plates in the Book of Mormon. Roesler examines the text of the Book of Mormon in order to “establish that scriptural texts can…exhibit variation in spiritual understanding” and that such variation can be insightful. She does not comment on the historicity or divinity of the text, but seeks to present “a literary case that, sometime in the generations before Alma, the small plates of Nephi and the teachings thereon are lost or obscured from view.” [quotes from author]

Keywords: Nephi (Book of Mormon figure); Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon, historicity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [82014]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-06-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Thomas, Ryan. “The Gold Plates and Ancient Metal Epigraphy.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 52, no. 2 (Summer, 2019): 37-58.
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Ryan Thomas highlights the different metal writing cultures from around the same time as the Book of Mormon periods to see if it is historically likely for the Gold Plates to exist from that time period.

ID = [82012]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-06-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 3, 2019.
ID = [4895]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-03  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 8748  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:06
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 1).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 3, 2019.
ID = [4896]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-03  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 8748  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:06
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 2).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 3, 2019.
ID = [4897]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-03  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 34742  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:06
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 3A).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 4, 2019.
ID = [4898]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 36058  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:06
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 3B).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 4, 2019.
ID = [4899]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 19229  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:06
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 3C).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 5, 2019.
ID = [4900]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 17569  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:07
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 3D).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 5, 2019.
ID = [4901]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 6451  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:07
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 3E).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 5, 2019.
ID = [4902]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 9805  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:07
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 4).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 5, 2019.
ID = [4903]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 12580  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:07
Scripture Central. “Why Is the Book of Mormon Called an ‘Abridgment’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #519. June 6, 2019.
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Keywords: Abridgment; Gold Plates; Mormon; Moroni; Ancient History; Abinadi; Alma
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7817]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11312  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 5).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 6, 2019.
ID = [4904]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-06  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 10629  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:07
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 6).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 6, 2019.
ID = [4905]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-06  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 9243  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:07
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 7).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 7, 2019.
ID = [4906]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-07  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1351  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:07
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 8).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 7, 2019.
ID = [4907]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-07  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 6978  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:07
Smoot, Stephen O. “A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Postscript).” The Interpreter Foundation website. June 10, 2019.
ID = [4908]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-10  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 17212  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:07
Scripture Central. “Did Jesus Bleed from Every Pore?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #520. June 13, 2019.
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Keywords: Atonement; Jesus Christ; Gethsemane; Blood; Sacrifice; New Testament; Textual Criticism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7816]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-13  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12289  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Did the Book of Mormon Witnesses Really See What They Claimed?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #521. June 20, 2019.
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Keywords: Church History; Witnesses; Three Witnesses; Eight Witnesses; Gold Plates; Book of Mormon Translation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7815]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-20  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 15195  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Does Part of the Long Ending of Mark Show Up in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #522. June 26, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament; Mark; Resurrection; Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mormon
ID = [7814]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-06-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 12088  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “What Was One of the Main Causes of Warfare in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #523. July 5, 2019.
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Keywords: Warfare; War Chapters; Nehor; Kishkumen; Leadership; King
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7813]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-07-05  Collections:  bmc-archive,bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8860  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “The Miraculous Translation of the Book of Mormon into Japanese.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #524. July 12, 2019.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Japan; Japanese; Church History
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7812]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-07-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 16645  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “Why Do New Testament Words and Phrases Show Up in the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #525. July 19, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament; New Testament Intertextuality; Intertextuality; Book of Mormon Translation; Mormon; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7811]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-07-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 16961  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Scripture Central. “How Were Jonah and the Brother of Jared Able to Find Comfort?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #526. July 26, 2019.
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Keywords: Jonah; Brother of Jared; Jaredites; Old Testament; Bible
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
ID = [7810]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-07-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 7557  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:39
Bowen, Matthew L. “Laman and Nephi as Key-Words: An Etymological, Narratological, and Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Lamanites and Nephites as Religious, Political, and Cultural Descriptors.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.
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Keywords: Etymology; Laman (Son of Lehi); Lamanites; Narrative; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Nephites; Onomastics; Rhetoric
ID = [32643]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 86079  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Callister, Tad R. “A Case for the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.
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Keywords: Alma the Elder; Alma the Younger; Archaeology; Barley; Book of Mormon Authorship; Book of Mormon Historicity; Cement; Doctrine; Eight Witnesses; Emma; Late War; Metal Plates; Prophecy; Smith; Three Witnesses; View of the Hebrews
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [32676]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 33310  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Hales, Brian C. “Supernatural or Supernormal? Scrutinizing Secular Sources for the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.
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Keywords: Automatic Writing; Book of Mormon Authorship; Book of Mormon Translation; Cowdery; Joseph; Naturalistic Explanations for the Book of Mormon; Oliver; Rigdon; Sidney; Smith; Solomon; Spaulding; Sr.
ID = [32651]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 40438  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Peterson, Daniel C. “‘Idle Tales’? The Witness of Women.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Emma Hale; Gold Plates; Lucy Mack; Mary; Mary Magdalene; Other Witnesses; Smith; Smith; Whitmer; Women in the Scriptures
ID = [32677]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference,peterson  Size: 64209  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Terry, Richard E. “The Dirt on the Ancient Inhabitants of Mesoamerica.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.
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Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Archaeology; Book of Mormon Geography - Mesoamerica; Cement; Native Americans - Maya
ID = [32640]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 28158  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Scripture Central. “Why Must We Beware Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #527. August 2, 2019.
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Keywords: Wolves; Sermon on the Mount; New Testament; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7809]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-08-02  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11077  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Stevenson, Gary E. “The Ongoing Restoration.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, August 20, 2019.
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The Book of Mormon is the engine that powers conversion and a change of heart, leading us closer to Jesus Christ.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Church Organization; Joseph Smith; Restoration; Collection: Joseph Smith the Prophet; Podcast: Come; Follow Me; Podcast: Joseph Smith; Podcast: Recent Speeches
ID = [70166]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-08-20  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:53
Scripture Central. “Why do New Testament Words and Phrases Show Up in the Book of Mormon? Part 2: The Resurrected Jesus as the Source.” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #528. August 22, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament; Jesus Christ; Intertextuality; New Testament Intertextuality
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7808]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-08-22  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 10577  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Scripture Central. “Why Do New Testament Words and Phrases Show up in the Book of Mormon? Part 3: Revelations to Nephite Prophets as a Source (Part A).” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #529. August 29, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament Intertextuality; Intertextuality; New Testament; Bible; Nephites; Prophets; Prophecy; Revelation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7807]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-08-29  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 8332  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Chou, Po Nien (Felipe), and Petra Chou. “The Translation of the Mongolian Book of Mormon and Other Latter-day Scriptures.” Mormon Historical Studies 20, no. 2 (Fall, 2019): 149-171.
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“The one hundredth published translation of the Book of Mormon was the Mongolian translation. Just a few short years after Mongolia was dedicated for the preaching of the gospel, the translation of the Mongolian Book of Mormon was completed and available to the people of Mongolia. Sister Munkhtsetseg (Monica) Dugarsuren helped to translate the Book of Mormon into Mongolian. This article provides the conversion story of Munkhtsetseg (Monica) Dugarsuren and her service at the mission office in Mongolia. Next, the article examines her struggle to decide whether to serve a mission or help translate the Book of Mormon into Mongolian. Her faith and sacrifice to translate during and after her mission are discussed, as is the subsequent publication of the Mongolian Book of Mormon.” [Author]

Keywords: Mongolia; Asia, East, Mongolia; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, editions and translations
ID = [82036]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Scripture Central. “Is there evidence for great destruction in the land northward at the death of Christ?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #530. September 6, 2019.
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Keywords: Christ in America; Volcano; Geology; Evidence; Destruction; Lightning; Earthquake; Geography; Mesoamerica; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [7806]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-09-06  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11250  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Scripture Central. “Why Do New Testament Words and Phrases Show Up in the Book of Mormon? Part 4: Revelations to Nephite Prophets as the Source (Part B).” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #531. September 12, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament; Jesus Christ; Intertextuality; New Testament Intertextuality
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [7805]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-09-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7210  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Scripture Central. “Was Korihor Really an Atheist?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #532. September 19, 2019.
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Keywords: Korihor; Alma; Amulek; Atheism; Anti-Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [7804]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-09-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 14995  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Scripture Central. “Why New Testament Words and Phrases Are in the Book of Mormon Part 5: How Often Were Scriptures on the Plates of Brass the Common Source?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #533. September 26, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament; Intertextuality; New Testament Intertextuality; Plates of Brass; Old Testament
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [7803]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-09-26  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 12965  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Alliaud, Rubén V. “Found through the Power of the Book of Mormon.” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2019.
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All must experience and be found by the power of the truths contained in the Book of Mormon.

ID = [23252]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 2272  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:08
González, Walter F. “The Savior’s Touch.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2019.
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As we come unto Him, God will come to our rescue, whether to heal us or to give us the strength to face any situation.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [23268]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 4315  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:08
Scripture Central. “What Do We Learn About Ministering from the Account of Sherem?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #534. October 3, 2019.
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Keywords: Sherem; Anti-Christ; Ministering; Jacob
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [7802]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-10-03  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9947  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Scripture Central. “Why New Testament Words and Phrases Are in the Book of Mormon Part 6: Why Do Similar Clusters of Old Testament Texts Appear in Both?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #535. October 10, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament Intertextuality; New Testament; Intertextuality; Dead Sea Scrolls; Old Testament; Bible
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [7801]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-10-10  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 8209  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Scripture Central. “Why Did Benjamin Give Multiple Names for Jesus at the Coronation of his Son Mosiah?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #536. October 17, 2019.
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Keywords: King Benjamin; Names; Egyptian; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [7800]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-10-17  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13432  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Scripture Central. “Why New Testament Words and Phrases Are in the Book of Mormon Part 7: How Often Did These Commonalities Come through the Hand of Mormon or Moroni?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #537. October 24, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament; Bible; New Testament Intertextuality; Intertextuality
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [7799]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-10-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 7930  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Scripture Central. “Did a ‘Magic World View’ Influence the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #538. October 31, 2019.
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Keywords: Folk Magic; Seer Stone; Money Digging; Treasure Seeking; Book of Mormon Translation; Joseph Smith; Church History; Ancient Israelite Religion; High Priest; Urim and Thummim; Mesoamerica; Divination
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [7798]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-10-31  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 23540  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Alliaud, Rubén V. “Found through the Power of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, November 2019.
ID = [63131]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2019-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 9344  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:58:24
Bednar, David A. “Watchful unto Prayer Continually (Alma 34:39; Moroni 6:4; Luke 21:36).” Ensign, November 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [63130]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2019-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12069  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:58:24
Waddell, W. Christopher. “Are You Ready?” Devotional, Brigham Young University, November 5, 2019.
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In our efforts to prepare, in our efforts to be ready, we are provided a sweet assurance in Alma, where we are reminded that the Savior “has all power to save every man that believeth on his name and bringeth forth fruit meet for repentance” (Alma 12:15).

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Preparation; Sacrament; Temples; Collection: Jesus Christ; Our Savior and Redeemer; Podcast: Recent Speeches
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [70178]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-11-05  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:53
Scripture Central. “Why Did Samuel Say the Wealth of Some Nephites Would Become ‘Slippery’?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #539. November 7, 2019.
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Keywords: Samuel the Lamanite; Treasures; Bible; Old Testament; Book of Enoch; 1 Enoch; Enoch; Treasure Seeking; Church History; Magic; Folk Magic
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [7797]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-11-07  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 24825  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Scripture Central. “Why New Testament Words and Phrases Are in the Book of Mormon Part 8: Were These Expressions Parts of Joseph Smith’s Linguistic Toolbox?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #540. November 21, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament Intertextuality; Book of Mormon Translation; New Testament; Intertextuality
ID = [7796]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-11-21  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11472  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Scripture Central. “Why Was the Heavenly Book Sealed with Seven Seals?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #541. December 12, 2019.
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Keywords: Revelation; New Testament; Nephi; Seals; Plates
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7795]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-12-12  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 13294  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Interpreter Foundation. “Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 1 (Title Page and Introduction).” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 14, 2019.
ID = [6002]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-12-14  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1302  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Interpreter Foundation. “Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 2 (1 Nephi 1-7).” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 17, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [6003]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-12-17  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1251  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:31
Scripture Central. “Why New Testament Words and Phrases Are in the Book of Mormon Part 9: Above All, Were These Words Given by the Gift and Power of God?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #542. December 19, 2019.
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Keywords: New Testament; New Testament Intertextuality; Intertextuality; Come Follow Me; Church History; Book of Mormon Translation; Joseph Smith
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [7794]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-12-19  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 11414  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38
Claybaugh, Jonn D. “Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 2: 1 Nephi 1-7.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 21, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [6375]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-12-21  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 7494  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:33
Claybaugh, Jonn D. “Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 3: 1 Nephi 8-10.” The Interpreter Foundation website. December 21, 2019.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [6376]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-12-21  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 6209  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:33
Scripture Central. “Why Didn’t Nephi Mention Mary’s Name?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #543. December 24, 2019.
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Keywords: Mary; Christmas; Nephi; Jesus Christ
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [7793]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2019-12-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom  Size: 9378  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:38

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