The Revelation of John the Apostle by Dr. Richard Draper and Dr. Michael Rhodes is now available as an e-book through Deseret Book’s free Bookshelf app. The volume is priced at $19.99 and is the first of the series to appear. The announcement through BYU Studies...
read moreJohn W. Welch at BYU Studies has posted a short article (link no longer available) in which he provides links to articles in the BYU Studies journal that can assist in answering the questions that the New York Times article suggested may be of concerns to Latter-day...
read moreThe New York Times prominently placed an article about a Swedish member of the church who has declared that he has lost his faith after searching the Internet and discovering issues he found disturbing. The Patheos GetReligion blog provided a non-Mormon response to...
read moreRoyal Skousen’s The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text was published by Yale University Press in hardback in 2009. This text represents the culmination of 25 years worth of study of the Book of Mormon manuscripts (both what remains of the original manuscript and...
read moreThe Science & Mormonism: Cosmos, Earth & Man Symposium will be held on Saturday, 9 November 2013, in Utah County....
read moreA reminder of the new annual print subscription to Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture....
read moreTHE LADY OF THE TEMPLE: EXAMINING THE DIVINE FEMININE IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION The Academy for Temple Studies and the Utah State University Religious Studies program announces a conference to be held on October 23, 2013, on the campus of Utah State...
read moreThe Israel Antiquities Authority [IAA] has launched a new archaeological archive accessible online in English. The digital archive will feature tens of thousands of documents, photos, maps, and plans from the period of the British Mandate (1919-1948). It is available...
read moreAn annual print subscription is now available to readers of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture. The subscription includes all volumes compiled in a year, which will be shipped directly to your door....
read moreInterpreter has begun a new section where we will accumulate information that can be of benefit to teachers and students of the scriptures. These are not formal articles, but have information that can be of value for study. You will find the link under Other Posts on...
read moreOver the years, several scholars have been working on names in the Book of Mormon, or the onomasticon. The Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies has created a website to disseminate the information currently collected, as well as that which might be added...
read moreWhen you hear the word “mystical,” there’s no telling what may come to mind these days. BYU History Department professor William Hamblin and host Marcus Smith join together to discuss neo-mysticism and the relationship it maintains–or fails to...
read moreWe’d like to draw attention to the great resources found at the BYU Religious Studies Center website. Readers can enjoy browsing academic and devotional books on topics related to ancient scripture and modern Church history and doctrine. An extensive and...
read moreThere is an upcoming conference, the “LDS Life Science Research Symposium,” which will be held at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 18-20, 2013. This symposium is held once every three years, and this is the third of its...
read moreThe Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology will hold its 2013 Annual Meeting at Utah Valley University, October 31st-November 2nd. The conference theme is “The Atonement.” We invite paper proposals on any aspect of Mormon belief, but particularly...
read moreProfessor William J. Hamblin, a member of the Executive Board of The Interpreter Foundation, will be presenting a stake fireside at the Daybreak South Jordan Stake Center on this coming Sunday, June 30, 2013, from 6:00-7:30pm. His topic is “The Mysteries of...
read moreA new Book of Mormon blog has been launched by Matthew Roper and John Gee called Ether’s Cave. We recommend it to our readers as a source of interesting Book of Mormon research by these two scholars.
For those in the vicinity of Independence, Missouri, there will be an event on June 15-16, 2013, with Professor Dr. Robert Millet and Dr. Lynn Ridenhour. Dr. Ridenhour will be speaking under the title of “What I Have Discovered about the Restoration Movement as a...
read moreThe paperback edition of volume 4 of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is now available for ordering on Amazon.com. E-book formats of the volume are also now available....
read moreWe have received a request from a researcher outside of the state of Utah who is looking for some research assistance. The person is looking “to hire someone to d some basic archival research at the University of Utah and the Church Archives. A smart student...
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