News & Events
New Edition of Shaken Faith Syndrome is Available
Mike Ash’s Shaken Faith Syndrome is now available in a second, and expanded edition. Read more about the book here. Those interested in purchasing this book may do so through the FAIR bookstore.
Interpreter Volume 3 Now Available for Ordering in Paperback
The Interpreter Foundation has concluded compiling the next volume of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, Volume 3 (2013), and it is now available as a professionally bound hard copy paperback....
read moreReminder: The Church History Symposium is this week!
The symposium takes place March 7-8. Please see here for more information.
Professor Michael Sokoloff to speak March 6, 2013
James S. Jardine to Give 2013 Maxwell Lecture, March 20
The Neal A. Maxwell Lecture for 2013 will be given by James S. Jardine on Wednesday, March 20, at 7:00 pm in the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center on the BYU campus. The lecture is titled “Elder Neal A. Maxwell: A Disciple’s Light.” The...
read moreJob Posting for Historian/Documentary Editor for the Joseph Smith Papers
The following job description has been released. Historian/Documentary Editor, Joseph Smith Papers Job Description The Joseph Smith Papers seeks a full-time historian/documentary editor with the academic training, research, and writing skills to edit Joseph Smith’s...
read moreNew Editions of LDS Scriptures Announced
Modernizing some spelling and altering some introductions, including an important addition of an introducton to OD2, the church has announced updated editions of the LDS scriptures. See the announcement here.
Prominent Talmud Scholar to Give Two Presentations, March 4 and 6
As part of the spring series in Jewish Studies, the University of Utah will be hosting one of the preeminent scholars of Talmud (Hebrew Oral Scripture) Admiel Kosman. Professor at the University of Potsdam and the Academic director of Abraham Geiger Reform Rabbinical...
read moreDiscussing the Online Publication of a Controversial Paper
The BYU Student Review has published an article by Stephen Smoot entitled: “Controversial Paper Critiquing Popular Mormon Podcast Published.” Smoot discusses the recent posting of Gregory L. Smith’s “Dubious ‘Mormon’ Stories: A Twenty-First...
read more“Mormonism and the Temple” Proceedings Book Now Available
The proceedings book is now available from the Logan conference, Mormonism and the Temple: Examining an Ancient Religious Tradition....
read moreSave March 7-8, 2013!
Details about Royal Skousen’s Upcoming Lectures on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project
We reported a couple of months ago about three upcoming lectures by Royal Skousen that will be sponsored by the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and the Harold B. Lee Library. More details have been published on those lectures, as noted below. Please...
read moreKindle Edition of Grant Hardy’s Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition
Grant Hardy’s Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition is now available on Kindle for a special price of $2.99, now $12.84. A great deal on a great...
read moreHartley Lachter to Lecture February 6
Professor Harley Lachter, Director of Jewish Studies at Muhlenberg College, will speak on: “Human Bodies in Divine Form: Jewish and Christian Explorations in Kabbalah.” The lecture will be in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building, “The Jewel...
read more15th Annual BYU Religious Education Student Symposium
This event, sponsored by Religious Education, will be held February 15, 2013 in the Wilkenson Student Center, from 9:00 AM to Noon. Multiple students will be presenting papers on religious subjects from a faith-based perspective. Paper titles have not been provided,...
read moreDavid Seely to give BYU devotional address Jan. 29
From the press release: David Seely, a professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture, will speak Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center for a Brigham Young University campus devotional. His lecture is titled “Created in the Image and Likeness...
read moreStudents of the Ancient Near East Symposium
“Enoch and the Temple” Conference with George W. E. Nickelsburg
A conference on "Enoch and the Temple" will have a keynote from George W. E. Nickelsburg, a well-known expert on Enoch literature....
read moreMark Dates for the BYU Church History Symposium
March 7-8 are the dates for the BYU Church History Symposium. The topic is Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith’ws Study of the Ancient World.
