The February 25 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show with host Martin Tanner and guests Steve Densley, Lynn Wilson and Matt Bowen, discussing Women and Veils in New Testament times and two Book of Mormon names....
read moreLaura Harris Hales interviews Shon Hopkin about different aspects of the Abinadi narrative in the Book of Mormon. Shon D. Hopkin is an associate professor of ancient scripture at BYU. He has published and presented papers on the Jewish concept of a premortal life and...
read moreJoshua Madson is a PhD student in religions of western antiquity at Florida State University and a teacher at the Tallahassee Institute of Religion. Josh received his bachelor’s degree in Ancient Near Eastern studies with university honors from Brigham Young...
read moreJanuary 28 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show with host Martin Tanner and guests Dan Peterson, Bruce Webster and Mike Parker, discussing Bible translations and the Book of Abraham....
read moreYou can listen to or download this broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. It will also be included in our podcast feed (https://dev.interpreterfoundation.org/feed/podcast). The host is Martin Tanner with guests Neal Rappleye and S. Hales Swift. The Interpreter...
read moreThe authors of the Old Testament told very few “stories” for a story’s sake. Scriptural accounts were meant to illustrate a point usually having to do with Israel’s relationship to God. Authors carefully chose how they presented their messages,...
read moreW. Paul Reeve is a professor of history and the director of graduate studies in history at the University of Utah where he teaches courses on Utah history, Mormon history, and history of the US West. Recently he was named the director of the newly organized Mormon...
read moreA New York native, Terryl Givens did his graduate work in intellectual history (Cornell) and comparative literature (UNC Chapel Hill). He teaches courses in nineteenth-century studies and religious themes in literature at the University of Richmond, where he is...
read moreThe Gospel of Mark isn’t a natural choice as a favorite Gospel narrative, but for Julie Smith “as a believing LDS scholar, it is Mark whose shine most attracts [her] gaze, partially because its light is often ignored.” In this interview with Laura Harris Hales for LDS...
read moreSome Mormons regard Martin Luther as a kind of hero. Maybe for various reasons that could be true, but many of the things that Luther was against, Mormons would be for. In fact, Mormons have a lot more in common with Catholics than they do with Protestants. Though he...
read moreThe February 18 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show features Martin Tanner, Hales Swift and Stephen Smoot, discussing "Was Noah's Flood the Baptism of the Earth?"...
read moreThe February 11 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show with host Martin Tanner and guests Brian Hales, Craig Foster and Allen Wyatt, discussing polygamy and various topics introduced by callers....
read moreThe February 4 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show with host Martin Tanner and guests Dan Peterson and Kris Frederiksen, discussing Mayan ruin discoveries, Jesus’ treatment of women, Interpreter Foundation projects and various topics introduced by callers....
read moreIn this episode, Brian Hales interviews Don Bradley about his decades-long research into missing parts of Book of Mormon narrative. Ever since he was a youngster, Don’s wondered about the content of the 116 pages of the Book of Lehi transcript that Martin Harris lost...
read moreYou can listen to or download the inaugural broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. It will also be included in our podcast feed (https://dev.interpreterfoundation.org/feed/podcast). This broadcast features Martin Tanner as host, with Steve Densley and Allen...
read moreLDS Perspectives is pleased to announce a new podcast interview with David W. Grua, a historian and documentary editor with the Joseph Smith Papers. David holds a Ph.D. in American History from Texas Christian University and an M.A. and B.A. from Brigham Young...
read moreOn this episode of the LDS Perspectives Podcast, Russell Stevenson interviews Elizabeth Kuehn, a Joseph Smith Papers historian and documentary editor, about one of the lasting blemishes on the Mormon Kirtland experience – the failure of the Kirtland Safety Society...
read moreFiona Givens is a retired modern language teacher with undergraduate degrees in French and German and a graduate degree in European history. She is now an independent scholar who has published in several journals and reviews in Mormon studies. Along with her husband,...
read moreKeith Erekson, current director of the LDS Church History Library, has worked really wherever history could be found or needed. When faced with new opportunities, he’s thought, “let’s go there, and let’s see what we can do.” In this episode of the LDS Perspectives...
read moreJennifer Ann Mackley is a realist. “I have children, and they don’t ask me questions,” she admits, “They go to Google.” And when they read things out of context on the internet, they can seem really weird. Take the story of Wilford Woodruff’s experience in the St....
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