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Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

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The Interpreter Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization focused on the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, the Bible, and the Doctrine and Covenants), early Latter-day Saint history, and related subjects.

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Margaret Barker’s Master Classes on the Hebrew Scriptures

November 9 and November 16

The Interpreter Foundation is pleased to offer two seminars from noted scholar Dr. Margaret Barker. Her presentations will be on two successive Saturdays, November 9 and November 16, 2024, both beginning at 11 a.m. Mountain Time. Each seminar will feature an illustrated lecture for approximately 50 minutes followed by 15 to 30 minutes for questions. The seminars are free but registration is required.

The Nov. 9 seminar will look at the changes and developments in the text of the Hebrew Scriptures and the work of the scribes who transmitted them.

This will provide the context for the second seminar on Nov. 16. Dr. Barker will examine five examples from Qumran texts of Deuteronomy and Isaiah to explore how and why differences arose, and which of the versions was the more likely to have been used by the first Christians.

This class is for everyone interested in the story of the Hebrew Scriptures. Knowledge of Hebrew is not required.

The seminars will be video taped for later viewing.

Go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/margaret-barker-master-classes-on-the-hebrew-scriptures/ for more information


The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs

Proceedings of the Sixth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference: 4–5 November 2022

Edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

Into Arabia

Anchoring Nephi’s Account in the Real World

Warren P. Aston, Godfrey J. Ellis, and Neal Rappleye

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Go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/ for more information


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The Completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project

Video, audio, and slides from the Celebration on August 10, 2024

Go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/royal-skousen-presentation-on-the-innovative-and-revolutionary-book-of-mormon-critical-text-project/ to see Royal Skousen’s and Stanford Carmack’s presentations

Interpreter Radio Show — October 27, 2024

Interpreter Radio Show — October 27, 2024

  In the October 27, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are John and Stacey Thompson. They discuss the recent article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship by Diane E. Wirth and Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon...

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Interpreting Interpreter: A Man of the Forest

Interpreting Interpreter: A Man of the Forest

This post is a summary of the article ““Behold, I Went to Hunt Beasts in the Forest”: An Addendum on Enos, Esau, and the Symbolic Geography of Seir” by Matthew L. Bowen in Volume 63 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the...

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Interpreting Interpreter: A Man of the Forest

Interpreting Interpreter: Retranslated Blackness

This post is a summary of the article “Die Prophezeiung Henochs: Some Observations on Section 36 in the German Edition of the Community of Christ Doctrine and Covenants” by Adam Stokes in Volume 63 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship....

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Reprint: Bearing Testimony in Hebrew

Reprint: Bearing Testimony in Hebrew

Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Symbols, Sermons, and Settings, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to...

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Letters from Elder Spencer W Kimball

Letters from Elder Spencer W Kimball

Letter to his son Spencer Levan Kimball [Note: Levan was beginning to distance himself from the Church at the time and eventually became atheist. His father was deeply concerned and used this missive as a means of trying to fortify him in the faith. Slight editing has...

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