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Gentiles in the Book of Mormon
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...
Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me New Testament Lesson 39
This is an Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me New Testament Lesson 39, “For the Perfecting of the Saints,” covering Ephesians. Panelists for this roundtable were Bruce Webster and Mark Johnson. This roundtable was extracted from the September 15, 2019...
Interpreter Radio Show — September 15, 2019
You can listen to or download the September 15 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. It will also be included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feeds/podcast). The hosts were Bruce Webster and Mark Johnson. This episode features Bruce...
The Ezekiel Mural at Dura Europos: A Witness of Ancient Jewish Mysteries?
[Note: This video is from the talk “The Ezekiel Mural at Dura Europos and the Mysteries of Aaron, Moses, and Melchizedek” given at the BYU Studies 50th Anniversary Symposium (Brigham Young University, Provo, UT) by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and David J. Larsen on March 13,...
Paul’s Visit to the Third Heaven in 2 Corinthians 12
A Video Supplement for Come, Follow Me Lesson 37: “God Loveth a Cheerful Giver” Transcript In the opening of 2 Corinthians 12, Paul makes a couple of remarks about his spiritual experiences because some have been questioning the adequacy of his...
Never Static, Never Simple: One Woman’s Conversations Within the Marginalia of If Truth Were a Child
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...
Glorification in 2 Corinthians 5
A Video Supplement for Come, Follow Me Lesson 36: “Be Ye Reconciled to God” Transcript In 2 Corinthians, chapter 5, Paul relates some insights about our mortal and resurrected bodies. Beginning at verse 1, 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this...
Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me New Testament Lesson 38
This is an Interpreter Radio (audio) Roundtable for Come, Follow Me New Testament Lesson 38, “Walk in the Spirit,” covering Galatians. Panelists for this roundtable were Terry Hutchinson, John Gee and Kevin Christensen. This roundtable was extracted from the September...
Interpreter Radio Show — September 8, 2019
You can listen to or download the September 8 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. It will also be included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feeds/podcast). The hosts were Terry Hutchinson, John Gee and Kevin Christensen. This episode...
Volume 32 Now Available for Ordering in Paperback and E-book Formats
The Interpreter Foundation is pleased to announce that Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volume 32 (2019), is now available in paperback and digital formats for ordering and downloading.
What Did the Interpreters (Urim and Thummim) Look Like?
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...
A Church History Moment with J. B. Haws
About the Interview: With the release of Saints last year, the study of church history officially moved beyond the dusty cobwebs of the Church History Library and the podiums of sparsely attended academic conferences to the nightstands of lay members....
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