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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

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Abraham and His Family

In Scripture, History, and Tradition

Saturday, May 3, 2025 and Saturday, May 10, 2025

Sponsored by
The Interpreter Foundation,
Brigham Young University Religious Education,
Scripture Central, and FAIR

Go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2025-abraham-and-his-family-conference/ for more information


Joseph Smith: A Life Lived in Crescendo

Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

Available Now

This two-volume set (1100 pages total) seeks to enrich study of the life and teachings of Joseph Smith through essays by knowledgeable and faithful scholars on selected punctuation marks of Joseph Smith’s final years in Nauvoo. While some of Joseph Smith’s contemporaries saw these events and doctrinal developments as evidence that he was a fallen prophet, modern Latter-day Saints, looking back, see them as a glorious culmination to a faithful life.
 

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The Plates of Gardner

The Plates of Gardner

Review of Brant A. Gardner, The Plates of Mormon: A Book of Mormon Study Edition, and its companion volume, Engraven Upon Plates, Printed Upon Paper: Textual and Narrative Structures of the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2023). Study edition 598...

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Interpreting Interpreter: Slippery Wordplay

Interpreting Interpreter: Slippery Wordplay

This post is a summary of the article “Smooth Words and Slippery Things: Samuel the Lamanite’s Prophetic Use of Hebrew ḥlq” by Matthew L. Bowen in Volume 66 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting...

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Reprint: Manipulating Text to Reinforce the Message: Content informs Form in the Bible and Book of Mormon

Reprint: Columbus among the Lamanites

Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in Seek Ye Words of Wisdom: Studies of the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Temple in Honor of Stephen D. Ricks, edited by Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn, and Shon D. Hopkin. For more information,...

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Interpreter Podcast — July 8, 2025

Interpreter Podcast — July 8, 2025

  In the July 8, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Martin Tanner, Brent Schmidt, and Hales Swift discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for July 14 – 20 and Martin then discusses the meaning of the phrase “One...

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