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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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The 2024 Temple on Mount Zion Conference

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The seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Temple on Mount Zion Conference will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2024 in room 251 of the Tanner Building, Brigham Young University. The conference will be held live with no streaming. Recordings of the presentations will be available at a later date. Expanded, fully footnoted versions of the presentations will be published in a book of proceedings, anticipated sometime in 2025.

For more information, including the program schedule, abstracts, and presenter biographies, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2024-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/.


The Completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project

Video, an audio recording 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

Interpreting Interpreter: The Death of Christ

Interpreting Interpreter: The Death of Christ

This post is a summary of the article “The Pathophysiology of the Death of Jesus the Christ” by C. Thomas Black in Volume 62 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...

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Interpreter Radio Show — September 22, 2024

Interpreter Radio Show — September 22, 2024

  In the September 22, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Steve Densley and John Thompson with special guest Godfrey Ellis. They discuss Godfrey’s new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship and Come,...

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Interpreting Interpreter: The Death of Christ

Interpreting Interpreter: Through Wadi Kharfot

This post is a summary of the article “Accessing Nephi’s Bountiful: A New Proposal for Reaching Irreantum” by Warren P. Aston in Volume 62 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...

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Interpreting Interpreter: The Death of Christ

Interpreting Interpreter: A Semitic Alma

This post is a summary of the article “More Evidence for Alma as a Semitic Name” by Neal Rappleye and Allen Hansen in Volume 62 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...

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The Pathophysiology of the Death of Jesus the Christ

More Evidence for Alma as a Semitic Name

Abstract: Beginning with Hugh Nibley, several Latter-day Saint scholars have highlighted a deed found among the Bar Kokhba documents as evidence of the name Alma as a Jewish male name in antiquity. Here we highlight a second attestation of the same name used for a...

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