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Approaching the Year’s End
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Not by Bread Alone: Stories of the Saints in Africa
A new film series about African Saints who thirsted for tranquility and found peace in the gospel of Jesus Christ
from The Interpreter Foundation
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For more information in French, go to https://notbybreadalonefilm.com/fr/
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Ancient Names in the Book of Mormon
Toward a Deeper Understanding of a Witness of Christ
By Matthew L. Bowen
Published by
The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books
Available Now
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The Bright and Morning Star
Finding and Following Jesus in the Book of Revelation
By Breck England
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The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books
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Not by Bread Alone: “You Can Take Your Hand Off Africa Now”: A New Short Film about President Kimball, David M. Kennedy, and the Revelation on the Priesthood
For more information on the “Not by Bread Alone: Stories of the Saints in Africa” series, go to https://notbybreadalonefilm.com/en/For more information in French, go to https://notbybreadalonefilm.com/fr/To see all of our posts about The Church in Africa,...
Marvelous Ripples through Time and Mind
Review of Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates: A Cultural History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023). 264 pages, $34.95 (hardback). Abstract: The gold plates were only a physically present artifact for a brief time and only for a select few...
A New Look at the Miracles of the Resurrection and the Book of Mormon
Review of Joshua Gehly, Witnessing Miracles: Historical Evidence for the Resurrection and the Book of Mormon (Monongahela, PA: The Church of Jesus Christ, 2022). 172 pages. $14.95 (paperback). Abstract: Joshua Gehly, an ordained Evangelist of the Church of Jesus...
Interpreting Interpreter: A Prophet, Not a King
This post is a summary of the article “Nephi Wanted to Be a Prophet Like Moses, Not a King Like David” by Taylor Halverson in Volume 59 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...
Nephi Wanted to Be a Prophet Like Moses, Not a King Like David
Abstract: While David is frequently held up as the standard for great kings in the Old Testament, examination of Nephi’s writings shows that he sought to imitate Moses the prophet rather than David the king. In fact, he never even mentions David. Relative to two major...
“I Have Done According to My Will”: Reading Jacob 5 as a Temple Text
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Ancient and Restored, Proceedings of the Second Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference “The Temple on Mount Zion,” 25 October 2014 (2016) edited by Stephen D. Ricks and...
Conference Talks: Women and the Priesthood in the Contemporary Church
This paper will examine similarities between the account of the sacrifice and epiphany of the first parents in Moses 5:1-15 and analogous accounts found in apocryphal literature of the late antique and medieval periods. Apocryphal texts I will consider include...
Interpreter Radio: The New Testament in Context Lesson 51
In the November 19th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Bruce Webster and Robert Boylan discuss New Testament lesson 51, “They Overcame … by the Blood of the Lamb” covering Revelation 6–14. You can listen to or download the New...
New Testament Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 51
Revelation 6-7 The Opening of the Seals We now move into the next portion of John’s visions. A significant help for understanding comes from two of Joseph Smith’s questions about the book of Revelation—and the Lord’s answers—as recorded in Doctrine and Covenants...
Interpreter Radio Show — November 19, 2023
In this episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Bruce Webster and Robert Boylan. They discuss Come, Follow Me New Testament lesson 51, Church membership controversies, the recent article by Allen Wyatt in Interpreter, the growth of missionary work,...
Interpreting Interpreter: Imperfect Symmetry
This post is a summary of the article “Asymmetry in Chiasms, With a Note About Deuteronomy 8 and Alma 36” by Stephen Kent Ehat in Volume 59 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...
Asymmetry in Chiasms, With a Note About Deuteronomy 8 and Alma 36
Abstract: Some students of the Book of Mormon have claimed that chapter 36 of the book of Alma is structured as a chiasm. Some of the proposals depart from perfect symmetry, presenting elements of the suggested chiasm seemingly out of sequence. This has often been...
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