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Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning
Proceedings of the Third Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference “The Temple on Mount Zion,” 5 November 2016
Temple on Mount Zion Series 4
Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (eds.)
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Record-Keeping Technology among God’s People in Ancient and Modern Times
Abstract: In a fascinating survey of the efforts of ancient and modern Saints to honor the Lord’s commandment to keep reliable records of their doings, the authors take us on a colorful tour of the past, present, and future of technology for records...
New Website: “Witnesses of the Book of Mormon”
The Interpreter Foundation, with support from FAIR and Book of Mormon Central, has created a new website to highlight the experiences of witnesses of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. It can be found at WitnessesoftheBookofMormon.org. This website is...
Essay #39: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: The Names of Moses as “Keywords” (Moses 1:25)
In light of our cultural and conceptual distance from the milieu of Moses 1, we are fortunate that imperfect documents from antiquity like the Apocalypse of Abraham (ApAb) may nevertheless provide keys for understanding that “mysterious other world,” even when existing manuscripts were written much later and, not infrequently, have come to us in a form that is riddled with the ridiculous.
Prolegomena to a Study of the Egyptian Alphabet Documents in the Joseph Smith Papers
Abstract: For many theories about the Book of Abraham, the Egyptian Alphabet documents are seen as the key to understanding the translation process. While the original publication of those documents allows many researchers access to the documents for the first time,...
Televised Interview of Actor Paul Wuthrich from Witnesses
Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate, ABC4, televised a five-minute interview interview with Paul Wuthrich – the “Joseph Smith” in Interpreter’s Witnesses film – yesterday morning. See it at https://www.abc4.com/gtu/portrayal-of-joseph-smith-in-witnesses-shows-humanity/....
Interpreter Radio Show — January 3, 2021
You can listen to or download the January 3 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. It will also be included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feeds/podcast). The hosts were Neal Rappleye, Jasmine Rappleye, and Hales Swift. In this episode,...
Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 5 (D&C 6-9)
This is an Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 5, “This Is the Spirit of Revelation” on D&C 6-9. The panelists for this roundtable were Bruce Webster, Kris Fredrickson and Mike Parker. This roundtable was extracted from the...
Doctrine and Covenants Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 5
D&C 6 Oliver Cowdery and You In 1829 Joseph and Emma Smith were living near Emma’s parents in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Almost 300 miles away, 22-year-old Oliver Cowdery became acquainted with the Smith family in New York, and learned about Joseph and the gold...
Poesy and Prosody in the Book of Mormon
Abstract: Robert Smith makes the case that “poetic art in the Book of Mormon is highly developed” — you just need to have the eye to recognize it. Though many readers are aware of the stunning examples of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, thanks to the pioneering work...
Essay #38: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses Passes Through the Heavenly Veil (Moses 1:25–27)
In light of our cultural and conceptual distance from the milieu of Moses 1, we are fortunate that imperfect documents from antiquity like the Apocalypse of Abraham (ApAb) may nevertheless provide keys for understanding that “mysterious other world,” even when existing manuscripts were written much later and, not infrequently, have come to us in a form that is riddled with the ridiculous.
Subtle Hebraic Features in the Book of Mormon
Review of Donald W. Parry, Preserved in Translation: Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020). 171 pages. Hardback, $19.99....
Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 4 (D&C 3–5)
This is an Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 4, “The Hearts of the Children Shall Turn to Their Fathers” on D&C 3–5. The panelists for this roundtable were Terry Hutchinson, John Gee and Kevin Christensen. This roundtable...
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