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The 2024 Temple on Mount Zion Conference
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
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...
The Pathophysiology of the Death of Jesus the Christ
Abstract: Centuries-long speculation continues regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of the Savior. Over the past century, the Savior’s tribulations between the Last Supper and his death on the cross have been scrupulously examined from a medical...
Reprint: On Earth When It Was in Heaven: Sacred Time and its Protection in Egyptian Temples
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Symbols, Sermons, and Settings, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to...
Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon — 3 Nephi 17-19
This week for Come, Follow Me lesson 41 covering 3 Nephi 17-19, we have lectures 85, 95, 96, 100, and 101 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering 3 Nephi 16-27 and 4 Nephi 1. These are the last class in semester 3 and four...
Interpreter Radio: The Book of Mormon in Context — 3 Nephi 17-19
In the September 15th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Bruce Webster and Kris Frederickson with special guest Dan Peterson discuss Book of Mormon lesson 41, “Behold, My Joy Is Full” covering 3 Nephi 17-19. You can listen to or...
Study and Teaching Helps: 2024 Book of Mormon — 3 Nephi 17-19
Editor's Note: Four years ago, Jonn Claybaugh began writing the Study and Teaching Helps series of articles for Interpreter. We now have these wonderful and useful posts for all four years of Come, Follow Me lessons. Beginning this year we will be reposting these...
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,...
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...
Accessing Nephi’s Bountiful: A New Proposal for Reaching Irreantum
Abstract: Many Latter-day Saint scholars recognize that an excellent candidate for Nephi’s Bountiful is found at the inlet Khor Kharfot in southern Oman at the end of the lengthy Wadi Sayq. Many researchers have reasonably assumed that Lehi’s eastward travel from...
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...
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...
Hugh Nibley Observed: Hugh Winder Nibley: The Man, the Scholar, the Legacy
“While I was investigating The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in 1969, after spending seven years studying to be a minister of the gospel, there were two things I was reading: the Book of Mormon and an article a ward member had given me, ‘A New Look at the...
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