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2022 Temple on Mount Zion Conference
2022 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceThe Sixth Interpreter
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Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances
Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple OrdinancesBy Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
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Dictionary of Proper Names and Foreign Words in the Book of Mormon
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Seek Ye Words of WisdomStudies of the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Temple in Honor of Stephen D. Ricks
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Interpreting Interpreter: There Came a Man
This post is a summary of the article “Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem” by Loren Blake Spendlove in Volume 54 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. An introduction to the Interpreting Interpreter series is available at...
Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem
Abstract: The Book of Mormon story of Jacob and Sherem has been evaluated and interpreted from many different viewpoints over the years. In his retelling of the story, Jacob crafted a cautionary tale of religious hubris and self-importance that can...
An Important New Study of Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saints: What’s Good, What’s Questionable, and What’s Missing in Method Infinite
Review of Cheryl L. Bruno, Joe Steve Swick, III, and Nicholas S. Literski. Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2022, 509pp. with index. Price: $44.95 (hardback); $34.95 (softcover). [Editor's Note: This is a...
Conference Talks: Latter-day Houses of the Lord: Developments in Their Design and Function
This essay traces the modern-day usage and understanding of temples from the Kirtland Temple to Nauvoo and the Salt Lake Temple. Architecture was used to teach principles. While the Kirtland Temple was preparatory (think of the vision of Christ and the conference of keys by Abraham, Moses, Abraham, Elias, and finally Elijah), the Nauvoo Temple was dedicated to ritual usage. In 1879, the Church reduced temple usage to rituals, and thus assembly rooms are missing from later temples. Through his paper, Cowan shows how temples have changed according to revelation and how prophets have seen models in vision that then have been incorporated in the temples God’s people built.
Interpreter Radio Show — November 13, 2022
In this episode, our hosts Terry Hutchinson, John Gee and Kevin Christensen discussed Kevin's article in the Interpreter Journal on Margaret Barker. You can listen to or download the November 13th broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. It will also be...
Interpreter Radio Show — November 6, 2022
In this episode, our hosts Neal Rappleye, Jasmin Rappleye, Stephen O. Smoot, and Hales Swift recapped the Temple on Mount Zion 2022 Conference. You can listen to or download the November 6th broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. It will also be...
Interpreter Radio Show — October 30, 2022
In this episode, our hosts Martin Tanner and Terry Hutchinson discussed various books on the New Testament. They also discussed Terry's new book, The Temple Pathway to Heaven, co-authored with Grant Gifford. You can listen to or download the October 30th...
Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — Rhetoric and Revelation
This lecture is a discussion of rhetoric having the impression of knowledge with no actual knowledge. This is contrasted with revelation, which provides true knowledge.
Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 49 (Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah)
This is an Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 49, “His Ways Are Everlasting” on Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah. The panelist for this roundtable was Martin Tanner. This roundtable was extracted from the October 23rd broadcast of...
Old Testament Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 49
Nahum Nineveh Returns to Wickedness “Nahum” means consoler or comforter. This prophet’s ministry was in the southern kingdom of Judah, around 650 BC or later. Unlike other prophets in Judah, he doesn’t speak of the evils of his own people, but in all three chapters he...
Interpreting Interpreter: Two Decades of Margaret Barker
This post is a summary of the article “Twenty Years After “Paradigms Regained,” Part 1: The Ongoing, Plain, and Precious Significance of Margaret Barker’s Scholarship for Latter-day Saint Studies” by Kevin Christensen in Volume 54 of Interpreter: A Journal of...
Textual Criticism and the Book of Mormon
On Saturday evening, 12 November 2022, Royal Skousen delivered a talk at Utah Valley University under the title of “Textual Criticism and the Book of Mormon”—a subject to which he has devoted meticulous scholarly attention extending over the past several decades. In...
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