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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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Videos Available for the 2020 Temple on Mount Zion Conference
Audio and video recordings of the presentations at the 2020 Temple on Mount Zion Conference are now available. They may be accessed at https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2020-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/videos/. A playlist of the videos is also...
Notes on Mormonism and the Trinity
Abstract: With “awe, humility, and circumspection,” Daniel C. Peterson provides a useful summary and discussion of Latter-day Saint beliefs as they relate to traditional Christian conceptions of the Trinity. In particular, his discussions reveals the many...
Essay #30: Enoch’s Grand Vision: God Receives Zion unto Himself (Moses 7:18–19, 68–69)
Enoch succeeded in bringing a whole people to be sufficiently “pure in heart” to fully live the final celestial law of consecration. In Zion, the “City of Holiness,” the people “were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.” In contrast to Genesis 5:24 where Enoch is said to have been translated by himself, we are told in the Book of Moses that Enoch’s “people walked with God” and that they were eventually taken into heaven with him.
Count Your Many Mormons: Mormon’s Personalized and Personal Messages in Mosiah 18 and 3 Nephi 5
Abstract: The present work analyzes the narrative art Mormon employs, specifically Mormon’s unique strategies for personalized and personal messaging, which can be seen in how Mormon connects the narration of the baptism at the waters of Mormon in Mosiah chapter...
Pre-print of Revisions in the Analysis of Archaic Grammar in the Book of Mormon
In The Nature of the Original Language [of the Book of Mormon] (hereafter, NOL), Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack indicated that additional research into the language of the Book of Mormon might discover that some of the archaic words, phrases, and expressions...
Interpreter Radio Show — November 8, 2020
You can listen to or download the November 8 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. It will also be included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feeds/podcast). The hosts were Terry Hutchinson, John Gee and Kevin Christensen. In this...
Interpreter Radio Show — November 1, 2020
You can listen to or download the November 1 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 and Jasmine Rappleye, Spencer Marsh and Hales Swift. In this...
Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 46 (Ether 12-15)
This is an Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 46, “By Faith All Things Are Fulfilled,” on Ether chapters 12-15. The panelists for this roundtable were Bruce Webster and Kris Fredrickson. This roundtable was extracted from the...
Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 46: Ether 12-15
Ether 12 A Scriptural Masterpiece Moroni’s teachings in chapter 12 are of immeasurable power and profit. He introduces Ether—the last of the Jaredite prophets—and uses Ether’s teachings to the wicked Jaredites as a springboard to teach us today about...
The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa)—Catalogue of Textual Variants
Abstract: In this erudite survey of textual variants in the “Great Isaiah Scroll” from Qumran, Donald W. Parry lays out the major categories of these differences with illustrative examples. This significant description of the most significant book of Old...
Essay #29: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Earth Shall Rest (Moses 7:60–69)
Having witnessed the abrupt end of the long-awaited coming of the Son of Man in His unexpected crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension; and having now understood that His presence on earth would not halt the wickedness of the world, Enoch again “wept and cried unto the Lord, saying? … Wilt thou not come again upon the earth?”
In this Insight, we will see Enoch’s anguished hope fulfilled at last when the righteous would be gathered to a Holy City and God would make Zion His abode. As we will see, this prophetic expectation appears elsewhere in the ancient Enoch literature and Jewish tradition.
A Priesthood Restoration Narrative for Latter-day Saints Believers
Review of Michael Hubbard MacKay, Prophetic Authority: Democratic Hierarchy and the Mormon Priesthood (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020). 184 pages. $22.95 (paperback). Abstract: With ready access to all the documents acquired by the Joseph Smith...
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