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Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

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Just in time for your Come Follow Me discussion of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon!

Undaunted: Witness of the Book of Mormon can now be viewed for free here: https://witnessesfilm.com/ and Witnesses will go up for free from 2 Feb 2025 through 1 March 2025.


Joseph Smith: A Life Lived in Crescendo

Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

Available Now

This two-volume set (1100 pages total) seeks to enrich study of the life and teachings of Joseph Smith through essays by knowledgeable and faithful scholars on selected punctuation marks of Joseph Smith’s final years in Nauvoo. While some of Joseph Smith’s contemporaries saw these events and doctrinal developments as evidence that he was a fallen prophet, modern Latter-day Saints, looking back, see them as a glorious culmination to a faithful life.
 

Go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/ for more information


Margaret Barker’s Master Classes on the Hebrew Scriptures

The Interpreter Foundation is pleased to offer two seminars from noted scholar Dr. Margaret Barker.

The Nov. 9 seminar looked at the changes and developments in the text of the Hebrew Scriptures and the work of the scribes who transmitted them.

This provided the context for the second seminar on Nov. 16 where Dr. Barker examined five examples from Qumran texts of Deuteronomy and Isaiah to explore how and why differences arose, and which of the versions was the more likely to have been used by the first Christians.

This class is for everyone interested in the story of the Hebrew Scriptures. Knowledge of Hebrew is not required.

 

Video and audio recording of both seminars are available at https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/margaret-barker-master-classes-on-the-hebrew-scriptures/.

Interpreter Radio Show — January 26, 2025

Interpreter Radio Show — January 26, 2025

  In the January 26, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Steve Densley and John Thompson, with special guest Noel Hudson. They discuss Noel's article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship< and Come, Follow Me...

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Interpreting Interpreter: Inclusive Soteriologists

Interpreting Interpreter: Inclusive Soteriologists

This post is a summary of the article “Perspectives on the Soteriological Problem of Evil: Nuancing the “Universalist” Theologies of Henri de Lubac and Joseph Smith” by Timothy Gervais in Volume 63 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...

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Reprint: George Mitton: Foreword: Eschewing the Ephemeral

Reprint: George Mitton Tribute by John P. Mitton

George L. Mitton was raised in Logan, Utah. Following military service, he served in the British Mission (1949–51) and later in many church callings. He received a master’s degree in political science at Utah State University and did additional graduate studies at the...

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Interpreter Radio Show — January 26, 2025

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  In the January 19, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Bruce Webster, Kris Frederickson, and Martin Tanner. They discuss Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson 7, BYU employment standards, and NetFlix’s American Primeval. You can...

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Interpreter Radio Show — January 26, 2025

Interpreter Radio Show — January 12, 2025

  In the January 12, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Martin Tanner, Terry Hutchinson and Mark Johnson with special guest Barbara Jones Brown. They discuss NetFlix’s American Primeval, Barbara’s new book, Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain...

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This post is a summary of the article “‘Upon Thy Belly Shalt Thou Go’: The Garden of Eden Serpent Symbology Based on the Concept of Seraphim” by Noel Hudson in Volume 63 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the...

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