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Joseph Smith: A Life Lived in Crescendo
Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
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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.
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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/.
Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — Doctrine and Covenants 1
Doctrine and Covenants 1 D&C 1 “My Preface” Eight years after the earliest section (Section 2), the Lord instructed the Prophet Joseph Smith to compile the revelations into what was titled Book of Commandments, published in 1833 (the Lord referred to...
Interpreter Radio Show — December 22, 2024
In the December 22, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our host is Steve Densley with special guests Jasmine and Don Bradley. They discuss Don's recent Christmas essay in the Interpreter Journal and Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson 3. You...
Interpreting Interpreter: Gathering a Gentile Ruth
This post is a summary of the article “The “Allegory” of Ruth as a Prophecy of Latter-day Gathering” by Jan Francisco in Volume 63 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen...
The “Allegory” of Ruth as a Prophecy of Latter-day Gathering
Abstract: In the historical context of the late fifth century BC, the book of Ruth was a powerful story of hope and redemption for the eventual gathering and restoration of Israel’s covenants. Connecting their golden period of unity under King David to this idyllic...
Reprint: The Messianic Sacred, Not Secret: The Son as a Hidden Name in the Gospel of Mark
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Past, Present and Future, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to...
Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — The Restoration
Bicentennial Proclamation to the World In the April 2020 general conference, President Russell M. Nelson shared a “proclamation” to all the world, titled, The Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This one-page proclamation is found on...
Interpreter Radio Show — December 15, 2024
In the December 15, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Bruce Webster and Kris Frederickson. They discuss Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson 2, Moroni’s prophecies about our days, the Church’s disaster relief efforts, and...
Ring in the Christ that Is to Be: Fulfilling the Pattern of His Life
Abstract: The story of Christ, and of Christmas, is the story of Christ “the Lord God Omnipotent” incarnating in “a tabernacle of clay” (Mosiah 3:5). Christ took upon himself flesh so that he might also take upon himself burdens that he did not naturally have to...
Reprint: Wiraqocha and the Rites of the Raqchi Temple in Peru
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Past, Present and Future, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to...
Study and Teaching Helps: 2024 Book of Mormon — Christmas
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 — December 8, 2024
In the December 8, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Bruce Webster, Mark Johnson, and Kevin Christensen. They discuss Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson 1, the new versions of the Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and the...
Interpreting Interpreter: Some Bountiful Iron
This post is a summary of the article “Finding Nephi’s Ore” by Bradley R. Larsen in Volume 63 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...
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