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Not by Bread Alone: Stories of the Saints in Africa
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The Temple: Symbols, Sermons, and Settings
Proceedings of the Fourth Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference
“The Temple on Mount Zion,” 10 November 2018
Temple on Mount Zion Series 5
Edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Published by The Interpreter Foundation, Orem Utah in cooperation with Eborn Books, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Interpreter Radio Show — April 7, 2024
In the April 7, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Brent Schmidt, Hales Swift, and Martin Tanner. They discuss General Conference and Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 18. You can listen to or download the April 7th broadcast of the...
Hearing the Voice of the Lord in the Mind #7: Additional Testimonies
Introduction ⎜ Part 2 ⎜ Part 3 | Part 4 ⎜ Part 5 ⎜ Part 6 | Part 7 See the Introductory blog (#1) for explanation about this series on hearing the voice of the Lord in the mind. The below are additional...
Interpreting Interpreter: Naming the Good
This post is a summary of the article ““Our Great God Has in Goodness Sent These”: Notes on the Goodness of God, the Didactic Good of Nephi’s Small Plates, and Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s Renaming” by Matthew L. Bowen and Pedro A. Olavarria in Volume 61 of Interpreter: A...
“Our Great God Has in Goodness Sent These”: Notes on the Goodness of God, the Didactic Good of Nephi’s Small Plates, and Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s Renaming
Abstract: Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s speech (Alma 24:7–16) reveals multiple allusions to significant texts in Nephi’s small plates record. Thus, when he declares “I thank my God, my beloved people, that our great God has in goodness sent these our brethren, the Nephites, unto...
Hugh Nibley Observed: Nibley and the Environment
“I am honored to participate in this lecture series remembering the studies, life, and legacy of Professor Hugh Nibley. I did not have the privilege of personally knowing Professor Nibley. He retired before I joined the faculty at BYU, but I do happen to have two...
Conference Talks: “This Thing Is a Similitude”
David M. Calabro spoke at the Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference on Saturday, September 19, 2020 about “‘This Thing Is a Similitude’: A Typological Approach to Moses 5:1–15 and Ancient Apocryphal Literature.” His paper examines similarities...
Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 16
This week, we have lectures 25 through 27 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering Jacob 5—7 through Mosiah 1. During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book of Mormon classes for four semesters at Brigham Young...
Interpreter Radio: The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 16
In the March 24th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Steve Densley, John Thompson, and Don Bradley discuss Book of Mormon lesson 16, “He Worketh in Me to Do According to His Will” covering Enos through Words of Mormon. You can...
Study and Teaching Helps — 2024 Book of Mormon Lesson 16
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 — March 31, 2024
In the March 31, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Martin Tanner and Terry Hutchinson. They discuss Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 17, the meaning of “Son of Man,” and Easter. You can listen to or download the March 31st broadcast...
Interpreting Interpreter: Turns Out It’s Not Plagiarism
This post is a summary of the article “The Plagiary of the Daughters of the Lamanites” by Alan Goff in Volume 61 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...
The Plagiary of the Daughters of the Lamanites
Abstract: Repetition is a feature of all ancient Hebraic narrative. Modern readers may misunderstand this quality of biblical and Book of Mormon narrative. Biblical and Book of Mormon writers believed that history repeated, with what happened to the ancestors...
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