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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

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The Interpreter Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization focused on the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, the Bible, and the Doctrine and Covenants), early Latter-day Saint history, and related subjects.

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RECENT NEWS, POSTS & INTERPRETER ARTICLES

Six Days in August Fireside at the SCERA Center for the Arts

Join the director of Six Days in August alongside talented cast members sharing their unique insights and experiences on Wednesday, September 25 at the SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem. This gathering will include behind-the-scenes conversations offering an intimate look at the creative process, as well as insight into the historical events behind this movie.

The fireside is ticketed. To get your FREE ADMISSION and additional information, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unveiling-history-six-days-in-august-fireside-tickets-1008890287007.


The 2024 Temple on Mount Zion Conference

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The seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Temple on Mount Zion Conference will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2024 in room 251 of the Tanner Building, Brigham Young University. The conference will be held live with no streaming. Recordings of the presentations will be available at a later date. Expanded, fully footnoted versions of the presentations will be published in a book of proceedings, anticipated sometime in 2025.

For more information, including the program schedule, abstracts, and presenter biographies, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2024-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/.


The Completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project

Video, an audio recording and slides from the Celebration on August 10, 2024

Go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/royal-skousen-presentation-on-the-innovative-and-revolutionary-book-of-mormon-critical-text-project/ to see Royal Skousen’s and Stanford Carmack’s presentations

Hugh Nibley Observed: Reminiscences of Nibley

Hugh Nibley Observed: Reminiscences of Nibley

“My recollections of Hugh Nibley go back a generation. My father, Marc Ricks, and Nibley were both doctoral students at the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1930s, my father majoring in chemistry and Nibley in ancient history. Both attended church...

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Interpreter Radio Show — September 8, 2024

Interpreter Radio Show — September 8, 2024

  In the September 8, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Terry Hutchinson, Kevin Christensen, and Mark Johnson. They discuss Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 40, “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and several other topics. You can listen...

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Interpreting Interpreter: Prophetic Aspirations

Interpreting Interpreter: Prophetic Aspirations

This post is a summary of the article “Aftermath of the Martyrdom: Aspirants to the Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Smith” by R. Jean Addams in Volume 62 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may...

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Hugh Nibley Observed: Reminiscences of Nibley

Hugh Nibley Observed: Hugh Nibley and Me

“I was a semi-literate Idaho farm boy, something of a loner, when, in my mid-teens, I discovered Hugh Nibley’s late-1940s articles in The Improvement Era. Nibley had answers to questions I had about the Restoration in general and especially the Book of Mormon, a...

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