Conference Talks: Hebraisms in the Book of Moses: Laying Groundwork and Finding a Way Forward

Jonathon Riley

Jonathon Riley spoke at the 2021 Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference on Saturday, April 24, 2021 on “Hebraisms in the Book of Moses: Laying Groundwork and Finding a Way Forward”.

The Book of Moses, the early chapters of Joseph Smith’s revision of the Old Testament, presents some unique challenges. When one tries to study the text carefully, one often finds phrases that are hard to understand, and it may be difficult, on occasion, to see the overall structure of the text. This becomes an even more difficult problem when one reads the manuscripts of the first draft of the text. However, this may have less to do with Joseph Smith’s writing style and more to do with how he translated the text.

All of the conference presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. Videos, audio recordings and transcripts are available at https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2021-book-of-moses-conference/videos/. The videos are also available on the Interpreter Foundation YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/theinterpreterfoundation. A YouTube playlist is available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRMn4gyXMWLtulXZ-y4mAph138aNdAWlw.

Presented at:

2021 Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference
Saturday April 24, 2021
https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2021-book-of-moses-conference/

Conference Proceedings:

Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volumes I and II at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/ancient-threads-in-the-book-of-moses/

Listen to an audio recording of this talk:

https://cdn.interpreterfoundation.org/ifaudio/2021-book-of-moses-conference-riley.mp3

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