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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “In This Batter’d Caravanserai”
Abstract: In the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, based upon verses composed by an eleventh-century Persian mathematician and astronomer, the English…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Theosis in the Book of Mormon: The Work and Glory of the…
Abstract: While some scholars have suggested that the doctrine of theosis — the transformation of human beings into divine beings — emerged only in…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Restoration of Paul’s Understanding of Faith as a Rela…
Review of Brent J. Schmidt, Relational Faith: The Transformation and Restoration of Pistis as Knowledge, Trust, Confidence, and Covenantal…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A New and Most Welcome Resource for Book of Abraham Stud…
Review of Stephen O. Smoot, John Gee, Kerry Muhlestein, and John S. Thompson, “A Guide to the Book of Abraham,” BYU Studies Quarterly 61, no. 4…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Understanding the Lamanite Mark
Abstract: The Book of Mormon describes a dark mark on the skin that distinguished people who rebelled against God and his laws from those who obeyed…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “In the Cause … of their God”: Clarifying Some Issues Re…
Abstract: A recent effort to think about war concludes that the Book of Mormon displays two righteous approaches to conflict: a violent approach that…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Unavailable Genetic Evidence, Multiple Simultaneous Prom…
Abstract: The first part of this paper investigates the transportation methods used in the Book of Mormon, concluding that foot travel rather than…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Teachings of Silvanus: A Little-Known Gem from Nag H…
Abstract: Scholars have recently suggested that The Teachings of Silvanus, a text from Nag Hammadi Codex VII, is the product of several authors with…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Goodness of the Cross and Good Friday: Lessons from …
Abstract: It is natural to wonder how the day on which Jesus was crucified could come to be known as Good Friday. In this exploration of the topic,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: How Things Look from Here
Abstract: Do defenders of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ see themselves as fighting a desperate rearguard battle against the evidence, hoping to…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Moving Beyond the Historicity Question, or a Manifesto f…
Review of Daniel Becerra, Amy Easton-Flake, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Joseph M. Spencer, Book of Mormon Studies: An Introduction and Guide (Provo,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “That They Might Come Again unto the Remnant of the Hous…
Abstract: The prophecies in 3 Nephi 26:8–10 and 4 Nephi 1:49 are third-generation members of the same family of texts derived from Isaiah 11:11–12…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: In New Zealand: Even More Faithful Latter-day Saints
Review of Selwyn Kātene, ed., Let Their Light So Shine: Mormon Leaders in New Zealand (Wellington, NZ: Huia Publishers, 2021). Abstract: This is a…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Nephi’s “Bountiful”: Contrasting Both Candidates
Abstract: In May 2022, George Potter published an article that makes the most comprehensive case to date that Khor Rori in southern Oman is the most…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Elias: Prophet of the Restoration
Abstract: The Prophet Elias is a puzzle, with a handful of pieces scattered through the standard works and the teachings of Joseph Smith. This paper…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Toward a Greater Appreciation of the Word Adieu in Jacob…
Abstract: The phrase “Brethren, adieu” (Jacob 7:27) has been criticized over the years as an obvious anachronism in the Book of Mormon. That…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “According to the Spirit of Revelation and Prophecy”: Al…
Abstract: Some students of the Book of Mormon have felt that while the coming of the Lord to the Lehites was clearly revealed to and taught by…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Twenty Years After “Paradigms Regained,” Part 2: Respond…
Abstract: Here I address specific criticisms of Margaret Barker’s work. First, I set the stage by discussing Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Assyria and the “Great Church” of Nephi’s Vision
Abstract: The Book of Mormon begins at a pivotal point in Israelite history and in the history of the ancient Near East more broadly. With the fall…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Beautiful Patience
Abstract: Believers in the God of Abraham — who include not only Jews and Christians but also Muslims — are exhorted to call upon him every day, as…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Important New Study of Freemasonry and the Latter-day…
Review of Cheryl L. Bruno, Joe Steve Swick III, and Nicholas S. Literski, Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration. Abstract: There…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “We Don’t Know, So We Might as Well”: A Flimsy Philosoph…
Review of Nate Oman, “A Welding Link of Some Kind,” Thoughts from a Tamed Cynic (Substack, September 27, 2022). Abstract: Nate Oman claims to…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Stained Swords: A Psalm of Redemption
Abstract: The author proposes a novel ideal for understanding the stained swords of the Anti-Nephi-Lehis that involves repetition, parallelism, and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Puritans, Pagans, and Imperfect Christmas Gifts
Abstract: Early American campaigns against Christmas illustrate both the irrepressibility of the impulse to celebrate Christ and what is lost when we…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: We Live in the Olden Days: Reflections on the Importance…
Abstract: Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a unique perspective on truth: Salvation likely involves participation in…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Words of Gad the Seer: An Apparently Ancient Text Wi…
Review of Meir Bar-Ilan, Words of Gad the Seer; Christian Israel, The Words of Gad the Seer: Bible Cross-Reference Edition; and Ken Johnson, Ancient…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Being of that Lineage”: Generational Curses and Inherit…
The seeming appearance of a lineal or generational curse in the Book of Abraham has been used erroneously to marginalize people and justify racist…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem
Abstract: The Book of Mormon story of Jacob and Sherem has been evaluated and interpreted from many different viewpoints over the years. In his…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Twenty Years After “Paradigms Regained,” Part 1: The Pre…
Abstract: Twenty years ago, the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies published “Paradigms Regained: A Survey of Margaret Barker’s…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: When an Evident Fact Cannot Be Allowed to Be True
Abstract: Miracles occur relatively often in scripture, as do people who, for various reasons, want or even need to deny their occurrence. The…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Diachronic Usage of Exclamation Marks across the Maj…
Abstract: The usage of the exclamation mark has changed over time but continues to serve as an important textual interpretation aid. Punctuation…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Research Note: Continuing Exploration and Research in …
Abstract: The significance of the ongoing studies into the potential location of the Old World “Bountiful,” which Nephi reminds us was “prepared of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Backstory for the Brass Plates
Abstract. This paper brings contemporary Ancient Near East (ANE) scholarship in several fields together with the ancient scriptures restored through…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Rejoinder to Jonathan Neville’s “Response to Recent Re…
Abstract: Jonathan Neville has offered a response to my two recent reviews of his works; however, in his response, Neville offers a poor defense…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Man That Can Translate and Infinite Goodness: A Respon…
Abstract: Since 1829, various theories about the production of the Book of Mormon have been proposed. Modern scholarship has moved away from the idea…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Unto the Taking Away of Their Stumbling Blocks”: The Ta…
Abstract: In the latter part of his vision of the tree of life, Nephi is shown the unauthorized human diminution of scripture by the Gentile “great…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Understanding How the Scriptures Came to Be
Review of Michael R. Ash, Rethinking Revelation and the Human Element in Scripture: The Prophet’s Role as Creative Co-Author (Redding, CA:…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Last Nephite Scribes
Abstract: In an earlier paper, I concluded that Lehi and Nephi were highly trained Josephite scribes and were associated with an official Jerusalem…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Continuing Saga of Saints
Review of Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days: Volume 3: Boldly, Nobly, and Independent: 1893–1955 (Salt Lake City:…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “For Their Good Have I Written Them”: The Onomastic Allu…
Abstract: Nephi’s writings exhibit a distinctive focus on “good” and divine “goodness,” reflecting the meaning of Nephi’s Egyptian name (derived from…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Examining the Origins of Temple Worship
Review of Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, 2022). 556…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Hannah’s Adversity and Peninnah’s Redemption
Abstract: Most biblical students are familiar with the story of Hannah, who after years of barrenness, finally gave birth to the prophet Samuel. Some…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: "But That Thou Wouldst Clear My Way Before Me": A Note o…
Abstract: The biblical Hebrew collocation pinnâ derek or pannû derek (cf. Egyptian Ἰr wꜣ.t [n]), often rendered “prepare the way” or “prepare a way”…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: There Is No Beauty That We Should Desire Him
Abstract: In two separate passages Isaiah appears to describe the mortal Messiah as lacking in physical beauty and perhaps as even having some type…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Should I Be My Brother’s Keeper? Yes and No
Abstract: We typically teach and often even sing that we should be our brothers’ (and sisters’) keepers. And we do it with the very best and most…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse
A comet seen by the Chinese in 5 bc has been considered by some authors as a possibility for the Star of Bethlehem. This article starts with that…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Lehi’s Dream, Nephi’s Blueprint: How Nephi Uses the Visi…
Abstract: This essay harnesses the late twentieth-century discovery of Hebrew rhetoric by Bible scholars to identify Lehi’s dream as the foundation…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Body As the Temple of God
Abstract: The Apostle Paul’s letter to the Corinthians describing the body as a temple has been taken as a scriptural metaphor: “Know ye not that ye…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Witnessing to the New Witness
Review of Robert A. Rees, A New Witness to the World (Salt Lake City: By Common Consent Press, 2020). 244 pages. $9.95 (paperback). Abstract:…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Abridging the Records of the Zoramite Mission: Mormon as…
Abstract: Since the mid-twentieth century, scholarly studies of the literary craftsmanship of biblical texts have revealed considerable insights into…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “This Great Mystery”: Gathering Still Other Sheep throug…
The Book of Mormon sheds light on a “great mystery” located in John 10:16. In this paper, using a comparative method that traces intersecting…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Modern Near East Archaeology and the Brass Plates
Contemporary Palestinian archaeology has produced two major threats to traditional interpretations of the history of ancient Israel: scientific…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Plural Marriage: Beauty for Ashes
Abstract: When Eliza R. Snow agreed to become one of Joseph Smith’s plural wives, she feared she would never be looked upon as a decent woman.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Jonathan Edwards’s Unique Role in an Imagined Church His…
Review of Jonathan Neville, Infinite Goodness: Joseph Smith, Jonathan Edwards, and the Book of Mormon. In Infinite Goodness, Neville claims that…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Unfortunate Approach to Joseph Smith’s Translation of…
Review of Jonathan Neville, A Man That Can Translate: Joseph Smith and the Nephite Interpreters. Abstract: Jonathan Neville has long argued that…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Contending without Contention
Abstract: “Think not,” said the Savior at Matthew 10:34, “that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” And this has…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Queer Philosophies of Men Mingled with Scripture
Review of Blaire Ostler, Queer Mormon Theology: An Introduction (Newburgh, IN: By Common Consent Press, 2021). 152 pages. $10.95 (paperback).…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Believe All the Words”: A Key to Spiritual Outpouring
Abstract: In the Book of Mormon, many people received a remarkable spiritual outpouring following a declaration or demonstration of full belief in…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Khor Rori: A Maritime Resources-Based Candidate for Neph…
Abstract: Khor Rori, which forms the mouth of Wadi Darbat, is the largest inlet along the Dhofar coast of southern Arabia. The khor was excavated…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Liahona: “Prepared of the Lord, a Compass”
Abstract: This study assesses some of the interpretations of the name Liahona which are unsatisfactory from a linguistic perspective. Since a dialect…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Can You Suppose That the Lord Will Spare You?”: Moroni’…
Abstract: Under the duress of a lengthy war, and prompted by recent Lamanite military successes, as well as incensed at the government’s failure to…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Rich Vein or Fools Gold?
Review of Patrick Q. Mason and J. David Pulsipher, Proclaim Peace: The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Elegant Book on Gifts, Gifting, and Remembering
Review of David F. Holland, Moroni: A Brief Theological Introduction (Provo, UT: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2021). 147…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: New Publication
Abstract: The story often referred to as Alma’s conversion narrative is too often interpreted as a simplistic plagiarism of Paul’s…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Putting Down the Priests: A Note on Royal Evaluations, (…
Abstract: The historian who wrote 2 Kings 23:5 and Mormon, who wrote Mosiah 11:5, used identical expressions to describe King Josiah’s and King…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Our Faithful Lord: Passover to Easter
Abstract: Studying the origins and traditions of Passover enriches our understanding of Easter. We can deepen our own worship and expand our ritual…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Experiential Knowledge and the Covenantal Relationship i…
Abstract: A favorite scripture of many faithful saints is Alma 7 which describes how the Savior came to Earth to understand, in the flesh, not only…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “The Messenger of Salvation”: The Messenger-Message Chri…
Abstract: Several of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s earliest revelations quote the prophecy of Malachi 3:1 with the Lord “suddenly com[ing] to his…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Unexpected Case for an Anthropomorphic God
Abstract: Given the knowledge of the corporeal, embodied nature of God that the Prophet Joseph Smith received in his 1820 First Vision, Latter-day…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “The Wind and the Fire to Be My Chariot”: The Anachronis…
Abstract: In the Book of Abraham, God tells Abraham in Haran, “I cause the wind and the fire to be my chariot” (Abraham 2:7). While this initially…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Serpents of Fire and Brass: A Contextual Study of the Br…
Abstract: The story of the Israelites getting bitten in the wilderness by “fiery serpents” and then being miraculously healed by the “serpent of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Lehi and Nephi as Trained Manassite Scribes
Abstract: This paper brings together contemporary Ancient Near East scholarship in several fields to construct an updated starting point for…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Overwriting Ether: Moroni’s Transfiguration of Jaredite …
Review of Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, Ether: A Brief Theological Introduction (Provo, UT: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “We Might Have Enjoyed Our Possessions and the Land of O…
Abstract: The verbal expression “we might have enjoyed,” as used in a complaint that Nephi attributes to his brothers, “we might have enjoyed our…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Nephi’s Small Plates: A Rhetorical Analysis
Abstract: In this paper I undertake a comprehensive discussion of the seven passages in which Nephi and his successor Jacob explain the difference…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Deeper Understanding of the Temple in 175 Entries
Review of Donald W. Parry, 175 Temple Symbols and Their Meanings (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2020). 310 pages. $26.99 (hardcover). Abstract: In…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Covenant Theology for Latter-day Saints
Review of Kerry Muhlestein, God Will Prevail: Anicent Covenants, Modern Blessings, and the Gathering of Israel (American Fork, UT: Covenant…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Honoring Joseph’s Theophany Two Centuries Later
Review of Alexander L. Baugh, Steven C. Harper, Brent M. Rogers, and Benjamin C. Pykles, eds. Joseph Smith and his First Vision: Context, Place, and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “The Lord God Will Proceed”: Nephi’s Wordplay in 1 Nephi…
Abstract: Nephi quotes or alludes to four distinct Old Testament passages — Genesis 22:18; Isaiah 29:14; Isaiah 49:22–23; and Isaiah 52:10 — twice…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Verbal Punctuation in the Book of Mormon I: (And) Now
Abstract: The Book of Mormon, being an ancient book, was originally written without typographic punctuation and employs verbal punctuation instead.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Comparison of the Book of Mormon’s Subordinate That Us…
Abstract: This paper compares the Book of Mormon’s subordinate that usage with what is found in the King James Bible, pseudo-archaic writings, and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: If God Does Not Exist, Is Everything Permitted?
Abstract: Can people be good without believing in God? Obviously, yes. They can. Is atheistic naturalism capable of supplying a foundation for…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Christmas and a Condescending God
Abstract: As religious holidays go, Christmas has been domesticated unusually well — and effectively commercialized — among people and even whole…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Masterpiece on Resisting Our Impulses to Leave
Review of S. Michael Wilcox, Holding On: Impulses to Leave and Strategies to Stay (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2021). 128 pages. $11.99 (paperback)…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Beyond Calculation: A Review of Robert J. Sawyer’s Calcu…
Review of Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2000). 336 pp. $23.99 (paperback). Abstract: In an entertaining and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Demythicizing the Lamanites’ “Skin of Blackness”
Abstract: Racial bias is antithetical to the Book of Mormon’s cardinal purpose: to proclaim the infinite grandeur of the atonement of Jesus Christ.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Word of the Lord as a Metonym for Christ
Abstract: The word of the Lord and the word of God are common expressions in the Bible. Frequently, these phrases refer to the written or spoken…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Book of Mormon’s Complex Finite Cause Syntax
Abstract: This paper studies the Book of Mormon’s 12 instances of complex finite cause syntax, the structure exemplified Ether 9:33: “the Lord did…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Book of Moses as a Temple Text
Abstract: In this fascinating article, Jeff Bradshaw details how the Book of Moses might be understood as a temple text, including elements of temple…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Abraham’s Amen and Believing in Christ: Possible Applica…
Abstract: Following the discovery of delocutive verbs and their likely usage in the Hebrew Bible, Meredith Kline proposed that the verb האמין…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Personal Relative Pronoun Usage in the Book of Mormon: A…
Abstract: This study compares personal relative pronoun usage in the earliest text of the Book of Mormon with 11 specimens of Joseph Smith’s early…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Sympathetic but Flawed Look at Book of Mormon Historic…
Abstract: Terrence O’Leary enters the field of books attempting to describe a geographical and cultural background to the Book of Mormon. Placing the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Oh, That I Were an Angel!
Abstract: Alma’s conversion experience was both unusual and unusually powerful, and yet he fervently wished that he could provide others with the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Tamid: Zacharias and the Second Temple
Abstract: This essay follows Zacharias’ biography from entering the priesthood till the day the angel Gabriel appeared to him in Herod’s temple.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Mine House is a House of Zion and not a House of Babylon…
Abstract: In Doctrine and Covenants 132:8 we read: “Behold, mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion.” I…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses o…
Abstract: The Book of Giants (BG), an Enoch text found in 1948 among the Dead Sea Scrolls, includes a priceless trove of stories about the ancient…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Rise and Fall of Korihor, a Zoramite: A New Look at …
Abstract: The accounts of the Anti-Christ, Korihor and of Alma’s mission to the Zoramites raise a variety of apparently unanswered questions. These…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Ishmael Buried Near Nahom
Abstract: Latter-day Saint scholars generally agree that “the place called… Nahom,” where Ishmael was buried (1 Nephi 16:34) is identified as the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Ancient Sacred Vestments: Scriptural Symbols and Meaning…
Abstract: In this essay Parry starts with the symbology of ritual vestments, and then discusses in detail how the ancient clothing worn in Old…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Be Ye Therefore Loyal, Even as Your Father Which is in H…
Abstract: The scriptures are saturated with covenantal words and terms. This is especially true for the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon, which…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Celebrating Exactitude, When It’s Appropriate
Abstract: It’s almost always better to be right than to be wrong, to be exact than to be sloppy. In scholarship generally and serious scriptural…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Framing the Book of Abraham: Presumptions and Paradigms
Review of Dan Vogel, Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021). 250 pp. $18.95 (softback).…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses
Abstract: This study argues that the Book of Moses was an early Christian text. The book’s language, literary genre, and references to its own…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The People of Canaan: A New Reading of Moses 7
Abstract: Moses 7 is one of the most problematic passages in all of Restoration scripture in its description of the people of Canaan as black and as…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Book of Abraham Polemics: Dan Vogel’s Broad Critique of …
Review of Dan Vogel, Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021). 250 pp. $18.95 (softback).…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Good God Hermeneutic: A Reconsideration of Religious…
Review of Fiona Givens and Terryl Givens, All Things New: Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything In Between (Faith Matters Press, 2020). 188 pages…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Latter-day Houses of the Lord: Developments in Their Des…
Abstract: This essay traces the modern-day usage and understanding of temples from the Kirtland Temple to Nauvoo and the Salt Lake Temple.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Additional Janus Parallels in the Book of Mormon
Abstract: A little more than 40 years ago, Cyrus Gordon discovered and described for the first time an ancient literary technique which he had found…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vox Populi and Vox Dei: Allusive Explorations of Biblica…
Abstract: David Gore’s book The Voice of the People: Political Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon is a welcome reading of Book of Mormon passages which…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Better Kingdom-Building through Triage
Abstract: We are called to take the Gospel to the entire world, but our numbers are few and our time and resources are limited. This is where cold…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality
Abstract: In this essay, Richard Bushman borrows a critical perspective from Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Joseph Smith as a Book of Mormon Storyteller
Skeptics have promoted different explanations to describe how Joseph Smith generated all the words of the Book of Mormon. A variation of the most…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Alma’s Reality: Reading Alma as Sinful, Repentant, Traum…
Abstract: Kylie Nielson Turley delves deep into the conversion and ministry of Alma the Younger, reading new life into a well-known narrative. By…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Axes Mundi: Ritual Complexes in Mesoamerica and the Book…
Abstract: An axis mundi refers to a sacred place that connects heaven and earth and is believed to be the center of the world. These places are…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Practice and Meaning of Declaring Lineage in Patriar…
Abstract: In this paper, I show that declarations of lineage in patriarchal blessings have, since the earliest days of the Restoration, evolved in…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Origin and Purpose of the Book of Mormon Phrase “If …
Abstract: We are told in the Title Page of the Book of Mormon that the Book of Mormon was revealed in our day “to show unto the remnant of the house…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story …
Abstract: The authors begin by the highlighting the importance of Book of Moses research that has discovered plausible findings for its historicity,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Goodness of God and His Children as a Fundamental Th…
Abstract: The phrase goodness of God does occur occasionally in the Hebrew Bible but has not been considered by Old Testament scholars to be an…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Glad Tidings from Cumorah: Interpreting the Book of Morm…
Abstract: This article offers evidence that at least some Book of Mormon authors may have understood the potential for post-mortal preaching of the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Early Christian Temples and Baptism for the Dead: Defini…
This paper examines similarities between the account of the sacrifice and epiphany of the first parents in Moses 5:1–15 and analogous accounts found…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “If Ye Believe on His Name”: Wordplay on the Name Samuel…
Abstract: The Semitic/Hebrew name Samuel most likely means “his name is El” — i.e., “his name [the name that he calls upon in worship] is El” —…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Ancient Temple Imagery in the Sermons of Jacob
Abstract: This essay makes a compelling argument for Jacob, the brother of Nephi, having deep knowledge of ancient Israelite temple ritual, concepts,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Implications of Some Standard Assumptions of New Tes…
Review of Raphael Lataster, Questioning the Historicity of Jesus: Why a Philosophical Analysis Elucidates the Historical Discourse (Leiden,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Nephi’s Gethsemane: Seventeen Comparisons from the Liter…
Abstract: This note explores a literary comparison between Nephi’s confronting of Laban and shrinking from the act of shedding blood, to Jesus’s…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: De Profundis
Abstract: Is the Gospel profound? Yes, it is. And one of the goals of the Interpreter Foundation is to call attention to that sometimes-overlooked…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Psalm 105: Chiasmus, Credo, Covenant, and Temple
Abstract: Stephen Ricks looks at the literary structure of a psalm, reintroducing us to chiasmus both in modern and ancient texts, including the Book…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Understanding the Year 1820
Book Note: Richard E. Bennett, 1820: Dawning of the Restoration (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University / Salt Lake City:…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Seeking a Global Context for the First Vision
Review of Richard E. Bennett, 1820: Dawning of the Restoration (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University / Salt Lake City:…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Jesus’ First Visit to the Temple
Abstract: In this rich and detailed description, S. Kent Brown paints an evocative, historically contextualized account of Jesus Christ’s first visit…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Discipleship As the World Collapses Around You
Review of Adam S. Miller, Mormon: A Brief Theological Introduction (Provo, UT: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2020). 162…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Types of Repetition and Shadows of History in Hebraic Na…
Abstract: Modern readers too often misunderstand ancient narrative. Typical of this incomprehension has been the inclination of modern biblical…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: From Dust to Exalted Crown: Royal and Temple Themes Comm…
Abstract: David J. Larsen, after showing how many of the Qumran texts rely on the “Royal Psalms” in the Bible—which have a vital connection to the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Remembering Hugh Nibley as a Scholar and, More Important…
Review of Hugh Nibley Observed, edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Shirley Ricks, and Stephen Whitlock (Orem, UT: Interpreter Foundation, 2021). 820…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Did Captain Moroni Lack the Typical Religious Virtues?
Abstract: In his well-known volume about the Book of Mormon, Grant Hardy focuses primarily on the book’s main narrators. However, he also makes a…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Put Off Thy Shoes from Off Thy Feet”: Sandals and Sacre…
Abstract: While many have written on ancient temples looking at the big picture, John Gee discusses one small detail on a single Egyptian temple from…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Beloved by All the People”: A Fresh Look at Captain Mor…
Abstract: In his well-known volume about the Book of Mormon, Grant Hardy focuses primarily on the book’s main narrators. However, he also makes a…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Job: An LDS Reading
Abstract: Mack C. Stirling examines the well-known story of Job, drawing on analysis of literary genres and literary tools, like chiasms, and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Ingenious and Inspiring Literary Analysis of Alma 30–…
Review of Mark A. Wrathall, Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction (Provo, UT: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2020).…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Brass Plates: Can Modern Scholarship Help Identify T…
Review of Mark A. Wrathall, Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction (Provo, UT: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2020).…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Matthew Black and Mircea Eliade Meet Hugh Nibley
Abstract: As a graduate student, Gordon Thomasson had the opportunity to introduce two internationally renowned scholars to the publications and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Honoring Hugh Nibley — Again
Review of Hugh Nibley Observed, edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Shirley Ricks, and Stephen Whitlock (Orem, UT: Interpreter Foundation, 2021). 820…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Giving the Book of Ether its Proper Due
Review of Daniel L. Belnap, ed., Illuminating the Jaredite Records (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University / Salt Lake City:…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Divine Handclasp in the Hebrew Bible and in Near Eas…
Abstract: David Calabro explores what he describes as the “divine handclasp” in the Hebrew Bible. The term refers to a handclasp between God and his…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: And the One Pointed the Way: Issues of Interpretation an…
Abstract: In describing the operation of the spindles in the Liahona, Nephi’s statement that “the one pointed the way” in 1 Nephi 16:10 is frequently…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vast Prairies and Trackless Wilds of Snow: A Good Test o…
Abstract: Embarking roughly six months after the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the 1830–1831 “mission to the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Nibley’s Early Education
Abstract: In this intimate glimpse of Hugh Nibley’s childhood, written by his daughter Zina, we read of what it was like for Hugh to grow up as a…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Understanding Covenants Anew: Using Ancient Thought to E…
Review of Jennifer C. Lane, Finding Christ in the Covenant Path: Ancient Insights for Modern Life, (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center at Brigham…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “The Messiah Will Set Himself Again”: Jacob’s Use of Isa…
Abstract: In sermons and writings, Jacob twice quotes the prophecy of Isaiah 11:11 (“the Lord [ʾădōnāy] shall set his hand again [yôsîp] the second…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Edfu and Exodus
Abstract: In this essay John Gee draws a connection between the Egyptian “Book of the Temple” and the book of Exodus, both in structure and topic,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Much More than a Reader: The Latest in Chiastic Studies …
Review of Chiasmus: The State of the Art, edited by John W. Welch and Donald W. Parry (Provo, UT: BYU Studies and Book of Mormon Central, 2020). 358…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Josiah to Zoram to Sherem to Jarom and the Big Little Bo…
Abstract: The first 450 years of Nephite history are dominated by two main threads: the ethno-political tension between Nephites and Lamanites and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Past and Future of the Temple Lot in Independence, J…
Abstract: Fifteen months after the Church of Christ’s inception in April 1830, Joseph Smith received a revelation indicating that Independence,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Resurrection Month
Abstract: We tend to have big events and a full month celebrating Christmas, but here we are in a very Christian church that has come to almost…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of N…
Abstract: Jeffrey M. Bradshaw compares Moses’ tabernacle and Noah’s ark and identifies the story of Noah as a temple related drama, drawing on temple…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Strong Like unto Moses”: The Case for Ancient Roots in …
Abstract: Over 30 years ago, Noel Reynolds compared matching non- Biblical phrases in the Book of Moses and Book of Mormon. Based on this analysis,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Variety and Complexity in the Witnesses to the Book of M…
Abstract: This paper examines the testimonies of the witnesses of the Book of Mormon— not only the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses, but many…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Women and the Priesthood in the Contemporary Church
Abstract: During the last century there has been a prophetic emphasis on the understanding of women and their priesthood power and authority that has…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Wherefore, for This Cause”: The Book of Mormon as Anti-…
Abstract: Nephi1 represents the sacred record that becomes the Book of Mormon as a new brass serpent to heal the nations. Nephi’s typological project…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Crown of Creation
Abstract: The Seelys discuss the well-known concept of the universe as a temple, and link the creation story to the temple drama. They explore how…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Feet of Clay: Queer Theory and the Church of Jesus Chris…
Abstract: Tabernacles of Clay examines the discourse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through a “queer theory” lens. This review…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Lord Will Not Forget Them! Māori Seers and The Churc…
Abstract: This essay demonstrates that the key prophetic matakite dreams and visions of at least the nine nineteenth-century East Coast Māori seers…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: That Which You Have Translated, Which You Have Retained
Abstract: I propose that our current Words of Mormon in the Book of Mormon was originally a second chapter of the book of Mosiah following an initial…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “All Can Partake, Freely”
Abstract: The Interpreter Foundation welcomes faithful ideas, insights, and manuscripts from people of all backgrounds. In this brief essay, I share…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Handclasp, the Temple, and the King
Abstract: In this article Matthew Brown examines the possible meaning behind the imagery of the handclasp between God in heaven and the earthly king.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Polygamists and Political Activists: The Unlikely Marria…
Review of Neylan McBaine, Pioneering the Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West (Salt Lake City: Shadow Mountain, 2020).…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Coming Down and Bringing Down: Pejorative Onomastic Allu…
Abstract: Mormon uses pejorative wordplay on the name Jaredites based on the meaning of the Hebrew verb yārad. The onomastic rhetoric first surfaces…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Book of Mormon as a Resurrected Book and a Type of C…
Abstract: This essay emphasizes the remarkable participation of the Book of Mormon in the gospel symbolism of death and resurrection. It explains how…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Inclusive, Anti-Discrimination Message of the Book o…
Abstract: Attitudes of superiority lead to societal conflict. The racial interpretation of a few Book of Mormon verses has contributed to these…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Tree of Life, Tree of Healing
Abstract: The late Hebrew scholar John Tvedtnes takes readers on a grand tour of Jewish and Christian stories and traditions that attest to the Tree…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Fantasy and Reality in the Translation of the Book of Ab…
Abstract: The volume editors of The Joseph Smith Papers Revelations and Translations: Volume 4 propose a theory of translation of the Book of Abraham…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Record-Keeping Technology among God’s People in Ancient …
Abstract: In a fascinating survey of the efforts of ancient and modern Saints to honor the Lord’s commandment to keep reliable records of their…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Prolegomena to a Study of the Egyptian Alphabet Document…
Abstract: For many theories about the Book of Abraham, the Egyptian Alphabet documents are seen as the key to understanding the translation process.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Poesy and Prosody in the Book of Mormon
Abstract: Robert Smith makes the case that “poetic art in the Book of Mormon is highly developed” — you just need to have the eye to recognize it.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Subtle Hebraic Features in the Book of Mormon
Review of Donald W. Parry, Preserved in Translation: Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon (Provo, UT: Religious Studies…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Pleading Bar of God
Abstract: Royal Skousen’s essay shed light on enigmatic references in Jacob 6:13 and Moroni 10:34 to “the pleasing bar of God.” After establishing…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Working out Salvation History in the Book of Mormon Poli…
Review of James E. Faulconer, Mosiah: A Brief Theological Introduction (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2020). 135…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Two Essays on Sustaining and Enlarging the Doctrine
Abstract: In a pair of recent books, Patrick Mason and Terryl and Fiona Givens seek to revitalize, reinvigorate, and deepen our understanding of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Medieval Christian Views of Hebrew as the Language of Ma…
Abstract: The view of Hebrew as a language of magic, for which precedents can be discerned in the Bible and in rabbinic tradition, spilled over into…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Christmas as Devotional: A Time of Commitment
Abstract: Christmas is more than a time for celebrations and traditions — it is an occasion to remember the blessings and miracles in our lives. From…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “A Prophet Like Moses” (Deuteronomy 18:15–18) in the Boo…
Abstract: David Seely provides a wide-ranging survey of interpretations of the prophecy in Deuteronomy 18:15–18 concerning “a prophet like unto Moses…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects under a Microscope
Review of Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity, edited by Michael Hubbard…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “I Will Deliver Thy Sons”: An Onomastic Approach to Thre…
Abstract: Three times in his narrative Mormon recounts the Lord’s oracle (revelation) to Mosiah II regarding his sons undertaking a mission among the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Proper Names from the Small Plates: Some Notes on the Pe…
Abstract: With a selection of a few notable examples (Zoram, Jarom, Omni, and Mosiah) that have been analyzed by the ongoing Book of Mormon names…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Itty Bitty Books with Big Lessons: Enos, Jarom, Omni
Review of Sharon J. Harris, Enos, Jarom, Omni: A Brief Theological Introduction (Provo, UT: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Jacob — The Prophet of Social Justice
Review of Deidre Nicole Green, Jacob: A Brief Theological Introduction (Provo, UT: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2020).…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “We Are a Remnant of the Seed of Joseph”
Abstract: Genesis 30:23–24 offers a double etiology for Joseph in terms of “taking away”/“gathering” (ʾāsap) and “adding” (yāsap). In addition to its…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Chiastic Structuring of Large Texts: Second Nephi as a C…
Abstract: In this important paper, Noel Reynolds extends his 1980 argument for the chiastic structure of 1 Nephi to demonstrate that 2 Nephi can be…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Formed in and Called from the Womb
Abstract: Drawing on his deep knowledge of biblical Hebrew, Dana Pike gives us a close reading of Jeremiah 1:5, the most important Old Testament…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Intelligent, Thoughtful Work on One of the Richest Po…
Review of Terryl Givens, 2nd Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction (Provo, UT: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2020). 124…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Nephi’s Obsession, Or, How to Talk with Nephi about God
Review of Joseph M. Spencer, 1 Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction Joseph Spencer’s intimate familiarity with the Book of Mormon text is in…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Notes on Mormonism and the Trinity
Abstract: With “awe, humility, and circumspection,” Daniel C. Peterson provides a useful summary and discussion of Latter-day Saint beliefs as they…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Count Your Many Mormons: Mormon’s Personalized and Perso…
Abstract: The present work analyzes the narrative art Mormon employs, specifically Mormon’s unique strategies for personalized and personal…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa)—Catalogue of Textual Va…
Abstract: In this erudite survey of textual variants in the “Great Isaiah Scroll” from Qumran, Donald W. Parry lays out the major categories of these…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Priesthood Restoration Narrative for Latter-day Saints…
Review of Michael Hubbard MacKay, Prophetic Authority: Democratic Hierarchy and the Mormon Priesthood (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “We May Not Understand Our Words”: The Book of Abraham a…
Review of Terryl Givens with Brian Hauglid, The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture (New York: Oxford University Press,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: It Came from Beyond
Abstract: The early Latter-day Saints viewed the Book of Mormon not only as a symbol of Joseph Smith’s prophetic calling but also as the most…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Covenant of Christ’s Gospel in the Book of Mormon
Abstract: With the trained eye of an anthropologist and a historian, Steven Olsen refutes claims that the Book of Mormon is a simple hodge-podge of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Notes on Book of Mormon Heads
Abstract: This paper looks at the two types of heads used in the Book of Mormon. It argues against a recent theory that these heads served as…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Theology of C. S. Lewis: A Latter-day Saint Perspect…
Abstract: In this essay, Robert Millet describes the work and impact of C. S. Lewis as it pertains to the Latter-day Saints. He explores possible…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Where Did the Names Mahaway and Mahujah Come From? A Res…
Review of Colby Townsend, “Returning to the Sources: Integrating Textual Criticism in the Study of Early Mormon Texts and History,” Intermountain…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Tocqueville on New Prophets and the Tyranny of Public Op…
Abstract: Louis Midgley discusses the rise and fall in popularity of Alexis de Toqueville’s unrivaled volumes entitled Democracy in America and the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Textual Criticism and the Book of Moses: A Response to C…
Review of Colby Townsend, “Returning to the Sources: Integrating Textual Criticism in the Study of Early Mormon Texts and History.” Intermountain…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Visions of Moses and Joseph Smith’s Bible Translatio…
Abstract: This contribution focuses on the earliest and one of the most significant chapters of the Book of Moses: Moses 1, sometimes called the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “I of Myself Am a Wicked Man”: Some Notes on Allusion an…
Abstract: Omni greatly revered his ancestors and their personal accounts on the small plates of Nephi. A close examination of Omni’s brief…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Janus Parallelism: Speculation on a Possible Poetic Word…
Abstract: In this article, Paul Hoskisson discusses the question of whether Janus parallelism, a sophisticated literary form found in the Hebrew…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Some Notes on Joseph Smith and Adam Clarke
Abstract: Authors of two recent articles believe they have found evidence that Joseph Smith, in preparing his revision of the Bible, drew ideas from…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Uni-Dimensional Picture of a Multi-Faceted Nauvoo Comm…
Review of Benjamin E. Park, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (New York City: Liveright Publishing,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Reckoning with the Mortally Inevitable
Abstract: Every human enterprise — even the best, including science and scholarship — is marred by human weakness, by our inescapable biases,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Jesus’s Courtroom in John
Abstract: John Gee gives us a sketch of the divine judgment as presented in the gospel of John. “In John’s gospel, the individual is the defendant;…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Expanse of Joseph Smith’s Translation Vision
Review of Samuel Morris Brown, Joseph Smith’s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020). 314…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Transcendence of Flesh, Divine and Human
Abstract: In this essay, James E Faulconer confronts an age-old issue that seems to divide Latter-day Saint Christians from other Christians, namely,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “That Which They Most Desired”: The Waters of Mormon, Ba…
Paronomasia in the Hebrew text of Exodus creates links between the name Miriam (Mary) and the “waters” (mayim) of the Re[e]d Sea from which Israel is…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Faith, Hope, and Charity: The “Three Principal Rounds” o…
Abstract: This chapter argues that “the scriptural triad of faith, hope, and charity should be understood as something more than a general set of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Oral Creation and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon
Review of William L. Davis, Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Theories and Assumptions: A Review of William L. Davis’s…
Abstract: William L. Davis’s Visions in a Seer Stone presents readers with an innovative message that reports how Joseph Smith was able to produce…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Baptized for the Dead
Abstract: This thorough treatment of the mention of baptism for the dead in 1 Corinthians 15:29 gives a meticulous analysis of Paul’s Greek argument,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “God Hath Taken Away His Plainness”: Some Notes on Jacob…
Abstract: This article examines Jacob’s statement “God hath taken away his plainness from [the Jews]” (Jacob 4:14) as one of several scriptural texts…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: John W. Welch: A Personal Reminiscence
Abstract: In these glimpses of the early private life of a very public figure, Stephen E. Robinson provides a portrait that will enable readers to…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Nephi’s “Shazer”: The Fourth Arabian Pillar of the Book …
Abstract: Book of Mormon students are aware that several locations along Lehi’s Trail through the Arabian Peninsula have impressive evidence of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “To Seek the Law of the Lord”
Abstract: This prefatory material to the festschrift for John W. Welch gives an overview of his exceptional life, full of variety and intensity. As…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Temporal Mercies and Eternal Being: Using the Science of…
Abstract: How does God relate to time? How do we? Modern science and revelation offer distinctive and fascinating perspectives to these questions.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The End from the Beginning
Abstract: We are often at the dubious mercy of people, forces, and events that are beyond our control. But a trust in Providence — a word that is…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Is Decrypting the Genetic Legacy of America’s Indigenous…
Abstract: Some critics of the Book of Mormon suppose that the DNA characteristics of modern Native Americans should be compatible with “Israelite”…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads: Joseph Smit…
Abstract: An article recently published in an online journal entitled “The Entheogenic Origins of Mormonism: A Working Hypothesis” posits that Joseph…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica an…
Abstract: Mark Alan Wright describes a common type of ritual specialist among the Maya called a “daykeeper.” He discusses similarities and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Diff…
Abstract: This article highlights the striking resemblances between Moses 1 and a corresponding account from the Apocalypse of Abraham (ApAb), one of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Lady at the Horizon: Egyptian Tree Goddess Iconograp…
Abstract: John S. Thompson explores scholarly discussions about the relationship of the Egyptian tree goddess to sacred trees in the Bible, the Book…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Four Idolatrous Gods in the Book of Abraham
Abstract: Although unknown as deities in Joseph Smith’s day, the names of four associated idolatrous gods (Elkenah, Libnah, Mahmackrah, and Korash)…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Temples All the Way Down: Some Notes on the Mi‘raj of Mu…
Abstract: In this article, Daniel C. Peterson describes the famous “night” journey that Muhammad allegedly made from Arabia to Jerusalem, and from…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Sensationalism: A One-sided Perspective
Review of Benjamin E. Park, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (New York City: Liveright Publishing,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Missing Words: King James Bible Italics, the Translation…
Abstract: Chapters from Isaiah quoted in the Book of Mormon use the King James Bible as a base text yet frequently vary from it in minor ways. A…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Sôd of Yhwh and the Endowment
Abstract: Most scholars agree that sôd, when used in relationship to God, refers to the heavenly council, which humans may sometimes visit to learn…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Offering Americans Religious and Political Salvation
Review of Derek R. Sainsbury, Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries (Provo, UT: Religious Studies…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: What the Psalms Can…
Abstract: In this article, the author attempts to shed light on practices alluded to in the Psalms that may have formed part of the ritual system and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Times of Reckoning and Set Times in Abraham 3
Abstract: The third chapter of Abraham considers two types of times regarding the moon, the earth, and the planets: “times of reckoning” and “set…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Note in Favor of Rereading Great Works, Including the …
Abstract: When I was young, I learned an important lesson that has stayed with me through my life. This lesson has led me, on many occasions, to…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Sacred Embrace and the Sacred Handclasp in Ancient M…
Abstract: This article describes examples of the sacred embrace and the sacred handclasp in the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms of ancient Egypt, in…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vaughn J. Featherstone’s Atlanta Temple Letter
Abstract: In this essay, I examine a letter written by Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone in 1983 and deposited in the cornerstone of the Atlanta Georgia…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Answering the Critics in 44 Rebuttal Points
Abstract: After publishing several articles in peer-reviewed journals, the author published Uto-Aztecan: A Comparative Vocabulary (2011), the new…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Understanding Ritual Hand Gestures of the Ancient World:…
Abstract: The ritual use of hand gestures in covenant-making in ancient times is a topic of peculiar interest to Latter-day Saints. In this article,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Standing in the Holy Place: Ancient and Modern Reverbera…
Abstract: On the Mount of Olives, just prior ot the culminating events of the Passion week, Jesus gave one of the most controversial prophecies of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Lehi’s Dream and the Plan of Salvation
Abstract: Lehi’s dream symbolically teaches us about many aspects of Heavenly Father’s plan of salvation. The central message of Lehi’s dream is that…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Tabernacle: Mountain of God in the Cultus of Israel
Abstract: In this article, Michael Morales considers how the building of the Tabernacle had been pre-figured from the earliest narratives of Genesis…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Table Rules: A Response to Americanist Approaches to the…
Review of Elizabeth Fenton and Jared Hickman, Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). 456 pages.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Cube, Gate, and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern
Abstract: This article explores the biblical pattern that relates the temple-related symbols of the cube, the gate, and measuring tools. The tools of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: How Not to Read Isaiah
Abstract: In the Book of Mormon, Nephi draws upon his own knowledge of the Jewish people, their culture and language, and the surrounding area to add…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Importance of Authorial Intention
Abstract: It is important when evaluating the words of others to consider the intention of their writing. It also does not hurt to consider what may…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Other Approach to Isaiah Studies
Abstract: A recent review of Joseph M. Spencer’s book The Vision of All: Twenty-Five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record made the case that the book…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Democratic Salvation
Abstract: Over the centuries, many religious thinkers — precisely because they are religious thinkers — have put a premium on intellectual attainment…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Death to Seducers! Examples of Latter-day Saint-led Extr…
Abstract: Some people have suggested a strain of violence within nineteenth- century Latter-day Saint culture as violent as and perhaps more so than…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Becoming Men and Women of Understanding: Wordplay on Ben…
Abstract: Royal and divine sonship/daughterhood is a prevalent theme throughout the Book of Mosiah. “Understanding” is also a key theme in that book.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Feast upon the Words of Christ”
Review of Book of Mormon Central, “ScripturePlus”; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Gospel Library”; and Living Tree Software,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Christ and the Work of Suffering
Abstract: Christ’s voluntary subjection to the horrible realities of this world transformed him forever. His vulnerability became his capacity to…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Now If This Is Boasting, Even So Will I Boast!
Abstract: When the sons of Mosiah were returning from their preaching among the Lamanites, Ammon was accused by his brother Aaron of boasting. This…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Pitfalls of the Ngram Viewer
Abstract: Google’s Ngram Viewer often gives a distorted view of the popularity of cultural/religious phrases during the early 19th century and before…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Lost Prologue: Reading Moses Chapter One as an Ancie…
Abstract: The character and complexion of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible (JST) is often a puzzle to students and scholars. One…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Was the Denarius a Daily Wage? A Note on the Parable of …
Abstract: This note provides a brief overview of Roman economic history and currency in order to throw light on the value and significance of the two…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Character and Knowledge of Mary, the Mother of Chris…
Abstract: The Virgin Mary is arguably the archetype of the virtuous woman and even the divine feminine on earth, but we know very little about her.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Scriptures through the Jeweler’s Lens
Review of Terryl Givens with Brian Hauglid, The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture (New York: Oxford University Press,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: First Visions and Last Sermons: Affirming Divine Sociali…
Abstract: There is a kinship between Lehi and Joseph Smith. They are linked to each other by similar first visions, and they faced roughly the same…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Discipleship of Yesterday for Today
Review of Eric D. Huntsman, Becoming the Beloved Disciple: Coming unto Christ through the Gospel of John (Springville, UT: CFI, an imprint of Cedar…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Bad Grammar in the Book of Mormon Found in Early English…
Abstract: This study describes ten types of grammatical usage found in early modern Bibles with correlates in the original text of the Book of Mormon…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Light Began Once More to Grow
Abstract: Readers are surely aware that the birth of the Christ child is the reason we celebrate Christmas. Members of the Church may be less aware,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Rethinking Alma 36
Abstract: While Alma 36 has long been one of the most admired examples of classical Hebrew chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, critiques in the last two…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Somebody Wrote It:” The Book of Mormon’s Missionary Mes…
Abstract: Nathan Oman’s “Welding Another Link in Wonder’s Chain: The Task of Latter-day Saint Intellectuals in the Church’s Third Century” wisely…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Approach to Isaiah Studies
Review of Joseph M. Spencer, The Vision of All: Twenty-Five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2016). 318…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Labor Dilgently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Prophets Who Wrote the Book of Omni
Abstract: The brief accounts written by Omni, Amaron, Chemish, Abinadom, and Amaleki, taken alone, don’t always inspire confidence in their…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Labor Dilgently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: He Knows My Affliction: The Hill Onidah as Narrative Cou…
Abstract: The toponym Onidah, attested as the name of a hill in Alma 32:4, most plausibly derives from Hebrew ʿŏnî /ʿōnî/ʿônî (ʿonyî, “my…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Labor Dilgently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Musings on the Birth of the Savior Jesus Christ
Abstract: In this essay, Kristine Wardle Frederickson muses about “the babe born in Bethlehem,” and who he was — and is — in consideration of those…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Labor Dilgently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Conclusions in Search of Evidence
Review of Jana Riess, The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). 312 pages. $29.95.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Hugh B. Brown’s Program for Latter-Day Saint Servicemen …
Abstract: Prior to U.S. involvement in WWII, the First Presidency asked Hugh B. Brown to initiate a program that would reinforce the spiritual…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Labor Dilgently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Labor Dilgently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Passover Setting for Lehi’s Exodus
Abstract: Later in his life, former Palmyra resident Fayette Lapham recounted with sharp detail an 1830 interview he conducted with Joseph Smith Sr.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Labor Dilgently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Taking Stock
Abstract: In a response to my review of their Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts volume, the series editors of the Joseph Smith Papers provided…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Welcome Response, but Flaws Remain
Abstract: After Interpreter published my lengthy paper that discussed apparent bias and flaws in scholarship in the Joseph Smith Papers volume on the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Joseph Smith Papers and the Book of Abraham: A Respo…
Abstract: The Joseph Smith Papers welcomes engagement with its work and gratefully acknowledges the important work of various scholars on the Book of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Labor Dilgently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Brass Plates Version of Genesis
Abstract: The Book of Mormon peoples repeatedly indicated that they were descendants of Joseph, the son of Jacob who was sold into Egypt by his…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Memory and Millennials: A Review of First Vision: Memory…
Abstract: The multiple historical accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision have been an area of intense study, debate, and discussion for several…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Role and Purpose of Synagogues in the Days of Jesus …
Abstract: This article explores why Jesus so often healed in synagogues. By comparing the uses and purposes of Diaspora and Palestinian synagogues,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Ministering across Fault Lines of Belief and Community
Review of David B. Ostler, Bridges: Ministering to Those Who Question (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2019), 206 pp. $32.95 (hardback), $20.95…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An American Indian Language Family with Middle Eastern L…
Abstract: In 2015 Brian Stubbs published a landmark book, demonstrating that Uto-Aztecan, an American Indian language family, contains a vast number…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Recent Reflections While Partaking of the Sacrament
Abstract: Sometimes, obedience to the principles of the Gospel and tending faithfully to our stewardships can seem — and can be — a burden. Moreover,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn on Ancient Manuscripts Whe…
Abstract: We offer a general critique of scholarship that has argued for Joseph Smith’s reliance on 1 Enoch or other ancient pseudepigrapha for the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Lehi, Joseph, and the Kingdom of Israel
Abstract: I present evidence of two priesthoods in the Jewish Bible: an Aaronite priesthood, held by Aaron and passed down through his descendants;…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Gentiles in the Book of Mormon
Abstract: The word Gentiles appears 141 times in the Book of Mormon (the singular Gentile appears only five times.) It appears more frequently than…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Never Static, Never Simple: One Woman’s Conversations Wi…
Review of George B. Handley, If Truth Were A Child: Essays, (Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2019), 253 pp.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: What Did the Interpreters (Urim and Thummim) Look Like?
ABSTRACT: The interpreters were a pair of seer stones used by Book of Mormon prophets and provided to Joseph Smith for translating the Nephite record…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Language of the Spirit in the Book of Mormon
Abstract: This study provides students of the Book of Mormon with the first comprehensive analysis of the many ways in which the word “spirit” is…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Joseph Smith Papers Project Stumbles
Review of The Joseph Smith Papers, Revelations and Translations, Volume 4: Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts, eds. Robin Scott Jensen and Brian…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Jacob Did Not Make a False Prediction
Review of Adam S. Miller, “Reading Signs or Repeating Symptoms,” in Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, eds. Adam S. Miller and Joseph M. Spencer…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Welding Another Link in Wonder’s Chain: The Task of Latt…
Abstract: This is a challenging moment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Both its efforts at retention and missionary work are…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Text as Afterthought: Jana Riess’s Treatment of the Jaco…
Review of Jana Riess, “’There Came a Man’: Sherem, Scapegoating, and the Inversion of Prophetic Tradition,” in Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Comparing Phonemic Patterns in Book of Mormon Personal N…
Abstract: In 2013 we published a study examining names from Solomon Spalding’s fictional manuscript, J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional works, and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Precious Resource with Some Gaps
Review of The Joseph Smith Papers, Revelations and Translations, Volume 4: Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts. Abstract: The publication of…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Shazer: An Etymological Proposal in Narrative Context
Abstract: In 1 Nephi 16:13–14, Nephi mentions the name Shazer as a toponym the Lehite clan bestowed on a site in western Arabia “four days” journey…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Compassion as the Heart of the Gospel
Abstract: The Greek philosopher Aristotle, clearly one of the world’s great geniuses, created the concept of the “unmoved mover,” which moves “other…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: A Nourishing and Accessible Read
Review of Michaela Stephens, To Defend Them By Stratagem: Fortify Yourself with Book of Mormon War Tactics (Gilbert, AZ: Lion’s Whelp Publications,…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “And They Shall Be Had Again”: Onomastic Allusions to Jo…
Abstract: Moses 1:41 echoes or plays on the etymological meaning of the name Joseph — “may he [Yahweh] add,” as the Lord foretells to Moses the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Prospering in the Land: A Comparison of Covenant Promise…
Abstract: A careful examination of the Abrahamic covenant, as contained in Leviticus 26, and the covenant established with the Lehites during their…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Yes, It’s True, But I Don’t Think They Like to Hear it …
Abstract: Elaine Cannon, who was general president of the Young Women some four decades ago, had an interesting conversation with President Spencer W…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Lives of Abraham: Seeing Abraham through the Eyes of…
Abstract: During the Second-Temple Period, Jews remembered and reimagined the story of Abraham to address their own immediate historical and cultural…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: D&C 21, George Albert Smith, and Hugh B. Brown: A Fresh …
Abstract. When discussions arise about the relationship between Church members and the prophets who lead them, certain episodes in Church history…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Māori Latter-day Saint Historical Narrative: Additio…
Abstract: Selwyn Kātene has again assembled twelve essays written by the descendants of famous Māori Latter-day Saints. This volume flows from a…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Joseph Knew First: Moses, the Egyptian Son
Abstract: After about 1500 years of slumber, ancient Egyptian was brought back to life in the early 19th century, when scholars deciphered…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Joseph Smith: The World’s Greatest Guesser
Abstract: Dr. Michael Coe is a prominent Mesoamerican scholar and author of a synthesis and review of ancient Mesoamerican Indian cultures entitled…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Procedural Violations in the Trial of the Woman Taken in…
Abstract: The story in John 8 of the woman taken in adultery is sometimes used to argue that Jesus was lenient toward sin and that we should be too.…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Crucifixion as a Mockery, Witness, and Warning of th…
ABSTRACT: In its action, setting, and arrangement, the crucifixion may be viewed as a stark mockery of the final judgment scene. This article…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The First Easter
Abstract: Scriptural accounts are rife with information about the import of the first Easter. Understanding the events of the week before the death…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: The Record of My Father
Abstract: In 1 Nephi 1:16–17, Nephi tells us he is abridging “the record of my father.” The specific words Nephi uses in his writings form several…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Revisiting “Sariah” at Elephantine
Abstract: Jeffrey R. Chadwick has previously called attention to the name ŚRYH (Seraiah/Sariah) as a Hebrew woman’s name in the Jewish community at…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Research and More Research
Abstract: Young members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have grown up with a plethora of information available to answer the…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: I Don’t Have a Testimony of the History of the Church
Abstract: In this masterful presentation, accomplished historian Davis Bitton addresses the role of history and belief. Testimonies, he asserts, are…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: An Approach to History
Abstract: When researching and evaluating historical information, it is easy to come across things that may lead to a crisis of faith. Some of those…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Seeing Psalms as the Libretti of a Holy Drama
Abstract: Psalms was the favorite Old Testament book at Qumran and in the New Testament; the Book of Mormon contains more than three dozen allusions…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Was Adam a Monotheist? A Reflection on Why We Call Abrah…
Abstract: The three great monotheistic religious traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) all claim Abraham as father and prototypical…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Campbellites and Mormonites: Competing Restoration Movem…
Abstract: In October 1830, Oliver Cowdery, Peter Whitmer Jr., Parley P. Pratt, and Ziba Peterson were the first missionaries sent to travel through…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Assessing the Criticisms of Early-Age Latter-Day Saint M…
Abstract: Critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have accused Joseph Smith and other early Latter-day Saint men of pedophilia…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Curiously Unique: Joseph Smith as Author of the Book of …
Abstract: The advent of the computer and the internet allows Joseph Smith as the “author” of the Book of Mormon to be compared to other authors and…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Feasting on the Book of Mormon
Abstract: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship has recently published a new study edition of the Book of Mormon. Edited by Grant…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Read This Book: A Review of the Maxwell Institute Study …
Abstract: The Maxwell Institute Study Edition of the Book of Mormon is an important tool for personal and class study of the Book of Mormon. Not only…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Messengers of the Covenant: Mormon’s Doctrinal Use of Ma…
Abstract: Although not evident at first glance, shared terminology and phraseology in Malachi 3:1 (3 Nephi 24:1) and Moroni 7:29–32 suggest textual…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Translating the New Testament for Latter‑day Saints
Abstract: A new translation of the New Testament by Thomas A. Wayment, a professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, offers Latter‑day Saints…
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Barriers to Belief: Mental Distress and Disaffection fro…
Abstract: People leave the Church for a variety of reasons. Of all the reasons why people leave, one that has attracted little or no attention is the…
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