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Summary: Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a nonprofit educational journal focused on the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, the Bible, Doctrine and Covenants, early LDS history, and related subjects. All publications are peer-reviewed and are made available as free internet downloads or through at-cost print-on-demand services. Our goal is to increase understanding of scripture through careful scholarly investigation and analysis of the insights provided by a wide range of ancillary disciplines, including language, history, archaeology, literature, culture, ethnohistory, art, geography, law, politics, philosophy, etc. Interpreter will also publish articles advocating the authenticity and historicity of LDS scripture and the Restoration, along with scholarly responses to critics of the LDS faith. We hope to illuminate, by study and faith, the eternal spiritual message of the scriptures—that Jesus is the Christ. Although the editors of the journal fully support the goals and teachings of the Church, the journal is an independent entity with no affiliation with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, nor with Brigham Young University. The Board of Editors alone is responsible for its contents.
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This is Scripture Roundtable 58 from The Interpreter Foundation, in which we discuss the Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson #8, Living Righteously in a Wicked World, focusing on scriptures in Genesis 12-14, and 18-19.
Review of John S. Dinger, ed., Significant Textual Changes in the Book of Mormon: The First Printed Edition Compared to the Manuscripts and to the Subsequent Major LDS English Printed Editions (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation/Signature Books, 2013); with foreword by Stan Larson; 418pp+ xxxvi; hardbound edition limited to 501 copies; ISBN 978-1-56085-233-9
Nicknames and Dysphemisms in the Bible and Ancient Mediterranean
Chiasmus, or inverted parallelism, is well-known to most students of Mormon studies; this note explores one instance of it in Abraham 3:22-23.
This is Scripture Roundtable 57 from The Interpreter Foundation, in which we discuss the Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson #7, The Abrahamic Covenant, focusing on scriptures in Abraham 1-2, Genesis 12, 15, 17, and D&C 132.
This is Scripture Roundtable 56 from The Interpreter Foundation, in which we discuss the Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson #6, “Noah … Prepared an Ark to the Saving of His House,” focusing on scriptures in Moses 8, Genesis 6-9, and Genesis 11.
This is Scripture Roundtable 55 from The Interpreter Foundation, in which we discuss the Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson #5, "If Thou Doest Well, Thou Shalt Be Accepted," focusing on scriptures in Moses 5-7.
Biblical “minimalists” have sought to undermine or de-emphasize the significance of the Tel Dan inscription attesting to the existence of the “house of David.” Similarly, those who might be called Book of Mormon “minimalists” such as Dan Vogel have marshaled evidence to try to make the NHM inscriptions from south Arabia, corresponding to the Book of Mormon Nahom, seem as irrelevant as possible. We show why the NHM inscriptions still stand as impressive evidence for the historicity of the Book of Mormon.
This is Scripture Roundtable 54 from The Interpreter Foundation, in which we discuss the Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson #4, "Because of My Transgression My Eyes Are Opened," focusing on scriptures in Moses 4-6, and Genesis 2-3.
Daniel C. Peterson's introductory remarks at the Science & Mormonism symposium which took place on November 9, 2013.
Review of Adam S. Miller, Letters to a Young Mormon. Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2014. 78 pp. $9.95.
LDS discourse vis-à-vis Hagar has changed through the years since the foundation of the Church. Her story has been considered and utilized in a number of ways, the most prominent being as a defense of plural marriage. This paper traces the LDS usages of Hagar’s story as well as proposing a new allegorical interpretation of her place within the Abrahamic drama through literary connections in the Hebrew Bible combined with Restoration scripture.
Review of Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and David J. Larsen, In God’s Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014), 590 pp. (full color interior includes footnotes; endnotes; three excursus sections; annotated bibliography on Enoch and the Flood; comprehensive reference list; thumbnail index of one hundred and eleven illustrations and photographs; and indexes of scriptures referenced, modern prophets quoted, and topics discussed). $49.99 (hardcover).
The accounts of creation in Genesis, Moses, and Abraham as well as in higher endowments of knowledge given to the faithful are based on visions in which the seer lacked the vocabulary to describe and the knowledge to interpret what he saw and hence was obliged to record his experiences in the imprecise language available to him. Modern attempts to explain accounts of these visions frequently make use of concepts and terminology that are completely at odds with the understanding of ancient peoples: they project anachronistic concepts that the original seer would not have recognized. This article reviews several aspects of the creation stories in scripture for the purpose of distinguishing anachronistic modern reinterpretations from the content of the original vision. This essay derives from a presentation made at the 2013 Interpreter Symposium on Science and Religion: Cosmos, Earth, and Man on November 9, 2013. Details on the event, including links to videos, are available at www.mormoninterpreter.com. An expanded version of the symposium proceedings will be published in hardcopy and digital formats.
This is Scripture Roundtable 53 from The Interpreter Foundation, in which we discuss the Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson #3, The Creation, focusing on scriptures in Moses 1-2, Abraham 4-5, and Genesis 1-2.
