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2023-12-09T11:42:20-07:00

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Elder Patrick Kearon

Last updated on: December 9, 2023 at 11:42 am By Dan Peterson

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I would like to suggest a Christmas gift to you, both for yourself and for family and friends. I have in mind the Yale edition of the Book of Mormon — formally, The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text— edited by Royal Skousen. (You can read something of my personal view of the Yale edition on the Amazon page to which I’ve just linked. For one of my several longer comments on it, see this 2010 Deseret News column... Read more

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2023-12-07T22:46:14-07:00

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Approaching the Facsimiles of the Book of Abraham

Last updated on: December 7, 2023 at 10:46 pm By Dan Peterson

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I return, yet again, to BYU Studies Quarterly 61/4 (2022), which is a special issue of the regular quarterly publication BYU Studies. It was created by four faithful Latter-day Saint Egyptologists — Stephen O. Smoot (Ph.D. candidate, Catholic University of America), John Gee (Ph.D., Yale University), Kerry Muhlestein (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles), and John S. Thompson (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) — and bears its own unique title: A Guide to the Book of Abraham. As I’ve... Read more

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2023-12-06T13:24:43-07:00

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Nibo labi bii? Betelehemu ilu ara

Last updated on: December 6, 2023 at 1:24 pm By Dan Peterson

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What am I grateful for today? I’m grateful that I have grandchildren, and that my wife and I have the wherewithal to visit them where they live (e.g., in Virginia and in Mexico), and that three generations of our family will be together in our house throughout December and the Christmas season. And that a member of our family’s fourth generation, still living on his own and in his own home, is slated to celebrate his ninety-seventh birthday later... Read more

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2023-12-04T21:23:40-07:00

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Challenging biblical scholarship, and the Book of Mormon

Last updated on: December 4, 2023 at 9:23 pm By Dan Peterson

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I’ve been busy enough with the Unbearable Cuteness of Being and other distractions here that I’ve neglected mentioning an article of mine that appeared in Meridian Magazine roughly a week ago: “The Challenges and Triumphs of Biblical Archaeology.” I think that it may possibly rank as not quite the worst thing ever published. I’ve been very occasionally reading Richard Lyman Bushman’s newest book, Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates: A Cultural History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), and here’s a passage... Read more

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2023-12-04T13:14:59-07:00

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“The angel of the Lord appeared unto Mary”

Last updated on: December 4, 2023 at 1:14 pm By Dan Peterson

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I encourage you to watch and to share the eighteen-minute video that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prepared a few years ago for the Christmas season. It is called The Christ Child, and it is, in my opinion, very, very well done: The Christ Child: A Nativity Story. Hard-hearted Scandinavian that I am, there is even a point in the video at which I almost always tear up. (You’ll probably never guess where it is.)... Read more

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2023-12-03T13:28:52-07:00

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“Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave”

Last updated on: December 3, 2023 at 1:28 pm By Dan Peterson

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I share some takeaways here from an article that I’ve just read in BYU Studies Quarterly: John Hilton III, Jesse Vincent, and Rachel Harper, ““Last at the Cross”: Teachings about Christ’s Crucifixion in the Woman’s Exponent, the Relief Society Magazine, and the Young Woman’s Journal,” BYU Studies Quarterly 61/3 (2022): 31-58. The Woman’s Exponent, which was published from 1872 to 1914, was evidently one of the earliest periodicals for women published in the United States (32), which seems... Read more

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2023-12-02T21:01:26-07:00

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A modern prophet on bigotry and misogyny

Last updated on: December 2, 2023 at 9:01 pm By Dan Peterson

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The other day, I set up an online Facebook fundraiser for the Interpreter Foundation. It’s at https://www.facebook.com/donate/1022507169072678/. I have to confess that, at least so far, it’s not doing as well this year as in previous years, probably (at least in part) because, for the first time, they’re taking a slice out of the donation for processing. That new charge makes me less enthusiastic about it than I have been in the past. Still, Interpreter needs donations to... Read more

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2023-12-01T12:24:53-07:00

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Church Leaders as White Supremacists? Defective Chiasms?

Last updated on: December 1, 2023 at 12:24 pm By Dan Peterson

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Two new articles appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Asymmetry in Chiasms, With a Note About Deuteronomy 8 and Alma 36,” written by Stephen Kent Ehat Abstract: Some students of the Book of Mormon have claimed that chapter 36 of the book of Alma is structured as a chiasm. Some of the proposals depart from perfect symmetry, presenting elements of the suggested chiasm seemingly out of sequence. This has often been pointed to as a... Read more

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2023-11-30T20:55:45-07:00

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Psalms 14 and 24, the First Vision, and the Temple

Last updated on: November 30, 2023 at 8:55 pm By Dan Peterson

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Today, the most concentrated amount of sheer cuteness in this region spent substantial time in a swimming pool alongside the beach. We were privileged to be there, as well. Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Temple: Ancient and Restored: Psalm 24 and the Two YHWHs at the Gate of the Temple,” written by David J. Larsen Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Ancient and... Read more

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2023-11-29T23:57:59-07:00

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My one encounter, such as it was, with Henry Kissinger

Last updated on: November 29, 2023 at 11:57 pm By Dan Peterson

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For a while this afternoon, one of the world’s densest concentrations of sheer cuteness was out on the Sea of Cortez (also known as the Gulf of California), bobbing on a small boat that was completely made of transparent plexiglass. We were also privileged to be on that boat. We saw lots and lots of fish through its floor. They were clearly Mexican fish, because the folks on the boat would occasionally toss a flour tortilla over the... Read more

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