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2023-03-24T17:47:33-06:00

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“Moving Beyond the Historicity Question”?

Last updated on: March 24, 2023 at 5:47 pm By Dan Peterson

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A new article went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Moving Beyond the Historicity Question, or a Manifesto for Future Book of Mormon Research,” written by Newell D. Wright: Review of Daniel Becerra, Amy Easton-Flake, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Joseph M. Spencer, Book of Mormon Studies: An Introduction and Guide (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2022). 184 pages. $19.99 (hardback), $15.99 (paperback). Abstract: Book of Mormon Studies: An Introduction and Guide by four... Read more

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Christopher Hitchens Memorial "How Religion Poisons Everything" File

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2023-03-23T23:08:44-06:00

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The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on

Last updated on: March 23, 2023 at 11:08 pm By Dan Peterson

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As I post this from Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, it’s still just barely 23 March 2023 back in the United States. So I’m still within the parameters of carrying on my tradition — no doubt tiresome to many and laughably absurd to a few — of posting my annual tribute to my brother, who died suddenly on 23 March 2012. Strictly speaking, he was my half-brother. But we were very close, and we never thought... Read more

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2023-03-23T13:31:18-06:00

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An inadequate note to a niece and two nephews

Last updated on: March 23, 2023 at 1:31 pm By Dan Peterson

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I just sent the note below to a niece and two nephews, the three children of my late brother and his now also-departed wife, and, indirectly perhaps, to their children and grandchildren. I thought that somebody else might also find a little value in it, or take some comfort from it. I want to say how sorry we are about the passing of your mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Words are inadequate. In a way, though, we... Read more

2023-03-22T12:47:15-06:00

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Down on the Coastal Plain

Last updated on: March 22, 2023 at 12:47 pm By Dan Peterson

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An article of mine appeared in Meridian Magazine a few hours ago: “Understanding the Synagogues of Jesus’ Day.” *** We left Jerusalem this morning and drove down to Caesarea Maritima, to the Herodian aqueduct that fed it from the north, and then to Joppa (or Jaffa, or Yafo). Joppa is one of the oldest cities in the Near East, while Tel Aviv , which is far larger, was only established in the twentieth century (by Zionist... Read more

2023-03-21T13:57:11-06:00

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“Why seek ye the living among the dead?”

Last updated on: March 21, 2023 at 1:57 pm By Dan Peterson

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My sister-in-law, my brother’s widow, passed away very early this morning after a fairly brief but very serious illness that cascaded into multiple crises with astonishing speed. If I have the time and the time zones right, she missed the eleventh anniversary of the death of her husband, my brother, by just two days. It has, for me, been an exceptionally appropriate day to visit the Garden Tomb here in Jerusalem with our group, and to think and... Read more

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Doctrine and Covenants 138

Vision of the Redemption of the Dead

Walters

2023-03-20T13:40:50-06:00

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Shema Yisrael!

Last updated on: March 20, 2023 at 1:40 pm By Dan Peterson

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We allowed our group a short day today, granting them time on their own to wander during the afternoon in the Old City and/or to do the “ramparts walk” partially around it. For the early evening, we secured ten tickets for them for the “Great Bridge Route” near the Western Wall. That covered our little family group, but it left my wife and me out. We couldn’t get enough tickets that we ourselves could do the tour as... Read more

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2023-03-19T15:25:39-06:00

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“There is a green hill near at hand, without a city wall . . . “

Last updated on: March 19, 2023 at 3:25 pm By Dan Peterson

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I failed to mention, in my summary post yesterday (“Three Days in Jerusalem”), that we climbed up from the Western Wall Plaza into the Jewish quarter of the Old City as the last act of our Thursday program. We had our meal there — no cheeseburgers! no burger and a shake! — and walked through the quarter over to Zion’s Gate. En route, we had a look at the “Broad Wall,” a portion the city wall that was... Read more

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2023-03-18T14:45:12-06:00

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Three Days in Jerusalem

Last updated on: March 18, 2023 at 2:45 pm By Dan Peterson

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Thursday was our first actual day of touring with our group. (We met them in the airport at Lod on Wednesday night, and brought them up to Jerusalem from there.) First, we took them to the City of David, to the area known as “the ophel.” Excavations and tourist-friendly development have changed it very much since I first saw it, roughly back under the reign of Solomon. Then they went through Hezekiah’s Tunnel, the so-called “wet tunnel,” while... Read more

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2023-03-17T12:57:54-06:00

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More Wordplay on the Name “Joseph” in the Book of Mormon?

Last updated on: March 17, 2023 at 12:57 pm By Dan Peterson

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““That They Might Come Again unto the Remnant of the House of Jacob”: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in 3 Nephi 26:8–10 and 4 Nephi 1:49,” written by Matthew L. Bowen 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 and Isaiah 29:4, all of which ultimately rely on yāsap (yôsîp or yôsip) idioms to describe the gathering of Israel and the concomitant coming forth of additional scripture. Mormon,... Read more

Christopher Hitchens Memorial "How Religion Poisons Everything" File

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Remnant of the House of Jacob

2023-03-16T09:57:42-06:00

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Big News from a Small Country

Last updated on: March 16, 2023 at 9:57 am By Dan Peterson

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The sadly necessary Neville-Neville Land blog posted a useful entry the other day on “Photos of Mesoamerican sites in the 1963–1981 missionary edition of the Book of Mormon.” That’s the edition with which I pretty much grew up and came to adulthood (if, indeed, I ever have come to adulthood). And it serves to illustrate my contention that, during my childhood and youth, Latter-day Saints — and certainly the Latter-day Saints that I knew — typically understood phrases... Read more

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An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon

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Isthmus of Tehuantepec

New World Archaeological Foundation

Thomas Stuart Ferguson

William of Ockham

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