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March 2025

March 21, 2025

“Anchoring Nephi’s Account in the Real World”

As happens several times each week, something new has appeared on the website of...

November 2024

November 12, 2024

“Shall We Not Go On in So Great a Cause?”

New, from the long-comatose and perpetually dying Interpreter Foundation: Take a Journey into Arabia...

September 2024

September 27, 2024

“Alma” as a Semitic Name, and Reaching Irreantum

I'm pleased to announce that a second (and final) set of "sneak peek" early...

July 2023

July 28, 2023

“Nephi’s Eight Years in the ‘Wilderness'”

Two new items went up on Friday on the website of the Interpreter...

March 2023

March 03, 2023

Lehi and Ishmael in Antiquity

The Interpreter Foundation continues to flourish, much to the disgust of at...

January 2023

January 09, 2023

England, anybody?

With a group of friends (mostly neighbors and former neighbors), we are putting...

May 2022

May 27, 2022

Where did Nephi build his ship?

*** It's Friday, so, naturally, a new article has just appeared in...

December 2021

December 31, 2021

“If God Does Not Exist, Is Everything Permitted?”

*** A new essay appeared at noon today, Utah time, in Interpreter:...

October 2021

October 15, 2021

“An Ishmael Buried Near Nahom”

*** Neal Rappleye published a potentially very significant article today in Interpreter:...

September 2021

September 17, 2021

“A New Reading of Moses 7”

A new article -- this one by Adam Stokes -- appeared earlier today...

September 20, 2020

Revision 5.7 “Islamic Law” (F)

This is important because Islamic law covers a far wider range of actions...

September 19, 2020

Revision 5.6 “Islamic Law” (E)

Of course, there was always the danger that an irresponsible, ignorant, or incompetent...

September 18, 2020

Revision 5.5 “Islamic Law” (D)

Over the course of many years, students of the traditions about Muhammad and...

September 17, 2020

Revision 5.4 “Islamic Law” (C)

Actually, what I have been saying is an oversimplification. It was only gradually...

September 16, 2020

Revision 5.3 “Islamic Law” (B)

The opposite of sunna, first in pre-Islamic Arabia and ultimately within Islam itself,...

September 15, 2020

Revision 5.2 “Islamic Law” (A)

Making Arabic the language of administration in the empire was part of a...

August 2020

August 24, 2020

“Another Breakthrough for the Arabian Peninsula Evidence for the Book of Mormon”?

This just up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "John W....

August 21, 2020

“Nephi’s “Shazer”: The Fourth Arabian Pillar of the Book of Mormon”

It's Friday, so another new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of...

August 07, 2020

Revision 3.5 “Paganism Condemned”

Another common theme beginning in the earliest chapters of the Qur'an is a...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

Revision 2.14 “The leader of the poets to hellfire”

I pick up here with a brief allusion to the story that I...

July 30, 2020

Revision 2.13 “Ancient Arabia and the Power of Words”

But first, the following item was called to my notice by a high...

July 29, 2020

Revision 2.12 “The Power of Ancient Arabian Poets”

A couple of stories will make clear the power that poets were thought...

July 28, 2020

Revision 2.11 “Poetry and Poets”

Poetry was the sole medium of literary expression in pre-Islamic Arabia. In a...

July 27, 2020

Revision 2.10 “The epitome of pre-Islamic Arabian generosity”

Closely related to the obligations felt by a host toward his guests is...

July 26, 2020

Revision 2.9. “Fidelity to One’s Promises in Ancient Arabia (and the Book of Mormon!)”

As in the case of Shanfara, the devotion to one's oath among these...

July 25, 2020

Revision 2.8 “Shanfara of Azd, and friends”

In my previous installment, I wrote about the pre-Islamic Arabian value of revenge,...

July 24, 2020

Revision 2.7 “Life Among the Pre-Islamic Bedouin”

Nomadic life breeds hardiness, frugality, eagerness for material things, fortitude, and hospitality. Such...

July 23, 2020

Revision 2.6 “Early Arabian Values”

When the Jewish exiles returned from their Babylonian captivity and began to rebuild...

July 22, 2020

Revision 2.5 “Arab nomadism and the scriptures”

From the earliest times, the people of Arabia, though dominantly nomadic, have also...

July 21, 2020

Revision 2.4.”The Earliest Arabs and Lehi’s Trail”

It was at Nahom, incidentally, that Lehi and his party abruptly turned due...