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August 2020

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 20, 2020

A ten-minute video on “Evidences of the Book of Abraham: Historicity”

The official magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for...

August 20, 2020

Revision 4.2 “Can the Qur’an Be Translated?” (Plus a Note on Religious Bigotry and Me)

This Muslim emphasis on the words and style of the Arabic Qur'an was...

August 19, 2020

On “The Witnesses: Variety and Complexity”

Last night (Tuesday, 18 August 2020), I gave a little class or fireside...

August 19, 2020

Latter-day Saint intellectuals, plus a note on education and Jehovah’s Witnesses

I've just been looking at an early-2015 blog entry from Kirk Magleby entitled "Top...

August 12, 2020

“And for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment.”

A few days ago, I recorded a lecture for BYU Education Week 2020...

August 12, 2020

“Producing Ancient Scripture — Thomas Wayment on Joseph Smith’s Use of Adam Clarke in the JST” (plus Stephen Smoot on B. H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon)

New, via the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Producing Ancient Scripture —...

August 09, 2020

Answers to questions that were submitted after my presentation at FairMormon last Friday

I pre-recorded my remarks to the 2020 FairMormon conference. On Friday afternoon, when...

August 05, 2020

“Pillar of Light”

Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 32 “Preserved by His Marvelous Power” Alma 53-63...

August 04, 2020

What I was up to today for FairMormon 2020 and BYU Education Week 2020

The 2020 FairMormon conference begins on Wednesday, 5 August 2020 -- as I...

August 03, 2020

Question: “Is Decrypting the Genetic Legacy of America’s Indigenous Populations Key to the Historicity of the Book of Mormon?”

Up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, by Ugo A. Perego...

August 03, 2020

Revision 3.1 “Mecca and the Quraysh”

On 23 September 1855, Elder George A. Smith of the Council of the...

August 02, 2020

Three passages from B. H. Roberts

The testimony of the eight witnesses differs from that of the three witnesses...

August 01, 2020

“Witnesses”: A Brief Progress Report

This evening (Saturday evening) we participated in the showing of our Witnesses dramatic...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

Martin Harris, William Smith, and the quest for Colorado gold

When we were out and about along the Blue River near Breckenridge, Colorado,...

July 27, 2020

“Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon”

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, a piece by Mark Alan...

July 23, 2020

Goodness from the Heartland

Interpreter Radio Show — July 19, 2020 The 19 July 2020 broadcast of...

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...

July 20, 2020

Revision 2.3 “Frankincense and Lehi’s Trail”

Frankincense is a fragrant gum resin consisting of small white chunks and beads...

July 19, 2020

A witness to many remarkable things

We're familiar, of course, with Oliver Cowdery as one of the official Three...

July 18, 2020

For the weekend

A new item on the website of the Interpreter Foundation by members of...

July 16, 2020

“Bad men on paper”

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, from Hales Swift: "Prayer...

July 15, 2020

“New Study Finds Some Polynesians Carry DNA of Ancient Native Americans”

In case you missed this news, here's a brief write-up from the Interpreter...

July 14, 2020

Ancient geology and really ancient geology

I continue with some notes from Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Geology of the...

July 10, 2020

Sensationalism and Missing Words

Two new pieces appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

July 09, 2020

Volcanism in Mesoamerica

Among other things, Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Geology of the Book of Mormon (2014) supplies...

July 08, 2020

“I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel”

Some further notes drawn from Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris:...

July 07, 2020

From the Eight Witnesses

Some passages about the experience of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of...

July 06, 2020

On “The Sôd of Yhwh and the Endowment”

This is an interesting article, but it's also a melancholy reminder of the...

July 04, 2020

“A faithful testimony”

Two excerpts from Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness...