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July 2024

July 13, 2024

18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of wheat

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Pre-print of “Jacob’s Temple Journey to...

November 2022

November 25, 2022

“Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem”

Two new articles have just gone up in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

February 2022

February 18, 2022

Spreading the Word

*** The Interpreter Foundation published several new items yesterday and today. I...

December 2021

December 06, 2021

A Loss and a Gap

*** I was saddened, just now, to learn of the death of...

November 2021

November 05, 2021

“Oh, that I were an angel”

*** A new article appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

October 2021

October 11, 2021

“Ancient Sacred Vestments: Scriptural Symbols and Meanings”

*** This interesting article was posted in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

October 08, 2021

“Be Ye Therefore Loyal, Even as Your Father Which is in Heaven is Loyal”

*** A new article -- this one by Taylor Halverson -- went...

September 2021

September 26, 2021

The festival of Sukkot concludes on Monday

*** Here are two very recently posted items on the website of...

July 2021

July 26, 2021

Faithful Scholarship, for Free

*** I'm a bit behind in my posting here -- travel and...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

“Ancient Temple Imagery in the Sermons of Jacob”

*** I've been thinking of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon...

June 06, 2021

“They Shall Not Grow Old”

*** Yesterday, during the opening weekend of the Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses...

May 2021

May 10, 2021

“Matthew Black and Mircea Eliade Meet Hugh Nibley”

*** This interesting reminiscence was just published in Interpreter: A Journal of...

April 2021

April 16, 2021

Wordplay, “Intertextuality,” Archaisms, and Other Book of Mormon Subtleties

*** Two new items appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

December 2020

December 11, 2020

“Did Joseph Smith Hypnotize the Book of Mormon Witnesses?” and Various Other Wonders

Two new book reviews, one by Jasmin Gimenez Rappleye and one by Stephen O....

October 2020

October 26, 2020

The theology of C. S. Lewis and the witness of the Whitmer family

John C. Whitmer was the son of Jacob Whitmer, one of the Eight...

September 2020

September 19, 2020

Were the Whitmers marginal social outcasts and weirdos?

One of the questions that must inescapably be answered with regard to the...

August 2020

August 28, 2020

“Some Notes on Jacob 4:14, Revelation, Canon, Covenant, and Law”

It's Friday and, accordingly, a new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal...

July 2020

July 16, 2020

“Bad men on paper”

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

July 07, 2020

From the Eight Witnesses

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

May 2020

May 16, 2020

“To this we are witnesses”: A note on Acts 3

Regarding Acts 3, I simply want to point to three stunning verses from...

May 09, 2020

Some notes on olive cultivation and the Book of Mormon

This entry draws upon John W. Welch, et al., eds. Knowing Why: 137...

April 2020

April 25, 2020

The Whitmer Family Prior to the Book of Mormon (A)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was probably organized in the...

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