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April 2023

April 11, 2023

“Six Days in August” reaches an early milestone

I've had a number of people ask whether I could share a link...

April 10, 2023

Hot Off the Press!

I'm very pleased to have just received in the mail a hard copy...

March 2023

March 17, 2023

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

"“That They Might Come Again unto the Remnant of the House of Jacob”:...

December 2022

December 12, 2022

Big News

If you haven't yet watched this eighteen-minute video from the Church of Jesus...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

“Latter-day Houses of the Lord”

Four items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. Please...

August 2022

August 11, 2022

Bluffing a Beatenberger

The Interpreter Foundation continues to be a fountain of productivity, thanks to generous...

August 06, 2022

Proper Names and Foreign Words in the Book of Mormon, and, Oh Yes, Sexual Abuse in Arizona

We had a very productive meeting of the Interpreter Foundation board of trustees...

July 2022

July 02, 2022

“What were the Voree Plates?”

*** A new short-video feature was posted earlier this evening on the...

March 2022

March 18, 2022

“The Wind and the Fire to Be My Chariot”

*** "“The Wind and the Fire to Be My Chariot”: The Anachronism...

December 2021

December 19, 2021

“Ask the Egyptologist” — A Virtual Fireside with John Gee

*** Back on 1 December, Scott Gordon sat down with Dr. John...

December 06, 2021

A Loss and a Gap

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

November 2021

November 24, 2021

From Edfu to Kom Ombo

*** As I write, I’m sitting on a balcony aboard our Nile...

November 15, 2021

Scripture, Temples, and Hugh Nibley

*** Here are a few links to articles that have previously appeared...

November 05, 2021

“Oh, that I were an angel”

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

October 2021

October 28, 2021

Old Testament type stuff, Egyptians and Greeks living together, mass hysteria!

*** Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Interpreter...

October 22, 2021

“The Rise and Fall of Korihor, a Zoramite”

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

September 2021

September 24, 2021

“Framing the Book of Abraham”

*** New, today, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...

September 09, 2021

Temples, all the way down

*** I've been quite busy today, and I haven't been at my...

September 01, 2021

Tabernacle, Cube, Gate, and Measuring Tools

*** New today (Tuesday) on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

August 2021

August 17, 2021

Light from the West and the Ancient East

*** New, from Jonn Claybaugh, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...

August 10, 2021

Considering the Task of Latter-day Saint Intellectuals in the Church’s Third Century

*** Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 34: “A...

July 2021

July 26, 2021

Three Deaths

I learned today that Robert Ritner, an Egyptologist at the University of Chicago...

June 2021

June 25, 2021

Nephi’s Gethsemane, the Existence of Jesus, Massachusetts, and Arizona

*** But, first: Especially for those of you in the Boston...

June 22, 2021

Attention, people in or near Orlando, Florida!

*** First of all, although Witnesses is evidently being shown in the Orlando, Florida,...

June 21, 2021

Two very significant anniversaries are rapidly approaching

*** Witnesses had quite strong numbers at the box office over the...

May 2021

May 24, 2021

““Put Off Thy Shoes from Off Thy Feet”: Sandals and Sacred Space”

*** Another article -- this one by John Gee -- has gone...

April 2021

April 12, 2021

“Edfu and Exodus”

*** Newly published just now in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

March 2021

March 06, 2021

“You heard that hundreds of years ago, in the pre-existence!”

*** I spent part of this morning and this afternoon involved in the...

January 2021

January 29, 2021

“Fantasy and Reality in the Translation of the Book of Abraham”

I'm pleased to announce that yet another new article -- this one by...

January 22, 2021

Joseph Smith, the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, the Book of Abraham, the Beating of Hiram Page, and Several Other Matters

We know, of course, that the Interpreter Foundation is nearly at death's door. ...