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April 2023

April 19, 2023

Tabernacle and Constitution

I spoke for about twenty minutes early this afternoon to members of the...

January 2023

January 05, 2023

Meditations and Reflections

I first read the Meditations of the Stoic Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD...

October 2022

October 11, 2022

Two Ways of Remembering the Dead in Manhattan

Three new items have gone up on the Interpreter website: "Nibley Lectures: Time...

July 2022

July 19, 2022

A questionable extermination and an indisputable explosion

Here's a link to an article of mine that went up in Meridian...

April 2022

April 07, 2022

In defense of Christianized Passover seders

*** I came across a little piece online yesterday in which a...

May 2021

May 12, 2021

Interreligious Dialogue, Effective and Ineffective

Driving southbound on I-15 early this morning, I was pleased to see an...

January 2021

January 09, 2021

Revision 8.11 Has Orson Hyde’s Prayer Been Fulfilled? The Jewish Gathering to Palestine

Between the previous installment (Revision 8.10) and this one, considerable material is required...

January 02, 2021

Revision 8.10. “The BYU Jerusalem Center” (conclusion), plus diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East

For some time thereafter, no matter how careful we were, some new and...

December 2020

December 26, 2020

Revision 8.9 Students occupy the BYU Jerusalem Center (plus a Christmas wrap-up)

But first . . . "Essay #35: Moses 1 in Its Ancient...

December 19, 2020

Revision 8.8 More opposition to the BYU Jerusalem Center

Don't miss this important (and relevant) monument from the history of Israeli popular...

December 13, 2020

Revision 8.7 “The Orson Hyde Memorial Garden and BYU’s Jerusalem Center”

The idea of an Orson Hyde monument continued to be discussed as time...

October 2020

October 23, 2020

Revision 6.18 “The United Nations Plan,” plus a bibliography on Latter-day Saints and Islam

There were serious clashes between Arabs and Jewish settlers throughout the 1920s and...

October 22, 2020

Revision 6.17 “The Balfour Declaration”

Despite numerous dissenting voices, the political Zionist movement began to gain momentum during...

October 21, 2020

Revision 6.16 “The Rise of Zionism” (B)

In 1882, young Jews calling themselves "Lovers of Zion" began actively to promote...

October 20, 2020

Revision 6.15 “The Rise of Zionism” (A)

Meanwhile, as Arabs and Muslims faltered and desperately sought a reason why, a...

September 2020

September 23, 2020

Revision 5.10 “The Decline of the Abbasid Caliphate”

But the emphasis of the ‘ulama’ on law and on behavior came, in the...

September 22, 2020

Revision 5.9 “Enter the Abbasids”

In the middle of the eighth century, a revolt commenced in far-off Khurasan,...

September 12, 2020

Revision 4.25 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 5, Conclusion)

This focus upon submission to the inscrutable will of God as the characteristic...

September 11, 2020

Revision 4.24 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 4)

Islam insists on an absolute gulf, an unbridgeable chasm, between God and everything...

September 09, 2020

Revision 4.23 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 3)

Islam is an absolutely rigorous, pure monotheism. "To God alone is true worship...

September 05, 2020

Revision 4.18 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 1)

Some readers will already have noticed a number of similarities between the Qur'an...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

“Baptized for the Dead”

An article by Kevin L. Barney has just gone up on the website...

August 28, 2020

Revision 4.10 “On the Moral Teachings of the Qur’an”

It is on the basis of his or her faith and good works,...

July 2020

July 17, 2020

Revision 1.15 “Jerusalem, Byzantines, and Persians”

Some Jews were martyred, some hid in caves and deserts in order to...

July 16, 2020

Revision 1.14 “Talmudic Judaism, Constantinian Christianity, and the ‘De-Judaizing’ of Palestine”

The Babylonian Talmud became, by a considerable distance, the more important of the...

July 15, 2020

Revision 1.13 “The Mishnah and the Talmuds”

What really interested the earliest rabbis was the collection and organization of the...

July 14, 2020

Revision 1.12 “Philo and the Intellectuals”

The scholars now reigned supreme within Palestinian Judaism. Family, social standing, and wealth...

July 13, 2020

Revision 1.11 “Yohanan ben Zakkai”

Furthermore, the ruling classes of Jewry, including the chief families of hereditary priests,...

July 12, 2020

Revision 1.10. “What survived from Second Temple Judaism”

The new gospel preached by Jesus and Paul and the other apostles was,...

July 12, 2020

A case for the resurrection of Christ (3)

Here, I conclude the short little outline summary that I began here and...