I imagine a few heads will explode in certain corners
Dan Peterson, over at his excellent blog Sic et Non, reports the following: A new two-volume Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics has just appeared from the venerable European publishing...
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Mormons and hell, revisited
Doug Gibson, the opinion editor at the [Ogden, UT] Standard Examiner, regularly touches on religious issues, usually dealing with the LDS Church. His latest post examines the concept of hell as found...
View ArticleA few more thoughts on Sun Tzu, the Book of Mormon, and translation
About a year ago, I wrote a post on how my work with differing English translations of the same source text — Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (Suntzu pingfa) – led to some thoughts about the Book of Mormon...
View ArticleIn case anyone mentions “the Book of Mormon” and “Smithsonian” in the same...
…please sent them over to this post at Keepapitchinin by Ardis “Ace” Parshall, Mormon Detective: News of the impending publication reached Salt Lake City early in November, 1936. Alarmed, Heber J....
View ArticleArchaeological find in Israel: Jehovah’s wife?
I always treat articles like this — heck, just about any article (or, for that matter, paper) on Bible-related archaeological “findings” — with a spoonful of salt. That said, this is interesting:...
View ArticleAlma and John revisited — a brief thought
I have posted before about the parallels between Alma1 and John the Baptist, particularly with regards to (re)introducing baptism and establishing a “church of anticipation” prior to the Savior’s...
View ArticleSources for the story of Amalakiah (Alma 46-52)
A close reading of the Book of Mormon shows a sophisticated restraint in its narrative approach, namely an absence of descriptions of events, conversations, and actions outside of the observation and...
View ArticleGospel Doctrine 2016: Lessons 2 and 4 (Book of Mormon)
For the past few years, I’ve been honored to participate in the Interpreter Foundation Scripture Roundtable podcasts (videocasts, actually) as they cover each year’s Gospel Doctrine lessons. These...
View ArticleDid Laban have right of ownership to the brass plates?
I just started a recent re-read of the Book of Mormon (separate from the nightly out-loud readings that my wife and I do) and noted (as usual) that Laban was given two chances to “do the right thing”...
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“…even in a dream…” (1 Nephi 2:1)
Book of Mormon scholars (starting with Noel Reynolds, I believe) have long pointed out that Nephi used his small plates — written 30 to 40 years after leaving Jerusalem — to make his case to be Lehi’s...
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