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Margaret Barker’s Master Classes on the Hebrew Scriptures
November 9 and November 16
The Interpreter Foundation is pleased to offer two seminars from noted scholar Dr. Margaret Barker. Her presentations will be on two successive Saturdays, November 9 and November 16, 2024, both beginning at 11 a.m. Mountain Time. Each seminar will feature an illustrated lecture for approximately 50 minutes followed by 15 to 30 minutes for questions. The seminars are free but registration is required.
The Nov. 9 seminar will look at the changes and developments in the text of the Hebrew Scriptures and the work of the scribes who transmitted them.
This will provide the context for the second seminar on Nov. 16. Dr. Barker will examine five examples from Qumran texts of Deuteronomy and Isaiah to explore how and why differences arose, and which of the versions was the more likely to have been used by the first Christians.
This class is for everyone interested in the story of the Hebrew Scriptures. Knowledge of Hebrew is not required.
The seminars will be video taped for later viewing.
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The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs
Proceedings of the Sixth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference: 4–5 November 2022
Edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
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The Completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project
Video, audio, and slides from the Celebration on August 10, 2024
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Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon — Ether 1-5
This week for Come, Follow Me lesson 46 covering Ether 1-5, we have lectures 109 and 111 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering Ether 1-2 and Ether 2-8, respectively. During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book...
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Interpreter Radio Show — October 27, 2024
In the October 27, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are John and Stacey Thompson. They discuss the recent article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship by Diane E. Wirth and Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon...
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“Behold, I Went to Hunt Beasts in the Forest”: An Addendum on Enos, Esau, and the Symbolic Geography of Seir
Abstract: Enos’s use of the onomastic wordplay in the Jacob and Esau cycle enables him to meaningfully allude to the symbolic geography of those stories and incorporate it into his New World setting (e.g., allusions to the river Jabbok and Peniel/Penuel, the site of...
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This post is a summary of the article “Die Prophezeiung Henochs: Some Observations on Section 36 in the German Edition of the Community of Christ Doctrine and Covenants” by Adam Stokes in Volume 63 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship....
Die Prophezeiung Henochs: Some Observations on Section 36 in the German Edition of the Community of Christ Doctrine and Covenants
Abstract: Multiple translations of the Doctrine and Covenants into German have been produced over the past century and a half. This essay looks at a more recent example of these translations as found in the Buch der Lehre und Bündnisse published electronically by the...
Reprint: Bearing Testimony in Hebrew
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Letters from Elder Spencer W Kimball
Letter to his son Spencer Levan Kimball [Note: Levan was beginning to distance himself from the Church at the time and eventually became atheist. His father was deeply concerned and used this missive as a means of trying to fortify him in the faith. Slight editing has...
Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon — Mormon 7-9
This week for Come, Follow Me lesson 45 covering Mormon 7-9, we have lectures 107 and 108 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering Mormon 8 and 9. During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book of Mormon classes for...
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