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Joseph Smith: A Life Lived in Crescendo
Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
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This two-volume set (1100 pages total) seeks to enrich study of the life and teachings of Joseph Smith through essays by knowledgeable and faithful scholars on selected punctuation marks of Joseph Smith’s final years in Nauvoo. While some of Joseph Smith’s contemporaries saw these events and doctrinal developments as evidence that he was a fallen prophet, modern Latter-day Saints, looking back, see them as a glorious culmination to a faithful life.
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Margaret Barker’s Master Classes on the Hebrew Scriptures
The Interpreter Foundation is pleased to offer two seminars from noted scholar Dr. Margaret Barker.
The Nov. 9 seminar looked at the changes and developments in the text of the Hebrew Scriptures and the work of the scribes who transmitted them.
This provided the context for the second seminar on Nov. 16 where Dr. Barker examined 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.
Video and audio recording of both seminars are available at https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/margaret-barker-master-classes-on-the-hebrew-scriptures/.
Interpreting Interpreter: A Hinge for the Howells
This post is a summary of the article “Small Hinges, Great Doorways: How Some Descendants of an Enslaved Youth Unexpectedly Became Prominent Utah Citizens” by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw in Volume 63 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...
Small Hinges, Great Doorways: How Some Descendants of an Enslaved Youth Unexpectedly Became Prominent Utah Citizens
Abstract: A vivid illustration of how “the doorways of history turn on small hinges” is found in the Howell family tradition about Wilford Woodruff’s short stay at the home of slaveholders in the South, where it appears he may have taught a 14-year-old enslaved boy...
Reprint: “Made Stronger Than Many Waters”: The Purported Sacred Names of Moses as a Series of Keywords
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Past, Present and Future, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to...
Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — Doctrine and Covenants 2; Joseph Smith—History 1:27–65
JS—H 1:27-28 “The Weakness of Youth” For three and a half years after the First Vision, Satan continued his attempts to derail the Lord’s great latter-day work, as Joseph Smith was “all the time suffering severe persecution,” in addition...
Interpreter Radio Show — January 5, 2025
In the January 5, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Martin Tanner, Hales Swift and Brent Schmidt. They discuss Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson 5 and study aids for D&C and Church history. You can listen to or download the...
Elder Bruce R. McConkie’s Alternative to Evolution
Editor’s note: The information in this post is an overview of Elder Bruce R. McConkie’s teachings and does not necessarily represent official Church understanding. The current information is found on a fairly recent Church History Topic on “Organic...
Interpreting Interpreter: Handled by Hands
This post is a summary of the article ““Our Hands Have Handled”: Ensuring the Reassuring Doctrine of the Resurrection in the Lucan and Johannine Writings” by Matthew L. Bowen in Volume 63 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship....
“Our Hands Have Handled”: Ensuring the Reassuring Doctrine of the Resurrection in the Lucan and Johannine Writings
Abstract: The Lucan and Johannine writings emphasize the literalness and physicality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This emphasis does not represent an emerging Christology from an earlier, inchoate conception of Jesus and the meaning of his life. Rather, it...
Reprint: From Temple to Church: Defining Sacred Space in the Near East
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Past, Present and Future, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to...
Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — Joseph Smith—History 1:1–26
JS—H 1:1-2 “In Truth and Righteousness” As stated in the Introduction to the Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith—History contains “excerpts from Joseph Smith’s official testimony and history, which he and his scribes prepared in 1838-39.”...
Interpreter Radio Show — December 29, 2024
In the December 29, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Terry Hutchinson and Mark Johnson. They discuss Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson 4, accomplishments by the Interpreter Foundation in 2024, the four Saints volumes, and...
Interpreting Interpreter: A Second Transcript
This post is a summary of the article “Looking Again at the Anthon Transcript(s)” by John S. Thompson in Volume 63 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...
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