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At The Intersection Of Scribal Training And Theological Profundity: Chiasm As An Editorial Technique In The Primeval History And Deuteronomy, Bernard M. Levinson
At The Intersection Of Scribal Training And Theological Profundity: Chiasm As An Editorial Technique In The Primeval History And Deuteronomy, Bernard M. Levinson
BYU Studies Quarterly
There can be little doubt that ancient Near Eastern scribes, including those in ancient Israel, were well-trained in a wide range of technical devices associated with the composition, copying, transmission, editing, collation, revision, reworking, and interpretation of texts.1 My focus in the present study will be on one of the most interesting of these devices, the literary chiasm, in which textual content is ordered in an ABC::CʹBʹAʹ chiastic, or “x-shaped,” pattern. In many cases, once this pattern is recognized within a chapter or literary unit, an ostensibly haphazard or difficult to follow textual sequence gains a sense of order, as …
The First Vision As A Prehistory Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Kathleen Flake
The First Vision As A Prehistory Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Kathleen Flake
BYU Studies Quarterly
Most scholarly attention to the First Vision is dedicated to determining whether it happened or whether whatever happened is reliably described in the few primary accounts we have of it. My interests lie in a different direction. I am interested in the First Vision accounts insofar as they tell us something about religion, not about history, and not least because my wager is that this story, as a story, exceeds the limits of history, especially when it becomes understood as scripture. Which is to say, I want to better understand the work done by this story among the members of …
Selling The Soul Of Science For A Pot Of Message: Evangelizing Atheism In The God Delusion, Steven C. Walker
Selling The Soul Of Science For A Pot Of Message: Evangelizing Atheism In The God Delusion, Steven C. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
Bestseller lists for the past two years chart a swelling tide of interest in a long-standing backwater: atheism. Nothing so tame as old-fashioned agnostic doubt, the new wave floods readers with outspoken scientific atheism. Sam Harris’s The End of Faith (2004) was the earthquake that triggered a tsunami swollen by urgent tributaries from Daniel C. Dennett’s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (2006) and Marc D. Hauser’s Moral Minds (2006), swelled all the more by Harris’s reprise Letter to a Christian Nation (2006). That atheist tidal wave has yet to crest—Carl Sagan hectors us from the grave in …
Archeological Trends And Book Of Mormon Origins, John E. Clark
Archeological Trends And Book Of Mormon Origins, John E. Clark
BYU Studies Quarterly
Had circumstances permitted a marked grave for the slain prophet, a fitting headstone could have read, “By Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor.” Such an epitaph, taken from the title page of the Book of Mormon, captures the enduring bond between the man and the book, and also the controversy which coalesced around both with the book’s publication and the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830. In the ensuing and continuing “war of words” (Joseph Smith–History 1:10) and prejudice, redemption may hang on the single preposition “by.” What hand did Joseph have in producing …
By The Hand Of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched A World Religion By Terry L. Givens, Daniel C. Peterson
By The Hand Of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched A World Religion By Terry L. Givens, Daniel C. Peterson
BYU Studies Quarterly
Terryl L. Givens. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a World Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Tools Leave Marks: Material Analysis Of The Scotford-Soper-Savage Michigan Relics, Richard B. Stamps
Tools Leave Marks: Material Analysis Of The Scotford-Soper-Savage Michigan Relics, Richard B. Stamps
BYU Studies Quarterly
Extensive collections of supposedly prehistoric artifacts known as the Michigan Relics or the Scotford-Soper-Savage collection—possibly as many as 3,000 pieces—exist across the country. I have personally examined more than 1,000 from four different collections. What is so special about this collection of artifacts? Why does it merit further study? Although numerous previous studies have suggested that the materials were not made by ancient people but are of modern origin, there is ongoing interest in the collections. Dr. John Halsey, the state archaeologist of Michigan, says that his office gets more requests to see these materials than any other single collection. …
Mormonism's Encounter With The Michigan Relics, Mark Ashurst-Mcgee
Mormonism's Encounter With The Michigan Relics, Mark Ashurst-Mcgee
BYU Studies Quarterly
One of the strangest and most extensive archaeological hoaxes in American history was perpetrated around the turn of the twentieth century in Michigan. Hundreds of objects known as the Michigan Relics were made to appear as the remains of a lost civilization. The artifacts were produced, buried, "discovered," and marketed by James O. Scotford and Daniel E. Soper. For three decades these artifacts were secretly planted in earthen mounds, publicly removed, and lauded as wonderful discoveries. Because the Michigan Relics allegedly evidence a Near Eastern presence in ancient America, they have drawn interest from The Church of Jesus Christ of …
Popol Vuh: The Mythic Sections—Tales Of First Beginnings From The Ancient K'Iche'-Maya Allen J. Christenson, John S. Robertson
Popol Vuh: The Mythic Sections—Tales Of First Beginnings From The Ancient K'Iche'-Maya Allen J. Christenson, John S. Robertson
BYU Studies Quarterly
Allen J. Christenson, translator and editor. Popol Vuh: The Mythic Sections—Tales of First Beginnings from the Ancient K'iche'-Maya. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2000. xv; 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography. Softbound, $19.95.
Rediscovering Ancient Christianity, C. Wilfred Griggs
Rediscovering Ancient Christianity, C. Wilfred Griggs
BYU Studies Quarterly
This Distinguished Faculty Lecture at BYU argues that diverse strands in early Christianity were excised by emerging orthodox leaders and that only a new paradigm based in revelation can recapture the original gospel of Jesus Christ.
Classic Maya Religion: Beliefs And Practices Of An Ancient American People, Stephen D. Houston
Classic Maya Religion: Beliefs And Practices Of An Ancient American People, Stephen D. Houston
BYU Studies Quarterly
Though difficult to decipher, Maya religion permeated a complex ancient world with an overriding sense of the sacral nature of all things and reveals much about how those people lived and why they vanished.
Archaeometry Applied To Olmec Iron-Ore Beads, Steven E. Jones, Samuel T. Jones, David E. Jones
Archaeometry Applied To Olmec Iron-Ore Beads, Steven E. Jones, Samuel T. Jones, David E. Jones
BYU Studies Quarterly
Modern research tools reveal the curious workmanship used in the ancient drilling of small beads found at archaeological digs in Mesoamerica.
Douglas Thayer's Mr. Wahlquist In Yellowstone: A Mormon's Christian Response To Wilderness, Eugene England
Douglas Thayer's Mr. Wahlquist In Yellowstone: A Mormon's Christian Response To Wilderness, Eugene England
BYU Studies Quarterly
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