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Paper Studies Characteristics Of Oral Culture In The Book Of Mormon
Paper Studies Characteristics Of Oral Culture In The Book Of Mormon
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
A recent fascinating study by William Eggington of the BYU English Department suggests that, by and large, Book of Mormon peoples functioned as an oral culture. Although the Lehite community had access to print as a technology, Eggington believes that they wrote only to accomplish narrow (i.e., religious) goals and that their writings retained many features of a nonprint culture. His evidence comes from certain indicators and memory-aiding devices within the text of the Book of Mormon, including repetitious patterns, balanced patterns, formulaic expressions, and parallelisms.
Selected Sperry Symposium Papers Now Available
Selected Sperry Symposium Papers Now Available
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The annual Sperry Symposium was held at BYU on October 26, 1991. Many of the papers presented will be published next spring. In the meantime, four papers are now available separately on the enclosed order form.
Byu Studies Features Griggs And Jett On Archaeology And Pre-Columbian Voyaging
Byu Studies Features Griggs And Jett On Archaeology And Pre-Columbian Voyaging
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
By special arrangement, the most recent issue of BYU Studies is available through F.A.R.M.S. This outstanding publication contains several articles that will be of great interest to F.A.R.M.S. readers.
Essay Illuminates Publishing Process
Essay Illuminates Publishing Process
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The Religious Studies Center at BYU sponsored a conference on Joseph Smith at the dedication of the new Joseph Smith Building on campus. Organized by Susan Easton Black, associate professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU, the conference was well attended and well received. Papers delivered at the conference have been published by the center and Bookcraft, and F.A.R.M.S. has arranged to reprint one of the chapters that particularly sheds light on the Book of Mormon.
Brown Bag Seminar Presents Book Of Mormon Research
Brown Bag Seminar Presents Book Of Mormon Research
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Some of the most interesting current research on the Book of Mormon was reported on during the sessions of the F.A.R.M.S. brown bag seminar through the 1992-1993 school year. Fourteen Latter-day Saint scholars from Brigham Young University and elsewhere gave participants a glimpse of their most recent findings on a wide variety of topics.
Participants At Byu Summer Programs Are Invited To Visit Farms
Participants At Byu Summer Programs Are Invited To Visit Farms
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
INSIGHT'S subscribers who attend programs at BYU this summer, such as Education Week or the CES Symposium, as well as any other friends of F.A.R.M.S. who find themselves in Provo, are invited to stop by the F.A.R.M.S. office. You'll find us on the third floor of Amanda Knight Hall, which is on the southwest edge of the BYU campus, on the comer of University Avenue and 800 North.
Dead Sea Scroll Scholars Discuss Progress And New Technologies
Dead Sea Scroll Scholars Discuss Progress And New Technologies
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
In July members of the international team of scholars working on the Dead Sea Scrolls held a conference in Provo to discuss the progress of their research and to examine new technologies that may assist them. The conference was hosted by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) and Brigham Young University. It was organized and chaired by Eugene Ulrich of the University of Notre Dame and Donald W. Parry of Brigham Young University.
Subscriptions And Donations Still Essential For Farms
Subscriptions And Donations Still Essential For Farms
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Since the announcement that FARMS has been invited to become part of BYU, we have received several phone calls asking whether FARMS still needs the financial support of its subscribers and donors. The answer is emphatically yes!
Contributions Of Farms Members Still Crucial
Contributions Of Farms Members Still Crucial
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
As FARMS has become part of Brigham Young University, some of the faithful members of FARMS have asked if their support is still important to the Foundation. The answer is a resounding yes! Just in the financial area alone, membership fees (which we have also called subscriptions) are crucial to the research and publications of the Foundation. The university contributes less than 20 percent of the Foundation's annual operating budget-a very welcome contribution, but obviously not enough to keep FARMS and its projects running. We still must rely on membership fees, donations, and the sale of publications to support ongoing …
Brown Bag Wrap-Up
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
On 23 February Terry Szink, an instructor in BYU's Department of Ancient Scripture, analyzed the structure of Enoch's vision recorded in Moses 7-8 and discussed how understanding that structure reveals insights about the meaning of the vision. The vision covers three general time periods (the time of the Flood, the meridian of time, the last days) and uses similar terms to express parallel meanings about all three.
Cpart Digitizes Archives In Lebanon And Vatican
Cpart Digitizes Archives In Lebanon And Vatican
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
In April 1999 INSIGHTS reported on negotiations between representatives of the Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (CPART) at Brigham Young University and officials in Beirut, Lebanon, and at the Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome about digitally imaging ancient Syriac manuscripts for inclusion in CD-ROM databases. Since then agreements have been forged and work is under way.
Lds Church Sponsors Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit In Chicago
Lds Church Sponsors Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit In Chicago
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the principal sponsors of an exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls that opened on 10 March at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Running through 11 June 2000, the exhibit features 15 scroll texts and 80 artifacts excavated at Qumran, a site of ancient ruins located near the caves where the scrolls were first discovered.
Call For Papers
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The Institute invites interested persons to submit papers for a conference on Latter-day Saint views on the sacrifice of Isaac. The conference will be held at BYU on 11 October 2003.
Brown Bag Report
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
25 September 2002: BYU professors John W.Welch (law) and John F. Hall (classics) reported on projects involving the Institute’s Early Christianity Initiative.Welch spoke of a presentation he gave in Berlin to the International Society of Biblical Literature in which he showed the results of an Institute team’s digital imaging of a dozen early New Testament manuscripts. He also described imaging projects involving (1) a large collection of early manuscripts damaged during World War II (among them are eighth- and ninth-century copies of the Pauline epistles, including a rare copy of an apocryphal epistle of Paul to the Laodiceans); and (2) …
New Review A Double Issue
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The latest FARMS Review of Books is actually two issues in one. It reviews 15 books in the usual categories of Book of Mormon, Mormon studies, and biblical studies but also devotes more than 100 pages to a multipronged response to an evangelical book titled The New Mormon Challenge: Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement.
New Book Enriches Nt Study
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
A new book from FARMS offers a world of information about the New Testament and its background. Charting the New Testament contains scores of charts, tables, and graphs, each with helpful explanatory and reference materials in a reader-friendly format. Covering a wide array of topics-from the ancient Jewish setting of the New Testament and the world of the Greeks and Romans in which the activities of Jesus and his apostles took place to detailed analysis of the scriptural text itself-the book offers an extensive overview of matters doctrinal, literary, and historical. A companion volume to Charting the Book of Mormon, …
Researchers Share, Test Ideas With Peers
Researchers Share, Test Ideas With Peers
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Each semester the Institute sponsors an average of six brown bag presentations (so named because they are informal lectures delivered during the noon hour). Held on the BYU campus, these events are conducted largely for the benefit of scholars and other specialists who are invited to report on research projects they are pursuing and papers they are writing. At the conclusion of their presentations, the speakers respond to questions and constructive comments from the audience. These events enable researchers to test and explore the ideas and insights they are developing on a host of topics related to the work of …
Byu Journal Explores Hebrew Law In The Book Of Mormon
Byu Journal Explores Hebrew Law In The Book Of Mormon
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
In February 2001, a conference titled “Hebrew Law in the Book of Mormon” was held at Brigham Young University under the sponsorship of FARMS (see “BYU Conference on Hebrew Law a Success,” Insights 21/4 [2001], available on the FARMS Web site). Among the papers presented there were studies by seven BYU students on aspects of ancient law that might be reflected in the Book of Mormon. These papers are now available in a special issue, copublished by FARMS, of the student journal Studia Antiqua. They treat such topics as slavery, the Noachide laws (minimum standards of social and moral conduct …