Chiasmus In The Book Of Genesis,
2020
Brigham Young University
Chiasmus In The Book Of Genesis, Gary A. Rendsburg
BYU Studies
Since I have published a detailed discussion on the subject announced in the title of this article, the present essay will provide only a summary of my earlier work, with ample key illustrations. My earlier treatment may be found in chapters 2, 3, and 5 of my book The Redaction of Genesis (1st ed., 1986; 2d ed., 2014).1 As indicated, in what follows, I rehearse that material here, though for the sake of simplicity, I do not footnote each individual discussion.
Mirrored Poeticity: Chiastic Structuring In Mayan Languages,
2020
Brigham Young University
Mirrored Poeticity: Chiastic Structuring In Mayan Languages, Kerry Hull
BYU Studies
The last quarter century has seen a marked shift in Maya hieroglyphic studies in recognition of the presence of poetic language in the script. Poetics in indigenous Mesoamerican tradition is based primarily upon the principle of parallelism, most often in the form of coupleted discourse. Chiasmus, a rhetorical feature fully dependent upon parallelism, was one such poetic device used by ancient Maya scribes and colonial period indigenous authors, and it is still found among modern ritual specialists in some Maya communities. In this study, I explore the use and forms of chiasmus over time among various Maya groups and languages. …
The Roles Of Words, Phrases, And Ideas In Macro-Chiasms,
2020
Brigham Young University
The Roles Of Words, Phrases, And Ideas In Macro-Chiasms, Stephen Kent Ehat
BYU Studies
What roles do words, phrases, and ideas play in large-scale chiasms and in the analysis of their form? Just as words and phrases play different roles in language generally, so too they may play different roles in their contributions to chiastic forms. In the analysis of the criteria used in evaluating a text for the presence of phrase-based chiasms and conceptual, idea-based chiasms, the analyst may see different roles played by words and phrases, depending on whether the pattern is a word-based or clause-based chiasm or a conceptual, idea-based chiasm. Analysis of texts in light of the general criteria …
Lay Latitude: Latter-Day Saint Women's Agency In Northwest Arkansas,
2020
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Lay Latitude: Latter-Day Saint Women's Agency In Northwest Arkansas, Andrew Tompkins
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The question of women’s agency in gender-traditional religions has been the subject of much scholarly attention over the past four decades, but little research has been done focusing specifically on Latter-day Saint women and their identities and roles within the structure and practice of the Church. In popular media representations, Latter-Day Saint women are often depicted as submissive or surviving, either powerless pawns or resistant warriors. However, many Latter-day Saint women find fulfillment and empowerment within and because of, rather than outside or in spite of, the institutional Church. In this thesis, I explore women’s agency in Northwest Arkansas’ Greendale …
Prophetic Authority: Democratic Hierarchy And Teh Mormon Priesthood,
2020
Brigham Young University - Provo
Prophetic Authority: Democratic Hierarchy And Teh Mormon Priesthood, Michael Hubbard Mackay
Books
No abstract provided.
Front Matter,
2020
Brigham Young University
The First Vision As A Prehistory Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints,
2020
Brigham Young University
The First Vision As A Prehistory Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Kathleen Flake
BYU Studies
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 …
Raising The Stakes: How Joseph Smith’S First Vision Became All Or Nothing,
2020
Brigham Young University
Raising The Stakes: How Joseph Smith’S First Vision Became All Or Nothing, Steven C. Harper
BYU Studies
Joseph Smith (1805–1844) inhabited a visionary world and belonged to a visionary family.1 At about age twelve, he began to worry about his soul and started searching the Bible. As he compared the scriptures to the Christian denominations where he lived in western New York State, he found discord. For two or three years, he worried about “the darkness which pervaded the minds of mankind.” He became “exceedingly distressed” and “convicted” of his sins, a problem compounded by his inability to find any “society or denomination that built upon the gospel of Jesus Christ as recorded in the new …
The First Vision And The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints,
2020
Brigham Young University
The First Vision And The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Elder Legrand R. Curtis Jr.
BYU Studies
I am grateful for the opportunity to be here with you. As was mentioned, I am the Church Historian and Recorder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In our Church, that position is an ecclesiastical calling. While I oversee the Church History Department—which is filled with trained historians, librarians, archivists, and other professionals— my own training is as a lawyer, and prior to being called to full-time church service as a General Authority, I practiced law for several years. My service as a General Authority has included being in the presidency of the Church’s Africa West Area …
The First Vision Of Joseph Smith Jr.: 200 Years On,
2020
Brigham Young University
The First Vision Of Joseph Smith Jr.: 200 Years On, Richard E. Bennett
BYU Studies
This special issue of BYU Studies Quarterly features the proceedings of a conference held at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of Joseph Smith’s First Vision. In presenting slightly modified transcripts of the papers delivered at this conference, we hope BYU Studies Quarterly readers will gain insights into both this experience of Joseph Smith’s and the various ways scholars have come to view it.
“Wissenschaft Des” Mormonism: Jewish Studies As A Framework For Exploring Mormon Studies,
2020
Brigham Young University - Provo
“Wissenschaft Des” Mormonism: Jewish Studies As A Framework For Exploring Mormon Studies, Trevan Hatch
Faculty Publications
Recently, a significant amount of attention has been directed at the who, what, where, and how of Mormon studies. For example, since 2009, at least six major forums, comprising sixty-two essays and presentations (with dozens of other stand-alone pieces appearing in other venues), were dedicated to discussing the nature and future of Mormon studies as an academic field. Many of these essays discuss the definitions, challenges, opportunities, research gaps, sources, and disciplines of Mormon studies from a variety of angles. Some are highly nuanced treatments of particular aspects of Mormon studies, and others are more general. This article presents the …
Church And The Fourth Estate,
2020
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Church And The Fourth Estate, William L. Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Church and the Fourth Estate (2020) directed by Brian Knappenburger.
Recovering The World Of The Bible,
2020
Brigham Young University
Recovering The World Of The Bible, Dana M. Pike
Faculty Publications
The pillar of light that fell upon Joseph Smith in the woods near Palmyra, New York, in the spring of 1820 ushered in a new dispensation of the gospel.1 But that light, which shone “above the brightness of the sun” (Joseph Smith–History 1:16), did not just enlighten the world as far as religion is concerned. The light emanating from the pillar in which the Father and Son stood symbolically represents the latter-day, divine illumination of many aspects of life on this earth—past, present, and future.
Israelite Inscriptions From The Time Of Jeremiah And Lehi,
2020
Brigham Young University
Israelite Inscriptions From The Time Of Jeremiah And Lehi, Dana M. Pike
Faculty Publications
The greater the number of sources the better when investigating the history and culture of people in antiquity. Narrative and prophetic texts in the Bible and 1 Nephi have great value in helping us understand the milieu in which Jeremiah and Lehi received and fulfilled their prophetic missions, but these records are not our only documentary sources. A number of Israelite inscriptions dating to the period of 640–586 b.c., the general time of Jeremiah and Lehi, provide additional glimpses into this pivotal and primarily tragic period in Israelite history.
Subject Vertical File,
2020
Abilene Christian University
Subject Vertical File, Mcgarvey Ice
Center for Restoration Studies Vertical Files Finding Aids
No abstract provided.
Are We Not All Beggars?,
2020
Brigham Young University - Provo
Are We Not All Beggars?, Michelle Forstrom
The Restored Gospel and Applied Christianity: Student Essays in Honor of President David O. McKay
Michelle describes how her brother in law’s stroke and her home’s foreclosure helped King Benjamin’s words “Are we not all beggars?” from the Book of Mormon became especially poignant for her.
Multiplicity: An Editors’ Introduction,
2020
Brigham Young University
Multiplicity: An Editors’ Introduction, Quincy D. Newell, Benjamin E. Park
Mormon Studies Review
When J. Spencer Fluhman introduced the new Mormon Studies Review six years ago, he articulated a “guiding principle for the Review: friendship.” As Fluhman put it, “In our hope to meaningfully connect minds across space, time, and ideological and religious spectra, the Review aspires to a very Mormon ideal indeed.”1 We’d like to believe that over the last six years, the Mormon Studies Review has lived up to this aspiration, and that it has demonstrated that friendship is an excellent way to cultivate the field of critical inquiry we call Mormon studies, regardless of participants’ religious identities or institutional commitments.
Seek Ye Words Of Wisdom,
2020
Brigham Young University
Seek Ye Words Of Wisdom, Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn, Shon D. Hopkin
Interpreter Foundation Books
Stephen David Ricks is a professor of Hebrew and cognate learning in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he has taught for almost four decades (1981–). It was at BYU, in a freshman Book of Mormon class, that he first met Shirley Smith. Four years later, after they had both served German- speaking missions (Stephen in Switzerland and Shirley in Southern Germany), they were married in the Provo Utah Temple in 1974. They are now the proud parents of six children—three girls and three boys, all of whom are married—and have twenty …
Review: E. Marshall Brooks. Disenchanted Lives: Apostasy And Ex-Mormonism Among The Latter-Day Saints. New Brunswick, Nj: Rutgers University Press, 2018.,
2020
Brigham Young University
Review: E. Marshall Brooks. Disenchanted Lives: Apostasy And Ex-Mormonism Among The Latter-Day Saints. New Brunswick, Nj: Rutgers University Press, 2018., Sara M. Patterson
Mormon Studies Review
In a February 1990 newsletter from the Southern California chapter of Saints Alive in Jesus/Ex-Mormons for Jesus, an anonymous author wrote: I am currently a Mormon who is searching for answers. So far, my studies have led me to have serious doubts about Mormonism, however, I am so fearful and emotionally distraught over leaving the religion that it’s sometimes difficult for me to think rationally. I have been a member for 25 years (I am now 34) and I have 4 children who are very involved in LDS activities. All my friends (most of them anyway) are members and my …
Review: Seth Perry. Bible Culture And Authority In The Early United States. Princeton, Nj: Princeton University Press, 2018.,
2020
Brigham Young University
Review: Seth Perry. Bible Culture And Authority In The Early United States. Princeton, Nj: Princeton University Press, 2018., Candy Guther Brown
Mormon Studies Review
The Bible in America and American bibles have generated substantial scholarly interest. In writing about early American bible culture, Seth Perry has stepped onto well-trodden ground. The field has been cleared and ploughed by many important studies, including Paul Gutjahr’s American Bible and Book of Mormon, David Nord’s Faith in Reading, Candy Brown’s Word in the World, John Fea’s Bible Cause, Mark Noll’s In the Beginning Was the Word, and Lincoln Mullen’s America’s Public Bible.1 Perry builds on this scholarship (citing all but Brown in the bibliography) and contributes novel insights, but Bible Culture’s findings are not radically disruptive. Readers …
