Who Is Doing What?,
2023
Brigham Young University
Who Is Doing What?
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
We have received inquiries recently about whom to contact at F.A.R.M.S. for various purposes, so we thought it might help you if we outlined the responsibilities of each member of the board of directors. We welcome your inquiries and appreciate your interest and support.
New Video Released,
2023
Brigham Young University
New Video Released
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
At the 1989 Book of Mormon Day, sponsored by the Foundation for Research on Ancient America in Independence, Missouri, John L. Sorenson was a featured speaker. Through the courtesy of the F.R.A.A., a video of his two half-hour presentations is now available to F.A.R.M.S. subscribers.
Save And Donate--Both,
2023
Brigham Young University
Save And Donate--Both
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
F.A.R.M.S. subscribers now can save on phone bills and contribute to the Foundation at the same time. By signing up through F.A.R.M.S. for your long distance telephone service at a volume user's rate with U.S. Sprint, you can save on your long distance calls. And because we obtain this service through a business that wants to help F.A.R.M.S., a portion of what they receive is donated to the Foundation, even though your bills will likely be lower. And you will get credit for the donation, which you may claim on your tax return. At the end of each year, you …
Evidence Of Voyages,
2023
Brigham Young University
Evidence Of Voyages
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
A popular article recently published in the Canadian magazine Equinox contains a nice summary of current issues in regard to voyages from the Old World to America before Columbus. The writer, John Barber, handles the technical matters well and includes points from hitherto unpublished interviews with important scholars on the topic. Balance is maintained between the opposing sides in the argument over such voyages; no claim is made that colonizers positively made their way between the continents, yet the reader comes away realizing that significant evidence exists to support the notion.
Antithetical Parallelism In The Book Of Mormon,
2023
Brigham Young University
Antithetical Parallelism In The Book Of Mormon, Donald W. Parry
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T he writers of ancient scripture often contrasted one idea in one line or stanza with an opposite or antithetical idea in a parallel line or stanza. Recorded in Proverbs 13:9 is an example of antithetical parallelism.
Recent Noon Book Of Mormon Seminars,
2023
Brigham Young University
Recent Noon Book Of Mormon Seminars
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Interested BYU faculty and others continue to participate in an informal seminar on the Book of Mormon held on alternate Wednesdays in the conference room on the 9th floor of the Kimball Tower. For details, contact Noel Reynolds, 764 SWKT. Since January, seven papers have been presented, some of which have either already been published or will be published in the future.
Additional Subscription Benefits,
2023
Brigham Young University
Additional Subscription Benefits
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
We invite you to note the following regarding F.A.R.M.S. benefits.
Second Major Volume Focuses On Lds Topics,
2023
Brigham Young University
Second Major Volume Focuses On Lds Topics
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The second volume of By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley has just been published by F.A.R.M.S. and Deseret Book. This completes a landmark 2-volume set of essays by fifty scholars. This volume contains many essays that will interest Latter-day Saint readers. Edited by Dr. John M. Lundquist and Dr. Stephen D. Ricks, the volume is divided into two parts. The section on the "Scriptures of the Latter-day Saints" contains ten articles- fully half the volume-that deal specifically with the Book of Mormon.
Full Issue,
2023
Brigham Young University
Full Issue
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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Scholarly Watch,
2023
Brigham Young University
Scholarly Watch
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
A notice has appeared for Wilfred C. Griggs' book, Early Egyptian Christianity. This book is being published by E. J. Brill (1990), priced at Gld. 140, U5.$ 70.
Nibley Lecture Series On Facsimile #2,
2023
Brigham Young University
Nibley Lecture Series On Facsimile #2
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F.A.R.M.S. is sponsoring a new lecture series by Hugh Nibley on Facsimile #2 from the Pearl of Great Price. Beginning June 27 and continuing every Wednesday evening (except July 4) until he is finished, approximately 12 weeks, Nibley will discuss the ancient background of the facsimile and the ways that new interpretations in Egyptian studies help us understand its meaning. The lectures, which will be illustrated with slides, will be held at 7:00 P.M. in room 321 of the Maeser Building on the BYU campus and are open to the public without charge.
The Original Bountiful Found?,
2023
Brigham Young University
The Original Bountiful Found?
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Many F.A.R.M.S. members have read about research done by Australians Warren and Michaela Aston (see AST-88) on the area at the southern extremity of the Arabian peninsula. The Astons have examined several possible sites for Bountiful, where Nephi and others in Lehi's party constructed the ship which they sailed to the New World. A new visit last year, partially funded by F.A.R.M.S., gathered further data.
Farms Undertakes New Publishing Venture,
2023
Brigham Young University
Farms Undertakes New Publishing Venture
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
We are pleased to announce the formation of FARMS Press, an educational publishing arm of the Foundation intended to help publish deserving scholarly books that cannot be published as well or at all elsewhere. Many valuable works on the Book of Mormon and related topics are too scholarly for commercial publishers or are too oriented to LOS concerns to be published or promoted well by scholarly publishers. F.A.R.M.S. has tried to fill that gap in the past for research papers, and now we will work to do the same for books.
Mormon's Agenda,
2023
Brigham Young University
Mormon's Agenda
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Again and again Mormon reminds us that he is drastically selecting and condensing as he constructs the Book of Mormon. We can learn much about the man by examining his choices of what to include and what to leave out.
Colophons In The Book Of Mormon,
2023
Brigham Young University
Colophons In The Book Of Mormon
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At the start of 1 Nephi a heading, not marked with verse numbers, begins, "An account of Lehi and his wife Sariah, and his four sons" and ends, "I, Nephi, wrote this record." Dozens of these editorial entries or colophons (a form well known in nonscriptural documents from antiquity, as Nibley pointed out years ago) are found in the Book of Mormon. Together they instruct us about how the volume as we have it was assembled. The fact that these colophons have been handled differently in modem translations and printings obscures their nature.
Archaeological Findings Discussed,
2023
Brigham Young University
Archaeological Findings Discussed
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In a January presentation cosponsored by F.A.R.M.S., explorer Gene Savoy reported some of his latest archaeological findings to a large audience at BYU. Hehasdiscovered43 "lost cities" in the jungle and mountains of South America. His latest discovery, the Gran Vilaya, is said to cover approximately 100 square miles and is found some 400 miles north of Lima, Peru, in virtually unexplored tropical mountains that scholars had thought supported only small villages of agriculturalists.
1989 Yields A Healthy Crop Of Books On The Book Of Mormon,
2023
Brigham Young University
1989 Yields A Healthy Crop Of Books On The Book Of Mormon
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The 1989 Review of Books on the Book of Mormon has just been published. It is much more than a review. It contains several hundred pages of analysis and reflection on many Book of Mormon topics of most recent interest. It also contains a complete bibliography of everything published in 1989 on the Book of Mormon.
An Lds Interpretation Of Jesus' Most Masterful Sermon,
2023
Brigham Young University
An Lds Interpretation Of Jesus' Most Masterful Sermon
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The heart of the Book of Mormon is the Sermon of the resurrected Christ to the Nephites who had assembled at their temple in Bountiful (3Nephi 11- 18). The heart of that Sermon is Jesus' Sermon on the Mount from Palestine (Matthew 5-7), adapted to the Nephite setting.
Warfare Volume Sheds Light On Large Sections Of The Nephite Record,
2023
Brigham Young University
Warfare Volume Sheds Light On Large Sections Of The Nephite Record
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Published only days ago, Warfare in the Book of Mormon is the first of its kind: 534 pages exclusively dedicated to the study of warfare in the Book of Mormon, its ancient Near Eastern backgrounds, and its Mesoamerican settings.
Full Issue,
2023
Brigham Young University
Full Issue
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
No abstract provided.
