Mineral Survey Completed,
2023
Brigham Young University
Mineral Survey Completed
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Eugene E. Clark has just returned from a month-long, FARMS-sponsored field survey in Oman, looking for sources of iron ore that could have been used by Nephi to make shipbuilding tools.
Two New Editors Join Farms Effort,
2023
Brigham Young University
Two New Editors Join Farms Effort
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
An increasing workload in the publishing division of the Foundation has led to the hiring of two new full-time editors in the last few months. Stephanie Terry has joined FARMS as Associate Editor. Before coming to FARMS, she worked for six years on the staff of Foreign Policy magazine, a quarterly that is one of the top journals in the field of international relations.
Joseph's Translation Seems To Differ From Kjv Usage,
2023
Brigham Young University
Joseph's Translation Seems To Differ From Kjv Usage, Terrence L. Szink
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
In Mosiah 1:14, King Benjamin reminds his son Mosiah that if the Lord "had not extended his arm in the preservation of our fathers they must have fallen into the hands of the Lamanites." The English words used in this translation of the ancient record differ from those used for the same concepts in the English translation in the King James Version (KJV) of the Old Testament, thus shedding light on how independent Joseph Smith may have been from KJV phraseology in his translation.
Farms Broadcasts On Tv And Radio,
2023
Brigham Young University
Farms Broadcasts On Tv And Radio
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The following broadcasts of FARMS material may be of interest.
Upgrading The Farms-Byu Connection,
2023
Brigham Young University
Upgrading The Farms-Byu Connection
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The unique and productive relationship that Brigham Young University and the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies have enjoyed for nearly fifteen years has recently been elevated to a new level of cooperation. While FARMS continues to be an independently managed and independently funded foundation, the BYU Board of Trustees has now endorsed a protocol between BYU and FARMS that expands the range of opportunities for cooperation on scholarly work on the Book of Mormon and related topics.
Farms Board Expands With Two New Members,
2023
Brigham Young University
Farms Board Expands With Two New Members
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
M. Gerald Bradford, Director of Research for FARMS (who was highlighted in the June issue of Insights), and David Rolph Seely, assistant professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU, have joined the FARMS board of directors.
Journal Features Sperry's Book Of Mormon Scholarship,
2023
Brigham Young University
Journal Features Sperry's Book Of Mormon Scholarship
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sidney B. Sperry, an individual who did much ground-breaking work in the study of the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon. In honor of that occasion, and to make Sperry's writing more available to a new generation of Book of Mormon students, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies has devoted its Spring issue to printing some of his essays that are out of print, hard to find, or never before published.
Upon The Tower Of Benjamin,
2023
Brigham Young University
Upon The Tower Of Benjamin, John W. Welch, Terry L. Szink
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
When King Benjamin crowned his son Mosiah, all the people in Zarahemla sat in tents around the temple while Benjamin addressed them. Because he "could not teach them all within the walls of the temple, therefore he caused a tower to be erected, that thereby his people might hear the words which he should speak unto them" (Mosiah 2:7). Was the need to improve the acoustics the only reason for the construction of this tower? Recent research has discovered ancient precedents for the use of such "towers" in royal convocations and coronation ceremonies. These biblical and Jewish precedents are not …
Annual Symposium Examines The Role And Influence Of The Writings Of Isaiah In The Book Of Mormon,
2023
Brigham Young University
Annual Symposium Examines The Role And Influence Of The Writings Of Isaiah In The Book Of Mormon
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Approximately 600 students of the scriptures from throughout Utah and from other parts of the United States gathered in Provo on May 20 for the Eighth Annual FARMS Symposium. This year's theme, "Isaiah in the Book of Mormon," inspired presentations in areas as diverse as textual analysis, doctrinal exposition, manuscript transmission, imagery and poetics, word print studies, and intellectual history.
Elder L. Tom Perry To Address Annual Farms Banquet,
2023
Brigham Young University
Elder L. Tom Perry To Address Annual Farms Banquet
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The 1995 FARMS banquet, scheduled for the evening of Thursday, September 14, will feature remarks by Elder L. Tom Perry, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The banquet will start at 7:00 P.M. in room 375 of the Wilkinson Center on the campus of Brigham Young University.
Full Issue,
2023
Brigham Young University
Full Issue
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Insights Binder Keeps Back Issues Safe,
2023
Brigham Young University
Insights Binder Keeps Back Issues Safe
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The new format of Insights that we introduced in the April 1995 issue allows us to punch the paper so that you may put the newsletter into a binder for storage if you wish. While any binder will do, some readers have requested a binder with the FARMS name and logo. After obtaining a supply of nice binders at a reasonable price, we are happy to make them available to you on this order form for an introductory price of only $2.50. They will sell for the regular price of $4.50 in the future.
Byu Religion Prof Traces History Of Book Of Abraham,
2023
Brigham Young University
Byu Religion Prof Traces History Of Book Of Abraham
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
For nearly thirty years, H. Donl Peterson, a member of the Religious Education faculty at BYU, pursued solutions to the puzzles surrounding the papyri from which the book of Abraham was translated. His final book, The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism, completed just before his death in March 1994, aims to answer some of the questions surrounding the second and perhaps most controversial book of the Pearl of Great Price.
Critical Text Project Reported In California,
2023
Brigham Young University
Critical Text Project Reported In California
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The American Biblical Manuscript Center in Claremont, California, and the University of Judaism in West Los Angeles invited Royal Skousen, professor of English at BYU, to present a lecture in March on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. Skousen's lecture, entitled "Fragments from the American Dead Sea: Reconstructing the Original Text of the Book of Mormon," addressed recent findings from the Wilford Wood fragments of the original Book of Mormon manuscript, non-English Hebraisms in the English language Book of Mormon text, and implications for New Testament textual criticism based on these and other recent findings. Skousen's lecture was one …
Journal To Honor Sperry,
2023
Brigham Young University
Journal To Honor Sperry
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sidney B. Sperry, one of the foremost LDS scholars of this century. In honor of that occasion, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies will devote its next issue to Sperry's writings on the Book of Mormon.
Farms Creates New Position: Director Of Research,
2023
Brigham Young University
Farms Creates New Position: Director Of Research
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
FARMS is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. M. Gerald Bradford to the FARMS staff as Director of Research, a new position for FARMS. Brother Bradford will provide supervision and support for all FARMS research and related activities.
Major Endowment Will Support New Farms Projects,
2023
Brigham Young University
Major Endowment Will Support New Farms Projects
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Karen and Alan Ashton of Orem, Utah, have established a significant FARMS endowment to support the timely implementation of new projects. Their generous gift will ensure that important new research opportunities are not missed while waiting for funding to become available--the endowment will support scholars in pursuing these research opportunities until normal sources of funding are established. This new funding and the increased amount of research it will support both necessitate and make possible the creation of a new position of Director of Research to help in the development of new projects and the supervision of ongoing projects.
Dean Of Engineering Joins Farms Board,
2023
Brigham Young University
Dean Of Engineering Joins Farms Board
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Douglas M. Chabries, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology at BYU, has accepted an invitation to become a member of the board of directors of FARMS. He brings to the board some new research perspectives and a wealth of university administrative experience.
Preliminary Study Identifies Possible Sources For Nephi's Ore,
2023
Brigham Young University
Preliminary Study Identifies Possible Sources For Nephi's Ore
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The efforts begun by Warren and Michaela Aston to identify important sites along the Lehi trail eventually evolved into a FARMS project and exploration to Southern Oman's Dhofar region in 1992. The remote area of Wadi Sayq in that region has been identified as a location that appears to meet all of the criteria one can infer from the text of the Book of Mormon for the coastal site named Bountiful by Lehi and his family, where they lived while building a ship for their ocean crossing.
Figure 6 Of Facsimile 2 The Focus Of Lecture By Nibley,
2023
Brigham Young University
Figure 6 Of Facsimile 2 The Focus Of Lecture By Nibley
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
On 15 March, Hugh W. Nibley, professor emeritus of Ancient Scripture at BYU, presented a lecture in the FARMS Brown Bag series entitled "Figure 6 of Facsimile 2." The lecture, held in the Joseph Smith Building's conference room, was well attended--indeed, it was "standing room only." Professors, students, and other friends of FARMS gathered to hear Brother Nibley's insights on the meanings of Egyptian symbols in the facsimiles purchased by Joseph Smith and included in the Pearl of Great Price. Brother Nibley discussed the Lord's comment that explanations of the facsimiles "will be given in the own due time of …
