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Project Updates, 2023 Brigham Young University

Project Updates

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Anton Transcript Studied, Nibleyana on a Grand Scale, Papers Received, and Projects in the Mill. As reported in the last newsletter, a group of scholars was invited to examine an extensive effort made to translate the Anthon Transcript, the recently discovered page of characters which Martin Harris took to New York City for Charles Anthon's examination in 1829. John Sorenson and Jack Welch integrated the individually-made evaluations and provided than to the translator.


Farms News, 2023 Brigham Young University

Farms News

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Our Readers Respond and New Members of the Team. FARMS director Jack Welch is jubilant over the enthusiastic response of readers. There is mail in the box every day: requests for information, welcomed contributions, expressions of support and gratitude. Over five hundred copies of different items from the Reprint Series and the Preliminary Reports had already been sent out by mid-October. "I estimate that there was a 20 percent response to the July Newsletter," says Jack, "and Howard Ruff thinks he's successful is he gets between a one and two percent response."


Full Issue, 2023 Brigham Young University

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Manager's Report, 2023 Brigham Young University

Manager's Report

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The first Newsletter announced the ambitious goal of raising $20,000 by June 30, 1981. For practical purposes that goal has been reached, culminated by recent donations of an IBM typewriter and a small computer system . The computer, a TRS-80 system with 48K capacity, includes CPU, expansion interface, monitor, two disc drives, printer and custom desk. It was the gift of Terry Jeffers, a director in the Howard Ruff organization. FARMS will use it to keep the mailing list straight -- now grown to over a thousand names -- and for indexing papers, notes, bibliographies and research projects.


Preliminary Reports, 2023 Brigham Young University

Preliminary Reports

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Robert F. Smith, "It Came to Pass' in the Bible and Book of Mormon." Manuscript, 1980. Pointing out that computer analysis will be necessary to make his observations conclusive, the author shows that the Book of Mormon, though less than a third the length of the King James Bible, contains more than twice as many recurrences of "came/come to pass." Furthermore, extensive cataloguing shows that all but three of the twenty books containing that phrase in the Bible are in the Old Testament. Another interesting characteristic: the phrase usually occurs in prose narrative, in both volumes of scripture. He explains …


Reprints, 2023 Brigham Young University

Reprints

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Research Committee Reports, 2023 Brigham Young University

Research Committee Reports

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

FARMS is organized around research committees who largely determine the Foundation's program . The first fully-staffed committee is the twelve person panel on Book of Mormon-New World, chaired by John Sorenson. Its duties include evaluating research projects for technical adequacy, noting approaches or topics which might be fruitfully pursued, reporting on relevant research presented at professional meetings, responding to inquiries in their area of expertise, and otherwise serving as a panel of helpful scholarly resources . An evaluative and scholarly arm, not an administrative entity, the group's members vary in degree of involvement according to the time they feel they …


Project Updates, 2023 Brigham Young University

Project Updates

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The uncollected papers of Hugh Nibley, which he has given to FARMS, include a mouthwatering assortment of his work for the past twenty years. No decision has yet been made whether to prepare a comprehensive book or to offer them in a separate series of FARMS reprints. They include his 1968-69 series from The Improvement Era on the Book of Abraham, his 1975-76 series for The Ensign on Enoch, multi-part articles on baptism for the dead, "The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph," a study of Book of Mormon criticism, some of his classical studies on the ancient …


Farms News, 2023 Brigham Young University

Farms News

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Projects described in the November 1980 newsletter continue, meanwhile here we spotlight another challenging research activity. John Hilton of Walnut Creek, California, has long had an interest in Book of Mormon studies. But his main talent is talking to computers -- and getting answers. He and his (non-Mormon) collaborator, Kenneth D. Jenkins, have access to a large computer complex during many hours per day . It's already ingested the modern and 1830 texts of the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and the King James version of the Bible, thanks to the cooperation of …


Meet Farms, 2023 Brigham Young University

Meet Farms

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Three men are lounging around a table. All of them are relaxed. All of them smile a lot. The talk is nonstop. And they all fairly bristle with energy.


Full Issue, 2023 Brigham Young University

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Reprints & Preliminay Reports, 2023 Brigham Young University

Reprints & Preliminay Reports

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

A trio of papers on the so-called "Lehi's Cave" near Jerusalem begins with a short paper by Lamar C. Barrett summarizing what is known about the cave, usefully introducing a topic where speculation and folklore have multiplied . Joseph Naveh's paper from the Israel Exploration Journal (1963) describes the discovery of the cave and its contents and gives a proposed translation of the inscriptions scratched on the wall. It was obviously a burial cave since it contains three funerary benches but no riches or treasures. The inscriptions, he postulates, were done at different times and include the very unusual figures …


Manager's Report, 2023 Brigham Young University

Manager's Report

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Newsletter circulation. Reprints and reports. Financial contributors. Staff.


Notices And Reviews, Stephen D. Ricks 2023 Brigham Young University

Notices And Reviews, Stephen D. Ricks

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The faculties and administrators of the seminaries and institutes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints met in August at Brigham Young University to enjoy a three day symposium of the Book of Mormon. Topics discussed included Women in the Book of Mormon, a comparison of Third Nephi to the Sermon on the Mount, Priesthood Principles and Church Organization in the Book of Mormon, Ancient Near Eastern Background of the Book of Mormon, and Priesthood versus Priestcraft among the Nephites. Many valuable materials were provided. A booklet containing Symposium lectures is now available from Theodore McKean's office, 992 …


Project Updates, 2023 Brigham Young University

Project Updates

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Progress continues on several fronts. Jay Huber from Ricks College and T. Stephen Eastmond from Santa Ana College are combining effort studying chronology and astronomy in the Book of Mormon. Ken Jenkins in Berkeley, California, continues his creative and monumental efforts at computer analysis of Book of Mormon texts. Blake Ostler in Salt Lake City is moving ahead with his study of word pairs in the Book of Mormon. Brian Stubbs has submitted four installments of his linguistic analysis of New World and Old World language phenomena. Bruce Young in Somerville, Massachusetts, Michael Bundy in Ogden, Utah, and several others …


Farms News, 2023 Brigham Young University

Farms News

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

It is exciting to read the mail and feel the enthusiasm participants have for FARMS projects. Here are examples of recent comments.


Director's Message, 2023 Brigham Young University

Director's Message

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Cooperation. The Foundation has seen a lot of it in the lase three months, from many sides! And the results are rewarding to all, as this issue of the Newsletter should show. We are more efficient, thanks to institutional cooperation from Brigham Young University . We are broader based, thanks to cooperation from the Church Educational System and BYU's Campus Education Week. We are more productive, thanks to new volunteers. We can plan more confidently, thanks to generous gifts and pledges. We continue to discover, without surprise, that there is something for everyone to do.


Full Issue, 2023 Brigham Young University

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Manager's Report, 2023 Brigham Young University

Manager's Report

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, federal tax identification number 95-3442860, was incorporated in 1979 . In July 1981, its newsletter circulation was 850; currently over 3,000 newsletters are mailed to 43 states and 17 foreign countries. To date, over 4,000 Reprints and Preliminary Reports have been distributed. Recent asset acquisitions include a multilith offset press . Last fiscal year 46 people made financial contributions to FARMS; this year 204 people have contributed. FARMS has four part-time employees.


Preliminary Reports, 2023 Brigham Young University

Preliminary Reports

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

One of the Preliminary Reports offered with this issue is an examination of "International Relations and Treaties in the Book of Mormon'' by Mark Davis and Brent Israelsen. Their purpose is to identify ''principles of the law of nations'' in the Book of Mormon.


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