Epanalepsis In The Book Of Mormon,
2023
Brigham Young University
Epanalepsis In The Book Of Mormon
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Larry Childs (Provo, Utah) has recently completed a valuable study of "epanalepsis" in the Book of Mormon. Epanalepsis is the name of a significant literary device known in antiquity. It occurs where an author repeats certain words in the course of a lengthy sentence, to pick up a previous train of thought after a parenthetical aside or other type of diversion, repeating certain words to remind the reader of the original idea of the sentence. The repeated words in the previous sentence illustrate the point. This technique was noted in antiquity by Demetrius, and it is sometimes called "resumptive repetition."
Iron Sword, Small Silver Scroll From Lehi's Day Discovered,
2023
Brigham Young University
Iron Sword, Small Silver Scroll From Lehi's Day Discovered
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A meter-long iron sword has been discovered recently by archaeologists digging at Vered Jericho, three miles south of modern Jericho. The sword dates to the seventh century B.C., during the lifetime of Lehi. "It was in quite bad shape," reports excavator Avraham Eitan in the July/August issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review, p. 33. "I believe that we have the haft and even the tip. The haft is of bronze with some wood remains." This is the first complete sword of this period and of this size ever to be found. "We do know of swords this size from …
Full Issue,
2023
Brigham Young University
Full Issue
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Characters On Two Ancient American Cylinder Stamps And On The Anthon Transcript Compare Favorably,
2023
Brigham Young University
Characters On Two Ancient American Cylinder Stamps And On The Anthon Transcript Compare Favorably
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One of the few systematic studies of the "caractors" of the "Anthon Transcript," as it was known a decade ago, was published by Carl Hugh Jones in 1970 as "The 'Anthon Transcript' and Two Mesoamerican Cylinder Seals." His paper appeared in the Newsletter of the Society for Early Historical Archaeology and is now available as a F.A.R.M.S. Reprint. The author is a museum professional with the Nebraska State Historical Society.
Hugh Nibley Collected Works,
2023
Brigham Young University
Hugh Nibley Collected Works
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In 1988, the Book of Mormon will be the study course for the L.D.S. adult Sunday School. F.A.R.M.S. feels that it is important that the Hugh Nibley Book of Mormon volumes, several of which are now out of print, should be available as teaching and study helps. Not only do they represent some of the finest work in detailing how the Book of Mormon reflects the culture and customs of the ancient Near East, but also they are written so non-scholars can understand and appreciate the wealth of these details.
Book Of Mormon Symposia Expand,
2023
Brigham Young University
Book Of Mormon Symposia Expand
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A greater number of conferences and symposia than ever before have concentrated our attention this summer and fall on the Book of Mormon. Here is a brief description of several of these programs, making particular note of instances where F.A.R.M.S. directors or advisors are involved. In many cases, copies of the papers presented at these symposia can be obtained by writing to the organizers or to the participants.
Tax Laws On Charitable Giving Will Change In 1987,
2023
Brigham Young University
Tax Laws On Charitable Giving Will Change In 1987
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More than ever before, we encourage you in this newsletter to give to F.A.R.M.S. We do not want any of our participants to be dropped off our mailing list. We hope that donating to F.A.R.M.S. will become a significant and rewarding part of your annual giving.
Managing Editor Joins Farms Staff,
2023
Brigham Young University
Managing Editor Joins Farms Staff
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This October, Mari Miles joined Les Campbell, Teri Bergstrom and Greg McMurdie on the F.A.R.M.S. staff. Mari was born in Denmark, raised in Salt Lake, and now lives with her husband and baby boy in Provo. She worked as a secretary for several years, in the BYU College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, the BYU Law School, and for businesses in Salt Lake.
Farms Says "Thanks!" To 169 Substantial Donors,
2023
Brigham Young University
Farms Says "Thanks!" To 169 Substantial Donors
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In recent months and years, 169 individuals and foundations have given generously to F.A.R.M.S. Below are listed the names of these people, to whom we owe a deep debt of gratitude. Each has given $100 or more; several have given in the thousands. We hope we have not overlooked anyone on this list, but if we have, we apologize and thank them just as much, too.
Farms Copyright Policy,
2023
Brigham Young University
Farms Copyright Policy
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F.A.R.M.S. materials may be freely used for non-pecuniary or non-publishing purposes. Pages from any preliminary report, Update or newsletter may be reproduced and used, without alteration, addition, or deletion, for any non-pecuniary or non-publishing purpose, without further permission.
Short Notice Recent Research,
2023
Brigham Young University
Short Notice Recent Research
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In October 1983, the F.A.R.M.S. Newsletter reported the way in which the gates of Shalmaneser Ill (858-824 B.C.), pictured in Yigael Yadin's The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands 2:399, attests to the practice of cutting off the arms, hands, feet, or other body parts of vanquished enemies. This ancient military practice seems related to Alma 17:39, where Ammon cuts off the arms of those thieves who tried to steal the king's livestock and the shepherds take the arms to the king as a testimony of what has been done. In a recent conversation, John Lundquist, at the New York …
Preliminary Reports Study Multiple Authorship Of Book Of Mormon Texts,
2023
Brigham Young University
Preliminary Reports Study Multiple Authorship Of Book Of Mormon Texts
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The Book of Mormon, in many places, is textually complex. Careful study of the words and ideas in the book sometimes requires the reader to be sensitive to who wrote the words in question. Occasionally, for example, Mormon quoted the words of earlier prophets directly; other times, he or Moroni abridged or paraphrased those earlier statements. The task of attributing authorship to a particular verse or section can often become an intriguing and rewarding challenge.
Lehi's Trail And Nahom Revisited,
2023
Brigham Young University
Lehi's Trail And Nahom Revisited
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In 1976, Lynn M. and Hope Hilton, In Search of Lehi's Trail (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, p. 94) and Ensign (September-October 1976), proposed that the place called Nahom (1 Ne. 16:34), where Ishmael died and was buried, was around Al Kunfidah near the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia. Ross T. Christensen, Ensign (August 1978, p. 73), soon suggested an alternative location for Nahom, based upon a map of Yemen prepared as a result of a 1762-64 exploration by Carsten Niebu hr for Danish King Frederick V
Expiration Dates,
2023
Brigham Young University
Expiration Dates
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Your address label on this newsletter shows an expiration code in the upper left-hand corner. The first two digits indicate the month, and the last two the year of expiration (for example, 05-86 is May 1986). It is important for you to check your expiration date. Since we remove all names and addresses for which the expiration date has passed, you will want to act promptly to remain on the mailing list.
Enoch The Prophet,
2023
Brigham Young University
Enoch The Prophet
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A major event last month was the publication of Hugh Nibley's Enoch the Prophet. Enoch's importance in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha is certainly equaled or surpassed by his central role in the Book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price. He is "the colossus that bestrides the Apocrypha as no other," writes Professor Nibley.
Full Issue,
2023
Brigham Young University
Full Issue
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No abstract provided.
Book Reviewed,
2023
Brigham Young University
Book Reviewed
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John Hilton has submitted a review of the stylometric or word-print studies of Ernest Taves. While word-print studies may eventually tell us a great deal about various word-placement habits in the texts of the Book of Mormon and the writings of Joseph Smith, the efforts of Taves are flawed in several ways. Hilton and his colleagues have been working for several years on what they hope will be a more-definitive computer analysis of Book of Mormon texts. Hilton's review may be ordered now, while the larger study is still in preparation.
Critical Text Volume Ii Completed,
2023
Brigham Young University
Critical Text Volume Ii Completed
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Volume II of the Book of Mormon Critical Text: A Tool for Scholarly Reference has just been completed. At almost 550 pages, it is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking comparison of the various manuscripts and editions of the Book of Mormon; it organizes thousands of Biblical and other textual parallels. Not for the casual reader, this monumental three-volume work shows each noteworthy change that has ever occurred in the Book of Mormon through all its major editions.
President's Message,
2023
Brigham Young University
President's Message
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1985 has been an eventful and successful year for the work of the Foundation. Your support and interest has made most of it possible. In addition to completing several books and papers in 1985, we have greatly enhanced our office staff and equipment; our 1985 Catalog has proved very valuable; funding has been generous, and major news coverage has accelerated. For 1986 we look forward to projects now underway with the Nibley Collected Works, warfare, temples, legal texts, King Benjamin's Speech, and many others.
Nibley Works Volume 1 Published,
2023
Brigham Young University
Nibley Works Volume 1 Published
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The first volume of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley is now available. Old Testament and Related Studies gathers together eleven Nibley articles and talks, several of which are published here for the first time. The first four address problems raised by opponents of the Bible-claims against the historicity of the creation account and early narratives in Genesis, and the skeptical views of existentialist theologians, textual critics, and evolutionists. Three other papers deal with the creation itself, with innuendos regarding rituals based on creation account narratives. Other essays are about Isaiah and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
