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Ten-Year Milestone Celebrated Nov 2023

Ten-Year Milestone Celebrated

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

On November 8, 1989, the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies marked the 10th anniversary of its incorporation. We are pleased to report some of the major accomplishments of your Foundation in its first decade.

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The Complete Updates Of The 80s Nov 2023

The Complete Updates Of The 80s

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

Since 1984, F.A.R.M.S. has announced many of its most exciting discoveries in its monthly Updates. Sixty-four Updates appeared in the 1980s. As this decade closes, these concise, informative summaries are now all conveniently available as a sing le set (includes 1989; see the attached order form).

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Explore Complexities Nov 2023

Explore Complexities

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

With in the next six months, the Foundation will complete a volume of essays that discuss complexities, subtleties, and intricate consistencies in the Book of Mormon. These essays, by more than 25 scholars, have been popularized to make them accessible to the general reader.

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Inscriptions Support Transoceanic Contact Nov 2023

Inscriptions Support Transoceanic Contact

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

John Sorenson recently joined other scholars in examining ancient inscriptions in southeastern Colorado that appear to be written in Ogam, a language known chiefly from Ireland in medieval times. While claims for the authenticity of ancient inscriptions in west European or North African writing systems allegedly found in many parts of North America have been rejected by most archaeologists because of the flawed evidence put forward to support the claims, these particular inscriptions are unusually impressive and cannot be dismissed as modern fakes.

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Warfare Volume At The Publisher Nov 2023

Warfare Volume At The Publisher

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

The F.A.R.M.S. Symposium on Warfare in the Book of Mormon held in March of this year produced some excellent contributions. Editors William J. Hamblin and Stephen D. Ricks have prepared these essays for publication as Warfare in the Book of Mormon, to be published by F.A.R.M.S. and Deseret Book Company in the latter part of 1990. The following are samples of the contributions in this book.

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New Reviews Coming Nov 2023

New Reviews Coming

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

F.A.R.M.S. will publish volume 2 of Review of Books on the Book of Mormon in the first months of 1990. It will contain reviews of all books about the Book of Mormon published in 1989, plus reviews of a few published earlier. We welcome review copies or unsolicited reviews of any books on the Book of Mormon.

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Inscription Appears To Be Hebrew Nov 2023

Inscription Appears To Be Hebrew

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

In 1889 a representative of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology excavated a small inscribed stone from an undisturbed burial mound in eastern Tennessee. He claimed that the signs on it were from the Cherokee Indian writing system invented about 1821. It was supposed at that time that these mounds were built in the centuries since European colonists had arrived.

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Searching Again For Old World Bountiful Nov 2023

Searching Again For Old World Bountiful

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

Warren Aston of Australia recently completed another field trip to Oman on the south Arabian peninsula searching for clues to the original land Bountiful where Nephi and his family built their ship. A F.A.R.M.S. research grant again aided his research.

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Looking For The Nephite Bountiful Nov 2023

Looking For The Nephite Bountiful

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

A grant from F.A.R.M.S. will support a photographic reconnaissance trip in southern Mexico at the end of December. At the invitation of John Sorenson, Dr. David Palmer and Mexican associates will examine a small area just east of the Coatzacoalcos River near the Gulf of Mexico where one or more archaeological ruins are thought to exist (remains have been re ported informally). Sorenson proposed in An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon that the city of Bountiful where the Savior visited was possibly located about there.

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Book Of Mormon Seminar Continues Nov 2023

Book Of Mormon Seminar Continues

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

An informal seminar continues to meet twice a month during regular BYU semesters and has held six sessions since the last Newsletter report. Persons interested in attending or making presentations should contact Noel B. Reynolds (801-378-2391).

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Nibley On "Criticizing The Authorities" Nov 2023

Nibley On "Criticizing The Authorities"

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

At the Church Educational System Symposium at BYU and the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City in August, Hugh Nibley presented a paper on "Criticizing the Authorities." His paper draws heavily on the writings of Joseph Smith since, according to Brother Nibley, "criticism of the Church and its leaders has always centered around him."

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American Corn Depicted In Ancient India Nov 2023

American Corn Depicted In Ancient India

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

A recent article in Economic Botany contains abundant data showing the presence of American maize on the sculptured fronts of temples in southern India several centuries before the time of Columbus. Numerous accurate representations of corn ears on three temples near Mysore are pictured and analyzed by Carl L. Johannessen and Anne Z. Parker, geographers at the University of Oregon.

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Fifty Scholars To Honor Nibley Nov 2023

Fifty Scholars To Honor Nibley

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

In honor of the eightieth birthday of Dr. Hugh W. Nibley, F.A.R.M.S. and Deseret Book will publish two volumes of essays, entitled By Study and Also By Faith. These essays include contributions from some 50 LDS and non-LDS scholars.

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Annual Book Of Mormon Lecture Announced Nov 2023

Annual Book Of Mormon Lecture Announced

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

Professor Richard D. Rust, Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, will deliver the Foundation's annual Book of Mormon lecture at 7:30 P.M., February 27, 1990, in 2084 JKHB on the BYU campus. His lecture is titled "The Book of Mormon, Designed for Our Day."

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New Nibley Volume Published Nov 2023

New Nibley Volume Published

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

Approaching Zion, volume 9 in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, has been published by F.A.R.M.S. and Deseret Book Company. It contains Nibley's essays on the uses of wealth, consecration, the Zion society, spiritual gifts, and the atonement.

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Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.

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Pseudepigrapha Nov 2023

Pseudepigrapha

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

The second and concluding volume of Charlesworth's monumental collection entitled The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (pronounced "soo-da-PIG-rapha") has just been released by Doubleday. One of the services offered to you by F.A.R.M.S. is making good scholarly works like this one available to you at the lowest price around.

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Ces Research Grants Nov 2023

Ces Research Grants

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

Summer research grants are available to CES instructors through the Church Education System. Applications to CES are due soon for the summer of 1985. F.A.R.M.S. invites people looking for research topics about the Book of Mormon to check with John Sorenson or Jack Welch for a list of suggestions. Also, F.A.R.M.S. will be happy to share its library and archives with summer researchers working on Book of Mormon projects.

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Reprints And Preliminary Reports Nov 2023

Reprints And Preliminary Reports

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

Does the Book of Mormon stand alone when it says that Jesus taught important gospel messages after his resurrection? "No," answers Hugh Nibley, as he surveys the "40 day literature" in his 1966 article entitled Evangelium Quadraginta Dierum. Although modern biblical scholars tend to discount the early Christian accounts of the post-resurrection ministry of the Savior, Nibley argues for a literal, historical interpretation. From this, an interesting perspective on 3 Nephi can emerge.

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Farms Tours: Here We Go Again! Nov 2023

Farms Tours: Here We Go Again!

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

Our premier tour this summer was such a rewarding experience, we have decided to conduct two more in 1985!

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Professional Fund-Raiser Joins Farms Nov 2023

Professional Fund-Raiser Joins Farms

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

F.A.R.M.S. is pleased to welcome aboard Ken Porter. With over sixteen years of fund-raising experience, including head of Church Educational Development, Porter is well qualified to assist in the building of F.A.R.M.S.

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Nephi's Arrows Create Solid Bulls-Eye, Joseph Fielding Smith Nov 2023

Nephi's Arrows Create Solid Bulls-Eye, Joseph Fielding Smith

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

Three times in 1 Nephi 16 we are told that Nephi broke his steel bow. Never does it say that he broke any arrows. Yet when Nephi makes a new wooden bow, the text also says that he made "out of a straight stick, an arrow." (1 Ne. 16:23). Why would he need to make new arrows when he apparently still had a quiver full of old ones?

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President's Message, John W. Welch Nov 2023

President's Message, John W. Welch

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

We have been thrilled to hear from so many of you recently. Please feel free to drop us a note. If anything is unclear or unsatisfactory, be sure to let us know. Your ideas on how we can be of better service to you are very important to us! Keep them coming!

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Jewish Festivals In Zarahemla Nov 2023

Jewish Festivals In Zarahemla

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

The recent discovery of evidence in the Book of Alma of an observance of a Feast of Passover is likely to be remembered as one of the most significant finds of the year. On August 15, a good sized group met at a special F.A.R.M.S. research meeting. The discussion was led by Gordon Thomasson. The purpose was to rethink many Book of Mormon passages in light of ancient Israelite festivals, and some very striking results emerged.

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An Ancient American Setting For The Book Of Mormon Nov 2023

An Ancient American Setting For The Book Of Mormon

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

As this newsletter goes to press, John Sorenson 's book, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon is in publication at Deseret Book Company. This landmark volume should be out the beginning of next year. This book has been long-awaited; it sets a new benchmark for Book of Mormon studies. Dr. Sorenson, Chairman of the Anthropology Department at Brigham Young University, has been working on these materials for thirty-five years. He has developed much of this research in connection with several innovative classes he has been teaching at BYU.

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Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.

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Additional Study Aids Nov 2023

Additional Study Aids

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

F.A.R.M.S. has frequently been asked to recommend books that people might read to learn more about the world of Lehi, the ancient source of much of the Book of Mormon. Beside the classic works by Hugh Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, An Approach to the Book of Mormon, and Since Cumorah, a very valuable book is by Father Roland de Vaux, Ancient Israel, in two volumes (McGraw Hill). Although slightly dated, the book remains extremely insightful, generally readable and reliable, and conveniently available in paperback.

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Farms Monthly Updates Nov 2023

Farms Monthly Updates

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

Some Newsletter readers may be unaware that since December, 1983, monthly one-page information memos have been produced by the Foundation and distributed to Cornerstone Club contributors. These releases are short, specific reports on late-breaking news about pertinent discoveries or research findings. Some of this information later appears in abbreviated form in the Newsletter or other public sources, but those contributors who read the Monthly Update receive the news first from this unique information service.

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Reprints And Preliminary Reports Nov 2023

Reprints And Preliminary Reports

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

Certain well known patterns of human behavior are accurately depicted in the Book of Mormon. For example, Hugh Nibley has explored the pattern of the flight of the righteous into the wilderness. A striking new study now describes another pattern for our consideration.

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Book Of Mormon Critical Text Nov 2023

Book Of Mormon Critical Text

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

Critical texts of the Bible have been available for many years, showing variant readings from early Greek or Hebrew manuscripts accompanying the familiar phrasing of the standard Bible. Heavily footnoted, these volumes show how words and structures of the text have appeared in different editions over time and in different languages. They have become an essential tool for scholarly research on the scripture. They also aid serious readers by clarifying how the text may be interpreted.

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