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Tax Laws On Charitable Giving Will Change In 1987 Dec 2023

Tax Laws On Charitable Giving Will Change In 1987

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

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.


Cooperative Observing At A Modest-Sized Observatory, Michael D. Joner, Denzil E. Watts Iv, Seneca H. Bahr, Oliver Hancock, Michael W. Holland, Hafsa Jamil, Eden Saxton, Malaya Williams-Jones Dec 2023

Cooperative Observing At A Modest-Sized Observatory, Michael D. Joner, Denzil E. Watts Iv, Seneca H. Bahr, Oliver Hancock, Michael W. Holland, Hafsa Jamil, Eden Saxton, Malaya Williams-Jones

BYU West Mountain Observatory Project

The West Mountain Observatory is an astronomical research facility operated by Brigham Young University, located on an isolated mountain approximately 22 kilometers southwest of the main Provo UT campus. The observatory was upgraded 15 years ago and has since been utilized primarily as an undergraduate research facility. The observatory is well suited to do work on projects utilizing time series photometric observations and has been particularly successful at conducting multiple projects for undergraduate student researchers that require observations of different durations and cadences using various filter combinations. This requires additional planning and cooperation between the different programs that are often …


Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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Book Reviewed Nov 2023

Book Reviewed

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

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 Nov 2023

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 Nov 2023

President's Message

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

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 Nov 2023

Nibley Works Volume 1 Published

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

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.


Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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The Use Of Chiasmus By The Ancient Quiche-Maya Nov 2023

The Use Of Chiasmus By The Ancient Quiche-Maya

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

Allen J. Christenson shows for the first time in professional literature that chiasmus was known in pre-Columbian America. His article, which includes part of the material in CHR-88, appeared in Latin American Indian Literatures Journal 4/2 (1988): 125-50.


Fortifications In The Book Of Mormon And In Mesoamerica Nov 2023

Fortifications In The Book Of Mormon And In Mesoamerica

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Archaeologists have consistently denied that ancient Mesoamerican peoples systematically practiced warfare. The Book of Mormon, however, reports a great deal of warfare and fortifications. Only in the last 15 years has a small set of experts begun to see warfare playing an important role in this area, although of course it has been common everywhere else in the world.


The Atonement And The Book Of Mormon Nov 2023

The Atonement And The Book Of Mormon

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In a faculty lecture recently presented to the BYU Religion Department, Dean Robert J. Matthews discussed the Atonement. He articulated several "points of doctrine" taught in the Book of Mormon on the Atonement and carefully focused on the teachings of individual Book of Mormon prophets.


One Eternal Round Nov 2023

One Eternal Round

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In the third and final lecture in his series on ''The Terrible Questions," Dr. Hugh Nibley spoke on "One Eternal Round (Hermetic Version) ." A transcript of this talk can now be ordered. According to Dr. Nibley, the central ritual of all ancient religion was concerned with achieving "a one-ness with the divine existence," in gaining "a return to celestial company . . . a yearning for the restoration of a firmly held common existence of man and of the Godhead."


Recommendations For The Mental Health Treatment Of Human Trafficking Survivors, Christina M. Tsoi Nov 2023

Recommendations For The Mental Health Treatment Of Human Trafficking Survivors, Christina M. Tsoi

Theses and Dissertations

Human trafficking is a worldwide problem that places those trafficked at very high risk for multiple adverse outcomes, including mental illness. Although research on human trafficking has become abundant in other academic disciplines (e.g., sociology, public health, criminology, social work), psychology research specific to the mental health treatment of survivors remains limited. Objective: The purpose of this study was to gather recommendations from mental health professionals for the mental health treatment of trafficking survivors. Method: This paper reviewed extant literature regarding human trafficking and current mental health treatment provided to survivors. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 mental health professionals …


Rage In Chronic Pulmonary Inflammation And Obstetric Complications, Katrina Lynn Curtis Nov 2023

Rage In Chronic Pulmonary Inflammation And Obstetric Complications, Katrina Lynn Curtis

Theses and Dissertations

The receptor for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) is a transmembrane cell surface protein of the immunoglobulin superfamily that acts as part of both the innate and adaptive immune system. RAGE is highly expressed in lung tissue and is therefore of interest in the pulmonary immune response. Specifically, RAGE mediates several cell-signaling responses such as inflammation and apoptosis. This work sought to elucidate the role of RAGE in the setting of chronic pulmonary irritation such as that found in long-term exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS). This irritation has several shared characteristics with lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) …


Prosodic Pitch And Intensity In Autistic Individuals, Cassidy Gooch Nov 2023

Prosodic Pitch And Intensity In Autistic Individuals, Cassidy Gooch

Theses and Dissertations

This study is an examination of how prosodic pitch and intensity compare in autistic individuals and neurotypical individuals. Ten-minute recordings of casual conversation were taken and analyzed. Participants included 11 autistic individuals and 11 neurotypical individuals with six males and five females in each group. The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, 2nd Edition (ADOS-2; Lord et al., 2012) prosody rating scale was used to collect a perceptual evaluation of each participan's prosody, and Praat acoustic analysis software was used to collect measures of pitch and intensity over the 10-minute period to investigate how speech characteristics change with conversation partner familiarity. Results …


Stability, Longevity, And Regulatory Bionetworks, Christian N. K. Anderson Nov 2023

Stability, Longevity, And Regulatory Bionetworks, Christian N. K. Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

Genome-wide studies of diseases and chronic conditions frequently fail to uncover marked or consistent differences in RNA or protein concentrations. However, the developing field of kinetic proteomics has made promising discoveries in differences in the turnover rate of these same proteins, even when concentrations were not necessarily different. The situation can theoretically be modeled mathematically using bifurcation equations, but uncovering the proper form of these is difficult. To this end, we developed TWIG, a method for characterizing bifurcations that leverages information geometry to identify drivers of complex systems. Using this, we characterized the bifurcation and stability properties of all 132 …


Advancements In Molten Salt Physical Property Measurement: Archimedean Density, Couette Viscometer, And Flibe-Te Solution Penetration Analysis, Kent Powell Detrick Nov 2023

Advancements In Molten Salt Physical Property Measurement: Archimedean Density, Couette Viscometer, And Flibe-Te Solution Penetration Analysis, Kent Powell Detrick

Theses and Dissertations

This work primarily centers on measuring the physical properties of molten salts. It's dedicated to outlining the methodology, enhancing measurement methods, and scrutinizing data to uncover insights regarding the interaction between molten salt and solid structures in the context of designing and generating electrical energy in molten salt reactors. The initial phase of this research involved collaborating with Brigham Young University's molecular dynamics simulation group to create an Archimedean density measurement device. This endeavor was primarily geared towards generating empirical data for the purpose of enhancing molecular dynamics simulation data. The tasks encompassed designing and validating the experimental setup, with …


Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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New Office Coordinator Nov 2023

New Office Coordinator

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

Lois Richardson has begun part-time work as our office coordinator. She is finishing a degree at BYU in Near Eastern Studies. She brings a great deal of enthusiasm and secretarial and office experience to F.A.R.M.S.


Executive Editor Joins Farms Staff Nov 2023

Executive Editor Joins Farms Staff

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

Melvin J. Thorne joins F.A.R.M.S. as Executive Editor and a member of the board of directors. He will coordinate all of the Foundation's many publishing projects.


Study Of Figurines Sheds Light On Ancient Americas Nov 2023

Study Of Figurines Sheds Light On Ancient Americas

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

Archaeologist Terry Stocker (Ph.D., Illinois, 1983) is working under a F.A.R.M.S. research grant compiling articles that discuss and illustrate ceramic human figurines from throughout the Americas. Figurines can provide some of our most valuable information about ancient peoples arid their customs and relationships.


The Updates Of 1989 Nov 2023

The Updates Of 1989

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

Now available for a nominal charge are the valuable Updates for 1989. These interesting and easily readable monthly reports track the steady flow of new research generated by the Foundation this year.


Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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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.


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.


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.


Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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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.


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.


Seeking Connection By Forsaking Self: Associations Of Autonomy And Relatedness With Self-Silencing And Emotional Fusion, Amber A. Price Nov 2023

Seeking Connection By Forsaking Self: Associations Of Autonomy And Relatedness With Self-Silencing And Emotional Fusion, Amber A. Price

Theses and Dissertations

Humans innately feel a desire for connection, but in its pursuit, some may inadvertently thwart the very connection they seek. One way this may happen is through forsaking a sense of autonomy in favor of relatedness using behaviors such as self- silencing (stifling the self to preserve a relationship) and emotional fusion (relying on validation from others). To better understand how these four variables—autonomy, relatedness, self-silencing and emotional fusion—function together, I used latent profile analysis to identify classes among US adults in long-term relationships (n = 1065). Separate classes were identified for men and women. I then used the Bolck-Croon-Hagenaars …