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Rendering The Ineffable Effable: Treating Joseph Smith's First Vision In Imaginative Literature, Richard H. Cracroft

BYU Studies

The historical and imaginative renderings of the First Vision suggest individual patterns for seeking divine direction and drawing believers closer to the ultimate goal of knowing God.

Calibration Of Spaceborne Scatterometers Using Tropical Rain Forests, David G. Long, Gary B. Skouson

Faculty Publications

Wind scatterometers are radar systems designed specifically to measure the normalized radar backscatter coefficient (O) of the ocean's surface in order to determine the near-surface wind vector. Postlaunch calibration of a wind scatterometer can be performed with an extended-area natural target such as the Amazon tropical rain forest. Rain forests exhibit a remarkably high degree of homogeneity in their radar response over a very large area though some spatial and temporal variability exist. The authors present a simple technique for calibrating scatterometer data using tropical rain forests, Using a polynomial model for the rolloff of O with incidence angle, the …

A Cjk Backlog Project: Low Budgeted And Using Students Assistants, Hsi-Chu Bolick

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Special Reports, Dorothy Gregor, Philip Melzer

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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From The President, Ken Klein

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Government Publications Of People's Republic Of China: Their Identification For Cataloging Using Marc Format, Yuezu Yu

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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The Year 1995: Questions About The Development Of Automation In Sinological Librarianship, Thomas H. Hahn

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Arizona Distribution Of Three Sonoran Desert Anurans: Bufo Retiformis, Gastrophryne Olivacea, And Pternohyla Fodiens, Brian K. Sullivan, Robert W. Bowker, Keith B. Malmos, Erik W. A. Gergus

Great Basin Naturalist

We surveyed historic collecting localities in south central Arizona during July, August, and September 1993–94 to determine the presence of 3 little-known Sonoran Desert anurans, Bufo retiformis, Gastrophryne olivacea, and Pternohyla fodiens. All 3 species were present at most historic localities visited under appropriate conditions (following rainfall in July and August). Pternohyla fodiens was restricted to San Simon Wash and associated tributaries in south central Pima County. Gastrophryne olivacea ranged from Vekol Valley in extreme southern Maricopa County south to the Mexican border, and southeast near Tucson and Nogales in Pima and Santa Cruz counties. Bufo retiformis occurred over …

Historical Narrative, Literary Narrative—Expelling Poetics From The Republic Of History, Alan Goff

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Positivist historiography has always maintained an impermeable boundary between history and literature. But positivism is itself a historical sediment whose time is now past. Recent literary theory and historiography emphasize the continuities between history and literature. Under the domination of historiography by a positivist epistemology (from about 1880 to 1960), history attempted to free itself from its literary heritage. More recently theorists from a number of disciplines have recognized that history, both ancient and modern, has been informed by literary motifs, themes, and strategies. The repetition of the exodus literary pattern, for example, through the Bible, the Book of Mormon, …

Two Notes On Egyptian Script, John Gee

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Possible scripts for the “reformed Egyptian” referred to in the Book of Mormon include abnormal hieratic and carved hieratic.

Lytle Preserve (1985–1995), And Short History Of Beaver Dam Wash, Stanley L. Welsh

Books by Faculty of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum

Presented is a short history of the occupation of lands currently within and adjacent to the Lytle Nature Preserve, a property owned and operated by Brigham Young University. The property, which is to be maintained in perpetuity for its natural history qualities, is situated in Beaver Dam Wash in southwestern Washington County, Utah some seven miles north of Arizona and one and a half miles east of Nevada. Its natural and man-made features are discussed in detail, as are its management options and changes during its first decade of operation. The Preserve is dedicated to teaching and research. Main management …

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The Bridge

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Editor's Introduction: Triptych (Inspired By Heironymus Bosch), Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Introduction to the current issue, including editor's picks. Peterson discusses the status of Christian churches in 1820, an offer to debate Ed Decker, the quest for the historical Jesus through the Jesus Seminar and the implications of that type of scholarship on Mormonism: “Agnostic or radically revisionist critics of the restored Gospel, and fundamentalist Protestant anti-Mormons, tend to converge, united despite their other differences by their disbelief in the founding narratives and sacred scriptures of the Restoration.”

Francis J. Beckwith And Stephen E. Parrish, The Mormon Concept Of God: A Philosophical Analysis, Blake T. Ostler

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis (1991), by Francis J. Beckwith and Stephen E. Parrish

Memories From A Danish American Parsonage, Bodil S. Sorensen

The Bridge

Those of us who grew up in the Danish-American

colonies of the 30' s and 40' s experienced a life that has

now disappeared. It was a rich and unique life. It was a

time of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation immigrants adjusting

to the American culture and at the same time cherishing

their particular brand of Danish heritage.

Vol. 8 Num. 1 Farms Review Of Books, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Telling The Story Of The Joseph Smith Papyri, John Gee

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The Facsimiles of the Book of Abraham: A Study of the Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri (1990), by James R. Harris; For His Ka: Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer (1994), edited by David P. Silverman; and The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism (1995), by H. Donl Peterson.

Bill Mckeever And Eric Johnson, Questions To Ask Your Mormon Friend: Challenging The Claims Of Latter-Day Saints In A Constructive Manner, D. Charles Pyle

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Questions to Ask Your Mormon Friend: Challenging the Claims of Latter-day Saints in a Constructive Manner (1994), by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson

F. M. Brodie—“The Fasting Hermit And The Very Saint Of Ignorance”: A Biographer And Her Legend, Louis Midgley

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet (1995), by Fawn McKay Brodie

“Joseph Smith's Use Of The Apocrypha”: Shadow Or Reality?, John A. Tvedtnes, Matthew Roper

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of “Joseph Smith's Use of the Apocrypha” (1995), by Jerald and Sandra Tanner

Book Of Mormon Reference Library (Cd-Rom); Book Of Mormon Studybase (Cd-Rom); Lds Collectors Library 1995 Edition (Cd-Rom), Alan C. Ashton

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Book of Mormon Reference Library (1995), by Deseret Book: Book of Mormon Studybase (1995), by Bookcraft; and LDS Collectors Library 1995 Edition (1995), by Infobases

A Listing Of Points And Counterpoints, John Wm. Maddox

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology (1993), edited by Brent Lee Metcalfe. The claimes of Metcalfe's New Approaches to the Book of Mormon appear to have been adequately responded to in the Review.

Constancy Amid Change, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Behind the Mask of Mormonism (1992), by John Ankerberg and John Weldon

Eldin Ricks, Eldin Ricks's Thorough Concordance Of The Lds Standard Works, Gary P. Gillum

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Eldin Ricks's Thorough Concordance of LDS Standard Works (1995), by Eldin Ricks.

Monte S. Nyman And Charles D. Tate, Jr. Eds., The Book Of Mormon: Fourth Nephi Through Moroni: From Zion To Destruction, Bryan J. Thomas

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The Book of Mormon: Fourth Nephi through Moroni, From Zion to Destruction (1995), edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr.

Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes And The Feathered Serpent, Chris Crowe

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Tennis Shoes and the Feathered Serpent (1995), by Chris Heimerdinger

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Inscape

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Avraham Gileadi, The Literary Message Of Isaiah, David Rolph Seely

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The Literary Message of Isaiah (1994), by Avraham Gileadi.

A Comprehensive Annotated Book Of Mormon Bibliography, Donald W. Parry, Jeanette W. Miller, Sandra A. Thorne

Maxwell Institute Publications

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A.001 “Aaron Teaches Lamoni’s Father.” Friend 23 (March 1993): 32-33. Scenes from Aaron’s conversion of King Lamoni’s father illustrated in color for children. [S.H.]

A.002 Abbott, John S. C. The History of the State of Ohio. Detroit: Northwestern, 1875. Brie y discusses Mormonism and the Book of Mormon. The author accepts the Spaulding theory for the origin of the Book of Mormon. He also discusses the 1834 Anthon denial regarding the “sealed book” incident. [M.R.]

Leaving Too Soon, Lisa Bolin Hawkins

BYU Studies

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