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The Dark Is Not My Enemy: The Personal Essay As A Form To Explore Trauma And Memory, Raistlyn Camphuysen Dec 2023

The Dark Is Not My Enemy: The Personal Essay As A Form To Explore Trauma And Memory, Raistlyn Camphuysen

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The Dark Is Not My Enemy is a collection of personal essays exploring the connection between trauma and memory, as well as how different forms of the personal essay respond to the challenges of memory in the meaning-making process. This thesis includes three essays—a scenic flash essay, a lyric essay, and a memoir essay—and a critical introduction that explores the theories that inform the formal choices made in the essays and explains how these choices help confront, understand, and heal from sexual trauma.


Full Issue Dec 2023

Full Issue

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Symposium On Warfare Announced Dec 2023

Symposium On Warfare Announced

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

On Friday, March 24, and Saturday, March 25, F.A.R.M.S. will sponsor a symposium at Brigham Young University on Warfare in the Book of Mormon. The symposium will include papers on fortifications in Mesoamerica, holy war in the Ancient Near East and in the Book of Mormon, the laws of warfare in the Book of Mormon, the Gadianton Robbers as a subversive countercultural movement, war oaths in the Book of Mormon, and Nephite military caste and tribal affiliation. Participants in the symposium will include Phillip Flammer, William Hamblin, Matthew Hilton , Daniel C. Peterson, Stephen D. Ricks, John Sorenson, Terrence Szink …


New Review Of Book Of Mormon Books Launched Dec 2023

New Review Of Book Of Mormon Books Launched

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

F.A.R.M.S. has inaugurated a new journal, the Annual Review of Book of Mormon Books. This journal, edited by Daniel C. Peterson of the Arabic faculty at Brigham Young University, will review and discuss recent literature dealing with the Book of Mormon. It will appear once each year. Many of these reviews will be article-length review essays and will deal in depth with the issues raised in the books under discussion. Others will be shorter, providing a sense of the contents of the volumes and a brief response of the reviewer to the book. Each review should, however, be useful …


Full Issue Dec 2023

Full Issue

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A Day And A Half's Journey For A Nephite Dec 2023

A Day And A Half's Journey For A Nephite

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

The narrow neck of land is an important geographical feature in the Book of Mormon. For many years people have debated whether the narrow neck was the Isthmus of Panama, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Southern Mexico, or somewhere else. Some have argued that the neck must have been very narrow, because Alma 22:32 says that the distance across the "narrow neck" of the promised land from the east to the west sea was "a day and a half's journey for a Nephite." But how wide could this distance have been? Recently analyzed information suggests that it could have been …


Notice Dec 2023

Notice

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

Our new 1985 catalogue of F.A.R.M.S. materials should be ready in a few weeks.


Doubleday Dec 2023

Doubleday

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

F.A.R.M.S. makes many fine Doubleday books available to you at discount prices. The last Newsletter announced that Charlesworth's second volume of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha was available. Unfortunately, final publication has been delayed until later this year. Watch for another notice when it comes off the press.


President's Message, John W. Welch Dec 2023

President's Message, John W. Welch

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

A "classic," by one definition, is a book that will wear you out long before you wear it out. By this standard, the Book of Mormon is one of the classics of all times.


For The Record Dec 2023

For The Record

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"For me it became a stimulating task, not only an opportunity to read the Book of Mormon and other Mormon writings," has written Krister Stendahl, Harvard Divinity School, in his Meanings: The Bible as Document and as Guide (Fortress Press, 1984), commenting on his participation in the BYU Reflections on Mormonism symposium.


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

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

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."


Rules For Submitting Manuscripts Nov 2023

Rules For Submitting Manuscripts

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

Any researcher is welcome to submit a paper for possible publication by F.A.R.M.S. Submissions need to follow certain rules: (1) The subject must seriously involve the Book of Mormon, although it need not deal exclusively with that scripture ( exceptions will be considered); (2) it must follow basic conventions of scholarly research, including paying serious attention to previous work on this topic; (3) a particular objective or thesis must be evident; and, (4) clear logic and language is essential. One typed/printed copy (double-spaced and proofread) should be sent; it will not necessarily be returned.


Visit Of Jacob Neusner To Byu Nov 2023

Visit Of Jacob Neusner To Byu

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

Jacob Neusner, Ungerleider Distinguished Scholar of Judaic Studies and University Professor at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, an outstanding scholar in Judaic Studies and author of the book The Glory of God Is Intelligence, published by the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University, spoke on February 22 at a lecture sponsored in part by F.A.R.M.S.


Zelph Nov 2023

Zelph

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In recent years, discussions of Book of Mormon geography have concentrated on limited areas in Mesoamerica. The story of "Zelph, the white Lamanite," is frequently cited as evidence that the Nephites occupied the entire North American continent and fought some of their final battles near the Illinois River. Who was Zelph, and are his bones relevant to the Book of Mormon? Researcher Kenneth Godfrey shows why one should be cautious in drawing specific geographical conclusions from this incident.


Wednesday Book Of Mormon Seminars Nov 2023

Wednesday Book Of Mormon Seminars

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

The Wednesday Seminar is a faculty research seminar organized by Noel Reynolds (Political Science, BYU). It has met bi-weekly this year to hear discussions on current research related to the Book of Mormon.


Review Of Books On The Book Of Mormon Nov 2023

Review Of Books On The Book Of Mormon

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

Since publication of the last Newsletter, the first issue of the F.A.R.M.S. Review of Books on the Book of Mormon has been printed. It contains seventeen reviews of fourteen different books, most of which appeared during the years 1987-88. Some of the reviews are actually "review essays," since they represent important contributions to Book of Mormon studies in their own right.


Johannessen Visit Nov 2023

Johannessen Visit

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

Professor Carl Johannessen, professor of geography at the University of Oregon, lectured in March at BYU on his research on evidence for pre-Columbian maize in India and nearby areas. F.A.R.M.S. has provided support for his work. He presented BYU botanists and others with an impressive array of actual specimens, pictures of sculptured representations of cobs of corn on Indian temples, and linguistic and historical data.


Dr. Sorenson To Accompany Tour Nov 2023

Dr. Sorenson To Accompany Tour

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

The Foundation is pleased to announce its first tour into the exciting Book of Mormon areas of Mexico and Guatemala, a 13-day exploration of the region that many LDS scholars identify as the heartland of the Book of Mormon.


Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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Dinner Completes Nibley Birthday Celebration Nov 2023

Dinner Completes Nibley Birthday Celebration

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

A dinner to note the completion of the two-volume By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday was held on September 7. In attendance were Brother and Sister Nibley, over half of those who contributed articles to the volumes, members of the administration at BYU, and Elder Neal Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve.


Nibley's Latest Lectures Now On Audiotape Nov 2023

Nibley's Latest Lectures Now On Audiotape

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

Facsimile #2 of the Pearl of Great Price is an Egyptian hypocephalus. Anciently such documents were placed under the head of a deceased person before burial. In a series of twelve lectures recently sponsored by F.A.R.M.S. and delivered at BYU, Hugh Nibley discussed "what the Egyptians themselves said about the hypocephalus," "what Joseph Smith said about it," and the facsimile's meaning and importance.


New Book Of Mormon Geography Map Available Nov 2023

New Book Of Mormon Geography Map Available

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

A handsome new wall map suitable for classroom use has been developed by Dr. Michael Preece, a Salt Lake physician and student of the Book of Mormon. It follows the model of geography in John Sorenson's An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon. Dr. Sorenson assisted in the project.


Reviewers' Comments On The Bibliography Nov 2023

Reviewers' Comments On The Bibliography

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

''Your great bibliographical project ... will greatly enhance the quality of discussion in the field." Joseph Needham, history of Asian science, Cambridge University.


New Publication Asks: "Was Columbus The First Across The Ocean?" Nov 2023

New Publication Asks: "Was Columbus The First Across The Ocean?"

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

More than three years of research will culminate this month with the appearance of Pre-Columbian Contacts with the Americas across the Oceans: An Annotated Bibliography, by John L. Sorenson and Martin H. Raish. Prominent scholars are enthusiastic about this 1250-page, 2-volume set (see sidebar).


Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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Who Is Doing What? Nov 2023

Who Is Doing What?

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

We have received inquiries recently about whom to contact at F.A.R.M.S. for various purposes, so we thought it might help you if we outlined the responsibilities of each member of the board of directors. We welcome your inquiries and appreciate your interest and support.