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The Allegory Of The Olive Tree: The Olive, The Bible, And Jacob 5, Stephen D. Ricks, John W. Welch

Maxwell Institute Publications

In the Book of Mormon, the allegory of the olive tree—written by a prophet named Zenos and later quoted by the prophet Jacob to his people—stands out as a unique literary creation worthy of close analysis and greater appreciation. Besides its exceptional length and exquisite detail, this text conveys important teachings, deep emotion, and wisdom related to God’s tender devotion and aspirations for the house of Israel on earth.

In The Allegory of the Olive Tree, 20 scholars shed light on the meaning, themes, and rhetorical aspects of the allegory, as well as on its historical, cultural, and religious …

A Reasoned Interlingua For Knowledge-Based Machine Translation, Deryle W. Lonsdale, John R. R. Leavitt, Alexander M. Franz

Faculty Publications

Research in machine translation (MT) has resulted in a number of Machine Translation systems that are based on the interlingua approach. This paper reports the results of designing an interlingua for a large-scale, practical MT system designed to translate technical information from English into a number of target languages. After an analysis of the main features of the translation problem faced by this system we describe the principles underlying our design decisions. We address issues such as the design and development methodology, the grain size of the representation, and our efforts to endow the interlingua representation with the ability to …

Editor's Introduction, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Introduction to the items reviewed and main issues discussed in this issue.

Temples Of The Ancient World: Ritual And Symbolism, Donald W. Parry

Maxwell Institute Publications

Three essays by Hugh Nibley, plus papers presented at the 1993 FARMS symposium, other important papers on the temple, a keynote address by Elder Marion D. Hanks (former president of the Salt Lake Temple), striking illustrations by Michael Lyon (who illustrated Nibley’s Temple and Cosmos)—these features and more make Temples of the Ancient World: Ritual and Symbolism one of the most significant volumes ever published on the temple. Twenty-four essays in this 1994 publication focus on the temple in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East, the New Testament, Jewish writings, and the Book of Mormon and ancient America.

Brief Notice, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Mormon Bibliography 1993, Ellen M. Copley

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Extraction D'Un Vocabulaire Bilingue: Outils Et Methodes, Deryle W. Lonsdale

Faculty Publications

Cet articele presente les efforts lics a l'elaboration d'un vocabulaire bilingue pour un systeme de traduction. Nous presentons la methodologic suivie pour identifier, normaliser et mettre en correspondance les vocabulaires anglais et francais, puises dans un corpus de textes prealablement traduites: analyse du texte source, compilation d'un index (mots simples et syntagmes), identification et traitement des composes nominaux, integration des ressources terminologiques du client, alignement atomatique des textes source et cible, extraction des traductions du vocabulaire source, redaction du vocabuleire et son recodage en forme de donnees lexicales. Nouse decrivons aussi les outils que nous avons concus et developpes pour …

Unhealed Wounds: Japan's Colonization Of Korea, Aaron H. Skabelund

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Abraham Divided: An Lds Perspective On The Middle East By Daniel C. Peterson, James A. Toronto

BYU Studies

books, book review

Presenting Italian Comparative And Superlative Forms Of Adjectives To College L2 Beginners, Ilona Klein

Faculty Publications

This study treats the necessity to de-emphasize the focus on grammar teaching alone in L2, and to introduce methods which are not teacher-centered, so as to enable students to interact more among each other.

By using comparative and superlative forms of adjectives – but in reality using a sequence of teaching techniques that could be applied to other grammatical situations – this article presents the use of sea shells as a visual and tactile aid which allows students to shift their L2 efforts from an abstract notion to a concrete usage.

This study offers a tool to attempt a balance …

Large-Scale Machine Translation: An Interlingua Approach, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Alexander M. Franz, John R. R. Leavitt

Faculty Publications

In this paper we discuss the design and development of an interlingua for a large-scale MT project. We also discuss how the resulting KANT interlingua constrains complexity, supports staged development, evolves in a balanced fashion, and seeks maximal coverage. We address issues such as granularity of the data representation, its specification, the types of information it encodes, and how it supports a modular system architecture. Our experience shows that through a careful, reasoned design and implementation effort, it is possible to achieve multilingual target-language generation for extensive technical domains.

The Early Development Of East Asian Studies In Southern California, Ken Klein

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Developing New Japanese Collections And Services At The University Of California, San Diego, 1988-1993, Eiji Yutani

Journal of East Asian Libraries

March 15 of this year marked the fifth anniversary of my arrival at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). On a bright, warm spring day in 1988,1 moved to the arid, scenic suburban La Jolla campus from the equally beautiful and balmy city of Berkeley where I had worked as a Japanese bibliographer for the century-old University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Library for two and a half decades. The past five years here in southern California have been one of the finest chapters of my professional life — perhaps the last — and a truly fascinating one. As I …

The International Outreach Of American Librarianship: Historical Notes On Some Intiatives In Asia, Warren M. Tsuneishi

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

From Central Asia To London: The Stein Collection Of Manuscripts, Frances Wood

Journal of East Asian Libraries

In 1941, just before World War II began, some 30,000 volumes of rare books were shipped from China to the United States for safekeeping and microfilming. This was an important event in the history of Sino-American cultural relations and also for international sharing of Chinese rare resources, yet very few people know the story of how these rarities were able to cross the Pacific Ocean during a time of world crisis. Twenty-six years later, I recalled this incident in an article in memory of the late Dr. T. L. Yuan revealing how Irisked my life in order to accomplish this …

Civilization In Context, Roger Williams Wescott

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Improvisor, A. H. Watkins

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Elaine Morgan. The Scars Of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins., Roger W. Wescott

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

East Asian Collections, Committee On East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Libraries And Institutions, Kristina Kade Troost, Leone Belzer Berghuis, Min-Chih Chou

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Pound And China: Ezra Pound's Preference For Chinese Over Western Philosophy, Paul Wellen

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Translation Of The Book Of Mormon: Interpreting The Evidence, Stephen D. Ricks

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The process used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon from the plates involved both human effort and divine assistance through the seerstone and interpreters.

The Radical Reformation Of The Reorganization Of The Restoration: Recent Changes In The Rlds Understanding Of The Book Of Mormon, Louis Midgley

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Beginning in the 1960s, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS [now Community of Christ]) has modified its understanding of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith’s prophetic charisms. Where the RLDS were earlier permitted to read the Book of Mormon as nineteenth-century fiction, they are now encouraged by their leaders to do so, though they are still permitted to find in it, if they wish, some inspiring passages. These changes have been resisted by a conservative minority that has lost the battle for control of the Reorganization and now tends to worship outside RLDS congregations. …

Editor's Introduction, Stephen D. Ricks

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Summary of current issue.

The Church Through The Years, Vol. 1 By Richard P. Howard, Davis Bitton

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

“Is Mormonism Christian?” Reflections On A Complicated Question, Jan Shipps

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Are Mormons Christians? By Stephen E. Robinson; Offenders For A Word By Daniel C. Peterson And Stephen D. Ricks, Paul Hedengren

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.