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Full Issue Jan 2023

Full Issue

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

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Project Report: Chiasmus Archive Jan 2023

Project Report: Chiasmus Archive

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

Over three decades ago, John W. Welch’s publication of “Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon” opened a new chapter in Mormon studies. The 1969 article in BYU Studies announced his 1967 discovery of the presence of this literary form in the Book of Mormon. From that time to the present, the significance of Welch’s extraordinary observation has been discussed at many levels by Latter-day Saint lay readers as well as career academicians.

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“O Ye Fair Ones”: An Additional Note On The Meaning Of The Name Nephi, Matthew L. Bowen Jan 2023

“O Ye Fair Ones”: An Additional Note On The Meaning Of The Name Nephi, Matthew L. Bowen

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

An earlier Insights article noted a possible wordplay in the first verse of the Book of Mormon that provides internal textual evidence that the name Nephi derives from the Egyptian word nfr. While nfr denotes “good, fine, goodly" of quality, it also signifies “beautiful, fair” of appearance. Assuming that at least some senses of the Egyptian word passed into Nephite language and culture, this second sense of nfr may have influenced Nephite self-perception. Several Book of Mormon passages evidence the affiliation.

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Engineering At-Home Dilution And Filtration Methods To Enable Paper-Based Colorimetric Biosensing In Human Blood With Cell-Free Protein Synthesis, Tyler J. Free, Ryan W. Tucker, Katelyn M. Simonson, Sydney A. Smith, Caleb M. Lindgren, William G. Pitt, Bradley C. Bundy Jan 2023

Engineering At-Home Dilution And Filtration Methods To Enable Paper-Based Colorimetric Biosensing In Human Blood With Cell-Free Protein Synthesis, Tyler J. Free, Ryan W. Tucker, Katelyn M. Simonson, Sydney A. Smith, Caleb M. Lindgren, William G. Pitt, Bradley C. Bundy

Faculty Publications

Diagnostic blood tests can guide the administration of healthcare to save and improve lives. Most clinical biosensing blood tests require a trained technician and specialized equipment to process samples and interpret results, which greatly limits test accessibility. Colorimetric paper-based diagnostics have an equipment-free readout, but raw blood obscures a colorimetric response which has motivated diverse efforts to develop blood sample processing techniques. This work uses inexpensive readily-available materials to engineer user-friendly dilution and filtration methods for blood sample collection and processing to enable a proof-of-concept colorimetric biosensor that is responsive to glutamine in 50 µL blood drop samples in less …

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Inadequate Immigration System For Asylum Seekers At The Us-Mexico Border, Kyli F. Soug Jan 2023

Inadequate Immigration System For Asylum Seekers At The Us-Mexico Border, Kyli F. Soug

Ballard Brief

The history of immigration in the US goes back to its founding. However, in recent years, immigration trends at the US-Mexico border have gained media and political attention as more migrants flee to the border and face challenges as they seek refuge in the US. The inadequate immigration system has been exacerbated as legislation like the Migrant Protection Protocols and metering complicates the legal system and forces asylum seekers into border towns. Border patrol's misuse of resources and insufficient immigration data also contributes to the inadequate immigration system. Families and individuals seeking legal asylum at the border are being detained …

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Interview With Rob Carney, Whitnee Forest Jan 2023

Interview With Rob Carney, Whitnee Forest

Inscape

Rob Carney is the author of eight books of poems, including Call and Response (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Additionally, he is the author of Accidental Gardens (Stormbird Press, 2021), a collection of 42 flash essays about the environment, politics, and poetics; and the children’s book How the Baby Seal Was Born and Other Fables (Little Nomad, forthcoming). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Columbia Journal, The Dark …

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Interview With Desirae Matherly, Celine Taylor Jan 2023

Interview With Desirae Matherly, Celine Taylor

Inscape

Dr. Matherly’s doctoral area is creative nonfiction and she is a former Harper Fellow at The University of Chicago. Her recent writing appears in Hotel Amerika, Assay, and Fourth Genre. Matherly is the winner of the 2018 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction sponsored by December Magazine and in 2019 her short fiction won the Owl Canyon Press Hackathon. Matherly is the author of Echo’s Fugue, a collection of personal essays published by Mad Creek Books (OSU Press) in 2019.

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The Costs Of A Free And Public Education: An Analysis Of A School District's Student Fees, Jacob D. Skousen, Ellianna Rodriguez Jan 2023

The Costs Of A Free And Public Education: An Analysis Of A School District's Student Fees, Jacob D. Skousen, Ellianna Rodriguez

BYU Education & Law Journal

Since the late 1800s U.S. states have provided a “centrally administered organization of public schools, overseen by a state superintendent or department of education and financed by state income tax revenues in addition to local taxes.” States have governed a system of public schools through the states’ constitutions. Each state’s constitution has a statement identifying the state as being responsible to provide its citizenry with a public education and in the majority of states’ constitutions there is further clarification noting that this education is provided free of charge. An example of this statement can be found in Nevada’s State Constitution, …

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Interview With Rio Cortez, Ellie Smith Jan 2023

Interview With Rio Cortez, Ellie Smith

Inscape

Originally from Salt Lake City, New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez currently resides in Harlem, where she writes poetry and picture books.

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Interview With Emily Inouye Huey, Madison Maloney Jan 2023

Interview With Emily Inouye Huey, Madison Maloney

Inscape

Emily writes historical fiction for children and teens. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University and is a former teacher.

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Bodies Of Women And Water, Emma Taylor Jan 2023

Bodies Of Women And Water, Emma Taylor

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Some of the most powerful voices come from the throats of those who are silenced. Art is a way for those without power to wordlessly scream and demand a change. Whether it be through a paintbrush, clay, or the performance of the body, art becomes most powerful when informed by those advocating for justice.

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A Miracle Through An Ymage: Gautier De Coinci’S Retouched Legend Of Theophile, Isabella Williams Jan 2023

A Miracle Through An Ymage: Gautier De Coinci’S Retouched Legend Of Theophile, Isabella Williams

Quidditas

This article examines the use of the Old French word “ymage” in Gautier de Coinci’s early thirteenth-century Legend of Theophile. Gautier is the first author to write a version of the legend that includes an ymage, designating a material representation of the Virgin. Far from a subtle insertion, he mentions the term ten times, during every pivotal moment of the story, when terrestrial and celestial spheres collide. Critics acknowledge the centrality of Gautier in representing this revolutionary French period, during which time attitudes concerning ritualistic images were in a state of flux; yet, Gautier’s repetitive and groundbreaking use of …

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Student Self-Diagnostics: Engaging Students As Co-Respondents To Their Own Writing, Robert M. Rowan Jan 2023

Student Self-Diagnostics: Engaging Students As Co-Respondents To Their Own Writing, Robert M. Rowan

Journal of Response to Writing

Student self-analysis and reflective work can be useful components of the writing classroom. This article examines a student self-diagnostic tool, developed by the author, which can elicit closer attention paid to the student’s own writing, analysis, and research processes and to other desirable outcomes the teacher’s learning plan may be pursuing. This tool, the Genre Understanding Sheet or GUS, has been successfully deployed in a variety of writing courses such as introductory composition, business and professional writing, and technical communication. The article examines the GUS and its development and rationale, reviews the underlying science and theory-work which inform its design, …

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A Women's Experience Jan 2023

A Women's Experience

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Moses As Midwife: What The Exodus Birth Story Teaches About Motherhood And Christ, Becky Holderness Tilton Jan 2023

Moses As Midwife: What The Exodus Birth Story Teaches About Motherhood And Christ, Becky Holderness Tilton

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

This work explores an alternative interpretation of the Exodus narrative as a metaphor for childbirth. Gleaning from Old Testament and Judaic sources, we find rich female birth and salvific imagery in the saga of the migration of the children of Israel and the Passover itself. This perspective of sacred childbirth, when coupled with traditional Christian interpretations of the first Passover, ultimately paints an enhanced picture of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

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Front Matter Jan 2023

Front Matter

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Full Issue Jan 2023

Full Issue

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Doctrine And Covenants 21: Metanarrative Of The Restoration, Steve L. Olsen Jan 2023

Doctrine And Covenants 21: Metanarrative Of The Restoration, Steve L. Olsen

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Joseph Smith dictated Doctrine and Covenants 21 at the inaugural meeting of the Church of Jesus Christ on April 6, 1830. The present study examines the literary craftsmanship of the revelation to plumb the depths of its role in the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The analysis explores the meaning of patterns of usage in the text from the most specific (diction, syntax, figures of speech) to the most general (tone, rhetoric, and structural logic). The hypothesis of this study is that Doctrine and Covenants 21 provides a metanarrative of the Restoration — that is, a set of …

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Internal Family Systems (Ifs) Therapy: Non-Pathologizing Healing For Inner Peace, Sylvia Hill Jan 2023

Internal Family Systems (Ifs) Therapy: Non-Pathologizing Healing For Inner Peace, Sylvia Hill

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a new approach to healing of the wounds and burdens caused by trauma, neglect and other relational injuries. The history of the development of IFS is outlined. The basic assumptions of IFS are shared. The roles parts take on in response to trauma are explained. The process of working with parts to bring about healing are described. Research on IFS is listed followed by a brief discussion of how IFS can fit within a Christian framework. Two case studies are provided to illustrate IFS being used in conjunction with Christian beliefs.

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Beautiful Patience, Daniel C. Peterson Jan 2023

Beautiful Patience, Daniel C. Peterson

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Believers in the God of Abraham — who include not only Jews and Christians but also Muslims — are exhorted to call upon him every day, as well as in times of need. We are promised that he will respond to petitionary prayers. Moreover, we are assured that, in the end, believers will prosper, that their faith or trust in him will prove justified. But we are not promised that rewards, compensation, or justice will come to us on our mortal timetable — and this raises sometimes burningly acute questions about Providence and even, for more than a few, about …

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The Dance Of Reader And Text: Salomé, The Daughter Of Jared, And The Regal Dance Of Death, Alan Goff Jan 2023

The Dance Of Reader And Text: Salomé, The Daughter Of Jared, And The Regal Dance Of Death, Alan Goff

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Modern readers too often and easily misread modern assumptions into ancient texts. One such notion is that when the reader encounters repeated stories in the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Herodotus, or numerous other texts, the obvious explanation that requires no supporting argument is that one text is plagiarizing or copying from the other. Ancient readers and writers viewed such repetitions differently. In this article, I examine the narratives of a young woman or girl dancing for a king with the promise from the ruler that whatever the dancer wants, she can request and receive; the request often entails a …

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Full Issue Jan 2023

Full Issue

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Front Matter Jan 2023

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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The Bright And Morning Star, Breck M. England Jan 2023

The Bright And Morning Star, Breck M. England

Interpreter Foundation Books

The temple is a place of revelation. For me, that has always been a striking reality. It struck me again one day as I sat in the temple instruction room for the presentation I had seen before so many times—and I saw something new. I was reflecting on the many visions of the prophets, experiences we call “apocalypses,” when the Lord opens the veil to show them the entire panorama of His plan of happiness. I thought of Abraham, Enoch, Moses, Lehi, and Joseph Smith, and how they described the grand spectacle of creation, tribulation, atonement, and exaltation that I …

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Front Matter Jan 2023

Front Matter

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Pixelated Prophets: A History And Analysis Of Book-Of-Mormon-Themed Video Games, Geoffrey M. Draper Jan 2023

Pixelated Prophets: A History And Analysis Of Book-Of-Mormon-Themed Video Games, Geoffrey M. Draper

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Video games represent an innovative medium for entertainment and artistic expression with potential for fostering deeper engagement with religious texts such as the Book of Mormon. Over the past three decades, developers have produced dozens of video games based on the Book of Mormon. This paper provides a comprehensive history of these video games. We examine how these games use different genres, styles, and levels of scriptural fidelity to creative immersive and interactive experiences based on ancient stories and teachings. We also discuss the challenges and opportunities for developing and distributing Book-of-Mormon–themed video games in a competitive and changing market …

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Front Matter Jan 2023

Front Matter

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Full Issue Jan 2023

Full Issue

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Front Matter Jan 2023

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Sacred Imaginings: Using Ai To Construct Temples, Amanda Colleen Brown-Mather Jan 2023

Sacred Imaginings: Using Ai To Construct Temples, Amanda Colleen Brown-Mather

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

We’re commanded to seek out of the best books words of wisdom, but how exactly do we seek? What are the best books? Temples of the Imagination uses cutting-edge technology to show its readers one futuristic way to incorporate this spiritual practice into their lives.

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