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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 …

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Notice Dec 2023

Notice

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What Does The Farms Logo Stand For? Dec 2023

What Does The Farms Logo Stand For?

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

Many people have asked what the F.A.R.M.S. logo means. Here is a brief explanation. The logo is composed of characters from Hebrew, Greek, Mayan and Egyptian, which are four of the main ancient languages and cultures relevant to Book of Mormon research. The characters are set in four stone blocks, symbolizing archaeology and ancient research.

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Announcing The Complete Collected Works Of Hugh Nibley Dec 2023

Announcing The Complete Collected Works Of Hugh Nibley

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

On March 31, 1985, Hugh Nibley will celebrate his 75th birthday. "The time has come," says Gary Gillum, "to compile and publish the Complete Collected Works of Hugh Nibley." F.A.R.M.S. is pleased to announce that arrangements for this significant publication have now been made. This monumental series will be jointly published by Dr. Nibley, F.A.R.M.S. and Deseret Book Company, with the cooperation of Bookcraft and others. This series culminates six F.A.R.M.S. projects involving the Nibley collection, including the Nibley bibliography, archive, reprint service, topical index, source index, and scriptural index.

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Full Issue Dec 2023

Full Issue

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Characters On Two Ancient American Cylinder Stamps And On The Anthon Transcript Compare Favorably Dec 2023

Characters On Two Ancient American Cylinder Stamps And On The Anthon Transcript Compare Favorably

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

One of the few systematic studies of the "caractors" of the "Anthon Transcript," as it was known a decade ago, was published by Carl Hugh Jones in 1970 as "The 'Anthon Transcript' and Two Mesoamerican Cylinder Seals." His paper appeared in the Newsletter of the Society for Early Historical Archaeology and is now available as a F.A.R.M.S. Reprint. The author is a museum professional with the Nebraska State Historical Society.

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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.

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Managing Editor Joins Farms Staff Dec 2023

Managing Editor Joins Farms Staff

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

This October, Mari Miles joined Les Campbell, Teri Bergstrom and Greg McMurdie on the F.A.R.M.S. staff. Mari was born in Denmark, raised in Salt Lake, and now lives with her husband and baby boy in Provo. She worked as a secretary for several years, in the BYU College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, the BYU Law School, and for businesses in Salt Lake.

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Farms Says "Thanks!" To 169 Substantial Donors Dec 2023

Farms Says "Thanks!" To 169 Substantial Donors

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

In recent months and years, 169 individuals and foundations have given generously to F.A.R.M.S. Below are listed the names of these people, to whom we owe a deep debt of gratitude. Each has given $100 or more; several have given in the thousands. We hope we have not overlooked anyone on this list, but if we have, we apologize and thank them just as much, too.

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Farms Copyright Policy Dec 2023

Farms Copyright Policy

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

F.A.R.M.S. materials may be freely used for non-pecuniary or non-publishing purposes. Pages from any preliminary report, Update or newsletter may be reproduced and used, without alteration, addition, or deletion, for any non-pecuniary or non-publishing purpose, without further permission.

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Short Notice Recent Research Dec 2023

Short Notice Recent Research

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

In October 1983, the F.A.R.M.S. Newsletter reported the way in which the gates of Shalmaneser Ill (858-824 B.C.), pictured in Yigael Yadin's The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands 2:399, attests to the practice of cutting off the arms, hands, feet, or other body parts of vanquished enemies. This ancient military practice seems related to Alma 17:39, where Ammon cuts off the arms of those thieves who tried to steal the king's livestock and the shepherds take the arms to the king as a testimony of what has been done. In a recent conversation, John Lundquist, at the New York …

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Expiration Dates Dec 2023

Expiration Dates

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Your address label on this newsletter shows an expiration code in the upper left-hand corner. The first two digits indicate the month, and the last two the year of expiration (for example, 05-86 is May 1986). It is important for you to check your expiration date. Since we remove all names and addresses for which the expiration date has passed, you will want to act promptly to remain on the mailing list.

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Enoch The Prophet Dec 2023

Enoch The Prophet

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

A major event last month was the publication of Hugh Nibley's Enoch the Prophet. Enoch's importance in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha is certainly equaled or surpassed by his central role in the Book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price. He is "the colossus that bestrides the Apocrypha as no other," writes Professor Nibley.

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Design And Implementation Of A Software System For Measuring Cookstove Emissions In Peru, Cody Arvonen Dec 2023

Design And Implementation Of A Software System For Measuring Cookstove Emissions In Peru, Cody Arvonen

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The particulate matter (PM), carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from cookstoves cause many potential health and environmental risks. This work outlines the design of a sensor system to accurately and affordably measure these gas quantities to aid in the certification of cookstoves for a laboratory in Peru. Our team was able to design and build this system at a price ten times reduced than the current commercial sensor unit in use. The performance of our sensor system was verified by comparing its PM and CO trends to that of the commercial unit. After testing, we …

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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 …

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Duverger's Law And Polarization In A Ranked Choice Citizen-Candidate Model, Bryan Frandsen Dec 2023

Duverger's Law And Polarization In A Ranked Choice Citizen-Candidate Model, Bryan Frandsen

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This paper expands on a citizen-candidate model of electoral competition under both plurality rule and ranked choice voting. The paper finds that ranked choice voting nominally avoids Duverger’s Law by accumulating many identical candidates but yields fewer viable equilibrium policy positions than plurality rule. Additionally, ranked choice voting favors moderate candidates and policies, increasing the probability of their implementation compared to plurality rule. This moderate bias leads to lower polarization in equilibrium than is possible under plurality rule.

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Introduction To The Special Issue: Issues Of Teaching Media Literacy In Russian Language Education, Karen Evans-Romaine, Liudmila Klimanova Dec 2023

Introduction To The Special Issue: Issues Of Teaching Media Literacy In Russian Language Education, Karen Evans-Romaine, Liudmila Klimanova

Russian Language Journal

The rapidly evolving political and cultural landscape of the contemporary world necessitates our continuous reevaluation of the competencies required for effective second language acquisition. As global communication and digital technologies continue to advance, the traditional paradigms of language learning must expand to include critical skills that enable learners to navigate and engage with the multifaceted media environment in the target language. In this context, media literacy emerges as a fundamental component of foreign language education, not only fostering linguistic proficiency but also emphasizing the significant role of analytical capabilities essential for discerning, scrutinizing, and interpreting information and disinformation as presented …

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Thermal Atomization On Superhydrophobic Surfaces Of Varying Temperature Jump Length, Eric D. Lee, Daniel Maynes, Julie Crockett, Brian D. Iverson Dec 2023

Thermal Atomization On Superhydrophobic Surfaces Of Varying Temperature Jump Length, Eric D. Lee, Daniel Maynes, Julie Crockett, Brian D. Iverson

Faculty Publications

This paper presents an experimental study of drop impingement and thermal atomization on hydrophobic and superhydrophobic (SH) surfaces. Superhydrophobic surfaces having both microscale and nanoscale geometry are considered. Microscale SH surfaces are coated with a hydrophobic coating and exhibit micropillars and cavities which are classified using the surface solid fraction and center to center pitch. The solid fraction and pitch values explored in this study range from 0.05-1.0 and 8-60 μm respectively. Nanoscale textured surfaces are created by applying a blanket layer of carbon nanotubes. Both types of surfaces are further classified by a temperature jump length (λ …

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Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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No abstract provided.

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Aar/Sbl Session To Be Held Nov 2023

Aar/Sbl Session To Be Held

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A call for papers has gone out for a new "Consultation" Session to be held at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Atlanta in late November.

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Statue Donated To Assist Book Of Mormon Studies Nov 2023

Statue Donated To Assist Book Of Mormon Studies

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

Stan Johnson, noted sculptor from Mapleton, Utah, has donated to FARMS a significant bronze statue of a Moqui Indian dancer. This beautiful gift is gratefully acknowledged. We are interested in locating connoisseurs of fine bronze to discuss the highest possible use the Foundation might make of this valuable piece of art. Any contacts would be welcomed.

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Doctrine & Covenants Book Benefits Farms Nov 2023

Doctrine & Covenants Book Benefits Farms

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

The Doctrine & Covenants by Themes, published recently by Bookcraft and edited by John and Jeannie Welch, is a useful study aid which will probably make the ideas of the Doctrine & Covenants more accessible to most readers. We make it available, since readers of the scriptures will find it handy and since all royalties for the book have been donated to FARMS.

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Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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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.

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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.

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Zelph Nov 2023

Zelph

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

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.

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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.

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