Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Brigham Young University

Discipline
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 2611 - 2640 of 31060

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Board Chairman Recuperating Aug 2023

Board Chairman Recuperating

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

Stephen D. Ricks, chairman of the F.A.R.M.S. board of directors, is recovering nicely after undergoing brain surgery in Vienna to remove blood clots that had caused a stroke. The clots apparently originated in some deep bruising in his shoulder he received in a car accident. We appreciate the many expressions of concern and the prayer and fasting in Stephen's behalf, and we join with you in seeking the Lord's blessings for a complete and speedy recovery

Go to article

Call For Papers Aug 2023

Call For Papers

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

Paul Y. Hoskisson is soliciting articles to be included in a monograph entitled Historicity and Latter-day Saint Scripture. The papers should discuss the theoretical and practical historicity of the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and the Bible. Please send manuscripts by 1 July 1995 to Paul Y. Hoskisson, JSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-5601.

Go to article

New Contributions Extend The Book Of Mormon Lecture Series Aug 2023

New Contributions Extend The Book Of Mormon Lecture Series

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

Filming and production continue on the F.A.R.M.S. Book of Mormon Lecture Series. This outstanding series is being used in an increasing number of classrooms and homes and is being broadcast on public and cable TV as more and more students and teachers of the scriptures come to value the insights expressed in the lectures. Four additional lectures are now available on the order form that accompanies this issue of Insights. Each lecture is offered in three formats: video, audiotape, and printed transcript.

Go to article

Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Now On Audiocassette! Farms Book Of Mormon Lecture Series Aug 2023

Now On Audiocassette! Farms Book Of Mormon Lecture Series

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

The very popular Book of Mormon lecture series, originally produced on video, is now available on audiocassette-- the same outstanding lectures on the Book of Mormon by some of BYU's finest faculty members and other respected teachers.

Go to article

Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Board Notes Aug 2023

Board Notes

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

Donald W. Parry has returned from six months in Jerusalem. In addition to teaching an intensive Hebrew class at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, he provided volunteer help at the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, resulting in his being invited to assist Frank M. Cross in the preparation of one of the scroll volumes in the official publication series, Discoveries in the Judean Deseret.

Go to article

Participants At Byu Summer Programs Are Invited To Visit Farms Aug 2023

Participants At Byu Summer Programs Are Invited To Visit Farms

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

INSIGHT'S subscribers who attend programs at BYU this summer, such as Education Week or the CES Symposium, as well as any other friends of F.A.R.M.S. who find themselves in Provo, are invited to stop by the F.A.R.M.S. office. You'll find us on the third floor of Amanda Knight Hall, which is on the southwest edge of the BYU campus, on the comer of University Avenue and 800 North.

Go to article

On Your Honor, Jeanine Tew Aug 2023

On Your Honor, Jeanine Tew

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

What is an oath worth? It depends on who makes it. Each person (or group of people) from the Book of Mormon listed below on the left is associated in some way with oaths or promises. Match the person or group with the correct situation on the right. [This quiz was submitted by Jeanine Tew. We welcome similar educational contributions from other readers.]

Go to article

Recommended Separation Distances For 1.3 Ammunition And Explosives, Clint Guymon, Ming Liu, Josephine Covino Aug 2023

Recommended Separation Distances For 1.3 Ammunition And Explosives, Clint Guymon, Ming Liu, Josephine Covino

Faculty Publications

Separation Distances are used throughout the world to protect people and assets from the potential hazardous effects from propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics. The current separation distances for Hazard Division (HD) 1.3 substances and articles used in the United States, in some cases, may not adequately protect against the effects from heat flux and debris when those substances and articles are ignited in a confined structure. Multiple tests in such a confined scenario with HD 1.3 substances have shown that the heat flux and debris hazards could result in injury at distances beyond the current specified explosives safety separation distance (ESSD). …

Go to article

Featured In This Issue Aug 2023

Featured In This Issue

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

The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies has captured on film some of the best lectures on the Book of Mormon by some of BYU' s finest faculty members and other respected teachers. Ten lectures were offered previously, and now ten more are ready.

Go to article

Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Farms-Sponsored Researcher Searches For More Plant Evidence Of Voyages From India To America Aug 2023

Farms-Sponsored Researcher Searches For More Plant Evidence Of Voyages From India To America

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

Assisted by a grant from the Foundation, Carl L. Johannessen, Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, is now in India with an assistant searching for sculptured images of sunflowers and other American crop plants. Their earlier studies documented that images of maize from the New World had been carved on temple sculptures in India dating to medieval times, centuries before the Spaniards and Portuguese could have carried the plant to Asia after A.O. 1500, as scholars commonly suppose (Johannessen and Parker, "Maize Ears Sculpted in 12th and 13th Century A.O. India as Indicators of Pre-Columbian Diffusion," Economic …

Go to article

Revisiting The Land Of Jerusalem Via The Dead Sea Scrolls, Gordon C. Thomasson Aug 2023

Revisiting The Land Of Jerusalem Via The Dead Sea Scrolls, Gordon C. Thomasson

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

For over 160 years, beginning at least with the 1833 publication of Alexander Campbell's Delusions, countless critics have claimed that the Book of Mormon's use of the phrase "land of Jerusalem" was a major error and proof that the book was false. They especially criticized the use of this phrase in reference to the place where Christ would be born. That phrase was not used in the Bible nor in the Apocrypha. Therefore, the critics concluded, it was an example of Joseph Smith's ignorance and evidence that he had tried to perpetrate a fraud. (For a thorough overview of …

Go to article

Dead Sea Scroll Expert Gives Farms Lecture Aug 2023

Dead Sea Scroll Expert Gives Farms Lecture

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

Emanual Tov, an eminent Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, delivered the seventh annual F.A.R.M.S. lecture on February 22 in the BYU Varsity Theater on "The Hebrew Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls." Tov is Editor- in-Chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project and a world-renowned expert on the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. A transcript and video of his presentation are available on the order form. Tov gave a similar lecture in Salt Lake City (both lectures were presented to overflow crowds).

Go to article

What Does Recent Scholarship Really Say About The Book Of Mormon Aug 2023

What Does Recent Scholarship Really Say About The Book Of Mormon

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

A recently published collection of essays purports to examine the Book of Mormon using the latest scholarly tools and information. The authors of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology assert that such scholarship shows the Book of Mormon is not of ancient origin, that it was written, not translated, by Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century and reflects that time and that time alone.

Go to article

New Farms Book Shows Olive Tree Allegory Merits Honor And Attention Aug 2023

New Farms Book Shows Olive Tree Allegory Merits Honor And Attention

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

One of the most magnificent allegories in all of sacred literature, Zenos's allegory of the olive tree in Jacob 5, is the focus of a new collection of essays by LDS scholars: The Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5. The result of more than ten years of research, culminating in the 1992 annual F.A.R.M.S. symposium, these twenty-one essays by twenty LDS scholars examine the allegory of the olive tree and related topics from many perspectives, including historical, botanical, symbolic, religious, linguistic, and theological. Stephen D. Ricks and John W. Welch, both professors at …

Go to article

Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Nibley Broadcast Resumes Aug 2023

Nibley Broadcast Resumes

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

Semester 4 of Hugh Nibley's Honors Book of Mormon class will be broadcast on Sundays at 5:00 P.M. by KBYU-TV (channel 11) beginning January 2. At the completion of semester 4, KBYU plans to start over with semester 1, probably at a different time--watch future issues of Insights for details.

Go to article

Byu Library Consolidates Egyptian Collection With The Help Of Farms Aug 2023

Byu Library Consolidates Egyptian Collection With The Help Of Farms

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

Thanks to a donation from F.A.R.M.S, the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University has moved more than half of the Samuel A. B. Mercer Egyptology collection from various locations in the open stacks in the library to the Ancient Studies Library. According to Gary Gillum, the BYU Ancient Studies librarian, the collection will be more secure and protected in that location and will receive better use as a collection.

Go to article

Farms Lectures Draw Crowds; Other Lectures Are Scheduled Aug 2023

Farms Lectures Draw Crowds; Other Lectures Are Scheduled

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

Lectures, firesides, and other presentations sponsored by the Foundation have drawn considerable interest recently, and new ones are planned.

Go to article

Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Farms Assists In Publication Of Scroll Volume Aug 2023

Farms Assists In Publication Of Scroll Volume

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

Volume 13 of the series publishing the Dead Sea Scrolls, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, published by Oxford University Press, is the first to contain full concordances of all the words in the nonbiblical texts in context. The Foreword to this volume credits FARMS with assisting in the preparation of this concordance.

Go to article

Professors Millet And Reeve Add To The Farms Book Of Mormon Lecture Series Aug 2023

Professors Millet And Reeve Add To The Farms Book Of Mormon Lecture Series

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

Robert L. Millet, professor of ancient scripture and Dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University, has given another lecture in the FARMS Book of Mormon Lecture Series. "Fools before God: The Evils of Pride and the Power of Humility" echoes President Ezra Taft Benson's warning that "pride is the universal sin ... the great stumbling block of Zion." Millet examines patterns of pride in the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon, showing how pride can follow prosperity, how it manifests itself in beliefs and practices, and how it caused the downfall of many Book of Mormon peoples.

Go to article

Server Problems Aug 2023

Server Problems

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

The server on which the FARMS HomePage on the World Wide Web is located has suffered some crashes. We are working to find a new server on which to place the HomePage, and we should have a new address by the time the next issue of Insights is published.

Go to article

Abraham Divided Reprinted Aug 2023

Abraham Divided Reprinted

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

Aspen Books has brought back into print Daniel C. Peterson's 1992 work Abraham Divided: An LDS Perspective on the Middle East, in a revised second edition. In this book, Peterson examines the history of the peoples of the Middle East and illuminates their ancient conflicts and prophesied destinies. He reminds us that the blessings of the restored gospel are promised to people of both Jewish and Arab descent. And he tells the story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the region.

Go to article

Volunteers Translate A Popular Video Transcript Aug 2023

Volunteers Translate A Popular Video Transcript

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

Thanks to the generous efforts of some student volunteers, the transcript of one of the more popular videos in the FARMS Book of Mormon Lecture Series has been translated into both German and Spanish. Daniel C. Peterson's "A Scholar Looks at Evidences for the Book of Mormon" discusses recent research that supports the spiritual witness for the Book of Mormon, including such things as the translation process, studies of chiasmus, possible locations for events, ancient manuscripts that document practices and beliefs of past civilizations that are consistent with Book of Mormon accounts, Joseph's supposed misnaming of Jesus' birthplace, Joseph's lack …

Go to article

New Set Of Lectures To Be Broadcast On Kbyu Aug 2023

New Set Of Lectures To Be Broadcast On Kbyu

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

The Prophets and Their Messages, a new set of lectures in the FARMS Book of Mormon Lecture Series, will be broadcast on KBYU-TV (channel 11) beginning in January, every Sunday afternoon at 4:00. This series will include twenty-five lectures from BYU faculty on the major Book of Mormon prophets, analyzing their lives and teachings. Masters of the same set of lectures can also be made available for broadcast on cable and public access TV stations by special arrangement through the FARMS office.

Go to article

Popular Database Soon Available For Macintosh Aug 2023

Popular Database Soon Available For Macintosh

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

The Infobases company has announced that its LDS Collectors Library (1995 Edition) on CD-ROM will be available before Christmas. The Windows edition of this database was highly recommended in the most recent issue of the Review of Books on the Book of Mormon. While we have not yet had an opportunity to examine a copy of the library, we are optimistic that it will be a useful tool for Macintosh users, based on the Windows version.

Go to article

Lectures Honor Sperry's Work On The Book Of Mormon Aug 2023

Lectures Honor Sperry's Work On The Book Of Mormon

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

On October 7, 1995, hundreds of people gathered at BYU to attend the 24th annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, sponsored by Religious Education and the Church Educational System. Members of the Sperry family, faculty and students from BYU, and many other students of the scriptures heard five speakers address gospel topics in the 100th anniversary year of Sperry's birth. Papers from the symposium are being published by Deseret Book (available January 2). You may order a copy using the enclosed order form and we will mail it to you as soon as it is available.

Go to article

First Prev Next Last