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Farms Praised At Fund-Raising Dinner Nov 2023

Farms Praised At Fund-Raising Dinner

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

F.A.R.M.S. sponsored an ''Evening of Excellence" fund-raising dinner on August 24 in Provo. The featured speaker was Dr. Truman Madsen, who urged those in attendance to continue to support the Foundation financially and in any other way possible.

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Giving To Farms: A Unique Opportunity Nov 2023

Giving To Farms: A Unique Opportunity

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

The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies is like no other foundation in the world. It is dedicated to promoting and coordinating groundbreaking research on the Book of Mormon and to popularizing and distributing those results as widely as possible. Giving to F.A.R.M.S. is one of the few organized ways people can do something specific to help bring the Book of Mormon to light.

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The Book Of Mormon And The Heavenly Book Motif, Brent E. Mcneely Nov 2023

The Book Of Mormon And The Heavenly Book Motif, Brent E. Mcneely

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The Book of Mormon has been dismissed with the assertion "you don't get books from angels ... it is just that simple." However, evidence from the ancient world indicates that many sacred works have been delivered to men by angels or other heavenly beings. Indeed, according to Orientalist Geo Widengren, "Few religious ideas in the Ancient East have played a more important role than the notion of the Heavenly Tablets or the Heavenly Books," which are "handed over [to a mortal] in an interview with a heavenly being" (Ascension of the Apostle and the Heavenly Book [Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1950], …

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Reviewers' Comments On The Bibliography Nov 2023

Reviewers' Comments On The Bibliography

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

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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).

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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.

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New Video Released Nov 2023

New Video Released

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

At the 1989 Book of Mormon Day, sponsored by the Foundation for Research on Ancient America in Independence, Missouri, John L. Sorenson was a featured speaker. Through the courtesy of the F.R.A.A., a video of his two half-hour presentations is now available to F.A.R.M.S. subscribers.

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Save And Donate--Both Nov 2023

Save And Donate--Both

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

F.A.R.M.S. subscribers now can save on phone bills and contribute to the Foundation at the same time. By signing up through F.A.R.M.S. for your long distance telephone service at a volume user's rate with U.S. Sprint, you can save on your long distance calls. And because we obtain this service through a business that wants to help F.A.R.M.S., a portion of what they receive is donated to the Foundation, even though your bills will likely be lower. And you will get credit for the donation, which you may claim on your tax return. At the end of each year, you …

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Evidence Of Voyages Nov 2023

Evidence Of Voyages

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A popular article recently published in the Canadian magazine Equinox contains a nice summary of current issues in regard to voyages from the Old World to America before Columbus. The writer, John Barber, handles the technical matters well and includes points from hitherto unpublished interviews with important scholars on the topic. Balance is maintained between the opposing sides in the argument over such voyages; no claim is made that colonizers positively made their way between the continents, yet the reader comes away realizing that significant evidence exists to support the notion.

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Antithetical Parallelism In The Book Of Mormon, Donald W. Parry Nov 2023

Antithetical Parallelism In The Book Of Mormon, Donald W. Parry

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T he writers of ancient scripture often contrasted one idea in one line or stanza with an opposite or antithetical idea in a parallel line or stanza. Recorded in Proverbs 13:9 is an example of antithetical parallelism.

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Recent Noon Book Of Mormon Seminars Nov 2023

Recent Noon Book Of Mormon Seminars

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

Interested BYU faculty and others continue to participate in an informal seminar on the Book of Mormon held on alternate Wednesdays in the conference room on the 9th floor of the Kimball Tower. For details, contact Noel Reynolds, 764 SWKT. Since January, seven papers have been presented, some of which have either already been published or will be published in the future.

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Additional Subscription Benefits Nov 2023

Additional Subscription Benefits

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We invite you to note the following regarding F.A.R.M.S. benefits.

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Second Major Volume Focuses On Lds Topics Nov 2023

Second Major Volume Focuses On Lds Topics

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The second volume of By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley has just been published by F.A.R.M.S. and Deseret Book. This completes a landmark 2-volume set of essays by fifty scholars. This volume contains many essays that will interest Latter-day Saint readers. Edited by Dr. John M. Lundquist and Dr. Stephen D. Ricks, the volume is divided into two parts. The section on the "Scriptures of the Latter-day Saints" contains ten articles- fully half the volume-that deal specifically with the Book of Mormon.

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Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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Scholarly Watch Nov 2023

Scholarly Watch

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A notice has appeared for Wilfred C. Griggs' book, Early Egyptian Christianity. This book is being published by E. J. Brill (1990), priced at Gld. 140, U5.$ 70.

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Nibley Lecture Series On Facsimile #2 Nov 2023

Nibley Lecture Series On Facsimile #2

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F.A.R.M.S. is sponsoring a new lecture series by Hugh Nibley on Facsimile #2 from the Pearl of Great Price. Beginning June 27 and continuing every Wednesday evening (except July 4) until he is finished, approximately 12 weeks, Nibley will discuss the ancient background of the facsimile and the ways that new interpretations in Egyptian studies help us understand its meaning. The lectures, which will be illustrated with slides, will be held at 7:00 P.M. in room 321 of the Maeser Building on the BYU campus and are open to the public without charge.

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The Original Bountiful Found? Nov 2023

The Original Bountiful Found?

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

Many F.A.R.M.S. members have read about research done by Australians Warren and Michaela Aston (see AST-88) on the area at the southern extremity of the Arabian peninsula. The Astons have examined several possible sites for Bountiful, where Nephi and others in Lehi's party constructed the ship which they sailed to the New World. A new visit last year, partially funded by F.A.R.M.S., gathered further data.

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Farms Undertakes New Publishing Venture Nov 2023

Farms Undertakes New Publishing Venture

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

We are pleased to announce the formation of FARMS Press, an educational publishing arm of the Foundation intended to help publish deserving scholarly books that cannot be published as well or at all elsewhere. Many valuable works on the Book of Mormon and related topics are too scholarly for commercial publishers or are too oriented to LOS concerns to be published or promoted well by scholarly publishers. F.A.R.M.S. has tried to fill that gap in the past for research papers, and now we will work to do the same for books.

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Mormon's Agenda Nov 2023

Mormon's Agenda

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

Again and again Mormon reminds us that he is drastically selecting and condensing as he constructs the Book of Mormon. We can learn much about the man by examining his choices of what to include and what to leave out.

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Colophons In The Book Of Mormon Nov 2023

Colophons In The Book Of Mormon

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At the start of 1 Nephi a heading, not marked with verse numbers, begins, "An account of Lehi and his wife Sariah, and his four sons" and ends, "I, Nephi, wrote this record." Dozens of these editorial entries or colophons (a form well known in nonscriptural documents from antiquity, as Nibley pointed out years ago) are found in the Book of Mormon. Together they instruct us about how the volume as we have it was assembled. The fact that these colophons have been handled differently in modem translations and printings obscures their nature.

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Archaeological Findings Discussed Nov 2023

Archaeological Findings Discussed

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

In a January presentation cosponsored by F.A.R.M.S., explorer Gene Savoy reported some of his latest archaeological findings to a large audience at BYU. Hehasdiscovered43 "lost cities" in the jungle and mountains of South America. His latest discovery, the Gran Vilaya, is said to cover approximately 100 square miles and is found some 400 miles north of Lima, Peru, in virtually unexplored tropical mountains that scholars had thought supported only small villages of agriculturalists.

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1989 Yields A Healthy Crop Of Books On The Book Of Mormon Nov 2023

1989 Yields A Healthy Crop Of Books On The Book Of Mormon

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

The 1989 Review of Books on the Book of Mormon has just been published. It is much more than a review. It contains several hundred pages of analysis and reflection on many Book of Mormon topics of most recent interest. It also contains a complete bibliography of everything published in 1989 on the Book of Mormon.

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An Lds Interpretation Of Jesus' Most Masterful Sermon Nov 2023

An Lds Interpretation Of Jesus' Most Masterful Sermon

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

The heart of the Book of Mormon is the Sermon of the resurrected Christ to the Nephites who had assembled at their temple in Bountiful (3Nephi 11- 18). The heart of that Sermon is Jesus' Sermon on the Mount from Palestine (Matthew 5-7), adapted to the Nephite setting.

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Warfare Volume Sheds Light On Large Sections Of The Nephite Record Nov 2023

Warfare Volume Sheds Light On Large Sections Of The Nephite Record

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

Published only days ago, Warfare in the Book of Mormon is the first of its kind: 534 pages exclusively dedicated to the study of warfare in the Book of Mormon, its ancient Near Eastern backgrounds, and its Mesoamerican settings.

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Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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Attend Nibley's Class--In Your Home Nov 2023

Attend Nibley's Class--In Your Home

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

Join Hugh Nibley in the classroom as he teaches the Pearl of Great Price on video. Watch the story of the Pearl of Great Price unfold; learn about the premortal existence, the council in heaven, the creation, the plurality of worlds, the geological problem, and other topics; discover such personalities as Adam, Eve, Cain, Enoch, and Abraham.

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Insights Into Genesis Nov 2023

Insights Into Genesis

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

Genesis Made Whole, by Todd Andersen, weaves all the words in the book of Genesis and related scriptural records, particularly the relevant materials in the books of Moses and Abraham and the Joseph Smith Translation, into a single account. It covers premortality, the creation, the Fall, and the lives and teachings of the ancients from Adam to Moses.

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Decorative Iron In Early Israel Nov 2023

Decorative Iron In Early Israel

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At times when iron was scarce, it was used as a precious decorative metal. So concludes a recent article, "King Og's Iron Bed-Fact or Fancy," Bible Review (April 1990): 16-21. Here, Alan R. Millard documents archaeological evidence for the early use of iron to decorate beds (see Deuteronomy 3:11) and thrones, as well as for bracelets and jewelry, weapons and royal swords. Such beds or jeweled boxes were not solid iron, but they were plated, veneered, or studded with the metal.

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Literary Aspects Of The Book Of Mormon Nov 2023

Literary Aspects Of The Book Of Mormon

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

In the third annual F.A.R.M.S. Book of Mormon lecture, entitled "The Book of Mormon, Designed for Our Day," Professor Richard D. Rust of the University of North Carolina discussed how the Book of Mormon was shaped artistically to speak to us in this day. He examined literary aspects of the book that develop the primary purposes set out in the title page.

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