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Full Issue Jul 2023

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

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Dead Sea Scrolls Documentary Available On Video Jul 2023

Dead Sea Scrolls Documentary Available On Video

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

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the status of ongoing scroll research by scholars from Brigham Yow1g University and FARMS were the focus of a one-hour KBYU-TV documentary that premiered on 24 January 1999. Titled LDS Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the program is available on videocassette from FARMS (see the order form).

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Study Guides On New Testament Themes Available Jul 2023

Study Guides On New Testament Themes Available

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

Richard Lloyd Anderson, professor emeritus of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University, has made available two outstanding course supplements on the New Testament. His expansive knowledge of the New Testament and early Christianity is readily apparent in Guide to the Life of Christ and Guide to Acts and the Apostles' Letters.

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The Sermon On The Mount: Restoration Of The Higher Law, John A. Tvedtnes Jul 2023

The Sermon On The Mount: Restoration Of The Higher Law, John A. Tvedtnes

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

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus introduced a higher law that had not been in force since the days of Moses. In order to fully understand the sermon, we must begin by examining the law of Moses.

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Ancient Manuscripts Fit Book Of Mormon Pattern, John Gee, John A. Tvedtnes Jul 2023

Ancient Manuscripts Fit Book Of Mormon Pattern, John Gee, John A. Tvedtnes

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

The Prophet Joseph Smith's claim that he translated an ancient text from gold plates he had found buried in the ground was greeted with disbelief in the press and in early anti-Mormon literature. Alexander Campbell, a prominent American religious leader who wrote the first book critical of the Book of Mormon, scoffed at the fact that it had been translated "from the reformed Egyptian!!!" Critics derided the Book of Mormon by calling it the "gold Bible," reflecting the skepticism about scripture being written on metal plates.

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Chiasmus Bibliography Marks Thirty Years Of Research Jul 2023

Chiasmus Bibliography Marks Thirty Years Of Research

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

As a missionary in Germany in 1967, John W. Welch, along with his companion, attended a theological lecture in which the professor explained chiasmus, a kind of literary parallelism prevalent in the Bible. Soon thereafter Welch was the first person to discover superb examples of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, a strong indication of that record's ancient and artistic composition. Bringing this to the professor's attention, Welch was unceremoniously dismissed. But the response a few months later from a Jesuit priest who was an authority on the subject was encouraging, even prophetic: "You are very fortunate. I think you …

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Was Mulek A "Blood Son" Of King Zedekiah?, John L. Sorenson Jul 2023

Was Mulek A "Blood Son" Of King Zedekiah?, John L. Sorenson

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

The Book of Mormon identifies Mulek as the only son of King Zedekiah to escape execution during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem (Omni 1:15; Helaman 8:21). Like the Lehites, Mulek and those with him fled Jerusalem and were "brought by the hand of the Lord across the great waters" (Omni 1:16). Descendants of the group later settled in the land of Zarahemla, where the people under Mosiah discovered them and Mosiah became king when the two groups merged into a single polity (Omni 1:19).

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Imaging Charred Scrolls: Petra And Herculaneum Jul 2023

Imaging Charred Scrolls: Petra And Herculaneum

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

FARMS is involved in two overseas projects in which its use of state-of-the-art multispectral imaging technology is helping illuminate the writing on ancient scrolls damaged by fire long ago.

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Reprint Examines Chiasmus In Ancient Literature Jul 2023

Reprint Examines Chiasmus In Ancient Literature

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

Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, a groundbreaking book out of print for a decade, is now published for the first time in the United State1 as a FARMS reprint (see the enclosed order form) . First released in 1981 in Germany, this volume of essays edited by Professor John W. Welch devotes more than three hundred pages to identifying and analyzing chiasmus in ancient texts. Chiasmus is a form of literary parallelism in which the elements of a textual passage are first presented in one order and then repeated in reverse order.

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Full Issue Jul 2023

Full Issue

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

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Lectures Open Windows On Ancient World Jul 2023

Lectures Open Windows On Ancient World

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

In full swing since the beginning of fall semester, FARMS brown bag lectures have kept attendees updated on an array of topics in ancient research.

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Background On The Gospels, John A. Tvedtnes Jul 2023

Background On The Gospels, John A. Tvedtnes

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

The term gospel means "good news" and has specific reference to the news of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The word came to be applied to histories of the life and ministry of Christ because Mark began his account with the words "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God ... " (Mark 1:1).

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Tents In The Book Of Mormon, John L. Sorenson Jul 2023

Tents In The Book Of Mormon, John L. Sorenson

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

Rerences to New World tents in the Book of Mormon raise legitimate questions about whether tents are known from scholarly sources on Mesoamerica. The earliest evidence comes from historical documents written around the time of the Spanish conquest in 1521, or more than one thousand years after the demise of the Nephite civilization. These records indicate that different kinds of tents and tent-like structures were in regular use by Aztec armies and that, when the Spaniards saw them, they immediately labeled them tiendas, "tents."

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Article Explains How New Testament Books Were Chosen Jul 2023

Article Explains How New Testament Books Were Chosen

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

Within a century of the death of Jesus Christ, Christians had produced a body of religious writings that preserved and complemented their presumably rich oral tradition. This small but diverse library included various accounts of Christ's birth, collections of his sayings, reports of his wondrous deeds and the missionary activities of his apostles, Paul's letters, homilies, and more. A few centuries later, some of these writings became canonized as accepted scriptures to the exclusion of others. Who made those crucial decisions? How, when, and under what circumstances was our present New Testament canon determined?

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Revised Book Extends Lds Scholar's Analysis Of Jesus' Immortal Sermon Jul 2023

Revised Book Extends Lds Scholar's Analysis Of Jesus' Immortal Sermon

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

John W. Welch has revised and updated his 1990 book The Sermon at the Temple and the Sermon on the Mount, which presented a thorough Latter-day Saint interpretation of Jesus' masterful sermon delivered to his disciples in New Testament Galilee and in New World Bountiful. The new FARMS paperback edition, titled Illuminating the Sermon at the Temple and Sermon on the Mount: An Approach to 3 Nephi 11-18 and Matthew 5-7, features a new chapter and several new sections that offer interesting support for viewing the Sermon as a ritual text.

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Full Issue Jul 2023

Full Issue

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

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Creation Stories From Popolvuh, Allen J. Christenson Jul 2023

Creation Stories From Popolvuh, Allen J. Christenson

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

The following extracts are from Allen J. Christenson's free translation of the creation accounts found in the Popol Vuh. According to Christenson, this religious book of the K'iche'-Maya was completed in the mid-16th century, yet it contains "ancient theological concepts current among the people of Mesoamerica at a time contemporaneous with Book of Mormon history." Readers interested in the following accounts may wish to consult Christenson's complete translation of the Popol Vuh (see article on page 1) because of the helpful glosses that are not reproduced here.

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"Slippery Treasures" In The Book Of Mormon: A Concept From The Ancient World Jul 2023

"Slippery Treasures" In The Book Of Mormon: A Concept From The Ancient World

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

In calling the Nephites to repentance, Samuel the Lamanite warned that "the time cometh that [the Lord] curseth your riches, that they become slippery, that ye cannot hold them; and in the days of your poverty ye cannot retain them" (Helaman 13:31). In that day the Nephites would lament, "We have hid up our treasures and they have slipped away from us, because of the curse of the land. 0 that we had repented in the day that the word of the Lord came unto us; for behold the land is cursed, and all things are become slippery, and we …

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The Bible And The Dead Sea Scrolls Jul 2023

The Bible And The Dead Sea Scrolls

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

In the June 1999 issue of Bible Review, Sidnie White Crawford, associate professor and chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, considers what the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal about the position of early Jews on the emendation, authority, and canonicity of biblical texts. Crawford begins by noting that neither a canonical Bible nor even a fixed text of the Torah (Genesis-Deuteronomy) existed when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written (250 B.C.-A.D. 70).

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New Translation Of Popol Vuh Available Jul 2023

New Translation Of Popol Vuh Available

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

Popol Vuh: The Mythic Sections--Tales of First Beginnings from the Ancient K'iche'-Maya, translated and edited by Allen J. Christenson, is the second book in FARMS's Ancient Texts and Mormon Studies series. Inaugurating the series was James E. Faulconer's Romans 1: Notes and Reflections. Works in this series include the text in its original language, a readable English translation, and commentary on the text especially by LDS scholars.

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Full Issue Jul 2023

Full Issue

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

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Reprint Of Herculaneum Report Available Jul 2023

Reprint Of Herculaneum Report Available

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

FARMS is offering a reprint of a published technical report describing a CPART team’s groundbreaking work of applying multispectral imaging technology to produce stunning new images of the Herculaneum papyri. Written by Steven W. Booras of CPART and David R. Seely, an associate professor of ancient scripture at BYU, the report appeared in English in the respected Italian journal Cronache Ercolanesi (vol. 29, 1999, 95–100).

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To All The World Jul 2023

To All The World

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

This new selection of materials from the incomparable Encyclopedia of Mormonism features 151 Book of Mormon articles by 115 scholars and articulate authors and includes new indexes and expanded sources. To All the World is intended for all kinds of readers-young and old, novices and experts, Latter-day Saints and those of other faiths-who wish to enhance their understanding and appreciation of the Book of Mormon.

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Nibley Counters World’S View Of Prophets Jul 2023

Nibley Counters World’S View Of Prophets

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

“What is a prophet?” Hugh Nibley asks in his book The World and the Prophets, observing that Jewish and Christian doctors have always agreed that “Abraham . . . and the prophets are dead.” He observes that, with the prophets being thus disposed of, the word prophet has tragically come to mean almost any individual of more than ordinary insight, learning, or rhetorical gifts. Given this situation, Nibley believes that his larger purpose of vindicating the prophets is best undertaken by first getting fair-minded people to agree on a few things that a real prophet is not.

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Farms Web Page Update Jul 2023

Farms Web Page Update

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

This month the Featured Papers section of the FARMS Web site is spotlighting three FARMS papers of special interest to students of the Book of Mormon. Larry C. Porter’s “The Book of Mormon: Historical Setting for Its Translation and Publication,” Richard L. Anderson’s “Book of Mormon Witnesses,” and Stephen D. Ricks’s “The Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon” are available to all visitors to the site to read online or to download and print at no cost. (For help in printing these papers in a reader-friendly format, see the Web page section in the April issue of INSIGHTS.)

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The Popol Vuh And Mormon Studies, Allen J. Christenson Jul 2023

The Popol Vuh And Mormon Studies, Allen J. Christenson

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

Over the years, the Popol Vuh has received considerable attention among LDS scholars as the best source of authentic ancient American history and religion outside the Book of Mormon. The new translation of the Popul Vuh,1 complete with extensive introduction and the original Maya text in parallel columns, invites further comparison between this Mesoamerican source and LDS scriptures.

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Nibley Fellows Secure Teaching Appointments Jul 2023

Nibley Fellows Secure Teaching Appointments

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

FARMS continues to sponsor a graduate fellowship program that awards financial aid to students pursuing advanced degrees in fields of special interest to FARMS. Named in honor of eminent Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley, the Nibley Fellowship is made possible by generous donations from individuals committed to fostering the next generation of faithful scholars who will contribute to the work of the Foundation. Three such rising scholars have accepted teaching appointments and are well on their way to fulfilling the expectations behind the Nibley Fellowship.

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Herculaneum Project Exceeds Expectations Jul 2023

Herculaneum Project Exceeds Expectations

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

In February 1999 INSIGHTS reported on a proposed FARMS project involving multispectral imaging (MSI) of carbonized scrolls excavated at Herculaneum, an ancient site near Naples, Italy. One month later, a FARMS team traveled to the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples to conduct tests on the Herculaneum papyri to see if these fragile, deteriorating texts could be successfully imaged. The test images surpassed all expectations, and the FARMS Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (CPART) received permission to image the library’s collection of Herculaneum texts.

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Full Issue Jul 2023

Full Issue

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

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Farms Welcomes New Director Of Publications Jul 2023

Farms Welcomes New Director Of Publications

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

The FARMS Board of Trustees has appointed Alison V. P. Coutts as the new Director of Publications. She succeeds Melvin J. Thorne, who has accepted a position as associate professor in the Department of English at BYU.

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