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Review: Etga Ugur. Faith And Politics In The Public Sphere: The Gülen Movement And The Mormon Church. Syracuse, Ny: Syracuse University Press, 2019., Jean-François Mayer Jan 2021

Review: Etga Ugur. Faith And Politics In The Public Sphere: The Gülen Movement And The Mormon Church. Syracuse, Ny: Syracuse University Press, 2019., Jean-François Mayer

Mormon Studies Review

When I accepted the invitation to review this book, published in a valuable series on Religion and Politics of which I had enjoyed reading several volumes, I assumed that it was a study of interactions between the Gülen movement (also known as Hizmet [service], emphasizing the social service projects for which the movement is well known) and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—something that I found intriguing, since I could not conceive how such a topic might deserve a full volume. I realized my mistake as soon as I started to read it. No sensational revelations about hidden …

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Review: Kim Östman. Mormonit: Historia, Oppi Ja Elämä. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2019., Titus Hjelm Jan 2021

Review: Kim Östman. Mormonit: Historia, Oppi Ja Elämä. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2019., Titus Hjelm

Mormon Studies Review

Growing up in Finland in the 1980s, it was practically impossible to hear someone speak Finnish with an accent. In a time when immigrants were more or less nonexistent, it would have been difficult to imagine why anyone would bother learning the language spoken by five million people at the northern periphery of Europe. That is, apart from a handful of immaculately dressed and groomed American men. Although never as ubiquitous as Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on doors, the Mormon missionaries and their perfect, if accented, Finnish left a deep impression on one young person, who later became a sociologist of …

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Review: Elisha Mcintyre. Religious Humor In Evangelical Christian And Mormon Culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018., John-Charles Duffy Jan 2021

Review: Elisha Mcintyre. Religious Humor In Evangelical Christian And Mormon Culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018., John-Charles Duffy

Mormon Studies Review

In 2005 Sunstone magazine published an essay I had written, “The New Missionary Discussions and the Future of Correlation.” To make it look less boring on the page, Sunstone’s editorial staff decided to illustrate the essay with cartoons related to Latter-day Saint missionary work. I was invited to propose cartoon concepts, which would then be executed by Jeanette Atwood, a cartoonist Sunstone often employed. I sat down with my husband to brainstorm. In one of our cartoon concepts, which Sunstone accepted, two missionaries are teaching the plan of salvation with the aid of a flip chart. One missionary tells the …

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Review: Quincy D. Newell. Your Sister In The Gospel: The Life Of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019., Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Jan 2021

Review: Quincy D. Newell. Your Sister In The Gospel: The Life Of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019., Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

Mormon Studies Review

In Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth Century Black Mormon, Quincy D. Newell explores the earliest years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints through a biography of Jane James, an African American convert whose devotion to the church situated her amid some of its most pivotal moments. Beginning with Jane’s birth to free parents in Connecticut in the 1820s and ending with her death in Salt Lake City in 1908, Newell documents how race and gender shaped Jane’s experiences of Mormonism, as well as how Jane’s and other Black Mormons’ …

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Review: Jedediah S. Rogers And Matthew C. Godfrey, Eds. The Earth Will Appear As The Garden Of Eden: Essays On Mormon Environmental History. Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2019., Camden Burd Jan 2021

Review: Jedediah S. Rogers And Matthew C. Godfrey, Eds. The Earth Will Appear As The Garden Of Eden: Essays On Mormon Environmental History. Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2019., Camden Burd

Mormon Studies Review

The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History fits into an established trend in environmental history. Over the past decades, historians from Lynn White Jr. to Mark R. Stoll have established the religious roots of environmental change in human history.1 Like those scholars, the contributors to this collection seek to understand the complicated and interconnected relationship between theology, faith, and the natural world. Divided across three sections, The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden provides a much-welcomed examination of the environmental aspects of Mormon theology, culture, and history.

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Review: Candy Moulton. The Mormon Handcart Migration: “Tounge Nor Pen Can Never Tell The Sorrow.” Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, 2019., Megan Ann Stanton Jan 2021

Review: Candy Moulton. The Mormon Handcart Migration: “Tounge Nor Pen Can Never Tell The Sorrow.” Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, 2019., Megan Ann Stanton

Mormon Studies Review

After surviving the overland trail as a member of the Martin Handcart Company, Heber McBride asserted, “tounge nor pen can never tell the sorrow and suffering” (81). At the age of thirteen, he and his adolescent sister Janetta had tended to their ailing parents and younger siblings while moving the family’s handcart themselves. They buried their father during their journey and, together with other members of the ill-fated Martin and Willie Handcart Companies, they faced life-threatening weather and starvation. Indeed, at least one-seventh of the Willie and one-fifth of the Martin handcart migrants perished during their 1856 treks.

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Review: Erik R. Seeman. Speaking With The Dead In Early America. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2019., Tricia R. Peone Jan 2021

Review: Erik R. Seeman. Speaking With The Dead In Early America. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2019., Tricia R. Peone

Mormon Studies Review

Erik Seeman’s Speaking with the Dead in Early America traces the development of a cult of the dead among Euro-Americans in the Northeast over a period of three hundred years. This impressive study explores religious and popular views toward communication with the dead and the surprising role of those views in shaping Protestantism. Seeman seeks to explain how Protestants understood otherworldly communication prior the emergence of the Spiritualist movement in the late 1840s. The eight chapters in this volume follow chronological order from the seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, with some chapters focused on material objects and others on texts …

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Review: Craig S. Smith, Ed. The Selected Letters Of Juanita Brooks. Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2019., Claudia L. Bushman Jan 2021

Review: Craig S. Smith, Ed. The Selected Letters Of Juanita Brooks. Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2019., Claudia L. Bushman

Mormon Studies Review

This book reproduces 222 letters of the more than nine hundred extant letters of Juanita Brooks, the fiercely honest and highly respected historian of Utah and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The letters in this collection, written to fellow scholars and friends, date from 1941 to 1978 and trace the development of her historical projects and her interaction with many of her contemporaries. Craig S. Smith has chosen to include the letters in their entirety, rather than editing them for specific facts and quotations, arranging them chronologically in subject groups. That Brooks typed those letters, filing away …

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End Matter Jan 2021

End Matter

Mormon Studies Review

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Codex Exoniensis, Fols. 123b-124b: An Old English Poetic Romano-British Arts Encomium, Liam O. Purdon Jan 2021

Codex Exoniensis, Fols. 123b-124b: An Old English Poetic Romano-British Arts Encomium, Liam O. Purdon

Quidditas

Codex Exoniensis, fols. 123b-124b, commonly called The Ruin, is an Old English poem that has suffered both from physical damage, and from a kind of interpretive “damage,” the result of critical resignation in response to the work’s physical condition, revealing itself as much in continued critical acceptance of the work’s title as in continued acceptance of the critical assumption that the work’s total effect is forever lost to us. Enough of the poem’s whole and fragmentary lines exist, however, to confirm the purpose of two distinct emphases that draw attention to a yearning for restoration of the cultural traditions once …

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Visualizing Women: Teaching Modern Images And Medieval Texts About Pre-Modern Women, Esther Liberman Cuenca Jan 2021

Visualizing Women: Teaching Modern Images And Medieval Texts About Pre-Modern Women, Esther Liberman Cuenca

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This paper examines two visual texts for teaching a course called “Saints, Wives and Witches” at the University of Houston-Victoria: Jennifer A. Rea’s graphic novel Perpetua’s Journey (Oxford, 2018), which illustrates the eponymous North African martyr’s third-century prison diary, and the film Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, who drew on feminist readings of Hildegard of Bingen’s writings for the purposes of dramatization. The course itself followed a chronology that took students from antiquity to the early modern period and was divided into thematic units that highlighted women’s intersecting identities with regards …

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“All Can Partake, Freely”, Daniel C. Peterson Jan 2021

“All Can Partake, Freely”, Daniel C. Peterson

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

The Interpreter Foundation welcomes faithful ideas, insights, and manuscripts from people of all backgrounds. In this brief essay, I share some that were recently shared with me regarding Lehi’s vision of the tree of life, as recorded in 1 Nephi 8. Among other things, Lehi seems to have been shown that the divine offer of salvation extends far beyond a small elite. As Peter exclaims in the King James rendering of Acts 10:34, “God is no respecter of persons.” Other translations render the same words as saying that he doesn’t “play favorites” or “show partiality.” The passage in James 1:5 …

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Poesy And Prosody In The Book Of Mormon, Robert F. Smith Jan 2021

Poesy And Prosody In The Book Of Mormon, Robert F. Smith

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

Robert Smith makes the case that “poetic art in the Book of Mormon is highly developed” — you just need to have the eye to recognize it. Though many readers are aware of the stunning examples of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, thanks to the pioneering work by John W. Welch, fewer are acquainted with the other important forms of parallelism that pervade the text, often placed strategically to highlight the importance of a particular passage. Smith also shows why apocalpytic texts, sometimes thought to originate at a later period, can be found, for example, in the first chapter …

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Honoring Hugh Nibley — Again, Louis Midgley Jan 2021

Honoring Hugh Nibley — Again, Louis Midgley

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

Hugh Nibley Observed is the third assembly of essays honoring Nibley by his friends and admirers. It differs from the other two in many ways. It is packed with photographs, observations by his children about their father, and many other similar and related items that are often deeply personal reflections on Nibley as well as the influence he has had on Latter- day Saint intellectual life and also the faith of the Saints. Its contents are far more accessible than the strictly scholarly works written by the academic friends and colleagues of Nibley. There is some of that in this …

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Jesus’ First Visit To The Temple, S. Kent Brown Jan 2021

Jesus’ First Visit To The Temple, S. Kent Brown

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

In this rich and detailed description, S. Kent Brown paints an evocative, historically contextualized account of Jesus Christ’s first visit to the Jerusalem Temple since his infancy, when at age twelve he traveled with his family to attend Passover.

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Better Kingdom-Building Through Triage, Daniel C. Peterson Jan 2021

Better Kingdom-Building Through Triage, Daniel C. Peterson

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

We are called to take the Gospel to the entire world, but our numbers are few and our time and resources are limited. This is where cold calculation can help. A field-surgical technique pioneered during the Napoleonic Wars of the early nineteenth century and refined in the butchery of World War I a century later offers a useful model for making our missionary efforts more efficient and more effective.

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Ancient Temple Imagery In The Sermons Of Jacob, David E. Bokovoy Jan 2021

Ancient Temple Imagery In The Sermons Of Jacob, David E. Bokovoy

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

This essay makes a compelling argument for Jacob, the brother of Nephi, having deep knowledge of ancient Israelite temple ritual, concepts, and imagery, based on two of Jacob’s sermons in 2 Nephi 9 and Jacob 1-3. For instance, he discusses the duty of the priest to expiate sin and make atonement before the Lord and of entering God’s presence. Jacob quotes temple-related verses from the Old Testament, like Psalm 95. The allusions to the temple are not forced, but very subtle. Of course, Jacob’s central topic, the atonement, is a temple topic itself, and its opposite, impurity, is also expressed …

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Glad Tidings From Cumorah: Interpreting The Book Of Mormon Through The Eyes Of Someone In Hell, Steve Fotheringham Jan 2021

Glad Tidings From Cumorah: Interpreting The Book Of Mormon Through The Eyes Of Someone In Hell, Steve Fotheringham

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

This article offers evidence that at least some Book of Mormon authors may have understood the potential for post-mortal preaching of the gospel. Indeed, they may have recognized that the future Book of Mormon would be a tool to spread the gospel not only among the living but also among those in the spirit world. Prophecies about the message of the Book of Mormon and the restored gospel being for all mankind may have broader scope than previously recognized, with application on both sides of the veil.

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The Origin And Purpose Of The Book Of Mormon Phrase “If Ye Keep My Commandments Ye Shall Prosper In The Land”, Taylor Halverson Jan 2021

The Origin And Purpose Of The Book Of Mormon Phrase “If Ye Keep My Commandments Ye Shall Prosper In The Land”, Taylor Halverson

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

We are told in the Title Page of the Book of Mormon that the Book of Mormon was revealed in our day “to show unto the remnant of the house of Israel what great things the Lord hath done for their fathers; and that they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off forever.” Hence, the covenantal context, structure, and logic of the Book of Mormon demand further consideration, exploration, and elucidation. A prosperous starting point is the phrase “If ye keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land.” This covenantal phrase is used …

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Book Of Abraham Polemics: Dan Vogel’S Broad Critique Of The Defense Of The Book Of Abraham, Jeff Lindsay Jan 2021

Book Of Abraham Polemics: Dan Vogel’S Broad Critique Of The Defense Of The Book Of Abraham, Jeff Lindsay

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

Dan Vogel’s latest book claims to offer clear-cut evidence showing what, when, and how Joseph Smith fraudulently translated the Book of Abraham. While he claims to use an objective approach, he instead weaves a polemical agenda that ignores some of the most important scholarship in favor of the Book of Abraham. He ignores crucial evidence and relies on assumptions and hypotheses as if they were established facts. The arguments of apologists, which he claims to be reviewing and critiquing, are often overlooked or, when treated, attacked without letting readers know the substance of the apologetic argument. He neglects key arguments …

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Front Matter Jan 2021

Front Matter

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Discipleship As The World Collapses Around You, Loren Spendlove Jan 2021

Discipleship As The World Collapses Around You, Loren Spendlove

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

Adam Miller has created a thoughtful and enlightening theological study of the book of Mormon. It is obvious from his textual commentary that Miller has given a significant amount of thought and effort into teasing out practical insights from the book’s original authors. Except for some clumsy distractions that occasionally appear in his text, I would highly recommend Miller’s analysis of Mormon’s and Moroni’s apocalyptic narratives.

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Hellish Indigestion: Consumption As Knowledge In Medieval Descensus Christi Accounts, Harley Joyce Campbell Jan 2021

Hellish Indigestion: Consumption As Knowledge In Medieval Descensus Christi Accounts, Harley Joyce Campbell

Quidditas

Present throughout medieval iconography and drama, the hellmouth relays a frightening glimpse of what awaits sinners after death. However, our perception of the hellmouth becomes complicated when we study these images in conjunction with Hell’s portrayal as a speaking character. Ascribing anthropomorphic qualities to Hell makes its theological implications more approachable for a non-clerical audience, effectively forming connections between human sinners and a figure of unimaginable monstrosity. This essay examines the medieval Latin Gospel of Nicodemus and its first Middle English descendant, the verse Digby Harrowing of Hell, in terms of how these texts describe the physiology of Hell …

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Premodern Pedagogies: Queer Medieval Materiality, Hilary Rhodes Jan 2021

Premodern Pedagogies: Queer Medieval Materiality, Hilary Rhodes

Quidditas

In this paper, I address some of the challenges facing medieval queer history in the classroom, in academic scholarship, and in public-facing work. My intentions are to dynamically integrate some common pedagogical questions with supporting literature to explore them, and argue that any comprehensive study of premodern men, women, and gender must take queer history into account. The subject may feel intimidating, but I encourage all historians to familiarize themselves with the material, gain confidence in teaching it, and integrate it even outside of dedicated courses on the history of gender and sexuality. The below is offered as a brief …

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Front Matter Jan 2021

Front Matter

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

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The Pleading Bar Of God, Royal Skousen Jan 2021

The Pleading Bar Of God, Royal Skousen

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

Royal Skousen’s essay shed light on enigmatic references in Jacob 6:13 and Moroni 10:34 to “the pleasing bar of God.” After establishing that the term “pleading bar” is an appropriate legal term, he cites both internal evidence and the likelihood of scribal errors as explanations for why “pleasing bar,” instead of the more likely “pleading bar,” appears in current editions of the Book of Mormon.

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Prolegomena To A Study Of The Egyptian Alphabet Documents In The Joseph Smith Papers, John Gee Jan 2021

Prolegomena To A Study Of The Egyptian Alphabet Documents In The Joseph Smith Papers, John Gee

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

For many theories about the Book of Abraham, the Egyptian Alphabet documents are seen as the key to understanding the translation process. While the original publication of those documents allows many researchers access to the documents for the first time, careful attention to the Joseph Smith Papers as a whole and the practices of Joseph Smith’s scribes in particular allows for improvements in the date, labeling, and understanding of the historical context of the Egyptian Alphabet documents. This essay supports the understanding of these documents found in the other volumes of the Joseph Smith Papers that the Egyptian Alphabet documents …

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Record-Keeping Technology Among God’S People In Ancient And Modern Times, Richard E. Turley Jr., Stephen O. Smoot Jan 2021

Record-Keeping Technology Among God’S People In Ancient And Modern Times, Richard E. Turley Jr., Stephen O. Smoot

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

In a fascinating survey of the efforts of ancient and modern Saints to honor the Lord’s commandment to keep reliable records of their doings, the authors take us on a colorful tour of the past, present, and future of technology for records preservation. These efforts are not only aweinspiring, but have had and will have important consequences for the faith and memory of the goodness of God and the fulfillment of His purposes in history.

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Tree Of Life, Tree Of Healing, John Tvedtnes Jan 2021

Tree Of Life, Tree Of Healing, John Tvedtnes

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

The late Hebrew scholar John Tvedtnes takes readers on a grand tour of Jewish and Christian stories and traditions that attest to the Tree of Life as not only a means to prolong life, but also to impart a healing power to individuals and to the earth itself. In a future day, it is said that the Saints will eat of its sweet fruit forever.

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The Inclusive, Anti-Discrimination Message Of The Book Of Mormon, David M. Belnap Jan 2021

The Inclusive, Anti-Discrimination Message Of The Book Of Mormon, David M. Belnap

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

Attitudes of superiority lead to societal conflict. The racial interpretation of a few Book of Mormon verses has contributed to these attitudes and conflicts, yet hundreds of inclusive messages are found in more than half of the book’s verses. God’s message, love, mercy, and justice are for all people. Righteous people did not think themselves above others, nor did they persecute others or start wars. War is tragic and is caused by wickedness. Conspiracies are a great evil. Righteous people were kind in their attitudes and actions, regardless of others’ social status or ethnicity. Some Book of Mormon people even …

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