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Agraphon From An Unknown Gospel, Stephen Edward Robinson Apr 1996

Agraphon From An Unknown Gospel, Stephen Edward Robinson

BYU Studies

Agraphon from an unknown gospel. Egerton Papyrus 2, fragment I, verso side. 11.5 cm. x 9.2 cm. Dated middle of the second century.


Light On The “Mission To The Lamanites”, Leland H. Gentry Apr 1996

Light On The “Mission To The Lamanites”, Leland H. Gentry

BYU Studies

The 1831 expulsion of Mormon missionaries from Indian territory and their subsequent proposal to establish territorial schools are documented in letters from the contending parties.


Rendering The Ineffable Effable: Treating Joseph Smith's First Vision In Imaginative Literature, Richard H. Cracroft Apr 1996

Rendering The Ineffable Effable: Treating Joseph Smith's First Vision In Imaginative Literature, Richard H. Cracroft

BYU Studies

The historical and imaginative renderings of the First Vision suggest individual patterns for seeking divine direction and drawing believers closer to the ultimate goal of knowing God.


The Significance Of “O My Father” In The Personal Journey Of Eliza R. Snow, Jill Mulvay Derr Jan 1996

The Significance Of “O My Father” In The Personal Journey Of Eliza R. Snow, Jill Mulvay Derr

BYU Studies

When Eliza articulated her attachment to the eternal household where she had resided and would yet dwell, she defined the polestar by which she would orient herself the rest of her life.


Brief Notices, Byu Studies Jan 1996

Brief Notices, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Full Issue, Byu Studies Jan 1996

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Leaving Too Soon, Lisa Bolin Hawkins Jan 1996

Leaving Too Soon, Lisa Bolin Hawkins

BYU Studies

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All Tucked In, Trenton L. Hickman Jan 1996

All Tucked In, Trenton L. Hickman

BYU Studies

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End Matter, Byu Studies Jan 1996

End Matter, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Family Land And Records Center In Nauvoo, Susan Easton Black Jan 1996

Family Land And Records Center In Nauvoo, Susan Easton Black

BYU Studies

The Family Land and Records Center is a research center in Nauvoo with many documents available to assist those interested in family history. The records center has documents of residents of Nauvoo, Iowa, and Illinois, from 1839 to 1845. These records include burial records, industry records, temple ordinance records, property records, tax records, occupational records, court records, and more. As of 2013, the Land and Records Office can be found at http://www.historicnauvoo.net/2010/01/land-and-records-office/.

Susan Easton Black, "Family Land and Records Center in Nauvoo" BYU Studies 36, no. 1.


Hymn: Every Kindred, Tongue, And People, Arthur Henry King Jan 1996

Hymn: Every Kindred, Tongue, And People, Arthur Henry King

BYU Studies

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Testimony In Art: John Hafen's Illustrations For “O My Father”, Dawn Pheysey Jan 1996

Testimony In Art: John Hafen's Illustrations For “O My Father”, Dawn Pheysey

BYU Studies

When artist John Hafen was a young man, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent him to the Julian Academy in Paris so that he could improve his skills and further the kingdom by painting murals for the Church. Towards the end of his life, Hafen used the artistic skills he had developed to create eight illustrations for the famous poem “O My Father” by Eliza R. Snow. His lifetime of struggle gave him a spiritual maturity that is clear in his sincere and beautiful work. The art for "O My Father" has been called one …


“O My Father”: The Musical Settings, Michael Hicks Jan 1996

“O My Father”: The Musical Settings, Michael Hicks

BYU Studies

Saints sang this hymn to musical settings ranging from a Stephen Foster tune to a melody played by a Nephite in a dream. But eventually they canonized a tune form the genre of "gospel hymns."


Changes In The Religious Devotion Of Latter-Day Saints Throughout The Life Cycle, Barry L. Johnson, James T. Duke Jan 1996

Changes In The Religious Devotion Of Latter-Day Saints Throughout The Life Cycle, Barry L. Johnson, James T. Duke

BYU Studies

LDS women rate themselves higher in religious devotion than do LDS men. Both experience diminished religious devotion in certain life stages but increase in devotion over their life spans.


Celebrating Cultural Identity: Pioneer Day In Nineteenth-Century Mormonism, Steven L. Olsen Jan 1996

Celebrating Cultural Identity: Pioneer Day In Nineteenth-Century Mormonism, Steven L. Olsen

BYU Studies

For its first half century, Pioneer Day was no mere holiday. Its festivities served to memorialize and solidify the Saints' freedoms, fundamental values, social roles, and heritage.


Cast On The Lord, Arthur Henry King Jan 1996

Cast On The Lord, Arthur Henry King

BYU Studies

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Icu Nursery, Marilyn Darley Williams Jan 1996

Icu Nursery, Marilyn Darley Williams

BYU Studies

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Three Frontiers: Family, Land, And Society In The American West, 1850-1900 By Dean L. May, Walter Nugent Jan 1996

Three Frontiers: Family, Land, And Society In The American West, 1850-1900 By Dean L. May, Walter Nugent

BYU Studies

Dean L. May. Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii; 313 pp. Footnotes, graphs, tables, maps, photographs, notes on sources, appendix, index. $44.95.


Audacious Women: Early British Mormon Immigrants By Rebecca Bartholomew, Paula Harline Jan 1996

Audacious Women: Early British Mormon Immigrants By Rebecca Bartholomew, Paula Harline

BYU Studies

Rebecca Bartholomew. Audacious Women: Early British Mormon Immigrants. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1995. xv; 288 pp. Bibliography, index. Paperback, $18.95.


The Personal Writings Of Eliza Roxcy Snow Edited By Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Sherilyn Cox Bennion Jan 1996

The Personal Writings Of Eliza Roxcy Snow Edited By Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Sherilyn Cox Bennion

BYU Studies

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, ed. The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1995. xx; 316 pp. Illustrations, appendices, index. $34.95.


Church History In Black And White: George Edward Anderson's Photographic Mission To Latter-Day Saint Historical Sites: 1907 Diary, 1907-8 Photographs By Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, T. Jeffrey Cottle, And Ted D. Stoddard, Nelson B. Wadsworth Jan 1996

Church History In Black And White: George Edward Anderson's Photographic Mission To Latter-Day Saint Historical Sites: 1907 Diary, 1907-8 Photographs By Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, T. Jeffrey Cottle, And Ted D. Stoddard, Nelson B. Wadsworth

BYU Studies

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, T. Jeffery Cottle, and Ted D. Stoddard, eds. Church History in Black and White: George Edward Anderson's Photographic Mission to Latter-day Saint Historical Sites: 1907 Diary, 1907-8 Photographs. Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1995. xxi; 241 pp. 153 photographs, maps, appendixes, bibliography, index. $29.95.


Conversation In Nauvoo About The Corporeality Of God, Jacob Neusner Jan 1996

Conversation In Nauvoo About The Corporeality Of God, Jacob Neusner

BYU Studies

Religion scholar Jacob Neusner looks at the corporeal nature of God through the lens of Mormonism and Judaism. He addresses anthropomorphism and incarnation, and concludes that the way to know God is through “our relationship with him, not through our act of the incarnation of God in heart and mind and soul.” Neusner appreciates the powerful doctrine of God’s corporeality taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the 1842 King Follett Sermon, which says that men may converse with God “as one man converses with another.” He says, “In the formative documents of the Torah in its oral version, that …


Introductory Pages, Byu Studies Jan 1996

Introductory Pages, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Lux Aeterna, Hagen G. Haltern Jan 1996

Lux Aeterna, Hagen G. Haltern

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.


The “Hymn Of The Pearl”: An Ancient Counterpart To “O My Father”, James V. Garrison, John W. Welch Jan 1996

The “Hymn Of The Pearl”: An Ancient Counterpart To “O My Father”, James V. Garrison, John W. Welch

BYU Studies

An early Christian hymn portraying a soul's journey from the heavenly court of regal parents through an earthly probation to a divine inheritance fascinates interpreters of many faiths.


Index, Byu Studies Oct 1995

Index, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Priesthood Restoration Documents, Brian Q. Cannon, Byu Studies Oct 1995

Priesthood Restoration Documents, Brian Q. Cannon, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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End Matter, Byu Studies Oct 1995

End Matter, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Part I: Restoration Of The Doctrine Of Divine Embodiment, David L. Paulsen Oct 1995

Part I: Restoration Of The Doctrine Of Divine Embodiment, David L. Paulsen

BYU Studies

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Reno-Bentine Site, John Sterling Harris Oct 1995

Reno-Bentine Site, John Sterling Harris

BYU Studies

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