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Farms Web Site Features Information On The Dead Sea Scrolls

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

The FARMS Web site now offers a link to material on the Dead Sea Scrolls. To access it from the Member Services section or the Free Services section of the FARMS Web site, click on the heading "Dead Sea Scrolls," found under "Links of Interest." Nine topics will appear, covering general information on the scrolls as well as information on the scroll exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago and the traveling scroll exhibit currently touring Latter-day Saint stake centers in the Midwest.

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

John W. Welch and Melvin J. Thorne, eds., Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, 1999, 4-audiotape set, 240 min., vinyl case.

New Audiotapes Feature Book Of Mormon Research

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

FARMS has recently released two new audiotape sets on the Book of Mormon. The first, Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, is read by Lloyd D. Newell, voice of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's weekly "Music and the Spoken Word" broadcast. It features selections from the recent FARMS book of the same title, highlighting some of the most significant Book of Mormon research from the past decade. The audiotape set combines the INSIGHTS Updates of the 1990s with some similar short notes from the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies.

Sahs Website Report, Richard Hacken

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Website of the Swiss American Historical Society is one of the Society’s show windows to the world. The site consists of seven main pages.

About Us, the landing site and first web page, gives our mission statement and goals along with other general information and long-term announcements, such as the dates and locations of annual meetings for the next three years. There is also a listing of the officers of the Society with contact emails and a stand-alone “Contact” button for easy and rapid access to the Society from curious visitors.

Forthcoming Publications

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

Apostles and Bishops in Early Christianity, by Hugh W. Nibley, edited by John F. Hall and John W. Welch, presents an edited, expanded version of Hugh Nib-ley’s verbatim lecture “notes” that he prepared for a course he taught in 1954. Extensive footnotes have been developed from Nibley’s cryptic source notations. In this course, Nibley explored the offices of apostle and bishop, the priesthood authority associated with them, and questions of succession in the early church and in Rome. Copublished with Deseret Book, it will appear as volume 15 in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley. Available early 2005.

Valuable Research Tool Available Soon

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

By the end of this year, “Nineteenth-Century Publications about the Book of Mormon (1829–1844)” will be made available as one of the Harold B. Lee Library’s digital collections.

Building on the work of previous generations of researchers, Matthew Roper, research scholar with the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, has collected digital facsimiles and electronic transcriptions of as many of these early publications as could be found.

Early Book Of Mormon Writings Now Online

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

The most extensive collection of writings about the Book of Mormon published between 1829 and 1844 has been made available as an online database. The collection, 19th-Century Publications about the Book of Mormon (1829–1844), includes nearly 600 publications and close to one million words of text. It is intended to comprise, insofar as possible, everything published during Joseph Smith’s lifetime relating to the Book of Mormon. Under the auspices of Digital Collections at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library, this ambitious project can be accessed at lib.byu.edu/dlib/bompublications.

Introducing The First Of New Publications Of The Jussi Bjorling Society..., Dan Shea

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

As you will recall from the previous (3Q00) issue of Journal of the JBS-USA, Mickey Dove has announced that she will step down as Editor of the publication. Now, after consultation with our Board of Directors and other advisors, we have decided to try something new: We'll produce a pair of publications, the Newsletter with publication dates of about June 1 and December1 each year, Journal of Jussi Bjorling Society to appear in March and September.

On The Scientific-Critical Text Of "Kazazyinu-L-Maoniy", Namozova Zilola

Uzbekistan Journal of Oriental Studies

The study of the lyrical heritage of Alisher Navoi has always been an important issue. However, the study of the texts has been widespread in the last century. In particular, the textological study of the “Hazoyinu-l-Ma'ani” divan was initiated by Hamid Suleiman in the 20th century. The scientist conducted a great deal of research on the “Hazayinu-l-Ma'ani”, the first complete scientific toolkit. In the introductory part of the study, it was pointed out that this publication should be clarified in determining the factors that led to great discrimination and objections in the literature. The aim of the research is to …

The Danish Interest Conference, Thorvald Hansen

The Bridge

On January 1, 1963 The American Evangelical Lutheran Church ceased to exist as a separate entity. The AELC was the new name that had been assumed by the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1954. Therefore, what really came to an end in 1963 was the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, which hereinafter shall be referred to simply as the Danish Church.

List Of Publications By Walter Angst, Walter Angst

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

1. "Heraldry in a Republic," The Augustan, Book Two (1973): 183-184.

2. "Heraldic Plan for Redesign of the State Flags," Smithsonian 4, No. 4 (1973): 18-25.

3. "Sovereignty, Identity, Morality," The Augustan, Book Five (1974): 638-639.

Some Recent Publications Of Swiss American Interest, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

BAENZIGER, HANS. "Eindrucke aus Amerika und der Schweiz," Schweizer Monatshefte 55 (May 1975), 98-100.

BALMER, HEINZ. "Louis Agassiz 1807 - 1873. Der Mann und sein Werk," Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft LXXXIX (1975), 11-20.

BALMER, HEINZ. "Edouard Desor und sein Landhaus Combe-Varin ," Gesnerus 32 (1975), 61-86.

DEUCHLER, FLORENS. "Als Kunstwissenschafter in Amerika," Neue Zlircher Zeitung No. 153 (5/6 July 1975), 43.

GUGGIS BERG, HANS RUDOLF. Geschichte der USA. Vol . I: Entstehung_ und nationale Konsolidierung Vol. II: Die Weltmacht . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 197) . Vol . 209 210 of Urban Taschenbucher. 319 pp.

LAENG, HANS "Der Schweizer Indianermaler Carl …

Miscellaneous Items, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

1. Membership

Since our last newsletter we have received membership applications from the following persons and institutions:

New Sahs Committees, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The New York annual meeting of December 12, 1970, decided to create two new committees, a nominating committee and a publications committee. According to Article VI, Section 2, of the SAHS Constitution the president "shall appoint special committees for research work, the printing and publishing of pamphlets periodicals and books and such other specific activities as may be deemed necessary in carrying out the objects and purposes of this Society." Accordingly, I have appointed the following committees and charged them with the duties as outlined below. Both committees are appointed for 1971 only, this being the last year of my …

An English Translation Of J.R. Von Salis' Standard Work On Rilke Switzerland, L. B.

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Among the many publications on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke the book by the Swiss Professor of History Dr. Jean Rodolphe von Salis, until recently President of the Foundation Pro Helvetia, excels by its tactful and sober approach to a delicate subject which all too often has been misused by panegyrists full of loud enthusiasm, but rather bare of substance. When Rilke arrived in Switzerland in 1919, von Salis was nearly eighteen years old and twenty five when Rilke died at Territet in 1926. Von Salis knew Rilke as a guest in his family, but more and more also in …