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Managing Editor Joins Farms Staff

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

This October, Mari Miles joined Les Campbell, Teri Bergstrom and Greg McMurdie on the F.A.R.M.S. staff. Mari was born in Denmark, raised in Salt Lake, and now lives with her husband and baby boy in Provo. She worked as a secretary for several years, in the BYU College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, the BYU Law School, and for businesses in Salt Lake.

Farms Says "Thanks!" To 169 Substantial Donors

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

In recent months and years, 169 individuals and foundations have given generously to F.A.R.M.S. Below are listed the names of these people, to whom we owe a deep debt of gratitude. Each has given $100 or more; several have given in the thousands. We hope we have not overlooked anyone on this list, but if we have, we apologize and thank them just as much, too.

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Short Notice Recent Research

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

In October 1983, the F.A.R.M.S. Newsletter reported the way in which the gates of Shalmaneser Ill (858-824 B.C.), pictured in Yigael Yadin's The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands 2:399, attests to the practice of cutting off the arms, hands, feet, or other body parts of vanquished enemies. This ancient military practice seems related to Alma 17:39, where Ammon cuts off the arms of those thieves who tried to steal the king's livestock and the shepherds take the arms to the king as a testimony of what has been done. In a recent conversation, John Lundquist, at the New York …

Preliminary Reports Study Multiple Authorship Of Book Of Mormon Texts

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

The Book of Mormon, in many places, is textually complex. Careful study of the words and ideas in the book sometimes requires the reader to be sensitive to who wrote the words in question. Occasionally, for example, Mormon quoted the words of earlier prophets directly; other times, he or Moroni abridged or paraphrased those earlier statements. The task of attributing authorship to a particular verse or section can often become an intriguing and rewarding challenge.

Lehi's Trail And Nahom Revisited

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

In 1976, Lynn M. and Hope Hilton, In Search of Lehi's Trail (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, p. 94) and Ensign (September-October 1976), proposed that the place called Nahom (1 Ne. 16:34), where Ishmael died and was buried, was around Al Kunfidah near the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia. Ross T. Christensen, Ensign (August 1978, p. 73), soon suggested an alternative location for Nahom, based upon a map of Yemen prepared as a result of a 1762-64 exploration by Carsten Niebu hr for Danish King Frederick V

Expiration Dates

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Your address label on this newsletter shows an expiration code in the upper left-hand corner. The first two digits indicate the month, and the last two the year of expiration (for example, 05-86 is May 1986). It is important for you to check your expiration date. Since we remove all names and addresses for which the expiration date has passed, you will want to act promptly to remain on the mailing list.

Enoch The Prophet

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

A major event last month was the publication of Hugh Nibley's Enoch the Prophet. Enoch's importance in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha is certainly equaled or surpassed by his central role in the Book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price. He is "the colossus that bestrides the Apocrypha as no other," writes Professor Nibley.

Ordeals Of Returnee Bangladeshi Migrant Women Domestic Workers, Md. Mahamudul Haque

Future Journal of Social Science

This article explores the ordeals of returnee female domestic migrant workers of Bangladesh to find out ways help formulate policies by the government. A study has been conducted based on primary and secondary sources. It finds that all types of tortures, including physical, sexual, setting them on afire, forcibly cutting their hair, and hit and falls from rooftop, has to be faced by the women migrant workers. The Bangladeshi female migrant workers have to work for 16-18 hours in a day. They are made untimely repatriation to Bangladesh without pay blaming them for theft or such other false allegations. This …

Role Of Identity In Peace Process: A Re-Interpretation Of The Islamic Heritage, Yasmine Z. Radwan

Future Journal of Social Science

Reviewing the Western theories and ideologies on building and maintaining peace reflected in the conflict management and resolution in practice always indicates an imperative need for another perspective that could play an integral role in the international society. Regardless of the continuing call for an Islamic contribution in this field on the part of some Western scholars, the Muslim society itself based on a specific culture and a distinctive identity requires a different approach with particular tools that could fit its epistemological model. Exploring this approach, which is the main concern and the main aim of this paper, would never …

Divine Simplicity And Naming God, Michael Martin

Aristos

This essay explores the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS) within the framework of classical theism, addressing its compatibility with the plurality of divine attributes. This essay outlines classical theistic arguments for God's existence that are essential to understanding DDS, and establishes that denial of either DDS or the proof of God's existence implicitly negates the other. The DDS maintains that God is absolutely simple, devoid of parts, and physical or metaphysical, affirming His utter transcendence. However, this essay highlights certain distinct attributes that can be logically assigned to God, such as goodness, knowledge, and power. Consequently, an objection emerges: if …

A Short Dialogue: The Son Of Theophrastus’ Question Is Discussed In A Peripatetic Conversation Between Aristotle And Theophrastus And Nichomachus Among The School, Xavier Harrison

Aristos

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Hand In Hand, Winter 2023

Hand in Hand

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Milwaukee, WI

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Hope Against Despair, Joel Martin

Aristos

There exists in this life, as a result of our fallen condition, a real temptation to the sin of despair. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate why the theological virtue of hope is utterly essential for the Christian life and beatitude by analysing how it overcomes any and all temptations to despair. In order to achieve this end, this paper first defines what the theological virtue of hope consists of, explaining how it elevates man’s nature so as to desire, efficaciously, his final end: Supernatural beatitude. This paper then defines what exactly despair is, explaining how it results …

How Does Aristotle’S Philosophical Position Enable The Pursuit And Attainment Of Eudaimonia?, Mia Rahi

Aristos

Philosophy is a broad and rich discipline, ranging from formal logic to epistemology and aesthetics. However, in Therapy of Desire, Martha Nussbaum claims that Ancient Western philosophers were largely concerned with the pursuit of human happiness and flourishing; that is, ‘eudaimonia.’ In this paper, Aristotle’s philosophical position regarding the human person will be examined in an attempt to explain how one is able to attain eudaimonia. His treatise on this topic is one that contains many different components but can be drawn back to the central question of ‘what is the telos of the human person?’ and how this …

A Critical Edition Of The Prefacing Dedicatory Letters In An Abridgement Of The Institution Of Christian Religion... (1586), Gwendolyn Fulkerson

University Honors Papers

HNRS 280 project

French text written by William Lawne

Text translated to English by Christopher Fetherstone

Critical edition and binding by Gwendolyn Fulkerson

God As Über-King Of Moral Leading: Veiled And Unveiled, Paul K. Moser

Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works

How can the Biblical God be the Lord and King who, being typically unseen and even self-veiled at times, authoritatively leads people for divine purposes? This article’s main thesis is that the answer is in divine moral leading via human moral experience of God (of a kind to be clarified). The Hebrew Bible speaks of God as ‘king,’ including for a time prior to the Jewish human monarchy. Ancient Judaism, as Martin Buber has observed, acknowledged direct and indirect forms of divine rule and thus of theocracy. This article explores the importance of divine rule as divine direct leading, particularly …

An Aristotelian Model Of Education, Cecilia Hunt

Aristos

This paper explores a model of education that draws primarily on Aristotle’s philosophy and that of Thomas Aquinas. I discuss the way in which Aristotle’s understanding of education has the broad aim of human flourishing. I argue that an Aristotelian approach to education aims to help students to cultivate moral and intellectual virtue and to love learning, thereby helping students to become critical thinkers who know how to think deeply and live well. In this view, since learning is proper to human beings as rational animals, education is intrinsically valuable, not merely instrumentally valuable. For this reason, I suggest that …

Are Faith And Reason Reconcilable?, Joel Chan

Aristos

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Organized Banking Tawarruq: Legal Drawbacks And Practical Solutions, Dr. Mohamed Hassan Abdel-Wahhab

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

The research starts from what most contemporary jurists have concluded by permitting traditional tawarruq and prohibiting contemporary applications of organized banking tawarruq. The research works to study and analyze the legal drawbacks of tawarruq in Islamic banks in order to confirm or deny them, while trying to find solutions for them that are acceptable for application in practical reality. A number of results were reached, including that the drawbacks of banking tawarruq are: the customer not knowing that he is buying and selling, the customer’s authorization of the bank for the second sale, the lack of arrest, and the harm …

Adolescent Well-Being And Exclusionary Discipline: A Resiliency Model, Rachel Ballard

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Adolescents, especially those with a mental illness, often behave in ways judged to be impulsive, overly emotional, and irresponsible (Gogtay et al., 2004; Lawrence et al., 2015; Tamnes et al., 2010). Many teen behaviors which concern adults can be related to underdeveloped skills or competencies, rate of brain development, or expressions of mental disorders (Casey et al., 2011; Serbin et al., 2011; Spear, 2000). Behaviors commonly associated with adolescence, such as impulsivity, risk-taking, and efforts to fit in with peers, are often seen as a serious threat to school harmony, learning, and student safety, necessitating a disciplinary response from school …

From The Editor, Angela Mccarthy

Pastoral Liturgy

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A Reflection On Sacrosanctum Concilium, Angela Marquis

Pastoral Liturgy

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Pastoral Liturgy 54 (1)

Pastoral Liturgy

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We Go Up To The House Of The Lord: For The 60th Anniversary Of Sacrosanctum Concilium, Thomas Scirghi

Pastoral Liturgy

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Conference Report: Mystery & Mission – The Art Of Liturgical Celebration, Angela Mccarthy

Pastoral Liturgy

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Christmas Day - 25 December 2023, Joe Tedesco

Pastoral Liturgy

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Christmas Midnight - 25 December 2023, Gerard Moore

Pastoral Liturgy

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Fourth Sunday Of Advent - 24 December 2023, Pina Ford

Pastoral Liturgy

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Third Sunday Of Advent - 17 December 2023, Joe Tedesco

Pastoral Liturgy

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