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New Book Out Nov 2023

New Book Out

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

A convenient and commendable collection of articles about Book of Mormon people is now off the press. It Begins with a Family, published in January by Deseret Book, reprints twenty-three articles that appeared in the Ensign from 1976 to 1978. The articles, by prominent authors and scholars, discuss the lives and characters of Lehi, Nephi, Jacob, Benjamin, Alma, Ammon, Korihor, Moroni, and other significant Book of Mormon figures.


Farms Ad Runs In This People Magazine Nov 2023

Farms Ad Runs In This People Magazine

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

A striking double-page F.A.R.M.S. advertisement appeared in the December issue of This People magazine. It has produced numerous responses and is helping draw attention to the excellent Book of Mormon materials available through F.A.R.M.S. Special thanks go to Susan Roylance, Blaine Hudson, This People, and others who put it together.


Dr. Sorenson To Accompany Tour Nov 2023

Dr. Sorenson To Accompany Tour

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

The Foundation is pleased to announce its first tour into the exciting Book of Mormon areas of Mexico and Guatemala, a 13-day exploration of the region that many LDS scholars identify as the heartland of the Book of Mormon.


First Evidence Of Pre-Columbian New World Barley Nov 2023

First Evidence Of Pre-Columbian New World Barley

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

The December 1983 issue of Science 83 reports the discovery by professional archaeologists of what is apparently pre-columbian, domesticated barley among the ruins of the Hohokam civilization in Arizona.


President's Message, John W. Welch Nov 2023

President's Message, John W. Welch

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

Would you like to catch a glimpse of what is going on around the Foundation these days? We can hardly run fast enough to keep up with it all! Letters this week have been running between 125 and 140 per day! You can imagine the rest. But it's rewarding and gratifying to the dozens of volunteers on this end. We trust that it's also interesting and useful to you on your end.


Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.


Dinner Completes Nibley Birthday Celebration Nov 2023

Dinner Completes Nibley Birthday Celebration

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

A dinner to note the completion of the two-volume By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday was held on September 7. In attendance were Brother and Sister Nibley, over half of those who contributed articles to the volumes, members of the administration at BYU, and Elder Neal Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve.


Nibley's Latest Lectures Now On Audiotape Nov 2023

Nibley's Latest Lectures Now On Audiotape

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

Facsimile #2 of the Pearl of Great Price is an Egyptian hypocephalus. Anciently such documents were placed under the head of a deceased person before burial. In a series of twelve lectures recently sponsored by F.A.R.M.S. and delivered at BYU, Hugh Nibley discussed "what the Egyptians themselves said about the hypocephalus," "what Joseph Smith said about it," and the facsimile's meaning and importance.


New Book Of Mormon Geography Map Available Nov 2023

New Book Of Mormon Geography Map Available

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

A handsome new wall map suitable for classroom use has been developed by Dr. Michael Preece, a Salt Lake physician and student of the Book of Mormon. It follows the model of geography in John Sorenson's An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon. Dr. Sorenson assisted in the project.


Farms Praised At Fund-Raising Dinner Nov 2023

Farms Praised At Fund-Raising Dinner

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

F.A.R.M.S. sponsored an ''Evening of Excellence" fund-raising dinner on August 24 in Provo. The featured speaker was Dr. Truman Madsen, who urged those in attendance to continue to support the Foundation financially and in any other way possible.


Giving To Farms: A Unique Opportunity Nov 2023

Giving To Farms: A Unique Opportunity

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

The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies is like no other foundation in the world. It is dedicated to promoting and coordinating groundbreaking research on the Book of Mormon and to popularizing and distributing those results as widely as possible. Giving to F.A.R.M.S. is one of the few organized ways people can do something specific to help bring the Book of Mormon to light.


The Book Of Mormon And The Heavenly Book Motif, Brent E. Mcneely Nov 2023

The Book Of Mormon And The Heavenly Book Motif, Brent E. Mcneely

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

The Book of Mormon has been dismissed with the assertion "you don't get books from angels ... it is just that simple." However, evidence from the ancient world indicates that many sacred works have been delivered to men by angels or other heavenly beings. Indeed, according to Orientalist Geo Widengren, "Few religious ideas in the Ancient East have played a more important role than the notion of the Heavenly Tablets or the Heavenly Books," which are "handed over [to a mortal] in an interview with a heavenly being" (Ascension of the Apostle and the Heavenly Book [Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1950], …


Reviewers' Comments On The Bibliography Nov 2023

Reviewers' Comments On The Bibliography

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

''Your great bibliographical project ... will greatly enhance the quality of discussion in the field." Joseph Needham, history of Asian science, Cambridge University.


New Publication Asks: "Was Columbus The First Across The Ocean?" Nov 2023

New Publication Asks: "Was Columbus The First Across The Ocean?"

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

More than three years of research will culminate this month with the appearance of Pre-Columbian Contacts with the Americas across the Oceans: An Annotated Bibliography, by John L. Sorenson and Martin H. Raish. Prominent scholars are enthusiastic about this 1250-page, 2-volume set (see sidebar).


Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.


Who Is Doing What? Nov 2023

Who Is Doing What?

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

We have received inquiries recently about whom to contact at F.A.R.M.S. for various purposes, so we thought it might help you if we outlined the responsibilities of each member of the board of directors. We welcome your inquiries and appreciate your interest and support.


New Video Released Nov 2023

New Video Released

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

At the 1989 Book of Mormon Day, sponsored by the Foundation for Research on Ancient America in Independence, Missouri, John L. Sorenson was a featured speaker. Through the courtesy of the F.R.A.A., a video of his two half-hour presentations is now available to F.A.R.M.S. subscribers.


Save And Donate--Both Nov 2023

Save And Donate--Both

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

F.A.R.M.S. subscribers now can save on phone bills and contribute to the Foundation at the same time. By signing up through F.A.R.M.S. for your long distance telephone service at a volume user's rate with U.S. Sprint, you can save on your long distance calls. And because we obtain this service through a business that wants to help F.A.R.M.S., a portion of what they receive is donated to the Foundation, even though your bills will likely be lower. And you will get credit for the donation, which you may claim on your tax return. At the end of each year, you …


Evidence Of Voyages Nov 2023

Evidence Of Voyages

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

A popular article recently published in the Canadian magazine Equinox contains a nice summary of current issues in regard to voyages from the Old World to America before Columbus. The writer, John Barber, handles the technical matters well and includes points from hitherto unpublished interviews with important scholars on the topic. Balance is maintained between the opposing sides in the argument over such voyages; no claim is made that colonizers positively made their way between the continents, yet the reader comes away realizing that significant evidence exists to support the notion.


Antithetical Parallelism In The Book Of Mormon, Donald W. Parry Nov 2023

Antithetical Parallelism In The Book Of Mormon, Donald W. Parry

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

T he writers of ancient scripture often contrasted one idea in one line or stanza with an opposite or antithetical idea in a parallel line or stanza. Recorded in Proverbs 13:9 is an example of antithetical parallelism.


Recent Noon Book Of Mormon Seminars Nov 2023

Recent Noon Book Of Mormon Seminars

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

Interested BYU faculty and others continue to participate in an informal seminar on the Book of Mormon held on alternate Wednesdays in the conference room on the 9th floor of the Kimball Tower. For details, contact Noel Reynolds, 764 SWKT. Since January, seven papers have been presented, some of which have either already been published or will be published in the future.


Additional Subscription Benefits Nov 2023

Additional Subscription Benefits

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

We invite you to note the following regarding F.A.R.M.S. benefits.


Second Major Volume Focuses On Lds Topics Nov 2023

Second Major Volume Focuses On Lds Topics

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

The second volume of By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley has just been published by F.A.R.M.S. and Deseret Book. This completes a landmark 2-volume set of essays by fifty scholars. This volume contains many essays that will interest Latter-day Saint readers. Edited by Dr. John M. Lundquist and Dr. Stephen D. Ricks, the volume is divided into two parts. The section on the "Scriptures of the Latter-day Saints" contains ten articles- fully half the volume-that deal specifically with the Book of Mormon.


Full Issue Nov 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.


Scholarly Watch Nov 2023

Scholarly Watch

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

A notice has appeared for Wilfred C. Griggs' book, Early Egyptian Christianity. This book is being published by E. J. Brill (1990), priced at Gld. 140, U5.$ 70.


Nibley Lecture Series On Facsimile #2 Nov 2023

Nibley Lecture Series On Facsimile #2

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

F.A.R.M.S. is sponsoring a new lecture series by Hugh Nibley on Facsimile #2 from the Pearl of Great Price. Beginning June 27 and continuing every Wednesday evening (except July 4) until he is finished, approximately 12 weeks, Nibley will discuss the ancient background of the facsimile and the ways that new interpretations in Egyptian studies help us understand its meaning. The lectures, which will be illustrated with slides, will be held at 7:00 P.M. in room 321 of the Maeser Building on the BYU campus and are open to the public without charge.


The Original Bountiful Found? Nov 2023

The Original Bountiful Found?

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

Many F.A.R.M.S. members have read about research done by Australians Warren and Michaela Aston (see AST-88) on the area at the southern extremity of the Arabian peninsula. The Astons have examined several possible sites for Bountiful, where Nephi and others in Lehi's party constructed the ship which they sailed to the New World. A new visit last year, partially funded by F.A.R.M.S., gathered further data.


Farms Undertakes New Publishing Venture Nov 2023

Farms Undertakes New Publishing Venture

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

We are pleased to announce the formation of FARMS Press, an educational publishing arm of the Foundation intended to help publish deserving scholarly books that cannot be published as well or at all elsewhere. Many valuable works on the Book of Mormon and related topics are too scholarly for commercial publishers or are too oriented to LOS concerns to be published or promoted well by scholarly publishers. F.A.R.M.S. has tried to fill that gap in the past for research papers, and now we will work to do the same for books.


Mormon's Agenda Nov 2023

Mormon's Agenda

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

Again and again Mormon reminds us that he is drastically selecting and condensing as he constructs the Book of Mormon. We can learn much about the man by examining his choices of what to include and what to leave out.


Colophons In The Book Of Mormon Nov 2023

Colophons In The Book Of Mormon

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

At the start of 1 Nephi a heading, not marked with verse numbers, begins, "An account of Lehi and his wife Sariah, and his four sons" and ends, "I, Nephi, wrote this record." Dozens of these editorial entries or colophons (a form well known in nonscriptural documents from antiquity, as Nibley pointed out years ago) are found in the Book of Mormon. Together they instruct us about how the volume as we have it was assembled. The fact that these colophons have been handled differently in modem translations and printings obscures their nature.