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Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

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The Joseph Smith Translation Of The Four Gospels: A Harmony Aug 2023

The Joseph Smith Translation Of The Four Gospels: A Harmony

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

For a limited time you can purchase through FARMS this useful scripture study tool at a 30% discount. Compiled and published in 1989 by Steven J. Hite and Julie Melville Hite, it displays the full text of the four New Testament gospels in parallel columns, with the additions and deletions made by Joseph Smith highlighted by bold or strikethrough text.

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Farms Distribution Center Has Moved Aug 2023

Farms Distribution Center Has Moved

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

With the increased pace of operations, FARMS has outgrown its offices in Amanda Knight Hall, so the distribution center and operations offices have been moved into a house converted into offices at 551 East 870 North in Provo, just west of the BYU Health Center. To reach the house by car, turn north onto 500 East off of 800 North (see the map). It is most easily reached on foot from campus by walking south on the sidewalk just east of the Widstoe building, crossing Campus Drive, going down the steps toward the west end of the Health Center, and …

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Farms Enters Cyberspace Aug 2023

Farms Enters Cyberspace

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

People interested in Book of Mormon studies and the activities of FARMS who have computer modems now have online access to FARMS information and some FARMS papers, and more material is being added regularly. FARMS has a small library located in the Nauvoo section of America Online and a HomePage on the World Wide Web, an international network of computers.

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Mineral Survey Completed Aug 2023

Mineral Survey Completed

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

Eugene E. Clark has just returned from a month-long, FARMS-sponsored field survey in Oman, looking for sources of iron ore that could have been used by Nephi to make shipbuilding tools.

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Two New Editors Join Farms Effort Aug 2023

Two New Editors Join Farms Effort

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

An increasing workload in the publishing division of the Foundation has led to the hiring of two new full-time editors in the last few months. Stephanie Terry has joined FARMS as Associate Editor. Before coming to FARMS, she worked for six years on the staff of Foreign Policy magazine, a quarterly that is one of the top journals in the field of international relations.

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Joseph's Translation Seems To Differ From Kjv Usage, Terrence L. Szink Aug 2023

Joseph's Translation Seems To Differ From Kjv Usage, Terrence L. Szink

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

In Mosiah 1:14, King Benjamin reminds his son Mosiah that if the Lord "had not extended his arm in the preservation of our fathers they must have fallen into the hands of the Lamanites." The English words used in this translation of the ancient record differ from those used for the same concepts in the English translation in the King James Version (KJV) of the Old Testament, thus shedding light on how independent Joseph Smith may have been from KJV phraseology in his translation.

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Farms Broadcasts On Tv And Radio Aug 2023

Farms Broadcasts On Tv And Radio

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

The following broadcasts of FARMS material may be of interest.

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Upgrading The Farms-Byu Connection Aug 2023

Upgrading The Farms-Byu Connection

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

The unique and productive relationship that Brigham Young University and the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies have enjoyed for nearly fifteen years has recently been elevated to a new level of cooperation. While FARMS continues to be an independently managed and independently funded foundation, the BYU Board of Trustees has now endorsed a protocol between BYU and FARMS that expands the range of opportunities for cooperation on scholarly work on the Book of Mormon and related topics.

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Farms Board Expands With Two New Members Aug 2023

Farms Board Expands With Two New Members

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

M. Gerald Bradford, Director of Research for FARMS (who was highlighted in the June issue of Insights), and David Rolph Seely, assistant professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU, have joined the FARMS board of directors.

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Journal Features Sperry's Book Of Mormon Scholarship Aug 2023

Journal Features Sperry's Book Of Mormon Scholarship

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

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sidney B. Sperry, an individual who did much ground-breaking work in the study of the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon. In honor of that occasion, and to make Sperry's writing more available to a new generation of Book of Mormon students, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies has devoted its Spring issue to printing some of his essays that are out of print, hard to find, or never before published.

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Upon The Tower Of Benjamin, John W. Welch, Terry L. Szink Aug 2023

Upon The Tower Of Benjamin, John W. Welch, Terry L. Szink

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

When King Benjamin crowned his son Mosiah, all the people in Zarahemla sat in tents around the temple while Benjamin addressed them. Because he "could not teach them all within the walls of the temple, therefore he caused a tower to be erected, that thereby his people might hear the words which he should speak unto them" (Mosiah 2:7). Was the need to improve the acoustics the only reason for the construction of this tower? Recent research has discovered ancient precedents for the use of such "towers" in royal convocations and coronation ceremonies. These biblical and Jewish precedents are not …

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Annual Symposium Examines The Role And Influence Of The Writings Of Isaiah In The Book Of Mormon Aug 2023

Annual Symposium Examines The Role And Influence Of The Writings Of Isaiah In The Book Of Mormon

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

Approximately 600 students of the scriptures from throughout Utah and from other parts of the United States gathered in Provo on May 20 for the Eighth Annual FARMS Symposium. This year's theme, "Isaiah in the Book of Mormon," inspired presentations in areas as diverse as textual analysis, doctrinal exposition, manuscript transmission, imagery and poetics, word print studies, and intellectual history.

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Elder L. Tom Perry To Address Annual Farms Banquet Aug 2023

Elder L. Tom Perry To Address Annual Farms Banquet

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

The 1995 FARMS banquet, scheduled for the evening of Thursday, September 14, will feature remarks by Elder L. Tom Perry, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The banquet will start at 7:00 P.M. in room 375 of the Wilkinson Center on the campus of Brigham Young University.

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Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

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Insights Binder Keeps Back Issues Safe Aug 2023

Insights Binder Keeps Back Issues Safe

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

The new format of Insights that we introduced in the April 1995 issue allows us to punch the paper so that you may put the newsletter into a binder for storage if you wish. While any binder will do, some readers have requested a binder with the FARMS name and logo. After obtaining a supply of nice binders at a reasonable price, we are happy to make them available to you on this order form for an introductory price of only $2.50. They will sell for the regular price of $4.50 in the future.

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Byu Religion Prof Traces History Of Book Of Abraham Aug 2023

Byu Religion Prof Traces History Of Book Of Abraham

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

For nearly thirty years, H. Donl Peterson, a member of the Religious Education faculty at BYU, pursued solutions to the puzzles surrounding the papyri from which the book of Abraham was translated. His final book, The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism, completed just before his death in March 1994, aims to answer some of the questions surrounding the second and perhaps most controversial book of the Pearl of Great Price.

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Critical Text Project Reported In California Aug 2023

Critical Text Project Reported In California

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

The American Biblical Manuscript Center in Claremont, California, and the University of Judaism in West Los Angeles invited Royal Skousen, professor of English at BYU, to present a lecture in March on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. Skousen's lecture, entitled "Fragments from the American Dead Sea: Reconstructing the Original Text of the Book of Mormon," addressed recent findings from the Wilford Wood fragments of the original Book of Mormon manuscript, non-English Hebraisms in the English language Book of Mormon text, and implications for New Testament textual criticism based on these and other recent findings. Skousen's lecture was one …

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Journal To Honor Sperry Aug 2023

Journal To Honor Sperry

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

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sidney B. Sperry, one of the foremost LDS scholars of this century. In honor of that occasion, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies will devote its next issue to Sperry's writings on the Book of Mormon.

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Farms Creates New Position: Director Of Research Aug 2023

Farms Creates New Position: Director Of Research

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

FARMS is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. M. Gerald Bradford to the FARMS staff as Director of Research, a new position for FARMS. Brother Bradford will provide supervision and support for all FARMS research and related activities.

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Major Endowment Will Support New Farms Projects Aug 2023

Major Endowment Will Support New Farms Projects

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

Karen and Alan Ashton of Orem, Utah, have established a significant FARMS endowment to support the timely implementation of new projects. Their generous gift will ensure that important new research opportunities are not missed while waiting for funding to become available--the endowment will support scholars in pursuing these research opportunities until normal sources of funding are established. This new funding and the increased amount of research it will support both necessitate and make possible the creation of a new position of Director of Research to help in the development of new projects and the supervision of ongoing projects.

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Dean Of Engineering Joins Farms Board Aug 2023

Dean Of Engineering Joins Farms Board

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

Douglas M. Chabries, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology at BYU, has accepted an invitation to become a member of the board of directors of FARMS. He brings to the board some new research perspectives and a wealth of university administrative experience.

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Preliminary Study Identifies Possible Sources For Nephi's Ore Aug 2023

Preliminary Study Identifies Possible Sources For Nephi's Ore

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

The efforts begun by Warren and Michaela Aston to identify important sites along the Lehi trail eventually evolved into a FARMS project and exploration to Southern Oman's Dhofar region in 1992. The remote area of Wadi Sayq in that region has been identified as a location that appears to meet all of the criteria one can infer from the text of the Book of Mormon for the coastal site named Bountiful by Lehi and his family, where they lived while building a ship for their ocean crossing.

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Figure 6 Of Facsimile 2 The Focus Of Lecture By Nibley Aug 2023

Figure 6 Of Facsimile 2 The Focus Of Lecture By Nibley

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

On 15 March, Hugh W. Nibley, professor emeritus of Ancient Scripture at BYU, presented a lecture in the FARMS Brown Bag series entitled "Figure 6 of Facsimile 2." The lecture, held in the Joseph Smith Building's conference room, was well attended--indeed, it was "standing room only." Professors, students, and other friends of FARMS gathered to hear Brother Nibley's insights on the meanings of Egyptian symbols in the facsimiles purchased by Joseph Smith and included in the Pearl of Great Price. Brother Nibley discussed the Lord's comment that explanations of the facsimiles "will be given in the own due time of …

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Brown Bags Keep Participants Up To Date On Ongoing Research Aug 2023

Brown Bags Keep Participants Up To Date On Ongoing Research

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

In the FARMS brown bag lecture series during the last two months Hugh Nibley spoke about figure 6 from Facsimile 2 of the book of Abraham (a transcript is available; see the accompanying article on this page), Steve Booras and Don Parry demonstrated the Dead Sea Scroll Electronic Database that we have reported on in previous issues of Insights, Gene Clark reported on his preliminary research on metals near the probable site of Old World Bountiful (see the article on page 5), Noel Reynolds explored the ways that 1 Nephi gives political support to Nephi' s prophetic role, and …

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Provo Cable Picks Up Farms Materials Aug 2023

Provo Cable Picks Up Farms Materials

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

FARMS programs are now available to Provo residents on KBYU Community Cable. KBYU operates through TCI cable, and the programs will be shown every Saturday between 9:00 and 10:00 A.M. on channel 40 in Provo and on channel 8 on the BYU campus. Starting in June, KBYU Community Cable will begin broadcasting the Book of Mormon Lecture Series. Videos of these classes, as well as audiotapes and transcripts, are available for purchase through FARMS.

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Eldin Ricks's Concordance Aids Scripture Study Aug 2023

Eldin Ricks's Concordance Aids Scripture Study

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

Eldin Ricks devoted his career to a study of the scriptures. In addition to spending thirty-six years teaching and inspiring students at BYU, he wrote many books and articles about the scriptures--especially materials intended to help others study the scriptures, such as his Combination Reference, often known as the "Ricks Ready Reference," and editions of the Book of Mormon intended to make reading and studying the book easier (his Fireside Editions and Wide Margin Edition). But one project that he worked on for much of the last twenty years of his life was uncompleted at his death in …

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Old World People In The New? (Part 2), John L. Sorenson Aug 2023

Old World People In The New? (Part 2), John L. Sorenson

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

The Quiche Indian tradition of "Toltec" migrants from the Near East reaching Mesoamerica (see Insights, April 1995) may be of interest in relation to new linguistic research reported by a senior linguist at one of this country's most prestigious universities. Copies of two papers outlining her findings have become available; however she insists that their contents not be attributed to her until they have been formally published.

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Review Begins New Features: Picks And Index Aug 2023

Review Begins New Features: Picks And Index

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

In the latest Review of Books on the Book of Mormon, editor Daniel Peterson selects the books he would most recommend to his readers from among those published in 1994. The book by Warren and Michaela Aston is the most highly recommended in this issue: In the Footsteps of Lehi: New Evidence for Lehi's Journey across Arabia to Bountiful (reviewed by Ara Norwood). Peterson recommends the book enthusiastically for its "brief and rather personal summary of the authors' extremely important research into the Arabian geography" that might correspond to 1 Nephi.

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Data Base Impresses Scholars At Farms-Sponsored Scroll Conference In Jerusalem Aug 2023

Data Base Impresses Scholars At Farms-Sponsored Scroll Conference In Jerusalem

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

Several BYU professors and FARMS staff and board members recently returned from a successful conference in Jerusalem. On April 30, BYU and FARMS cosponsored the Judaean Desert Scrolls Conference at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. The primary purpose of the conference was to present the first working version of the Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Database, the latest technology using computer images and text search features to aid research on the Dead Sea Scrolls (described in recent issues of Insights).

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