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From The Boardroom Aug 2023

From The Boardroom

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

Members of the F.A.R.M.S. board of directors continue to be on the move. Stephen Ricks was recently appointed to a three-year term as Associate Dean of General and Honors Education at BYU. He continues as the Chairman of the F.A.R.M.S. board of directors and as Acting President during Noel Reynolds's academic year as Scholar in Residence at the BYU Jerusalem Center. Despite the distance, Noel has been in close contact with the board, especially in making arrangements for research in the Middle East.


Nibley Repudiates Bogus Article Aug 2023

Nibley Repudiates Bogus Article

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

An article with Hugh Nibley's name on it, but not written by him, has apparently been circulating in various parts of Utah and elsewhere. It is entitled "The Earth's Temporal Existence." Because Nibley and F.A.R.M.S. receive numerous inquiries about the authenticity of the article, he has allowed us to publish the following statement. In Nibley's inimitable style, it makes clear his attitude to the article and the fuss it has created.


Dead Sea Scrolls Conference Aug 2023

Dead Sea Scrolls Conference

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

Professor Norman Golb, Rev. Joseph Fitzmyer, and Professor Stephen Ricks discussed the Dead Sea Scrolls to a sold-out audience at Stanford University on November 20. A complete video of the conference, together with an interview with Hugh Nibley, is available on the order form.


Eyewitness Accounts Give Historical Background On The D&C Aug 2023

Eyewitness Accounts Give Historical Background On The D&C

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

Unlike other books of scripture, the Doctrine and Covenants contains very little historical narrative. The teachings in scripture take on added meaning as they are seen in the context of the needs and experiences of God's people at the time. For the Doctrine and Covenants, more than for the other books of scripture, we must turn to outside sources for insights from the historical background.


Complete Body Of Interviews With David Whitmer Presented And Analyzed Aug 2023

Complete Body Of Interviews With David Whitmer Presented And Analyzed

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

David Whitmer was the most interviewed of the three witnesses of the Book of Mormon and the last surviving witness. His lifelong testimony, consistent in affirming the reality of his experience, is a rich resource for every student of Mormonism.


Volunteer Needed For Library Work Aug 2023

Volunteer Needed For Library Work

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

F.A.R.M.S. could use a volunteer to help update the cataloguing and organization of the F.A.R.M.S. library and archive. Persons who could donate a few hours a week and are interested in helping with this project are invited to contact Brent Hall at the F.A.R.M.S. office.


Four Gospels Harmonized, Plus All Changes Made By Joseph Smith Aug 2023

Four Gospels Harmonized, Plus All Changes Made By Joseph Smith

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

The four Gospels and the Joseph Smith Translation are now available in a new and innovative compilation. The Joseph Smith Translation of the Four Gospels, available on the order form, presents the four Gospels in a harmonized parallel format, with every change made by the Prophet Joseph Smith integrated into the text and highlighted. This format makes it easy to identify Joseph's changes, to compare the text of all four Gospels and the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), and to make a comprehensive study of the life and teachings of the Savior.


Vikings, Iron, And The Book Of Mormon, William J. Hamblin Aug 2023

Vikings, Iron, And The Book Of Mormon, William J. Hamblin

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

The question of the relationship between Mesoamerican archaeology and descriptions of the use of iron and other metals in the Book of Mormon is a complex one. The Jaredites, Nephites, and Mulekites came from the ancient Near East, where metallurgy was a widespread, integral part of civilization. There is evidence from the Book of Mormon that some elements of Near Eastern metallurgical technology were brought to the New World.


New Evidence About Book Of Mormon Scribes Aug 2023

New Evidence About Book Of Mormon Scribes

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

A copy of the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon was made by Oliver Cowdery and two other scribes. This copy is called the printer's manuscript, since it was the one normally used to set the type for the first edition. Oliver Cowdery transcribed about 85% of the copy. Most of the remainder is in the second scribe's hand, with only a few pages by the third scribe, apparently in relief for the second scribe. The third scribe has been identified as Hyrum Smith by Dean Jessee. Until now the second scribe has been unidentified, but new evidence suggests …


Elder Hanks Will Address Temple Studies Conference Aug 2023

Elder Hanks Will Address Temple Studies Conference

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

Elder Marion D. Hanks, emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and former president of the Salt Lake Temple, will deliver the keynote address at the 1993 F.A.R.M.S. Annual Symposium, which will consist of a day-long series of presentations on ''Temples in the Ancient World." It will be held on February 20 in the auditorium of the Joseph Smith Building at Brigham Young University. Admission is free.


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.


New Testament Book Sale Aug 2023

New Testament Book Sale

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

For a limited time, F.A.R.M.S. offers selected books at a 20% discount for both the student and teacher of the New Testament. These fascinating books can help all readers enjoy and understand the times in which the Savior and his apostles lived and provide new insights into their works and teachings.


Transcript Of Madsen Fireside Available Aug 2023

Transcript Of Madsen Fireside Available

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

In September, Truman G. Madsen, professor emeritus of Philosophy at BYU, spoke at a F.A.R.M.S.-sponsored fireside in the San Francisco area. More than a thousand people attended, including long-time friends of the Foundation and many who had never encountered F.A.R.M.S. before. We wish to thank Doctor Madsen for participating in this and other F.A.R.M.S. events as part of our effort to spread word of Book of Mormon research and the work of the Foundation. We also thank all who helped to make this and other recent firesides so successful. We are interested in holding additional firesides as interest and travel …


Board Chairman Recuperating Aug 2023

Board Chairman Recuperating

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

Stephen D. Ricks, chairman of the F.A.R.M.S. board of directors, is recovering nicely after undergoing brain surgery in Vienna to remove blood clots that had caused a stroke. The clots apparently originated in some deep bruising in his shoulder he received in a car accident. We appreciate the many expressions of concern and the prayer and fasting in Stephen's behalf, and we join with you in seeking the Lord's blessings for a complete and speedy recovery


Call For Papers Aug 2023

Call For Papers

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

Paul Y. Hoskisson is soliciting articles to be included in a monograph entitled Historicity and Latter-day Saint Scripture. The papers should discuss the theoretical and practical historicity of the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and the Bible. Please send manuscripts by 1 July 1995 to Paul Y. Hoskisson, JSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-5601.


New Contributions Extend The Book Of Mormon Lecture Series Aug 2023

New Contributions Extend The Book Of Mormon Lecture Series

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

Filming and production continue on the F.A.R.M.S. Book of Mormon Lecture Series. This outstanding series is being used in an increasing number of classrooms and homes and is being broadcast on public and cable TV as more and more students and teachers of the scriptures come to value the insights expressed in the lectures. Four additional lectures are now available on the order form that accompanies this issue of Insights. Each lecture is offered in three formats: video, audiotape, and printed transcript.


The "Decapitation" Of Shiz, Gary M. Hadfield, John W. Welch Aug 2023

The "Decapitation" Of Shiz, Gary M. Hadfield, John W. Welch

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

Ether 15:29-32 describes the gory end of the last Jaredite battle. Exhausted, Coriantumr propped himself up with his own sword, gathered his last ounce of strength, and "smote off the head of Shiz," his arch-rival who had fainted beside him from the loss of blood. The smitten Shiz then "raised upon his hands and fell; and after that he had struggled for breath, he died," and Coriantumr himself collapsed.


Elder Eyring Inspires Farms Workers And Friends At Annual Banquet Aug 2023

Elder Eyring Inspires Farms Workers And Friends At Annual Banquet

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

More than 300 people attended this year's F.A.R.M.S. banquet, held on October 13 at BYU. Noel Reynolds, F.A.R.M.S. president, gave a review of the past year and reported on plans for the future, and Kent Wallace received an award as the F.A.R.M.S. volunteer of the year for 1994. The members of the board of directors of the Foundation consider very valuable every opportunity to associate with and learn from some of the many individuals who provide invaluable support to F.A.R.M.S., and this gathering was no exception.


Scholarly Review Enlightens And Seriously Entertains Aug 2023

Scholarly Review Enlightens And Seriously Entertains

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

Another lively issue of the Review contains articles that examine materials written by Orson Scott Card, Chris Heimerdinger, Robert Millet, Joseph Fielding McConkie, Neal Lambert, S. Kent Brown, Scott and Maurine Proctor, and others. Also reviewed are the works of some individuals critical of faightful scholarship, including Jerald and Sandra Tanners, George D. Smith, Paul and Margaret Toscano, and Brent Metcalfe, and others. Fiction, nonfiction, and fiction masquerading as nonfiction-all receive careful yet entertaining treatment. Topics addressed include geography, historicity, tolerance, logic, documentary evidence, plagiarism, Israelite festivals, faith, the atonement, and the contributions of LDS fiction (and many others).


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.


Now On Audiocassette! Farms Book Of Mormon Lecture Series Aug 2023

Now On Audiocassette! Farms Book Of Mormon Lecture Series

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

The very popular Book of Mormon lecture series, originally produced on video, is now available on audiocassette-- the same outstanding lectures on the Book of Mormon by some of BYU's finest faculty members and other respected teachers.


Fourth Semester Videos Of Nibley's Book Of Mormon Class Now Available Aug 2023

Fourth Semester Videos Of Nibley's Book Of Mormon Class Now Available

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

The fourth semester's videos of Hugh Nibley's Honors Book of Mormon class are now available for purchase on the order form in this issue of INSIGHTS. We appreciate the volunteer efforts of some of our friends at NuSkin International, Kurt Jurgens and Joel Clark, and Jack Lundquist of Da Vinci Films, who have worked to prepare the videos of these insightful and inspiring class sessions for distribution.


Farms Videos Go Down Under Aug 2023

Farms Videos Go Down Under

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

Dennis Curyer of Lilydale, Melbourne, has volunteered to transfer F.A.R.M.S. videotapes to the format used in Australia to give F.A.R.M.S. subscribers there the chance to enjoy these materials. We appreciate his generosity. Brother Curyer can be contacted by phone at 03-735-4748 or through the mail at 58-60 Old Gippsland Road, P.O. Box 770, Lilydale, Melbourne, VIC 3140.


The Symbolism Of Eating And Drinking In The Book Of Mormon Is Explored Aug 2023

The Symbolism Of Eating And Drinking In The Book Of Mormon Is Explored

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

In a recent article published in the latest issue of BYU Studies, Richard D. Rust of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discusses images of eating and drinking (and the lack thereof) from the Book of Mormon and the ways in which these images are used to "define the essential nature of people, emphasize problems of survival, illustrate degradation, characterize social relationships, reinforce covenants, poetically define a hope for eternal life, and suggest a response to the book as a whole."


Elder Holland Bears Powerful Testimony Of The Keystone Of Our Religion Aug 2023

Elder Holland Bears Powerful Testimony Of The Keystone Of Our Religion

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

At the annual CES symposium at BYU, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, newly called member of the Quorum of the Twelve of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, highlighted several themes in the Book of Mormon and bore testimony of its truthfulness. He also spoke of his calling and of his experiences with President Hunter. Since many of our readers are seminary and institute teachers who were not able to attend the symposium, a transcript of this powerful address is available by using the order form in this issue of the F.A.R.M.S. newsletter.


Was There Leprosy Among The Nephites?, John L. Sorenson Aug 2023

Was There Leprosy Among The Nephites?, John L. Sorenson

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

Speaking to the Nephites assembled at the temple in Bountiful, the risen Jesus Christ said, "Have ye any that are lame, or blind, or halt, or maimed, or leprous ... ? Bring them hither and I will heal them " (3 Nephi 17:7). Yet medical researchers do not believe that "leprosy" existed in ancient America. How can we resolve this apparent conflict between what the Book of Mormon describes and what modern researchers have concluded?


New Book Describes Efforts To Trace Lehi's Trail Aug 2023

New Book Describes Efforts To Trace Lehi's Trail

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

No one has done as much to advance our understanding of Lehi's journey as have F.A.R.M.S. workers Warren and Michaela Aston. For more than a decade they have expended time, money, and great effort in searching the remote valleys and deserts of the Arabian peninsula for candidates for locations mentioned and described in the Book of Mormon. Now a very personal and moving account of their efforts has been published by Deseret Book, In the Footsteps of Lehi: New Evidence for Lehi's Journey across Arabia to Bountiful.


Elder Eyring Will Address Annual Farms Banquet Aug 2023

Elder Eyring Will Address Annual Farms Banquet

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

Elder Henry B. Eyring, a member of the First Quorum of Seventy and Commissioner of Church Education for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be the featured speaker at the 1994 F.A.R.M.S. banquet, to be held the evening of Thursday, October 13. His topic has not yet been announced. This annual event gives the many people associated with the Foundation (subscribers, volunteers, researchers, members of the board of directors, and many other friends of F.A.R.M.S.) a chance to renew old friendships and make new ones with others who support the mission of the Foundation.


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.


Board Notes Aug 2023

Board Notes

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

Donald W. Parry has returned from six months in Jerusalem. In addition to teaching an intensive Hebrew class at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, he provided volunteer help at the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, resulting in his being invited to assist Frank M. Cross in the preparation of one of the scroll volumes in the official publication series, Discoveries in the Judean Deseret.