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Women And Family In The Book Of Mormon Nov 2023

Women And Family In The Book Of Mormon

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

F.A.R.M.S. is pleased to feature three recent articles that have dealt with women and the family in the Book of Mormon. Al though only six women are mentioned by name in this volume (Sariah, Isabel, Abish, Eve, Sarah, and Mary the Mother of Jesus-and only the first three were figures in the actual Nephite account), many women are known in the book for their courageous and faithful lives, and the message of the Book of Mormon is addressed to all people, "male and female" (2 Nephi 26:33;Mosiah27:25; Alma 11:44;32:23).


New World Bountiful? Nov 2023

New World Bountiful?

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

Recently F.A.R.M.S. and BYU jointly supported a photo reconnaissance expedition in southern Mexico that focused on searching for an archaeological site that could qualify as the city of Bountiful in the Book of Mormon. Based on a research plan initiated by John Sorenson, David A. Palmer and several associates made aerial reconnaissance of the area just east of the Coatzacoalcos River in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the zone around Cerro El Vigia. Selected areas were then examined on the ground. In separate books by Sorenson and Palmer, the isthmian territory now targeted was considered the likely spot for Bountiful, …


Essays Honor Hugh Nibley Nov 2023

Essays Honor Hugh Nibley

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

The first of the two-volume set, By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley, is now available for sale. This monumental effort, worthy of the man it strives to honor, has been called by Eugene England "a high-water mark in faithful Mormon scholarship" (in This People [Spring 1990], p. 62). This 800-page first volume and the page proofs of the second volume were presented to Professor Nibley on his eightieth birthday on March 27. (Those who wish to contribute to the celebration of Nibley' s birthday and the preparation of the second volume may …


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80 X ? = An 80th Birthday Celebration For Hugh Nibley Oct 2023

80 X ? = An 80th Birthday Celebration For Hugh Nibley

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

Please help us solve this equation. We invite you to donate $80 to honor Hugh Nibley on his 80th birthday, March 27, 1990. Are there 800 people who would like to do so? That is, you might say, a $64,000 question.


To Serve You Better Oct 2023

To Serve You Better

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

We are working to fill your orders more quickly. The overwhelming response to Approaching Zion made it difficult to keep up with orders. However, innovative changes at the F.A.R.M.S. office, made by our new Office Coordinator, Lois Richardson, are helping us fill your orders faster.


Hugh Nibley Tapes Oct 2023

Hugh Nibley Tapes

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

In 1954, Hugh Nibley gave a series of KSL radio lectures titled "Time Vindicates the Prophets." Nibley shows consistencies between the LDS Church and the early Christian Church and documents the process whereby early Christianity changed into an institution teaching the learning of men. This set of sixteen hours of taped lectures, which retail at $49.95, is available for a limited time for $29.95.


Friends Of Farms Oct 2023

Friends Of Farms

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

F.A.R.M.S. is currently organizing the Friends of F.A.R.M.S., a group of serious fund-raisers who will help us increase an endowment for the Foundation. The participants will make a commitment of what they will do each year to help the Foundation, such as raising a specific dollar amount or contacting a certain number of potential donors. F.A.R.M.S. will supply selected materials published each year to the participants to promote the Foundation and to keep for their own use.


Aids To Your Old Testament Study Oct 2023

Aids To Your Old Testament Study

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

To help both the student and instructor of the Old Testament, F.A.R.M.S. will make available for a limited time the following works that contain information on biblical history, symbols, narrative, religious festivals and holy days, social institutions, and other related biblical themes.


Full Issue Oct 2023

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Ogham Article Published Oct 2023

Ogham Article Published

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

In the Fall 1989 Insights we mentioned that a review of claims of the finding of early inscriptions in the New World written in Ogham, a language from medieval Ireland, would be published soon in the Review of Archaeology by David Kelley. That article has now been published (Spring 1990, pp. 1-10), and even though it is a rather technical discussion, you may want to examine it.


Rare Books Are Donated To Farms Oct 2023

Rare Books Are Donated To Farms

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

Our appreciation is extended to an individual (who prefers anonymity) for the donation of scores of rare LOS books. The books, which have been catalogued and placed in the F.A.R.M.S. library, will be used by researchers and visiting scholars. Many more books, including LOS books and scholarly books pertaining to the ancient Near East and Mesoamerican studies, could be used in the F.A.R.M.S. library. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation of books on these subjects, please contact Brent Hall at the F.A.R.M.S. office.


Nibley Broadcasts Begin In January Oct 2023

Nibley Broadcasts Begin In January

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

The weekly broadcast of Hugh Nibley's Book of Mormon class on KBYU-TV begins Sunday, January 5, at 5:00 P.M. with the showing of The Faith of an Observer. Each week thereafter, KBYU will show one session of the class, which was filmed in the KBYU studio during the 1988-89 and 1989-90 school years.


New Information On Facsimiles Oct 2023

New Information On Facsimiles

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

The Sons of Horus, who appear in figures 5-8 of Facsimile 1 and figure 6 of Facsimile 2 in the Book of Abraham, are the subject of a new study by John Gee: ''Notes on the Sons of Horus." This illustrated study focuses on the history of these gods in Egypt, their role in Egyptian religion and burial practices, their connection with sacrifice, and their exportation from Egypt.


Ancient Texts And Mormon Studies: A New Monograph Series Oct 2023

Ancient Texts And Mormon Studies: A New Monograph Series

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

In addition to the new Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, announced in our last Newsletter, F.A.R.M.S. now announces a second new series of scholarly studies entitled Ancient Texts and Mormon Studies. Its long-term purpose will be to publish texts, translations, introductions, and new analyses of all main religious documents from antiquity that are of theological or textual interest to Latterday Saints.


Scholar Watch Oct 2023

Scholar Watch

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

S. Kent Brown, Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU, is currently preparing a major study on the Exodus pattern in the Book of Mormon, following up on an initial brief essay on this theme recently published in BYU Studies.


Annual Banquet Draws Crowd Oct 2023

Annual Banquet Draws Crowd

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

More than 180 people attended the second annual F.A.R.M.S. banquet on September 27. We enjoyed the opportunity to see many of the people that make the work of the Foundation possible.


Service To Farms Appreciated, Noel B. Reynolds Oct 2023

Service To Farms Appreciated, Noel B. Reynolds

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

September 1991 brought Stephen D. Ricks's three-year term as President of F.A.R.M.S. to a close. Without compensation, Professor Ricks has given hundreds of hours to the direction of the organization. Under his vigorous leadership and with increased levels of volunteer support, F.A.R.M.S. has grown and greatly increased its output over those three years.


Kingship And Temple In 2 Nephi 5-10, John M. Lundquist, John W. Welch Oct 2023

Kingship And Temple In 2 Nephi 5-10, John M. Lundquist, John W. Welch

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

Several studies have demonstrated that building (or renovating) and maintaining a temple was an integral part of the legal formation and ongoing legitimation of ancient Near Eastern states and societies. (See John M. Lundquist, "Temple, Covenant, and Law in the Ancient Near East and in the Old Testament," in Israel's Apostasy and Restoration [Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1988]).


Encyclopedia Of Mormonism Can Be Ordered Through Farms Oct 2023

Encyclopedia Of Mormonism Can Be Ordered Through Farms

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

The publication of Macmillan's Encyclopedia of Mormonism is now scheduled for this November. A multi-volume work produced at BYU, this reference source contains 1,300 original articles signed by over 750 authors, 500 illustrations, and 50 maps and charts. Its topics range from Aaronic Priesthood to Zion's Camp. The fifth volume contains the texts of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. The set will retail for over $340.00.


Noel Reynolds Becomes Third Farms President Oct 2023

Noel Reynolds Becomes Third Farms President

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

Noel B. Reynolds has become the president of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. He brings a wealth of scholarly experience and administrative talent to his task. He is a Professor of Political Science and former Associate Academic Vice-President at BYU, with a Ph.D. from Harvard. He served on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism and has been a member of the F.A.R.M.S. board of directors for 10 years. He has also given considerable service in the Church, having served as a bishop, scoutmaster, Gospel Doctrine teacher, and in other callings. He and his wife Sydney …


Full Issue Oct 2023

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Sperry Symposium To Focus On Book Of Mormon Doctrine Oct 2023

Sperry Symposium To Focus On Book Of Mormon Doctrine

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

"Doctrines of the Book of Mormon" is the title of this Fall's Sperry Symposium, sponsored by the College of Religious Education at BYU. The symposium will be held on Saturday, October 26, in the new Joseph Smith Building. Sessions will begin at 8:00 A.M. and end at 5:20 P.M.


New Aston Papers Oct 2023

New Aston Papers

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

Revised and updated versions of two papers by Warren P. and Michaela J. Aston are now available. Both papers report several on-site visits and fieldwork by the authors in the Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Yemen during the period 1984 to 1990.


Seminars Present Current Research Oct 2023

Seminars Present Current Research

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

The first session of the Book of Mormon brown bag seminar in 1991 was in two parts. Jack Welch, Gary Gillum, and Don Parry reported on the progress of the F.A.R.M.S. Book of Mormon Bibliography project that will add entries and annotate all entries. The second part of the session consisted of a presentation by Jack Welch on how the varying perspectives and personal experiences of Book of Mormon prophets influenced how they expressed their testimonies of Christ.


New Nibley Book Focuses On Anti-Mormon Writings Oct 2023

New Nibley Book Focuses On Anti-Mormon Writings

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

The apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal" (1 Corinthians 13:1). Since then, the terms "tinkling cymbals" and "sounding brass" have often been used to signify words of emptiness and confusion, an apt description of most writings critical of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. In Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass: The Art of Telling Tales about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, volume 11 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Brother Nibley brings his …


The Gospel As Taught By Nephite Prophets, Noel B. Reynolds Oct 2023

The Gospel As Taught By Nephite Prophets, Noel B. Reynolds

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

The Book of Mormon uses the terms gospel and doctrine to refer to the way by which individuals come to Christ. Three Book of Mormon passages in particular (2 Nephi 31:2-32:6; 3 Nephi 11:23-39; 3 Nephi 27:13-21) define the gospel of Jesus Christ, each in a six-point formula. This formula states that if people will (1) believe in Christ, (2) repent of their sins, and (3) submit to baptism in water as a witness of their willingness to take his name upon themselves and keep his commandments, he will (4) pour out his Spirit upon them and cleanse them of …


Mormon Studies Center Created In Great Britain Oct 2023

Mormon Studies Center Created In Great Britain

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

Nottingham University has established a Centre for Mormon Studies, which is a good sign of the Church's increased visibility-and to some extent acceptability-in Great Britain. The Church Educational System has provided them a basic library of Church-related materials, with the logistical support of the local CES coordinator, Brother David Cook.


References To Abraham Found In Two Egyptian Texts, John Gee Oct 2023

References To Abraham Found In Two Egyptian Texts, John Gee

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

After years of going unnoticed, significant references to Abraham have recently surfaced in two Egyptian texts. They provide important links between father Abraham and Facsimiles 1 and 2 in the Pearl of Great Price. The two references are found in papyri catalogued as Leiden 1 383 and I 384. Both texts come from Thebes and date to about the same time as the Joseph Smith papyri.


Full Issue Oct 2023

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