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Symposium Will Focus On Isaiah Aug 2023

Symposium Will Focus On Isaiah

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

Mark your calendars now for the 1995 Annual FARMS Symposium on the Book of Mormon, to be held on the BYU campus on May 20. Organized by Donald W. Parry and John W. Welch, the symposium will feature papers on Isaiah in the Book of Mormon.

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On The Right Or Left: Benjamin And The Scapegoat, Terrence L. Szink, John W. Welch Aug 2023

On The Right Or Left: Benjamin And The Scapegoat, Terrence L. Szink, John W. Welch

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

Over the years, scholars have found in King Benjamin's speech much that is at home in the ancient Israelite autumn festivals surrounding the Day of Atonement. An essential part of that day was the scapegoat ritual.

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Dead Sea Scrolls Conference To Be Held In Jerusalem Aug 2023

Dead Sea Scrolls Conference To Be Held In Jerusalem

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

On April 30, members of the F.A.R.M.S.-BYU team that is developing the Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Database will formally introduce the first edition to a small group of Dead Sea Scroll scholars and Israeli government officials and museum curators at a private conference at the BYU Jerusalem Center. In addition to a first look at the database, the conference will feature papers presented by scholars working with the scrolls, including Emanuel Tov, Frank Moore Cross, Eugene Ulrich, and Florentino Garcia Martinez. A public conference on the database will be held in Provo in 1996.

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Journal Presents Another Interdisciplinary Look At The Book Of Mormon Aug 2023

Journal Presents Another Interdisciplinary Look At The Book Of Mormon

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

The fall issue of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, now available on the enclosed order form, features articles that examine the Book of Mormon in terms of theology, chronology, textual analysis, Jewish customs, and even engineering principles. Articles include the following.

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Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.

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Farms Welcomes A New Editor Aug 2023

Farms Welcomes A New Editor

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

Donald L. Brugger joined the FARMS editorial team in November as Editor. A native of southern California, Don received a bachelor's degree in English with a minor in Journalism from Utah State University in 1984. He joined the Church while at USU, then served a mission in Argentina after graduating. He later taught high school English before receiving a master's degree in American Literature from BYU. After working for two years at Deseret Book, Don spent the past five years editing for the Ensign magazine.

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New Law Governs Stock Donations Aug 2023

New Law Governs Stock Donations

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

The new "Business Act" has created a new opportunity for persons looking for tax deduction opportunities. Donors have until 31 May 1997 to take advantage of an expanded tax deduction (based on market value rather than cost) for contributions of publicly held stock to private foundations like FARMS. There are limits, of course. Consult a competent professional for more information and for answers to specific questions.

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Reprint Clarifies Issues On Geographies Focused On New York Aug 2023

Reprint Clarifies Issues On Geographies Focused On New York

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

A new FARMS Reprint makes available portions of three publications from the 1980s that retain their value for providing insights into Book of Mormon geography. In "A Key for Evaluating Nephite Geographies," reprinted from the first issue (1989) of the Review of Books on the Book of Mormon, John Clark elucidates what the Book of Mormon itself says that can be used to construct a basic framework for a Book of Mormon geography. He focuses especially on those references that give relative distances or directions between various locations. The resulting framework provides an excellent test for proposed geographies.

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Denver Stakes Host Symposium On Book Of Mormon Aug 2023

Denver Stakes Host Symposium On Book Of Mormon

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

In an effort to spark interest in the Book of Mormon and to increase missionary endeavors, the Denver Stake sponsored a three-day Book of Mormon Symposium in September, ending on September 22 to commemorate the anniversary of the date Joseph Smith received the gold plates from the angel Moroni to begin the translation of the Book of Mormon.

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Language Shifts Provide Evidence Aug 2023

Language Shifts Provide Evidence

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

In a recently published article, "Dating the Book of Mormon to Pre-exilic Language Structure," Angela M. Crowell reports her findings from a study of language patterns. Crowell bases her findings on recent research about Classical Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew, the languages of Judah before and after the Babylonian exile in 586 B.C. Scholars have identified the books of Samuel and Kings as classic examples of preexilic writing. Because much of the same historical account is given in postexilic Chronicles, they can observe the change in language patterns and terminology that took place during the exile.

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Brown Bags Shine Light On Nephite Culture And History Aug 2023

Brown Bags Shine Light On Nephite Culture And History

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

On 27 September, Professor Ninian Smart, an internationally recognized scholar of comparative religion and philosophy of religion from the University of California, Santa Barbara, visited Utah Valley to give a keynote address at a conference held at a nearby college. During his visit, Professor Smart met with FARMS Brown Bag attendees to discuss his experiences in the field of religious studies. He pointed out that it is increasingly a multidisciplinary field that makes greater demands on those who study it. In particular he discussed the need for scholars in religious studies to gain an empathetic perspective on the subject they …

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Call For Papers Aug 2023

Call For Papers

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

Proposals for papers are being sought for the 1997 Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Fall Semester), sponsored by BYU Religious Education. This year's theme will be "Voices of the Prophets: The Old Testament."

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Terms For Ancient Places Aug 2023

Terms For Ancient Places

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

The terminology that we use to refer to long lost lands and cultures can be confusing. For example, the October FARMS Update (number 108) referred to Mesopotamia in the cultural sense rather than in a geographic sense - ancient Ebla was at various times within the cultural sphere of Mesopotamia but is not part of the geographic area usually referred to as Mesopotamia. Even the geographic sense is ambiguous; some reputable reference works (perhaps the majority) use Mesopotamia to refer to the fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, while others extend the area considered to be part of …

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Nibley Fellowships Awarded Aug 2023

Nibley Fellowships Awarded

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

The Nibley Fellowship awards support graduate students working in accredited programs throughout the world who are studying in areas of particular interest to FARMS. In addition to support for three of last year's recipients, this years' awards will help six new fellows.

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New Technology And Ancient Questions, John L. Sorenson Aug 2023

New Technology And Ancient Questions, John L. Sorenson

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

The potential of advanced scientific techniques for giving us new information about ancient history has sometimes been overhyped, yet real advantages are becoming apparent. Interestingly, however, the findings are more likely to produce fascinating and useful new questions than to settle old ones neatly.

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New Center Created To Preserve Ancient Religious Texts Aug 2023

New Center Created To Preserve Ancient Religious Texts

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

The well-publicized Dead Sea Scrolls project that FARMS is jointly pursuing with BYU (to produce a CD-ROM containing translations, transcriptions, and digital images of the scrolls) continues to progress well. In addition to the contribution to · scroll scholarship that this project has allowed FARMS to make, it has taught the Foundation some important things about the creation of such databases that will benefit the eventual creation of a FARMS Book of Mormon database. And it has attracted the attention of people and organizations that want to preserve other ancient writings. FARMS is now assisting in the digital storing of …

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Farms Grant Will Support Excavation In Guatemala Aug 2023

Farms Grant Will Support Excavation In Guatemala

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

FARMS has joined three other foundations in making a grant to support the excavation of an ancient Maya city, Piedras Negras, located on the banks of the Usumacinta River in Guatemala. The FARMS grant will allow the excavation team, led by Stephen Houston (Brigham Young University) and Hector Escobedo (San Carlos University), to extend their work into the southern sector of the site, where they hope to unearth portions of an early temple summit, a palace, and a ritual purification building to learn more about urban life in an early Mesoamerican city.

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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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Farms Lecture Series On Prophets Concludes Aug 2023

Farms Lecture Series On Prophets Concludes

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

Lectures on Mormon and Moroni and a summary lecture complete the series focusing on The Prophets of the Book of Mormon and Their Messages (see the order form).

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Scholars Reminds Us That Caution Is Wisdom Aug 2023

Scholars Reminds Us That Caution Is Wisdom

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

As FARMS-sponsored research extends further into the realm of archaeology-such as our exploration of the Arabian Peninsula and our participation in projects at Bonampak, Qumran, and Izapa - some may wonder whether we will ever have "irrefutable physical proof" of the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

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Farms Staff Welcomes Newcomers Aug 2023

Farms Staff Welcomes Newcomers

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

Mary Mahan, a recent graduate in English from BYU, joined the FARMS editorial team in August as an assistant editor. An English usage class at BYU sparked Mary's interest in pursuing editing, and she worked several months as an editor for BYU English professor Don Norton before joining FARMS. Mary comes from Centerville, Utah. She enjoys mountain biking, playing the guitar, and listening to the Eagles. We are pleased to have her help with the Foundation's increasing editorial workload.

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Research Opportunities Widen Fund-Raising Focus, Noel B. Reynolds Aug 2023

Research Opportunities Widen Fund-Raising Focus, Noel B. Reynolds

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

We appreciate the interest you have shown and the support you have given to our plans for a new FARMS building. We thought you might like an update on those plans.

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Lds Scholar Contributes Essay To Book On Jewish Seafaring Aug 2023

Lds Scholar Contributes Essay To Book On Jewish Seafaring

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

John M. Lundquist, an LDS scholar who has contributed to FARMS publications as author and editor, was recently invited by Raphael Patai, a noted scholar of Judaism, to write an appendix on Lehi's voyage for a new book being prepared for publication by Princeton University Press entitled Jewish Seafaring.

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Brown Bag Presentations Focus On Linguistics And On The Use Of The Book Of Mormon In The 20th Century Aug 2023

Brown Bag Presentations Focus On Linguistics And On The Use Of The Book Of Mormon In The 20th Century

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

Brian Stubbs gave a Brown Bag lecture in March on "The Hebrew Element in Uto-Aztecan." He examined evidence for connections between Hebrew and a Native American language family relevant to the Book of Mormon, including sound correspondences, vowel patterns, pronoun matches, and other lexical similarities.

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The Crocodile God Of Pharaoh In Mesopotamia, John Gee Aug 2023

The Crocodile God Of Pharaoh In Mesopotamia, John Gee

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

In the famous anti-Mormon crusade against the book of Abraham in 1912, one of the individuals involved asserted that the book of Abraham could not be true because "Chaldeans and Egyptians are hopelessly mixed together, although as dissimilar and remote in language, religion and locality as are American and Chinese." This exaggerated opinion was seconded by the Reverend Samuel A. B. Mercer: "I challenge any intelligent person who knows Chaldean and Egyptian history to read the first chapter of said book [of Abraham] without experiencing the same feeling. Chaldea and Egypt are hopelessly mixed . . . . No one …

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Cd Tops List Of Recommendations In Review Aug 2023

Cd Tops List Of Recommendations In Review

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

In the latest issue of the FARMS Review of Books, editor Daniel C. Peterson recommends the LDS Collectors Edition (a CD containing an electronic library of books, periodicals, and study aids) most highly among the publications reviewed. This product is inexpensive and brings together a large quantity of publications invaluable to students and teachers of the gospel. Also receiving favorable reviews are the Book of Mormon Reference Library (another CD), and books by Robert L Millet and H. Donl Peterson.

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President Bateman Will Address Farms Banquet Aug 2023

President Bateman Will Address Farms Banquet

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

Elder Merrill J. Bateman, president of Brigham Young University, will be the featured speaker at this year's annual banquet of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. President Bateman, who will be accompanied by his wife, Marilyn, will address the topic "Book of Mormon Teachings on the Power of the Spirit."

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Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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

No abstract provided.

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Opportunity To Tour Israel And Egypt With Lds Group Aug 2023

Opportunity To Tour Israel And Egypt With Lds Group

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

John W. Welch, past president of FARMS and a major contributor to its research and publications, will accompany a tour to Israel and Egypt departing Christmas day, 1996. This is not a FARMS tour, but FARMS materials will be used. This tour that will emphasize locations and history pertinent to the New Testament, Book of Mormon, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. It will include 9 days in Israel and an optional 3 days in Egypt. Cost will depend on the point of origin in the U.S., but will range from $1850 to $1960 for Israel only and from $2400 to …

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Nibley Letters Wanted Aug 2023

Nibley Letters Wanted

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

FARMS is pleased to report that Boyd Petersen is collecting material for possible inclusion in future volumes of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley. He is gathering and preparing Brother Nibley's correspondence and other personal writings, as well as biographical materials such as photographs, memorabilia, and personal reminiscences. If you happen to have in your possession any letters or biographical materials that might be useful for this project, please contact Peterson through the FARMS office or directly by e-mail at [email protected].

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