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Celebrating Exactitude,When It’s Appropriate
October 01, 2021

Abstract: It’s almost always better to be right than to be wrong, to be exact than to be sloppy. In scholarship generally and serious scriptural study specifically, it’s important to work toward preci

Framing the Book of Abraham: Presumptions and Paradigms
September 24, 2021

Review of Dan Vogel, Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021). 250 pp. $18.95 (softback). Abstract: The Book of Abraham continues to undergo scrutiny

An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses
September 20, 2021

Abstract: This study argues that the Book of Moses was an early Christian text. The book’s language, literary genre, and references to its own production could fit with a date in the late first centur

The People of Canaan: A New Reading of Moses 7
September 17, 2021

Abstract: Moses 7 is one of the most famous passages in all of Restoration scripture. It is also one of the most problematic in regard to its description of the people of Canaan as black (v. 8) and as

The Good God Hermeneutic: A Reconsideration of Religious Vocabulary
September 10, 2021

Review of Fiona Givens and Terryl Givens, All Things New: Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything In Between (Faith Matters Press, 2020). 188 pages. $12.95 (paperback). Abstract: Fiona and Terryl Gi

Book of Abraham Polemics: Dan Vogel’s Broad Critique of the Defense of the Book of Abraham
September 10, 2021

Review of Dan Vogel, Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021). 250 pp. $18.95 (softback). Abstract: Dan Vogel’s latest book claims to offer clear-cut

Latter-day Houses of the Lord: Developments in Their Design and Function
September 06, 2021

Abstract: This essay traces the modern-day usage and understanding of temples from the Kirtland Temple to Nauvoo and the Salt Lake Temple. Architecture was used to teach principles. While the Kirtland

Additional Janus Parallels in the Book of Mormon
September 03, 2021

Abstract: A little more than 40 years ago, Cyrus Gordon discovered and described for the first time an ancient literary technique which he had found in the Hebrew Bible, and he gave it a name — a Janu

Vox Populi and Vox Dei: Allusive Explorations of Biblical and Book of Mormon Politeias
August 27, 2021

A review of David Charles Gore, The Voice of the People: Political Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2019). 229

Better Kingdom-Building through Triage
August 20, 2021

Abstract: We are called to take the Gospel to the entire world, but our numbers are few and our time and resources are limited. This is where cold calculation can help. A field-surgical technique pion