Review of John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, And Encourage Faith (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020). 313 pages. Abstract: Saving Faith is a truly

Review of Spencer W. McBride, Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). 269 pages, $29.95 (hardcov

Abstract: This work explores an alternative interpretation of the Exodus narrative as a metaphor for childbirth. Gleaning from Old Testament and Judaic sources, we find rich female birth and salvific

Abstract: One example of verbal punctuation that has avery clear pattern of usage in the Book of Mormon is the term nevertheless. It is used to draw amarked contrast between what the previous text w

Abstract: While later Creedal Christians have come to view the Ascension recorded in the first chapter of Acts as a conclusive corporeal appearance of the Resurrected Lord, earliest Christians do no

Abstract: This article examines the extension of the etiological wordplay on the name Joseph (in terms of the Hebrew verbs sap and ysap), recurrent in the canonical text of Genesis, into the JST Ge

Abstract: Joseph Smith dictated DoctrineandCovenants 21 at the inaugural meeting of the Church of Jesus Christ on April6, 1830. The present study examines the literary craftsmanship of the revelati

Abstract: The role played by the Holy Ghost is an especially important connecting thread that runs through the Book of Moroni. The book illuminates the various ways in which the Holy Ghost transforms

Abstract: Modern readers too often and easily misread modern assumptions into ancient texts. One such notion is that when the reader encounters repeated stories in the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Herod

Abstract: In the Rubiyt of Omar Khayym, based upon verses composed by an eleventh-century Persian mathematician and astronomer, the English Victorian poet Edward FitzGerald eloquently portrays huma