Review of Ronald V. Huggins, Lighthouse: Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2022). 392 pages. $39.95 (hardback), $24.95 (paperback).

Abstract: This study builds upon Hugh Nibleys insightful observation that several Book of Mormon passages reflect the ritual embrace that consummates the final escape from death in the Egyptian fune

Abstract: While references to heaven in the Old Testament are sparse, non-explicit, and predominantly cosmological, the New Testament reveals a more complex concept of the afterlife that reflects a ra

Review of Avram R. Shannon and Kerry Hull, eds., A Hundredth Part: Exploring the History and Teachings of the Book of Mormon (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2023). 374

Abstract: This article examines the treatment of several personages identified as Hamites in the Book of Abraham. It proposes that, in contrast to traditional readings of the text, Hamites are feature

Abstract: Although Joseph Smith has been credited with approximately seven full school years of district schooling, further research supports that his education consisted of basic instruction in re

Abstract: Hints of a different and better world sometimes dimly remembered, often intuited, and commonly hoped for and of a glorious, mighty power behind the world in which we currently live, are

Abstract: The book of Enos is considered to be a short, one-chapter treatise on prayer, yet it is more. Close examination of its text reveals it to be a text structurally centered on Christ and the di

Abstract: This article examines Mormons comparison of Moroni, the Nephite military leader, to Ammon, the son of Mosiah, in Alma 48:18 and how Mormons use and repetition of mn-related terminology (

Abstract: Although unable to write more than a hundredth part of his peoples history, Mormon seemingly found the time and plate-space to deliver literary justice on behalf of Gideon, who suffered a m