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A Truly Remarkable Book
July 14, 2023

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

A Prophet, a Candidate, and a Just Cause
July 14, 2023

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

Moses as Midwife: What the Exodus Birth Story Teaches about Motherhood and Christ
July 07, 2023

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

Verbal Punctuation in the Book of Mormon II — Nevertheless
July 07, 2023

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

“I Will Come to You”: An Investigation of Early Christian Beliefs about Post-Ascension Visitations of the Risen Jesus
June 30, 2023

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

“They Shall Be Scattered Again”: Some Notes on JST Genesis 50:24–25, 33–35
June 23, 2023

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

Doctrine and Covenants 21: Metanarrative of the Restoration
June 16, 2023

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

The Holy Ghost in the Book of Moroni: Possessed of Charity
June 09, 2023

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

The Dance of Reader and Text: Salomé, the Daughter of Jared, and the Regal Dance of Death
June 02, 2023

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

“In This Batter’d Caravanserai”
May 26, 2023

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