Abstract: Trees play real and metaphorical roles in the beliefs and holy scriptures of many world religions, and believers and non-believers throughout the world are uplifted spiritually by trees. In

Abstract: Considering conventions of the ancient Near East, 2 Nephi can be understood as a legal document or legal archive. Factors supporting this view include 1) Nephis allusions to sealing the rec

Abstract: The Book of Abraham is replete with temple themes, although not all of them are readily obvious from a surface reading of the text. Temple themes in the book include Abraham seeking to becom

Review of Grant Hardy, The Annotated Book of Mormon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023). 912 pages; $37.95 (hardcover). Abstract: Oxford University Press has published an annotated edition of th

Abstract: When Nephi quotes Isaiah 9:1 in 2 Nephi 19:1, Isaiahs the way of the sea (KJV translation) becomes the way of the Red Sea in the Book of Mormon, a change that is often said to reflect a

Abstract: Heavenly ascent describes the process of an individual (or community) returning to the presence of God. Though various elements exist within heavenly ascent literature, general patterns can

Abstract: This article is an analysis of the literary structure of Alma 1720. These four chapters in the current Book of Mormon were originally a single chapter in the first edition of the Book of Mo

Abstract: For decades, several Latter-day Saint scholars have maintained that there is a convergence between the location of Nahom in the Book of Mormon and the Nihm region of Yemen. To establish whet

Abstract: Publishing an article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Faith and Scholarship involves a process of which many people are not aware. Im sure it is obvious to all that articles dont j

Abstract: What would it have been like to be among the shepherds who heard the angelic announcement of Jesuss birth? Their story has special meaning for many of us because we feel a kinship with thos