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An Analysis of Mormon’s Narrative Strategies Employed on the Zeniffite Narrative and Their Effect on Limhi
November 24, 2023

Abstract: The prophet Mormons editorial skill brings the narrative of the Zeniffites alive with a complex tumble of viewpoints, commentary, and timelines. Mormon seems to apply similar narrative stra

Largely Shadow, Short of Reality
November 17, 2023

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).

“Encircled About Eternally in the Arms of His Love”: The Divine Embrace as a Thematic Symbol of Jesus Christ and His Atonement in the Book of Mormon
November 10, 2023

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

Degrees of Glory: A Brief History of Heaven and Graded Salvation
November 03, 2023

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

Exploring the Complex Book of Mormon
October 27, 2023

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

The Hamites: The Pre-Restoration Monotheism of the Children of Ham in the Book of Abraham
October 20, 2023

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

Joseph Smith’s Education and Intellect as Described in Documentary Sources
October 13, 2023

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

“Signals of Transcendence”
October 06, 2023

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

Centered on Christ: The Book of Enos Possibly Structured Chiastically
September 29, 2023

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

“Behold, He Was a Man Like unto Ammon”: Mormon’s Use of ʾmn-related Terminology in Praise of Moroni in Alma 48
September 29, 2023

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 (