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

Abstract: While some scholars have suggested that the doctrine of theosis the transformation of human beings into divine beings emerged only in Nauvoo, the essence of the doctrine was already pres

Review of Brent J. Schmidt, Relational Faith: The Transformation and Restoration of Pistis as Knowledge, Trust, Confidence, and Covenantal Faithfulness (Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2022). 356 pages, $21.9

Review of Stephen O. Smoot, John Gee, Kerry Muhlestein, and John S. Thompson, A Guide to the Book of Abraham, BYU Studies Quarterly 61, no. 4 (2022). 302 pages. Abstract: The new and special issue o

Abstract: The Book of Mormon describes a dark mark on the skin that distinguished people who rebelled against God and his laws from those who obeyed God. The Old Testament refers to a mark that fits t

Abstract: A recent effort to think about war concludes that the Book of Mormon displays two righteous approaches to conflict: a violent approach that is justified and therefore blessed; and a nonvio