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Notes from Royal Skousen’s recent lecture on “Textual Criticism and the Book of Mormon”

    Video and audio recordings of the presentations that were given at the Interpreter Foundation’s recent conference on the temple are now available, at absolutely no charge, for your edification and enjoyment:   2022 Temple on Mount Zion Conference: Videos and Audio Recordings   We hope that you will devote some time to them. […]

“It was necessary that I should go.”

    But, first:  Yesterday evening, at 7 PM Utah time, another new episode of our series of Witnesses-related video “Insights” went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 30: No Matter the Consequence If the Book of Mormon was a fraud, why would supposed […]

Till the night is gone

    First of all, I want to remind you yet again of Royal Skousen’s presentation — 7 PM tonight! — on “Textual Criticism and the Book of Mormon.”     In a previous blog entry here a day or two ago, I briefly noted the passing of Kent G. Budge, which I had absolutely […]

Live from Orem, it’s Saturday Night!

    This new little essay went up earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “When an Evident Fact Cannot Be Allowed to Be True,” written by one Daniel C. Peterson Abstract: Miracles occur relatively often in scripture, as do people who, for various reasons, want or even need to […]

Very sad news, and a belated note from the River Nile

    I’m deeply saddened to pass on the news, which I received only just now, that Kent Budge, a Caltech-trained computational physicist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and who (in recent years as dCyl) commented here from time to time  — very helpfully and sanely, I might add — […]

A belated note from Aswan

    WiFi on the Nile cruise boats has always been frustratingly bad.  This time, it was altogether nonexistent.  Here, though, is something that I put together in Aswan on Monday, 7 November and then was unable to post.   I love the scenery around Aswan.  As we always do when we’re here with a […]

“Why and Why Not?”

    Several hours ago — I’m very busy in a very different time zone on the other side of the world, and I’m doing the best that I can — a new installment in the Interpreter Foundation’s series of short Witness-related “Insights” videos went up.  Please take a look.  They’re free.  And please share […]

A pair of examples of seeing what isn’t there

      Preface:  Kufic Arabic script is a style of writing the Arabic language.  It originated very early — presumably in the city of Kufa, in Iraq — but it’s still sometimes used today.  It features the same Arabic letters that are commonly used elsewhere in other script styles but, in Kufic, they’re elongated […]

Book of Mormon Exclamations!

    Two new articles appeared just a few minutes ago in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  They are:   “The Diachronic Usage of Exclamation Marks across the Major Book of Mormon Editions,” written by Scott L. Howell, Brooke Anderson, LaReina Hingson, Lanna McRae, Jesse Vincent, and Brandon Torruella Abstract: The usage of the exclamation mark […]

A Note on Palestinians and Latter-day Saints

    First, though, this was posted yesterday on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Conference Talks:  “Jacob’s Sermon (2 Nephi 6-10) and the Day of Atonement,” by William Hamblin This talk from 2012 is just a prelude to the 2022 Temple on Mount Zion Conference, coming this Friday and Saturday and featuring C. […]