Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volume 39 (2020)

Daniel C. Peterson et al

The Interpreter Foundation

About this ebook

This is volume 39 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains articles on a variety of topics: Reckoning with the Mortally Inevitable, Temporal Mercies and Eternal Being: Using the Science of Time to Understand God’s Nature and Our Own, “To Seek the Law of the Lord”: Forword, Introduction, and Biographical Highlights, Nephi’s “Shazer”: The Fourth Arabian Pillar of the Book of Mormon, John W. Welch: A Personal Reminiscence, “God Hath Taken Away His Plainness”: Some Notes on Jacob 4:14, Revelation, Canon, Covenant, and Law, Baptized for the Dead, Theories and Assumptions: A Review of William L. Davis’s Visions in a Seer Stone, Oral Creation and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon, Faith, Hope, and Charity: The “Three Principal Rounds” of the Ladder of Heavenly Ascent, “That Which They Most Desired”: The Waters of Mormon, Baptism, the Love of God, and the Bitter Fountain, The Transcendence of Flesh, Divine and Human, The Expanse of Joseph Smith’s Translation Vision, Jesus’s Courtroom in John by authors Daniel C. Peterson, Jared R. Stenson, James R. Rasband, Warren P. Aston, Stephen E. Robinson, Matthew L. Bowen, Kevin L. Barney, Brian C. Hales, Brant A. Gardner, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, James E. Faulconer, Brant A. Gardner, and John Gee.

About the author

The Interpreter Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization focused on the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, the Bible, the Doctrine and Covenants, early LDS history, and related subjects.

Our goal is to increase understanding of scripture through careful scholarly investigation and analysis of the insights provided by a wide range of ancillary disciplines, including language, history, archaeology, literature, culture, ethnohistory, art, geography, law, politics, philosophy, etc. Interpreter will also publish articles advocating the authenticity and historicity of LDS scripture and the Restoration, along with scholarly responses to critics of the LDS faith. We hope to illuminate, by study and faith, the eternal spiritual message of the scriptures—that Jesus is the Christ.