Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volume 30 (2018)

Daniel C. Peterson et al

Jun 2020 · The Interpreter Foundation

About this ebook

This is volume 30 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains articles on a variety of topics including: The Interpreter Foundation and an Apostolic Charge, An Ancient Survival Guide: John Bytheway’s Look at Moroni, “And the Meek Also Shall Increase”: The Verb yāsap in Isaiah 29 and Nephi’s Prophetic Allusions to the Name Joseph in 2 Nephi 25–30, A Compelling Case for Theosis, An Inviting Exploration; A Valuable LDS Resource for Learning from the Apocrypha, “If I Pray Not Amiss”, To Be Learned Is Good, If One Stays on the Rails, “They Shall No More Be Confounded”: Moroni’s Wordplay on Joseph in Ether 13:1-13 and Moroni 10:31, Comparing Book of Mormon Names with Those Found in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works: An Exploratory Study, Et Incarnatus Est: The Imperative for Book of Mormon Historicity, Why Did Northern Israel Fall to the Assyrians? A Weberian Proposal, Marjorie Newton’s Account of the Faith of the Māori Saints: A Critical Appraisal, “By Small Means”: Rethinking the Liahona, The Geology of Moroni’s Stone Box: Examining the Setting and Resources of Palmyra, Orson Scott Card’s “Artifact or Artifice”: Where It Stands After Twenty-five Years, Let There Be a Famine in the Land, Gossamer Thin: 2 Nephi’s “Flaxen Cord” and the Anti-Masonic Thesis, Christmas in Transition: From Figgy Pudding to the Bread of Life.

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.