Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volume 34 (2020)

Daniel C. Peterson et al

Jun 2020 · The Interpreter Foundation

About this ebook

This is volume 34 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: An American Indian Language Family with Middle Eastern Loanwords: Responding to A Recent Critique, Ministering across Fault Lines of Belief and Community, The Role and Purpose of Synagogues in the Days of Jesus and Paul, Memory and Millennials: A Review of First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins, The Brass Plates Version of Genesis, The Joseph Smith Papers and the Book of Abraham: A Response to Recent Reviews, A Welcome Response, but Flaws Remain, Taking Stock, A Passover Setting for Lehi’s Exodus, Hugh B. Brown’s Program for Latter-Day Saint Servicemen During WWII, Conclusions in Search of Evidence, Musings on the Birth of the Savior Jesus Christ, He Knows My Affliction: The Hill Onidah as Narrative Counterpart to the Rameumptom, The Prophets Who Wrote the Book of Omni, An Approach to Isaiah Studies, “Somebody Wrote It:” The Book of Mormon’s Missionary Message to a 21st-Century World, Rethinking Alma 36, Light Began Once More to Grow.

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.