The Interpreter Foundation Podcast

  In the June 30, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Martin Tanner and Terry Hutchinson, with special guest Stephen Smoot during the second hour. They discuss Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 30 and Joseph Smith’s Uncanonized Revelations, newly published by the BYU Religious Studies Center. You can listen […]

Abstract: New faith traditions often modify existing religious tenets to accommodate the particulars of their membership’s needs. A specific example is how different faith communities have modified the Ten Commandments both inside and outside the historic Jewish community. This paper argues that Joseph Smith received a Latter-day Decalogue that was canonized in the Doctrine and […]

Stephen Smoot spoke at the 2021 Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference on Saturday, April 24, 2021 on “‘I Am a Son of God’: Moses’ Prophetic Call and Ascent into the Divine Council.” In a landmark 2007 article, the evangelical biblical scholar Michael S. Heiser, writing in a Latter-day Saint academic journal, […]

This week for Come, Follow Me lesson 28 covering Alma 23-29, we only have lectures 53 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering Alma 23-27. During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book of Mormon classes for four semesters at Brigham Young University. The lectures were video-taped and […]

  In the June 16th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Bruce Webster and Kris Frederickson discuss Book of Mormon lesson 28, They “Never Did Fall Away” covering Alma 23-29. You can listen to or download the Book of Mormon in Context segment of the June 16 broadcast of the […]

  In the June 23, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Steve Densley and John Thompson. They discuss Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 29 and, with Executive Producer and Director James Dalyrymple and Associate Producer Jonathan Farrell, “Who Actually Saw the Gold Plates?,” Episode 5 of A Marvelous Work […]

Abstract: Students of the Book of Mormon have long mined the Old Testament as a rich source of influence on Nephite writers. However, surprising recent finds suggest that an ancient text related to the Book of Moses may have been an especially significant influence as well. That possibility was raised in Noel Reynolds’s early analytical […]

Jonathon Riley spoke at the 2021 Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference on Saturday, April 24, 2021 on “Hebraisms in the Book of Moses: Laying Groundwork and Finding a Way Forward”. The Book of Moses, the early chapters of Joseph Smith’s revision of the Old Testament, presents some unique challenges. When one […]