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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 audio cassettes and printed transcripts were made of the lectures. We believe these recordings will be interesting to listen to and valuable to your Come, Follow Me study program this year. Each week, we will include the lectures covering the Book of Mormon chapters being studied that week.

This week, we have lectures 6 through 11, covering 1 Nephi 1-5 and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

All 112 lectures are immediately available in PDF, audio, video, and electronic formats, as well as in paperback books that are available for purchase. Links for all of the available online sources can be found in the Complete Bibliography for Hugh Nibley at https://interpreterfoundation.org/bibliographies/hugh-w-nibley/lectures/.

 

Lecture 6: Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 1 and Jeremiah 29, Lehi’s Jerusalem. [repeat from last week]

Also called “Souvenirs from Lehi’s Jerusalem.”

Lehi had full baggage. Remember, his people were especially prepared to transfer the culture from one world to the other. We want to find out first what happened to Jeremiah because that’s very much in the story of Lehi. The reason we are bringing this up is that there are some marvelous documents that have appeared “out of the blue“ right from Lehi’s day.

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Lecture 7: Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 1 and Jeremiah

Also called “The Days of King Zedekiah: ’There Came Many Prophets.’“

Nephi has the four qualities that Matthew Arnold attributes to Homer. The Book of Mormon has them; I don’t know anything else that has them. If you were to be asked, “What is the significance of the Lachish Letters for the Book of Mormon?“ They are immensely important.

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Lecture 8: Book of Mormon—1 Nephi, Escape from Doom

Let’s review quickly the first book of Nephi.

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Lecture 9: Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 1—3, 15

Also called “In the Wilderness.“

The Book of Mormon is a handbook; it’s everything. It’s all in there, far more than you think.

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In the December 17th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Bruce Webster and Kris Frederickson discuss Book of Mormon lesson 2, “I Will Go and Do” on 1 Nephi 1-5.

You can listen to or download the Book of Mormon in Context segment of the December 17 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. It will also be included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feeds/podcast). The other segments of the December 10 radio show can be accessed at https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-december-17-2023.

The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, or you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com.

 

Original air date: December 17, 2023. This recording has been edited to remove commercial breaks.

The Interpreter Radio Show is a weekly discussion of matters of interest to the hosts, guests, and callers of the show. The views expressed on the Interpreter Radio Show are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Interpreter Foundation, nor should statements made on the show be construed as official doctrinal statements of the Church.

 

 

In this episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Bruce Webster and Kris Frederickson. They discuss Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 2, The Family: A Proclamation to the World, and an article by Cassandra Hedelius. You can listen to or download the December 17th broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. These audio tracks are also included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feeds/podcast).

The “New Testament in Context” portion of this show, for the Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 2 will also be posted separately on Tuesday, December 27.

The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, or you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com.

Original air date: December 17, 2023. These recording have been edited to remove commercial breaks.

The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 2: “I Will Go and Do” on 1 Nephi 1-5

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Discussion: “Thinking Celestial in the emergency room” by Cassandra Hedelius

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Gospel Advocacy: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

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The Interpreter Radio Show is a weekly discussion of matters of interest to the hosts, guests, and callers of the show. The views expressed on the Interpreter Radio Show are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Interpreter Foundation, nor should statements made on the show be construed as official doctrinal statements of the Church.

 

Abstract: Publishing an article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Faith and Scholarship involves a process of which many people are not aware. I’m sure it is obvious to all that articles don’t just spring from the mind of an author and onto the printed page. In this essay I draw back the curtain just a bit to give readers a glimpse and, hopefully, an understanding of the process.

Over a decade ago, in August 2012, I was at the annual FAIR Conference. As has been normal at every such conference except one, Dan Peterson was the concluding speaker. As he finished his remarks, he announced the launch of the Interpreter journal. It was on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, that the journal’s first article was published. The second article was published ten days later, on Friday, August 10.

Almost four years later, in April 2016, I joined The Interpreter Foundation and took the reins of the journal. This is a position I have handled for over the past seven years. There have been almost 600 weeks since the first article was published in Interpreter, and we haven’t missed a single one of those weeks. This record can be viewed, by some, as a matter of pride. I don’t view it as pride, so much, but as a matter of consistency and dependability. Over the past 11 years our readership has come to expect at least one article every Friday, and so far we’ve delivered on that expectation.

This article — the one you are reading right now — is the 747th article published in Interpreter. Last week’s article was the final one for Volume 59 of Interpreter, and this article will appear as the Introduction of that volume. In recognition of completing 59 volumes and such a prodigious number of articles, I thought it profitable and, perhaps, interesting to share a few more statistics and pull back the curtain just a bit to give an idea of what it takes to bring an article to publication.

[Page viii]A Few Statistics

In our 59 volumes we have published over 18,800 pages from 212 primary authors. (Several dozen secondary co-authors are not included in that author count. Most authors have written only a single article (127 authors), but some have written many more. Dan Peterson is the most-credited author, with 60 articles. This makes sense, since he has written the introduction essays for most of our 59 volumes. A close second is Matt Bowen (59 articles), followed by Jeff Lindsay (24) and Brant Gardner (24). That leaves 580 articles published by the remaining 208 primary authors.1

Based on the best information available, our three most popular articles (the “top three”)2 are the following:

* Christopher J. Blythe, “Vaughn J. Featherstone’s Atlanta Temple Letter,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 37 (2020): 309–18, https://interpreterfoundation.org/vaughn-j-featherstones-atlanta-temple-letter/

* Terryl L. Givens, “Letter to a Doubter,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 4 (2013): 131–46, htt...

The fourth “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference was held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

The presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. The videos are currently available both at https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2018-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/2018-temple-on-mount-zion-conference-videos/and on the Interpreter Foundation YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/theinterpreterfoundation. A YouTube playlist is also available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRMn4gyXMWLsWt34zVNC5FmTqBtFfcnxl. The audio recordings are available at https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2018-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/2018-temple-on-mount-zion-conference-audio/.

Presented at:

2018 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceSaturday, November 10, 2018https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2020-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/

Conference Proceedings:

The Temple: Symbols, Sermons, and Settings at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/the-temple-symbols-sermons-and-settings/ (available first quarter, 2024)

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Transcript

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 audio cassettes and printed transcripts were made of the lectures. We believe these recordings will be interesting to listen to and valuable to your Come, Follow Me study program this year. Each week, we will include the lectures covering the Book of Mormon chapters being studied that week.

This week, we have the first six lectures, covering background material for the Book of Mormon.

All 112 lectures are immediately available in PDF, audio, video, and electronic formats, as well as in paperback books that are available for purchase. Links for all of the available online sources can be found in the Complete Bibliography for Hugh Nibley at https://interpreterfoundation.org/bibliographies/hugh-w-nibley/lectures/.

 

Lecture 1: Book of Mormon—Like Nothing Else

An introduction to Hugh Nibley’s Teachings of the Book of Mormon class.

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Lecture 2: Book of Mormon—Nephi’s Heritage

There are certain things about the Book of Mormon that we must notice at the beginning to get off on the right foot. . . . The opening of the Book of Mormon concerns our people, and it concerns also our world. To start, this lecture looks at the biographical nature of 1 Nephi and moves on to Nephi’s heritage and legacy.

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Lecture 3: Book of Mormon—Geopolitics 600 BC

Also called “Geopolitics and the Rule of Tyrants, 600 B.C.“

There is nothing more remarkable about the Book of Mormon than its cultural history. It is loaded with details that give us an insight into the culture of a particular people. It describes three distinct cultures, and it describes them vividly. A look into why 600 B.C. is considered by historians to be the “pivotal year“ and what that means for the Book of Mormon.

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