Description
Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, Editors, Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research & Mormon Studies (FARMS), 2000, hardbound, 688 pages. ISBN: 0934893497
Richard Lloyd Anderson is a scholars’ scholar. Among Latter-day Saints, he is dean and master of two separate fields of academic study: the New Testament and early LDS Church history. His passion for history has profoundly influenced his scholarly career; his passion for order and system has shaped his missionary work and directed his into studying law; and his love for Brigham Young University and loyalty to its mission and destiny have guided his academic path. This volume, as you can see from the table of contents, contains essays written by outstanding LDS scholars on Book of Mormon Studies, Old Testament Studies and Ancient History, and New Testament Studies and Early Christian History.
Contents:
Marriage and Treaty in the Book of Mormon: The Case of the Abducted Lamanite Daugters – S. Kent Brown
An Inscribed Chinese Gold Plate in Its Context: Glimpses of the Sacred Center – David B. Honey and Michael P. Lyon
Covenant Teachings of the Book of Mormon – Victor L. Ludlow
“To Remember and Keep”: On the Book of Mormon as an Ancient Book – Louis Midgley
Inspired Melody and Chosen Word: The Wedding of Music and Scripture in Leroy Robertson’s Oratorio from the Book of Mormon – Marian Robertson-Wilson
Religious Groups and Movements among the Nephites 200-1 B.C. – John L. Sorenson
Old Testament Studies and Ancient History
The Military Reforms of the Emperor Diocletian – John F. Hall
The Social Context of First-Century Roman Christianity
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
The Last Days, Then and Now – Hugh W. Nibley
Messiah Becomes the New King: Notes on Isaiah 9:3-7 –
Donald W. Parry
The Throne Theophany/Prophetic Call of Muhammad – Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks
Josephus’s Portrayal of Jeremiah: A Portrait and a Self-Portrait – David Rolph Seeley and Jo Ann H. Seeley
Savior, Satan, and Serpent: The Duality of a Symbol in the Scriptures – Andrew C. Skinner
New Testament Studies and Early Christian History
“Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites”: A Study in Hypokrisis – Richard D. Draper
Terrena atque Caelstia: A Prolegomenon to a Study of the Fourth Gospel – C. Wilfred Griggs
Scenes from Early Christian History – Kent P. Jackson
“Ye are Gods”: Psalm 82 and John 10 as Witnesses to the Divine Nature of Humankind – Daniel C. Peterson
Adam’s Fall in the Book of Mormon, Second Temple in Judaism, and Early Christianity – Stephen D. Ricks