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Turning an eight-chapter book of scripture into a 1,000-plus-page commentary wasn't a seamless process for Jeffrey M. Bradshaw.
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critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claim the
advent of the Internet and free access of information created their
critical view of Mormonism.
Jesse D. Hurlbut, professor of French medieval literature and culture
at BYU, will present a lecture titled "Seeing Double: Illustrating Divine Shadows in
Medieval Bibles."
BYU's 40th annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, scheduled for October
2011, has issued a call for proposals for papers, due April 1.
As the full-time editors of each volume of the Joseph Smith Papers
program comb through documents of
Joseph Smith, questions will pop up.
Catechisms were used by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints -- and were very popular in the 19th century, but now are mostly forgotten.
The change in direction of the Young Women's program under
Ardeth Green Kapp's administration came from a
simple question posed by one of her counselors:
"What do we want to happen?"
Ann Madsen, senior lecturer in the Department of Ancient Scripture at
BYU, said the beauty of the scholar was that he
was looking at everything for truth, in the gospel and out.
The frescoes on the walls of the Sistine Chapel reveal fascinating insights that should not be overlooked by Christian scholars.
