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2 Nephi 26-30: Familiar Spirits
March 10, 2024 06:15 AM
Portions of this week’s reading (2 Nephi 26–30) are among the most clarion declarations in the Book of Mormon—or any scripture, really—of God’s universal love for the entire human family.
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2 Nephi 20-25: Context or Prophecy? Embracing Cultural Difference in a Global Church
March 03, 2024 09:10 AM
This is an exhilarating, beautiful, sobering, and hopeful ride. Yet it seems to leave Nephi with a serious problem: what can it have to say to his own people, who have left their old world to start over halfway around the globe?
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2024 Book of Mormon Resources from the Maxwell Institute
March 01, 2024 08:00 AM
As saints from across the world gather together to study the Book of Mormon for Come, Follow Me in 2024, there are many resources available to assist individuals in their studies. The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship has always been committed to nurturing disciple-scholars, encouraging students, faculty, members, and non-members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to combine study and faith.
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Pursuing Joseph in Early Syriac Literature (from Ancient Jew Review)
February 29, 2024 02:32 PM
Kristian S. Heal. Genesis 37 and 39 in the Early Syriac Tradition. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2023. In the late 1990s, when I first thought about writing a PhD thesis on the figure of Joseph in the Syriac tradition, I did what most aspiring graduate students did at that time and consulted Sebastian Brock. He suggested focusing on the long and especially beautiful narrative poem on Joseph written in the fifth century and attributed to both Balai and Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373).
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2 Nephi 11-19: Scripture and Vision: Revelation in Audiovisual or Textual Form
February 25, 2024 10:41 AM
“To be a prophet is both a distinction and an affliction,” writes Abraham Heschel. “The prophet bears scorn and reproach. He is stigmatized as a madman by his contemporaries, and, by some modern scholars, as abnormal.”
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Announcing the 2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest
February 23, 2024 02:01 PM
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship is seeking original art created by BYU students for the 2nd Annual Book of Mormon Art Contest. Artwork will be featured in the new Book of Mormon Art Catalog, in an art display on BYU campus, and winners will receive prize money.
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Art Highlight: Here by Thy Help I've Come
February 16, 2024 10:20 AM
This artwork and its accompanying caption were created by Meranda Brodowski, a student artist and designer at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Meranda is from California and has worked at the Maxwell Institute since January. She is a Fine Arts Major at Brigham Young University, with an emphasis in technology. She strives to create inspiring artwork that represents her faith and testimony.
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An Invitation to Discover the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast
February 06, 2024 09:33 AM
I'm Rosalynde Welch, host of the new Maxwell Institute Book of Mormon Studies podcast. I've been on a lifelong journey not only to understand the meaning of the Book of Mormon, but to let its message change my heart. The words of prophets and the influence of the Spirit have lit the way.
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2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest
February 01, 2024 12:00 PM
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship is seeking original art created by BYU students for the 2nd Annual Book of Mormon Art Contest. Artwork will be featured in the new Book of Mormon Art Catalog, in an art display on BYU campus, and winners will receive prize money.
1 Min Read
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