Book of Mormon Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Reflections on the State of the Field

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 (Education in Zion Auditorium B192 JFSB)

Brigham Young University

 

8:30 – 9:15 – Patrick Q. Mason (Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon Studies, Utah State University), “History, Religious Studies, and Book of Mormon Studies”

9:15 – 10:00 – Joseph M. Spencer (Assistant Professor of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University), “On Signifiers and Signifieds: Terryl Givens and Twenty-first Century Book of Mormon Studies”

15-minute Break

10:15 – 11:00 – Kimberly Matheson (PhD Candidate, Loyola University Chicago), “Emboldened and Embarrassed: The Tenor of Contemporary Book of Mormon Studies and the Role of Grant Hardy”

Two-hour Break for Lunch

1:00 – 1:45 – Nicholas J. Frederick (Associate Professor of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University), “On the Contribution of Royal Skousen and the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project”

1:45 – 2:30 – John Christopher Thomas (Clarence J. Abbot Professor of Biblical Studies, Pentecostal Theological Seminar; Director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, Bangor University), “The Origins and Development of an Academic Discipline”

15-minute Break

2:45 – 3:30 – Rosalynde Frandsen Welch (Independent Scholar), “The Syllabus and the Sacred Book: Literary and Cultural Approaches to the Book of Mormon in the Past”