Email: lanej@byu.edu
CV: Jennifer Lane CV 2022
Jennifer C. Lane is Neal A. Maxwell Research Associate at the Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and professor emerita at Brigham Young University–Hawaii. She received her Ph.D. in religion with an emphasis in history of Christianity from Claremont Graduate University. She graduated with University Honors in history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and completed her M.A. at BYU with an emphasis in ancient Near Eastern studies. She served in the leadership both the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology and the Latter-day Saints and the Bible section of the Society of Biblical Literature and is currently on the Board of the Religious Studies Center. She served as Dean of Religious Education and Associate Academic Vice President for Curriculum at BYU–Hawaii. She has published over twenty-five articles and book chapters on context and analysis of scripture, theology, and medieval studies. Her recent volume, Finding Christ in the Covenant Path: Ancient Insights for Modern Life, brings together decades of research from these different threads of study.
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BOOK
Finding Christ in the Covenant Path: Ancient Insights for the Modern World. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2020.
SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES
- “The Whole Meaning of the Law: Christ’s Vicarious Sacrifice,” in Approaching Holiness: Exploring the History and Teachings of the Old Testament, ed. Krystal V. L. Pierce and David Rolph Seely (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2021), 159-78.
- “Remembering Redemption, Avoiding Idolatry: A Covenant Perspective on Caring for the Poor,” in Covenant of Compassion: Caring for the Marginalized and Disadvantaged in the Old Testament, ed. Avram R. Shannon, Gaye Strathearn, and Joshua M. Sears (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2021), 256-90.
- “Redemption’s Grand Design for Both the Living and the Dead,” in Raising the Standard of Truth: Exploring the History and Teachings of the Early Restoration, ed. Scott C. Esplin (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020), 189-210.
- “Choosing Divinity, Choosing Christ” in How and What You Worship:
- Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith, ed. Rachel Cope, Carter Charles, and Jordan T. Watkins (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2020), 43-73.
- “Seeking the Sacred: Replicating the Holy Sepulchre and Jerusalem Pilgrimage,” in Seek Ye Words of Wisdom: Studies of the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Temple in Honor of Stephen D. Ricks, ed. Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn, Shon D. Hopkin,(Provo, UT: Interpreter Foundation and Religious Education, Brigham Young University, 2020), 367–83.
- “Sitting Enthroned: A Scriptural Perspective.” Religious Educator 19:1 (Jan/Feb 2018), 103-117.
- “I Am Among You As One that Serveth.” Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology, 5:2 (Fall 2009): 57-67.
- “Embodied Knowledge of God.” Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology (March 2007): 61-71.
- “The Lord Will Redeem His People: Adoptive Covenant and Redemption in the Old Testament,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 298-310.
BYU Devotionals and Convocations
- “The Habit of Curriculum,” September 24, 2014, BYU-Hawaii
- “Faith in the Redemption,” January 15, 2013, BYU-Hawaii
- “We Are Not Our Own,” December 2, 2004, BYU-Hawaii