Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, Volume 16 (2015)

by Daniel Peterson, Jeffrey Bradshaw (Editor), Daniel Oswald (Editor)

This is volume 16 of A Journal of Mormon Scripture published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains articles on a variety of topics "Toward Ever More Intelligent Discipleship," "A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 1: Ignoring Inconvenient Evidence," "A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 2: Facade or Reality?", "Careless Accounts and Tawdry Novelties," "The Prodigal’s Return to the House of Glory and Rediscovery," "The Deuteronomist Reforms and Lehi’s Family A Social Context for the Rebellions of Laman and Lemuel," "The Doctrine of Resurrection in the Book of Mormon," "Not Leaving and Going On to Perfection," "Learning Nephi’s Creating a Context for 1 Nephi 1:2," "The Treason of the Mythical “Mesoamerican” Conspiracy and the Book of Mormon," "John Bernhisel’s Gift to a Incidents of Travel in Central America and the Book of Mormon," "A Treasure Trove of Questions," "The Theory of Evolution is Compatible with Both Belief and Unbelief in a Supreme Being."

302 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 2, 2015

About the author

Daniel C. Peterson is a prominent Mormon apologist and professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University (BYU). He also currently serves as editor-in-chief of BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. He is a former member of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU. The institute released Peterson in June of 2012. Peterson is the first and current editor of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture.