Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volume 32

by Daniel Peterson

This is volume 32 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains articles on a variety of topics including: Compassion as the Heart of the Gospel; Revisiting “Sariah” at Elephantine; The Record of My Father; The First Easter; The Crucifixion as a Mockery, Witness, and Warning of the Judgment; Procedural Violations in the Trial of the Woman Taken in Adultery; Joseph Smith: The World’s Greatest Guesser (A Bayesian Statistical Analysis of Positive and Negative Correspondences between the Book of Mormon and The Maya); Joseph Knew First: Moses, the Egyptian Son; The Māori Latter-day Saint Historical Narrative: Additions and Amendments; D&C 21, George Albert Smith, and Hugh B. Brown: A Fresh Look at Three Incidents in Church History; The Lives of Abraham: Seeing Abraham through the Eyes of Second-Temple Jews; “Yes, It’s True, But I Don’t Think They Like to Hear it Quite That Way”: What Spencer W. Kimball Told Elaine Cannon; Prospering in the Land: A Comparison of Covenant Promises in Leviticus and First Nephi 2; “And They Shall Be Had Again”: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in Moses 1:41 in View of the So-called Canon Formula; and A Nourishing and Accessible Read.

313 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 27, 2019

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.