The blend of scholarship and artistry of the DVD documentary Journey of Faith (Maxwell Institute, 2006) continues in expanded form in the book Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land. Containing numerous threads of historical detail and scholarly insight not included in the DVD, this visually stunning look at the Book of Mormon prophet Lehi s trek through the harsh Arabian desert reflects a synergistic collaboration of talented scholars, artists, and photographers seeking to illuminate an epic event in scriptural history and situate it in a real-world setting. Aside from assembling commentary and images from the DVD, this book includes a foreword by the editors, their reflections on the project in two separate chapters, additional commentary by scholars, an appendix on the famed Incense Trail across the Arabian Peninsula, and a bibliography. The documentary was filmed in the Middle East at locations that scholars believe mark or approximate the route that took Lehi s party across Arabia to reach the seaside location where they eventually embarked by ship to the New World. Like the DVD, the book will enrich one s study of the opening chapters of the Book of Mormon.

Journey of Faith: From Jerusalem to the Promised Land

Religion & Spirituality

Kent S. Brown and Peter Johnson

Christian Books & Bibles

Maxwell Institute

The Life of Holiness is the product of years of reflection and careful study of the Epistle to the Romans. James E. Faulconer has crafted for his readers a work that provokes their thoughts, offering questions for consideration and reflection more than answers, matters to consider rather than doctrine to hear.

The Life of Holiness: Notes and Reflections on Romans 1, 5-8

James E. Faulconer

Dr. Hugh W. Nibley, professor emeritus of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, gave the following twenty-six lectures in an honors class on the Pearl of Great Price. The class was videotaped in the Maeser Building during winter semester 1986. This book is the transcription of the lectures and is intended to be a guide to the recordings. We have spent considerable time and effort to make the text as accurate as possible. This transcription was prepared with the help of Robert Smith, Robert Smythe, Julie Dozier, Ellen Lund, and David Pendleton.

Teachings of the Pearl of Great Price

Hugh W. Nibley

Described by many scholars as the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain the oldest biblical manuscripts ever found. The lavishly illustrated Illuminating the Dead Sea Scrolls introduces readers to these spectacular scrolls from their discovery, to the selling and reselling of the scrolls for profit, to the publication of their texts, and finally to the technological advances that help scholars study the scrolls today. Inside you ll discover how the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal previously unknown psalms, restore a missing verse from Psalm 145, and describe a treasure worthy of Indiana Jones (the treasure has yet to be found).

Illuminating the Dead Sea Scrolls

Parry, Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature Donald W

Latter-day Saint philosopher James E. Faulconer’s Made Harder series raises many more questions than it answers. And that is precisely the point. Faulconer wrote The Old Testament Made Harder on the premise that our scripture study is only as good as the questions we bring to the endeavor. While many books about the Old Testament provide useful shortcuts, chapter synopses, timelines, and memorizable bullet points, this book consists almost entirely of challenging questions (with occasional commentary for clarity’s sake) because, in Faulconer’s experience, questions themselves are the key to reflective and deep scripture study. This book is intended to make reading harder—and therefore fresher—by priming your pondering pump with insightful study questions. The Old Testament Made Harder is the perfect tool to improve personal and family scripture study, sacrament meeting talks, or Sunday School lessons. So much of modern life is geared to finding faster and easier ways to do the same old things. The Made Harder series is proof that making things easier does not always make them better.

The Old Testament Made Harder

This book takes a fresh look at the apostasy of the early Christian church. Most Latter-day Saint scholars and leaders previously based their understanding of the Christian apostasy on the findings of Protestant scholars who provided a seemingly endless array of evidences of apostasy in Christian history.Since the classic treatments of this topic were written, many newly discovered manuscripts written during the first Christian centuries have come to light, giving a clearer picture of what the early Christian experience was like. Drawing on this material, LDS scholars today are able to shift the focus of study to the causes of the apostasy rather than the effects. This volume of essays reports new research by several LDS scholars in different fields. They identify common myths and misconceptions about the apostasy and promote better understanding of when and why the apostasy occurred.

Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary Lds Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy

Noel B. Reynolds

A stray ink drop and a quirk of nineteenth-century script make the difference between retain that wrong and repair that wrong. More than a decade of meticulous research revealed such insights as Royal Skousen prepared transcripts of the original and printer's manuscripts of the Book of Mormon for publication.Now published for the first time ever, the manuscripts help you discover the original phrasing of the Book of Mormon (including Hebrew-like expressions), provide surprising evidence on the process by which Joseph Smith translated, and show how editors and printers have modified the wording to make it conform to the expectations of contemporary English readers. The original manuscript is the text written down by scribes as Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. Most of this manuscript was destroyed by mold and water seepage. Only 28 percent of the original is extant. The printer's manuscript is the handwritten copy that was made to take to the printer for typesetting. It is virtually 100 percent extant. The book features: Typographic facsimiles of each manuscript (an exact reproduction of the text in typescript). A fragment showing what is considered the oldest existing sample of Joseph Smith's handwriting. Color and ultraviolet photographs of select parts of the manuscripts. A history and physical description of the manuscripts. Photographs of select parts of the manuscripts. A history and physical description of the manuscripts.

The Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts: Part 1

Royal Skousen

Precolumbian contacts with the Americas across the Oceans. Number of pages for Volume 1 (700pgs) and Volume 2 (293pgs)

Pre-Columbian Contact With the Americas Across the Oceans: An Annotated Bibliography

Reference

John L. Sorenson

Martin Raish

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

This new edition of a classic research tool makes accessible thousands of publications dealing with issues of pre-Columbian voyaging and American cultural origins.Nearly 5,000 entries describe works from a dozen languages and from such diverse fields as anthropology, archaeology, art history, ethnobotany, ethnozoology, folklore, geography, linguistics, history, and nautical history.A new index of 1,400 terms makes use much easier.

Pre-Columbian Contact with teh Americas across the Ocean: Volume 2

Edited by John W. Welch and Melvin J. Thorne, this book presents the FARMS Research Updates of the 1990s, plus some similar short notes from the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, in a new collection. Aimed at a general audience, these updates are brief, easy-to-read reports of new research on the Book of Mormon. In this fascinating book, the contributors tell of intriguing ideas and developments that have emerged from exploring the Book of Mormon from many perspectives. Pressing Forward will interest all people who want to know what's new in Book of Mormon research.

Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s

John W. Welch

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