<p>In the first issue of Zion s Trumpet in 1855, Dan Jones declares that he was beginning the year with greater desire and confidence than ever before. Despite expressions of frustration and disappointment throughout the 1855 volume, there are many segments in which Dan Jones s unflagging optimism still appears. Jones s accounts have particular significance in providing a glimpse into a segment of his life not recorded elsewhere. For example, Jones went to Nauvoo in 1843 and made personal acquaintance with the Prophet Joseph Smith, with whom he formed a friendship that would take him to Carthage to become the recipient of Joseph s final prophecy in mortality that Jones would survive the events of the next few days and return to Wales to fulfill the mission to which he had been previously called. As with the English translation of the seven preceding volumes of Zion s Trumpet, this 1855 volume is published in a facsimile translation format to provide the reader with something of the appearance and flavor of the original Welsh publication.</p>

Zion's Trumpet: 1855 Welsh Mormon Periodical

Ronald D. Dennis (Editor)

Religious Studies Center/Deseret Book Co

<p>This is a new volume from the Book of Mormon Academy at Brigham Young University. This volume explores the relationship between the Nephite and the Jaredite records culturally, politically, literarily, and theologically. The first approach is a cultural-historical lens, in which elements of Jaredite culture are discussed, including the impact of a Jaredite subculture on Nephite politics during the reign of the judges, and a Mesopotamia perspective as seership and divination, and the brother of Jared's experience as a liminal one. The second grouping looks at the book of Ether through a narratological lens, all three papers exploring different aspects of Moroni's construction of the book of Ether. The third grouping explores the book of Ether's depiction of women, as it contains one of the most descriptive, yet ambivalent female figures in the Book of Mormon, both historically and in our contemporary era. Finally, the book of Ether is reviewed via a teaching lens. In Alma 37, Alma the Younger explained the teaching value of the Jaredite records, these last two studies examine ways in which the book of Ether in particular can be taught to a modern audience.</p>

Illuminating the Jaredite Records

Daniel L. Belnap

Editor)

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Zion's Trumpet: 1855 Welsh Mormon Periodical

Illuminating the Jaredite Records