“The Faith to See: Burning in the Bosom and Translating the Book of Mormon in Doctrine and Covenants 9”

“The Faith to See: Burning in the Bosom and Translating the Book of Mormon in Doctrine and Covenants 9” February 13, 2016

 

Joseph translating, as he didn't actually do it.
This image isn’t quite accurate, historically speaking, but it’s close enough to serve my purposes here.  (LDS.org)

 

Interpreter didn’t miss a day yesterday.  That will almost certainly happen, eventually, but it hasn’t happened yet and it’s not likely to happen for at least a while to come.

 

It’s just that I spent much of yesterday on airplanes, and much of the rest of it in cars, and . . . well, I fell behind.

 

(Some of my critics will be disappointed, by the way, to know that, while I teach a full load of classes, owing to the peculiarities of my teaching schedule and of BYU’s academic calendar I don’t intend to miss a single teaching day for this bit of goofing off — and that I’m not completely goofing off, anyway.  While sitting out watching whales and gazing at the islands of Lanai and Molokai this morning, for example, I’ve been re-reading Farid al-Din Attar’s Conference of the Birds, and breaking that up with an account of the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet and — rather curiously, while sitting on a tropical beach — of hunting for meteorites in Antarctica.)

 

Anyway, I’m happy to call your attention to Stan Spencer’s new article, published yesterday:

 

http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-faith-to-see-burning-in-the-bosom-and-translating-the-book-of-mormon-in-doctrine-and-covenants-9/

 

Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii

 

 


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