“Nephite History in Context: Artifacts, Inscriptions, and Texts Relevant to the Book of Mormon”
I’ll be interested to see how this effort goes. Years ago, before certain employees of the Maxwell Institute (née FARMS) decided to assume control of it and to lead it in a fundamentally different direction, we had planned to compile a volume that would provide descriptions and backgrounds for the ancient. texts and artifacts that were routinely mentioned by Hugh Nibley and in other apologetic writings. Unfortunately, like so many other worthy plans, that project never came to fruition.
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I’ve posted a couple of things of late with respect to the advertising for the volume Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Apologetics (e.g. “‘A very important contribution to the study of Mormon theology. . . . marvelous.”
Here’s an August 2017 review of the book that I somehow managed to miss:
“Every Argument is an Apology”
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Perhaps this will help you to get in the mood for the season:
“Watch: Mormon Tabernacle Organist Plays the Most Epic Halloween Solo”
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While I’m in the musical vein: My wife and I walked over to the Old City this afternoon, entering it by the Jaffa Gate. Most of our walk, both there and back, was through the elegant Mamilla Mall, which is a very pleasant place. (Its main entrance is directly adjacent to our hotel.)
Today, we saw something that I really never expected.
There was a wonderful rock guitarist — he’s very good — playing in one of the mall’s open areas with his guitar case open in front of him for donations.
Nothing new there, right?
Right. Except that he was an Ultra Orthodox Jew, dressed all in black, including a black hat, with a long graying beard and ring curls.
Marvelous.
When we passed him by the second time, making our return to our hotel, there was a group of about eight Israeli soldiers standing in front of him, making fun of him. As we walked past, he smiled at them and said “I love you.” At which three teenage Palestinian girls, dressed in hijabs and watching from his left, burst out laughing at the soldiers and at what he had said to them.
One of those funny little Jerusalem scenes. I pick them up every time I come.
What a fascinating and endlessly entertaining city!
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Some might find this, from Taylor Halverson, to be helpful:
“‘Son of man’ or ‘Son of God’: Two Crucial Names for Christ We Keep Misunderstanding”
Posted from Jerusalem, Israel
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