This book, in many ways, marks the beginning of the Zionist movement.
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The latest installment of the joint bi-weekly Hamblin/Peterson column has appeared in the Deseret News:
“Theodor Herzl, from integration to segregation”
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Eve Koller, “An Egyptian Linguistic Component in Book of Mormon Names,” BYU Studies 57/4 (2018) is currently available, perhaps only temporarily, for free download:
“An Egyptian Linguistic Component in Book of Mormon Names”
Here’s the summary of Dr. Koller’s article that appears on the BYU Studies website:
There are several names in the Book of Mormon—such as Zenephi, Zenos, and Zenock—that look as though they are composed of scriptural names (Nephi, Enos, Enoch, and so forth) with different forms of a z-prefix that might mean “son of ” or “descendant of.” This article proposes that the names Zenephi Zenos, Zenock, and Cezoram incorporate the names of other Book of Mormon or biblical individuals and the Egyptian pin-tail duck hieroglyph, represented by the morpheme se-/ze-, which denotes filiation with these ancestors. If this hypothesis is accurate, it could provide insight into some aspects of the structure of the language of the Book of Mormon and could also reveal information about Book of Mormon naming practices and genealogical lineages of the people who received these names.
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You might also be interested in this interview:
“10 questions with Susan Easton Black”
Dr. Black is the co-author of Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the Book of Mormon, and Professor Emerita of Church History and Doctrine at BYU. She is also among the scholars who have already been interviewed for the Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses film project, and, in fact, she appears in the brief temporary “sizzle reel” that is currently online.
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In addition, I would like to call your attention to this recent article in the Deseret News by Dr. Kristine Frederickson:
“Sincere, heartfelt communion with God”
Kris is a friend, as well as a regular participant on the Interpreter Radio Show. (Which, by the way, should be on the air again tomorrow night — that is, on Sunday night — between 7 PM and 9 PM Utah time on K-Talk (1640 AM). Those not along the Wasatch Front can listen to the Interpreter Radio Show on their computers via the K-Talk website. Alternatively, it’s also possible to listen to the programs when, shorn of commercial interruptions, they are archived and available at no charge on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.
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