Yet another new book from the Interpreter Foundation!

I’m pleased to announce the publication of yet another new book by the Interpreter Foundation:

Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn, and Shon D. Hopkin, eds., Seek Ye Words of Wisdom: Studies of the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Temple in Honor of Stephen D. Ricks (Orem and Provo: The Interpreter Foundation and Religious Education, Brigham Young University, 2020).

Stephen D. Ricks, Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Learning at Brigham Young University, is a former companion of mine in the Switzerland Zürich Mission, a longtime friend, a prodigiously gifted linguist, and a colleague in BYU’s Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages.  The editors of Seek Ye Words of Wisdom — Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn, and Shon D. Hopkin — are former students of Stephen’s who now all teach at BYU.  Various of his colleagues and friends, including the editors, contributed essays in appreciation of him.

We’re just back from a catered dinner party at which the volume was presented to Stephen.  I’m delighted to say that, somehow, we kept the whole thing entirely secret from him.  He thought that he was coming to an “adults dinner” for his annual family reunion.  We held the gathering in a park in Provo, outdoors, under a pavilion, masked except when we were actually eating and drinking, physically distanced from each other.  Not how we had imagined it, but it still went well.  (Thanks to Allen Wyatt for seeing to the printing up in Wyoming and driving the finished books down to Utah Valley.)

I’ll have further details on the book — the second that we’ve published in the past two weeks — including information on how to order it, fairly soon, and I’ll post them when they’re available.

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Since right after its establishment, the Interpreter Foundation has been a co-sponsor of the annual FairMormon conference, and this year is no exception.  (The conference has thus far been very good, by the way.)  As part of our co-sponsorship, we’re allowed a few minutes for announcements or, if you will, for “commercials.”  Our longest commercial focuses on our Witnesses film project.  Here are the two others that we prepared and that have been shown.  The voice for both of them is Steve Densley, the executive vice president of the Interpreter Foundation:

“What Does The Interpreter Foundation Do?”  (2 minutes)

“Join Us at Our Upcoming Conferences!”  (1 minute)