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<\/a>Some new slides from a pair of lectures have just gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: \u00a0\u201cThe Innovative and Revolutionary Book of Mormon Critical Text Project,\u201d presentations by Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack, given Saturday, 10 August 2024<\/a><\/p>\n On Saturday, August 10, 2024, Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack spoke at a celebration for the completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. The slides used for those talks are available below.<\/p>\n Royal Skousen\u2019s presentation was entitled \u201cThe Innovative and Revolutionary Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.\u201d<\/p>\n Stanford Carmack\u2019s presentation was entitled \u201cThe Archaic Language of the Original Book of Mormon.\u201d His slides are pages 85 through 144 of the slides below.<\/p>\n Note that we have not made these slides available for downloading or printing due to copyright issues. Please refrain from attempting to bypass these restrictions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The presentations were recorded by three video cameras and the combined and edited version of those recordings will eventually be posted online. \u00a0However, our film people are fully extended on other projects \u2014 among them the final polishing to our forthcoming Six Days in August<\/em> theatrical film<\/a> \u2014 so we crave your patience. \u00a0It may be a month or even more before the recording of Saturday\u2019s program is ready to go up.<\/p>\n I notice that, roughly a week ago, my Malevolent Stalker posted a prediction about me over at his compound. \u00a0His posts are almost always about me. \u00a0He follows this blog with obsessively meticulous \u2014 albeit ill-intentioned \u2014 care, and has done so for the entire twelve years of its existence. \u00a0(His anonymously vocal online hostility to me predates the launch of my blog by several additional<\/em> years.)<\/p>\n He had noticed a comment made here (by Mr. Roger McKinney<\/a>) to the effect that genuine science is impossible without (implicitly Protestant) Christianity. \u00a0Knowing that I\u2019ve at least pretended to a sympathetic interest in Islam over the years, the Stalker rhetorically wondered aloud whether I would say anything about the scientific contributions of the Islamic world. \u00a0He confidently predicted that I would not<\/em>, because . . . well, because, in his view (whether real or feigned), I\u2019m actually a religious bigot who holds Islam (and all other faiths other than my own) in contempt. \u00a0I would, the Stalker declared, therefore say absolutely nothing in defense of classical Islamic contributions to science.<\/p>\n I notice also that, as is entirely understandable, the Malevolent Stalker has revisited neither his prophecy nor the thread in which he made it. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Pretty obviously because it\u2019s yet another redundant example of the malicious vacuity and routine falsehood of his accusations and prognostications. \u00a0I\u2019m confident that, at this point, he would prefer that his prediction be forgotten.<\/p>\n However, I\u2019ve spent more time going back and forth with Mr. McKinney about his historical claim than I should have \u2014 the exchange is probably at an end by this point or, if not, very near<\/em> its end \u2014 and I judge that the effort might as well receive some attention here in the main portion of my blog. \u00a0Besides, some folks might perhaps actually find it of at least minimal interest. \u00a0So, if you care to look, please see the comments to \u201cAre Reason And Faith Diametrically Opposed?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n And now, here are two more items that have been newly posted on the never-changing and virtually moribund Interpreter Foundation website:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 34 \u201cPreserved by His Marvelous Power\u201d Alma 53-63\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n During the 28 July 2024 Come, Follow Me<\/em> segment of the Interpreter Radio Show,Steve Densley and John Thompson discussed Book of Mormon lesson 34, \u201cPreserved by His Marvelous Power\u201d covering Alma 53-63.<\/p>\n You can listen to or download the Book of Mormon in Context segment of the 28 July 2024 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. \u00a0It has been purified of commercial interruptions and made available at no charge to you. \u00a0The other segments of the 28 July 2024 radio show can be accessed at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-july-28-2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can listen live to the Interpreter Radio Show every Sunday evening between 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, in the Salt Lake Valley, or you can listen on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Come, Follow Me<\/em> \u2014 Study and Teaching Helps (2024): Lesson 34, August 19-25: Alma 53-63: \u201cPreserved by His Marvelous Power\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Editor\u2019s Note: Four years ago, Jonn Claybaugh began writing the Study and Teaching Helps series of articles for Interpreter. We now have these wonderful and useful posts for all four years of Come, Follow Me lessons. Beginning this year we will be reposting these articles, with dates, lesson numbers, and titles updated for the current year\u2019s lessons. Jonn has graciously agreed to write new study aids for those lessons that do not directly correspond to 2020 lessons.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n As I see it, this last section and the article on which it is founded are not primarily about politics. \u00a0So I\u2019m hoping that none of my three readers will reproach me for violating my vow to eschew taking political positions here on my blog. \u00a0In my judgment, rather, the article is about Latter-day Saints. \u00a0Is it related to politics. \u00a0Obviously yes. \u00a0Does it have potential political ramifications? \u00a0Yes, of course. \u00a0As does the sheer existence of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> in the first place. \u00a0And it\u2019s very possible, in a tight and fiercely contested election, that the attitudes and acts of Latter-day Saint voters may have an important and even, conceivably determinative effect on the outcome of the 2024 presidential race. \u00a0(I\u2019m told, by people who follow such matters, that a presidential race is currently underway. \u00a0I hope that I\u2019m not wrong about that. \u00a0If I am, I\u2019ll<\/em> certainly have egg on my<\/em> face!). Here\u2019s the article: \u00a0\u201cMormons Don\u2019t Want to Vote for Trump: This could be a whopper of a problem for him in Arizona in particular.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Some new slides from a pair of lectures have just gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: \u00a0\u201cThe Innovative and Revolutionary Book of Mormon Critical Text Project,\u201d presentations by Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack, given Saturday, 10 August 2024 On Saturday, August 10, 2024, Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack spoke at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":33804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4720,66,2046,243,37872,2391],"class_list":["post-106530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aristotle","tag-islam","tag-royal-skousen","tag-science","tag-scientific-revolution","tag-stanford-carmack"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a>
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