{"id":74997,"date":"2019-06-13T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=74997"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T17:59:50","slug":"lehi-in-arabia-and-john-gee-in-asian-and-near-eastern-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/06\/lehi-in-arabia-and-john-gee-in-asian-and-near-eastern-languages.html","title":{"rendered":"Lehi in Arabia, and John Gee in Asian and Near Eastern Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Napoleon<\/a>
An oil portrait of Dr. John Gee seated in the William Gay Research Chair, by Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The most recent column in my Deseret News<\/em> series \u201cDefending the Faith\u201d has appeared. \u00a0It deals with the language \u2014 odd and perhaps rather obscure to modern speakers of English \u2014 of a famous prophecy of the ancient apostasy as that prophecy is rendered in the 1611 King James translation of the Bible:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat does it mean that \u2018only he who now letteth will let\u2019?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Our friends and colleagues at Book of Mormon Central have produced a really fine video summarizing basic points about the journey of Lehi and his party through early sixth-century Arabia. \u00a0It\u2019s just slightly more than eight minutes long, and I strongly recommend taking a look at it:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWatch: Compelling Book of Mormon Evidence for Lehi\u2019s Journey through Arabia\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAnswer Questions the \u2018Right Way in the Right Time,\u2019 Apostle Tells Church Educators:\u00a0Elder Holland and others speak at worldwide training broadcast\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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An official statement from the Church:<\/p>\n

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\u201cChanges to Emphasize the Correct Name of the Church of Jesus Christ\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I continue to see claims on various message boards that Dr. John Gee, my friend, former student, and former colleague at the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies and its approximate successor organization, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, was tossed out of the Maxwell Institute, that he\u2019s only an adjunct professor, and that he has been ejected from the William Gay Research Chair.<\/p>\n

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These claims are false. \u00a0I frankly expect that they\u2019re intended, in many cases, to marginalize and diminish him, to insinuate that the University has repudiated him and his work, and so forth.<\/p>\n

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It is true, of course, that he is now a member of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages in the College of Humanities of Brigham Young University. \u00a0That\u2019s my own department, and I\u2019m thoroughly delighted that Dr. Gee is now a member of it and, once again, a colleague of mine. \u00a0I\u2019m confident that he\u2019ll be happier in Asian and Near Eastern Languages than in his prior campus home. \u00a0He has been placed in the department\u2019s Hebrew section, which seems the best fit for him and for his research interests. \u00a0(Arabic wasn\u2019t ideal, and our other sections \u2014 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean \u2014 were plainly<\/em> inappropriate.)<\/p>\n

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He is still a full-time member of the BYU faculty, not<\/em> an adjunct instructor, as a look at the entry for him on the Asian and Near Eastern Languages website plainly shows:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/ane.byu.edu\/heb\/faculty\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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And, as can also be seen at a glance, he continues to serve as the\u00a0William Gay Research Professor. \u00a0Since, however, there is as yet no photograph of Dr. Gee on the department website, I\u2019ve very deliberately chosen the illustration for this blog entry in order to illustrate his continued holding of that Chair in a memorable way.<\/p>\n

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