{"id":78570,"date":"2019-09-28T12:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=78570"},"modified":"2019-10-06T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T20:36:22","slug":"dealing-with-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/09\/dealing-with-the-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"“Dealing with the Dead”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Members of the crew ready \u201cLucy Harris\u201d for a scene in the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s Witnesses<\/em> film project. \u00a0\u00a0(Still photograph by James Jordan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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If you\u2019re interested in contributing financially to the work of the Interpreter Foundation, here is how to do it:<\/p>\n

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\u201cDonating to The Interpreter Foundation\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The latest Hamblin\/Peterson column has appeared in the Deseret News<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cDealing with the dead:\u00a0One of life\u2019s great truths is the inevitability of death.\u00a0How to understand death and treat the dead are among the great questions facing religions.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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One of the bits of supporting evidence that some Latter-day Saints (including your humble servant) have adduced in favor of the authentic antiquity of the Book of Mormon is the place name Jershon<\/em>,<\/p>\n

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It was virtually inevitable, since Jershon seems a rather strong (though admittedly relatively small) piece of evidence for the Book of Mormon\u2019s genuinely Semitic antiquity that those who are determined to rebut such claims for the book would seek to neutralize or destroy it. \u00a0In a short essay on his blog Ploni Almoni<\/em>, Stephen Smoot examines one such attempt:<\/p>\n

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\u201cZelph on the Shelf Can\u2019t Read Hebrew (or English, Apparently)\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the very helpful new Pearl of Great Price Central<\/em> website:<\/p>\n

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\u201cJews in Ancient Egypt\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> has now released the second in its series of Book of Mormon videos. \u00a0This one is just under 26 minutes in length:<\/p>\n

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\u201cNephi Is Led by the Spirit to Obtain the Plates of Brass | 1 Nephi 3\u20135 | Book of Mormon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I like this article, which recounts an unhappy wife\u2019s response to a 1992 conference talk by Elder Richard G. Scott that, in other quarters, generated considerable indignation (based upon, in my view, considerable misreading):<\/p>\n

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\u201cA Prompting to Call an Apostle and What It Taught One Woman About How the Lord Works\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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We recognize what is lovely because we have seen it somewhere else, and as we walk through the world, we are constantly on the watch for it with a kind of nostalgia, so that when we see an object or a person that pleases us, it is like recognizing an old friend; it hits us in the solar plexus, and we need no measuring or lecturing to tell us that it is indeed quite perfect. It is something we have long been looking for, something we have seen in another world, memories of how things should be.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGoods of First and Second Intent,\u201d\u00a0Collected Works of Hugh Nibley<\/em>\u00a09:528<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 If you\u2019re interested in contributing financially to the work of the Interpreter Foundation, here is how to do it: \u00a0 \u201cDonating to The Interpreter Foundation\u201d \u00a0 *** \u00a0 The latest Hamblin\/Peterson column has appeared in the Deseret News: \u00a0 \u201cDealing with the dead:\u00a0One of life\u2019s great truths is the inevitability of death.\u00a0How to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,2256,5856,1104,5168,5853,743],"class_list":["post-78570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-comparative-religion","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-evidence","tag-jershon","tag-religion"],"yoast_head":"\n"Dealing with the Dead"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    If you're interested in contributing 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