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Reporter Edwin Kelly strides toward David Whitmer\u2019s Richmond, Missouri, livery stable in this scene from the filming of the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s \u201cWitnesses\u201d project.
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The Interpreter Foundation continues to make useful and interesting materials available in a variety of formats and media for students of the scriptures and doctrines of the Restoration \u2014 usually for free, sometimes at cost. \u00a0Here are three of the latest examples:<\/p>\n

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\u201cStanding in the Holy Place: Ancient and Modern Reverberations of an Enigmatic New Testament Prophecy\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong> On the Mount of Olives, just prior to the culminating events of the Passion week, Jesus gave one of the most controversial prophecies of the New Testament, saying, among other things, that the \u201cabomination of desolation\u201d will \u201cstand in the holy place.\u201d In Joseph Smith-Matthew the Prophet renders this passage in a way that radically changes its meaning. Rather than describing how the \u201cabomination of desolation\u201d will \u201cstand in the holy place,\u201d the JSTversion enjoins the apostles to \u201cstand in the holy place\u201d when the \u201cabomination of desolation\u201d appears. Though several Latter-day Saint scholars have offered interpretations and personal applications of these words as given in modern scripture, it appears that no one has heretofore seriously explored how this change in meaning might be explained and defended. This article will show that other passages in the Bible, in connection with the light shed by Jewish midrash and contemporary scholarship, demonstrate that the idea behind Joseph Smith\u2019s revision of the passage, far from being a modern invention, reverberates throughout the religious thought of earlier times. The article concludes with an appendix that tries to draw out a possibility for a specific interpretation of the prophecy about the \u201cabomination of desolation\u201d at the time of Christ and in the latter days.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

[Editor\u2019s Note: <\/strong>Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the LDS community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.<\/span><\/p>\n

See Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, \u201cStanding in the Holy Place: Ancient and Modern Reverberations of an Enigmatic New Testament Prophecy,\u201d in [Page 164]<\/span>Ancient Temple Worship: Proceedings of The Expound Symposium 14 May 2011,<\/em> ed. Matthew B. Brown, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Stephen D. Ricks, and John S. Thompson (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2014), 71\u2013142. Further information athttps:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/books\/ancient-temple-worship\/<\/a>.]<\/span><\/p>\n

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Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 May 24, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n

The 24 May 2020 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show has now been archived and is available online, at no charge. \u00a0Shorn of commercial and other interruptions, it features\u00a0Steve Densley, Matthew Bowen, and Kevin Christensen discussing Kevin\u2019s review of the book\u00a0Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon<\/em>. Also featured is a roundtable on the upcoming Come, Follow Me<\/em> Book of Mormon lesson #25 on Alma 17-22.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlma\u2019s Testimony of Christ\u2019s Birth and Mission (Alma 7)\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

A Video Supplement for Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 22: \u201cHave Ye Experienced This Mighty Change in Your Hearts?\u201d (Alma 5-7)<\/p>\n

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