Review of Samuel Morris Brown,\u00a0Joseph\u00a0Smith\u2019s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Oxford University Press, 2020). 314 pages. $34.95 (hardback).<\/span><\/p>\n Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>Samuel\u00a0M.\u00a0Brown opens up a\u00a0new and expansive view of Joseph\u00a0Smith as a\u00a0religious thinker. Written for an academic audience, Brown is intentionally dealing with what can be seen and understood about Joseph\u00a0Smith\u2019s various translations, a\u00a0term that Brown uses not only for texts, but for concepts of bringing the world of the divine into contact with the human domain. This is a\u00a0history of the interaction of a\u00a0person and the world of his thought, from the first text (the Book of Mormon) to the last, which Brown considers to be the temple rites.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n And, from Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, in connection with the\u00a02020 Interpreter Foundation conference on\u00a0<\/span>Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTopically Arranged Bibliography: Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAlphabetically Sorted Bibliography: Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Did you perhaps miss this change?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLDS Business College becomes Ensign College \u2014 Why it\u2019s about more than just the name change\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhy the newly renamed Ensign College is the only Latter-day Saint school without the BYU name\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This interesting item, the product of a recent study, appeared in the online magazine Public Square<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMormon Isn\u2019t Our Name.\u00a0 Why Are Some Still Using It?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLDS Church releases special episode of Book of Mormon video series\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n From President Russell M. Nelson:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe Future of the Church: Preparing the World for the Savior\u2019s Second Coming\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMormons rejected Trump as blasphemous. Now he likely can\u2019t win without them.\u00a0 Latter-day Saints had been among the most reliably Republican voting blocs \u2014 until Trump took over the party.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n For your ever-hungry Christopher Hitchens \u201cHow Religion Poisons Everything\u201d File<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHow Latter-day Saint Charities Is Helping the World Food Programme During COVID-19: The WFP is filling critical gaps of relief during the pandemic\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n And perhaps also this:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cCensus: Utah retained nation\u2019s smallest wealth gap last year: State demographer and economist say Utah likely to hold title of most even income distribution\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n And, finally, on a non-LDS topic:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
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New, today, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe Expanse of Joseph\u00a0Smith\u2019s Translation Vision\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n