{"id":96982,"date":"2022-10-07T21:24:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T03:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=96982"},"modified":"2022-10-09T22:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T04:51:25","slug":"funny-touching-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2022\/10\/funny-touching-titanic.html","title":{"rendered":"Funny, Touching, Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Among our other activities today, we strolled through theVictorian magnificence of the Halifax Public Gardens.
(Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Two new articles appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.\u00a0 The first of them is the latest article to appear in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u201cUnto the Taking Away of Their Stumbling Blocks\u201d: The Taking Away and Keeping Back of Plain and Precious Things and Their Restoration in 1 Nephi 13\u201315,\u201d<\/a> written by Matthew L. Bowen<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong>\u00a0In the latter part (1\u00a0Nephi\u00a013\u201314) of his vision of the tree of life (1\u00a0Nephi\u00a011\u201314), Nephi is shown the unauthorized human diminution of scripture and the gospel by the Gentile \u201cgreat and abominable church\u201d \u2014 that plain and precious things\/words, teachings, and covenants were \u201ctaken away\u201d or otherwise \u201ckept back\u201d from the texts that became the Bible and how people lived out its teachings. He also saw how the Lord would act to restore those lost words, teachings, and covenants among the Gentiles \u201cunto the taking away of their stumbling blocks\u201d (1\u00a0Nephi\u00a014:1). The iterative language of 1\u00a0Nephi\u00a013 describing the \u201ctaking away\u201d and \u201ckeeping back\u201d of scripture bears a\u00a0strong resemblance to the prohibitions of the Deuteronomic canon-formula texts (Deuteronomy\u00a04:2; 12:31 [MT\u00a013:1]). It also echoes the etiological meanings attached to the name Joseph in Genesis\u00a030:23\u201324 in terms of \u201ctaking away\u201d and \u201cadding.\u201d Nephi\u2019s prophecies of scripture and gospel restoration on account of which \u201c[the Gentiles]\u00a0shall<\/strong>\u00a0be\u00a0no more<\/strong>\u00a0[cf. Hebrew\u00a0<\/em>l\u014d\u02be y\u00f4s\u00eep\u00fb \u2026 \u02bf\u00f4d] brought down into captivity, and the house of Israel\u00a0shall no more<\/strong>\u00a0[<\/em>w\u0115l\u014d\u02be y\u00f4s\u00eep\u00fb \u2026 \u02bf\u00f4d] be confounded\u201d (1\u00a0Nephi\u00a014:2) and \u201cafter that they were\u00a0restored, they should no more be confounded<\/strong>\u00a0[<\/em>(w\u0115)l\u014d\u02be y\u00f4s\u00eep\u00fb \u2026 \u02bf\u00f4d],\u00a0neither should they be scattered again<\/strong>\u00a0[<\/em>w\u0115l\u014d\u02be y\u00f4s\u00eep\u00fb \u2026 \u02bf\u00f4d]\u201d (1\u00a0Nephi\u00a015:20) depend on the language of Isaiah. Like other Isaiah-based prophecies of Nephi (e.g., 2\u00a0Nephi\u00a025:17, 21; 29:1\u20132), they echo the name of the prophet through whom lost scripture and gospel covenants would be restored \u2014 i.e., through a\u00a0\u201cJoseph.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cInterpreting\u00a0Interpreter<\/em>: Joseph-Based Stumbling-Block Removal,\u201d<\/a> written by Kyler Rasmussen<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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This post is a summary of the article \u201c\u201cUnto the Taking Away of Their Stumbling Blocks\u201d: The Taking Away and Keeping Back of Plain and Precious Things and Their Restoration in 1 Nephi 13\u201315<\/a>\u201d by Matthew L. Bowen in Volume 53 of\u00a0Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship<\/em>. An introduction to the Interpreting\u00a0Interpreter<\/em>\u00a0series is available at\u00a0https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreting-interpreter-on-abstracting-thought\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Takeaway:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Bowen argues that the Book of Mormon\u2019s description of truths being \u201ctaken away\u201d or \u201ckept back\u201d from the Bible resemble prohibitions against \u201cdiminish[ing] ought from [God\u2019s word], and that the underlying Hebrew words could be echoes of the name \u201cJoseph\u201d, with those echoes also present within covenant promises to return those harmed by lost truths back into God\u2019s fold.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Willy St\u00f6wer, \u201cDer Untergang der Titanic\u201d (1912); Wikimedia Commons public domain image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We spent the day in and around Halifax, Nova Scotia, today.\u00a0 Because it is a deep water port that is ice free in the winter, several vessels were sent out from Halifax in 1912 to recover bodies of the victims of the Titanic<\/em> disaster, which occurred roughly seven hundred nautical miles out in the North Atlantic.\u00a0 Altogether, 150 of the Titanic<\/em> victims are buried in Halifax, the large majority of them in Fairview Lawn Cemetery, which we visited this morning.\u00a0 The story still moves people, including me, after more than 110 years.\u00a0 But our very good guide, Adina B., told us one amusing story from the grim event:\u00a0 About ten of the bodies brought to Halifax were identified, usually on the basis of materials that were found with them (e.g., wallets, staff name badges, and the like), as Jewish, and they were buried in a small Jewish cemetery near Fairview Lawn.<\/p>\n

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One of them, though, turned out\u00a0 to be a Roman Catholic who had kidnapped his kids from his estranged wife, assumed a false Jewish identity, and even taken to wearing a Star of David.\u00a0 He was running away with them to America.\u00a0 He died in the disaster, but his two children survived.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter, when photographs of them were published back in the United Kingdom in a bid to find their family, their mother recognized them.<\/p>\n

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But his family was upset that he had been buried in a Jewish cemetery.\u00a0 They worried that his burial in unconsecrated ground might threaten his position in eternity.\u00a0 (I wonder if they were equally upset at the fact that he had kidnapped his children, their grandchildren, and that he was absconding with them to another hemisphere when fate intervened.)\u00a0 Anyway, they wanted him exhumed and reburied in a Christian graveyard.\u00a0 But Orthodox Jewish teaching evidently forbids the exhuming of the dead.\u00a0 So things were at an impasse.\u00a0 Eventually, though, Jewish and Catholic leaders in Halifax brokered a deal that left both sides satisfied:\u00a0 The local rabbi and the local bishop met at the grave, the rabbi said some sort of prayer, and then the bishop consecrated the grave and the soil around it for a few inches in every direction.\u00a0 Thus, Adina B. says \u2014 and I have no reason to doubt her \u2014 this is the only place, perhaps in the world, where a consecrated Catholic cemetery (consisting of one single grave) sits within and surrounded by an Orthodox Jewish cemetery.<\/p>\n

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At least two other Titanic<\/em>-related graves in Fairview Lawn Cemetery itself probably deserve special mention.\u00a0 The first belongs to \u201cJ. Dawson.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Joseph Dawson, if I recall correctly, worked in the engine room of the Titanic and was in his early to mid-twenties when he died.\u00a0 He is not to be confused with Jack<\/em> Dawson, who was played by Leonardo DiCaprio opposite Kate Winslet in the 1997 film version of Titanic<\/em> and who is utterly and absolutely fictional.\u00a0 Yet he has<\/em> been so confused.\u00a0 According to Adina B., women still come and place flowers and other mementos at Joseph Dawson\u2019s grave and stand there weeping, especially in the spring at around the anniversary of Titanic<\/em>\u2018s sinking.\u00a0 Fortunately, it\u2019s not so common as it was in the years immediately following the film\u2019s release.\u00a0 But I do hope that the real J. Dawson is aware of the attention that he\u2019s receiving, and that he appreciates it.<\/p>\n

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The other Titanic<\/em> grave that I\u2019ll mention here is one that formerly belonged to \u201cAn Unknown Child.\u201d\u00a0 He is now known through DNA analysis to have been Sidney Leslie Goodwin<\/a>, who died at somewhat less than two years of age.\u00a0 For various reasons, he caught the attention of the men on the retrieval boats and of the people of Halifax, and people still place toys and trinkets on his grave to this day.\u00a0 There were some items there this morning, and Adina B. told of coming there once and seeing a dilapidated stuffed bunny with a note attached in a child\u2019s handwriting, wishing little Sidney joy of a companion who had given him<\/em> much happiness.\u00a0 She herself placed a small stone on the grave marker \u2014 and I was not, therefore, very surprised when she told me a bit later that she is Jewish.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s difficult not to be touched by such stories.\u00a0 And there are others.\u00a0 I\u2019m not quite done reporting on our visit to Halifax.<\/p>\n

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Posted from off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada<\/p>\n

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