Category: Announcements

Let’s Talk about the Bible and Translation

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re aware of an announcement of changes to the Church Handbook about use of (and attitudes towards)  non-KJV translations.  I’m thrilled about this; I’ve also been on planes and deprived of sleep for the last two days, but finally had a good night’s sleep, so let’s try this while it’s still timely. Caveat: written quickly, unrevised, and under sleep deprivation.

And for anyone new here, I read daily in Greek and Hebrew, and have published on Bible translation.

Much of the conversation around translations can be sidestepped by making sure  we’re all  operating with the  conceptual understanding, which is this:

There’s no such thing as THE Bible.

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FOUR new videos!

It’s been a busy semester, visiting here at BYU. I have not accomplished everything I wanted, and as usual, the end of the semester sees everything collide. That has left less time for writing about Old Testament prep than I’d intended. But in good news, I have four new videos of different kinds!

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Merry Christmas! I Give You… My Dissertation On Latter-day Saints and Creation/Evolution Conflict

Now available from ProQuest, in Pdf, paperback, or hardcover, the new hot dissertation EVERYONE wants to read!

“The Scientist is Wrong”: Joseph Fielding Smith, George McCready Price, and the Ascent of Creationist Thought among Latter-day Saints in the Twentieth Century

A few notes, followed by the Dissertation Abstract, and my story:

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Speaking announcements and also, why LDS unwittingly think like Protestants

First, as many wonder, I have successfully defended my dissertation. When and in what forms it will be available to the public, I can’t say yet, but I’m already in talks with academic presses to turn it into a book. The final title was “The Scientist is Wrong”: Joseph Fielding Smith, George McCready Price, and the Ascent of Creationist Thought among Latter-day Saints in the Twentieth Century. 

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