Skip to main content
Religious Studies Center
Religious Education
Home About Us Publications Conferences My Gospel Study Videos & Podcasts
  Site Search
Sign In Sign Out

A Witness for the Restoration

Essays in Honor of Robert J. Matthews

Kent P. Jackson and Andrew C. Skinner, Editors
Go to Books
Photo of Book Cover
Price $24.95
Purchase Book

Table of Contents

  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
    Kent P. Jackson and Andrew C. Skinner
  • Bible
  • The Ages of the Patriarchs in the Joseph Smith Translation
    Kent P. Jackson and Charles Swift
  • Isaiah and the Restoration of Israel
    Terry B. Ball
  • Before Jeremiah Was
    Divine Election in the Ancient Near East
    Dana M. Pike
  • Quest for Origins
    The Joseph Smith Translation and Latin Version of the New Testament
    Thomas A. Wayment
  • The Faith of Christ
    Gaye Strathearn
  • Book of Mormon
  • "Whoso Treasureth Up My Word Shall Not Be Deceived"
    Clyde J. Williams
  • Ammonihah: Measuring Mormon's Purposes
    S. Kent Brown
  • Looking Beyond the Mark
    Paul Y. Hoskisson
  • Church History and Doctrine
  • The First Vision and Religious Tolerance
    Joseph Fielding McConkie
  • Joseph Smith and "The Only True and Living Church"
    Robert L. Millet
  • Joseph Smith and Agency
    Donald Q. Cannon
  • The Brigham Young Family
    Transition between Reformed Methodism and Mormonism
    Larry C. Porter
  • Living Up to Our Patriarchies
    Oscar W. McConkie Jr.
  • Writings of Robert J. Matthews, 1960–2006
    Alexander L. Baugh
  • Index View PDF

About the Book

FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY, Robert J. Matthews has mentored students and colleagues alike at Brigham Young University and in the Church Educational System of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has filled many roles in the discharge of his professional responsibilities—classroom teacher, scholar, curriculum editor, professor, administrator, and friend—all to the end of building the kingdom of God. And he has done so possessing an attitude of selflessness. Because he has influenced generations of students, teachers, and fellow scholars, it is appropriate that a collection of scholarly essays has been commissioned in his honor. His colleagues have contributed to this volume as a tribute to him and to honor him on his eightieth birthday.

A pivotal moment in his life occurred in July 1944 when he first heard Elder Joseph Fielding Smith refer to the Prophet Joseph Smith’s inspired translation of the Bible during a KSL radio broadcast. He felt the promptings of the Lord’s Spirit to look into the subject more, to acquire a copy of the Inspired Version, and to begin a lifelong study of the work.

The wide-ranging essays in this book are, in a way, a reflection of the varied interests and academic loves of Robert Matthews. They encompass an interesting and impressive orbit of topics, from ancient languages to LDS history, from Greek word studies that inform our understanding of the Atonement of Christ to questions about religious tolerance in view of the Lord’s words uttered during the First Vision.

ISBN 978-0-8425-2676-0

Published in 2007

Contact

185 Heber J. Grant Building
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
801-422-6975

Send Us a Message

Helpful Links

Religious Education

BYU Studies

Maxwell Institute

Articulos en español

Artigos em português

Connect with Us Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube

Subscribe to Our Newsletter