Old Testament: Genesis–2 Samuel (REL A 301)

Genesis

• Mark T. Lewis, "How Do I Teach the Fall? Distinction and Harmonization," Religious Educator 24, no. 3 (2023): 13–25.
• Avram R. Shannon and Throa Florence Shannon, "Models of Motherhood: Expansive Mothering in the Old Testament," Religious Educator 23, no. 1 (2022): 149-67.
• President Jean B. Bingham and Barbara Morgan Gardner, "Empowering Young Adult Women through Female Role Models in the Old Testament," Religious Educator 23, no. 1 (2022): 130-147.
• Kevin L. Tolley, "'Tried Even as Abraham'," Religious Educator 22, no. 3 (2021): 23-35.
• Ryan J. Wessel, "Circumcision in the Old Testament," Religious Educator 20, no. 3 (2019): 59-71.
• Paul Y. Hoskisson and Stephen O. Smoot, “Was Noah's Flood the Baptism of the Earth?,” in Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet, ed. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: 2016), 163–36.
• RoseAnn Benson, "Reexamining Lot," Religious Educator 14, no. 1 (2013): 59–81.
• Daniel K Judd, “The Fortunate Fall of Adam and Eve,” in No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues, ed. Robert L. Millet (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 297–328.
• John S. Tanner, “So from the Beginning,” in Notes from an Amateur: A Disciple’s Life in the Academy (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 126–28.
• Ryan C. Jenkins, "Quiet Slumber: Revelation through Dreams," Religious Educator 12, no. 1 (2011): 73–89.
• Ben Spackman, "The Story of Judah and Tamar," Religious Educator 11, no. 1 (2010): 65–76.
• Kerry Muhlestein, "Egypt in the Bible," Religious Educator 11, no. 3 (2010): 79–93.
• Blair G. Van Dyke, “Elements of Sacrifice in Abraham’s Time and Our Own,” Religious Educator 10, no. 1 (2009): 51–69.
• Jared T. Parker, “Cutting Covenants,” in The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament: The 38th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2009), 109–28.
• Michael A. Goodman, “Eternal Marriage and Family in the Old Testament,” in The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament: The 38th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2009), 17–31.
• Andrew C. Skinner, “Jacob in the Presence of God,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 117–32.
• Bruce A. Roundy and Robert J. Norman, "'All Things Denote There Is a God': Seeing Christ in the Creation," Religious Educator 6, no. 2 (2005): 51–62.
• Gaye Strathearn, “The Wife/Sister Experience,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 100–16.
• Jennifer C. Lane, “The Lord Will Redeem His People,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 298–310.
• Larry E. Dahl, “The Abrahamic Test,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 83–99.
• Russell M. Nelson, "Remnants Gathered, Covenants Fulfilled," in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 1–17.
• Douglas S. Ladle, “Teaching the Fall of Adam and Eve,” Religious Educator 5, no. 1 (2004): 41–55.
• Michael A. Goodman, "The Abrahamic Covenant," Religious Educator 4, no. 3 (2003): 43–53.
• Monte S. Nyman, “The Covenant of Abraham,” in The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God, ed. H. Donl Peterson and Charles D. Tate Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989), 155–70.

Exodus

• Avram R. Shannon and Throa Florence Shannon, "Models of Motherhood: Expansive Mothering in the Old Testament," Religious Educator 23, no. 1 (2022): 149-67.
• Gaye Strathearn, "'Holiness to the Lord' and Personal Temple Worship," Religious Educator 23, no. 1 (2022): 116-129.
• Kevin L. Tolley, "Saving a Child (Exodus 1–2)," Religious Educator 23, no. 1 (2022): 94–115.
• Sharon Eubank, "'A Kingdom of Priests, and an Holy Nation': The Work of Covenant Women and Men in Building Zion," Religious Educator 23, no. 2 (2022): 16-29.
• Kerry Muhlestein, Joshua M. Sears, and Avram R. Shannon, “New and Everlasting: The Relationship between Gospel Covenants in History,” Religious Educator 21, no. 2 (2020): 21–40.
• Amy B. Hardison, “Theophany on Sinai,” in Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, ed. Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Matthew J. Grey, and David Rolph Seely (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013), 218–31.
• Andrew C. Skinner, “Seeing God in His Temple,” in Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, ed. Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Matthew J. Grey, and David Rolph Seely (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013), 270–90.
• Jennifer C. Lane, “The Whole Meaning of the Law,” in The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament: The 38th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2009), 67–85.
• Taylor Halverson, “The Path of Angels,” in The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament: The 38th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009).
• David Rolph Seely, “The Restoration as Covenant Renewal,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 311–36.
• Russell M. Nelson, “Remnants Gathered, Covenants Fulfilled,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 1–17.
• S. Kent Brown, “Trust in the Lord,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 154–63.
• S. Kent Brown, “The Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon,” in From Jerusalem to Zarahemla: Literary and Historical Studies of the Book of Mormon (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1998), 75–98.
• Gerald N. Lund, “Old Testament Types and Symbols,” in Literature of Belief: Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience, ed. Neal E. Lambert (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1981), 39–60.

Leviticus

• Edward J. Brandt, “The Law of Moses and the Law of Christ,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 133–53.
• George A. Horton Jr., “Insights into Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy,” in The Joseph Smith Translation: The Restoration of Plain and Precious Truths, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Robert L. Millet (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1985), 71–88.
• Jacob Milgrom, “New Testament Festivals in the Temple Scroll,” in The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives, ed. Truman G. Madsen (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1984), 125–33.

Numbers

• Matthew L. Bowen, “Scripture Note: Alma's and Helaman's Priestly Blessings, Jesus's Divine Acts in 3 Nephi 19:25, 30,” Religious Educator 22, no. 1 (2021): 169–78.
• Daniel L. Belnap, “That I May Dwell among Them: Liminality and Ritual in the Tabernacle," in Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, ed. Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Matthew J. Grey, and David Rolph Seely (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013), 12–35.
• Lynne Hilton Wilson, “The Holy Spirit,” in The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament: The 38th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2009), 250–81.

Deuteronomy

• Jennifer C. Lane, “Worship,” in Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, ed. Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Matthew J. Grey, and David Rolph Seely (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013), 122–35.
• Robert E. Lund, “Teaching Old Testament Laws,” Religious Educator 8, no. 3 (2007): 51–64.
• Howard A. Christy, “The Great Commandment,” Religious Educator 3, no. 1 (2002): 71–85.

Joshua

• Dana M. Pike, “Biblical Hebrew Words You Already Know and Why They Are Important,” in By Study and by Faith: Selections from the Religious Educator, ed. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009), 183–201.
• Elder David A. Bednar, “Seek Learning by Faith,” in Religious Educator 7, no. 3 (2006): 1–11.

Judges

• Avram R. Shannon and Throa Florence Shannon, "Models of Motherhood: Expansive Mothering in the Old Testament," Religious Educator 23, no. 1 (2022): 149-67.
• Jeffery R. Chadwick, "Khirbet Beit Lei and the Lehi of Samson: Old Testament and Book of Mormon Considerations, and a Newly Identified Site for Biblical Lehi and En-hakkore," Religious Educator 23, no. 3 (2022): 64-85.
• Spencer J. Condie, “I Will Write My Law in Their Hearts,” in Prophets and Prophecies of the Old Testament: The 46th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, ed. Aaron P. Schade, Brian M. Hauglid, and Kerry Muhlestein (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017), 1–20.

Ruth

• Alonzo L. Gaskill, “The ‘Ceremony of the Shoe, A Ritual of God's Ancient Covenant People” in By Our Rites of Worship: Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in Scripture, History, and Practice, ed. Daniel L. Belnap (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013), 133–50.
• Kerry Muhlestein, “Ruth, Redemption, Covenant, and Christ,” in The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament: The 38th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2009), 187–206.

1 Samuel

• Julie M. Smith, “‘The Lord . . . Bringeth Low, and Lifteth Up': Hannah, Eli, and the Temple,” in Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), ed. Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Matthew J. Grey, and David Rolph Seely (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013), 255–69.

2 Samuel

• John S. Tanner, “Unfulfilled Dreams,” in Notes from an Amateur: A Disciple’s Life in the Academy (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 102–4.
• Frank Moore Cross Jr., “The Priestly Tabernacle in the Light of Recent Research,” in The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives, ed. Truman G. Madsen (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1984), 91–105.