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Whose Apocrypha?

… Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereinafter labeled the LDS Church) and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of … fourteen additional books found in some versions of the Old Testament. The Vulgate or Latin Bible used by the Roman …

Dealing with Difficulty in Scripture: Divine Violence in the Book of Mormon

… prophets or about Jesus Christ, either as the God of the Old Testament, the mortal Messiah of the New, or the Resurrected … of scripture. First, it is essential to remember that the LDS Church, its prophets, or its scriptures do not espouse …

Obadiah 1:21

… and last verse, of Obadiah, a prophetic book in the Old Testament. But many people have little awareness of or … since it represents the style generally used by the LDS Church. [3] See my paper on Ecclesiastes 12:7 and a …

The Nag Hammadi Library

… the question remains whether Bauer’s challenge to the old way of viewing early Christian history has ever really … deal tantalizingly with prominent figures from the Old Testament—such as Adam and Melchizedek—while, on the other, … But while this method of identifying parallels between LDS beliefs and those mirrored in ancient literatures has its …

"Christ" after the Apostles: The Humanity and Divinity of the Savior in the Second Century

… Seventy from 1976 to 1989, have explained. [3] Sometimes LDS authors have suggested that, in the second century or … distorted the teachings of Christ found in the New Testament. [4] Yet the spread of Greek culture—a development … their soul the union of God and man, but who remain in the old leaven of [the natural] birth, and who do not choose to …

Uniting Faith and History

… explicit and implicit academic goals. As a thirteen-year-old girl, I had woven believing and thinking, the sacred and … considered an essential component of conversion since the LDS Church’s inception. [2] As believers, we proclaim that … Such providential or faithful leanings are akin to Old Testament and Puritan descriptions of a chosen people. …

Robert J. Matthews and His Work with the Joseph Smith Translation

… Committee to include excerpts of the JST in our LDS edition of the Bible. As we conducted this interview, it … years. Dur­ing that time, he went all the way through the Old Testament and all the way through the New Testament, but not …

Lying for God

… this paper that I am writing as a Latter-day Saint to an LDS audience. This means that I am liable to use terms and … will be drawn from the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, the New Testament apocrypha, the Nag Hammadi …

Reading the Song of Solomon as a Latter-day Saint

… Courtesy of Community of Chris Archives. When I ask my Old Testament students at BYU what they know about the biblical … in which she depicts him as a shepherd). [8] However, the LDS Bible Dictionary rightly indicates that the traditional …

Why Bible Translations Differ: A Guide for the Perplexed

… training, the following discussion focuses mainly on the Old Testament, but similar issues are involved in translating the … and this has definite effects on such fundamental LDS matters as missionary work. [64] Choice of register. …