Appointments

Jeffrey R. Chadwick resumed his assignment as professor of archaeology and Near Eastern studies for the 2014–15 academic year at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies.Gaye Strathearn was appointed as visiting professor of religion (Old and New Testament) for the 2014–15 academic year at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Robert L. Millet was appointed coordinator of the Office of Religious Outreach with board members Alonzo L. Gaskill, Mauro Properzi, J. B. Haws, Shon D. Hopkin, Gregory E. Wilkinson, and Andrew C. Reed.

Kerry M. Muhlestein was appointed vice president of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities.

Ed Snow was appointed as LDS Philanthropies donor liaison for Religious Education.

Awards

In December, Brent R. Nordgren received the Staff and Administrative Employee Recognition Award.

Exhibition

Robert C. Freeman served as co-curator for the design and development of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Exhibition The Great War: A Centennial Remembrance, Summer 2014–Spring 2015.

Selected Full-Time Faculty Publications

Alford, Kenneth L. “The Utah War, 1857–1858: “A Dark Time for the Saints.” In The Mormon Wars: Early Persecutions, Hawn’s Mill, Nauvoo War, Johnston’s Army, War on Polygamy, edited by Glenn Rawson and Dennis Lyman, 91–116. Covenant Communications, 2014.

———, and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat. “Teaching with the 2013 Edition of the Doctrine and Covenants,” Religious Educator 15, no. 1 (2014): 77–93.

———, and Tyler J. Griffin. How Can I Create or Revive a Dynamic Faculty Inservice Program? CD/DVD; 20-Minute Mentor Series, Magna Publishing, 2014.

———, and Tyler J. Griffin. How Can I Help My Students Succeed in a Large Classroom? CD/DVD; 20-Minute Mentor Series, Magna Publishing, 2014.

———, and Tyler J. Griffin. How Can I Survive Student Evaluations and Improve My Teaching? CD/DVD; 20-Minute Mentor Series, Magna Publishing, 2014.

———, and Tyler J. Griffin. How Can Technology Help Improve My Effectiveness as a Teacher? CD/DVD; 20-Minute Mentor Series, Magna Publishing, 2014.

———, and Tyler J. Griffin. Teaching in Large Classrooms. CD/DVD; Online Seminar Series, Magna Publishing, 2014.

Ball, Terry B. “What Is in a Name? Lessons from the Names of Old Testament Prophets,” Religious Educator 15, no. 2 (2014): 149–56.

———. “Whom Say Ye That I Am? Peter’s Witness of Christ.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 13–26.

Belnap, Daniel L. “‘And It Came to Pass . . .’ : The Sociopolitical Events in the Book of Mormon Leading to the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of the Judges.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23, no. 1 (2014): 101–39.

Baugh, Alexander L., ed., Tragedy and Truth: What Happened at Hawn’s Mill. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2014.

———. “Jacob Hawn and the Hawn’s Mill Settlement in Eastern Caldwell County.” In Baugh, Tragedy and Truth, 57–74.

———. “A Scene of Blood and Horror: The Attack on the Hawn’s Mill Settlement,” in Baugh, Tragedy and Truth, 77–102.

———. “War of Extermination: The 1838 Mormon Conflict in Northern Missouri.” In Rawson and Lyman, The Mormon Wars, 47–75.

Benson, Rose Ann, and Shon D. Hopkin. “Finding Doctrine and Meaning in Book of Mormon Isaiah.” Religious Educator 14, no. 1 (2014): 94–121.

Blumell, Lincoln H. “A Jewish Epitaph from the Fayum.” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods 45 (2014): 1–16.

———. “Luke 22:43–44: An Anti-Docetic Interpolation or an Apologetic Omission?” TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 19 (2014): 1–35.

———. “Third-Century AD Receipt for Taxes on Palm Groves (P. 13882).” Dokumentarische Texte der Berliner Papyrussammlung aus ptolemäischer und römischer Zeit zur Wiedereröffnung des Neuen Museums (BGU XX) XX (2014): 136–39.

———. “Two Coptic Epitaphs in the Kom Aushim Storage Magazine.” Chronique d’Égypte 89 (2014): 405–11.

———. “The Curious Case of Kom Aushim Inv. no. 45: ‘The Rediscovery of a Fragment from a Lost Inscription?’” In Tyche, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 28 (2014): 21–26.

———. “Rereading the Council of Nicaea and Its Creed.” In Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy, edited by Miranda Wilcox and John Young, 191–212. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014.

———. “The Message and the Medium: Some Observations on Epistolary Communication in Late Antiquity.” Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 10 (2104): 24–67.

———.“Review of New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, Vol. 10.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 51 (2014): 257–60.

———, and Thomas A. Wayment. “Coptic New Testament Fragments in the Brigham Young University Collection” Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 6 (2014): 59–88.

Boone, David F. “Missionary Work, 1900–Present.” In Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History, 2nd ed., edited by Brandon S. Plewe et al, 178–81. BYU Press, 2014.

Chadwick, Jeffrey R. Comments: “Of Lunar Eclipses in Herod’s Time—When Did Herod Die? And When Was Jesus Born?” Biblical Archaeology Review 40, no. 5 (September/October 2014): 11, 60.

———. Review: “Zvi Ben-Dor Benite. The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History.” BYU Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 183–89.

——— (with Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Daniel C. Peterson). Middle East Conflicts: An LDS Perspective on the History and Religion in the Region. Ebook. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014.

Cope, Rachel. “Composing Their Own Lives: Women and Religious Seeking in Nineteenth-Century Memoirs.” In Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion: Lived Theologies and Literature, edited by Mary Wearn, 45–58. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.

———. “Salvific Significance in Personal Life Stories.”Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History 20, no. 1 (Summer 2014): 21–57.

———. “Reclaiming the History of Relief Society,” Religious Educator 15, no. 3 (2014): 91–101.

———. “Review of A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Culture, 1852–1890, by Christine Talbot.” Women’s History Review 25, no. 3 (2014): 826–28.

Cowan, Richard O. The Oakland Temple: Portal to Eternity. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014.

Dirkmaat, Gerrit J., et al, eds., Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Vol. 3, February 1833–March 1834. Salt Lake City: The Church Historian’s Press, 2014.

——— “The 1838 Mormon–Missouri War: Historical Setting to the Hawn’s Mill Tragedy.” In Baugh, Tragedy and Truth: What Happened at Hawn’s Mill, 29–55. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2014.

See copublication withKenneth L. Alford.

Esplin, Scott C. “Wondering at His Words: Peter’s Influence on the Knowledge of Salvation for the Dead.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 297–315.

———, and E. Vance Randall. “‘That Little Children Also May Receive Instruction’: Early Latter-day Saint Educational Programs for the Young.” John Whitmer Historical Association 34, no. 1 (2014): 107–26.

———, Barbara E. Morgan, E. Vance Randall, andCasey P. Griffiths. “Isolationism, Exceptionalism, and Acculturation: The Internationalisation of Mormon Education in Mexico.” Journal of Educational Administration and History 46, no. 4 (2014): 387–404.

———, and E. Vance Randall, “Living in Two Worlds: The Development and Transition of Mormon Education in American Society.” History of Education 43, no. 1 (2014): 3–30.

Frederick, Nicholas J. “Mosiah 3 as an Apocalyptic Text.” Religious Educator 15, no. 2 (2014): 42–63.

———. “Peter in the Apocryphal Tradition.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 337–60.

Goodman, Michael A. “The Influence of Faith on Marital Commitment.” In Brent L. Top, and Michael A. Goodman, By Divine Design: Best Practices for Family Success and Happiness, 23–50. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 2014.

See copublication with Brent L. Top.

Grey, Matthew J. “Latter-day Saint Perceptions of Jewish Apostasy in the Time of Jesus.” In Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy, edited by Miranda Wilcox and John Young, 147–73. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

———. “‘The Redeemer to Arise from the House of Dan’: Samson, Apocalypticism, and Messianic Hopes in Late Antique Galilee.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 44, nos. 4–5 (2013): 553–89.

———. “Simon Peter in Capernaum: An Archaeological Survey of the First Century Village.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, The Chief Apostle, 27–66.

———, Jodi Magness, et al. “Huqoq (Lower Galilee) and Its Synagogue Mosaics: Preliminary Report on the Excavations of 2011–13.” In Journal of Roman Archaeology 27 (2014): 327–55.

———, and Chad Spigel. “News from the Field: Huqoq Excavation Project, Part I.” Bible Odyssey (online publication by the Society of Biblical Literature).

Griffin, Tyler J. “Online Learning That Lasts: Three Ways to Increase Student Engagement & Retention.” In Online Classroom 14, no. 7 (2014).

———. Online Learning That Lasts: How to Engage & Retain Students. CD/DVD; 20-Minute Mentor Series, Magna Publishing, 2014.

———. “Learning That Lasts: Helping Students Remember and Use What You Teach,” in Faculty Focus, July 2014.

———, and John Hilton III, et al. “Correlation between Grade Point Averages and Student Evaluation of Teaching Scores: Taking a Closer Look.” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 39, no. 3 (2014): 339–48.

See copublications with Alford, Kenneth L.

Griffiths, Casey P., Scott C. Esplin, Barbara E. Morgan, and E. Vance Randall. “‘Colegios Chilenos de los Santos de los Ultimos Dias’: The History of Latter-day Saint Schools in Chile.” In Journal of Mormon History 40, no. 1 (2014): 97–134.

Hedges, Andrew H., research and review editor for Dirkmaat, Gerrit J., et al., eds., Documents, Volume 3: February 1833–March 1834. Vol. 3 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin and Matthew J. Grow. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2014.

Hilton, John L., III. “A Chinese Tongue Twister.” In College Teaching 62, no. 1 (2014): 3–4.

———, Lindsay Murphy, and Devon Ritter. “From Open Educational Resources to College Credit: The Approaches of Saylor Academy,” Open Praxis 6, no. 4 (2014): 365–74.

———, and Kenneth Plummer. “Measuring the Impact of Religious-Oriented Courses.” In Religion and Education 41, no. 2 (2014): 134–150.

———, et al. “Cost–Savings Achieved in Two Semesters Through the Adoption of Open Educational Resources.” In International Review of Research on Distance and Open Learning 15, no. 2 (2014): 67–84.

———, and Alyssa Aramaki, “Encouraging Students to Act: Helping Students Apply Principles Learned in a Religious Education Setting.” In Teaching Theology and Religion 17, no. 2 (2014): 99–111.

Robinson T. J., Fischer, L., Wiley, D. A., & Hilton, J. “The Impact of Open Textbooks on Secondary Science Learning Outcomes.” Educational Researcher 43, no. 7 (2014): 341–51.

See copublications withTyler J. Griffin and Frank F. Judd, Jr.

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, and Thomas A. Wayment. James E. Talmages’s Jesus the Christ: Study Guide. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014.

Hopkin, Shon D. “Biblical Allusions and Themes in the Early Renaissance: Joseph Sarfati’s Use of Biblical Hebrew as an Encoded Language.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 6, no. 1 (2014): 1–35.

———. “Peter, Stones, and Seers.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 103–25.

———. “The Children of Lehi and the Jews of Sepharad.” In BYU Studies 53, no. 4 (2014): 147–67.

———, and J. Arden Hopkin, “The Psalms as Signifiers of Sacred Time and Space.” In Proceedings of the 2014 Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Conference (Honolulu: Hawaii University, 2014), 1–21.

See copublications with Ray L Huntington, and Frank F. Judd, Jr.

Hull, Kerry M., and Edwin Braakhuis. “Pluvial Aspects of the Mesoamerican Cultural Hero: The ‘Kumix Angel’ of the Ch’orti’ Mayas and Other Rain-Bringing Heroes.” Anthopos 109, no. 2 (2014): 449–66.

Huntington, Ray L., and Shon D. Hopkin. “The Enhanced Lecture: Active Learning Made Accessible.” Religious Educator 14, no. 2 (2014): 115–31.

Huntsman, Eric D. The Miracles of Jesus. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014.

———. “The Petrine Kērygma and the Gospel according to Mark.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 169–90.

———. “The Accounts of Peter’s Denial: Understanding the Texts and Motifs.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 127–49.

See copublication withFrank F. Judd, Jr.

Jackson, Kent P. “Review of LaMar C. Berrett and Blair Van Dyke, Holy Lands: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Near East,” Journal of Mormon History 40, no. 4 (2014): 260–64.

———. “The Cooperstown Bible.” New York History 95, no. 2 (2014): 243–70.

Judd, Frank F., Jr., Eric D. Huntsman, and Shon D. Hopkin, eds. The Ministry of Peter the Chief Apostle: The 43rd Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014.

———. “The Case for Petrine Authorship of 1 Peter.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 247–265.

———. The Essential New Testament Companion. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2014.

———, and John L. Hilton III. “The Pedagogy of Paul.” Journal of Research on Christian Education 23, no. 1 (2014): 95–107.

Ludlow, Jared W. “Death and the Afterlife in 2 Baruch.” In Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch, edited by Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski, 116–23. London: T&T Clark, 2014.

———. “Stand Down and See the End: Peter’s Characterization in the Gospels.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 67–90.

Marsh, W. Jeffrey. “Revisions in the 2013 LDS Edition of the King James Bible.” Religious Educator 15, no. 1 (2014): 67–76.

Minert, Roger P. “Spires and Sycamores: The Brigham City Temple Controversy.” Mormon Historical Studies 15, no.1 (2014): 139–51.

Morgan, Barbara E. “Improving Learning and Teaching: A Conversation with Russell T. Osguthorpe.” Religious Educator 15, no. 3 (2014): 76–89.

———. “Understanding Latter-day Saint Education: Principles and Resources.” Religious Education 109, no. 5 (2014): 526–42.

———. “Transitioning Benemérito and Transitioning into a Missionary Training Center.” Mormon Historical Studies 15, no. 2 (2014): 55–80.

———. “The Impact of Centro Escolar Benemérito de las Americas, A Church School in Mexico.” Religious Educator 15, no. 1 (2014): 144–67.

See copublications withScott C Esplin. andCasey P. Griffiths.

Newell, Lloyd D. “Engaging Intellect and Feeding Faith.” In Religious Educator 15, no. 2 (2014): 131–145.

———. “Rearing Children in Love and Righteousness.” In Top and Goodman, By Divine Design, 117–159.

Ogletree, Mark D. Fathers and Their Adolescent Sons. Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014.

——— “Healing the Time Starved Marriage.” In Top and Goodman, By Divine Design, 51–92.

———. “Tender Mercies and Thomas S. Monson.” Religious Educator 15, no. 1 (2014): 187–207.

———. “The Religious Education Student Symposium.” In BYU Religious Education Review, Fall 2014, 24–26.

Olson, Camille Fronk, Women of the New Testament. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014.

Pike, Dana M. “Reading the Song of Solomon as a Latter-day Saint.” Religious Educator 15, no. 2 (2014): 91–113.

Properzi, Mauro. “Mitt Romney and ‘I Mormoni’: A 2012 Analysis of Italy’s Print Media.” BYU Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 75–105.

———. “Review of Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn from the Latter-day Saints,” BYU Studies 53, no. 3 (2014): 196–99.

Reed, Andrew C. “Convergent Aims: The Revival of Jewish Studies in St. Petersburg and the Search for Russia’s Unaffiliated Jews.” Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia 11 (2014): 25–46.

Seely, David R., and William J. Hamblin, eds. Temple Insights: Proceedings of the Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Symposium “The Temple on Mount Zion.” Salt Lake City: Eborn Books and The Interpreter Foundation, 2014.

———, and Jo Ann H. Seely. “The Crown of Creation.” In Seely and Hamblin, Temple Insights, 11–23. Salt Lake City: Eborn Books and The Interpreter Foundation, 2014.

Skinner, Andrew C. The Savior’s Final Week. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014.

———, Donald W. Parry, Emanuel Tov, eds. Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library 4. CD/DVD. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Sperry, Kip. “Genealogy, 1894–Present.” In Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter–day Saint History, 2nd edition (Provo, UT: BYU Press, 2014), 152–53.

———. Nauvoo and Hancock County, Illinois: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014.

Strathearn, Gaye. “Peter and Paul in Antioch.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 227–46.

———. “Looking at the Atonement and Endowment through a Different Lens: A Review of Blake T. Ostler, Fire on the Horizon: A Meditation on the Endowment and Love of Atonement.” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 13 (2014): 13–25.

Sweat, Anthony R. “Spiritually Speaking: Student Oral Participation and Perceived Spiritual Experiences in Latter-day Saint Seminary.” Journal of Research on Christian Education 23, no. 2 (2014): 210–33.

Swift, Charles L. The Newman Resident. Provo, UT: Fifth East Publishing, 2014.

Top, Brent L. “Fallible but Faithful: How Simon the Fisherman Became Peter the Rock.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 1–12.

———, and Bruce A. Chadwick. “A House of Faith: How Family Religiosity Strengthens Our Children.” In Top and Goodman, By Divine Design, 223–55.

———, and Michael A. Goodman, eds. By Divine Design: Best Practices for Family Success and Happiness. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014.

Wayment, Thomas A. “Peter, Cornelius, and Cultural Boundaries.” In Judd, Huntsman, and Hopkin, The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, 211–26.

———, and Daniel Becerra, “A Homeric Papyrus from Tebtynis.” In Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 51 (2014): 7–26.

See copublications with Lincoln H. Blumell and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel.

Woodger, Mary Jane, “Elaine Anderson Cannon, Young Women President: Innovations, Inspiration and Implementations.” Journal of Mormon History 40, no. 4 (2014): 171–207.

Wright, Mark Alan, “Axes Mundi: Ritual Complexes in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon.” In Hamblin and Seely, Temple Insights, 187–202. Salt Lake City: Eborn Books and The Interpreter Foundation, 2014.

———. “Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon.” In Ancient Temple Worship, edited by Matthew B. Brown, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Stephen D. Ricks, and John S. Thompson, 243–257. Salt Lake City: Eborn Books and The Interpreter Foundation, 2014.

Woods, Fred E. Divine Providence: The Wreck and Rescue of the Julia Ann. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 2014.

Retiring

Ken McCarty retired as LDS Philanthropies donor liaison for Religious Education.

In Memoriam

Rodney Turner, professor emeritus of ancient scripture, passed away on November 5, 2014.