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Faculty and Staff Notes
Alford, Kenneth L. “Organizing the Church in Afghanistan.” In The Worldwide Church, edited by Goodman and Properzi, 50–70.
———, and Craig K. Manscill. “Hyrum Smith’s Liberty Jail Letters.” In Foundations of the Restoration, edited by Ostler, MacKay, and Gardner, 189–206.
———, and John Hilton III. “Have You Considered Using Open Textbooks?” Teaching Professor 30, no. 7 (August/
———. Review of Sherman Fleek, Saints of Valor: Mormon Medal of Honor Recipients. In Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 4 (October 2016): 208–12.
———. “Review of John Gary Maxwell, The Civil War Years in Utah: The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight.” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2016): 197–200.
See copublications with Barbara Morgan Gardner and John Hilton III.
Ball, Terry B., A. Davis, R. R. Evett, J. L. Ladwig, M. Tromp, W. A. Out, and M. Portillo. “Morphometric Analysis of Phytoliths: Recommendations towards Standardization from the International Committee for Phytolith Morphometrics.” Journal of Archaeological Science 68 (April 2016): 106–11.
———, Vrydaghs, L., Mercer, T., Pearce, M., Snyder, S., Lisztes-Szabó, Z., Pető, A. “A Morphometric Study of Variance in Articulated Dendritic Phytolith Wave Lobes within Selected Species of Triticeae and Aveneae.” Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2016. DOI 10.1007/
Baugh, Alexander L. “The History and Doctrine of the Adam-ondi-Ahman Revelation (D&C 116).” In Foundations of the Restoration, edited by Ostler, MacKay, and Gardner, 157–87.
———. “The Testimonies of the Book of Mormon Witnesses.” In A Reason for Faith, edited by Hales, 46–58.
Bennett, Richard E. “From Calvary to Cumorah: What Mormon History Means to Me.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 81–94.
Black, Sharon, Brad Wilcox, and Kyle Lyons, “Book of Mormon Citations in General Conferences, 1965–2014.” Religious Educator 17, no. 3 (2016): 171–87.
———, Brad Wilcox, Wendy Baker Smemoe, and Bruce L. Brown. “Absence of ‘Joseph Smith’ in the Book of Mormon: Lack of the Name Letter Effect in Nephite, Lamanite, and Jaredite Names.” Religious Educator 17, no. 2 (2016): 37–55.
Black, Susan Easton, and Mary Jane Woodger, In Their Own Words: Inspiring Autobiographical Stories from the Lives of the Prophets (American Fork, UT: Covenant Publications, 2016).
Blumell, Lincoln H. “P. Birmingham inv. 317: An Addendum to the Fourth-Century Bishops of Oxyrhynchus.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 44 (2016): 75–83.
———. “Two Greek Letters from the Petrie and Harris Collections.” Analecta Papyrologica 27 (2016): 19–27.
———. “A New Jewish Epitaph Commemorating Care for Orphans.” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods 47 (2016): 310–29.
———. “Α Christian Amulet Containing a Doxology with Sketches on the Back.” Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw, 29 July–3 August 2013. Vol. 2: Subliterary Papyri. Documentary Papyri. Scribal Practices, Linguistic Matters, 745–54. Warsaw: The Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation, 2016.
——— (with Erik O. Yingling). “A New Coptic Epitaph from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (2016): 189–198.
——— (with Thomas A. Wayment). “The ‘Number of the Beast’: Early Christian Isopsephies and Revelation 13:18.” In Book of Seven Seals: The Peculiarity of Revelation, Its Manuscripts, Attestation, and Transmission, ed. Thomas J. Kraus and Michael Sommer, 119–35. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “Archaeology.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 14–26.
———. “Jericho—Archaeology” and “Jerusalem—Archaeology,” in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 13, ed. Dale C. Allison Jr. et al., 956–58 and 1002–32, respectively. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
Grow, Matthew J., Ronald K. Esplin, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, and Jeffrey D. Mahas, “Minutes of the Afternoon Meeting of the Council of Fifty, April 11, 1854,” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2016): 23–33.
———, Administrative Records: Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846 (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016).
Devos, Y., Nicosia, C., Vrydaghs, L., Speleers, L., van der Valk, Jan., Marinova, E., Claes, B., Albert, R. M., Esteban, I., Ball, Terry B., Court-Picon, M., Degraeve, A. 2016. “An Integrated Study of Dark Earth from the Alluvial Valley of the Senne River (Brussels, Belgium).” Quaternary International, DOI:10.1016/
Easton-Flake, Amy. “Beyond Understanding: Narrative Theory as Expansion in Book of Mormon Exegesis.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25 (2016): 116–38.
Esplin, Scott C. Review of By Study and Also by Faith: One Hundred Years of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. Religious Educator 17, no. 3 (2016): 189–93.
———. “‘Good Citizens of Our Adopted Country’: The Juárez Academy and Latter-day Saint Globalization through Education.” In The Worldwide Church, edited by Goodman and Properzi, 379–400.
———. “‘You Can Make Your Own Bright Future, Tom Trails’: Evaluating the Impact of the LDS Indian Seminary Program.” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 4 (October 2016): 172–207.
______. “Preserving a Common History: Property Transactions in Nauvoo between the Latter-day Saint and Reorganized Latter Day Saint.” (Community of Christ) Churches,” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 36, no. 1 (Spring/
Fluhman, J. Spencer, and Brent L. Top, eds. Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
Frederick, Nicholas J. The Bible, Mormon Scripture, and the Rhetoric of Allusivity. Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson, 2016.
Gardner, Barbara Morgan. “A Century of LDS Church Schools in Mexico Influenced by Lamanite Identity.” In The Worldwide Church, edited by Goodman and Properzi, 355–78.
———. “‘Unless I Could Get More Wisdom, I Would Never Know’: The First Vision, a Pattern for Spiritual Learning.” In Foundations of the Restoration, edited by Ostler, MacKay, and Gardner, 65–80.
———, and Kenneth L. Alford. “Using Interviews to Assess and Mentor Students.” Teaching Professor 30, no. 9 (2016): 6–7.
Goodman, Michael A. “Religious and Cultural Influences Faced by the First LDS Missionary in Thailand.” In Goodman and Properzi, The Worldwide Church, 95–118.
———, and Mauro Properzi, eds. The Worldwide Church: Mormonism as a Global Religion. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
______. “Introduction: The Worldwide Reach of Mormonism.” In The Worldwide Church, ed. Goodman and Properzi, vii–xii.
______. Taking the Fear Out of Dating, Michael Goodman, Ensign, April 2016, 18–21.
Grey, Matthew. Review of Pieter W. van der Horst, Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Leiden: Brill, 2014). In Review of Biblical Literature (2015). Online.
———. “Roman Palestine after Herod the Great.” In Jackson, A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, 336–49.
———. “The Time of Herod the Great.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 322–35.
———, and Cory Crawford, “Forum on Faith and Biblical Scholarship: Introduction.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 8 (2016): 1–10.
______, and Jodi Magness, Shua Kisilevitz, Dennis Mizzi, and Karen Britt. “Huqoq—2015: Preliminary Report.” Excavations and Surveys in Israel (Hadashot Arkheologiyot) 128 (2016). Online.
Griffiths, Casey Paul. “‘A Covenant and a Deed Which Cannot Be Broken’: The Continuing Saga of Consecration.” In Foundations of the Restoration, edited by Ostler, MacKay, and Gardner, 121–37.
———, and E. Dale LeBaron. “Perspectives from the Global Expansion of Latter-day Saint Religious Education.” Religious Educator 17, no. 2 (2016): 119–37.
———, Scott C. Esplin, and E. Vance Randall. “‘The Glory of God Is Intelligence’: Exploring the Foundations of Latter-day Saint Religious Education,” Religious Education 111, no. 2 (2016): 153–69.
Halverson, Taylor, and Griffin, Tyler J. Millions Shall Know Brother Joseph Again: Daily Inspiration from the Prophet Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
Hauglid, Brian, Mark Wright, Joseph Spencer, and Janiece Johnson. “A Book of Mormon Perspective.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25 (2016): 13–19.
Haws, J. B. “The Romney Lens: A Bifocal Approach to Mormonism, American Religion, and Politics in the Past Half-Century.” In Out of Obscurity: Mormonism since 1945, ed. Patrick Mason and John Turner, 81–103. Oxford University Press, 2016.
———. “Embers and Bonfires: The Richard L. Evans Professorship and Interfaith Work at BYU.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 291–310.
———. “The Freeze and the Thaw: The LDS Church and the State in Ghana of the 1980s.” In The Worldwide Church, edited by Goodman and Properzi, 21–46.
———. Review of Randall Balmer and Jana Riess, Mormonism and American Politics. BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2016): 187–92.
Hedges, Andrew H. “Extradition, the Mormons, and the Election of 1843.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 109, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 127–47.
———. “News from Salt Lake, 1847–1849.” Utah Historical Quarterly 84, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 216–35.
———. “Thomas Ford and Joseph Smith, 1842–1844.” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 4 (October 2016): 97–124.
———, Rachel Cope, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, and Thomas A. Wayment. “Discussing Difficult Topics: Plural Marriage.” Religious Educator 17, no. 1 (2016): 11–21.
Hilton, John, III. “Helping Students Study the Scriptures.” Religious Educator 17, no. 1 (2016): 109–19.
———. “The LDS Church in Taiwan: The First Three Years.” Mormon Historical Studies, 17 no. 1 (2016): 37–83.
———. “‘One of the Great Moments of the History of the Church’: The Construction of the First Chapel in the Chinese Realm.” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 3 (2016): 211–34.
———. “Open Educational Resources and College Textbook Choices: A Review of Research on Efficacy and Perceptions.” Educational Technology Research and Development, 64, no. 4 (2016): 573–90.
———. “What Shall I Do?” Ensign, March 2016, 20–22.
———, and Brady Liu. “‘This Is Very Historic’: The Young Ambassadors 1979 Tour of China. BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2016): 134–64.
———, Barbara Illowsky, Justin Whiting and J. Dale Ackerman. “Examining Student Perception of an Open Statistics Book.” Open Praxis 8, no. 3 (2016): 265–77.
———, Kenneth Plummer, Ben Fryar, and Ryan S. Gardner. “Comparing Spiritual Outcomes between Students in One General Education Distance Religion Course with Students in the Same Face-to-Face Course.” Religion & Education 43, no. 1 (2016): 95–116.
———, Lane Fischer, David Wiley, and Linda Williams, “Maintaining Momentum Toward Graduation: OER and the Course Throughput Rate,” International Review of Research on Distance and Open Learning 17, no. 6 (2016): 1–10.
———, and Anthony Sweat. Q&A, Deseret Book (Salt Lake City), (272 pages).
———, Anthony Sweat, Tyler J. Griffin, and Casey Paul Griffiths. “Teaching with Spiritual Impact: An Analysis of Student Comments Regarding High-and-Low Rated Spiritually Inspiring Religion Classes.” Teaching Theology & Religion 19, no. 4 (2016): 340–58.
Hopkin, Shon D. “Salvation by Grace, Rewards of Degree by Works: The Soteriology of Doctrine and Covenants 76.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 329–56.
———. “Representing the Divine Ascent: The Day of Atonement in Christian and Nephite Scripture and Practice.” In The Temple Ancient and Restored: Temple on Mount Zion, vol. 3, ed. Donald Parry and Stephen Ricks, 325–48. Provo, UT: Interpreter Foundation, 2016.
———. “Seeing Eye to Eye: Nephi’s and John’s Intertwining Visions of the Tree of Life.” In Apocalypse: Reading Revelation 21–22, ed. Julie M. Smith, 66–84. Provo, UT: Maxwell Institute, 2016.
Hoskisson, Paul Y., and Stephen O. Smoot. “Was Noah’s Flood the Baptism of the Earth?” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 163–88.
Hull, Kerry. A Dictionary of Ch’orti’ Mayan-Spanish-English. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016.
———. “The Ch’orti’ Maya Myths of Creation.” Oral Tradition 30, no. 1 (2016): 3–26.
———. “Two Case Studies for the Development of the Concept of Religion: The New Testament and the Book of Mormon.” Religious Educator 17, no. 1 (2016): 40–63.
Huntsman, Eric D. “The Byzantine Period.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 379–94.
———. “The Romans.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 309–21.
———. “The Unveiling of Christ . . . and of Angels: Apocalyptic Meditation in Revelation.” In Apocalypse: Reading Revelation 21–22, ed. Julie M. Smith, 85–98. Provo, UT: Maxwell Institute, 2016.
———. Worship: Adding Depth to Your Devotion. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
Jackson, Kent P., ed. A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World. Provo, UT: The Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, Brigham Young University, 2016.
———. “Isaiah in the Book of Mormon.” In A Reason for Faith, edited by Hales, 69–78.
“New Testament Revision 1,” The Joseph Smith Papers, http://
“New Testament Revision 2,” The Joseph Smith Papers, http://
“Old Testament Revision 2,” The Joseph Smith Papers, http://
Judd, Daniel K. “Clinical and Pastoral Implications of the Ministry of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation.” Open Theology 2 (2106): 324–37.
———. “Sin, Guilt, and Grace: Martin Luther and the Doctrines of the Restoration.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 311–28.
———. (with Brent R. Nordgren). “Update on the Church in Ghana, Africa: A Conversation with Daniel K Judd.” BYU Religious Education Review, Winter 2016, 24–30.
———, and Jacob D. Judd. “The Doctrines of Eternal Marriage and Eternal Families.” In Foundations of the Restoration, edited by Ostler, MacKay, and Gardner, 245–68.
Judd, Frank F., Jr. “Perspectives about Pontius Pilate in the Ante-Nicene Fathers,” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 8 (2016): 157–81.
Ludlow, Jared W. Revealing World History to 1500. South Orange, NJ: Thinking Strings, 2016.
———. “Intertestamental Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 350–63.
———. “The Fall of Judah and the Exile.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 261–71.
———. “The World of the Bible.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 1–13.
______. “Moses and Paul: The Law.” In As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture. Ed. Julie Smith. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2016, 75–84.
MacKay, Michael Hubbard. “Mormon Paradigm Shifts: Joseph Smith’s Seer Stones.” BYU Religious Education Review,” Fall 2016, 12–17.
———. Sacred Space: Exploring the Birthplace of Mormonism. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
———, and Nicholas J. Frederick, Joseph Smith’s Seer Stones. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
Martin, Jan J. “William Tyndale, John Foxe, and the ‘Boy That Driveth the Plough.’” Religious Educator 17, no. 2 (2016): 87–105.
McBaine, Neylan, and Thomas A. Wayment. “Discussing Difficult Topics: The Representation of Women in Today’s Church.” Religious Educator 17, no. 2 (2016): 107–17.
Minert, Roger P. “Austrian Census Records from 1857 to 1910.” Palatine Immigrant 41, no. 2 (2016): 19–32.
———. “Die Geschichte der Volkszählungen in Mecklenburg-Schwerin.” Wismarer Beiträge 22 (2016): 90–105.
———. German Immigrants in American Church Records. Vol. 19, Missouri (Excluding St. Louis Co.) Orting, WA: Family Roots Publishing, 2016.
———. “Why and How Did Karl G. Maeser Leave Saxony?” BYU Studies 55, no. 2 (2016): 74–98.
———. German Census Records, 1816–1916. Orting, WA: Family Roots Publishing, 2016.
Muhlestein, Kerry. “Joseph Smith and Egyptian Artifacts: A Model for Evaluating the Prophetic Nature of the Prophet’s Ideas about the Ancient World.” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2016): 35–82.
———. “Papyri and Presumptions: A Careful Examination of the Eyewitness Accounts Associated with the Joseph Smith Papyri.” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 4 (2016): 31–50.
———. “The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham.” In A Reason for Faith, edited by Hales, 79–91.
———. “Assessing the Joseph Smith Papyri: an Introduction to the Historiography of their Acquisitions, Translations, and Interpretations,” The Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 22 (2016): 17–49.
———.“Those Who Speak Rebellion: Refining Our Understanding of the Words Used to Describe ‘Rebellion.’” In Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, ed. P. Kousoulis and N. Lazaridis. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2015.
———. “Egypt’s Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 65–76.
———. “Egypt’s Old Kingdom.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 52–64.
———. “The Exodus.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 116–28.
———, and Megan Hansen. “‘The Work of Translating’: The Book of Abraham’s Translation Chronology.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 139–62.
Newell, Lloyd D. “Instruments or Agents?: Balancing Submissiveness and Anxious Engagement in Heavenly Father’s Plan.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 37–50.
Ogletree, Mark D. “David O. McKay: Creative Father and Grandfather.” BYU Religious Education Review, Fall 2016, 8–11.
———.“‘That My Family Should Partake.’” Religious Educator 17, no. 1 (2016): 93–107.
Olsen, Daniel H., and Greg Wilkinson. “Are Fast Pilgrims True Pilgrims?: The Shikoku Pilgrimage.” Annals of American Tourism (2016): 1–3.
Olson, Camille Fronk. “To Know God Is Life Eternal.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 23–36.
———. “Examples of Covenant Keepers in Scripture.” In Between God and Us: How Covenants Connect Us to Heaven.
Ostler, Craig James, and Brady Burns. “Development of LDS Humanitarian Aid.” In The Worldwide Church, edited by Goodman and Properzi, 403–24.
Ostler, Craig James, and Lloyd D. Newell. “‘Here Is Wisdom; Yea, to Be a Seer, a Revelator, . . . and a Prophet.’” In Foundations of the Restoration, edited by Ostler, MacKay, and Gardner, 45–64.
Ostler, Craig James, Michael Hubbard MacKay, and Barbara Morgan Gardner, eds. Foundations of the Restoration: Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes (45th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium). Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
Pierce, George A. “Israel’s Conquest and Settlement.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 138–48.
———. “Sea Peoples and Philistines.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 129–37.
———. “The Canaanites.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 88–101.
Pike, Dana M. “Israel’s Divided Monarchy, Part 1 (930–841 BCE).” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 213–25.
———. “Israel’s Divided Monarchy, Part 2 (841–722 BCE).” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, Jackson, 226–36.
———. “Israel’s United Monarchy (1030?–931 BCE).” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 162–74.
———. “The ‘Spirit’ That Returns to God in Ecclesiastes 12:7.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 189–204.
Properzi, Mauro, and James A. Toronto. “From Conflict to Collaboration: Mormons and Waldensians in Italy.” In The Worldwide Church, edited by Goodman and Properzi, 257–81.
———. “In the Footsteps of Peter and Paul: Modern Pioneers in Italy.” Religious Educator 17, no. 2 (2016): 139–61.
Reed, Andrew C., John M. Murphy, and Jesse King, “Rose Marie Reid, LeGrand Richards, and ‘The Plan for Teaching the Gospel to Jewish People.’” Mormon Historical Studies (Spring/
———. “An Apostate Maskil: The Impact of the Haskalah on Daniil Avraamovich Khvol’son.” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, vol. 6 (2016), 34–75.
———.“Framing the Restoration and Gathering: Orson Hyde and Early mormon Understandings of Israel, Jews, and the Second Coming.” In Foundations of the Restoration, edited by Ostler, MacKay, and Gardner, 225–44.
———. “The Non-Mormon Mormony: Authority, Religious Tolerance, and Sectarian Identification in Late Imperial Russia.” In The Worldwide Church, edited by Goodman and Properzi, 185–207.
Schade, Aaron P. “Ammonites, Moabites, Phoenicians, Arameans, and Edomites.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 198–212.
______. “The Mesha Inscription: Clermont-Ganneau’s Scribal Exercise on the Reverse Side of the Stele,” Maarav 20.2 (2013), 199–204 (published in 2016).
Seely, David Rolph. “Genesis and the Ancient Near East.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 77–87.
———. “Judah Alone (722–586 BCE).” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 237–49.
———. “Temples in the Near East and Israel.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 175–85.
Shai, Itzhaq, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Eric Welch, Jill Katz, Haskel J. Greenfield, and Aren M. Maeir. “The Early Bronze Age Fortifications at Tell es-Safi/
Skinner, Andrew C. “Early Israel in Canaan.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 149–61.
———. “The Divine Principle of Friendship: Some Prophetic and Secular Perspectives.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 117–38.
———. “The Persian Empire and the Restored Jewish Nation.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 272–84.
———. To Become Like God: Witnesses of Our Divine Potential. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
______. “3 Fascinating Connections Between LDS and Ancient Egyptian Beliefs and Worship.” LDS Living, www.ldsliving.com, 21 October 2016. Online.
Spencer, Joseph M. “The Book, the Words of the Book: What the Book of Mormon Says about Its Own Coming Forth.” Religious Educator 17, no. 1 (2016): 65–81.
Strathearn, Gaye. “Early Christianity.” In A Bible Reader’s History of the Ancient World, edited by Jackson, 365–78.
Sweat, Anthony, Michael Hubbard MacKay, and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat. “Doctrine: Models to Evaluate Types and Sources of Latter-day Saint Teachings.” Religious Educator 17, no. 3 (2016): 101–25.
———, Michael Hubbard MacKay, and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat. “Evaluating Latter-day Saint Doctrine.” In Foundations of the Restoration, edited by Ostler, MacKay, and Gardner, 23–44.
———, John Hilton III. Q&A: Common Questions and Powerful Answers for LDS Teens. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
———. Christ in Every Hour. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
Top, Brent L. “‘The First Principles of Man Are Self-Existent with God’: The Immortality of the Soul in Mormon Theology.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by Fluhman and Top, 3–22.
Wiley, David, Linda Williams, Daniel DeMarte, and John Hilton III. “The Tidewater Z-Degree and the INTRO Model for Sustaining OER Adoption.” Education Policy Analysis Archives 24, no. 41 (2016): 1–12.
Vrydaghs, L., Ball, Terry B., and Devos, Y. 2016. “Beyond Redundancy and Multiplicity: Integrating Phytolith Analysis and Micromorphology to the Study of Brussels Dark Earth.” Journal of Archaeological Science 68 (2016): 79–88.
Wang, J., Liua, L., Ball, Terry B., Yud, L., Lie, Y., and Xing, F. “Revealing a 5,000-y-old beer recipe in China.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 23 (2016): 6444–48.
Wiley, David, Linda Williams, Daniel DeMarte, and John Hilton III. “The Tidewater Z-Degree and the INTRO Model for Sustaining OER Adoption.” Education Policy Analysis Archives 24, no. 41: 1–12.
Wilkinson, Greg. “Is the LDS Church a Japanese New Religion?” In The Worldwide Church, edited by Goodman and Properzi, 141–63.
———. “Reading and Receiving: An Interpretation of Moroni’s Promise(s).” Religious Educator 17, no. 1 (2016): 83–91.
———. “Thinking about Pilgrimage, Particularly in Modern Japan.” Review of Michael Pye, Japanese Buddhist Pilgrimage (Sheffield: Equinox, 2015); Ian Reader, Pilgrimage in the Marketplace (New York: Routledge, 2014); and Ian Reader, Pilgrimage: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). In Religious Studies Review 42, no. 1 (March 2016): 19–27.
Woodger, Mary Jane. “Moses of Czechoslovakia: Wallace F. Toronto, the Thirty-Two-Year Mission President.” In Goodman and Properzi, The Worldwide Church, 232–56.
———. “The Restoration of the Perpetual Covenant to Hallow the Sabbath Day.” In Foundations of the Restoration, edited by Ostler, MacKay, and Gardner, 289–310.
________, “Jesus Christ’s Interaction with New Testament Women,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 18 (2016): 15–32.
_______, Review of Julie Debra Neuffer, Helen Andelin and the Fascinating Womanhood Movement. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2015, BYU Studies 54, no. 4 (2015): 203–6.
———, Riley M. Moffat, and Fred E. Woods. Sacred and Historical Places: Hawai‘i. Jonathan Napela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Island Studies, Brigham Young University–Hawaii, and Mormon Historic Sites Foundation, 2016.
Woods, Fred E. “A Vow Remembered: Lawrence Judd and His Pledge to Kalaupapa.” Journal of Hawaiian History 50 (2016): 1–31.
———. “Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction? A Conceptual Look at the Societies of Zion and Babylon and the Search for a Promised Land.” Acta Comparanda FVG 26 (2016): 65–78.
———. “’More Precious Than Gold’: Mormonism Comes to Nome (1900–1913).” Alaska History, Fall 2016 issue.
———. “Mormon Missionaries and Mid-Twentieth-Century Basketball in Australia: Religion through Sport as a Vehicle to Reach Secular Society.” Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 29, no. 1 (2016): 77–93.
———, and Jannalee Rosner, “The Church in Alaska,” LDS Living, November/
———, and Jean Huysmans, “The Consecrated Service of Elder John W. F. Volker: The Netherlands Mission.” Religious Educator 17, no. 1 (2016): 120–57.
———, and Kári Bjarnason, “The First Three Icelanders to Settle in North America.” Mormon Historical Studies 17, nos. 1–2 (2016): 291–313.
———, See copublications with Mary Jane Woodger and Riley M. Moffat.
Retiring
Kip Sperry (Church History and Doctrine) retired in December, and Kent P. Jackson (Ancient Scripture) will retire the end of June.
