Thursday, August 17, 2017

"To Seek the Law of the Lord": Essays in Honor of John W. Welch

The Interpreter Foundation has just released a new book which I am very excited about reading and can be ordered on Amazon:


The book is 564 pages in length and contains the following essays:

“Foreword”  (James R. Rasband)

“Introduction”  (Daniel C. Peterson and Paul Y. Hoskisson)

“John Woodland Welch: A Personal Reminiscence”  (Stephen E. Robinson)

“Baptized for the Dead”  (Kevin L. Barney)

“Faith, Hope, and Charity: The ‘Three Principal Rounds’ of the Ladder of Heavenly Ascent”  (Jeffrey M. Bradshaw)

“The Transcendence of Flesh, Divine and Human”  (James E. Faulconer)

“Jesus’s Courtroom in John”  (John Gee)

“Janus Parallelism: Speculation on a Possible Poetic Wordplay in the Book of Mormon”  (Paul Y. Hoskisson)

“The Visions of Moses and Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation”  (Kent P. Jackson)

“Tocqueville on New Prophets and the Tyranny of Public Opinion”  (Louis Midgley)

“The Theology of C. S. Lewis: A Latter-day Saint Perspective”  (Robert L. Millet)

“The Covenant of Christ’s Gospel in the Book of Mormon”  (Steven L. Olsen)

“The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa)–Catalogue of Textual Variants”  (Donald W. Parry)

“Notes on Mormonism and the Trinity”  (Daniel C. Peterson)

“Formed in and Called from the Womb”  (Dana M. Pike)

“Chiastic Structuring of Large Texts: Second Nephi as a Case Study”  (Noel B. Reynolds)

“Proper Names from the Small Plates: Some Notes on the Personal Names Zoram, Jarom, Omni, and Mosiah”  (Stephen D. Ricks)

“‘A Prophet Like Moses’ (Deuteronomy 18:15-18) in the Book of Mormon, the Bible, and the Dead Sea Scrolls”  (David R. Seely)

“Medieval Christian Views of Hebrew as the Language of Magic”  (Andrew C. Skinner)

“The Pleading Bar of God”  (Royal Skousen)

“Poesy and Prosody in the Book of Mormon”  (Robert F. Smith)

“Record-Keeping Technology among God’s People in Ancient and Modern Times”  (Richard E. Turley Jr. and Stephen O. Smoot)

“Tree of Life, Tree of Healing”  (John Tvedtnes)

“Bibliography of Selected Published Works of John W. Welch”  (Stephen O. Smoot, compiler)