BHodges Posted September 16, 2015 Posted September 16, 2015 Hey, I thought I'd sign up here under my own name so I can occasionally post some timely and hopefully verbose updates from the Maxwell Institute. For people who don't know me, I used to post here (too much) a few years ago. I've worked at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University since early 2013. I live in SLC with my spouse who teaches Russian at the U and our two little kids (ages 6 months and 3, respectively). We also have a dog and a desert tortoise whose been manically trying to escape this week because he senses winter is coming and he wants to hibernate. Here's me. (Yes, I have a beard card, no you can't see it.) Anyway, I realize threads like this don't get much action, but I think there's enough interested people here to warrant it. The quickest way to follow Institute news is to subscribe to the blog by entering your email address into the bottom of the website: So volume 24 of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies came out yesterday. For digital subscribers that means they can access the whole thing online (if you're not a subscriber you can view the table of contents there, too). The digital pass costs ten bucks and includes access to all three Institute periodicals: JBMS, the Mormon Studies Review, and Studies in the Bible and Antiquity. Joe Spencer introduces and describes the content of volume 24 on the MIBlog. If you're not a subscriber you can read a free sample article here. If you have a blg or would like to review this issue for the message board, send me an email at blairhodges[at]byu[dot]edu and I'll get you a review copy. Also, if you're not a subscriber you can now access last year's entire volume 23 free of charge which sparked some wrangling, much of which was tempesting in teapots, but I digress. Here's free vol. 23's ToC: Editors' Introduction, by Brian M. Hauglid, Mark Alan Wright, and Joseph M. Spencer "The Word and the Seed: The Theological Use of Biblical Creation in Alma 32," by David E. Bokovoy "'Saving Christianity': The Nephite Fulfillment of Jesus Eschatological Prophecies," by Heather Hardy "Christ and Krishna: The Visions of Arjuna and the Brother of Jared," by Joseph M. Spencer "Theological Apostasy and the Role of Canonical Scripture: A Thematic Analysis of 1 Nephi 13–14," by Paul Owen “'And it came to pass . . .': The Sociopolitical Events in the Book of Mormon Leading to the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of the Judges," by Daniel Belnap "The Deliberate Use of Hebrew Parallelisms in the Book of Mormon," by Carl Cranney "The Book of Mormon and Early America’s Political and Intellectual Tradition," by Benjamin E. Park "The Book of Mormon Translation Puzzle," by Roger Terry "Untangling Alma 13:3," by Kimberly M. Berkey "Three-Nephite Lore and Observing the Sacred: Some Observations," by Brad Kramer People interested in historicity-oriented questions will likely enjoy the pieces by Cranney, Owen, and Belnap, although other pieces either assume or touch on ancient settings. People can always send questions or comments to me at blairhodges[at]byu[dot]edu, comment on the Facebook wall threads, Tweet at us (@MI_BYU), etc. Happy reading! 2
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