New Volume of Studies in the Bible and Antiquity

[_Daniel Peterson]

I'm pleased to report that the latest number, the second, of the newest Maxwell Institute periodical has now come from the press:

Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 2 (2010).

Here is the table of contents:

vii. Editors' Introduction.

1. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Donald W. Parry).

29. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Latter-day Saints: Where Do We Go from Here? (Dana M. Pike)

49. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the World of Jesus (Andrew C. Skinner).

83. From the Dead Sea Scrolls (1QS) (Hugh Nibley, with an introduction by Stephen D. Ricks).

105. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Select Publications by Latter-day Saint Scholars (Daniel B. McKinlay and Steven W. Booras).

As you might have noticed, this issue of Studies in the Bible and Antiquity focuses on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Three of the four BYU professors who are members of the International Dead Sea Scrolls Editorial Team -- Drs. Parry, Pike, and Skinner -- are represented in this volume. (The fourth, Professor David Rolph Seely, would have been, except that he has been busy throughout all of 2010 leading the BYU Semester Abroad programs in London.)*

* Incidentally, Drs. Parry and Seely are former members of the FARMS board of directors (which, since our reorganization several years ago, no longer exists), and Dr. Ricks is a former chairman of that board. Dr. Skinner served a three-year term as director of FARMS and the Maxwell Institute, from, if I'm not mistaken, 2005 to 2008. Dr. Pike is a former associate editor of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, published by FARMS and then by FARMS as a unit within the Maxwell Institute.

It is important to understand that this issue is hot off the press. I have a copy, but they're not yet available for distribution. Under the best of circumstances, it takes at least a week before the new periodicals begin going out to subscribers, appearing on the Website, showing up in bookstores, and etc. But these are not the best of circumstances, in that regard: It's Christmastime, people have scattered to the four quarters of the earth, and all University functions will be working at less than normal speed. So please be patient.

[_Joey]

It is important to understand that this issue is hot off the press. I have a copy, but they're not yet available for distribution. Under the best of circumstances, it takes at least a week before the new periodicals begin going out to subscribers, appearing on the Website, showing up in bookstores, and etc. But these are not the best of circumstances, in that regard: It's Christmastime, people have scattered to the four quarters of the earth, and all University functions will be working at less than normal speed. So please be patient.

Maybe supply already exceeds demand and it won't be a problem.

Or

[_cinepro]

I'm pleased to report that the latest number, the second, of the newest Maxwell Institute periodical has now come from the press:

Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 2 (2010).

Here is the table of contents:

vii. Editors' Introduction.

1. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Donald W. Parry).

29. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Latter-day Saints: Where Do We Go from Here? (Dana M. Pike)

49. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the World of Jesus (Andrew C. Skinner).

83. From the Dead Sea Scrolls (1QS) (Hugh Nibley, with an introduction by Stephen D. Ricks).

105. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Select Publications by Latter-day Saint Scholars (Daniel B. McKinlay and Steven W. Booras).

As you might have noticed, this issue of Studies in the Bible and Antiquity focuses on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Three of the four BYU professors who are members of the International Dead Sea Scrolls Editorial Team -- Drs. Parry, Pike, and Skinner -- are represented in this volume. (The fourth, Professor David Rolph Seely, would have been, except that he has been busy throughout all of 2010 leading the BYU Semester Abroad programs in London.)*

* Incidentally, Drs. Parry and Seely are former members of the FARMS board of directors (which, since our reorganization several years ago, no longer exists), and Dr. Ricks is a former chairman of that board. Dr. Skinner served a three-year term as director of FARMS and the Maxwell Institute, from, if I'm not mistaken, 2005 to 2008. Dr. Pike is a former associate editor of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, published by FARMS and then by FARMS as a unit within the Maxwell Institute.

It is important to understand that this issue is hot off the press. I have a copy, but they're not yet available for distribution. Under the best of circumstances, it takes at least a week before the new periodicals begin going out to subscribers, appearing on the Website, showing up in bookstores, and etc. But these are not the best of circumstances, in that regard: It's Christmastime, people have scattered to the four quarters of the earth, and all University functions will be working at less than normal speed. So please be patient.

I hope you'll have Dr. Parry write a scholarly article on Noah's flood in an upcoming issue. That would be fascinating, I'm sure.

[_Daniel Peterson]

I'm pleased to report that the latest number, the second, of the newest Maxwell Institute periodical has now come from the press:

Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 2 (2010).

Here is the table of contents:

vii. Editors' Introduction.

1. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Donald W. Parry).

29. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Latter-day Saints: Where Do We Go from Here? (Dana M. Pike)

49. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the World of Jesus (Andrew C. Skinner).

83. From the Dead Sea Scrolls (1QS) (Hugh Nibley, with an introduction by Stephen D. Ricks).

105. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Select Publications by Latter-day Saint Scholars (Daniel B. McKinlay and Steven W. Booras).

As you might have noticed, this issue of Studies in the Bible and Antiquity focuses on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Three of the four BYU professors who are members of the International Dead Sea Scrolls Editorial Team -- Drs. Parry, Pike, and Skinner -- are represented in this volume. (The fourth, Professor David Rolph Seely, would have been, except that he has been busy throughout all of 2010 leading the BYU Semester Abroad programs in London.)*

* Incidentally, Drs. Parry and Seely are former members of the FARMS board of directors (which, since our reorganization several years ago, no longer exists), and Dr. Ricks is a former chairman of that board. Dr. Skinner served a three-year term as director of FARMS and the Maxwell Institute, from, if I'm not mistaken, 2005 to 2008. Dr. Pike is a former associate editor of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, published by FARMS and then by FARMS as a unit within the Maxwell Institute.

It is important to understand that this issue is hot off the press. I have a copy, but they're not yet available for distribution. Under the best of circumstances, it takes at least a week before the new periodicals begin going out to subscribers, appearing on the Website, showing up in bookstores, and etc. But these are not the best of circumstances, in that regard: It's Christmastime, people have scattered to the four quarters of the earth, and all University functions will be working at less than normal speed. So please be patient.

I hope you'll have Dr. Parry write a scholarly article on Noah's flood in an upcoming issue. That would be fascinating, I'm sure.

I was waiting for that response.

(Sorry, all you also-rans. Cinepro wins. Better luck some other day. You might, perhaps, want to hold your hands closer to the buzzer?)

I expect that you would be fascinated.

Merry Christmas!

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[_aussieguy55]

Do any LDS scholars write books that could be used in a Biblical studies class that has no referernce to unique Mormon scriptures?

[_Daniel Peterson]

Do any LDS scholars write books that could be used in a Biblical studies class that has no referernce to unique Mormon scriptures?

Typically not. There are scores and scores of such books published each year, and I suspect that my friends don't see much marginal benefit in their adding to the total.

(I don't know whether you would count David Rolph Seely and William J. Hamblin's Solomon's Temple: Myth and History [London/New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007] as such a book. It has been published in nine editions and six translations [German, French, Dutch, Norwegian, Romanian and Spanish].)

But they do publish non-LDS-related materials. Some things from David Seely will serve as examples:

David Rolph Seely, "The Image of the Hand of God in the Book of Exodus." Pages 38-54 in God's Word for Our World. Vol. 1. Biblical Studies in Honor of Simon John de Vries, eds., J. Harold Ellens, Deborah L. Ellens, Rolf P. Knierim, Isaac Kalimi. London/New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

David Rolph Seely, "Damascus Document (Zadokite Fragment)," "Resurrection," Articles in the Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, ed. David Noel Freedman. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2000.

David Rolph Seely, "Implanting Pious Qualities as a Theme in the Barki Nafshi Hymns." Pages 321-31 in The Dead Sea Scrolls Fifty Years after their Discovery 1947-1999. Proceedings of the Jerusalem Congress, July 20–25, 1997, eds. Lawrence H. Schiffman, Emanuel Tov, and James C. VanderKam. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society in cooperation with the Shrine of the Book, 2000.

David Rolph Seely, "Barkhi Nafshi." Pages 76-77 in Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, eds. by Lawrence H. Schiffman and James C. VanderKam. Oxford University Press, 2000.

David Rolph Seely, Moshe Weinfeld. "Lament by a Leader." Pages 335-42 in Qumran Cave 4 XX, Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 2, eds. Esther Chazon and et al. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXIX Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

David Rolph Seely, Moshe Weinfeld. "Barkhi Nafshi." Pages 255-334 in Qumran Cave 4 XX, Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 2, eds. Esther Chazon and et al. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXIX Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. "4Q434-438. 4QBarkhi Nafshi a-e: Introduction," 255-65; "4QBarkhi Nafshi a, 434," 267-86; "4QBarkhi Nafshi b, 435," 287-93; "4QBarkhi Nafshi c, 436, 295-305; "4QBarkhi Nafshi d, 437, 307-25; "4QBarkhi Nafshi e, 438," 327-34.

David Rolph Seely, "4Q437: A First Look at an Unpublished Barki Nafshi Text." Pp. 147-160 in The Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Technological Innovations, New Texts, & Reformulated Issues. Eds. by Donald W. Parry, Eugene Ulrich. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

David Rolph Seely, "'The Circumcised Heart' in 4Q434 Barki Nafshi." Revue de Qumran 17 (1996) 527-35.

David Rolph Seely, Book Review. The Dead Sea Scrolls Catalogue: Documents, Photographs and Musuem Inventory Numbers, by Stephen A. Reed, Marilyn J. Lundberg, and Michael B. Phelps. Pages 187-90 in Hebrew Studies 37 (1996).

David Rolph Seely, "The Barki Nafshi Texts: 4Q434-439." Pages 194-214 in Current Research & Technological Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Eds. Donald W. Parry, Stephen D. Ricks. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

David Rolph Seely, "The Raised Hand of God as a Covenant Oath Gesture." Pages 411-21 in Fortunate the Eyes that See: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday. Eds. Astrid B. Beck, Andrew H. Bartelt, Paul R. Raabe, Chris Franke. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995.

David Rolph Seely, "Arabah," "Shur, Wilderness of," "Sin, Wilderness of," "Zin, Wilderness of," Articles in the Anchor Bible Dictionary. Ed. David Noel Freedman. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1992.

I chose David at random. You might, if you're interested, check out the publications of other trained LDS biblical scholars such as Thomas Wayment, Frank Judd, Dana Pike, Andrew Skinner, Gaye Strathearn, Lincoln Blumell, Daniel Belnap, Aaron Schade, Donald Parry, and Stephen Ricks.

[_aussieguy55]

Some of that research could just as well been written by an agnostic scholar. Could an LDS scholar write say An Introduction to the New Testament without any reference to Mormon scriptures, and suitable for use in any Religion Studies Depart or Seminary. by the way there are evangelical scholars doing work on the DSS. I wonder why Maklen is going to TWU? Dr Flint and Dr Abegg?

[_Daniel Peterson]

Some of that research could just as well been written by an agnostic scholar.

Yes. Clearly.

Could an LDS scholar write say An Introduction to the New Testament without any reference to Mormon scriptures, and suitable for use in any Religion Studies Depart or Seminary.

I suppose so, but I don't see much point in it. Such books exist aplenty already.

Here, though, are three really fine Latter-day Saint contributions to the general area:

Jesus Christ and the World of the New Testament: A Latter-Day Saint Perspective

Between the Testaments: From Malachi to Matthew

Jehovah and the World of the Old Testament

They remind me of four more LDS scholars with training in biblical or closely-related fields that I should have mentioned above: Eric Huntsman, Kent Jackson, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, and S. Kent Brown.

And you're probably unaware of the BYU New Testament commentary project being headed up by John Welch and John Hall.

by the way there are evangelical scholars doing work on the DSS. I wonder why Maklen is going to TWU? Dr Flint and Dr Abegg?

I expect so. Why else would he go there?

We've known Dr. Abegg and Dr. Flint for many years, and have worked with them.

[_Called2Serve]

Mr. Peterson,

Just wanted to apologize for that post I made the other day suggesting that you were introducing anti-mormon information in your posts. I understand that you and other apologists need to read various things which some might consider antimormon in your work to resolve conflicting information regarding the church.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Mr. Peterson,

Just wanted to apologize for that post I made the other day suggesting that you were introducing anti-mormon information in your posts. I understand that you and other apologists need to read various things which some might consider antimormon in your work to resolve conflicting information regarding the church.

Not a problem.

The Persistence of Polygamy is not an anti-Mormon book, though. Of the two editors, Newell Bringhurst is inactive LDS and Craig Foster is a very active believer. And, of the authors that I mentioned besides Craig, Todd Compton is (I think) active LDS (he certainly was when we were in grad school together), Don Bradley is a newly returned active member of the Church, and David Keller and Greg Smith are very active as well.

But you're right that I read a lot of anti-Mormon things in order to be aware of what the latest fashions are, etc. That's one of the principal reasons that I pay attention to this board, for example.