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  In the November 24 episode of The Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Terry Hutchinson and John Gee interview Lincoln Bluemell, the author of Lady Eclecte: The Lost Woman of the New Testament. The audio track is also included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feed/podcast).   Podcast: Download   The Interpreter Foundation Podcast is a weekly […] The post Interpreter Podcast — November 24, 2025 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

  In the November 6 Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Terry Hutchinson, Kevin Christensen, and Mark Johnson, discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for December 1 – 10 covering D&C 133 – 134 with special guest Stephen Taysom. You can listen to or download the Come, […] The post Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 137 – 138 for December 1 – 10 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Abstract: Stories of giants have occurred throughout the ages and in different cultures. These stories contrast to the scientific evidence that there never have been races of giant humans, even though there are some specific cases of unusually tall individuals. If the stories don’t come from true experience, where do they come from? In January […] The post Of Book of Mormon Stories—and Giants first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

  In the November 20 episode of The Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Martin Tanner, Kris Frederickson, and Bruce Webster discuss how to respond to critics of the Church. The audio track is also included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feed/podcast).   Podcast: Download   The Interpreter Foundation Podcast is a weekly discussion of matters of […] The post Interpreter Podcast — November 20, 2025 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

  In the November 5 Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Martin Tanner, Hales Swift, and Brent Schmidt discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for November 24 – 30 covering D&C 135 – 136. You can listen to or download the Come, Follow Me segment of the […] The post Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 135 – 136 for November 24 – 30 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Review of Lincoln H. Blumell, Lady Eclecte: The Lost Woman of the New Testament (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2025). 314 pages. $48.00 (hardcover). Abstract: For centuries, the consensus reading of 2 John 1 maintained that the epistle was written to a local church, metaphorically addressed as an “elect lady.” This has most especially been the […] The post Finding the Elect Lady first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

  In the November 6 episode of The Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Terry Hutchinson, Kevin Christensen, and Mark Johnson interview special guest D. John Butler, who raised funds benefiting the family of the Michigan chapel shooter. The audio track is also included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feed/podcast).   Podcast: Download   The Interpreter Foundation […] The post Interpreter Podcast — November 6, 2025 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

  In the October 29 Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, and John Thompson discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for November 17 – 23 covering D&C 133 – 134. You can listen to or download the Come, Follow Me segment of the […] The post Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 133 – 134 for November 17 – 23 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Abstract: This paper examines the claim that Joseph Smith was not the author of the verses in Doctrine and Covenants 132 related to the doctrine of plural marriage. Our examination first describes the current controversy on the authorship of section 132. We next present historical evidence on the provenance of this section. We then present stylometric evidence on the possible authorship of the text. While it has been asserted that Brigham Young or perhaps some other individual was the author of section 132, our examination provides solid support for the Church’s claimed origin of the section. Our extensive statistical analyses indicate there is no stylometric evidence that Brigham Young or any other potential candidate provided the words in the text of the revelation. The post Historical and Stylometric Evidence for the Authorship of Doctrine and Covenants 132 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

  In the November 5 episode of The Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Martin Tanner, Hales Swift, and Brent Schmidt discuss the life and personality of Joseph Smith. The audio track is also included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feed/podcast).   Podcast: Download   The Interpreter Foundation Podcast is a weekly discussion of matters of interest […] The post Interpreter Podcast — November 5, 2025 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

  In the October 15th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Martin Tanner, Kris Frederickson and Bruce Webster discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for November 10 – 16 covering D&C 129 – 132. You can listen to or download the Come, Follow Me segment of the […] The post Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 129 – 132 for November 10 – 16 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Abstract: The Restoration of the Gospel began in an atmosphere of ardent and urgent expectations of the Second Coming of Christ. We are, after all, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Those expectations were shared far beyond the ranks of those who eventually joined the Church. But the early nineteenth-century men and women […] The post “A Voice of Warning” first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

  In the October 29, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, and John Thompson interview special guest Richard E. Turley Jr. about President Dallin Oaks (Turley is the author of In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks) and Turley’s upcoming Joseph the Prophet […] The post Interpreter Podcast — October 29, 2025 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

  In the October 7th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Terry Hutchinson, Kevin Christensen, and Mark Johnson discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for November 3 – 9 covering D&C 125 – 128. You can listen to or download the Come, Follow Me segment of the […] The post Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 125 – 128 for November 3 – 9 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Abstract: This study argues that the Book of Mormon both adopts and develops the instructional wisdom tradition found in Proverbs 1–9 and other pre-exilic Near-Eastern texts. After outlining the structure, rhetoric, and themes of Hebrew instructional wisdom, it tracks those features through major Book of Mormon discourses. Particular attention is given to the personification of […] The post “His Secret is with the Righteous”: Instructional Wisdom in the Book of Mormon first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.