[…] than 300,000 images describing and illustrating events, important sites and teachings of the faith,” stated a Church Newsroom press release. “Such a resource, according to Allan R. , director of graphic design and production […]
[…] that first article, among other matters, I explored briefly the inconsistent usage of second-person pronouns in the English translation of the Book of Mormon. In a nutshell, the text shifts back and forth randomly […]
[…] of prophecy, whether according to the will of God or not.”150 Twenty years later the Church’s Deseret News was not only questioning the old notions of racial inferiority but had become somewhat of a […]
The New English Bible was produced to enhance modern readers’ understanding of the Bible’s content. The recommendation of the multidenominational committee that initiated the translation project in October of 1946 was “that a completely […]
[…] policy since President Wilfred Woodruff’s 1890 Manifesto barring polygamy. Everything else written about the Mormons in America’s newspapers in 1978 suffered by comparison. Even a cursory view of Linda Thatcher’s extensive bibliography which follows […]
[…] a piece of his own translation to linguists to identify a translation equivalency from the characters to English. By looking for someone to “git them translated,” Joseph opened himself up to an academic translation […]
[…] during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the priesthood ban. When the world was changing, it looked like the Church was still adherring to the past.
[…] the truth it contains and the divine efficacy of that truth, and not from sensuous involvement in worlds created by words. In addition, our puritan condemnations have become a kind of paranoia about literature. […]
[…] satisfied. We have many publications in our midst, the chief organ of our people being the Deseret News a daily and weekly paper. Would copies of this be of any interest? There is among […]
[…] the edge of the American frontier would, among many, many other things, need to have known the English Bible (and the Hebrew culture it represents); its many kinds of stylistic parallelisms and poetic forms; […]