annual conference • october 11–12, 2019 • utah state
TRANSCRIPT
Friday, October 11Plenary Session: Book Reviews9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.Jan Martin (Brigham Young University), reviewing Larry Morris, A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
Brian Hauglid (Brigham Young University), reviewing Seth Perry, Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States
Aaron Coombs (University of Utah), reviewing David Gore, The Voice of the People
Concurrent Sessions10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.Room 1
Elizabeth Fenton (University of Vermont), “Readymade Books and the Preservation of the Sacred in the Book of Mormon and the Early Church”
Joseph M. Spencer (Brigham Young University), “‘Virgins, Harlots, Brides, and Queens: Women in the Prophetic Texts of First Nephi”
Kimberly M. Berkey (Loyola University), “‘Here Is My Daughter a Maiden’: Daughters in Judges and the Book of Mormon”
Room 2
Ashley Brocious (Jewish Theological Seminary), “The Holy One of Israel”
Randy Curtis (University of Utah), “Identifying the Mosaical Prophet in 2 Nephi 3:17”
Bradley J. Kramer (Independent Scholar), “Remembering God’s Ancient Covenant People: Two Ways the Book of Mormon Counters Supersessionism in the New Testament”
Concurrent Sessions2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.Room 1
Jenny Webb (Independent Scholar), “The Iron Rod and the Iron Goad: Lehi, Nephi, and the Fourth Panchen Lama”
Morgan Davis (Neal A. Maxwell Institute), “Divine Messengers in the Book of Mormon and the Qur’an”
Room 2
Val Larsen (James Madison University), “Prophet or Loss: Mosiah1/Zeniff, Benjamin/Noah, Mosiah2/Limhi”
Blair Dee Hodges (Neal A. Maxwell Institute), “A Disabilities Studies Reading of Moroni Chapter 8”
Concurrent Sessions3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.Room 1
Avram Shannon (Brigham Young University), “Temple and Atonement in the Book of Mormon: A Case for Limited Recontextualization”
Brant A. Gardner (Independent Scholar), “Speculation on the Lost Pages of the Book of Mormon”
Room 2
Julie P. Frederick (Independent Scholar), “Covenants and Oaths in the Book of Mormon War Chapters: Contextualizing the Title of Liberty”
John Christopher Thomas (Pentecostal Theological Seminary and Bangor University), “The Bible and the Formation of Book of Mormon Implied Readers: Soundings from 1 Nephi”
Keynote Speaker7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Paul C. Gutjahr, Indiana University
“Take Two: The Book of Mormon in Light of Orson Pratt and Noah’s Ark”
Saturday, October 12Business Meeting8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions8:45 a.m. – 10:45 p.m.Room 1
Nicholas J. Frederick (Brigham Young University), “Tracing the Contours of the Great and Abominable Church”
Frederik S. Kleiner (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), “‘As It Were unto Us a Dream’: Uchronia in the Book of Mormon”
Rebecca A. Roesler (Brigham Young University–Idaho), “The Book of Mormon as Refutational Text”
Room 2
Sharon J. Harris (Brigham Young University), “Covenant as Archive and Performative: Genealogy in the Small Plates”
Rosalynde Frandsen Welch (Independent Scholar), “The Book of Ether: A Latent, Local Messiah”
Rob Fergus (Rowan University), “Plain and Precious: Toward a Book of Mormon Theology of Things”
Plenary Session: Interview and Discussion11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Patrick Q. Mason (Utah State University) interviews Elizabeth Fenton (University of Vermont) and Jared Hickman (Johns Hopkins University) about Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon
Concurrent Sessions2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.Room 1
Christopher J. Blythe (Neal A. Maxwell Institute), “Sidney Rigdon’s Revelations and the Book of Mormon”
Janiece Johnson (Neal A. Maxwell Institute), “The Prophet and the Book: Joseph Smith and His Place in Early Book of Mormon Reception”
Room 2
Charles Harrell (Brigham Young University), “Pre-existence, Prescience, and Priestly Ordination: The Exegetical History of Alma 13:3–4”
Daniel Stone (Private Archive, Detroit), “Fleeing from Before Them: Sidney Rigdon’s and William Bickerton’s Use of the Book of Mormon as a Tool of Dissent”
Concurrent Sessions3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.Room 1
Kristian Heal (Neal A. Maxwell Institute) and Zachery Stevenson, “Sorrow and Joy: The Book of Mormon Reading Ancient Religious Texts”
Kylie Nielson Turley (Brigham Young University), “(Unreal) Fire and (Faithless) Sincerity: The Impact of ‘As If’ in Helaman 5”
Room 2
Robert A. Rees (University of California–Berkeley), “Intuition, Quantum Holography, and the Book of Mormon”
Robert B. Couch (Earlham College), “Decoupling Agency and Moral Responsibility in the Book of Mormon”
Keynote Speaker7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Amy Easton-Flake, Brigham Young University
“Teaching Masculinity in 1830s America: Conduct Books and the Book of Mormon”
BOOK OF MORMON STUDIES ASSOCIATIONAnnual Conference • October 11–12, 2019 • Utah State University
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