This is a hardcover volume; brand new; limited edition of only 500 copies.

The first copy was presented to Dan Peterson at the 2023 FAIR CONFERENCE in Provo on August 2nd, 2023

Published by Eborn Books and The Interpreter Foundation.

Edited by Shirley S Ricks, Stephen D. Ricks, and Louis C Midgley.

ISBN: 9781890718206

499 Pages.

Contents:

• Introduction: by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

• Expressions of Appreciation from Friends and Colleagues: by Stephen D. Ricks, S. Kent Brown,  and James A. Toronto

Apologetics:

• The Covenant to Defend the Kingdom of God, by John Gee

• Reflections on the Genesis and Evolution of the FARMS Review under the Editorship of Daniel C. Peterson (1989-2011), by Shirley S. Ricks

• Proving That the Church is True, by Steven T. Densley

• The Restored Gospel and the New Liberalism: The Inescapability of Political Apologetics, by Ralph C. Hancock

• David Hume: On Human and Divine Things, by Louis Midgley

Book of Mormon

• An Everlasting Witness: Ancient Writings on Metal, by Noal B. Reynolds

• On the Importance of the Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon, by Royal Skousen

• Archaeology and the Book of Mormon: Thomas Stuart Ferguson’s Ambivalent Testimony, by John E. Clark

• The Apparent Genetic Discrepancy between Mormon’s Narrative and the Origin of Native Americans, by Michael R. Ash and Ugo A. Perego

• “All Bleeding Stops . . . Eventually”: Helaman’s Warriors and Modern Principles of Trauma Revisited, by Gregory L. Smith

Church History

• Joseph Smith and the Magical Contest, by George L. Mitton

• Material Plates, Spiritual Vision: Martin Harris, Divine Materiality, and Seeing with “Spiritual Eyes”, by Neal Rappleye

• God, Humankind, and Eternal Progression: Brigham Young and Church Doctrine, by Thomas G. Alexander

Biblical Studies:

• Israel’s Alternate Altars: Israelite-Jewish Temples, Sanctuaries, and Shrines beyond Jerusalem, by Stephen D. Ricks

• Unlocking Isaiah’s Closed Book: Figures of Speech, Literary Devices, and Writing Techniques, by Donald W. Parry

• Sitting, Walking, Standing, and the Tantalizing Links to Sacred Ceremonies in the Epistle to the Ephesians, by S. Kent Brown

• The Seven Seals in the Apocalypse of John: Possible Cultural, Legal, and Imperial Contexts, by John W. Welch

Scriptures as Literature

• The Book of Commandments as Literature, by Richard Lyman Bushman

• Foundations of a Sacred Latter-day Saint Worldview: A Literary Reading of Doctrine and Covenants 59, by Steven L. Olsen

• Select Bibliography of Works by Daniel C. Peterson (1979-2022), by Jared K. Riddick.

• Index

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