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BYU Studies
BYU Studies publishes scholarship that is informed by the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Submissions are invited from all scholars who seek truth "by study and also by faith" (Doctrine and Covenants 88:118), discern the harmony between revelation and research, value both academic and spiritual inquiry, and recognize that knowledge without charity is nothing (1 Corinthians 13:2). For more information, visit our website at byustudies.byu.edu
Episodes
BYU StudiesHis Body Breaks - A Poem by James Goldberg
This poem received an honorable mention in our 2020 poetry contest.
BYU StudiesRemnant or Replacement?: Outlining a Possible Apostasy Narrative
Latter-day Saints believe that a restoration of Christ's church, teachings, and covenants was necessary due to what we call the "great apostasy." But what was…
BYU StudiesAguas Vivas
"So, was there anything you just couldn't find there?" I asked the newly returned missionary. He had been home from Guatemala for a few months, and I would be…
BYU StudiesEvent or Process? How the "Chamber of Old Father Whitmer" Helps Us Understand Priesthood Restoration
Latter-day Saints have commonly abbreviated the narrative of the restoration of the priesthood by associating the Aaronic Priesthood with John the Baptist and…
BYU StudiesMy Stepdad Was a Bank Robber
"My dad was a contract killer, and my stepfather was a bank robber.” Billy Wilson used to enjoy the shock value of introducing his unusual family heritage…
BYU StudiesThe Danite Constitution and Theories of Democratic Justice in Frontier America
Americans in the 1830s were very protective of their freedom to not be forcibly removed from the land on which they lived. Debates over who should belong or be…
BYU StudiesThe Bible in the Millennial Star and the Woman's Exponent
Amy Easton-Flake analyzes how Church members used the Old and New Testaments in publications during the 19th century. Doing so sheds light on what was on the…
BYU StudiesWake Up and Dream by artist Eva Koleva Timothy
The artwork Star Stretching by Eva Koleva Timothy was inspired by a favorite saying of her mission president, Elder Ronald Rasband: “It is better to aim for…
BYU StudiesThe Jerusalem Center at Thirty
Volume 59:4 (2020) - I first “met” James E. Faust in June 1989, when, a month after the Jerusalem Center was dedicated, he called my home. BYU president…
BYU StudiesBook Notice: The Annals of the Southern Mission: A Record of the History of the Settlement of Southern Utah
Volume 59:4 (2020) - Author James Godson Bleak (1829–1918) was a British convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and veteran of the Edward…
BYU StudiesStudent Panel Discussion on the Jerusalem Center
Volume 59:4 (2020) - Students come to the Center with different ambitions. They come as young people to have fun. They come as travelers to find adventure…
BYU StudiesBook Review: Understanding Covenants and Communities: Jews and Latter-day Saints in Dialogue
Volume 59:4 (2020) - Organized topically, this book’s sixteen essays provide a wealth of information about Jewish and Latter-day Saint perspectives, scripture…
BYU StudiesFaculty Perspectives and Experiences at the BYU Jerusalem Center
Volume 59:4 (2020) - In 1985, my friend and I decided to backpack around the world. I said that if we were doing that, the first thing I wanted to do was get…
BYU StudiesReview of Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volumes 7-9
Volume 59:4 (2020) - Almost fifty years ago, my wife, Patricia, and I had the distinct privilege to work for incoming Church Historian Leonard J. Arrington in…
BYU Studies“If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem” by Jeffrey R. Holland
Volume 59:4 (2020) - Thank you for allowing me to be with you today. In some ways, what I say today could be a precursor to the sermon someone might give at my…
BYU StudiesConnections between the Jerusalem Center and the Local Israeli Academy
Volume 59:4 (2020) - When we first occupied the Center, construction of some of its facilities was not completed. For example, the dining area, which would…
BYU StudiesBook Review: Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Volume 59:4 (2020) - Borrowing its title from Joseph Smith’s far-reaching Nauvoo theology, Make Yourselves Gods is somehow even more provocative than its…
BYU StudiesBook Review: The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture
Volume 59:4 (2020) - The Pearl of Great Price is the least intentional of Latter-day Saint scriptures. When British mission president Franklin Richards pulled…
BYU StudiesThe Jerusalem Center in the Community: From Suspicion and Distrust to Acceptance and Respect
Volume 59:4 (2020) - When I first arrived at the Jerusalem Center in 1994 and assumed responsibility for, among other areas, the Center’s security, I inherited…
BYU StudiesBreeze
Volume 59:4 (2020) - This poem by Daniel F. Teichert won first place in the 2019 Clinton F. Larson Poetry Contest, sponsored by BYU Studies.
BYU StudiesThe Lead-up to the Dedication of the Jerusalem Center
Volume 59:4 (2020) - I’ve been asked to focus on the construction period of the Jerusalem Center rather than the student program that, at this point in time…
BYU StudiesThe Road to Dallas
Volume 59:4 (2020) - On November 21, 1993, the world dozed in watery light and I felt off-balance as the northern hemisphere listed away from the sun. Seasonal…
BYU StudiesOutside Perspectives
Volume 59:4 (2020) - I think most of us are familiar with a recent trend in storytelling to revisit and tell a traditional tale from the perspective of the…
BYU StudiesPeace Offering
This essay by Elena Jarvis Jube tied for first place in the 2020 Richard H. Cracroft Personal Essay Contest, sponsored by BYU Studies. The author was…
BYU StudiesThe Restored Church of Jesus Christ and the Holy Land
Volume 59:4 (2020) - It is a privilege to be with you as we celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the dedication of the Jerusalem Center and the impact it has…
BYU StudiesBYU Jerusalem Center Timeline
Volume 59:4 (2020) - A timeline of important events beginning with the first mission call to the Holy Land in 1840 and ending in the year 2020.
BYU StudiesEditor’s Introduction to BYU Studies Quarterly 59, number 4
Volume 59:4 (2020) - The Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies was dedicated on May 16, 1989. Located on Mount Scopus, the Center…
BYU StudiesHope in a Time of Fracture: Turning the Tide
Volume 59:3 (2020) - In the spring of 2015, I encountered two worlds within twenty-four hours—worlds yoked by creed but divided by demographic and disposition…
BYU StudiesBook Review: An Apostolic Journey: Stephen L. Richards and the Expansion of Missionary Work in South America
Volume 59:3 (2020) - In their work An Apostolic Journey: Stephen L Richards and the Expansion of Missionary Work in South America, authors Richard E. Turley…
BYU StudiesA Treasure Trove of Research Resources about Historical Latter-day Saint Women
Volume 59:3 (2020) - Even considering the fine books and articles on the history of Latter-day Saint women that have been written in the last fifty years…
BYU StudiesMaking the Acquaintance of Eliza R. Snow: An Interview with Her Biographer, Jill Mulvay Derr
Volume 59:3 (2020) - This is half of an interview conducted by Cherry B. Silver on August 8, 2019, in the BYU Studies offices. The other half will be published…
BYU StudiesBelva Lockwood: The “Nerviest Woman in the United States,” Who Became the Latter-day Saints’ Irrepressible Advocate and Friend
Volume 59:3 (2020) - In August 1889, a number of newspapers ran an article that began with this sentence: “Belva Lockwood has long been considered the nerviest…
BYU StudiesMy Life in Art
Volume 59:3 (2020) - My father, Ted Bushman, was an artist. He worked his way through BYU in the 1920s painting signs and drawing cartoons. Before he…
BYU StudiesThe “New Woman” and the Woman’s Exponent: An Editorial Perspective
Volume 59:3 (2020) - Economically, politically, socially, and theologically, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were known for being…
BYU StudiesCourtship
Volume 59:3 (2020) - People ask from time to time how Richard and I met. I have told the story in various ways for different occasions. It all began in 1952…
BYU StudiesA Harmony of Voices: Negotiating Latter-day Saint Unity on Women’s Suffrage
Volume 59:3 (2020) - On a snowy April morning in 1895, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles gathered within the walls of the Salt Lake Temple and unanimously…
BYU StudiesWhy Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Volume 59:3 (2020) - Although it is a bit disconcerting to admit it, I am most widely known today not for my books, but for a single sentence. You’ve probably…
BYU StudiesFirst to Vote: Utah’s Unique Place in the Suffrage Movement
Volume 59:3 (2020) - February 14, 1870, was election day in Salt Lake City. Citizens might have gathered with more than the usual excitement that day to cast…
BYU StudiesEmmeline Wells and the Suffrage Movement
Volume 59:3 (2020) - In 1909, Susa Young Gates listed Emmeline B. Wells, along with Elmina S. Taylor and Eliza R. Snow, as one of the three greatest women The…
BYU StudiesWorking for a More Divine Model
Volume 59:3 (2020) - When Bethany’s daughter Simone was almost three, she and Bethany were reading a popular LDS children’s book of scripture stories. At the…
BYU StudiesIn Memoriam, Armand L. Mauss (1928–2020)
Volume 59:3 (2020) - I was saddened but not surprised by the recent passing of Armand L. Mauss, an esteemed scholar, BYU Studies editorial board member, and a…
BYU StudiesEditor's Introduction to BYU Studies Quarterly 59, number 3 by Katherine Kitterman
I study the history of women’s voting rights in Utah. For the past two years, I’ve been the historical director for Better Days 2020, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit…
BYU StudiesEditor's Introduction to BYU Studies Quarterly 59, number 3 by Susan Elizabeth Howe
Volume 59:3 (2020) - It is with pride and gratitude that we present this issue of BYU Studies Quarterly—pride in recognizing the 100th anniversary of the…
BYU StudiesBook Notice: Salt Lake School of the Prophets, 1867–1883
Volume 58:3 (2019) - Book notice about Salt Lake School of the Prophets, 1867-1883 by Devery S. Anderson
BYU StudiesBook Notice: Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith: Nineteenth-Century Restorationists
Volume 58:3 (2019) - Book notice about Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith: Nineteenth-Century Restorationists by RoseAnn Benson
BYU StudiesThe Office of Church Recorder: A Conversation with Elder Steven E. Snow
Volume 58:3 (2019) - Elder Steven E. Snow served as the Church Historian and Recorder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from August 1, 2012…
BYU StudiesNaturalistic Explanations of the Origin of the Book of Mormon: A Longitudinal Study
Volume 58:3 (2019) - Joseph Smith and his followers declared the Book of Mormon’s supernatural origin—that it was a divinely inspired translation of an…
BYU StudiesBook Notice: Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail: The Biology of Three American Tragedies
Volume 58:3 (2019) - Who would be more likely to survive in a wilderness setting, beset by starvation and extreme cold? Women or men? Single individuals or…
BYU StudiesThe Nauvoo Music and Concert Hall: A Prelude to the Exodus
Volume 58:3 (2019) - Although it is little known today, the Nauvoo Music and Concert Hall was an important part of Nauvoo’s cultural history. Joseph Smith…
BYU StudiesVoice from the Dust: A Shoshone Perspective on the Bear River Massacre
Volume 58:3 (2019) - Darren Parry is the chairman of the Northwest Band Tribal Council of the Shoshone Nation. On January 29, 1863, the U.S. Army attacked and…
BYU StudiesShe Will Find What Is Lost: Brian Kershisnik’s Artistic Response to the Problem of Human Suffering
Volume 58:3 (2019) - When Cris and Janae Baird first saw the painting She Will Find What Is Lost, by Brian Kershisnik, Janae felt a deep connection to it…
BYU StudiesBurning the Couch: Some Stories of Grace
Volume 58:3 (2019) - Robbie Taggart tells of the couch he and some youthful friends found one day and decided to burn. When the fire got out of control, a fire…
BYU StudiesThe History of the Name of the Savior's Church: A Collaborative and Revelatory Process
Volume 58:3 (2019) - Despite all the historical resources now available to members of the Church, it may still come as a surprise to many that, since its…
BYU StudiesFirst Argument
Volume 58:3 (2019) - This poem won second place in the 2018 Clinton F. Larson Poetry Contest sponsored by BYU Studies. This poem focuses on Adam and Eve and…
BYU StudiesBook Review: Joseph Paul Vorst
Volume 58:2 (2019) - The discovery of a Latter-day Saint artist from a former era, who had almost been forgotten to the vicissitudes of history, is a…
BYU StudiesBook Notice: Moramona: The Mormons in Hawai‘i, second edition
Volume 58:2 (2019) - Moramona is the quintessential history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in Hawai‘i. The book journeys from the first…
BYU StudiesBook Notice: The Expanded Canon: Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts
Volume 58:2 (2019) - If you are looking for excellent scholarship and insights into Latter-day Saint scripture, you might want to start with this new…