The Brass Plates and the Writings of Isaiah
Laban's Brass Plates provided Lehi's colony to the Americas vital connections to the God of Israel's teachings and to their to their heritage. Nephi loved to...
Get to Know Isaiah Scholar, Victor L. Ludlow
Finding Isaiah
Before Victor Ludlow served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Central German Mission - now...
Get to Know Isaiah Scholar, Shon D. Hopkin
Finding Isaiah
Shon D. Hopkin’s interest in Isaiah began in 1996 while studying at the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center.
“My time studying in Jerusalem lit...
Get to Know Isaiah Scholar, Ann N. Madsen
Finding Isaiah
Ann N. Madsen has always loved to learn. After living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while her husband Truman pursued his doctorate at Harvard, they...
Isaiah’s Original Historical Context
In their series: “Finding Doctrine and Meaning in Book of Mormon Isaiah,” published in the Religious Educator 15, no. 1, in 2014, RoseAnn Benson and Shon D. Hopkin wrote that...
Finding Doctrine and Meaning in Book of Mormon Isaiah
For many readers of the Book of Mormon, the Isaiah passages quoted in 1 and 2 Nephi, Mosiah, and 3 Nephi present an almost...
Isaiah’s Writing Style
President Boyd K. Packer observed: “Just as you settle in to move comfortably along, you will meet a barrier. The style of the language...
Why is Isaiah’s Style Imposing and Obscure?
Paul Y. Hoskisson, a professor of ancient scripture at BYU, in his paper “A Latter-Day Saint Reading of Isaiah: The Example of Isaiah 6.” In that...
Getting Into Isaiah 48–49 Through Nephi 20-21
Before writing each day, I read several translations of Isaiah to study the meaning of verses that I am working on. Then I turn...
Let’s Meet David J. Ridges
Finding Isaiah
David J. Ridges, a returned missionary from the Swiss/Austrian mission, had not planned to work for the Church Education System (CES), he was...
