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#18- Job through the ages, with Mark Larrimore [MIPodcast]
“Oh, that my words were written down! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever!” (Job 19:23-24) Having indeed been written...
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#19—Investigating the Dead Sea Scrolls, with John J. Collins [MIPodcast]
The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century. The scrolls include the oldest biblical manuscripts ever found. Most intriguingly, they date from the...
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#20—Reading the New Testament Gospels with Julie M. Smith [MIPodcast]
Many Latter-day Saints find it difficult to appreciate the archaic King James language of the New Testament. The gospel writers presented their witnesses to an ancient audience whose customs are...
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#21—The Bhagavad Gita, with Richard H. Davis [MIPodcast]
This episode delves into the most famous Hindu book of scripture. The Bhagavad Gita relates a conversation between god and human about war and violence, duty and obligation. Millions have looked to the...
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#22—Race and Mormonism in the 19th century, with Paul Reeve and Ardis...
One of the most anticipated reviews in the upcoming Mormon Studies Review focuses on a landmark book called Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness by W. Paul Reeve....
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#23—Race and Mormonism in the 19th century, with Paul Reeve and Ardis...
This is part two of an interview with historian Paul Reeve, author of the new book Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, and Ardis Parshall, independent historian...
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#24—Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison, with Martin E....
Dietrich Bonhoeffer On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazi regime in Germany just two weeks before Allied forces liberated the camp where he was hanged—70 years ago this week....
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#25—All about the Jewish Annotated New Testament, with Amy-Jill Levine and...
What do Jewish scholars today have to say about the New Testament? The Jewish Annotated New Testament is a landmark piece of scholarship, representing the first time Jewish scholars have annotated and...
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#26—Martyrdom past and present, with Jolyon Mitchell [MIPodcast]
Last year the Maxwell Institute published a book called On This Day, a translation of the Armenian Church’s ancient collection of stories about martyrs, miracles, and saints, arranged according to the...
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#27—Wearing God, a conversation with Lauren F. Winner [MIPodcast]
“If you, like me, picture God in lots of different ways, or if sometimes God seems easy to speak about, and on some days you have no words for God, and sometimes you feel that there are too many words...
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#28—The parables of Jesus, with Amy-Jill Levine [MIPodcast]
Amy-Jill Levine is a Jewish scholar with a deep love for the New Testament. Her latest book is a detailed, scholarly, and witty investigation of some of Jesus’s parables. It’s called Short Stories by...
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#29—Adam Miller’s Grace is Not God’s Backup Plan [MIPodcast]
Paul’s New Testament letter to the Romans is one of the most important Christian writings ever recorded. The passage of time has obscured the letter’s original context, not to mention the language it’s...
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#30—Terryl and Fiona Givens on The Crucible of Doubt [MIPodcast]
Terryl and Fiona Givens joined me back in July of 2013 for the first episode of the Maxwell Institute Podcast, and it seems fitting that they’re back on the nice round number of episode 30. Here we...
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#31—Religious tolerance in American history, with Chris Beneke and...
Everyone knows the classic story of how America was founded by pilgrims and puritans fleeing oppressive lands in search of religious freedom. The problem is that this classic story doesn’t adequately...
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#32—The printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon, with church historian...
There’s a bold claim on the dust jacket of the latest volume of the Joseph Smith Papers Project: “The Book of Mormon is the centerpiece of Joseph Smith’s documentary record.” Arguably, without the Book...
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Lesser-known heroes of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon (MIPodcast...
For those who don’t have time to listen to hour-long episodes of the Maxwell Institute Podcast we bring you “MIPodcast Moments”—transcribed excerpts of interesting extracts for your quick...
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#33—The Study Quran, with Maria Dakake and Joseph Lumbard [MIPodcast]
The Study Quran from HarperOne is a historic and ground-breaking work produced by a distinguished team of Islamic Studies scholars. Maria Dakake and Joseph Lumbard are two of the book’s general...
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#34—An Evolving Faith panel discussion [MIPodcast]
On October 27, the third book in the Maxwell Institute’s Living Faith series was released—Steven L. Peck’s Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist. We celebrated by hosting a panel discussion...
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#35—Part 1: Early Christian interpreters of the Bible and the scholars who...
For centuries Christians have gathered to worship God and study the Bible. But this same text that has unified the faithful has also been the source of much discord. One of the most exciting—though by...
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#36—Part 2: Early Christian interpreters of the Bible and the scholars who...
There’s an old saying that goes “the essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.” Sometimes scholars bring clarity by making things less clear. This is true in most academic pursuits, but it...
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