This looks like the sort of conference that makes me sad at times that I don’t live in Utah:
Reading Nephi
Reading Isaiah
Sponsored by the Richard L. Evans Chair for Religious Understanding and the Mormon Theology Seminar
Wednesday 15 April 2009
BYU HBLL Auditorium (1st floor)
9 am — Jenny Webb “Slumbering Voices: Death and Textuality in 2 Nephi”
10 am — George Handley “On the Moral Challenges of Reading Scripture”
11 am — Kim Matheson “Works of Darkness: Secret Combinations and
Covenant Displacement in the Book of Mormon”
1pm — Joseph M. Spencer “Nephi, Isaiah, and Europe”
2pm — Julie Frederick “Seals, Symbols, and Sacred Texts: Sealing and the Book of Mormon”
3pm — Heather and Grant Hardy “How Nephi Shapes His Readers’
Perceptions of Isaiah”
4pm — Samuel Brown, Respondent
This conference is the result of an online seminar in scriptural theology whose aim was to produce a focused, sustained, and collaborative reading of 2 Nephi 26–27. The seminar took place over the course of several months and its proceedings can be found in their entirety at nephireadingisaiah.wordpress.com.
Thank goodness for the internet, anyway.
Thanks for the plug, Nate.
More information in general about the Mormon Theology Seminar (together with discussions, reports, papers, and podcasts of previous conferences) can be found at:
http://www.mormontheologyseminar.org
Wish I could attend, too, all the contributions and contributors look superb. Best of luck to one and all.