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BYU Studies - 56:3

Introduction

From the Editor 56:3

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Articles

"In the Land of the Chaldeans": The Search for Abraham’s Homeland Revisited

Stephen O. Smoot

Page 6

The Ancient Doctrine of the Two Ways and the Book of Mormon

Noel B. Reynolds

Page 49

The Experience of Love and the Limitations of Psychological Explanation

Page 79

The Political Climate of Saxony during the Conversion of Karl G. Maeser: With Special Reference to the Franklin D. Richards Letter to Brigham Young, November 1855

A. LeGrand Richards

Page 93

Samuel and His Nephite Sources

John Hilton III, Sunny Hendry Hafen, and Jaron Hansen

Page 115

The Church Library Coordinating Committee and the Correlation of Meetinghouse Libraries

Page 147

Essays

Constructively Broken

Sarah Hafen d’Evegnee

Page 140

Photo Essays

An Edward Martin Photograph of the Construction of the Great Tabernacle

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Ronald L. Fox

Page 38

Poetry

I Have Traced a Jagged Autumn

Page 48

Reviews

Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist

Blake T. Ostler

Page 181

Thirteenth Apostle: The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832–1877

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel

Page 184

Defender: The Life of Daniel H. Wells

Cherry B. Silver

Page 186

Mormonism and the Making of a British Zion

Ronald E. Bartholomew

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Hosea Stout: Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender

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The Bible, Mormon Scripture, and the Rhetoric of Allusivity

Jeffrey D. Tucker

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Book Notices

Against the Wall: Johann Huber and the First Mormons in Austria

Melissa Howland

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Just South of Zion: The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel

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Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail

Veronica Anderson

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The Mormon Church and Blacks: A Documentary History

Stephanie Fudge

Page 204

Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty

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