Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religous Scholarship News Feedhttp://farms.byu.eduProviding news and updates from the Maxwell Institute.Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:50:10 MSTThe Legal Cases in the Book of Mormonhttp://www.byubookstore.com/ePOS?this_category=127&store=439&item_number=3258151&form=shared3%2fgm%2fdetail%2ehtml&design=439The Maxwell Institute is pleased to announce the publication of <i>The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon,</i> by John W. Welch. The close readings in this book bring many new details to light, making the legal cases in the Book of Mormon clear to ordinary readers, convincing to attorneys, and respectable to scholars of all types, whether Latter-day Saints or not.New Publication: <i>Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon</i>, part 5http://www.byubookstore.com/ePOS?this_category=127&store=439&item_number=3288006&form=shared3%2fgm%2fdetail%2ehtml&design=439Dr. Royal Skousen's monumental effort to recover the original text of the Book of Mormon continues in volume 4, part 5 of the Book of Mormon Critical Text project. This volume (analyzing Alma 56 to 3 Nephi 18) examines 906 cases of variation (or potential variation) in the text.