Advisory Board Noel B. Reynolds, chair James P. Bell Donna Lee Bowen Douglas M. Chabries George Handley Involving Readers R. Kelly Haws Robert L. Millet in the Latter-day Saint Alan L. Wilkins Academic Experience Editor in Chief John W. Welch Church History Board Richard Bennett, chair 19th-century history Brian Q. Cannon 20th-century history Kathryn Daynes 19th-century history Gerrit J. Dirkmaat Joseph Smith, 19th-century Mormonism Steven C. Harper documents Frederick G. Williams cultural history Liberal Arts and Sciences Board Barry R. Bickmore, chair geochemistry David C. Dollahite faith and family life Susan Howe English, poetry, drama Neal Kramer early British literature, Mormon studies Steven C. Walker Christian literature Reviews Board Eric Eliason, co-chair English, folklore John M. Murphy, co-chair Mormon and Western Trevor Alvord new media Herman du Toit art, museums Gerrit van Dyk Church history Specialists Casualene Meyer poetry editor Thomas R. Wells photography editor Ashlee Whitaker cover art editor STUDIES QUARTERLY BYU Vol. 56 • No. 3 • 2017 ARTICLES 4 From the Editor 6 “In the Land of the Chaldeans”: The Search for Abraham’s Homeland Revisited Stephen O. Smoot 49 The Ancient Doctrine of the Two Ways and the Book of Mormon Noel B. Reynolds 79 The Experience of Love and the Limitations of Psychological Explanation Brent D. Slife 93 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 115 Samuel and His Nephite Sources John Hilton III, Sunny Hendry Hafen, and Jaron Hansen 147 The Church Library Coordinating Committee and the Correlation of Meetinghouse Libraries Cory Nimer PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE 38 An Edward Martin Photograph of the Construction of the Great Tabernacle Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Ronald L. Fox ESSAY 140 Constructively Broken Sarah d’Evegnee POETRY 48 I Have Traced a Jagged Autumn Scott Cameron BOOK REVIEWS 181 Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist by Steven L. Peck Reviewed by Blake T. Ostler 184 Thirteenth Apostle: The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832–1877, edited by Scott H. Partridge Reviewed by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel 186 Defender: The Life of Daniel H. Wells by Quentin Thomas Wells Reviewed by Cherry B. Silver 191 Mormonism and the Making of a British Zion by Matthew Lyman Rasmussen Reviewed by Ronald E. Bartholomew 194 Hosea Stout: Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender by Stephen L. Prince Reviewed by Jay H. Buckley 198 The Bible, Mormon Scripture, and the Rhetoric of Allusivity by Nicholas J. Frederick Reviewed by Jeffrey D. Tucker BOOK NOTICES 202 Against the Wall: Johann Huber and the First Mormons in Austria Just South of Zion: The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail The Mormon Church and Blacks: A Documentary History Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty From the Editor John W. Welch his being the one hundredth issue of BYU Studies Quarterly for which TI have served as editor in chief, this occasion calls for a moment of grateful celebration. I am extremely thankful for the numerous people whose goodwill and devoted service make the continued publication of this journal possible. Their wise judgment and brilliant assistance mean the world to me! They include longtime BYU faculty members in many disciplines, members of our staff and editorial boards, a steady stream of new blood from undergraduates who toil happily as interns and bud- ding colleagues, as well as committed authors, university administrators, and ultimately our loyal readers, no doubt the most important of all. Without you, who subscribe to and read BYU Studies Quarterly, all of this would be of feeble interest. And so I am very happy to introduce you readers to the outstanding contents of this issue of this journal, from the cover’s expansive view of Kolob Canyon in Zion National Park to its wide variety of articles, reviews, literature, photography, and scripture studies. I hope that you will find as much rewarding joy and satisfying learning on these pages as we have found in bringing this issue together and into print. BYU Studies is oriented not so much toward either Athens or Jeru- salem as poles apart, but rather toward a restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ that transcends both. Without being skeptical, critical, or revisionist, the articles in this issue are rigorous, crucial, and innovative. Their subjects boldly engage questions, concerns, and issues that have been generated not outside the community of religious believers, but within the hearts, minds, and spirits of the household of faith. No doubt 4 BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2017) From the Editor V 5 we live in abundantly troubled times, but antidotes can be confidently found amid the solid studies found in this issue, including: Noel Reynolds’s comparative and developmental analysis unveils of the pure and pristine ancient doctrine of the Two Ways found in the Book of Mormon. John Hilton’s team-project thoroughly traces and classifies the sources of scripture power from which the prophetic pronouncements of Samuel the Lamanite drew. Stephen Smoot’s careful study exposes several uncertainties but also certain plausible possibilities for the general location of Abraham’s hometown in ancient Mesopotamia. LeGrand Richards adds to and improves our understanding of Ger- man affairs in Saxony in 1855 where Karl G. Maeser was a young teacher. Cory Nimer takes us behind the Church administrative efforts to meet the needs of local wards and members for library and teaching resources during a challenging half-century of media and publishing innovation and transition. Brent Slife offers deeply personal reasons why psychology’s knowl- edge of love has been so meager over the years and how faith can fill that void. (And here I might mention that our new book, Turning Freud Upside Down 2, likewise effectively turns to Christ’s gospel to recalibrate some of psychotherapy’s standard assumptions.) Richard Holzapfel and Ronald Fox show newly found photographic insights into the amazing and challenging pioneer construction of the Great Salt Lake Tabernacle. And as usual, several new books are thoughtfully reviewed or noticed. And so on. To be continued. The upcoming issues of BYU Studies Quarterly are already well under way. You won’t want to miss a one. I hope that you will continue to find every page of this journal helpful and enriching as we continue to strive to go beyond ecclesiastical and spiritual concerns, but without going contrary to Church interests. To see the Mormon past as much more than just a collection of social, cul- tural, intellectual, political or economic phenomena. To reject the idea that a steady diet of doubt or skepticism is either appetizing or nour- ishing. To converse with the categories, theories, and paradigms of the secular academy, but without being converted by them. And to be ori- ented in the end neither to Athens nor Jerusalem exclusively, but toward a Restoration, and ultimately a New Jerusalem, that transcends both. The Ziggurat of Ur and the surrounding excavation field from an aerial photograph taken in 1927. Initially constructed at the end of the third millennium BC by the king Ur-Nammu, the ziggurat eventually fell into disrepair and was restored by the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus in the sixth century BC. The ziggurat was dedicated to the moon god Sîn, who also had a cult center at Haran in the north. The idolatry of Abraham’s father Terah (Josh. 24:2, 14) has been connected to the worship of the moon deity at Ur and Haran. “In the Land of the Chaldeans” The Search for Abraham’s Homeland Revisited Stephen O. Smoot eaders of the Hebrew Bible first encounter Abram (later Abraham), R the spiritual father of the three great monotheistic faiths—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—at the end of Genesis 11. There they discover he was the son of a certain Terah and claimed “Ur of the Chaldeans” as his home (Gen. 11:28).1 Being as central as Abraham is to the patriarchal narratives of Genesis and, subsequently, to the faith of scores of believ- ers across the globe, both faithful and nonbelieving readers have turned a critical eye toward the passages where Abraham makes an appearance and have attempted to discern if any historicity lies beneath the narra- tives enshrined in the Bible. Latter-day Saints have likewise been drawn to this discussion, given the existence of the Book of Abraham, which enjoys canonical sta- tus in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of the book of scripture called the Pearl of Great Price. The Book of Abra- ham purports to be the autobiography of the eponymous patriarch and offers narrative details that on many points converge with Genesis. For instance, as in Genesis, Ur of the Chaldeans claims the privilege of being Abraham’s ancestral and personal residence according to the Book of Abraham (Abr. 1:1; 2:1–4). Unlike Genesis, however, the Book of Abraham describes some kind of Egyptian influence or presence in Ur of the Chaldeans that almost resulted in Abraham’s execution for cultic 1. Biblical citations for this article are drawn from the New Revised Stan- dard Version. BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2017) 7 8 v BYU Studies Quarterly offenses (Abr. 1:8–20).2 These additional elements in the Latter-day Saint scriptural tradition concerning the life of Abraham have, at least from a Latter-day Saint perspective, added some unique (and uniquely challenging) dynamics to the overall discussion about the historicity of the scriptural work “purporting to be the writings of Abraham, while he was in Egypt.”3 Indeed, the debate swirling around the historicity of Abraham has grown considerably since the rise of the historical-critical method of biblical studies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the great strides made in Syro-Palestinian and Mesopotamian archaeology in the past century.