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Wells Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014photography editor 1 BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 53, Iss. 3 [2014], Art. 1 STUDIES QUARTERLY BYU Vol. 53 • No. 3 • 2014 ARTICLES 4 From the Editor 7 Toward a Mormon Literary Theory Jack Harrell 37 “The Spiritual Concept of Form and Function as One”: Structure, Doctrine, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Cheryl B. Preston 146 All Ye Need to Know John D. Lamb 160 The Book of Jonah: Foreshadowings of Jesus as the Christ David Randall Scott DOCUMENT 77 David Hale’s Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon Mark Lyman Staker and Robin Scott Jensen INTERVIEW 181 Emma Lou Thayne and the Art of Peace Casualene Meyer ESSAY 113 Hunting Elizabeth Knight https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol53/iss3/1 2 Studies: Full Issue POETRY 36 Eared grebes Marilyn Nielson 192 One Will Be Gone: Making the Bed with My Husband, Both 88 Emma Lou Thayne 195 Let Me Be Sad Emma Lou Thayne REVIEW ESSAY 123 “If there be faults”: Reviewing Earl Wunderli’s An Imperfect Book Matthew Roper, Paul Fields, and Larry Bassist BOOK REVIEWS 196 Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn from the Latter-day Saints by Stephen H. Webb Reviewed by Mauro Properzi 200 A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary by Todd M. Compton Reviewed by Jay H. Buckley THEATER REVIEW 204 Habeas Corpus and the Courts: Individual Liberties from Joseph Smith to Abraham Lincoln to Guantanamo by Jeffrey N. Walker and Dean Corrin, directed by Sandy Shinner Reviewed by Jennifer Hurlbut Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014 3 BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 53, Iss. 3 [2014], Art. 1 From the Editor t the beginning of this new academic year, which also comes with A the inauguration of Kevin J. Worthen as president of Brigham Young University, all of us at BYU Studies are pleased to release this lat- est issue of the BYU Studies Quarterly. In his first five months in office, President Worthen has already emphasized the mission and destiny of BYU, and as I glance over the table of contents of this issue, I am struck by the many ways in which all of these items reflect and promote the foundational mission statement that stands behind the aims of a BYU education. The pages in this issue offer readers a bounty of stimulating learning. Its wide variety of topics grounded in a diversity of disciplines offers an array of scholarly productivity that is unusually rich. Each con- tribution has been made possible by commitment to excellence, striving for the full realization of human potential. Featured in the color section of this issue and on the front and back covers is work by Professor of Chemistry John D. Lamb, whose Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecture and portfolio of paintings offer lessons learned through a lifetime of scientific investigations while still seeing God as the dispenser of all truth. This article, like all instruction and services at BYU, is bathed in the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Leading off this new issue, Jack Harrell articulates the constitutive elements of a Mormon literary theory. A new thrust in LDS intellec- tual interests is to develop Mormon theoretical approaches to give LDS thinkers greater traction in engaging in academic pursuits. Recent BYU publications have probed Mormon fundamentals pertinent to such subjects as aesthetics and art criticism, family sciences, jurisprudence, 4 BYU Studies Quarterly 53, no. 2 (214) https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol53/iss3/1 4 Studies: Full Issue From the Editor V 5 psychology, and counseling. Harrell’s literary criticism makes better readers of us all and beckons others to articulate more explicitly com- parable Mormon theoretical approaches to history, religion and science, dance and music, biblical criticism and theology, political science, and to just about any other self-reflective discipline within academia. Following the goals of the BYU mission statement, BYU students and lifelong learners are drawn to subjects ranging throughout the curriculum of arts, letters, and sciences, while being enlightened by prophetic insights and the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Disciplines and academic skills brought together in this issue include chemistry, history, law, architecture, documentary editing, poetry, per- sonal essays, statistics, and scriptural interpretation. It is hard for me to say which of all of these submissions are my favorites, for in the process of encouraging, receiving, peer reviewing, evaluating, selecting, editing, revising, and preparing each of these arti- cles for publication, and together with the unflagging assistance of all of the members of the BYU Studies editorial boards and staff, we have gotten to know these authors personally and to admire their dedication to the pursuit of clear and effective communication, uncompromising research, and their consecrated eagerness to make their scholarly pro- ductivity available to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to people all over the world. Not only what these articles say but also how they are phrased has come to characterize BYU Studies Quarterly issue after issue: • What could be more character building than a personal interview with Emma Lou Thayne, a humanitarian par excellence? • What could help to broaden perspectives in today’s narrowing world of specialization than Cheryl Preston’s multi-disciplinary insights about both the horizontal and vertical forms and func- tions that produce a unique unity within the living practices of the LDS Church? • Who could drill deeper than Mark Staker and Robin Jensen into the details of a newly discovered document from the late 1820s, helping us understand more about the daily life of Joseph and Emma Smith in Harmony, Pennsylvania, the historic site where the Church is now constructing a visitors’ center at the place where the majority of the Book of Mormon was translated and the priesthood restored? Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014 5 BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 53, Iss. 3 [2014], Art. 1 6 v BYU Studies Quarterly And not to be missed are four very engaging reviews. One explores what other Christians can learn from the Latter-day Saints, and another describes the self-sacrificing service of Jacob Hamblin as a frontier mis- sionary to native Americans. A third covers a theatrical tour de force produced in conjunction with the Illinois Supreme Court about the constitutional importance of individual liberties and the right of habeas corpus from the times of Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln to mod- ern political and judicial decisions regarding detainees at Guantanamo. The review essay advances our understanding of issues relating to Book of Mormon authorship, especially generating useful results through sta- tistical analysis. In the end, as the BYU mission statement sets forth, “Any education is inadequate which does not emphasize that [the name of Jesus Christ] is the only name given under heaven whereby mankind can be saved.” So, the scriptural meditation by David Randall Scott on the book of Jonah offers a reading that encourages attentive students of scripture to consider each passage in that book as testifying of and foreshadow- ing the self-sacrificing life and atoning victory of Jesus as the Christ. Although modern approaches to scripture do not generally employ this symbolical approach, Jesus himself spoke of the “sign of Jonah,” and his early followers took it as a given that “all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken,” in some way had foretold the events of Jesus’s life and ministry (Acts 3:24). Indeed, the book of Jonah was one of the principal places where the early Christians found numerous typological allusions to the death, resurrection, and saving mission of Jesus Christ, and in this light Scott offers viewers a chance to see Jonah anew through this typological lens. My thanks go without reservation to the many students, coauthors, and editorial boards whose collaborative efforts have brought this issue together. This issues offers the voices of immensely promising young scholars as well as intrepid authors offering their wisdom toward the end of their careers.