BYU STUDIES Volume 49 • Issues 1-4 • 2010

In BYU Studies volume 49, number 1, Jeffrey Bradshaw describes how a mural found in an ancient Jewish synagogue portrays Ezekiel's ascent into heaven and analyzes what the painting teaches about temple worship and resurrection; Cheryl Preston details U.S. case law that empowers citizens and lawmakers to restrict Internet pornography; and Casey Griffiths examines when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began transferring its colleges and academies to state governments and supporting released-time seminary instead. BYU Studies volume 49, number 2, features the proceedings of "Inquiry, Scholarship, and Learning and Teaching in Religiously Affiliated Colleges and Universities," a conference held at Brigham Young University in February 2009. Also featured are articles on "Robert J. Matthews and the RLDS Church's Inspired Version of the Bible," "Legal Insights into the Organization of the Church in 1830," and more. In BYU Studies volume 49, number 3, Alexander Baugh and Richard Holzapfel present an unpublished declaration of the Twelve Apostles in 1844 or 1845 about their meeting with Joseph Smith when he gave them his "last charge" to "bear off the Kingdom." Don Penrod examines the "White Horse Prophecy," concluding it was actually a creation of Edwin Rushton, not Joseph Smith. Two essays discuss European novelists who had close ties to Mormonism. BYU Studies volume 49, number 4, features Jeffrey Chadwick's article exploring the birthdate of Jesus. George Handley describes a way of seeing the humanities as a key to expanding our views of God and humankind. Casey Griffiths examines the experience of eleven LDS scholars who studied at the University of Chicago School of Divinity in the 1930s. Boyd Edwards and Farrell Edwards counter claims that chiasmus appears without the intention by statistical analysis. A letter from Robert McCorkle to Joseph Smith is presented by Hal Robert Boyd and Susan Easton Black.