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Enhance Scripture Study with the Scripture Citation Index

Posted by Ryan Combs | Apr 18, 2015 | church history, guides, scriptures & study | 4 |

This is post 3 of 6 in the series “Enhance Your Scripture Study” General Conference is our twice-yearly connection with modern revelation and offers us marvelous insights into the gospel. LDS.org has a great interface to access these talks at LDS.org/general-conference but today I want to show a lesser known method for finding General Conference talks to improve scripture study—including talks before 1971. The LDS Scripture Citation Index is a website (and free app) which lists out every scripture reference made over the pulpit. We mentioned this in a previous article about enhancing your scripture study, but didn’t go...

Study the Scriptures in Greek & Hebrew the Easy Way

Posted by Ryan Combs | Jul 20, 2013 | guides, language, learning, scriptures & study | 3 |

Even a little knowledge of Hebrew and Greek can enhance your understanding of the scriptures, bringing you closer to comprehending their meaning. There are online tools that offer the chance to dive into a deeper study and potentially learn the original scripture languages in the process. John Dyer of the Dallas Theological Seminary has created a web app which is both powerful and easy to use. http://www.biblewebapp.com will deposit you right in the scriptures with two panes side-by-side showing the Bible in English and either Greek or Hebrew. The English edition may be changed to the KJV with the pull-down menu...