Matthew Bowen

EDUCATION

Ph.D. – Biblical Studies    2014                                                                            
Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Dissertation Defense: April 15, 2014
M.A. – Biblical Studies   2009                                          
Emphasis: Old Testament / Semitic languages
Secondary emphasis: New Testament / Greek
 Middle East Institute (MEI) Washington, DC 2007-2008
Arabic language (Modern Standard Arabic)
 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 2001-2003
Post-Baccalaureate Studies
Emphasis: Semitic and Egyptian languages, Latin
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 2000
B.A. in English
Minor: Classical Studies - Greek

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Faculty Stipend Award 2021-2022
BYU-Hawaii Exemplary Faculty Award – Scholarship 2021
Rank Advancement (Associate Professor) 2020
Faculty Recognition Award 2017-2018
Continuing Faculty Status (CFS) 2017
Faculty Recognition Award 2015-2016
Teaching Fellowship – BYU – Ancient Scripture 2012
BYU-RE Dissertation Grant 2011-2012
Nibley Fellowship Award   2011-2012
Teaching Fellowship – CUA-STRS 2010-2011
Nibley Fellowship Award 2010-2011
BYU-RE Dissertation Grant 2010-2011
Nibley Fellowship Award 2009-2010
Religious Education Funding Award    2009
Nibley Fellowship Award 2008-2009
Religious Education Funding Award 2008
Nibley Fellowship Award 2007-2008
Religious Education Funding Award 2007
Nibley Fellowship Award 2006-2007
Eagle Scout Award 1988

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Spring  2025
Rel 212 – New Testament II
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter 2025
Rel 212 – New Testament II (2 Sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament II
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah (2 Sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price 

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall  2024
Rel 250 – Jesus Christ and His Everlasting Gospel (2 Sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament I
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah (2 Sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Spring 2024
Rel 212 – New Testament II
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter  2024
Rel 200 – The Eternal Family (2 Sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament II
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah (2 Sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price 

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall  2023
Rel 250 – Jesus Christ and His Everlasting Gospel (2 Sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament I
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah (2 Sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter           2023
Rel 200 – The Eternal Family (2 Sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament II
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah (2 Sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall  2022
Rel 200 – The Eternal Family (3 Sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament I
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Spring 2022
Rel 211 – New Testament I
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter  2022
Rel 275 – Doctrines of the Book of Mormon (3 Sections)
Rel 302 – Old Testament II
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall  2021
Rel 275 – Doctrines of the Book of Mormon (3 Sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament I
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Spring  2021
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price (2 Sections)

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter  2021
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah (2 sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price (3 sections)

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall   2020
Research Sabbatical

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Spring 2020
Rel 304 – The Writings of Isaiah (online)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price (2 Sections – online)

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter   2020
Rel 211 – New Testament I (2 Sections)
Rel 302 – Old Testament II
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall   2019
Rel 275 – Doctrines of the Book of Mormon (3 Sections)
Rel 304 – Writings of Isaiah
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Spring 2019 
Rel 211 – New Testament I
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 390R – The Writings of Isaiah

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter  2019 
Rel 275 – Doctrines of the Book of Mormon (3 Sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament I
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 390R – The Writings of Isaiah

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall  2018
Rel 225 – Foundations of the Restoration (2 Sections)
Rel 275 – Doctrines of the Book of Mormon (3 Sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Spring 2018  
Rel 211 – New Testament I (2 Sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter 2018  
Rel 275 – Doctrines of the Book of Mormon (3 sections)
Rel 302 – Old Testament II
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall 2017
Rel 250 – Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel (3 sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament I
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Spring 2017   
Rel 211 – New Testament I
Rel 250 – Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel (3 sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 327H – Honors Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter  2016-17
Rel 211 – New Testament I (2 sections)
Rel 302 – Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel (2 Sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 327H – Honors Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall   2016  
Rel 212 – New Testament II (3 sections)
Rel 302 – Old Testament II
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 327H – Honors Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Spring 2016          
Rel 275 – Doctrines of the Book of Mormon (3 sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 327H – Honors Pearl of Great Price
Rel 390R – Writings of Isaiah

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter 2015-16  
Rel 212 – New Testament II (3 sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament I
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 327H – Honors Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall   2015  
Rel 211 – New Testament I (4 sections)
Rel 250 – Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 327H – Honors Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Summer  2015  
Rel 211 – New Testament I (2 sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter  2015      
Rel 122 – Book of Mormon I (2 sections)
Rel 302 – Old Testament II (2 sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 327H – Honors Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall     2014   
Rel 121 – Book of Mormon I (2 sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament I (2 sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 327H – Honors Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Summer A 2014  
Rel 121 – Book of Mormon I (2 sections)
Rel 211 – New Testament I

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Summer B 2014         
Rel 121 – Book of Mormon I (2 sections)
Rel 211 – New Testament I

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Winter 2014           
Rel 121 – Book of Mormon I (2 sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price
Rel 327H – Honors Pearl of Great Price
Rel 390R – Writings of Isaiah

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall 2013            
Rel 122 – Book of Mormon II (2 sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament I (2 sections)
Rel 390R – Writings of Isaiah

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Summer B 2013       
Rel 121 – Book of Mormon I (2 sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Summer A 2013      
Rel 122 – Book of Mormon II (2 sections)
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University—Hawaii   Winter 2013  
Rel 122 – Book of Mormon II (3 sections)
Rel 302 – Old Testament II
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University–Hawaii   Fall 2012    
Rel 121 – Book of Mormon I (3 sections)
Rel 301 – Old Testament I
Rel 327 – Pearl of Great Price

Brigham Young University      Spring 2012
Rel A 121 – Book of Mormon I (2 sections)

Catholic University of America      2011
TRS 158 – International Mission Experience
Teaching a class on the scriptural and theological roots of Catholic Social Thought (CST) and the “preferential option for the poor” to undergraduates in preparation for international humanitarian mission-trips

Washington DC 3^rd Ward (LDS)     2007-2009
Gospel Doctrine Teacher
Teaching weekly/bi-weekly lessons to an adult Sunday school class

Northern Virginia Institute of Religion (Mt. Vernon Stake)   2006
Alexandria, VA

Volunteer Instructor – Religion 301 (Old Testament)
Developing course matter from the OT and teaching weekly lessons to young single adults

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT     2003-2004
Substitute Instructor – Hebrew 331, 431
Substitute-taught for Professor Stephen D. Ricks: directed class readings in the Hebrew
Bible (Exodus and Numbers)

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT   2002-2003
Research Assistant – Stephen D. Ricks
Assisted with various research projects, helped to prepare a course on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Rule of the Community), edited papers, etc.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  1994-1996
Missionary – California Roseville Mission (English-speaking)

Related Experience Alexander Street Press LLC, Alexandria, VA   2006-2008 Religion Indexer / Biblical Language Specialist
Provided Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, & Latin language support for electronic publishing projects; edited and indexed digitized Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reformation-era texts; helped complete the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts (TCPT) and the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation (DLCR).

Orem Public Library, Orem, UT   2001-2005
Assistant Librarian
Responsibilities included: patron reference assistance, circulation, collection development.

Unisys Corp., Salt Lake City, UT,   2000-2001
Technical Writer (Internship)
Prepared/edited computer hardware documentation and multi-media, researched and
presented to a large work group on the history of information access
(cuneiform, libraries at Alexandria, etc.)

MARC Link Corp./RetroLink Assoc., Provo, UT,   1997-2000
Non-Roman Script Specialist / Training Team Leader
Specialized in the transliteration of non-roman scripts (especially Greek) for the
creation of library MARC records. Also responsible for interviewing, hiring, and training new employees.
Ph.D. Dissertation· “‘According to All that You Demanded’ (Deut 18:16): The Literary Use of Names and Leitworte as Antimonarchic Polemic in the Deuteronomistic History”

Dissertation Committee:
Advisor: Rev. Christopher T. Begg
Reader 1: Robert D. Miller II, OSF; Reader 2: David Bosworth

Defense: April 15, 2014
M.A. Thesis· “Rejective Requests and Deadly Disobedience: The Literary Utilization of Deut 18:15-17 in 1 Samuel and Its Function within the Deuteronomistic History”

Deposited September, 2009
Advisor: Rev. Christopher T. Begg
Reader: David Bosworth
Board Memberships· Advisor/reviewer – Book of Mormon Central (July 2016-Present)
Board of Editors – Interpreter Foundation (July 2014-November 2022)
Board of Trustees – Interpreter Foundation (November 2022-Present)
Editorial Board – Journal of Book of Mormon Studies - Neal A. Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University (September 2013-2017)

BOOKS

Forthcoming Books· Matthew L. Bowen, Deuter-Onomastics: Names as Polemical Themes in the Deuteronomistic History (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 202??) [forthcoming]

· Matthew L. Bowen, Christ Sets His Hand Again to Gather Israel: The Prophetic, Symbolic, and Covenant Significance of the Name Joseph in Scripture (forthcoming, 2025).

·      Matthew L. Bowen, ed., “He That Endureth to the End”: Studies in Honor of [Name Redacted] (Orem, UT; Salt Lake City: Interpreter Foundation/Eborn Books, 2024).

 
Published Books·
Matthew L. Bowen, Ancient Names in the Book of Mormon: Toward a Deeper Understanding of a Witness of Christ (Orem, UT; Salt Lake City: Interpreter Foundation/Eborn Books, 2023).
Aaron P. Schade and Matthew L. Bowen, The Book of Moses: From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days (Provo, UT; Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2021).
Content available online at https://rsc.byu.edu/book/book-moses

Blogged reviews of The Book of Moses:
Sam Mitchell, “Schade & Bowen ‘The Book of Moses—From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days’” Online: https://www.associationmormonletters.org/reviews/current-reviews/schade-bowen-the-book-of-moses-from-the-ancient-of-days-to-the-latter-days-reviewed-by-sam-mitchell/

Awards for The Book of Moses

:

Harvey B. and Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication Award from Brigham Young University Religious Education
Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture (Salt Lake City, UT: Interpreter Foundation/Eborn Books, 2018).
Published reviews of Name as Key-Word:
Amanda Colleen Brown, “Toward a Deeper Understand of Onomastic Wordplay,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 29 (2018): 247-250.
Kevin L. Barney, “What’s in a Name? Playing in the Onomastic Sandbox,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 29 (2018): 251-272

Daniel C. Peterson, “Ancient Hebrew and Egyptian Wordplay in the Book of Mormon?” Deseret News, 23 August 2018 6:30 am Online: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900029110/daniel-peterson-ancient-hebrew-and-egyptian-wordplay-in-the-book-of-mormon.html

https://www.deseret.com/2018/8/23/20651794/daniel-peterson-ancient-hebrew-and-egyptian-wordplay-in-the-book-of-mormon#the-holy-bible-and-book-of-mormon

Jennifer Hurlbut, [Book Notice: Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture], BYU Studies Quarterly 58/1 (2019): 174-175.
Online: https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/name-as-key-word-collected-essays-on-onomastic-wordplay-and-the-temple-in-mormon-scripture/ 

Blogged reviews of Name as Key-word
Jeff Lindsay, “Matthew Bowen’s New Name as Key-Word Offers a Stunning Surge in Book of Mormon Word Plays Related to Names” (September 23, 2018) http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2018/09/matthew-bowens-new-name-as-key-word.html

Much of the material from this review of Name as Key-Word was also included in Jeff Lindsay’s peer-reviewed article on the current state of Book of Mormon research, “Orson Scott Card’s ‘Artifact or Artifice’: Where It Stands After Twenty-five Years,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 253-304 (see especially pp. 295-301)
https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/orson-scott-cards-artifact-or-artifice-where-it-stands-after-twenty-five-years/

Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters Forthcoming publications:
Matthew L. Bowen, “Behold, I Went to Hunt Beasts in the Forests”: An Addendum on Enos, Esau, and the Symbolic Geography of Seir (accepted for publication in Interpreter, 2024).

Matthew L. Bowen, “Joy in the Harvest: Temple Metaphors and Allusions in Ammon’s Speech” (Alma 26).
In preparation for the 2024 Temple on Mount Zion Conference (TMZ 7)

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Our Hands Have Handled’: Ensuring the Reassuring Doctrine of the Resurrection in the Lucan and Johannine Writings” (accepted for publication at Interpreter).
Presented at 2018 Sidney B. Sperry Symposium

Matthew L. Bowen, “I Shall Gather In”: The Name Joseph, Iterative Divine Action, and the Latter-day Ingathering of Israel in 3 Nephi (Accepted for publication in Interpreter)

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Our Affliction, and Our Labour, and Our Oppression’ (Deuteronomy 26:7): Amulon’s Imposed Labor and Alma’s Exodus as a Story of Contrasting Priestly Legacies” (forthcoming volume, ed. Kerry Hull and Ryan Sharp). Forthcoming.

Matthew L. Bowen, “I Have Asked Him of the Lord”: Samuel and Saul as Interwoven Figures in Israel’s Leadership Transition from the Judges to Human Kingship (accepted for publication in forthcoming volume, ed. Daniel Belnap and Aaron P. Schade). Forthcoming.

Matthew L. Bowen, “The Meaning of God’s Glory,” in Doctrine and Covenants Insights: Capstone of Doctrinal Understanding, ed. Ken Alford, Mary Jane Woodger, and Mark A.
Matthews (Provo, UT; Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University and Deseret Book, 2024). Forthcoming.

Matthew L. Bowen, “The Simpleness of the Way or the Easiness of It”: Seraphim, the Brazen Serpent, and the Way as Symbols of Christ and the Doctrine of Christ,” in “He That Endureth to the End”: Studies in Honor of [Name Redacted] (Orem, UT; Salt Lake City: Interpreter Foundation/Eborn Books, 2024). Forthcoming.

Matthew L. Bowen and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “From Jared to Jacob: The Motif of Divine Ascensus and Descensus in Genesis, the Book of Moses, and the Enochic Tradition,” in The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs: Proceedings of the Sixth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 4–5 November 2022, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. Temple on Mount Zion 7 (Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2024), 285-327. Forthcoming.

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen, “Jacob’s Temple Journey to Haran and Back” in The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs: Proceedings of the Sixth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 4–5 November 2022, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. Temple on Mount Zion 7 (Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2024), 171-254. Forthcoming.

Published Journal Articles and Book Chapters

:

· Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Armed with Righteousness and with the Power of God’: Allusions to Priestly Clothing, Priesthood, and Temple in 1 Nephi 14:14,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 61 (2024): 333-359.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘That They May Once Again Be a Delightsome People’: The Concept of Again Becoming the Seed of Joseph (Words of Mormon 1:8 and Mormon 7:4-5),” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 61 (2024): 165-190.

Matthew L. Bowen and Pedro A. Olavarria, “‘Our Great God Has in Goodness Sent These’: Notes on the Goodness of God, the Didactic Good of Nephi’s Small Plates, and Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s Renaming,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 61 (2024): 97-133.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘And They Shall Be Joined unto Thee’: Levi, Levites, and the Importance of Joinings in Temple Settings,” in The Temple: Symbols, Sermons, and Settings (Proceedings of the Fourth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 10 November 2018), ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. Temple on Mount Zion 5 (Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2024), 59-102.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Encircled About Eternally in the Arms of His Love’: The Divine Embrace as a Thematic Symbol of Jesus Christ and His Atonement in the Book of Mormon (forthcoming, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship) 59 (2023): 109-134.
Presented at the 2024 Brigham Young University Religious Education Symposium in honor of Sidney B. Sperry, January 19, 2024.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Rabbanah: Ammon as a Type of Jesus Christ,” in Book of Mormon Insights: Letting God Prevail in Your Life, ed. Kenneth Alford, Mary Jane Woodger, Krystal Pierce (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 2023), 144-155.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Alma’s Cry for Salvation,” Religious Educator 24/2 (2023): 41-49.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Behold, He Was a Man Like unto Ammon’: Mormon’s Use of ʾmn-related Terminology in Praise of Moroni in Alma 48,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 58 (2023): 223-242.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Upon the Wings of His Spirit’: A Note on Hebrew rûaḥ and 2 Nephi 4:25,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 58 (2023): 19-31.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘They Shall Be Scattered Again’: Some Notes on JST Genesis 50:24-25, 33-35,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 57 (2023): 107-127.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘He Is God; and He Is with Them’: Helaman 8:21-23 and Isaiah’s Immanuel Prophecy as a Thematic Scriptural Concept” BYU Studies Quarterly 62/1 (2023): 135-168.
Web: https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/he-is-god-and-he-is-with-them/
Archived at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5242&context=byusq
Audio/podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/06RAb58Pym5jBBDqI3eIyi

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘That They Might Come Again unto The Remnant of the House of Jacob’: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in 3 Nephi 26:8-10 and 4 Nephi 1:49,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 55 (2023): 279-296.

Matthew L. Bowen, "Striking While the Irony Is Hot: Hebrew Onomastics and Their Function within the Book of Mormon Text,” Perspectives on Latter-day Saint Names and Naming: Names, Identity, and Belief, ed. Dallin D. Oaks, Paul Baltes, and Kent Minson (New York: Taylor and Francis/Routledge, 2023), 228-249.
DOI: 10.4324/97810003325000-13

 Matthew L. Bowen, “‘He Is Not Ashamed to Call Them Brethren’: Family Structure in Hebrews 2:10-18 and Jesus Christ’s Fraternal Role in Atoning for Humanity” in The Household of God: Families and Belonging in the Social World of the New Testament. Ed. Lincoln H. Blumell, Mark D. Ellison, Frank Judd, and Cilia M. Peek (Salt Lake City; Provo, UT: Deseret Book and the Religious Studies Center, 2022), 243-264.

“‘Unto the Taking Away of Their Stumbling Blocks’: The Taking Away and Keeping Back of Plain and Precious Things and Their Restoration in 1 Nephi 13–14,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Faith and Scholarship 53 (2022): 145-170.
https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/unto-the-taking-away-of-their-stumbling-blocks-the-taking-away-and-keeping-back-of-plain-and-precious-things-and-their-restoration-in-1-nephi-13-15/

Article summary/take away: Kyler Rasmussen, “interpreting Interpreter: Joseph-based Stumbling-block Removal”
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreting-interpreter-joseph-based-stumbling-block-removal/

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘That Ye May Have Hope’: Nephi’s Use of Isaiah 49:22-23 in Teaching the Concept of Hope,” Religious Educator 23/2 (2022): 31-45.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘For Their Good Have I Written Them’: The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:7-8,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 53 (2022): 77-90.
https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/for-their-good-have-i-written-them-the-onomastic-allusivity-and-literary-function-of-2-nephi-258/

Article summary/take away: Kyler Rasmussen, “Interpreting Interpreter: For Their Good”
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreting-interpreter-for-their-good/

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘But That Thou Wouldst Clear My Way Before Me’: A Note on the Personal and Emotional Rendering of an Ancient Idiom in 2 Nephi 4:33,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 53 (2022): 31-36.
https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/but-that-thou-wouldst-clear-my-way-before-me-a-note-on-the-personal-and-emotional-rendering-of-an-ancient-idiom-in-2-nephi-433/

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Can You Suppose That the Lord Will Spare You’? A Note on Alma 60:30-32,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 51 (2022): 199-210.
https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/can-you-suppose-that-the-lord-will-spare-you-moronis-charged-rhetoric-in-alma-6030-32/

Article summary/takeaway: Kyler Rasmussen, “Interpreting Interpreter: Captain Moroni’s Spiteful Spare”
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreting-interpreter-captain-moronis-spiteful-spare/

Matthew L. Bowen, “Putting Down the Priests: A Note on Royal Evaluations, (wĕ)hišbît, and Priestly Purges in 2 Kings 23:5 and Mosiah 11:5,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 51 (2022): 105-114.
https://interpreterfoundation.org/putting-down-the-priests-a-note-on-royal-evaluations-wehisbit-and-priestly-purges-in-2-kings-235-and-mosiah-115/

Article summary/takeaway: Kyler Rasmussen, “Some Priestly Put-downs”
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreting-interpreter-some-priestly-put-downs/

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘The Messenger of Salvation’: The Christology of D&C 93:8, Missionary Work as Worship, and the Emerging Idea of Temple in Joseph Smith’s Revelations,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 51 (2022): 1-28.

Presented at 2020 Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/the-messenger-of-salvation-the-messenger-message-christology-of-dc-938-and-its-implications-for-latter-day-saint-missionary-work-and-temple-worship/

Article summary/takeaway: Kyler Rasmussen, “Ich Bin Ein Malachi”
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreting-interpreter-ich-bin-ein-malachi/

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘We Might Have Enjoyed Our Possessions’: Hebrew yrš and 1 Nephi 17:21,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 50 (2022): 123-144.
https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/we-might-have-enjoyed-our-possessions-and-the-land-of-our-inheritance-hebrew-yrs-and-1-nephi-1721/

Article summary/takeaway: Kyler Rasmussen, “Enjoying Inherited Possessions”
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreting-interpreter-enjoying-inherited-possessions/

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘The Lord God Will Proceed’: Nephi’s Wordplay in 1 Nephi 22:8-12 and the Abrahamic Covenant,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 50 (2022): 51-70.
https://interpreterfoundation.org/the-lord-god-will-proceed-nephis-wordplay-in-1-nephi-228-12-and-the-abrahamic-covenant/

Article summary/takeaway: Kyler Rasmussen, “Interpreting Interpreter: Echoes of Joseph in 1 Nephi 22”
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreting-interpreter-echoes-of-joseph-in-1-nephi-22/

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘That They May Be Purified in Me’: Ritual Purification in 3 Nephi 19 and Its Implications for Divine Belonging as the Telos of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances and Worship,” in The Temple: Past, Present, and Future: Proceedings of the Fifth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 7 November 2020, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2021), 1-30.

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Made Stronger Than Many Waters’: The Purported Names of Moses as Keywords as a Series of Key Words,” in The Temple: Past, Present, and Future: Proceedings of the Fifth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 7 November 2020, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2021), 239-296.

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Made Stronger Than Many Waters’: The Names of Moses as Keywords in the Heavenly Ascent of Moses,” in Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, 2 vols., ed. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon (Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Reading, CA; Toole, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021), 2:943-1000.

 
Matthew L. Bowen, “‘By The Word of My Power’: The Many Functions of the Divine Word in the Book of Moses,” in Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, 2 vols., ed. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon (Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Reading, CA; Toole, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021), 2:733-787.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘I Will Give Judgment unto Him in Writing’: The Three Law Codes of the Pentateuch,’” From Creation to Sinai: The Old Testament through the Lens of the Restoration (ed. Daniel Belnap and Aaron P. Schade; Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 2021), 527-560.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘The Lord Hath Founded Zion, and the Poor of his People Shall Trust in It’: Covenant Economics, Atonement, and the Meaning of Zion,” in Covenant of Compassion: Caring for the Marginalized and Disadvantaged in the Old Testament (2021 Sidney B. Sperry Symposium), ed. Avram R. Shannon, George A. Pierce, Joshua M. Sears, and Gaye Strathearn (Salt Lake City; Provo, UT: Deseret Book and the Religious Studies Center, 2021), 237-264

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘If Ye Believe on His Name”: Wordplay on the name Samuel and the Doctrine of Christ in Samuel’s Speech Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 46 (2021): 49-76.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘The Messiah Will Set Himself Again’: Jacob’s Use of Isaiah 11:11 in 2 Nephi 6:14 and Jacob 6:2,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 44 (2021): 287-306.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Coming Down and Bringing Down: Pejorative Onomastic Allusions to the Jaredites in Helaman 6:25, 38; Ether 2:11” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 42 (2021): 397-410.

Write-ups on this article by Jeffrey D. Lindsay:
“A Minor Detail in the Book of Mormon that Represents a Massive Pattern” LDSLiving (https://latterdaysaintmag.com/a-minor-detail-in-the-book-of-mormon-that-represents-a-massive-pattern/)
“Why Does the Book of Mormon Say the Nephites "Had Come Down to Believe in Their [the Gaddianton Robbers'] Works"?”https://mormanity.blogspot.com/2021/02/why-does-book-of-mormon-say-nephies-had.html

Matthew L. Bowen, “Scripture Note: Alma’s and Helaman’s Priestly Blessings, Jesus’s Divine Acts in 3 Nephi 19:25, 30,” Religious Educator 22/1 (2021): 169-178.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘I Will Deliver Thy Sons’: An Onomastic Approach to Three Iterations of an Oracle to Mosiah II (Mosiah 28:7; Alma 17:35; 19:23),” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41 (2020): 241-255.

·      Matthew L. Bowen, “‘We Are a Remnant of the Seed of Joseph’: Moroni’s Interpretive Use of Joseph’s Coat and the Martial nēs-imagery of Isaiah 11:11-12,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41 (2020): 169-191.

· Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, and Ryan Dahle, “Where Did the Names Mahaway and Mahujah Come From? A Response to Colby Townsend’s ‘Returning to the Sources’ Part 2 of 2,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 40 (2020): 181-242.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘I of Myself Am a Wicked Man’: Some Notes on Textual Dependency in Omni 1:2,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 40 (2020): 71-88.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘That Which They Most Desired’: The Waters of Mormon, Baptism, the Love of God, and the Bitter Fountain,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 39 (2020): 261-298.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘God Hath Taken Away His Plainness’: Some Notes on Jacob 4:14, Revelation, Canon, Covenant, and Law,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 39 (2020): 81-102.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘A Still Small Voice’: Three Permutations of qôl dĕmāmâ daqqâ in the Book of Mormon” in “Seek Ye Words of Wisdom”: Studies of the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Temple in Honor of Stephen D. Ricks, ed. Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn, and Shon D. Hopkin (Salt Lake City: Interpreter Foundation and Religious Studies Center, 2020), 29-44.

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen, “‘By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified’: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6” in Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning Temple: Proceedings of the Third Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, The Temple on Mount Zion, 5 November 2016. Ed. Stephen D. Ricks, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Temple on Mount Zion 4; Orem, UT; Salt Lake City: Interpreter/Eborn Books, 2020), 43-239.
Earlier, shorter version published in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, 24 (2017): 123-316.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Where I Will Meet You’: The Convergence of Sacred Time and Sacred Space as the Etiological Function of the Tent of Meeting,” in Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning Temple: Proceedings of the Third Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, The Temple on Mount Zion, 5 November 2016. Ed. Stephen D. Ricks, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Temple on Mount Zion 4; Orem, UT; Salt Lake City: Interpreter/Eborn Books, 2020), 1-42.
Reprint: https://interpreterfoundation.org/reprint-where-i-will-meet-you-the-convergence-of-sacred-time-and-sacred-space-as-the-etiological-function-of-the-tent-of-meeting/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/reprints/sacred-time-sacred-space-sacred-meaning/TMZ4-1-Bowen.pdf

Matthew L. Bowen, “Cut Off from the Face and Presence: Alma’s Use of Hebraistic Idioms to Teach the Fall,” Religious Educator 21/2 (2020): 157-169.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Becoming Men and Women of Understanding: Wordplay on Benjamin—an Addendum,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 36 (2020): 239-279.

Matthew L. Bowen, “He Knows My Affliction: The Hill Onidah as Narrative Counterpart to the Rameumptom,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 34 (2020): 195-220.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Shazer: An Etymological Proposal in Narrative Context,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 1-12.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Look to the Lord! The Meaning of Liahona and the Doctrine of Christ in Alma 37–38,” in Give Ear to My Words: Text and Context of Alma 36-42: The 48^th Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, ed. Kerry Hull, Nick Frederick, and Hank Smith (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 2019), 275-295.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘And They Shall Be Had Again’: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in Moses 1:41 in View of the So-called Canon Formula,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 297-304.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Jewish Hermeneutics in the New Testament Period,” in New Testament History, Culture, and Society: A Background to the Texts of the New Testament, ed. Lincoln Blumell (Salt Lake City; Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Religious Studies Center, 2019), 84-106.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Messengers of the Covenant: Mormon’s Doctrinal Use of Malachi 3:1 in Moroni 7:29-32,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 111-138.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Scripture Note: ‘Pointing Our Souls to Him,’” Religious Educator 20/1 (2019): 165-171.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘They Shall No More Be Confounded’: Moroni’s Wordplay on Joseph in Ether 13:1-13 and Moroni 10:31,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 91-104.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘And the Meek Also Shall Increase’: The Function of the Verb yāsap in Isaiah that 29 and Nephi’s Prophetic Allusions to the Name Joseph in 2 Nephi 25–30,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 5-40.

Matthew L. Bowen and Loren Blake Spendlove, “‘Thou Art the Fruit of My Loins’: The Interrelated Symbolism and Meanings of the Names Joseph and Ephraim in Ancient Scripture,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28 (2018): 273-298.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Swearing by Their Everlasting Maker’: Some Notes on Paanchi and Giddianhi,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28 (2018): 155-170.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Possess the Land in Peace’: Zeniff's Ironic Wordplay on Shilom,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28 (2018): 115-120.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Abish, Theophanies, and the First Lamanite Restoration,” Religious Educator 19/1 (2018): 59-81.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Jacob’s Protector,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 27 (2017): 229-256.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘He Did Go About Secretly’: Additional Thoughts on the Literary Use of Alma’s Name” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 27 (2017): 197-212.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Ominous Onomastics: Symbolic Naming and Paronomasia in Old Testament Prophecy” Prophets and Prophecies of the Old Testament: The 46^th Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Ed. Aaron P. Schade, Brian M. Hauglid, and Kerry Muhlestein (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City, Deseret Book, 2017): 21-46.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘I Kneeled Down Before My Maker’: Allusions to Esau in the Book of Enos,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 27 (2017): 29-56.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘If Ye Will Hearken’: Lehi’s Rhetorical Wordplay on Ishmael in 2 Nephi 1:28–29 and Its Implications,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 25 (2017): 157-189.

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen, “‘By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified’: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, 24 (2017): 123-316.

Expanded version published in forthcoming volume (ed. Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks; Temple on Mount Zion Symposium, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 5 November 2016).

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘This Son Shall Comfort Us’: An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 23 (2017): 263-298.

Daniel B. Sharp and Matthew L. Bowen, “Scripture Note—‘For This Cause Did King Benjamin Keep Them’: King Benjamin or King Mosiah?” Religious Educator 18/1 (2017): 81-87.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Their Anger Did Increase Against Me’: Nephi’s Autobiographical Permutation of a Biblical Wordplay on the Name Joseph,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 23 (2017): 115-136

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Creator of the First Day’: The Glossing of Lord of Sabaoth in D&C 95:7,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 22 (2016): 51-77.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘O Ye Fair Ones’—Revisited,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 20 (2016): 315-344.

Matthew L. Bowen, “The Scalp of Your Head: Polysemy in Alma 44:14-18,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 20 (2016): 39-45.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Alma—Young Man, Hidden Prophet,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19 (2016): 343-353.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘See That Ye Are Not Lifted Up’: The Name Zoram and Its Paronomastic Pejoration,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19 (2016): 109-143.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘My People Are Willing’: The Mention of Aminadab in the Narrative Context of Helaman 5–6,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19 (2016): 83-107.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘I Have Done According to My Will’: Reading Jacob 5 as Temple Text,” in The Temple Ancient and Restored: Proceedings of the 2014 Temple on Mount Zion Symposium (ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Donald W. Parry; Temple on Mount Zion Series 3; Salt Lake City: Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2016), 235-272.
Reprinted at: https://interpreterfoundation.org/reprint-i-have-done-according-to-my-will-reading-jacob-5-as-a-temple-text/

Matthew L. Bowen, “Onomastic Wordplay on Joseph and Benjamin and Gezera Shawa in the Book of Mormon,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 18 (2016): 255-273.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘They Were Moved with Compassion’ (Alma 27:4; 53:13): Toponymic Wordplay on Zarahemla and Jershon in the Book of Mormon,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 18 (2016): 233-253.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Nephi’s Good Inclusio,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 17 (2016): 181-195.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘He Is a Good Man’: The Fulfillment of Helaman 5:6-7 in Helaman 8:7 and 11:18-19,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 17 (2016): 165-170.

Matthew L. Bowen, “You More than Owe Me This Benefit: Onomastic Rhetoric in Philemon,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 17 (2016): 1-12.

Matthew L. Bowen “Not Leaving and Going On to Perfection,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 16 (2015): 131-150.
A Review of Samuel M. Brown’s First Principles and Ordinances: The Fourth Article of Faith in Light of the Temple, Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014. 167 pp., index. $16.95

Matthew L. Bowen, “Getting Cain and Gain,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 15 (2015): 115-141.

Matthew L. Bowen and Pedro A. Olavarria, “Place of Crushing: The Literary Function of Heshlon in Ether 13:25-31,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 14 (2015): 227-239.

Aaron P. Schade and Matthew L. Bowen, “‘To Whom Is the Arm of the Lord Revealed?’” Religious Educator 16/2 (2015): 91-111.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Father Is a Man: The Remarkable Mention of the Name Abish in Alma 19:16 and Its Narrative Context,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 14 (2015): 77-93.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Most Desirable Above All Things’: Onomastic Play on Mary and Mormon in the Book of Mormon,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 13 (2015): 27-61.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘What Thank They the Jews’? (2 Nephi 29:4): A Note on the Name ‘Judah’ and Antisemitism,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 12 (2014): 111-125.

Matthew L. Bowen, “The Faithfulness of Ammon,” Religious Educator 15/2 (2014): 65-89.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘And There Wrestled a Man with Him’: (Genesis 32:24): Enos’s Adaptations of the Onomastic Wordplay of Genesis,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 10 (2014): 151-160.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Founded Upon a Rock: Doctrinal and Temple Implications of Peter’s Surnaming,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 9 (2014): 1-28.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘And They Came and Held Him by the Feet and Worshipped Him’: Proskynesis before Jesus in Its Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Context,” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 5 (2013): 63-89.

Matthew L. Bowen “‘In the Mount of the Lord It Shall Be Seen’ and ‘Provided’: Theophany and Sacrifice as the Etiological Foundation of the Temple in Israelite and Latter-day Saint Tradition,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 5 (2013): 201-228.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Becoming Sons and Daughters at God’s Right Hand: King Benjamin’s Rhetorical Use of His Own Name,” Journal of Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21/2 (2012): 2-13.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘They Came Forth and Fell Down and Partook of the Fruit of the Tree’: Proskynesis in 3 Nephi 11:12-19 and 17:9-10 and Its Significance,” in Third Nephi: New Perspectives on an Incomparable Scripture (ed. Gaye Strathearn, Andrew Skinner; Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book, 2012), 107-129.

Web archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170716023704/https:/publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=2271&index=6
Matthew L. Bowen, “Not Partaking of the Fruit: Its Generational Consequences and Its Remedy,” in “The Things Which My Father Saw”: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision: The Fortieth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, Stanley A. Johnson; Provo, UT: RSC and Deseret Book, 2011), 240-263.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Thy Will Be Done’: The Savior’s Use of the Divine Passive,” in The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture: The Thirty-Ninth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, ed. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap (Provo, UT: RSC and Deseret Book, 2010), 233-51

Early Articles (Shorter Peer-review)
Matthew L. Bowen, “‘And He Was a Young Man’: The Literary Preservation of Alma’s Autobiographical Wordplay,” Insights: A Window on the Ancient World, 30/4 (2010): 2-4.
Archived at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=insights

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘He Shall Add’: Wordplay on the Name Joseph and an Early Instance of Gezera Shawa in the Book of Mormon,” Insights: A Window on the Ancient World, 30/2 (2010): 2-4.
Archived at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048&context=insights
Summarized in: Michael De Groote, “Hebrew Wordplay in the Book of Mormon,” Deseret News, 28 July 2010 7:00 a.m.
https://www.deseret.com/2010/7/29/20130658/hebrew-wordplay-i-the-book-of-mormon

Matthew L. Bowen, “Wordplay on the Name ‘Enos,’” Insights: A Window on the Ancient World 26/3 (2006): 2.
Archived at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1188&context=insights
https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/insights-vol-26-no-3-2006

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘What Meaneth the Rod of Iron?’” Insights: A Window on the Ancient World 25/5 (2005): 2-3.
Archived at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1213&context=insights
https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/insights-vol-25-no-2-2005

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘And Behold, They Had Fallen to the Earth’: An Examination of Proskynesis in the Book of Mormon,” Studia Antiqua 4/1 (2005): 91-110.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&context=studiaantiqua

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘O Ye Fair Ones’: An Additional Note on the Meaning of the Name Nephi,” Insights: A Window on the Ancient World 23, no. 6 (2003): 2-3.
Archived at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1308&context=insights
https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/insights-vol-23-no-6-2003

Matthew L. Bowen, “Internal Textual Evidence for the Egyptian Origin of Nephi’s Name,” Insights: A Window on the Ancient World 22, no. 11 (2002): 2.
Archived at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1370&context=insights
https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/insights-vol-22-no-11-november-2002
Translation in French:
Indices Textuels de L’Origine Egyptienne du Nom Nephi
http://www.idumea.org/Etudes/Ecritures/LM/Nephi.htm

Various contributions to Old Testament Abstracts (OTA) for the Catholic Biblical Association

 Pearl of Great Price Central (pearlofgreatpricecentral.org) Articles· Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, and Book of Mormon Central, “Could Joseph Smith Have Borrowed Mahijah/Mahujah from the Book of Giants?” Book of Moses Insight #70
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/could-joseph-smith-have-borrowed-mahijah-mahujah-from-the-book-of-giants/

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, and Book of Mormon Central, “Teachings of Enoch: Enoch as a Teacher (Moses 6:51-68)” Book of Moses Insight #14
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/the-teachings-of-enoch-enoch-as-a-teacher/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-insights-014/

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, and Book of Mormon Central, “‘The Son of Man, Even Jesus Christ, a Righteous Judge’ (Moses 6:57)” Book of Moses Insight #15
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/the-son-of-man-even-jesus-christ-a-righteous-judge/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-insights-015/

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, and Book of Mormon Central, “‘By Water, and Blood, and the Spirit’ (Moses 6:58–60)” Book of Moses Insight #17 (14, 15 August 2020)
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/by-water-and-blood-and-the-spirit/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-016/

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, and Book of Mormon Central, “‘By the Water Ye Keep the Commandment’ (Moses 6:60, 64) Book of Moses Insight #17 (21m 22 August 2020)
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/by-the-water-ye-keep-the-commandment/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-017/

 Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, and Book of Mormon Centralm “‘Out of the Waters of Judah’ (1 Nephi 20:1; JST Genesis 17:3-7)” Book of Moses Insight #18 (28, 29 August 2020)
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/out-of-the-waters-of-judah-2/
ohttps://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-insights-018/

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, and Book of Mormon Central, “‘By the Spirit Ye Are Justified’” (Moses 6:60, 63, 65–66) Book of Moses Insight #19 (4, 5 September 2020)
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/by-the-spirit-ye-are-justified/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-019/

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, and Book of Mormon Central, “‘By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified’ (Moses 6:60)” Book of Moses Insight #20 (11, 12 September 2020)
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/by-the-blood-ye-are-sanctified/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-020/

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, and Book of Mormon Central “‘Thus May All Become My Sons’ (Moses 6:59, 66–68)” Book of Moses Insight #21 (18,19 September 2020)
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/thus-may-all-become-my-sons/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-021/

 Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Book of Mormon Central, “The Names of Moses as ‘Keywords,’” Book of Moses Insight #39
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/the-names-of-moses-as-keywords/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-039/

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Book of Mormon Central, “Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses’ Vision at the Veil,”
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/moses-vision-at-the-veil/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-040
 
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Book of Mormon Central , “Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses in the Presence of God (Moses 1:31, chapters 2-4),” Insight #41
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/moses-in-the-presence-of-god/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-041/ 

Matthew L. Bowen, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Book of Mormon Central, “‘The Words of God’ (Moses 1:1–7, 35, 40–42)” Book of Moses Insight #42
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/the-words-of-god/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-042/

Matthew L. Bowen, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Book of Mormon Central, “A Literary Masterpiece: Many-Great Waters and Moses’ Mission to Baptize Many-Great Waters and Moses’ Mission to Baptize (Moses 1:25-26)” Book of Moses Insight #43
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/a-literary-masterpiece-many-great-waters-and-moses-mission-to-baptize/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-043/

Matthew L. Bowen, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Book of Mormon Central, “‘This I Did by the Word of My Power’ (Moses 2:5)” Book of Moses Insight #48
https://www.pearlofgreatpricecentral.org/this-i-did-by-the-word-of-my-power/
https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays-048/

Non-peer-reviewed Articles        
Taylor Halverson and Brad Wilcox, “The Surprising Meaning of Abish and 5 Other Book of Mormon Names” LDSLiving, March/April 2018, 18-20.
https://www.ldsliving.com/the-surprising-meanings-of-abish-and-5-other-book-of-mormon-names/s/88169

FAIR Latter-day Saints
Matthew L. Bowen, “Semitic Semiotics: The Symbolic, Prophetic, and Narratological Power of Names in Ancient Scripture” (Provo, UT: FAIRMormon, 2017).
Text online: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2017/semitic-semiotics-2
Video version found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP6mwcyQpYw
Podcast version: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2018/06/28/fairmormon-conference-podcast-9-matthew-bowen-semitic-semiotics-the-symbolic-prophetic-and-narratological-power-of-names-in-ancient-scripture

Matthew L. Bowen, “Laman and Nephi as Key-Words: An Etymological, Narratological, and Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Lamanites and Nephites as Religious, Political, and Cultural Descriptors” (Provo, UT: FAIRMormon, 2019).
Text online: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2019/laman-and-nephi-as-key-words
Video version found here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZlKltSmsFM
Podcast version:
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2020/03/17/fairmormon-conference-podcast-53-matthew-bowen-laman-and-nephi-as-key-words-an-etymological-narratological-and-rhetorical-approach-to-understanding-lamanites-and-nephites-as-religious

Matthew L. Bowen, “Be Patient in Afflictions, for Thou Shalt Have Many”: Finding Christ Again (and Again) in Adversity – Doctrine and Covenants 24 (Provo, UT: FAIR, 2021)
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2021/03/08/come-follow-me-week-11-doctrine-and-covenants-23-26

Matthew L. Bowen, “A Note on the Meaning of Ensample in the Doctrine and Covenants,” FAIR Newsletter, July 2021.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Taught in All the Ways of God: Teaching as the Theme of Moses 6,” FAIR, January 17, 2022.
Resource for Come, Follow Me Week 4 – Genesis 5; Moses 6
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2022/01/17/come-follow-me-week-4-genesis-5-moses-6

Matthew L. Bowen, “The Lord Was with Joseph”: A Scriptural Case Study in Why the Lord Allows Bad Things Happen to Good People
Resource for Come, Follow Me Week – Genesis 37-41 (and 42-50)
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2022/03/08/come-follow-me-week-11-genesis-37-41#more-30807

Matthew L. Bowen, “The Asked King and the Beloved King-to-be: Saul, David, and Ancient Israel’s Rejection of the Lord’s Kingship
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2022/06/14/come-follow-me-week-25-1-samuel-8-10-13-15-18-2

Matthew L. Bowen, “The Hymns of the Temple, Part 1”
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2022/08/16/come-follow-me-week-33-psalms-49-51-61-66-69-72-77-78-85-86

Matthew L. Bowen, “The Hymns of the Temple, Part 2”
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2022/08/24/come-follow-me-week-34-psalms-102-103-110-116-119-127-128-135-139-146-150

WORKS IN PROCESS

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Conference Presentations and Other Presentations in Scholarly Venues  (from 2008 to most recent)         
Matthew L. Bowen, “’They Came Forth and Fell Down and Partook of the Fruit of the Tree’: Proskynesis in 3 Nephi 11:12-19 and 17:9-10 and Its Implications” – Third Nephi: New Perspectives on an Incomparable Scripture. Sponsored by the Laura F. Willes Center. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 26-27 September 2008. Published in Third Nephi: New Perspectives on an Incomparable Scripture (ed. Gaye Strathearn, Andrew Skinner; Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book), 107-129.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Thy Will Be Done’: The Savior’s Use of the Divine Passive.” 39^th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, Friday, October 29, 2010. Published in The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture: The Thirty-Ninth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo, UT: RSC, 2010), 233-51.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Not Partaking of the Fruit: Its Generational Consequences and Its Remedy.” Fortieth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 29-30 October 2011. Published in “The Things Which My Father Saw”: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision: The Fortieth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, Stanley A. Johnson; Provo, UT: RSC and Deseret Book, 2011), 240-263.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘I Will Build Thee a Sure House’ (1 Kgs 11:38): The Deuteronomistic Emphasis on Wholeheartedly Loving Yahweh” – Presented at Faculty Forum, Brigham Young University - Religious Education. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 10 February 2012. Based on the third chapter of dissertation (“‘According to All that You Demanded’ (Deut 18:16): The Literary Use of Names and Leitworte as Antimonarchic Polemic in the Deuteronomistic History”).

Matthew L. Bowen, "Demanding Distance from Yhwh: The Use of šāʾal as a Leitwort in the Deuteronomistic History" – Presented at the Ancient Near East Researchers Group Colloquium at the Catholic University of America. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 27 February 2012. Based on second chapter of dissertation (“‘According to All that You Demanded’ (Deut 18:16): The Literary Use of Names and Leitworte as Antimonarchic Polemic in the Deuteronomistic History”).

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘In the Mount of the Lord It Shall Be Seen’ and ‘Provided’: Theophany and Sacrifice as the Etiological Foundation of the Temple in Israelite and Latter-day Saint Tradition” Forty-Second Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 26 October 2013. Published in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 5 (2013): 201-228.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Founded Upon a Rock: Doctrinal and Temple Implications of Peter’s Surnaming,” Forty-Third Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 24 October 2014. Published in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 9 (2014): 1-28.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘I Have Done According to My Will’: Reading Jacob 5 as a Temple Text” Temple on Mount Zion II Conference. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 25 October 2014. Published in The Temple: Ancient and Restored: Proceedings of the 2014 Temple on Mount Zion Symposium (ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Donald W. Parry; Temple on Mount Zion Series 3; Salt Lake City: Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2016), 235-272.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘According to My Faith Which Is in Me’: The Covenant Dimension of Faith and Faithfulness in Nephi’s Writings” Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 10 October 2015.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Upon Their Towers’: Tower Speeches and Other Ancient ‘Broadcast’ Media in the Book of Mormon” – Mormon Media Studies Symposium, Lā‘ie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 3 November 2016.

Book of Mormon as Media section

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen, “By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified”: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6. 2016. Temple on Mount Zion Symposium, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 5 November 2016.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Where I Will Meet You’: The Convergence of Sacred Time and Sacred Space as the Etiological Function of the Tent of Meeting.” Temple on Mount Zion Symposium, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 5 November 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqd5VHkDTaU
https://interpreterfoundation.org/conference-talks-wh ere-i-will-meet-you-the-convergence-of-sacred-time-and-sacred-space-as-the-etiological-function-of-the-tent-of-meeting/

Matthew L. Bowen, “Semitic Semiotics: The Symbolic, Prophetic, and Narratological Power of Names in Ancient Scripture. The 19^th Annual FAIRMormon Conference, Provo, UT: Utah Valley Convention Center, 3 August 2017.
Text: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2017/semitic-semiotics-2
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP6mwcyQpYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k7UnChAoMc
Audio: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2018/06/28/fairmormon-conference-podcast-9-matthew-bowen-semitic-semiotics-the-symbolic-prophetic-and-narratological-power-of-names-in-ancient-scripture

Matthew L. Bowen, “Enos – Wrestling a Man and Seeing God’s Face: Allusions to the Temple and Christ’s Atonement in Early Nephite Uses of the Jacob and Esau Story” Orem, UT: Interpreter Foundation, 26 October 2017. Online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufgnpvlbosg

Matthew L. Bowen, “Ominous Onomastics: Symbolic Naming and Paronomasia in Old Testament Prophecy.” Forty-sixth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 27 October 2017. Published in Prophets and Prophecies of the Old Testament: The 46^th Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Ed. Aaron P. Schade, Brian M. Hauglid, and Kerry Muhlestein (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City, Deseret Book, 2017): 21-46.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Our Hands Have Handled’: Ensuring the Reassuring Doctrine of the Resurrection in the Lucan and Johannine Writings” Forty-Seventh Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 26 October 2018.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘And They Shall Be Joined unto Thee’: The Name Levi, Levites, Priests, Angels, and the Importance of Joinings in Temple Architecture and Ritual” Temple on Mount Zion Conference, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 10 November 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPlTkTNtgYQ

Matthew L. Bowen, “Messengers of the Covenant: Mormon’s Doctrinal Use of Malachi 3:1 in Moroni 7:29-32” Faculty Advisory Council Forum, Lā‘ie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 10 January 2019.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Laman and Nephi as Key-Words: An Etymological, Narratological, and Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Lamanites and Nephites as Religious, Political, and Cultural Descriptors.” 21^st Annual FAIRMormon Conference, Provo, UT: Utah Valley Convention Center, 7 August 2019.
Text: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2019/laman-and-nephi-as-key-words
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZlKltSmsFM
Podcast version: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2020/03/17/fairmormon-conference-podcast-53-matthew-bowen-laman-and-nephi-as-key-words-an-etymological-narratological-and-rhetorical-approach-to-understanding-lamanites-and-nephites-as-religious

Matthew L. Bowen, “Look to the Lord! The Meaning of Liahona and the Doctrine of Christ in Alma 37–38” Forty-eighth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 25 October 2019. Published in Give Ear to My Words: Text and Context of Alma 36-42: The 48^th Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Ed. Kerry Hull, Nick Frederick, and Hank Smith (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 2019), 275-295.

Matthew L. Bowen, “By the Word of My Power” Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 19 September 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aNM4SuYdlA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqP9g_5abOM

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘The Messenger of Salvation’: The Christology of D&C 93:8, Missionary Work as Worship, and the Emerging Idea of Temple in Joseph Smith’s Revelations” Forty-ninth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 23 October 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJg4A9RCzWM&t=3s

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘That They May Be Purified in Me’: Ritual Purification in 3 Nephi 19and Its Implications for Divine Belonging as the Telos of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances and Worship” Temple on Mount Zion Conference, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 7 November 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMU2Wmxg83U

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Made Stronger Than Many Waters’: The Purported Sacred Names of Moses as a Series of Keywords,” Temple on Mount Zion Conference, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 7 November 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk6nB9_PC-A

Matthew L. Bowen, “Putting the šābat Back in Sabbatical: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the COVID19 Lockdown.” Faculty Advisory Council Forum, Lā‘ie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 13 May 2021.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘The Lord Hath Founded Zion, and the Poor of his People Shall Trust in It’”: Covenant Economics, Atonement, and the Meaning of Zion” Covenant of Compassion: Caring for the Marginalized and Disadvantaged in the Old Testament: The Fiftieth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 22 October 2021.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘He Is Not Ashamed to Call Them Brethren’: Family Structure in Hebrews 2:10–18 and Jesus Christ’s Fraternal Role in Atoning for Humanity," The Household of God: Families and Belonging in the Social World of the New Testament: The Fiftieth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 21 October 2022.

Matthew L. Bowen and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “From Jared to Jacob: The Motif of Divine Ascensus and Descensus in Genesis, the Book of Moses, and the Enochic Tradition,” Temple on Mount Zion Conference, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 5 November 2022.
Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb38jJH6EMg

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen, “Jacob’s Temple Journey to Haran and Back,” Temple on Mount Zion Conference, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 5 November 2022.
Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMIZNru-xzw

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘A Young Man Dressed in a White Robe’: The Implications of Jesus’s Resurrection in Mark 16 for Human Angelicization,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Mark Passion Narrative Seminar, San Antonio, TX: SBL, 20 November 2023.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Encircled About Eternally in the Arms of His Love’: The Divine Embrace as a Thematic Symbol of Jesus Christ and His Atonement in the Book of Mormon,” Brigham Young University Religious Education Symposium in Honor of Sidney B. Sperry, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 19 January, 2024.

Matthew L. Bowen, “A Cult for All Seasons: Amos’s Use of Harvest Imagery and Cyclical Time,” 2024 AAR/RBS-RMPG Regional Meeting, Provo: UT: Brigham Young University, 23 March 2024.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Tasting Death for Everyone: Divine Abandonment in Jesus's Death as Vicarious Experience in Mark 15:34-38 and in Earliest Christianity,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Mark Passion Narrative Seminar, San Diego, CA: SBL, November 2024.

Scholarship in Service (Additional Scholarly Presentations) · Encore presentation of Matthew L. Bowen, “Founded Upon a Rock: Doctrinal and Temple Implications of Peter’s Surnaming,” BYU–Hawaii Honors Colloquium. Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii,29 October 2014.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Names as Key-words in the Book of Mormon: Glimpses within the Veil of the Translated Text,” BYU–Hawaii Honors Colloquium, Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 16 September 2015.

Encore presentation of Matthew L. Bowen, “‘According to My Faith Which Is in Me’: The Covenant Dimension of Faith and Faithfulness in Nephi’s Writings” given at a BYU–Hawaii Honors Colloquium. Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 3 February 2016.

Encore presentation of Matthew L. Bowen, “Where I Will Meet You” given at a BYU–Hawaii Honors Colloquium. Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 8 February, 2017.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘What Thank They the Jews?’ A Note on the Name Judah and Antisemitism; and, Why We Should Thank the Jews: Nephi’s View of the Jewish Role in Human Salvation” Salt Lake City: B’nai Shalom, 30 March 2017
Online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8YyGZJiAVo

Matthew L. Bowen, “Enos – Wrestling a Man and Seeing God’s Face: Allusions to the Temple and Christ’s Atonement in Early Nephite Uses of the Jacob and Esau Story” Orem, UT: Interpreter Foundation, 26 October 2017.
Online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufgnpvlbosg

Matthew L. Bowen, “Isaiah and the Temple” Orem, UT: Suncrest 3^rd Ward, 29 July 2018.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Name as Key-Word.” Presentation and Book-signing for Name as Key-word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture (Salt Lake City, UT: Interpreter/Eborn Books, 2018). Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 28 September 2018.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Epistemologies, Processes, Events, and Relationships,” as a part of two-part forum: Of Things Both in Heaven and Earth: A Forum on Gospel Perspectives of Science with Dr. Richard Cornwall and Dr. Matthew Bowen. Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 17 November 2019.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham,” for Aaron Shumway’s Religion 390R (Gospel Essays) Institute Class, Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 05 December 2019.

Matthew L. Bowen, “2 Nephi 1–5,” Come Follow Me Kickstart for the Lāʻie Married Student 6^th Ward; Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 8 February 2020.

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘The Lord God Will Proceed’: Nephi’s Joseph Wordplay in 1 Nephi 22:8-12 and the Abrahamic Covenant.” Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 18 April 2021 – Presented to Latter-day Saints in Santa Barbara, CA (remotely, sponsored by the Santa Barbara YSA Ward).

Matthew L. Bowen, “Isaiah’s Prophetic Call, the Seraphim, and the Doctrine of Christ,” Presented to Latter-day Saints in Rocklin, CA remotely. Sponsored by Rocklin 3^rd Ward. Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii. 18 September 2022.

Matthew L. Bowen, “The Doctrine of Christ, the Temple, and the Atonement of Christ,” Kaneohe, HI, 4 January 2023 – Presented to Latter-day Saint youth in the Kahalu’u Ward, sponsored by Bishop Ben Tano of the Kahalu’u Ward.

Matthew L. Bowen, “Ancient Names in the Book of Mormon.” Presentation and Book-signing for Ancient Names in the Book of Mormon: Toward a Deeper Understanding of a Witness of Christ (Salt Lake City, UT: Interpreter/Eborn Books, 2023). Lāʻie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 14 March 2024.
Passover Presentations
April 22, 2019 – Lā‘ie YSA 1^st Stake
April 14, 2021 – Lā‘ie Stake Seminary

Community
January 20, 2023 – Careers Q&A with AVID Students – Kahuku High and Intermediate School
Radio Show Appearances · Religion Today with Martin Tanner – KSL Radio
September 2, 2018
Podcast archive: https://www.ksl.com/?nid=1388&a=30827&showid=2012&n=Religion%20Today

Interpreter Radio Show – KTKK Radio
February 25, 2018
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-february-25-2018/

April 22, 2018
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-april-22-2018/

May 27, 2018
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-may-27-2018/

June 24, 2018
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-june-24-2018/

July 22, 2018
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-july-22-2018/

August 26, 2018
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-august-26-2018/

September 23, 2018
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-september-23-2018/

November 25, 2018
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-november-25-2018/
December 23, 2018
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-december-23-2018/

January 27, 2019
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-january-27-2019/
CFM version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-new-testament-lesson-7/

February 24, 2019
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-february-24-2019/

March 24, 2019
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-march-24-2019/
Come Follow Me (hereafter CFM) version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-new-testament-lesson-15/

April 28, 2019
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-april-28-2019/
CFM version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-new-testament-lesson-19/

May 26, 2019
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-may-26-2019/
CFM version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-new-testament-lesson-23/

June 23, 2019
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-june-23-2019/
CFM version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-new-testament-lesson-27/

July 28, 2019
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-july-28-2019/
CFM version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-new-testament-lesson-32/

August 25, 2019
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-august-25-2019/
CFM version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-new-testament-lesson-36/

September 22, 2019
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November 24, 2019
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CFM version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-new-testament-lesson-49/
December 22, 2019
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-december-22-2019/
CFM version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-book-of-mormon-lesson-3/

January 26, 2020
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-january-26-2020

March 22, 2020
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-march-22-2020/
CFM version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-book-of-mormon-lesson-16/

April 26, 2020
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-april-26-2020/
CFM version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-book-of-mormon-lesson-21/

May 24, 2020
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June 28, 2020
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July 26, 2020
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August 23, 2020
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-august-23-2020/
CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-book-of-mormon-lesson-38/

September 27, 2020
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-september-27-2020/
CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-book-of-mormon-lesson-43/

October 25, 2020
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-october-25-2020/
CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-book-of-mormon-lesson-47/

November 22, 2020
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CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-doctrine-covenants-lesson-1/

December 27, 2020
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-december-27-2020/
CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-doctrine-covenants-lesson-6/

January 24, 2021
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CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-doctrine-and-covenants-lesson-15/

February 26, 2021
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March 28, 2021
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April 25, 2021
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May 23, 2021
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June 27, 2021
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  July 25, 2021
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August 22, 2021
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CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-doctrine-and-covenants-lesson-40/

November 27, 2021
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CF Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-roundtable-old-testament-2022-lesson-2/

December 26, 2021
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CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-roundtable-old-testament-2022-lesson-6/

January 23, 2022
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CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-roundtable-old-testament-2022-lesson-10/

February 27, 2022
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CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-roundtable-old-testament-2022-lesson-15/

March 27, 2022
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-march-27-2022/
CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-roundtable-old-testament-2022-lesson-19/

April 24, 2022
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-april-24-2022/
CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-old-testament-lesson-23-judges-2-4-6-8-13-16/

June 26, 2022
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-june-26-2022/
CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-roundtable-old-testament-2022-lesson-32/

o July 24, 2022
§ https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-july-24-2022/
§ CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-roundtable-old-testament-2022-lesson-36/

August 28, 2022
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-august-28-2022/:
CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-roundtable-old-testament-2022-lesson-41/

September 25, 2022
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-september-25-2022/
CFM Version: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-roundtable-old-testament-2022-lesson-45/

November 27, 2022
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-november-27-2022/
CFM: https://interpreterfoundation.org/cfm-new-testament-in-context-lesson-2/

June 25, 2023 (Guest appearance)
https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-june-25-2023/

 

OTHER PODCAST APPEARANCES

Follow Him Podcast with Hank Smith and John Bytheway, Exodus 14-17
Recorded February 25, 2022, released April 1, 2022

Audio:
Part 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exodus-14-17-part-1-dr-matthew-bowen/id1545433056?i=1000555997176
Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exodus-14-17-part-2-dr-matthew-bowen/id1545433056?i=1000556060593

Video:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMxxvxEtmu0
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxrdbIywD0

Show notes and transcripts:
https://followhim.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/15-OT-Matt-Bowen-Exodus-14-17-followHIM-Podcast-SHOW-NOTES-ENGLISH.docx-2.pdf
Follow Him Podcast with Hank Smith and John Bytheway, Jacob 5-7
Recorded February 16, 2024, released April 3, 2024

Video
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0CDLBhBCjo
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_czLa4ewhp4

Show notes and transcripts:
https://followhim.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BM-15-Dr.-Matthew-Bowen-Jacob-5-7-followHIM-Podcast-SHOW-NOTES.pdf

The Scriptures Are Real with Kerry Muhlestein, 2 Nephi 11-19
Recorded January 30, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQt41B-bv_Q

RESEARCH LANGUAGES

Hebrew (Biblical)
Greek (New Testament, Septuagint, Classical)
Latin
Middle Egyptian
Coptic
Akkadian
Arabic – Middle East Institute (Washington, DC) EMSA- level III
Aramaic and Syriac
Ugaritic
Spanish – some speaking proficiency
German – reading ability
French – reading ability
Demotic – some ability
Ethiopic – some ability
Sumerian – some ability

 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Society for Biblical Literature
Catholic Biblical Association
Phi Kappa Phi

OTHER MEMBERSHIPS

B’nai Shalom

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

University Convocation

Matthew L. Bowen, “‘Wanderers in a Strange Land’: Exiles Coming Home to Christ.” Lā‘ie, HI: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, 27 September 2022 (11-11:50am HT).

Text online at: https://speeches.byuh.edu/convocations/wanderers-in-a-strange-land-exiles-coming-home-to-christ
Full-length Convocation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMeifxQ1W1s
Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZYXmO1VwqE

Panel discussion with Dr. Rowena Reid, Dr. Rand Blimes, and Dr. Erica Glenn, panelists; Mark Wolfersberger, moderator (Aloha Center 155/165, 3:30-5:30pm)

Presentation to Religious Education Faculty: A “talk story” version of this presentation was given 24 September 2022 (1:00-1:50pm) to the Faculty of Religious Education

“Running Toward the Lord” by Levi Fuaga and Ke Alaka’i magazine incorporated portions of this address and scenes from my running in the community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QSnEemIHzE

 University Committee Assignments
Assessment Committee (2016-2018)
Faculty Advisory Council (2018-2023)
Secretary, 2018-2019
Vice-chair, 2021-2023
Promotional Review Committee (2024-Present)

 

OTHER UNIVERSITY SERVICE ASSIGNMENTS

Phi Kappa Phi – BYU-Hawaii chapter – Secretary (2017-2020)

Discussion Panels
Panel for David O. McKay Lecture, Phillip McArthur, “Shadows, Curtains, and a Shiny

Canoe... to Consider (earnestly) the Uncertainty of Meaning” (February 7, 2013)

Panel for Biology 376 (Genetics) course discussion with Steve Hancock at the invitation of Dr. Esprit Saucier (September 19, 2019)

Panel for Convocation Address, Paul Hurst, “How Small and Simple Things Can Lead to Great Things” (September 26, 2019)

Moderator - Panel for David O. McKay Lecture, Marcus Martins, “The Third Century of an Intelligent Religion” (February 11, 2020)

Panelists: Dr. Esprit Saucier, Dr. Daniel Bradshaw, Dr. Kali Fermantez
 Reconciling Evolution and Faith Conference and Collaboration

With Dr. David Bybee, Dr. Espirit Saucier, and Dr. Spencer Ingley
https://biology.byu.edu/reconciling-evolution/byu-hawaii
 "'Lord Is It I?': How You Can Build a Safer Community for All Women on Campus”
With Ann Springer, Rand Blimes, and Becky Strain – Joint WIA/FAC presentation

Thursday, September 8, 11:00 am, HGB 135
 “Brainstorm Solutions Together to Improve the Campus Climate and Culture”
With Ann Springer and Austin Pack

Joint WIA/FAC presentation and discussion
Monday, November 14, 2022, 4pm, Aloha Center 155/165

 Faculty Unit Committee Assignments

Assessment 2019
Search Committee for 2021
Rank Advancement Committee for 2021
Candidate Service Review for 2023
Search Committee Chair for 2023-2024

 Undergraduate Research Conference

Reviewer and moderator – March 31, 2022
Moderator, March 30, 2023
Moderator, April 4, 2024
Peace in the Pandemic Forum – May 5, 2022

Faculty Panelist

 Faculty Research Bootcamp – May 25, 2022 – Featuring: Matt Bowen, Faculty of Religious Education; Tevita Kaili, Faculty of Culture, Language, & Performing Arts;

Caryn Lesuma, Faculty of Arts & Letters

 Matthew L. Bowen, “Isaiah 6: Isaiah’s Prophetic Call and the Doctrine of Christ,” Lā‘ie, HI: Brigham Young University-Hawaii, 25 February 2022 (presented to Religious Education faculty).

Matthew L. Bowen, “Views of the Holy Land,” Lā‘ie, HI: Brigham Young University-Hawaii, 10 June 2023 (presented to Religious Education faculty).

Matthew L. Bowen, “Views of the Holy Land II,” Lā‘ie, HI: Brigham Young University-Hawaii 24 June 2023 (presented to Religious Education faculty).

Matthew L. Bowen, “None Could Deliver Them But the Lord Their God”: The Symbolism of Baptism and the Exodus Motif in Mosiah 18–24,” Lā‘ie, HI: Brigham Young University-Hawaii, 25 May,2024 (presented to Religious Education faculty).

Service – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (from most recent to 1994)
Sunday School Teacher (with Suzanne Bowen), 16-17 year olds, Lā‘ie 5^th Ward; Bishop (Lā‘ie Married Student 4^th Ward; 2020-2024); Elder’s Quorum President (2018-2020); HP Group Instructor (2016-2018); Sunday School Presidency, 2^nd Counselor (2015-2018); HP Group Secretary (2013-2015); Gospel Doctrine Teacher (2013); Membership Clerk (2011-2012); Primary Teacher-CTR A; Gospel Doctrine Instructor (2007-2009); Ward Singles Committee Member (2006-2007); Elders Quorum President (2005); Ward Activities Committee Member (2004); Ward Executive Secretary (2002-2004); Membership Clerk (2001-2002); Temple-worker – Mt. Timpanogos Temple (ca. 2001-2002); Elders Quorum President (1998-2001); Elders Quorum 1^st Counselor (1997-1998); Membership Clerk (1996); Missionary (California Roseville Mission, 1994-1996)

 

BIOGRAPHICAL [Redacted]

Piano Instruction – 1985-1990, 1996-1997 – Instructor: Thetis Barnett
CV Last Revised June 11, 2024