Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs can fall by the wayside when Latter-day

Saints study them on Sunday school.

They don't always fit into the narratives that we understand about dispensations of authority,

or give us sustained treatises in the way that a theologian might consider during personal

scripture study.

However, in preparing for this week, our team recognized the value of these books and

understanding the ways that the literature

expresses doctrine and other beauty that accompanies the reading of these books. We'll discuss

these topics and much more in today's episode of Abide, a Maxwell Institute podcast. My name is Joseph

Stewart, I'm the public communication specialist at the Neely Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

at Brigham Young University. Christian Hill is a research fellow at the Maxwell Institute.

In each week, we discuss the week's block of reading from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

come follow me curriculum.

We aren't here to present a lesson, or rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block

so as to help fulfill the Maxwell Institute's mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints and their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engage the world of religious

ideas. Joining us today is Dr. Catherine Gines Taylor, Nibbley postdoctoral fellow at the Maxwell Institute.

Our two most recent publications include late antique images of the Virgin Anunciate Spinning from Brill,

and Material Culture and Women's Religious Experience in Antiquity,

co-edited with Carolyn Oshick and Mark Ellison.

You can hear more about that latter book on Maxwell's 2 podcast number 129.

Welcome, Catherine, to the podcast.

Thank you.

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