John A. Tvedtnes (born January 26th, 1941) was senior resident scholar with the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University (BYU).
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Tvedtnes was born in Mandan, North Dakota to Roman Catholics parents. He converted to Mormonism at the age of nine when his family moved to Salt Lake City. Tvedtnes served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church or Mormon Church) in France and Switzerland.
Tvedtnes and his wife Carol currently live in Bella Vista, Arkansas. He fathered six children by his first wife.
Tvedtnes received both his bachelors and his masters degrees at the University of Utah. From 1971-1979 Tvedtnes was living in Israel while studying at Hebrew University. He also studied Arabic and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds an M.A. in Linguistics and an M.A. in Middle East Studies (Hebrew).
Tvedtnes has been a member of the World Union of Jewish Studies, the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Society for Early Historic Archaeology.
He is perhaps best known as a Mormon apologist and has published many works defending Mormonism as part of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), though he has done other work during his academic career. He continued with FARMS as it was absorbed into BYU's Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, and he retired in 2007.
Tvedtnes has published ten books and more than 300 articles. His articles have been published by such diverse institutions as the University of Utah, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Pontifical Biblical Institute, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, BYU, FARMS, and the Society for Early Historic Archaeology.
In his 1984 article "Isaiah Variants in the Book of Mormon"[1] Tvedtnes advocated that biblical passages in the Book of Mormon were more accurate translations to the original Hebrew than the King James Version of the Bible. His work was criticized as "weak" and "illusory" in the book American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon.[2]
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