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Janet Ewell

Janet Hessel Ewell (BA, BYU and MA, California State University Long Beach) is a retired educator who has written about student First Amendment rights and journalism, including as lead author of a journalism textbook. She presented at the Widtsoe Foundation’s “Sacred Space, Sacred Thread” conference on “Gamma Marks in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval in the Jewish and Christian Contexts.” She currently serves as a ministering sister, temple worker, Gospel Doctrine teacher, and as a PathwayConnect service missionary. She and her husband David are the parents of four children and grandparents of six.
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Seeing Psalms as the Libretti of a Holy Drama

by Janet Ewell | undefined 31 | 03-15-2019

[Page 259]Abstract: Psalms was the favorite Old Testament book at Qumran and in the New Testament; the Book of Mormon contains more than three dozen allusions to Psalms. While Psalms contains both powerful, poetic words of comfort and doctrinal gems, many psalms also seem to careen between praise, warning, comfort, military braggadocio, and humility, sometimes […]

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