However, I never have to worry about the battery running out, or dropping them in the toilet. They can be heavy and even though English scriptures are available in four different sizes, they still take up space. With physical scriptures, it’s a little less convenient to carry them around. Having digital scriptures allows members all around the world to read the scriptures while you’re waiting for a bus, in between classes or during a lunch break. I would take it camping and it saved on space, allowing me to conveniently study anytime, anywhere. If you don’t know what a Palm Pilot is, just think of an iPhone with a black and white screen that can’t make phone calls.) I was amazed that I could read scriptures at the drop of a hat in any place without having to lug my scripture case around. I remember the first time I downloaded LDS scriptures to a digital device (It was a Palm Pilot. But does this new technology really help? Is studying the scriptures on a mobile phone more effective than reading physical scriptures? Or maybe vice versa? Within hours of General Conference ending, talks can be accessed digitally via the internet. The digital age has transformed how we obtain the words of church leaders. This idea would be incomprehensible to prophets of old, although much more convenient than trying to carry large tablets of clay to church. We now live in a world where the entire volumes of the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon Pearl of Great Price, the Doctrine and Covenants, and every General Conference talk since April 1971 can fit on a device small enough to fit in your pocket. The age of painstakingly hammering reformed Egyptian characters into plates of brass is long gone. Recently, there has been a major transformation in how these histories are recorded and passed down. The Lord has commanded His servants to record histories so they can be passed down from generation to generation. This book is more than a tool it is a monument of the study of the holy scriptures.The words of ancient prophets have been written on metal plates, papyrus, clay tablets, parchment, stone, and paper since the beginning of time. The publication of this book is the fulfillment of that wish. Eldin Ricks died a few days later, after reiterating his wish for the completion of the concordance. In 1992, Ricks asked his daughter-in-law Kristine Ricks to help the Bushes finish the project.
Work on the project went slowly even after Chuck and Junola Bush volunteered to help. Years in the making, the concordance represents an effort begun by Ricks in 1971, when he began inputting the standard works into computer form, using the old key-punched computer cards. It can be taken into the classroom by both teacher and student” (back cover). It is a concordance that “can go anywhere. . . with a meaningful context phrase” (iii).įor students of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price who have no access to a computer concordance or who find computers inconvenient, inaccessible, or confusing, this hard copy is an amazing resource. This hefty, nine-hundred-page volume “is a concordance of the LDS scriptures comparable to the James Strong Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible-a printed concordance of all occurrences of all words in the scriptural text.
Eldin Ricks’s Thorough Concordance of the LDS Standard Works is a far cry from the thin, pocket-size Combination Reference that missionaries carried in the 1960s.
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