BYU plans symposium on scriptures

PROVO — The annual Brigham Young University symposium on scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is scheduled for Friday and Saturday.

Elder C. Max Caldwell, emeritus member of the church's Quorum of the Seventy, will deliver the keynote address at the 37th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium at 6:30 p.m. on the first day of the conference in the Joseph Smith Building Auditorium. Breakout sessions will follow that evening and begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Admission is free and registration is not required.

Presenters at this year's symposium, titled "The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context," will include faculty from BYU, BYU-Hawaii and the Church Education System.

A collection of papers from the symposium will be published in a new volume to be released jointly by Deseret Book and the BYU Religious Studies Center.

For more information, including a full schedule of conference proceedings, go online to ce.byu.edu/cw/cwsperry/ or call Patty Smith at (801) 422-3611.