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Benjamin Urrutia (born January 24, 1950 in Guayaquil, Ecuador) is an author and scholar. With Guy Davenport, Urrutia edited ''The Logia of Yeshua'', which collected what Urrutia and Davenport consider to be Jesus' authentic sayings from a variety of canonical and non-canonical sources. Urrutia interprets Jesus' mission as a leadership role in the "Israelite nonviolent resistance to Roman oppression". ==Biography== Urrutia lived in Ecuador until 1968, and has since been a resident of the United States of America, except for the period from May 1974 to July 1977, when he lived in Israel. At Brigham Young University, he studied under Hugh Nibley. Learning from Nibley that the Book of Mormon names Shiblon and Shiblom may be derived from the Arabic root ''shibl'', "lion cub," Urrutia connected this to the "Jaguar Cub" imagery of the Olmec people.〔Benjamin Urrutia, ("The Name Connection" ), ''New Era'', June 1983, 39〕〔See Bruce Warren, "A Cautious Interpretation of a Mesoamerican Myth: Reflections Upon Olmec-Jaredite Roots," in the ''Newsletter and Proceedings of the Society for Early Historic Archaeology'', Number 154, July 1983. Warren accepts Urrutia's connection between the Olmec and the Jaredite peoples, and more specifically the meaning of Shiblon as "Lion Cub." This he uses to make a connection between Shiblon and Ixbalanque, one of the Hero Twins of Maya Mythology. "The consonants ... of Shiblon are equivalent to the consonants of the first part of Ixbalanque ('ix' is pronounced 'ish')." The names are as close semantically as they are phonetically, as ''Ixbalanque'' means "Jaguar Cub."〕 Urrutia has also elaborated on Nibley's argument that the word Makhshava, usually translated as "thought," is more correctly translated as "plan." Urrutia has made some contributions to the study of Egyptian Names in the Book of Mormon. Over the years, Urrutia has written and published a number of articles, letters, poems and reviews on matters related to the work of J. R. R. Tolkien.〔See ''Mythlore'' from 1978 to 1986, e.g.〕 Benjamin Urrutia contributed stories to every volume of the ''LDSF'' series – anthologies of Science Fiction with LDS Themes. He edited the second〔LDSF2, 1985, Parables, Ludlow, MA – ISBN 0-9614960-0-2〕 and third〔LDSF3, 1988, Parables, Ludlow, MA – ISBN 0-9614960-1-0〕 volumes of the series. Urrutia has been a book reviewer since 1970 and a film critic since 1981. As of 2015, he is a book reviewer and the principal film critic for ''The Peaceable Table''.〔(VegetarianFriends.net )〕 He is a strong advocate of Christian vegetarianism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Urrutia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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