The Gazelam Foundation

Mandate of the Foundation:

The Gazelam Foundation is devoted to the recovering and publishing of documents ancient and modern which bear on the vital questions of religion including its language, culture, philosophy, theology, sociology, and psychology.

Also to finance and promote communication projects such as books, monographs, films and video tapes and radio programs; and to distribute, license, sell or sponsor such materials; to promote educational efforts such as seminars, symposia, academic conferences, travel studies, genealogical, anthropological, archaeological and historical research, etc.

Non profit status
Gazelam Foundation is a non-profit foundation. Its EIN number is 94-2835443

Director: Truman G. Madsen
Trustees and Advisors:
Gordon A. Madsen, Salt Lake City
Leo Beus, Phoenix Arizona
Peter Johnson, Orem, Utah
Dennis Webb, Holladay Utah
J. Steven Young, Menlo Park, California
Alan Ashton, Orem, Utah
Robert Gay, Connecticut
Ronald Harrison, Washington, D.C.

Recent Completed Projects.

On Sacred Ground: Reflections on Joseph Smith by Truman G. Madsen

8 DVD series. Distilled from a lifetime of study and reflection on the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith... as only Truman Madsen can provide. Beautifully filmed on location at dedicated Church historical sites. An excellent resource of rare insights into both the life and the teachings of Joseph Smith. Produced by the Gazelam Foundation and Novus Visum. 2006.

Participlating in LDS Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Video produced by FARMS.

Publication of volume Covenant and Chosenness in Judaism and Mormonism, eds. Truman G. Madsen, Raphael Jospe, and Seth Ward using five Jewish and five Mormon scholars, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001.

Documenting Truman Madsen’s 15 lectures Presidents of the Church, first on cassette then on CD and now a book.

Publication of On Human Nature, a Symposium held at the BYU Jerusalem Center, edited and contributed to by Truman G. Madsen, Pryor Pettengill Publishers, Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2004.

Participation in production of Between Heaven and Earth, the Temple film now being used at Temple Open Houses.

Participation in the project Children of Abraham, a CD feature-length series on the Middle East crisis, filmed in Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, USA, England and Australia. Produced by LDS Writer Peter Rancie.