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Monte S. Nyman received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physical education from Utah State University and earned his doctorate in education administration from Brigham Young University.
He has served as the director of the Edmonton (Canada) Institute of Religion, director of Book of Mormon Studies in BYU’s Religious Studies Center, acting chairman of the Ancient Scripture Department, and associate dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University. He has taught in twelve BYU study abroad programs in Jerusalem and has conducted many BYU tours to Israel and Central America for BYU travel study.
Brother Nyman retired from BYU in 1996. However, his academic activities have continued since that time. He served as the president of Southern Virginia University from May 2003 to June 2004 after serving as that university’s academic vice president. From 1999 to 2000, he served as the university’s head baseball coach.
His church service includes a mission to the North Central States and callings as a high councilor, stake mission president, bishop, and member of several stake presidencies. He was chairman of the Church Instructional Development Committee for writing Gospel Doctrine manuals and served for eleven years on the Church Translation and Correlation Committees.
He is the author of four commentaries on Old Testament prophets, as well as two books on the Book of Mormon: An Ensign to All People and The Most Correct Book, The Book of Mormon. He has also been published in the Ensign and The Improvement Era.
Brother Nyman and his wife, Mary Ann Sullivan, are the parents of eight children. They have twenty-three grandchildren.
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