268: Dr. Michael Coe - An Outsider's View of Book of Mormon Archaology Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 August 2011

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Coe is the Charles J. MacCurdy professor emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University and curator emeritus of the Division of Anthropology at the school's Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is an expert on the Maya, who inhabited the same part of Mexico and Central American where Mormon scholars say the events of the Book of Mormon took place. In this interview, Coe discusses the challenges facing Mormon archaeologists attempting to prove the historical truth of their central scripture and his own views on Joseph Smith

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0:29.1	Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:32.3	I'm your host, John Delin, and today I am very, very excited to have with us a very
0:37.6	special guest.
0:38.6	His name is Dr. Michael Coe, and the subject for today is sort of an outsider's view of
0:46.1	Book of Mormon Archaeology.
0:48.0	Very fascinating.
0:49.0	Let me give a quick introduction of Dr. Coe.
0:52.6	He is the Charles J. McCurdy, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University.
0:59.0	In Curator Emeritus of the Division of Anthropology at the School's Peabody Museum of Natural History,
1:06.2	he is an expert on the Maya who inhabited the same part of Mexico and Central America where
1:11.5	Mormon scholars say the events, well I should say where some Mormon scholars say the events
1:17.0	of the Book of Mormon took place.
1:18.9	In this interview, Coe discusses the challenges facing Mormon archaeologists attempting to
1:24.0	prove the historical truth of their central scripture and his own views of Joseph Smith.
1:30.2	I'm now reading from the biography from a PBS documentary in which Dr. Coe was featured.
1:38.4	But with that, I guess I'll just say Dr. Coe, thank you so much for joining us on Mormon
1:43.2	Stories today.
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