307: Translating the Book of Mormon with Brant Gardner Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2011

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In our conversation with Brant Gardner about his new book entitled"The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon," we discuss most of the major issues with the Book of Mormon including: Joseph Smith's use of folk magic, the translation process (including the peep stone in the hat), anachronisms, DNA and race.

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0:28.6	Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:32.6	I'm your host, John Delin, and as always, I'm very excited to have with me a very special
0:37.8	guest.
0:38.8	Today, my guest is a man by the name of Brent Gardner.
0:42.6	Hi, Brent.
0:43.6	Hello.
0:44.6	Thanks for joining us.
0:45.6	Thank you for the opportunity.
0:47.6	Now, Brent is interesting from my perspective for a couple of reasons.
0:54.4	Many of you will know that I've interviewed Grant Palmer on this podcast about his book
0:59.0	and insider's view of Mormon origins, where he talks about his theories on the origins
1:03.9	of the Book of Mormon.
1:04.9	I've also interviewed Richard Bushman, who's talked a lot about kind of his views of the
1:10.4	Book of Mormon, and I've interviewed Terrell Gibbons.
1:14.2	When I originally planned to interview Grant Palmer, I always, I worked really hard with
1:21.7	fair and farms to try and get someone who I believed would be sort of credible, kind
1:28.6	of a scholar or a really thoughtful person to respond to the Grant Palmer interview.
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