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Mormon Stories Podcast

311: Translating the Book of Mormon with Brant Gardner Pt. 5

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2011

⏱️ 61 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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All right, well, we're back for an epic fifth hour.

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I hopefully won't go full hour, but we're back with Brent Gardner, author of the gift

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and power translating the book of Mormon.

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Again, go to GregCoford.com to buy the book and type in M Stories, All In Caps, if you

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want to discount on this book or on any other books.

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But Grant, I just want to, Brent, I just want to thank you for standing up to the tough,

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I don't know if these are tough questions, maybe my listeners could come up with tougher

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ones, but I want to thank you for facing the questions and doing it with a lot of interesting

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insight.

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No, thank you.

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Yeah, now I would like to kind of maybe just end talking about just faith and scripture

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and the church in general, kind of the implications for some of the things you're saying, and then

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end with your testimonies, is that okay?

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Yes.

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All right.

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So something that I didn't bring out because I wanted to save it towards the end is,

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if Joseph can get horse wrong or if he can get steel wrong or whatever, then what's

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