Hello and welcome to another episode of the Maxwell Institute Book of Mormon Studies podcast. I am Rosal

Welch. I'm the host of this podcast and I'm joined today by my colleague and my friend, Jennifer Lane. Dr. Lane is a

research associate here at the Maxwell Institute. In fact, her office is right next to mine. Nevertheless,

we're still recording this separately. Dr. Lane is a wonderful colleague and a wonderful scholar.

She has studied at temple and sacred space,

and recently she's been looking into the idea of medieval pilgrimage and Franciscan spirituality.

So we are so, so happy to have you with us today on the podcast. Jennifer, welcome.

Thank you, Rosal. It's a privilege to be here. I'm really excited.

Today we are going to be reviewing a few of the most interesting and important, as we judge it,

pieces of scholarship on the books of Third and Fourth Nephi.

As I've said often on this podcast, when I read academic treatments of the Book of Mormon

written by interested and faithful readers of the Book of Mormon, I often find that it opens

my mind in new ways.

It gives me new ideas, new tools, new lenses on the Book of Mormon in a way that makes it exciting and fresh

for me to read as a believer for devotional purposes. And so my hope with this whole podcast

and with this episode in particular is to bring some ideas to your study of Third and Fourth

Nephi in a way that will open your eyes to it and make it more

meaningful to you. So we're going to start out today with what I think is actually a very, very

important reading and treatment of some of these early chapters in the book of Third Nephi that

can be a little harder to read and a little harder to make sense of.

So Jennifer, I'm going to turn it over to you to walk us through this important book and book chapter.

Thank you, Dothuan.

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