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

I am here today with my friend Joseph Spencer. Joe is an associate professor of ancient scripture here at Brigham Young University.

Joe is my longtime friend and associate and collaborator.

Joe is the author of many books and the schemer of many schemes, dreamer of many dreams.

His recent book, Book of Mormon Studies, Introduction and a Guide, which he edited together

with several colleagues in religious education, was my inspiration for planning and starting this

podcast. There's pretty much nobody else in the world. I'd rather spend an hour talking about

the Book of Mormon with then Joe Spencer. So Joe, thank you so much

for being with us today on the podcast. Yeah, I'm happy to do it. Today we are talking about

Enos, Jerem, Omni, and the words of Mormon. So we're combining a lot of single chapter books

into one multi-book extravaganza. It lot of years, but not a lot of pages.

So there's a lot of interesting things to talk about here.

As a reminder to our listeners, the way I've thought about these episodes, this is the first

episode where we're talking about

these books.

We're not going to walk step by step through every verse of this block, but we will touch on many

of them.

Instead, I kind of think about these first episodes as a sort of introduction to the text.

When I study the Bible, I love to use a critical edition, a study

edition of the Bible that often will have an introduction to each book that orientes me to

relevant features, forms, themes, and just kind of gives me the frameworks that I need to

understand what's about to come. So that is

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