Hello and welcome to another episode of the Maxwell Institute's Book of Mormon Studies

podcast.

I'm Rosalind Welch and I'm joined today by my friend and colleague Dr. Morgan Davis.

Morgan is a research fellow here at the Maxwell Institute with me.

Dr. Davis is interested in comparative readings of scripture, and we're going to see that

come out today in our discussion. In particular, he studies the relationship between the Book of Mormon

and the Quran. This is a big question that he's been working on for

several years now. He's published an article on it. And in fact, right now he's working on a full-length

book of that topic. So welcome to the podcast, Dr. Morgan Davis. Great to be with you. Thanks

for having me. Today we are focusing on some of the scholarly literature that's been

written around the book of ether. The book of ether is a fascinating part of the book of

Mormon, the self-contained narrative, and it's been very attractive to all different kinds of literary critics and other

scholars of the Book of Mormon who have found fascinating things there to look at. So we have some

really fun articles and book chapters to discuss today. And Morgan, you're going to kick us off

by sharing a very important, somewhat older, literary

treatment of the Book of Mormon.

So talk to us about feasting on the word by Richard Rust.

Yeah, Richard Rust wrote this, I guess it was published in 1997.

It feels like it's been longer than that.

But yeah, he came to the Book of Mormon, I think one of the first real serious scholars to bring

the tools of literary critical scholarship to reading the book of Mormon.

There have been others.

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