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

My name is Rosalind Welch, and I'm joined today by Dr. David Gore.

David is a professor in the communications department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is interested

in questions about the relationship of religion and public life. And that was very evident in this book,

the voice of the people, political rhetoric in the book of Mormon, which he published with the Maxwell

Institute in 2019.

And if you've been following along, you'll remember that I spotlighted a chapter from this wonderful book in a recent episode on the book of Alma.

So Dr. Gore, welcome to the podcast today.

Good morning, Rosalind.

Thanks for having me.

Today we're going to be talking about some highlights of the scholarly literature about the book of Heelman.

And David, as you and I started to talk about this, at first I thought was like,

there really hasn't been that much written about Heelman.

But then, as we started to dig a little deeper, we found that what has been written is very, very rich.

And so in the end, we're going to attempt to cover five pieces today, all of which are really

strong and insightful.

There's going to be a couple of names that you'll start to recognize that reoccur in our

conversation today.

You'll hear the name of Kim Matheson,

who is my colleague here at the Maxwell Institute and Joseph Spencer, whose name has been

prominent throughout this podcast, a colleague here at the Department of Ancient Structure at

Brigham Young University. Both of these scholars have really dived deep into the Book of Heelman.

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