Hi, everybody. My name is Rosalind Welch. I am the associate director of the NLA Maxwell Studies podcast from the Maxwell Institute.

We hope this will be a resource to enrich your personal study, to unite your family, and really

to bring us together as a global body of saints around the Book of Mormon in this upcoming year.

The purpose of the podcast is to increase our faith and our understanding of the Book of Mormon.

Firstly, by undertaking a deep dive into the text of the Book of Mormon, really exploring what's

between those covers, and secondly, by surveying the highlights of the existing

Book of Mormon scholarship. In some ways, we are in a golden age of Book of Mormon scholarship.

We have some key resources in place that allow a scholarly field to emerge and flourish,

and we're seeing sort of at an unprecedented rate new forms and

kinds of Book of Mormon scholarship building upon a foundation of faith that are helping us to

understand the book in new and rich ways. And it's our hope and our expectation that by coming to understand the shape of this field of

scholarship, your own personal study will be freshened up, will be enlivened, that you will have

new perspectives and new tools in your own reading of the Book of Mormon. We hope you learn

not just what the scholarship says,

but how it asks questions and how it arrives at truthful truth.

We hope that the podcast will be appealing and informative

to experts and novices in the Book of Mormon.

We intend it to be both intellectually edifying and spiritually nourishing as well.

We will come to the book, both as scholars and as disciples.

We will discuss intellectual questions around the Book of Mormon, but we will also share

our favorite passages and discuss how the Book of Mormon, but we will also share our favorite passages and discuss how the Book

of Mormon has accompanied us in our own walk of discipleship. We will have two episodes per month.

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