Hello and welcome to another episode of the Neil A. Maxwell Institute's Book of Mormon Studies podcast. My name is Rosalind Welch. I'm the host of the podcast, and I'm joined today by my colleague and my friend

Dr. Terrell Givens. Dr. Givens is a senior research fellow here at the Maxwell Institute.

He's, I'm sure, well known to many of our listeners. He's an important figure himself in the field of

of Book of Mormon studies. He's the author of two, at least two books on the Book of Mormon,

by the hand of Mormon, an extremely important book. And the Book of Mormon, a very short

introduction, which is exactly as it is advertised, a very useful and very short introduction.

And a little holly one, Second Nephi.

Oh, that's right. And of course, his brief theological introduction to Second Nephi. Oh, that's right.

And of course, his brief theological introduction to Second Nephi, which we have already

discussed here on the podcast.

Currently, Terrell is working on a big book, a history of Christianity through the

prism of God's love, which sounds like an absolutely wonderful project.

Terrell, welcome to the podcast today.

Thank you.

Good to be here.

Today we're focusing on scholarly work that has been done on the Book of Mormon.

And this is going to be continually confusing for our listeners because I'm not talking

about the big book of Mormon.

I'm talking about the small book of Mormon. I'm talking about

the small book of Mormon, this autobiographical record of Mormon himself that we find right in

between Fourth Nephi and Ether. So we're going to be talking about what we judge to be a few

interesting and useful scholarly resources that are out there about this book

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