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

My name is Rosalind Welch and I'm joined today by Dr. Christopher Blythe. Christopher is a wonderful guest. I'm so

excited to have him on today. I've been looking forward to this conversation. Chris is an assistant

professor of English at Brigham Young University, and he has one of the most fascinating research

focuses, that is Latter-day Saint folklore.

And we're actually going to be talking a bit about folklore during our conversation today.

Dr. Blythe is also the host of a wonderful podcast, Angels and Searstones, that in fact is all about Latter-D-Stan folklore.

If you haven't caught it yet, you need to listen to a couple of episodes once you

listen to when you'll be hooked. Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Blythe.

Thank you, Rosal. I'm excited to be here. It's going to be great. Today is a banner day,

a red letter day here at the Book of Mormon Studies podcast because we have arrived at the book of

Moronai, which is the last book of the Book of Mormon if you are reading it in textual order.

Now, if we were reading the Book of Mormon in dictation order in the order that Joseph Smith

dictated to his scribes, we'd still, we'd now be looping back around and going to

First Nephi and reading through Words of Mormon. But we're doing it in textual order.

So today we are going to tackle the last book in the Book of Mormon, the Book of Moron,

I absolutely packed with gems that were intended for us in the latter days. So it speaks to us with a kind of urgency

and relevancy that's pretty unique in the whole Book of Mormon. Let's start out, Dr. Blythe,

by talking about any context that will help us prepare to understand what Moronite has to offer

us here in this last book of the

Book of Mormon.

Absolutely.

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