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 my friend, Dr. Daniel Becerra.

Daniel is an assistant professor of ancient scripture here at Brighamian

University. His research focuses on the history and texts of early Christianity. He is also

an eminent guest on this podcast because he is one of the co-editors of this little book, Book of Mormon

Studies, an introduction and guide, which has indeed been my guide as I put together this podcast,

thinking about how to introduce listeners to the basics of this emerging academic field,

the Book of Mormon Studies.

It's an incredibly useful little book

for giving you the lay of the land

and introducing some of the highlights

and the history of people who have read

the Book of Mormon from this academic lens.

So thank you, Daniel, for joining us today

and thank you for your

work on that book.

Yeah, thanks. It's good to be here.

Yeah.

So today we are going to be focusing on some highlights of the scholarly literature on the

book of Mosiah. We've already had a deep dive into the text with Dr. Nick Frederick.

So today we're going to be focusing in on what scholars have found as they have read these

29 chapters carefully.

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