GUEST HOST—Briefly Ether, with Rosalynde Welch & James E. Faulconer [MIPodcast #121]
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4.7 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Literary scholar Rosalynde Frandsen Welch explores the book of Ether as a sweeping history in which Moroni, absorbed in the past, turns his heart to future readers whose spiritual fate will be at stake. This latest episode in our series about the brief theological introductions to the Book of Mormon focuses on Welch’s Ether. James E. Faulconer takes the lead as guest host.
About the guest
Rosalynde Frandsen Welch is an independent scholar of Latter-day Saint literature and theology. She earned a PhD in early modern English literature from the University of California at San Diego. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Latter-day Saint scripture, culture, and theology. She has served as a codirector of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminary and as associate editor at the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Maxwell Institute podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Blair Hodges, welcoming you to another episode focused on the brief theological introductions to the Book of Mormon series. |
| 0:09.0 | This one focuses on the ether volume, written by Rosalind, Franz, and Welch, an independent scholar in St. Louis and member of the Institute's advisory board. |
| 0:17.0 | As I mentioned in the previous episode, we want to bring some additional voices into these conversations. Today's guest host is James E. Faulkner of Brigham Young University. You'll remember |
| 0:25.6 | him from the previous episode about the Mosaic volume. Jim was one of the editors of Rosalind's |
| 0:30.3 | Ether books, so few people are more familiar with her project than he is. Questions and comments |
| 0:35.3 | about this and other episodes can be sent to me at |
| 0:37.7 | MI Podcast at BYU.edu. It's James E. Faulkner talking all about the Book of Ether with |
| 0:43.5 | Rosalind, Franz, and Welch. It's really great to be able to talk with you, Rosalind, about your book. |
| 0:50.6 | I think I've told you before how much I enjoyed reading it, and it was great to review it |
| 0:54.9 | for this discussion. I was moved in places. I was irritated in places in the right way, intellectually |
| 1:02.4 | irritated, made me want to say, Roslyn, let's get in here and argue about this. But mostly I was |
| 1:07.9 | moved. I really was touched. It's beautifully written. It's beautifully thought. It's just, |
| 1:12.3 | I really like it very much. So I appreciate it. I just want to say thank you. |
| 1:16.4 | Thank you, Jim. I should mention that you were one of the editors of the book, |
| 1:20.7 | and so the book itself has benefited all along in this process from your careful reading |
| 1:25.6 | and from your kind and generous approach to it. |
| 1:29.1 | So thank you. Let me start with a question about translation because that's such an important |
| 1:34.5 | part of what you write about in your book. You give us an interesting and I think a compelling |
| 1:41.1 | discussion for why the Jaredites had no scriptural tradition. |
| 1:46.3 | And if I put it really far too briefly, you would say it's because they assume that their language |
| 1:52.1 | was perfect and it didn't need to be translated. It seems to me then it would appear that the point |
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