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🗓️ 25 January 2022
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0:00.0 | Hey, Maxwell Institute podcast listeners. This is Joseph Stewart. As we're continuing to edit interviews, |
0:08.6 | we are releasing a few of the great presentations that our faculty have presented in the past few |
0:15.1 | months. The podcast you're about to hear is the 2021 biennial Laura F. Willis lecture delivered by Dr. |
0:22.7 | Jennings Johnson entitled, Documenting a Relationship Early Latter Day Saints and the Book |
0:27.1 | of Mormon. Hope you all enjoy. Thanks. |
0:31.9 | Eat this scroll. The voice said to unto Ezekiel. Mortal, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it. |
0:40.1 | Then I ate it and in my mouth it was sweet as honey. |
0:43.5 | Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Revelation all speak of eating scrolls, words, and little books. |
0:50.9 | The imagery is arresting. |
0:52.9 | In Jeremiah, this is a joyous thing to eat of God's words. |
0:57.2 | The action of eating enacts transformation. |
1:01.2 | It produces a relationship with the Lord God of hosts. |
1:06.0 | In Revelation, the little book was both sweet in the mouth and bitter in the belly, |
1:12.5 | yet it still prepared the revelator for God's will. The words of scripture are never just words. They are a vehicle for change. |
1:20.9 | I see this imagery as an attempt to capture the numinous experience of being changed by the word of God. |
1:27.3 | This is about both the embodied |
1:29.2 | physical action of eating scripture as well as its effect on the spirit. It's about the whole |
1:35.8 | soul. Now, there is enough intriguing imagery of people eating holy things in the biblical text |
1:42.5 | that we could spend our time tonight with that. |
1:46.4 | However, I want to consider what is left behind. |
1:50.5 | The material markers of the people who have been changed by the word, those changed by a relationship with the sacred text. |
1:57.7 | When believers eat the word of God and are transformed, what is left behind |
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