*MS Classics 269: Dr. Michael Coe - An Outsider's View of Book of Mormon Archaeology Pt. 2

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Dr. John Dehlin

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🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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A re-release of our first interview with Dr. Coe released in August 2011:

Dr. Michael Coe is the Charles J. MacCurdy professor emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University and curator emeritus of the Division of Anthropology at the schoolâ€™s Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is an expert on the Maya, who inhabited the same part of Mexico and Central American where Mormon scholars say the events of the Book of Mormon took place. In this interview, Coe discusses the challenges facing Mormon archaeologists attempting to prove the historical truth of their central scripture and his own views on Joseph Smith.

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0:29.9	Okay, and so when I was on a mission in Guatemala, we showed up a little film strip.
0:36.9	And the little film strip was, I think it was called Ancient America Speaks.
0:41.5	I'm not sure.
0:42.5	But I think, have you seen this film strip?
0:44.3	Ancient America's what?
0:45.5	Ancient America Speaks, I think it was called, but I'm not sure.
0:49.1	But here was the basic premise.
0:50.7	It was that, you know, Jesus lived in the old world and he, you know, visited people
0:58.9	there, but he also said in the Bible, other sheep I have that are not of this fold, you
1:03.1	know, them too, shall hear my word.
1:05.2	And then it said, did you know that Jesus, after he died, came and visited the Americas?
1:11.9	And he came to America, his big earthquake, he came to America, sat down, called 12 apostles,
1:20.3	formed a church, and this is what the Book of Mormon claims.
1:26.6	And the people prior to Jesus were already believing that Jesus was going to come.
1:33.0	They were baptizing in his name.
1:35.3	They were, you know, setting up temples or doing rituals that were kind of Jewish or
1:42.6	pre- or Christian rituals.
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