Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real.

This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that help them become more real to us

so that we can draw more power out of them because we need all the help we can get.

I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I'm so happy to have with me a returning guest that our long-term audience will be familiar with, Dr. Joshua Mattson. We call him Josh, who has his PhD from Florida State University and religion. He studied in Jerusalem and at Trinity Western and all sorts of places. He's a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the

minor prophets, the Old Testament, but just the Old Testament in general. Really, he's a specialist in

just about everything. And of course, he applies all of that to the Book of Mormon and is so good

at the Book of Mormon. He's taught seminary, and now he teaches in the same department I teach in.

And he's just a good

guy with a good little family. And so welcome, Josh. Good to have you with us. Well, Kerry, great to be back.

And thanks for the compliment. The good family rubs off on me. So they're the ones that make it good.

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