S3 E4 Noel Reynolds on 1 Nephi 1 and the Scribal Influence of Lehi and Nephi (week of Jan. 8, second episode)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
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🗓️ 7 January 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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In this episode Noel Reynolds and Kerry explore the background of Lehi's family, and the evidence that they were very trained in languages and very literate. They discuss the possibility that being from Manasseh created an opportunity to be trained in Egyptian. They talk about the influence of that literacy and training in Egyptian on the Book of Mormon.
An article that touches on much of this was written by Kerry and is available at https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=facpub.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Scriptures of Real podcast. |
| 0:11.9 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have helped them become real to us because we believe that helps us to draw more power out of them and we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm your host, Carrie Mielstein, and I'm so thrilled to have with us as a first time, I guess, but not last time. |
| 0:27.7 | Dr. or Professor Emeritus, Noel B. Reynolds. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome, Noel. Thanks for being with us. |
| 0:33.6 | Glad to be here. Thanks for the invitation. |
| 0:36.9 | So first of all, let's just take care of a little bit of business here at the beginning. |
| 0:41.6 | I am so excited to announce that we are launching our website with fingers crossed. |
| 0:46.7 | We plan on it being live by Tuesday morning. |
| 0:49.7 | That's Tuesday, January 9th. |
| 0:52.6 | It should be live, and we have a bunch of stuff on there. We're going to |
| 0:56.2 | keep adding, and we'll always keep adding, and we're looking for other contributors as well, |
| 1:00.4 | but we're going to have stuff on there for myself. There'll be a special, what we call a |
| 1:04.8 | Mielstein Masterclass. I'll do those every now and then. Eventually, I'll do like whole classes. |
| 1:08.2 | I want like a 30 lesson on the old |
| 1:12.2 | testament or maybe 45 lessons or something on the Old Testament at some point. |
| 1:16.1 | We're going to have interfaith roundtable discussions. |
| 1:20.5 | But I'm doing a master class right now that will be available on Jerusalem at the time of |
| 1:26.4 | Lehigh and the route that Lehigh probably took as he left |
| 1:30.0 | Jerusalem and just some things that will help the beginning of the Book of Mormon make sense to you. |
| 1:33.9 | I've spent a lot of time putting that together. |
| 1:35.9 | And we're going to have handouts that I give to my Book of Mormon classes. |
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