Hi, everybody. Radio Free Mormon here, Bill Real there. Welcome to Mormonism live. Hi, Bill. How are you doing?

Dun, dun, I'm doing great. R.M. How are you? Just very excited about tonight's show.

We have the distinguished Esquire at large, Colby Reddish. She's going to be joining us on the show here in just a minute

He's in the green room. He's actually in Philadelphia right now

Condolences accepted he is traveling, but he is such a pro that he's going to be with us anyway on the show tonight to share with us what I think is a

substantive contribution to the field of Book of Mormon Studies that moves the needle on this

issue. And it was a great idea. It was a brilliant idea he came up with and he's pursued it

brilliantly. Hopefully his presentation will be as brilliant. Bill, do you have anything you want to

tell us? Just that Kobe is full of brilliant ideas and this will be just another one. I think at

this point, we're way beyond the hat trick. Yeah, he's so brilliant. Let's bring him on now and see if he's

blushing. Are you blushing, Colby? Well, I was raised Mormon, so I'm not very comfortable with praise. But thank you, gentlemen. You're very welcome. So don't let us down. There's no pressure at all here, okay? Great. When did you come up with this idea? It has to do with a textual comparison between the Book of Mormon and basically the Dead Sea Scrolls. I'll leave it general for now.

Yeah.

And to see if there were what we would expect of the Book of Mormon really were what it represents itself as being as having a very early form of Isaiah.

And wouldn't that look more like what the Isaiah is and the Dead Sea Scrolls than it would like the Isaiah that the King James version used,

which came about a thousand years after Christ. Yep, that's exactly right. So where I came up

with the idea was a few months ago, Colby Townsend released some research where he was looking

into links between the Adam Clark Bible commentary and the Book of Mormon, basically looking at, and so Tom

Weymet basically was the first to chip away at this and look at the Adam Clark Bible commentary

in connection with the Joseph Smith translation. He and Haley Wilson Lamont. And then,

once again, you were a student assistant for Thomas Weymett.

I was. I was a research assistant for Tom. I actually just met up with him a few weeks ago when I was in Utah for a family wedding. It was great to see him. It's been, I mean, it's been almost 15 years, I guess, since I graduated BYU and was working with him. But yeah, at the time he was

looking for a, I loved Tom. I took all of my religion classes from BYU or at BYU from Tom,

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