Scholar Shares Incredible Book Of Mormon Insights - Brant Gardner | 03

For All The Saints With Ben Hancock

Brant A. Gardner (M.A. State University of New York Albany) is the author of Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon and The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon, both published through Greg Kofford Books. He has contributed articles to Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl and Symbol and Meaning Beyond the Closed Community. He has presented papers at the FAIR conference as well as at Sunstone.
I wanted to talk with Brant about his incredible discoveries linking Mesoamerica with the Book of Mormon. I wanted to know why he wanted to pursue such in-depth study of the Book of Mormon and if it really stands up to the high standards of archaeological study.
Some highlights from this episode are what we can learn from Jesus about how He ministered to the Nephites compared to how He appeared to the disciples in the Old World, why the Nephites were destroyed, and Brant's advice to people struggling in their faith.
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00:00 Intro
00:52 Why Brant Pursued a Career Out of The Book of Mormon
03:59 The Links Between Mesoamerica & The Book of Mormon
05:24 The Problems With New World Archeology in Mesoamerica
09:21 Finding Mesoamerica in The Book of Mormon
16:59 Will The Book of Mormon Ever be Taken Up as a Wider Study of Archeology?
19:00 Would The Book of Mormon Ever Inform Archeology?
26:17 The Destruction of The Nephites
31:14 The Saviour Revealing His Wounds to the People in Mesoamerica
35:59 Cultural Contexts in The Book of Mormon
41:04 Who Were Nephi & Mormon?
43:13 Understanding How The Book of Mormon Was Written
51:54 Joseph Smith’s Translation of The Gold Plates
54:14 The Social Status of Nephi’s Family in The Old World
55:50 The Formatting of The Book of Mormon
1:00:13 The Lost 116 Pages of The Book of Mormon
1:03:52 Advice For People Struggling to Have Faith in The Book of Mormon
1:06:10 Outro