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MikeWaters 04-13-2012 11:07 PM

Brant Gardner's book
 
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Witness.../dp/1589580419

"Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, First Nephi" ( Brant Gardner )

Has anyone read this? I just received it as a gift.

ChinoCoug 04-14-2012 05:10 PM

Haven't read it but his podcast (the one describing one of his other books) was really good.

ChinoCoug 04-15-2012 05:33 AM

Do you recommend Quinn's Magic book?

Archaea 04-16-2012 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 316048)
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Witness.../dp/1589580419

"Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, First Nephi" ( Brant Gardner )

Has anyone read this? I just received it as a gift.

Comments?

MikeWaters 04-16-2012 02:59 PM

it's still in shrinkwrap.

MikeWaters 04-23-2012 03:53 PM

I'm a few chapters in. I haven't read enough to give a review. But overall it seems like a good resource from an apologetics viewpoint. I note that it talked about what I observed in the "Breaking the Maya Code" documentary, that the Mayan had a character that meant essentially "it happened" or "it came to pass." He specifically references Coe. It comes across as intelligently going through the internal content and structure of the Book of Mormon to see what that tells us about its culture. For example, the last part of what I read was about how Lehi may have been a refugee from Israel (and Judea) and viewed the Judean reforms before the Babylonian destruction to have been an apostasy of sorts (these reforms are the basis for our Christian conception of the Old Testament today). That's just an example of the kind of thing he discusses.


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