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Krister Stendahl's exegesis of 3 Nephi
Now that the dust has settled on whether legitimate scholars believe the BoM is worth examining, let’s move on to the substance of their examinations. First with Krister Stendahl of Harvard Divinity School and his talk at BYU entitled "The Sermon on the Mount and Third Nephi."
The reference can be found on his Harvard vita: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/library/b...1stendahl.html I found the essay's value in helping the reader understand 3 Nephi even greater than its apologetic usefulness. Some excerpts: Summary (if you don’t want to read anything else) Quote:
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Stendahl is great. I won't pretend I've read a lot of his stuff, but I've seen him interviewed a couple of different times and he's always left me impressed.
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He may have, as you mentioned, just been being nice when not explicitly attributing a modern origin to the BoM. But If you read the chapter in conjunction with Charlesworth's chapter (which I found more compelling), even if there are modern elements in the BoM, it does not vitiate the Smith's claims. The OT Pseudepigrapha was redacted by later Christians, as Charlesworth stated. Mormon's or even JSmith's targums can be considered legitimate. Stendahl's chapter's apologetic use is minimal and pales in comparison to its devotional use, as I mentioned in my post. It helps the devout LDS appreciate 3 Nephi's beauty and its differences from Matthew. Charlesworth's actually defends the BoM against charges of a modern origin (see other post). I didn't quote Charlesworth's article in entirety, but at the end he takes off his scholar's hat and bears his testimony in support of targum, while Stendahl does the same, with the opposite conclusion.
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do you know the title to the temple video with the interview?
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