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Not gonna lie, having Smoot present after Carl Trueman is going to be interesting.

Hi Benjamin! Let me just say I’ve thoroughly been enjoying your contributions here. This also brings up the question of what we mean when we talk about a divine translation, or even when we talk about a good translation. What we mean by translation, what our expectations are, and how that translatio...

I'm glad my OP could lure Nevo out of hiding and to register here!

Thank you for the links, I plan to immediately start reading them.

That's not bad actually. Roger Ebert gave "Lost Highway" 2 stars, "Blue Velvet" 1 star, and "Dune" 1/2 star. An argument could be made that the co-executive producer is a better filmmaker than David Lynch. And you know how the apologists point out that other people did the same bad stuff as Joseph ...

Not that I’ve read, no. Could you say more about why it provides a common ground or what the text's virtues are that could be admired by a non-Mormon? I'm asking this because I'm just genuinely curious about your thoughts and experiences with the book, I don't have any sort of intentions of trying ...

I didn’t see the list, but if it included Anderson’s “Investigating...” book than it is a good list. Any serious discussion of the Book of Mormon witnesses must start there. Without a common frame of reference, Spock once says to Bones about death, it would be impossible to discuss the matter (para...

I just spent the last 45 minutes reading the back and forth between DCP and Elind. Thanks DCP for reconfirming my exit from Mormonism. Elind repeatedly asked for evidence for Mormon claims and was repeatedly brushed off with reading assignments. Then he is accused of not being "serious" because he ...

So, to sum up: my guess is that he probably did face a reception from his earlier colleagues similar to that which met Hamblin. That might have meant even a department chair or two, though I doubt it went any higher than that. Unlike Hamblin, though, NIbley was able to break into the asylum. Well i...

For anyone lurking that wants to read a bit more about Neusner’s personal legacy, there was a short piece written by a former student of his. Laura S. Levitt’s comments mirror what other people have told me in conversations. The first paragraph is really good: In the weeks since Jacob Neusner died e...

I have to admit upfront that the phenomenological experience of reading Louis Midgley's ' Honoring Hugh Nibley — Again ' is not unlike that of watching a Yung Gravy music video . The cadence of prose has a certain perkiness to it and proceeds along at a clip that can be described as enjoyable, much ...