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Another interesting item from the seemingly indefatigable and definitely indispensable Jeff Lindsay:
http://mormanity.blogspot.ch/2017/06/bible-scholar-breaks-ranks-and-reverses.html
The issue is important in its own right, of course, as well as for its relevance to the Book of Mormon — but also because it demonstrates just how flimsy positions expressing “academic consensus” can sometimes turn out to be, when carefully examined rather than merely unquestioningly assumed to be true.
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