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I thought, \u201cI\u2019ll blog about that tonight or tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
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This morning, Louis Vottero posted a link to it on Facebook.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m grateful to them. \u00a0It\u2019s an extraordinarily interesting piece that I highly recommend, with all sorts<\/em> of relevance to the question of how seriously the scriptures should be taken as historical sources and \u2014 apologies to both Professor Owen and the article\u2019s author, Professor Berman, for this application, which they wouldn\u2019t make \u2014 to discussions about the historicity of the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Posted from Monterey, California<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Having followed recent intra-LDS online disputes about scriptural historicity, my Evangelical friend Paul Owen called my attention, in an email yesterday, to this exceptionally interesting article by an Israeli professor: \u00a0 http:\/\/mosaicmagazine.com\/essay\/2015\/03\/was-there-an-exodus\/ \u00a0 I thought, \u201cI\u2019ll blog about that tonight or tomorrow.\u201d \u00a0 This morning, Louis Vottero posted a link to it on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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