{"id":21159,"date":"2015-06-10T23:11:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T05:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=21159"},"modified":"2015-06-10T23:11:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T05:11:34","slug":"response-to-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/06\/response-to-jenkins.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Response to Jenkins&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of late, in a series of blog posts, a rather well-known non-Mormon historian has taken quite negative aim at the Book of Mormon. \u00a0His arguments aren\u2019t very good and, in this area at least, he doesn\u2019t really know very much, but, because of who he is, they probably merit reply from a faithful Latter-day Saint scholar. \u00a0Who will take up the task?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My friend and former BYU colleague Bill Hamblin appears poised to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21160\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/06\/320px-Roma_San_Paolo_fuori_le_mura_BW_2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21160\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/06\/320px-Roma_San_Paolo_fuori_le_mura_BW_2.jpg\" alt=\"St. Paul, statue in Rome\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of the Apostle Paul at the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura (the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls) in Rome, the traditional site of his burial. Please note the book that he\u2019s carrying. That\u2019s okay. But the sword? Far too martial. He was clearly some sort of nasty apologist, not fit for academia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hamblin\u00a0contributes an item for the \u201cYou probably shouldn\u2019t hold your breath\u201d file:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/enigmaticmirror\/2015\/06\/10\/response-to-jenkins\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/enigmaticmirror\/2015\/06\/10\/response-to-jenkins\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Logan, Utah<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Of late, in a series of blog posts, a rather well-known non-Mormon historian has taken quite negative aim at the Book of Mormon. \u00a0His arguments aren\u2019t very good and, in this area at least, he doesn\u2019t really know very much, but, because of who he is, they probably merit reply from a faithful Latter-day [&hellip;]<\/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-21159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Response to Jenkins&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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