{"id":30954,"date":"2016-02-14T23:22:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T06:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=30954"},"modified":"2016-02-14T23:28:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T06:28:30","slug":"bom-2-nephi-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/02\/bom-2-nephi-27.html","title":{"rendered":"BOM 2 Nephi 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, including a newly recovered daguerreotype of Oliver Cowdery, colorized by Bryce Haymond forhe Interpreter Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It\u2019s fascinating to see how, in today\u2019s reading (2 Nephi 27<\/a>), Nephi takes the prophecy about Jerusalem in Isaiah 29 and \u201clikens\u201d it to his own people, the fate of the record that would become the Book of Mormon, and the latter-day Restoration (including details about Charles Anthon).<\/p>\n

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I need to be very brief tonight, and simply want to call attention to verses twelve and thirteen, which allude to the calling of the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n

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The testimony of these witnesses is enormously important. \u00a0I fear that many members of the Church don\u2019t recognize the strength of their collective witness to the Book of Mormon, and I know that many critics undervalue it or summarily dismiss it altogether.<\/p>\n

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So, once again, I recommend as a starting point one of the best books ever published by a Latter-day Saint scholar, Richard Lloyd Anderson\u2019s\u00a0Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0If you haven\u2019t read it, you really should.<\/p>\n

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Of course, that book scarcely exhausts his contributions on the topic, let alone his more general work. \u00a0(And he\u2019s not done yet.) \u00a0I\u2019m especially fond of his article\u00a0\u201cAttempts to Redefine the Experience of the Eight Witnesses,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0because I effectively pestered him into writing it.<\/p>\n

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But \u00a0I also recommend such pieces as \u201cA Brief Biography of Oliver Cowdery,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u201cPersonal Writings of the Book of Mormon Witnesses,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u201cReuben Miller: Recorder of Oliver Cowdery\u2019s Reaffirmations,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cThe Credibility of the Book of Mormon Translators.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Trained at both Harvard Law School, where he earned a juris doctorate, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a Ph.D. in ancient history, Richard Lloyd Anderson ranks among the finest scholars the Church has ever produced, and he has been, for decades now, the foremost expert on the lives and characters of the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n

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Bryce Haymond\u2019s striking colorized versions of old daguerrotypes or photographs of the Three Witnesses, shown above \u2014 \u00a0of a young\u00a0Oliver Cowdery<\/a>\u00a0(recently discovered), as well as of\u00a0Martin Harris<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0David Whitmer\u00a0<\/a>in their old age\u2013 along with explanations of the provenance and restoration of the images,\u00a0can be found on the website of The Interpreter Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s fascinating to see how, in today\u2019s reading (2 Nephi 27), Nephi takes the prophecy about Jerusalem in Isaiah 29 and \u201clikens\u201d it to his own people, the fate of the record that would become the Book of Mormon, and the latter-day Restoration (including details about Charles Anthon). \u00a0 I need to […]<\/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-30954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBOM 2 Nephi 27<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"      It's fascinating to see how, in today's reading (2 Nephi 27), Nephi takes the prophecy about Jerusalem in Isaiah 29 and "likens" it\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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