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Neal Rappleye, “Put Away Childish Things”: Learning to Read the Book of Mormon Using Mature Historical Thought
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Neal Rappleye is the Research Project Manager at Book of Mormon Central and has published on the Book of Mormon in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture. He has presented at the 2014, 2016, and 2017 Book of Mormon Conferences.
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I appreciate the awareness of the Meso-American pattern of near-death experiences as a shamanic or holy calling experience. As I have been studying the Book of Alma over the last several months, I was struck by this repetition from Alma to Lamoni to the crowd at Lamoni’s court, and while I am unfamiliar with Native American cultural practices in pre Columbian times, it was clear that these patterns were culturally “normed” for having a spiritually revelatory and life-altering experience.