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Brant Gardner

Brant A. Gardner (M.A. State University of New York Albany) is the author of Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon and The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon, both published through Greg Kofford Books. He has contributed articles to Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl and Symbol and Meaning Beyond the Closed Community.

FairMormon Conference Presentations

  • A Real People, Time, and Place: Contextualizing the Book of Mormon (2000)
  • A Social History of the Early Nephites (2001)
  • The Gadianton Robbers in Mormon’s Theological History: Their Structural Role and Plausible Identification (2002)
  • Monotheism, Messiah, and Mormon’s Book (2003)
  • The Case for Historicity: Discerning the Book of Mormon’s Production Culture (2004)
  • Defenders of the Book: Surveying the New World Evidence for Book of Mormon Historicity (PDF) (2006)
  • Mormon’s Editorial Method and Meta-Message (2008)
  • Joseph the Seer—or Why Did He Translate With a Rock in His Hat? (2009)
  • The Gift and the Power: Translating the Book of Mormon (2011)

Papers

  • Behind the Mask, Behind the Curtain: Uncovering the Illusion. A Review of The Bible vs. the Book of Mormon
  • The Tempest in a Teapot: DNA Studies and the Book of Mormon
  • Too Good to be True: Questionable Archaeology and the Book of Mormon (PDF)
  • What Does the Book of Mormon Mean by “Skin of Blackness”?

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