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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
After he wrote his book "By the Hand of Mormon", when he visited BYU he said there was one question BYU professors had for him: "How did you get away with it?" Get away with what? "Writing a faith-promoting book and having it published by Oxford." I don't think Givens necessarily agrees that he wrote a faith-promoting book, but he said that Mormon scholars have often sold themselves short by holding back and not addressing things.
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Cf. Grant Hardy. In his Oxford publication he apologizes all over himself for the BoM not being historical.
Thanks for the summary. I'll be hearing Givens speak at Duck Beach in a couple of weeks. Should be rewarding.