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Brant A. Gardner

About Brant A. 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. He has presented papers at the FAIR conference as well as at Sunstone.

Marvelous Ripples through Time and Mind

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 8, 2023 | 0 comments

Exploring the Complex Book of Mormon

by Brant A. Gardner | Oct 27, 2023 | 1 comment

Witnessing to the New Witness

by Brant A. Gardner | Jul 29, 2022 | 5 comments

A Sympathetic but Flawed Look at Book of Mormon Historicity

by Brant A. Gardner | Nov 12, 2021 | 8 comments

Giving the Book of Ether its Proper Due

by Brant A. Gardner | May 7, 2021 | 1 comment

Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects under a Microscope

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 18, 2020 | 3 comments

The Expanse of Joseph Smith’s Translation Vision

by Brant A. Gardner | Sep 18, 2020 | 1 comment

Oral Creation and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon

by Brant A. Gardner | Sep 4, 2020 | 9 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Preface

by Brant A. Gardner | Jan 3, 2020 | 6 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 16 – 18

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 27, 2019 | 2 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 14 & 15

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 20, 2019 | 1 comment

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 12 & 13

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 13, 2019 | 1 comment

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 9 – 11

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 6, 2019 | 6 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 6 – 8

by Brant A. Gardner | Nov 29, 2019 | 8 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 4 & 5

by Brant A. Gardner | Nov 22, 2019 | 10 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture

by Brant A. Gardner | Nov 15, 2019 | 14 comments

Read This Book: A Review of the Maxwell Institute Study Edition of the Book of Mormon

by Brant A. Gardner | Feb 8, 2019 | 24 comments

2018 Church History Symposium

by Brant A. Gardner | Feb 9, 2018 | 0 comments

Brant A. Gardner – “In the Visions of the Night: The Human Brain and Divine Revelation”

by Brant A. Gardner | Jul 31, 2016 | 2 comments

Perhaps Close can Count in More than Horseshoes

by Brant A. Gardner | Jul 29, 2016 | 3 comments

Beauty Way More Than Skin Deep

by Brant A. Gardner | Jun 24, 2016 | 1 comment

Examining the Heartland Hypothesis as Geography

by Brant A. Gardner | Aug 22, 2015 | 24 comments

John L. Sorenson’s Complete Legacy: Reviewing Mormon’s Codex

by Brant A. Gardner and Mark Alan Wright | Mar 13, 2015 | 3 comments

The Book with the Unintentionally Self-Referential Title

by Brant A. Gardner | Aug 29, 2014 | 15 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 19:1-21

by Brant A. Gardner | May 24, 2014 | 0 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: 1 Nephi 18

by Brant A. Gardner | May 17, 2014 | 5 comments

Literacy and Orality in the Book of Mormon

by Brant A. Gardner | Mar 14, 2014 | 15 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 17

by Brant A. Gardner | Feb 15, 2014 | 10 comments

Another Suggestion for Reading 1 Nephi 1: 1-3

by Brant A. Gardner | Jan 18, 2014 | 19 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 16

by Brant A. Gardner | Jan 12, 2014 | 1 comment

Testing a Methodology: A Malaysian Setting for the Book of Mormon

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 29, 2013 | 16 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 15

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 15, 2013 | 0 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 14

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 8, 2013 | 0 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 13

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 1, 2013 | 4 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 12

by Brant A. Gardner | Nov 24, 2013 | 6 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 11

by Brant A. Gardner | Oct 26, 2013 | 4 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 10

by Brant A. Gardner | Oct 20, 2013 | 5 comments

Silk or Sow’s Ear? The Apologetic use of the If>And Construction

by Brant A. Gardner | Oct 13, 2013 | 12 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 9

by Brant A. Gardner | Oct 5, 2013 | 4 comments

Why Should We Be Concerned with Book of Mormon Geography?

by Brant A. Gardner | Sep 28, 2013 | 68 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 8

by Brant A. Gardner | Sep 21, 2013 | 2 comments

I Do Not Think That WORD Means What You Think It Means

by Brant A. Gardner | Sep 20, 2013 | 15 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 7

by Brant A. Gardner | Sep 14, 2013 | 1 comment

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 6

by Brant A. Gardner | Sep 1, 2013 | 0 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 5

by Brant A. Gardner | Aug 25, 2013 | 5 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 4

by Brant A. Gardner | Aug 17, 2013 | 7 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 3

by Brant A. Gardner | Aug 11, 2013 | 5 comments

Interpreter Foundation is Seeking Volunteers

by Brant A. Gardner | Jul 30, 2013 | 0 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 2

by Brant A. Gardner | Jul 27, 2013 | 3 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 1

by Brant A. Gardner | Jul 18, 2013 | 3 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: Preliminary: Nephi as Author

by Brant A. Gardner | Jul 4, 2013 | 3 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: Introduction

by Brant A. Gardner | Jul 4, 2013 | 5 comments

When Hypotheses Collide: Responding to Lyon and Minson’s “When Pages Collide”

by Brant A. Gardner | May 31, 2013 | 36 comments

18th Annual Symposium: Religion, Faith and the Environment

by Brant A. Gardner | Apr 5, 2013 | 0 comments

From the East to the West: The Problem of Directions in the Book of Mormon

by Brant A. Gardner | Jan 25, 2013 | 27 comments

A Mesoamerican Context for the Book of Mormon is a Two-edged Sword

by Brant A. Gardner | Jan 4, 2013 | 12 comments

The “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” May Be a Forgery

by Brant A. Gardner | Sep 26, 2012 | 1 comment

The Cultural Context of Nephite Apostasy

by Mark Alan Wright and Brant A. Gardner | Aug 10, 2012 | 2 comments

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