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Very impressive piece of scholarship–I look forward to other articles from this same scholar. It’s another entry into my collection of scholarship about the temple in the Book of Mormon
As I was reading heavenly ascent and hellish descent, I couldn’t help but thinking of the doctrine of the two ways, introduced by Nibley and then elaborated on by Noel Reynolds. I didn’t hear any mention of this in the text, but was pleased to note that you mentioned it in footnote #103.
However, I do find one problem with this paper. As good as the paper was, the audio recording was terrible. It’s almost like it was submitted at 1.5 speed. It went WAY too fast and was unintelligible in many places. Only when I slowed my player down to 0.75 did it make any sense at all. I read the article first and like it so much I wanted to listen to it again, without the distraction of the footnotes. But it is, frankly, unlistenable (is that a word?) in its current state. I would recommend rerecording it.