This is Part 1 of 2 episodes with Brant Gardner. The second episode focuses on the translation of the Book of Mormon.
Brant Gardner, a Book of Mormon Scholar, gives a response to our interview with "Heartland" model scholar, Jonathan Neville on Book of Mormon Geography. Gardner supports the "academic" Mesoamerican model for the events that took place in the Book of Mormon.
He cites North, East, South, and West directions in the text, population, agriculture, and other points he believes support the Mesoamerican model.
We also cover the crucial point of "Where is the Hill Cumorah?" Everything may ride on how you interpret this location and the history of referring to the hill in New York as Cumorah.
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