Episode 179

How to Test a Truth Claim: Analyzing the Anthon Caractors Document

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon are joined by linguist and creator of the Romulan language in the Star Trek Universe, Trent Pehrson.

Trent uses his expertise in linguistics to dissect the Anthon Transcript and evaluate the truth claim that this documents contains characters transcribed by Joseph Smith directly from the gold plates.

His method for systematically determining if a truth claim is accurate can be used to assess many different areas of Mormonism.

In this episode Trent also turns his attention to a book by Jerry Grover called, "Translation of the “Caractors” Document" to see if it meets his truth claim criteria.

We're sure you'll find this episode as fascinating as we did! And yes, we do discuss Star Trek a bit! ;)

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Rebecca Bibliotheca

Rebecca Bibliotheca is a mother or three boys, co-founder of "The Good Book Club," a virtual reading group for post and nuanced Mormons, cohost of "Mormon Media Reviews," and leader of the "Mormon Stories Book Club." She has a Masters of Library and Information Science from BYU and worked for many years at the BYU Library. She and her husband, Tom, also founded a youth theater program that is in its 19th year. Rebecca loves the theater, reading, film, spending times outdoors, church watching and iced coffee!
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Landon Brophy

Landon Brophy is the proud father of four children, two grandchildren, three ATVs and a boat. He's a former military officer, the co-founder of The Good Book Club, a reading group for post and nuanced Mormons, ann international manager for a global defense contractor, and a worldwide traveler. He and his wife founded "Utah Wanderers," an online travel guide to exploring Utah. Landon loves the outdoors, ATVing, boating, flying, reading, observing the "ongoing restoration" and second Saturdays!