In the past few days, FairMormon has been putting up videos of the presentations from their 2015 and 2016 conferences. One recent video is that of Ben McGuire, The Book of Mormon as a Communicative Act: Translation in Context
Ben is the author of one of the most important studies on the use of the Old Testament in the Book of Mormon, Nephi and Goliath: A Case Study of Literary Allusion in the Book of Mormon which shows that the author of 1 Nephi 3-4 had access to the A-source but not the later B-source of the David/Goliath narrative in 1 Sam 16-17, arguing strongly for the pre-exilic origin of the Book of Mormon.
Ben is the author of one of the most important studies on the use of the Old Testament in the Book of Mormon, Nephi and Goliath: A Case Study of Literary Allusion in the Book of Mormon which shows that the author of 1 Nephi 3-4 had access to the A-source but not the later B-source of the David/Goliath narrative in 1 Sam 16-17, arguing strongly for the pre-exilic origin of the Book of Mormon.
