Episode 47: Recreating the Book of Mormon World – Taylor Halverson and Tyler Griffin Aug 2, 2017
Taylor Halverson and Tyler Griffin are co-founders and co-directors of the BYU Virtual Scriptures Group.
This group recently released the Virtual New Testament App and are currently working on a Book of Mormon geography app.
Nick Galieti talks with Tyler Griffin and Taylor Halverson about the usefulness of mapping Book of Mormon geography. Their efforts are aimed at situating the Book of Mormon within the text, rather than within America. They hope that their app will help readers gain a respect for how geography plays a role in motivating characters in the Book of Mormon to make certain decisions.
Fantastic episode. Thanks!
It’s always interesting to see how context adds to understanding. It’s great, for example, that we can actually go to the locations associated with various events in early LDS history.
I think this will be very helpful, particularly for the arguable majority who have difficulty generating spatial maps for themselves from the information in the text.
Griffin’s presentation at the Fair Mormon Conference yesterday was excellent. Eschewing assigning any particular identification with the various champions of ‘heartland’, Baja, Peru or Meso-America, he demonstrated the internal consistency of descriptions of geography, mostly provided in the book of Alma. I was unable to view or listen to the streaming live but videos of all the presentations were available by the time I had opportunity to watch them in the evening each day; August 3 and 4. All the presentations were very good to excellent.