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July 2015

July 23, 2015

Jenkins 28: The Myth of “Therefore”

Jenkins "responding" to my question here. My comments in blue. My original source =

July 23, 2015

Jenkins 26: Still no Evidence?

This just in from Jenkins. My comments preceed in blue. As I've said from the...

July 22, 2015

Hamblin 35: Time for Clear Thinking on Nahom

Alas, Jenkins' thinking on Nahom is hopelessly muddled. If NHM can not be accepted an authentic...

July 22, 2015

Jenkins 25: Answer on Nahom

The following, at the bottom, is from Jenkins, missing my point as usual. My comments are...

July 22, 2015

Jenkins 24: Nahom Part Deux

From Philip Jenkins--charming as usual. My comments in blue. My question for Philip is: "If...

July 22, 2015

Jenkins 23: Empirical and Objective?

Philip Jenkins posted this on his blog, responding to my discussion of the impossibility of empirical...

July 22, 2015

Jenkins 22: Credible and Plausible?

Here's something new from Jenkins. I'm providing two comments here in blue. 1- From the beginning...

July 22, 2015

Hamblin 34: From Smoot

My friend Stephen Smoot sent me the following, which I believe is germane to the...

July 17, 2015

Hamblin 33: Moving the Goal Posts

In another classic example of moving the goal post after the touchdown has been made,...

July 17, 2015

Hamblin 32: Peterson speaks! — er, writes.

Dan Peterson makes some important points about the debate I'm having with Jenkins. Unfortunately,...

July 17, 2015

Jenkins 21: The Empirical Past?

Below is Jenkins comments. My response comes first in blue. ===== For the purposes of argumentation I...

July 17, 2015

Hamblin 31: I am not a Post-Modernist

Jenkins repeatedly asserts that I, and all other LDS authors on the historicity of the Book of...

July 13, 2015

Jenkins 20: Does the Past Exist?

Here are some recent comments from Philip Jenkins. My responses are interspersed in blue. ====================...

July 10, 2015

Hamblin 30: Rappleye on Methodology

The productive Neal Rappleye has written another excellent mini-essay on the methodological and interpretative issues related...

July 10, 2015

Hamblin 29: Rappleye AMBS bibliography

Prof. Jenkins has repeatedly claimed that the ancient Book of Mormon studies is not a...

July 08, 2015

Hamblin 28: Homophony and Proper Names

Another possible avenue for evaluating the historicity of the Book of Mormon is proper name...

July 08, 2015

Hamblin 27: The Entrada of AD 378

The Book of Mormon dramatically describes a cataclysmic war which results in the desertion of...

July 08, 2015

Jenkins 19: Book of Mormon Revisited

Over the holiday prof. Jenkins posted on his own blog what he sees as a...

July 08, 2015

Jenkins 18: U-Kix/Akish

I've been otherwise occupied over the holiday weekend, and haven't kept up on the blog....

July 08, 2015

Hamblin 26: Goose and Gander

My friend Neal Rappleye recently posted an important response to some of the things Jenkins...

July 04, 2015

Hamblin 25: U-Kix/Akish

NOTE: My friend Mark Wright, a professional Maya scholar and linguist, just informed me that...

July 03, 2015

Hamblin 24: Question for Jenkins

Prof. Jenkins insists that there should be "objective evidence" for the Book of Mormon. So...

July 03, 2015

Jenkins 17: Epistemology and Nihilism

I have read your recent post on epistemology, which genuinely took me aback: I...

July 03, 2015

Jenkins 16: Argument Turned Upside Down

Dr. Hamblin has specified his grounds rules for any debate over Book of Mormon historicity,...

July 03, 2015

Hamblin 23: Great Expectations

In his #13, Jenkins writes: So if the great Book of Mormon civilization is there,...

July 01, 2015

Hamblin 22: Comments from Gee

John Gee has been commenting on some relevant issues on his blog. See:

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Hamblin 21: Maya King Lists

The phonetic pronunciation of many, perhaps most, of the Maya proper names in glyph inscriptions...

June 30, 2015

Hamblin 20: Centrality of Hermeneutics

Whenever anyone demands "objective evidence" for historical questions you know your dealing with a hermeneutical...

June 29, 2015

Hamblin 19: Place Names (Emblem Glyphs)

There are around 50 Maya emblem glyphs found in Classic Maya inscriptions. (Of course more...

June 29, 2015

Jenkins 15:

A couple more short comments from Jenkins. I have added responses from me in Blue ========...