Brant Gardner

Brant Anderson Gardner (born 1951) is a Mormon apologist.

Biographical background

Gardner is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From 1971 to 1973, he served as a missionary for the church in the Spain Madrid Mission.

Gardner received a B.A. in University Studies from Brigham Young University in 1975, and an M.A. in Anthropology from the State University of New York, Albany (SUNY) in 1978. From 1978–80, Gardner continued at SUNY, completing all the course work, but not exams or a dissertation, toward a Ph.D. in Mesoamerican ethnohistory.

In Mesoamerican studies, Gardner has published on classical Nahuatl kinship terminology, ethnohistoric investigation of Coxoh in southern Mexico, and the Aztec Legend of the Suns. He has published with the New World Archaeological Foundation and the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies.

Professionally, Gardner has worked in software consulting and product management.

Mormon studies

Gardner has published widely on the Book of Mormon and its possible geographical settings. He has often written for the FARMS Review of Books and has presented in the conferences of the Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR) during 2000–4, and 2008. In 2007 he presented on "DNA and the Book of Mormon" to the Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum.

Gardner is the author of Second Witness: Analytical & Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon (ISBN 1589580478 Search this book on .), published by Greg Kofford Books in 2007. This six-volume commentary on the Book of Mormon focuses on its spiritual, theological, cultural, textual, and historical context. For years much of this work was presented online as The Multi-dimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon, which Gardner further revised for publication and took offline.

Published works

• Campbell, Lyle; Ventur, Pierre; Stewart, Russell; Gardner, Brant (1978). Bibliography of Mayan Languages and Linguistics. Publication. 3. New York: State University of New York at Albany, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies. ISBN 094204102X. Search this book on
• Campbell, Lyle; Gardner, Brant (1988). "Coxoh". The Linguistics of Southeast Chiapas, Mexico. Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation. 50. Provo, Utah: New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University. pp. 315–38. Search this book on
• Gardner, Brant (1975). Mecayotl and Mexicayotl : The Role of Kinship in Nahua Society (M.S. Anthropology thesis).
• ——. "A Structural and Semantic Analysis of Classical Nahuatl Kinship Terminology". Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl. 15: 89–124.
• —— (March 1986). "The Christianization of Quetzalcoatl: A History of the Metamorphosis". Sunstone. Vol. 10 no. 11. Salt Lake City, Utah: Sunstone Education Foundation. pp. 6–10. Archived from the original on 2022-05-18. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
• —— (1986). "The Aztec 'Legend of the Suns': A Multi-Dimensional Approach to the Ethnohistory of Myth". In Gary Gossen. Symbol and Meaning Beyond the Closed Community. New York: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York, Albany. pp. 19–34. ISBN 0-942041-10-0. Search this book on
• —— (1997). "Quetzalcoatl's Fathers: A Critical Examination of Source Materials". AZTLAN E-Journal. John W. Hoopes, University of Kansas. Archived from the original on 2009-06-26.
• —— (2004). "An Exploration in Critical Methodology: Critiquing a Critique". FARMS Review. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. 16 (2): 173–223. doi:10.5406/farmsreview.16.2.0173.
• —— (2007). Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon. [six volumes]. Salt Lake City, Utah: Greg Kofford Books. ISBN 9781589580473. Search this book on
• —— (2011). The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon. Greg Kofford Books. ISBN 9781589581319. Search this book on
• —— (2015). Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon As History. Greg Kofford Books. ISBN 9781589586659. Search this book on

External links

• Bio page Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine from FARMS
• "Likening With Care" - articles about Gardner's work in 2008

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