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20205
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English
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Revelation, Text, and Revision : Insight from the Book of Commandments and Revelations
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BYU Studies
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2009
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48
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no.3
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67-84
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"This article is one of several in this issue about the Book of Commandments and Revelations (BCR), a foundational document of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This article explores how the textual revisions preserved in the BCR shed important light on the process by which Joseph Smith received, recorded, and published his revelations. It has long been recognized that revelations published in the 1833 Book of Commandments were revised for publication in the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants. Less well known is that those texts were also edited prior to publication in the Book of Commandments or The Evening and the Morning Star. What has been entirely unknown, however, until the BCR became available, is the extent of those earliest revisions. Literally hundreds of redactions, usually involving only a word or two but sometimes comprising an entire phrase, were inscribed in the BCR between 1831 and 1833. A corollary contribution of the BCR, therefore, is the possibility of seeing the wording behind the revisions. For dozens of revelation texts, this provides the earliest wording now extant. While we cannot be certain that the unrevised wording of the revelation texts in the BCR, or any other prepublication manuscript for that matter, corresponds exactly to the texts of the revelations as Joseph Smith originally dictated them, they appear to be very close." [Publisher's Abstract]
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Ancient Affinities within the LDS Book of Enoch Part One
Changing Revelatory Messages : A Mormon Example
“Having Many Things to Write to You” : Biblical Intertextuality in Joseph Smith's Two Colesville Letters
In God's Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
"Securing" the Prophet's Copyright in the Book of Mormon : Historical and Legal Context for the So-called Canadian Copyright Revelation
The Book of Moses: From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days
The Doctrinal and Commitment Functions of Patriarchal Blessings in Early Mormon Development
The Expanded Canon : Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts
The Making of Modern Scripture : Latter-day Saints and the Book of Commandments and Revelations -
Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited : The Evidence for Ancient Origins
Far West Record : Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844
Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations, Volume 2 : Published Revelations
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 1 : Autobiographical and Historical Writings