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Staker, Mark L.

Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations

Salt Lake City

Greg Kofford Books

2009

[2011 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]

"More of Mormonism's canonized revelations originated in or near Kirtland than any other place. Yet many of the events connected with those revelations and their 1830s historical context have faded over time. Barely twenty-five years after the first of these Ohio revelations, Brigham Young lamented in 1856: 'These revelations, after a lapse of years, become mystified to those who were not personally acquainted with the circumstances at the time they were given.' He gloomily predicted that eventually the revelations "may be as mysterious to our children ... as the revelations contained in the Old and New Testaments are to this generation." Now, more than 150 years later, the distance between what Brigham Young and his Kirtland contemporaries considered common knowledge and our understanding of the same material today has widened into a sometimes daunting gap. Mark Staker narrows the chasm in Hearken, O Ye People by reconstructing the cultural experiences by which Kirtland's Latter-day Saints made sense of the revelations Joseph Smith pronounced. This volume rebuilds that exciting decade using clues from numerous archives, privately held records, museum collections, and even the soil where early members planted corn and homes. From this vast array of sources he shapes a detailed narrative of weather, religious backgrounds, dialect differences, race relations, theological discussions, food preparations, frontier violence, astronomical phenomena, and myriad daily customs of nineteenth-century life. The result is a "from the ground up" experience that today's Latter-day Saints can all but walk into and touch. The context that lies behind Hearken, O Ye People is the distinctive Mormon belief in modern revelation of the same magnitude as that received by ancient biblical prophets-this became the Church's foundation in Kirtland." [Publisher's abstract]

Social and cultural history, American setting
Award Winner
Non-Mormons, relations with, 19th century
Smith, Joseph, Jr., persecutors
Whitney, Newel K., store
Kirtland, Ohio, Whitney store
Kirtland Ashery
Historic sites, Ohio
Community, sense of
Blacks, U.S.
Social and cultural history
Race relations
Ohio, places in
Anti-Mormonism
Social and cultural history, 19th century
Hiram, Ohio
Kirtland, Ohio
Kirtland Safety Society
Banks and banking
Economics, 19th century
Whitney, Newel K.
Revelation and revelations

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