Item Detail
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23201
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17
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English
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Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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2002
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35
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3
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83-112
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Drawing upon a lifetime of reading and thinking about the Book of Mormon, Rees believes that Joseph Smith did not possess any of the literary talents, knowledge, sophistication, education, or necessary time to have written the Book of Mormon. He doubts that even a team of famous nineteenth century authors or scholars could have written such a book, even if they had unlimited access to every extant book and manuscript and if they had a decade to work on it. He proposes a theory that might help the battling critics and apologists to find a common meeting ground. He has come to the conclusion "that the Book of Mormon may be genuinely both an ancient and a modern text." It is his belief "that there were real people named Nephi, Alma, Moroni, and Mormon who lived and wrote on the American continent. The records they kept were like the records kept by other ancient peoples, containing a chronicle of their cultural experience and religious history, expressed in the forms and styles of their literary tradition." But he also believes "that what thoughts and feelings they hoped to pass on to future generations were in practice 'translated' or expressed in Joseph Smith's language and through the experience of his nineteenth-century mind."
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Defending Ourselves, Offending Ourselves: Context and Commentary on the 1990s Theory Debates between the Historical and the Literary
Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon
Irony in the Book of Mormon
John Milton, Joseph Smith, and The Book of Mormon
Mormon Hermeneutics: Five Approaches to the Bible by the LDS Church
The Dance of Reader and Text: Salomé, the Daughter of Jared, and the Regal Dance of Death
The Power of Evidence in the Nurturing of Faith -
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Converted to Christ through the Book of Mormon
David Whitmer Interviews : A Restoration Witness
Delusions : An Analysis of the Book of Mormon ; with an Examination of Its internal and External Evidences, and a Refutation of Its pretences to Divine Authority
Early Mormon Documents : Volume I
How Joseph Smith Resolved the Dilemmas of American Romanticism
New Approaches to the Book of Mormon : Explorations in Critical Methodology
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Parallelomania and the Study of Latter-day Scripture : Confirmation, Coincidence, or the Collective Unconscious
The American Religion : The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
The Centennial of Mormonism
The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley
The Mormons : Looking Forward and Outward
The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
Through the Arabian Desert to a Bountiful Land : Could Joseph Smith Have Known the Way?
Translating the Book of Mormon : Evidence from the Original Manuscript
Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Critics and Their Theories