Item Detail
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24101
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English
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Joseph Smith : Inspired Author of the Book of Mormon
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American Apocrypha : Essays on the Book of Mormon
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Salt Lake City
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Signature Books
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321-366
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"The trembling hands of young Joseph Smith uncovered the buried golden plates of Mormon and Moroni, lost chapters of an undreamed-of history of Israelite tribes and the Christian Savior in the New World. As the depraved Lamanite had purused the Nephite Mormon and his son to death, so did young Smith feel besieged by the competing claims of rival evangelists and revivalists in his 'Burned-Over District.' It was no surprise that the analogous tale told in the plates struck a note deep within him. And as the Nephites had long survived as a parallel branch of biblical Israel in the western hemisphere, so would the Church of the Latter-day Saints make its lonely but triumphant way through the generations as a parallel version of the Christian religion shared, at arm's length, by most other Americans."
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Charisma under Pressure: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1831–1839
"Idle and Slothful Strange Stories" : Book of Mormon Origins and the Historical Record
Science and Fiction: Kennewick Man/Ancient One in Latter-day Saint Discourse
"There Really is a God, and He Dwells in the Temporal Parietal Lobe of Joseph Smith's Brain"
Twenty Years After “Paradigms Regained,” Part 2: Responding to Margaret Barker’s Critics and Why Her Work Should Matter to Latter‑day Saints
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide