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The Gift and Power : Translating the Book of Mormon
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Salt Lake City
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Greg Kofford Books
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[2011 Association for Mormon Letters Winner for Best Criticism]
"The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon examines the various issues surrounding that translation. How does the fact of the translation fit into a magical worldview in which Joseph had a place as a village seer? What might that context mean for our understanding of the text? This work explores the kind of translation the Book of Mormon represents. Did Joseph Smith or the marvelous instruments do the actual work of translation? Is it a tight or loose translation? How closely tied is the English text to the source text from which it was translated? What about Hebraisms in the text? What about the lengthy passages of King James English in it? The volume concludes with the most puzzling and persistent questions: How did the seer stones work? Why didn't Joseph retranslate the Book of Lehi? How did revival language make its appearance in the book? Why couldn't Oliver Cowdery translate? Brant Gardner offers answers to these questions. The result is a faithful description of how God used a human prophet to translate a transcendentally important scriptural text." [Publisher's abstract]
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A Comparison of the Book of Mormon’s Subordinate That Usage
A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
A Mormon Reading of Job 19:23-25a
A New Witness to the World
Archaic Pronouns and Verbs in the Book of Mormon : What Inconsistent Usage Tells Us about Translation Theories
Assessing the Joseph Smith Papyri : An Introduction to the Historiography of their Acquisitions, Translations, and Interpretations
Barlow on Book of Mormon Language : An Examination of Some Strained Grammar
Deflected Agreement in the Book of Mormon
Et Incarnatus Est : The Imperative for Book of Mormon Historicity
Evaluating the Interaction between the New Testament and the Book of Mormon : A Proposed Methodology
Even unto Bloodshed : An LDS Perspective on War
Freemasonry and the Origins of Modern Temple Ordinances
“Having Many Things to Write to You” : Biblical Intertextuality in Joseph Smith's Two Colesville Letters
History and the Claims of Revelation : Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates
How Joseph Smith's Grammar Differed from Book of Mormon Grammar : Evidence from the 1832 History
"Idle and Slothful Strange Stories" : Book of Mormon Origins and the Historical Record
In God's Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel
Is the Book of Mormon a Pseudo-Archaic Text?
"It is not an easy task, but it cannot be avoided": On the Contribution of Royal Skousen
John Milton, Joseph Smith, and The Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith and the Gift of Translation : The Development of Discourse About Spiritual Gifts During the Early Book of Mormon Translation Process (1828-1829)
Joseph Smith at the Veil: Significant Ritual, Symbolism, and Temple Influence at Latter-day Saint Beginnings
Joseph Smith Read the Words
Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
Knowing Why: 137 Evidences that the Book of Mormon is True
Labor Diligently to Write : The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture
Learning to Read With The Book of Mormon
Let's Talk About the Book of Abraham
Let's Talk about the Translation of the Book of Mormon
Liahona: “Prepared of the Lord, a Compass”
Line Within Line : An Intertextual Analysis of Mormon Scripture and the Prologue of the Gospel of John
Literacy and Orality in the Book of Mormon
Missing Words : King James Bible Italics, the Translation of the Book of Mormon, and Joseph Smith as an Unlearned Reader
Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture
Nephite Secularization ; or, Picking and Choosing in The Book of Mormon
On Doctrine and Covenants Language and the 1833 Plot of Zion
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Scriptural Theology
Seers and Stones : The Translation of the Book of Mormon as Divine Visions of an Old-Time Seer
Sounding Sacred: The Adoption of Biblical Archaisms in the Book of Mormon and other 19th Century Texts
The Book of Mormon Translation Process
The Book of Moses: From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days
The Curious Case of Joseph Howard, Palmyra's Seventeen-Year-Old Somnium Preacher
The Expanded Canon : Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts
The Implications of Past-Tense Syntax in the Book of Mormon
The Israelite Roots of Atonement Terminology
The Lost 116 Pages : Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s Missing Stories
The Nahom Convergence Reexamined: The Eastward Trail, Burial of the Dead, and the Ancient Borders of Nihm
Theological Apostasy and the Role of Canonical Scripture : A Thematic Analysis of 1 Nephi 13-14
The Spectacles, the Stone, the Hat, and the Book : A Twenty-first Century Believer's View of the Book of Mormon Translation
The Theological Value of the King James Language in the Book of Mormon
The Word and the Seed : The Theological Use of Biblical Creation in Alma 32
Visions in a Seer Stone : Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
What Did the Interpreters (Urim and Thummim) Look Like?
When Pages Collide : Dissecting the Words of Mormon
Why Bible Translations Differ : A Guide for the Perplexed
Yet to Be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology