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English
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Traditions of the Fathers : The Book of Mormon as History
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Greg Kofford Books
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456
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[2015 Association for Mormon Letters Winner for Best Religious Nonfiction]
The focus of the Book of Mormon is unquestionably on the things of God. Similar to the Bible, its sermons and explications of religious principles are presented against the framework of the story of a people. It is a story that covers a thousand years. In this book Brant Gardner looks around and behind the religious purposes of the book and teases out how those thousand years of Book of Mormon history correspond to those same years in the geographic and cultural context where they most plausibly took place.
Gardner works through the Book of Mormon chronologically, examining how events in the Book of Mormon reflect the greater historical and cultural developments happening around them at the same time. Gardner asks and answers questions against particular historical backdrops. Why does Nephi appear to be so Christian so long before Christ, and why does his particular time period in Jerusalem help answer that question? Why do Nephi apostate groups from different times appear to adopt the same religion? Why does the Book of Mormon end around A.D. 400? Why not earlier or later? The answers are developed by looking at the Book of Mormon as history in the context of what has become known of Mesoamerican history. Along the way, Gardner also looks at the problem of anachronisms, DNA, and some popular "proofs" of the Book of Mormon that need to be abandoned. -
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Bare Record : The Nephite Archivist, The Record of Records, and the Book of Mormon Provenance
Boundary Maintenance that Pushes the Boundaries : Scriptural and Theological Insights from Apologetics
“Dumb” Puns in Alma 30: A Mesoamerican Twist on Korihor’s Talionic Punishment
Et Incarnatus Est : The Imperative for Book of Mormon Historicity
"Idle and Slothful Strange Stories" : Book of Mormon Origins and the Historical Record
Joseph Smith Read the Words
Knowing Why: 137 Evidences that the Book of Mormon is True
Labor Diligently to Write : The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture
Lamanites, Apologetics, and Tensions in Mormon Anthropology
Mormonism and Race
Orson Scott Card's 'Artifact or Artifice' : Where It Stands After Twenty-five Years
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Samuel the Lamanite: That Ye Might Believe
The Great and Spacious Book of Mormon Arcade Game : More Curious Works from Book of Mormon Critics
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The Last Nephite Scribes
The Nahom Convergence Reexamined: The Eastward Trail, Burial of the Dead, and the Ancient Borders of Nihm
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