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English
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Competing Histories in the Hebrew Bible and in the Latter-day Saint Tradition
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Standing Apart : Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy
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Oxford, New York
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Oxford University Press
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129-146
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The problem that this volume addresses is one that, at its core, has exercised scholars of the Hebrew Bible for at least two centuries. 1 As I frame it, at issue is not only how a religious community handles a problematic theological history, such as the LDS Great Apostasy narrative, but what to do with multiple and often mutually exclusive possibilities for understanding a historical period characterized by the term apostasy . As I will discuss below, the Hebrew Bible is nothing if not multivocal, comprised of competing viewpoints that, while harmonizing on certain general themes such as the worship of a god Yahweh, are more dissonant than is usually admitted in communities of faith that revere the Bible as a sacred text. Hearing these voices brings with it the challenge and the opportunity to ask what their inclusion in a canon means for such communities, and within this framework one might attempt to disentangle, examine, and begin to make sense of similar multivocality in the LDS tradition. [From the Article]