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English
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An Imperfect Book : What the Book of Mormon Tells Us about Itself
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Signature Books
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386
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A major theme in the Book of Mormon is the depiction of Native Americans as descendants of ancient Hebrews. Other prominent ideas are the restoration of pure Christianity to an apostate world, the visit of Jesus to the western hemisphere, and recurring cycles of ruin and renewal. All of this raises the question: “Is all of this true?” Wunderli has made an avocation of examining this and related questions by digging deeply into the Book of Mormon and surveying the large body of research generated by scholars of various disciplines. He succinctly summarizes his own findings and this mass of often conflicting information, then adds his own trenchant analysis to the mix. Fascinating reading due to how Wunderli has structured the book as his own personal quest for answers, An Imperfect Book is an accessible but thorough overview of major controversies involving authorship, use of idiom, anachronisms, contrived names, borrowed passages, and prophecies made and fulfilled within the book’s own narrative frame. Wunderli includes a discussion of dozens of curiosities such as the relative absense of polygamists in a culture where one would expect it and sons named after their fathers (Alma junior), which one would not expect among ancient Israelites. Wunderli has examined the arguments and reduced the data to a collection of informative observations and reasoned arguments in an altogether readable work.
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Absence of "Joseph Smith" in the Book of Mormon : Lack of the Name Letter Effect in Nephite, Lamanite, and Jaredite Names
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
A New Witness to the World
Changing Critics' Criticisms of Book of Mormon Changes
Curiously Unique : Joseph Smith as Author
of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith’s Education and Intellect as Described in Documentary Sources
Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance : An Update
Learning to Read With The Book of Mormon
Naturalistic Explanations of the Origin of the Book of Mormon : A Longitudinal Study
The Bible and the Book of Mormon : A Review of Literature
The Ghost and the Machine : Plates and Paratext in The Book of Mormon
The LDS Gospel Topics Series : A Scholarly Engagement
Timing the Translation of the Book of Mormon : “Days [and Hours] Never to Be Forgotten”
Unavailable Genetic Evidence, Multiple Simultaneous Promised Lands, and Lamanites by Location?: Possible Ramifications of the Book of Mormon Limited Geography Theory