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English
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Reassessing Joseph Smith Jr.'s Formal Education
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 2016
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49
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Cambridge, MA
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Dialogue Foundation
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1-58
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The amount of Joseph Smith's formal education, or rather the various assumptions surrounding his presumed lack of it, has been enlisted by followers and detractors alike in order to frame Smith's life within the narratives of divinely-inspired prophet or deceptive fraud, perhaps most acutely in the context of attacking or defending the origin and authenticity of the Book of Mormon. Any attempt to isolate the amount of time Smith may have actually spent in classrooms thus presents a challenge with deeper implications. Furthermore, with the passage of time and the development of traditions, such representations become further entangled in cultural identities, transforming historical speculations into theological propositions that approach canonical certainties, interweaving Smith's humble origins with the cosmologies of either faith or disbelief. Here, Davis seeks to demonstrate that Smith's formal education was more extensive than passing speculations and shared cultural memory might suggest by retracing the locations and educational practices of the places where Smith lived in his youth and early adulthood.
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