Item Detail
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30237
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21
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English
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Becoming a People of the Books : Toward an Understanding of Early Mormon Converts and the New Word of the Lord
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2018
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27
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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1-43
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Reading the Book became a part of both community and individual devotional practice over time. We need not assume that the Book instantly became a focal point for all—practice is individual and transitions over time. No one mastered almost six hundred pages instantaneously. For those whose personal practice included reading the Book, the text played a significant narrative function through which many early Mormons began to order and understand their lives in their own holy
time. The text offered them patterns of divine intervention that they could apply to their own lives and exemplars to emulate. The Book had the power to do the same for their familiars if they, too, would develop a relationship with the Book. Accepting the Book as scripture gave the text power to narrate their lives. Book of Mormon language and characters began to enter their lives and sacralized their present, choosing to live as Latter-day Saints. They were a “people of the Book” who became a people of the books. No single book was now entirely sufficient.
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