Item Detail
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30248
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English
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Building the Temple of Nephi : Early Mormon Perceptions of Cumorah and the New Jerusalem
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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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264-277
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I wish to argue here that these earliest print references to Mormon intentions of building a temple and a New Jerusalem represent a now-buried stratum in the early Mormon understanding of the New Jerusalem, a stratum we can excavate by paying careful attention to how the earliest believers perceived the hill in which the golden plates had been buried, as well as the stone vessel in which they had been housed. Excavating that stratum promises to reveal something of the early Mormon self-understanding and the vision that inspired the earliest believers.