Item Detail
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30427
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31
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English
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The Book of Mormon
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The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
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Cambridge, England
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Oxford University Press
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133-148
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This chapter provides an overview of the contents of the Book of Mormon and its reception by both Latter-day Saints and outsiders. Unusually for world scripture, the Book of Mormon appeared before there was a community of believers, and the complete text was regarded as canonical from the beginning, equal in authority to the Bible. The Book of Mormon is also atypical in that it takes the form of a coherent, integrated narrative, related by specific named narrators. The theology focuses as much on the destiny of the house of Israel as on Christian salvation of individuals. Because of its claims of miraculous origins—written by transplanted Jews in the Americas, then translated from gold plates through seer stones—questions of historicity have often preoccupied readers. Although earlier generations of Mormons tended to preach from the Bible, the Book of Mormon received increased attention in the later twentieth century.
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Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon
An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited : The Evidence for Ancient Origins
Book of Mormon Usage in Early LDS Theology
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Digging in Cumorah : Reclaiming Book of Mormon narratives
Doctrines of Salvation : Sermons and Writings of Joseph Fielding Smith
Early Mormon Documents : Volume I
Early Mormon Documents : Volume II
Early Mormon Documents : Volume III
Early Mormon Documents : Volume IV
Early Mormon Documents : Volume V
Emergence of a Fundamental : The Expanding Role of Joseph Smith's First Vision in Mormon Religious Thought
Joseph Smith : 'The Gift of Seeing'
Mapping Book of Mormon Historicity Debates :Part 1 : A Guide for the Overwhelmed
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
New Approaches to the Book of Mormon : Explorations in Critical Methodology
Opening the Heavens : Accounts of Divine Manifestations 1820-1844
The Book of Mormon : A Biography
The Book of Mormon : A Reader's Edition
The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source
The Book of Mormon : A Very Short Introduction
The Book of Mormon in a Biblical Culture
The Book of Mormon : The Earliest Text
The Chicago Experiment : Finding the Voice and Charting the Course of Religious Education in the Church
The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon in the Twentieth Century
The Geography of Book of Mormon Events : A Source Book
The Miraculous Translation of the Book of Mormon
The Spalding Theory Then and Now
Translating the Book of Mormon : Evidence from the Original Manuscript
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide