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31771
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English
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Nephite Culture and Society : Collected Papers
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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New Sage Books
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"While the topics covered by this book are varied, they share one characteristic that I seek to instill in all my work. They depend on fine-grained analysis of the text of The Book of Mormon. While some of my writing has featured comparisons with data from outside the scripture, these pieces consist almost entirely of internal analyses. I am of the opinion that it is important at this point in time for scholars to study the Nephite volume by analyzing its text intensively. Students of the ancient book need to put themselves as thoroughly as possible into Nephite settings and modes of thinking before trying to translate the ancient writings to modern-day terms. For me, developing further knowledge of the contexts of the ancient book requires drawing upon models that have been derived from studying other unfamiliar cultures and their records. Seeing how other peoples and their cultures have been elucidated by scholarly analysis can provide fuel to Fire up more scholarly study of Mormon’s book. My background in the field of anthropology has provided me with stimulating new approaches to understanding The Book of Mormon as a record of ancient peoples. One might think that what I consider new approaches refers to archaeology, since that is the scientific field particularly concerned with ancient life, but I have benefited in my work from many other aspects of anthropology. Archaeology is the sub-field of anthropology by which I entered the discipline, and the ideas and data from archaeologists remain very helpful. But my experience has been eclectic, involving work in the social, cultural, linguistic, psychological and applied branches as well as archaeology. The articles published in this book are contributions to my long-term aim to apply anthropology in the widest possible sense to elucidating The Book of Mormon. I hope to accomplish still more toward that end and hope that others will also pursue the task." [Author]
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Archaeological Trends and Book of Mormon Origins
Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem
Nephi Wanted to Be a Prophet Like Moses, Not a King Like David
Second Witness : Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel : The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency
The Power of Evidence in the Nurturing of Faith -
An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon
An Approach to the Book of Mormon
A New Witness for God
Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited : The Evidence for Ancient Origins
Book of Mormon Event Structure : The Ancient Near East
Did Father Lehi Have Daughters Who Married the Sons of Ishmael?
Discourses of Brigham Young : Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites
Literature of Belief : Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience
Since Cumorah : The Book of Mormon in the Modern World
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
The Bible, the Church, and its Scholars
The Book of Mormon Authorship : New Light on Ancient Origins
The Geography of Book of Mormon Events : A Source Book
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The Problem of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
The Prophetic Book of Mormon
The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon
Variations between Copies of the First Edition of the Book of Mormon
Warfare in the Book of Mormon
When Lehi's Party Arrived in the Land, Did They Find Others There?