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English
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Pivotal Publishing Moments For The Book Of Mormon
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The Expanded Canon : Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Greg Kofford Books
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157-170
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"This essay provides a brief overview of the nearly two-hundred-year life of the Book of Mormon by concentrating on four pivotal moments in its publishing history. To lend a degree of focus to the study, these moments primarily deal with the factors involved in the book's production rather than its reception. In so doing, it argues against the perception that sacred scriptures in general, and this sacred text in particular, are monolithic, frozen entities-- unchangds and unchangeable. By necessity, divine words are often wrought by human hand, and that human touch-- guided by a higher power, or not-- reveals much about the evolution of religious publishing in the United States and just how complex the life story of any sacred text is. Such a study provides a vivid testimony that sacred scriptures are by necessity mediated hybrids, meshing purported supernatural interventions with more mundane human efforts. Thus, to understand that changing staus, form, and message of various sacred scriptures, one must pay close attention to how otherworldly messages take more worldly forms." [Author]