Item Detail
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32315
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English
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William Tyndale, Joseph Smith, and the King James Version's James 1:5
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Journal of Mormon History
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2021
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47
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4
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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109-117
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"A contemporary of Joseph Smith (1805–1844), the American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), explained, 'Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!' Because the King James (KJV) version of James 1:5 helped initiate Joseph’s theophany, there is merit in probing how that verse came to be. Unbeknownst to the teenage Joseph, and to many modern readers of the KJV, James 1:5 consists of textual contributions from several different translators over a period of almost one hundred years. This article illuminates that developmental process." [Author]