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English
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The Book of Enoch "Revised, Corrected, and the Missing Parts Restored"
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Open Canons: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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193-215
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"This chapter examines the Book of Enoch, 'Revised, corrected, and the missing parts restored by Divine inspiration,' a Latter-day Saint revision of the nineteenth-century English translation of the Book of Enoch, otherwise known as 1 Enoch or the Ethiopic Enoch. Its modern reviser, Charles B. Thompson, was an early Latter-day Saint convert known for having written the first full-length treatise on the Book of Mormon, entitled Evidences in Proof of the Book of Mormon... The Book of Enoch... is a particularly revealing instance of mid-nineteenth-century scripture. In addition to what the text might reveal about features of the Latter Day Saint scriptural tradition, it is particularly illustrative of how scripture served as a strategy of contest. Scripture may be written and read to bring emotional comfort or uplift. It might wrestle with the problem of evil or promise a future end to injustice. Thompson's Enoch provided its readers with explanations about creation and the order of the cosmos, but underlying these messages was an effort to make polytheism and polygamy heretical. Thompson's Enoch reminds us that while, on one hand, we should see the mass of scriptures that emerged after Smith's death as a collective body of literature, we must also remember that they were polemical texts leveraged against one another." [Author]
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Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
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Revisiting Joseph Smith and the Availability of the Book of Enoch
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The Concept of a Rejected Gospel in Mormon History, Part 1
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The Expanded Canon : Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts
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The Life and Thought of Orson Pratt
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
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William Phelps's Paracletes, An Early Witness to Smith's Divine Anthropology
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