Item Detail
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33081
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1
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15
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English
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The Book of Mormon and Book History (Fenton)
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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January 2023
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32
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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74-96
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"In this essay, I want to zoom in on one aspect of the Book of Mormon's prophesying, which is that it describes its future form as a book. Even when this prophecy uses sonic terms--describing words spoken by the Lord as 'hiss[ing] forth'--the Book of Mormon imagines itself as a codex and its recipients (believers and nonbelievers alike) as readers of texts inscribed within it...The book's physical presence, both within its narrative time line and in the nineteenth century of its emergence, is never far from the surface of its import...I predict that an important line of inquiry in Book of Mormon studies will be serious engagement with its status as a material object. One future for Book of Mormon studies, in other words, lies in the fields of Book and Print history." [Author]
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