Item Detail
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33339
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10
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English
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Open Canons: Sacred History and American History in The Book of Mormon
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Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith's Revelations in Their Early American Contexts
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Signature Books
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73-96
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"This essay will examine three modes through which Smith's text challenges the idea of a closed canon-- historical as well as biblical. The first section examines The Book of Mormon's engagements with biblical texts to show how it complicates the very notion of an ur-text and offers a model of sacred history that depends upon iteration and proliferation. The second section demonstrates that, through descriptions of its own faulty composition process, the book becomes itself an 'open' text. In this way, the book offers a radical and capacious picture of canonicity itself, which, I argue in the essay's concluding section, structure the book's history of ancient America. As the text rewrites the story of colonialism, it presents an iterative history at odds with and critical of teleological understandings of American Christianity." [Author]
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