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English
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The Golden Bible in the Bible's Golden Age: The Book of Mormon and Antebellum Print Culture
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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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157-177
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"This essay focuses on the Book of Mormon when it first appeared in 1830. Scholars who have commented on the initial appearance of the Book of Mormon most frequently tend toward social or theological critiques of the issues surrounding the volume, such as the charisma of its author or the religious fluidity and doctrinal chaos of the Second Great Awakening. Such lines of inquiry completely miss the fact that the Book of Mormon was, after all, a book which circulated within certain definable characteristics of early American's print milieu. To understand the volume's intial physical and narrative forms, one must understand that the book appeared at a time when religiously-bent American readers were immersed in a print culture with two basic, overarching characteristics: the culture was saturated both with the Bible and an interest in historical writing. This essay argues that the Book of Mormon's initial material design, narrative format, linguistic peculiarities, and marked preoccupation with American history can only be understood within the context of the volume's appearance in a print culture permeated on almost every level by the resonances of biblical and historical writing." [Author]
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Among the Mormons : Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
Book of Mormon Usage in Early LDS Theology
Early Nineteenth Century Events Reflected in the Book of Mormon
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
Mormon Parallels : A Bibliographic Source
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
New Approaches to the Book of Mormon : Explorations in Critical Methodology
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
The Book of Mormon and the American Revolution
The Book of Mormon in a Biblical Culture
The First Months of Mormonism : A Contemporary View By Rev. Diedrich Willers
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Rise of a New World Faith
The Rise of Mormonism in the Burned-over District : Another View