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English
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Seeing the Voice of God: The Book of Mormon on Its Own Translation
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Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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137-168
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"This chapter... begins the work of extending the range of interpretive approaches to the nature of scriptural translation in early Mormonism by focusing on the church's first scripture. As both complement and contrast to the literary-critical approach to translation proposed by Jared Hickman in this volume, this chapter considers possible mechanisms of translation that derive from the Book of Mormon itself and remain open to a metaphysics of translation that fits within the worldviews of Smith and his disciples. Traditional understandings of Book of Mormon translation have downplayed the role of oral language and the translator's agency. The argument of this chapter, moving across multiple lines of textual evidence, is that the translation of the Book of Mormon should likely be seen as an oral and revelatory project. Recognizing the fundamentally oral nature of the scriptual text opens a window onto a robust and previously misunderstood metaphysics of translation. While the work of elaborating this metaphysics is a much larger project, this chapter proposes readings of the Book of Mormon foundational to that work." [Abstract from chapter]
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Ancient History and Modern Commandments: The Book of Mormon in Comparison with Joseph Smith's Other Revelations
"Bringing Forth" the Book of Mormon: Translation as the Reconfiguration of Bodies in Space-Time
"President Joseph Has Translated a Portion": Joseph Smith and the Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates -
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
An Other Testament : On Typology
A Pathway to Prophethood : Joseph Smith Junior as Rodsman, Village Seer, and Judeo-Christian Prophet
'A Plainer Translation' : Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible : A History and Commentary
Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited : The Evidence for Ancient Origins
"Bringing Forth" the Book of Mormon: Translation as the Reconfiguration of Bodies in Space-Time
"By the Gift and Power of God": Translation among the Gifts of the Spirit
Digging in Cumorah : Reclaiming Book of Mormon narratives
How Joseph Smith Translated the Book of Mormon : Evidence from the Original Manuscript
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Joseph Smith, Helen Schucman, and the Experience of Producing a Spiritual Text: Comparing the Translating of the Book of Mormon and the Scribing of A Course in Miracles
Joseph (Smith) in Egypt : Babel, Hieroglyphs, and the Pure Language of Eden
Joseph Smith Papers : Histories, 1832-1844, Vol. 1
Joseph Smith Read the Words
Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible : Original Manuscripts
Joseph Smith's Seer Stones
Joseph Smith’s Translation : The Words and Worlds of Mormonism
Joseph Smith, the Originator of Mormonism : Historical Reminiscences of the Town of Afton
Opening the Heavens : Accounts of Divine Manifestations 1820-1844
The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse
The Critical Text of the Book of Mormon: Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon
The First Fifty Years of Relief Society : Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History
The Gift and Power : Translating the Book of Mormon
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 1: July 1828-June 1831
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 2 : July 1831–January 1833
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 3 : February 1833-March 1834
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 1 : 1832–1839
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 2 : December 1841-April 1843
The Language of Heaven : Prolegomenon to the Study of Smithian Translation
The Miraculous Timing of the Translation of the Book of Mormon
The Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon : Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts
The Spalding Theory Then and Now
The Vision of All : Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record
“To Read the Round of Eternity” : Speech, Text, and Scripture in The Book of Mormon
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide