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"Eternal Wisdom Engraven upon the Heavens": Joseph Smith's Pure Language Project
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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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331-362
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"In the sections that follow, this chapter further considers the esoteric context for Smith's religious philosophy and supernatural practice of translation, outlines the primary sources of his pure language project, and briefly considers its meager results. As Smith struggled against the 'narrow prison' of 'confounded' language in attempting to access the pure language of God, he relied on classic esoteric resources: the Hebrew and Egyptian languages, the Bible, direct revelation, and mystical secrets or 'keys.' Relative to pure language content, Smith ironically regressed, starting with larger explanations, text, and morphemes, and ending with quixotic pursuits of grammar study." [Abstract from chapter]
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A Firm Foundation : Church Organization and Administration
A History of Mormon Catechisms
A Pathway to Prophethood : Joseph Smith Junior as Rodsman, Village Seer, and Judeo-Christian Prophet
Apocryphal Writings and the Latter-day Saints
Approaching Antiquity : Joseph Smith and the Ancient World
A Recovered Resource: The Use of Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary in Joseph Smith's Bible Translation
Documents, Volume 4: April 1834-September 1835
Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations
Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Joseph (Smith) in Egypt : Babel, Hieroglyphs, and the Pure Language of Eden
Joseph Smith Papers : Histories, 1832-1844, Vol. 1
Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible : Original Manuscripts
Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845
Journals, Volume 3 : May 1843-June 1844
'Not to be Riten' : The Mormon Temple Rite as Oral Canon
Performing the Translation: Character Transcripts and Joseph Smith's Earliest Translating Practices
The Dependence of Abraham 1:1-3 on the Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar
The First Fifty Years of Relief Society : Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History
The Inspired Fictionalization of the 1835 United Firm Revelations
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition
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 : Documents, Volume 8 : February–November 1841
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 1 : 1832–1839
The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations, Volume 1 : Manuscript Revelation Books
The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon
The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations, Volume 4 : Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts
The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American Spirituality
The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
The Many Bibles of Joseph Smith : Textual, Prophetic, and Scholarly Authority in Early- National Bible Culture
"The Perfect Union of Man and Woman" : Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith's Theology Making
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Translator and the Ghostwriter : Joseph Smith and W. W. Phelps
The Upper-Room Work : Esotericism in the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), 1853-1912
"The Word of the Lord in the Original" : Joseph Smith's Study of Hebrew in Kirtland
"Translating an Alphabet to the Book of Abraham": Joseph Smith's Study of the Egyptian Language and His Translation of the Book of Abraham
'Unlocking the Door of the Gospel' : The Concept of 'Keys' in Mormonism