Item Detail
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7949
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32
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3
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English
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The Book of Mormon and the American Revolution
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BYU Studies
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Autumn 1976
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17
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3-20
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"The late Thomas O'Dea, a sympathetic but critical scholar, thought of the Book of Mormon that too many "American sentiments permeate the work." O'Dea purports to find evidence of nineteenth century American political culture in the Book of Mormon--for example, the prophecy of the American Revolution early in Nephi's narrative, and later, the switch from monarchy to government by elected Judges. On first reading, both have a modern and American flavor. However, the author asserts that the Book of Mormon is not a conventional American book. Too much Americana is missing. Understanding the work requires a more complex and sensitive analysis than has been afforded it. Historians will take a long step forward when they free themselves from the compulsion to connect all they find with Joseph Smith's America and try instead to understand the ancient patterns deep in the grain of the book." [Publisher's abstract]
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A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
A New Witness to the World
Believing History : Latter-day Saints Essays
"Common Sense" Meets the Book of Mormon : Source, Substance and Prophetic Disruption
Cosmic Urban Symbolism in the Book of Mormon
Critique of a Limited Geography for Book of Mormon Events
"Dictated by Christ" : Joseph Smith and the Politics of Revelation
Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Revelations in Their Early American Contexts
Game Theory, The Prisoner's Dilemma, and the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith and the Plurality of Worlds Idea
Kingship, Democracy, and the Message of the Book of Mormon
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormons and Mormonism : An Introduction to an American World Religion
Mosiah : The Complex Symbolism and Symbolic Complex of Kingship in the Book of Mormon
Nephi's Outline
Painting Out the Messiah : The Theologies of Dissidents
Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons : Contemporary Perspectives
Studies in Scripture
The Book of Mormon : Alma, the Testimony of the Word
The Book of Mormon and Automatic Writing
The Book of Mormon : Mosiah, Salvation Only Through Christ
The Book of Moses: From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days
The Book of Mosiah : Thoughts about Its Structure, Purposes, Themes, and Authorship
The Latter Day Saints in Ohio : Writing the History of Mormonism's Middle Period
The LDS Church's Campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures : The First Twenty Years
The Power of Evidence in the Nurturing of Faith
The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon
Wanderers in the Promised Land : A Study of the Exodus Motif in the Book of Mormon and Holy Bible