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By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion

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In a history of a religiously controversial subject, of which the Book of Mormon is a premiere example, the disputability of the facts is too obvious to bear repeating on every page. I have therefore avoided constructions like “Joseph Smith’s alleged vision,” or “the purported visit of Moroni,” as they would become tiresome and pedantic if repeated on every page. My focus in any case has not been on whether the Book of Mormon or the account of it given by Joseph Smith is true. Rather, I have tried to examine why the Book of Mormon has been taken seriously—for very different reasons—by generations of devoted believers and confirmed skeptics. But while those polarities are moved by its perceived divinity or sacrilege, indifference is becoming less of an option. As the resources of archaeology, literary analysis, evangelical polemics, and varieties of textual and cultural studies are increasingly brought to bear on this historically contentious and influential document, it has assumed a number of disputed identities: authentically ancient text, imaginative masterwork, nineteenth-century cultural product, and engine behind the growth of the next world religion. It would seem appropriate at this juncture in its tempestuous career to attempt an overview of what this “golden bible” has meant, and might conceivably yet come to mean, to its various readerships.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

Online

Penerbit

New York, USA : Oxford University Press., 2002

Deskripsi Fisik

320 p. : 25 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-19-513818-X

Klasifikasi

NONE

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

electronic

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

First Edition

Subjek

Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon Criticism, interpretation, etc
Smith, Joseph

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Givens, Terryl L.

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