Producing ancient scripture: Joseph Smith's translation projects in the development of Mormon Christianity
Introduction / Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid -- "By the gift and power of God" : translation among the gifts of the Spirit / Christopher James Blythe -- "Bringing forth" the Book of Mormon : translation as the reconfiguration of bodies in space-...
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Salt Lake City
The University of Utah Press
[2020]
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Smith, Joseph Jr (1805-1844)
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| Summary: | Introduction / Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid -- "By the gift and power of God" : translation among the gifts of the Spirit / Christopher James Blythe -- "Bringing forth" the Book of Mormon : translation as the reconfiguration of bodies in space-time / Jared Hickman -- Performing the translation : character transcripts and Joseph Smith's earliest translating practices / Michael Hubbard MacKay -- Reconfiguring the archive : women and the social production of the Book of Mormon / Amy Easton-Flake and Rachel Cope -- Seeing the voice of God : the Book of Mormon on its own translation / Samuel Morris Brown -- 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 / Ann Taves -- Nephi's project : the Gold Plates as book history / Richard Lyman Bushman -- Ancient plates and modern commandments : the Book of Mormon in comparison with Joseph Smiths other revelations / Grant Hardy -- The tarrying of the beloved disciple : the textual formation of the Account of John / David W. Grua and William V. Smith -- A recovered resource : the use of Adam Clarkes Bible commentary in Joseph Smiths Bible translation / Thomas A. Wayment and Haley Wilson-Lemmon -- Lost scripture and "the interpolations of men" : Joseph Smiths revelation on the Apocrypha / Gerrit Dirkmaat -- Translation, revelation, and the hermeneutics of theological innovation : Joseph Smith and the Record of John / Nicholas J. Frederick -- "Eternal wisdom engraven upon the heavens" : Joseph Smiths pure language project / David Golding -- "Translating an alphabet to the Book of Abraham" : Joseph Smiths study of the Egyptian language and his translation of the Book of Abraham / Brian M. Hauglid -- Approaching Egyptian papyri through biblical language : Joseph Smiths use of Hebrew in his translation of the Book of Abraham / Matthew J. Grey -- "President Joseph has translated a portion" : Joseph Smith and the mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates / Don Bradley and Mark Ashurst-McGee. "In 1830, Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon, a foundational work in the history of American religion that has remained an object of controversy and debate for nearly two centuries. For much of that time, scholars and members of various religious organizations have either defended Smith's writing as the divinely-inspired word of God, or, to varying degrees, called into question its religious authority. That debate, according to the editors of "Producing ancient scripture," is a tired one. What's needed today is a modern scholarly approach to the Book of Mormon and the rest of Smith's writings. To that end, the essays in this volume, as the editors note, analyze "the texts that Smith produced in terms of his personal practices and experiences, his immediate environment and circumstances, his biographical background and cultural context, and the broader contours of early American history." Different methodological approaches and an adherence to, for example, modern theories in sociology, feminism, and comparative religion, are used by contributors to argue points that , in most cases, neither prove or disprove the divine origins of Smith's texts"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1607817381 |