Grant Hardy
GRANT HARDY {[email protected]} is a professor of history and religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He has published books on early Chinese history, as well as the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003) and Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). His recent publications include the Oxford History of Historical Writing, Vol. 1, co-edited with Andrew Feldherr (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2011) and Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition (a thirty-six-lecture course on both DVD and audio CD, produced and distributed by The Great Courses, 2011). This essay is a revised and updated version of one posted at By Common Consent, Feb- ruary 15, 2011.