Quinn Brewster

QUINN BREWSTER is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

The Structure of the Book of Mormon: A Theory of Evolutionary Development

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 2

Dialogue 29.2 (Summer 1998):129–154
WHEN JOSEPH SMITH BEGAN TO DICTATE the Book of Mormon, he did not understand the structure the book would ultimately take. He did not know that the first part of the manuscript would be lost, resulting in a major structural change in the first quarter of the book.

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