[…] Reverend Dr. John Smith’s (no relation to Joseph) 1804 tract “A Summary View and Explanation of the Writings of the Prophets,” of which Adam Clarke cites a substantial portion in the preface to his […]
[…] autograph/verse. Other pages are illustrations published with the book. I count these as entries though no hand writing appears on them. Blank pages are not counted. Johnson, “Document Diggers,” confuses the Conrad and Wilkinson […]
[…] gospels; it is colored by the specific polemical situations in which the apostle Paul found himself in writing his epistles. Extreme care must be exercised in using this fragmentary and difficult evidence. Particular care […]
[…] as real feminists and which do not? Do any of us? When I was in graduate school writing a dissertation on a forgotten woman author of eighteenth-century Germany, I was told on multiple occasions […]
[…] a mission, she went domestically to Idaho. The Church’s current protocol allows undocumented missionaries to perform their service domestically so service can occur without compromising residency in the US. It was on her mission […]
[…] the range of joy through sorrow. I love the craft of words, I find spiritual expression in writing, and I revel in the spiritual tension and expanse of scripture, poetry, and story. I feel […]
[…] do that.” “I don’t fault you for it. But it does pose a problem, doesn’t it—a Mormon service one Sunday, a Baptist service the next? What’s more, according to these instructions, we can’t badmouth […]
[…] the lady Tshenmin, whose mother was Skhons (P. JS II, V-IX, and most of IV). The hand writing dates it to the second half of the Ptolemaic Period, perhaps around 100 B.C. This is […]
[…] of the Pearl of Great Price and Doctrine and Covenants by a scholar of national stature, the writings and sermons of Joseph Smith have attracted and motivated several generations of Latter-day Saints. The Prophet […]
[…] Latter day Saint scholars to write in defense of their Prophet’s first vision story. In all their writing they have assumed that Joseph Smith’s account must be correct wherever it is at variance with […]