[…] defiance can be found on its first pages. Joseph Smith selected the term “visionary” to describe self -righteous heroes such as Lehi, in contrast to more reasonable villains such as La man and Lemuel. […]
[…] birthplace, 2 Nephi looms enroute like . . . Nebraska . . . a sort of sub -Saharan Nebraska with miles and miles and desolate miles of nothing but more miles and miles, all […]
[…] 37–75
As one step in that direction, this article explores Book of Mormon usage in the pre -Utah period (1830—46), and seeks answers to the following questions: Which passages from the Book of Mormon […]
[…] as Sorenson notes, some of them are probably sufficiently close that they could be lumped into “families -with–variants.” Even before 1938 there were attempts to limit the geography of the Book of Mormon since […]
[…] be any number of elements written in one order and then repeated in reverse order, e.g., a -b–c–d- . . . -x–x- . . . -d–c–b–a. For example, Psalm 3:7–8 is an extended chiasm […]
[…] Judaism due largely to the missionary efforts of Paul, who carried the Christian gospel to the Graeco -Roman world. After A.D. 70, when the Romans overran the Jerusalem church of Christians, Christianity became less […]
Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128
DID JOSEPH SMITH WRITE the Book of Mormon? To this over -familiar question the orthodox Latter–day Saint answer is a resounding “No” because the official belief is that a series of […]
[…] its origins and the literature that postulates the Book of Mormon is a product of a nineteenth -century imagination. I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing […]
[…] Americas a copy of Isaiah’s prophecies, from which the BM prophets cite Isaiah (1 Ne. 5:13; 19:22 -23). Several chapters or sections of Isaiah are quoted in the BM: Isaiah 2–14 are cited in […]
[…] through subsequent writings, as those of Hebrew prophets in Jesus’ day, the King James Bible in nineteenth -century America, and Isaiah within portions of the Book of Mormon. Unexpectedly, however, this does not occur […]