[…] with two additional “sections” and a revelation to Brigham Young. The Pearl of Great Price contains four writings, one professing to be from the hand of Abraham, another claiming to be certain revelations given […]
[…] and my personal review here. UofU Press Sets a New Standard Gregory Prince, Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History (University of Utah Press). Matthew Garrett, Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the […]
[…] endless parallels to texts from the ancient Near East and beyond in an attempt to validate the writings in the Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price. The pioneer and leader in this […]
Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 159–175
In this paper I will explore official and unofficial messages that theLDS church has sent to girls and women about childbearing during the twentieth century and the effect those messages […]
[…] a clear piece of deceit. Unless Skousen had planted in the reader’s mind his fantasy about Quigley writing a book “to expose world-wide conspiracy and disclose many of its most secret operations” (p. 4), […]
[…] asked those women to spread the word. They did. I received dozens of poems and letters about writing; those, combined with the poems in the Exponent II file (both accepted and rejected for publication) […]
[…] divinity of the Church’s origin and work’ ” (1969, 49). I interpret Rischin to mean that scholars writing in this tradition have recognized both the human and divine side of Mormon history, and that […]
[…] and Abraham on the temple narrative are clear; but the only other scriptural reference directly linking ancient writings with the Mormon temple ceremony is found in Explanatory Note 8 to Facsimile 2 in the […]
[…] others were written well after it. The book influenced the thought of several authors of New Testament writings, early Jewish Rabbinic and Christian patristic sources, and some medieval sources, and then disappeared in the […]
Dialogue 25.2 (Fall 1992): 75–96
The personal essay, unlike personal journals, letters, and oral histories, is not an artless form. It transforms the raw material of personal experience in the double crucible of carefully chosen […]