Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon, 2d ed.McFarland, 27.07.2010 - 336 Seiten Just as a growing interest in millennialism at the turn of this century has rejuvenated religious debate and questions concerning the fate of the world, so did Mormonism develop from millennial enthusiasm early in the nineteenth century. Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and a provocative, even controversial figure in history, declared that he had been given the authority to restore the true church in the latter days. The primary source of Smith's latter-day revelation is The Book of Mormon, and to fully understand his role as the founder of the Mormon faith, one must also understand The Book of Mormon and how it came to be. Unfortunately, the literature about Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon is permeated with contradiction and controversy. In the first edition of this impressive work, David Persuitte provided a significant amount of revealing biographical information about Smith that resolved many of the controversies concerning his character. He also presented an extensive comparative analysis positing that the probable conceptual source for The Book of Mormon was a book entitled View of the Hebrews; or the Tribes of Israel in America, which was written by an early New England minister named Ethan Smith. Now in an expanded and revised second edition incorporating many new findings relating to the origin of The Book of Mormon, Mr. Persuitte's book continues to shed much new light on the path Joseph Smith took toward founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
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... actually became the Mormon prophet, one must first understand how Tbe Boob ofMor— man came to be. But therein lies a problem. The problem exists because the lit— erature about the origin of Tbe Book of Mor— man, like that about Joseph ...
... Actually, Joseph by no means had to have access to a vast library in order to ac— quire the material he would have needed to write The Book ofMormon. He in fact would have found most ofwhat he needed in the newspapers 16 PART ONE ...
... actually made them. Some of these apologists have maintained that Joseph was not with Oliver during the pe— riod when the latter was composing his history. Oliver, they say, was therefore working without the necessary informa— tion and ...
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11 | |
ANOTHER BOOK OF GOD? | 100 |
12 | 136 |
iX | 184 |
11 | 191 |
20 | 232 |
Epilogue | 251 |
Notes | 298 |
33 | 299 |
Bibliograpby | 313 |
54 | 319 |
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