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key	3UV2SZIS
title	Ancient History and Modern Commandments : The Book of Mormon in Comparison with Joseph Smith’s Other Revelations
author	Hardy, Grant
item type	Book section
publication year	2020
date	2020
publication title	Producing Ancient Scripture : Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
ISBN	978-1-60781-738-3
abstract note	In 1830, Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon, a foundational work in the history of American religion that has remained an object of controversy and debate for nearly two centuries. For much of that time, scholars and members of various religious organizations have either defended Smith's writing as the divinely-inspired word of God, or, to varying degrees, called into question its religious authority. That debate, according to the editors of "Producing ancient scripture," is a tired one. What's needed today is a modern scholarly approach to the Book of Mormon and the rest of Smith's writings. To that end, the essays in this volume, as the editors note, analyze "the texts that Smith produced in terms of his personal practices and experiences, his immediate environment and circumstances, his biographical background and cultural context, and the broader contours of early American history." Different methodological approaches and an adherence to, for example, modern theories in sociology, feminism, and comparative religion, are used by contributors to argue points that , in most cases, neither prove or disprove the divine origins of Smith's texts. P. 210: “The Book of Mormon is, as the early LDS apostle Parley P. Pratt once noted, “a very strange book,” and few other world scriptures are comparable in their modes of creation, canonization, and narrative. It is much easier to find sacred texts that are closer to Smith’s other scriptural productions. The texts in the “thus saith the Lord” genre of revelations that appear in the Doctrine and Covenants read somewhat like the direct revelations of the nineteenth-century Bahá'í prophet Bahá'u'lláh (though the latter are much more voluminous).”18 Note 18: "Interestingly, some of Bahá'u'lláh’s revelations were apparently dictated quite rapidly. The hundred-page Kitáb-i-Íqán [Book of Certitude] (1861) was said to have been produced in just two days and two nights, and eventually Bahá'u’lláh’s scribes developed a type of shorthand they called “revelation writing” to keep up with the flow of his words. Adib Taherzadeh, The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, rev. ed. (Oxford, UK: George Ronald, 1976), 1:21–29, 34–37, 110, 157–58."
publisher	The University of Utah Press
place	Salt Lake City
language	English
manual tags	MORMONISM; BAHA'U'LLAH; REVELATION; AUTHORSHIP; SMITH, JOSEPH; BOOK OF MORMON
editor	MacKay, Michael Hubbard; Ashurst-McGee, Mark; Hauglid, Brian M.

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