Bibliography 2: #BIB37044

Key	BIB37044
Reference type	Book Section
Title	Ancient History and Modern Commandments : The Book of Mormon in Comparison with Joseph Smith’s Other Revelations
Book title	Producing Ancient Scripture : Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Author	Hardy, Grant
Editor	MacKay, Michael Hubbard, Ashurst-McGee, Mark and Hauglid, Brian M.
Year	2020
Publisher	The University of Utah Press
Place published	Salt Lake City
ISBN	9781607817383
Abstract	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."
Notes	Bahá'í Faith: p. 210, n18. LCCN 2019040629. xv, 544 p. Edited by Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Brian Hauglid. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid -- "By the gift and power of God" : translation among the gifts of the Spirit / Christopher James Blythe -- "Bringing forth" the Book of Mormon : translation as the reconfiguration of bodies in space-time / Jared Hickman -- Performing the translation : character transcripts and Joseph Smith's earliest translating practices / Michael Hubbard MacKay -- Reconfiguring the archive : women and the social production of the Book of Mormon / Amy Easton-Flake and Rachel Cope -- Seeing the voice of God : the Book of Mormon on its own translation / Samuel Morris Brown -- Joseph Smith, Helen Schucman, and the experience of producing a spiritual text : comparing the translating of the Book of Mormon and the scribing of A course in miracles / Ann Taves -- Nephi's project : the Gold Plates as book history / Richard Lyman Bushman -- Ancient plates and modern commandments : the Book of Mormon in comparison with Joseph Smiths other revelations / Grant Hardy -- The tarrying of the beloved disciple : the textual formation of the Account of John / David W. Grua and William V. Smith -- A recovered resource : the use of Adam Clarkes Bible commentary in Joseph Smiths Bible translation / Thomas A. Wayment and Haley Wilson-Lemmon -- Lost scripture and "the interpolations of men" : Joseph Smiths revelation on the Apocrypha / Gerrit Dirkmaat -- Translation, revelation, and the hermeneutics of theological innovation : Joseph Smith and the Record of John / Nicholas J. Frederick -- "Eternal wisdom engraven upon the heavens" : Joseph Smiths pure language project / David Golding -- "Translating an alphabet to the Book of Abraham" : Joseph Smiths study of the Egyptian language and his translation of the Book of Abraham / Brian M. Hauglid -- Approaching Egyptian papyri through biblical language : Joseph Smiths use of Hebrew in his translation of the Book of Abraham / Matthew J. Grey -- "President Joseph has translated a portion" : Joseph Smith and the mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates / Don Bradley and Mark Ashurst-McGee.
Language	English
Keywords	SMITH, JOSEPH; BOOK OF MORMON; AUTHORSHIP; MORMONISM; BAHA'U'LLAH; REVELATION
Chapter	9
Section	10.
Call number	BX8627
Accession number	21391848

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