| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 429 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Scott Jensen, Sharalyn D. Howcroft -- The gold plates as foundational text / Richard Lyman Bushman -- Textual criticism and the Book of Mormon / Grant Hardy -- Intertextuality and the purpose of Joseph Smith's new translation of the Bible / Thomas A. Wayment -- The dictation, compilation, and canonization of Joseph Smith's revelations / Grant Underwood -- Joseph Smith's Missouri prison letters and the Mormon textual community / David W. Grua -- The textual culture of the Nauvoo Female Relief Society leadership and minute book / Jennifer Reeder -- Joseph Smith's sermons and the early Mormon documentary record / William V. Smith -- Joseph Smith's Nauvoo journals / Alex D. Smith, Andrew H. Hedges -- The early diaries of Wilford Woodruff, 1835-1839 / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- A textual and archival reexamination of Lucy Mack Smith's History / Sharalyn D. Howcroft -- The image as text and context in early Mormon history / Jeffrey G. Cannon -- Joseph Smith and the conspicuous absence of early Mormon documentation / Ronald O. Barney |
| Summary |
This work offers a collection of critical studies of major texts used to reconstruct the founding era of Mormonism. The book will help scholars gain a more solid footing in the period's documentary record and enable them to use these and other sources more critically in their own work |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2018 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 20, 2018) |
| Subject |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Sacred books
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| SUBJECT |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fast |
| Subject |
Latter Day Saint churches -- Sacred books
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Latter Day Saint churches
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| Genre/Form |
Sacred books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ashurst-McGee, Mark, editor.
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Jensen, Robin Scott, editor.
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Howcroft, Sharalyn D., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190274405 |
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0190274409 |
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9780190274382 |
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0190274387 |
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9780190274399 |
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0190274395 |
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