Latter-day Scripture
Published on 25. April 2017
184 pages
978-1-4566-0145-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a series of papers presented mainly at the Book of Mormon Round Table. It lays out a case for considering the Mormon scripture as the work of Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century, not an ancient document written by various Israelites in ancient America. But, author Robert M. Price argues, this is merely another case of "pseudepigraphy," the genre of fictive "as if" authorship common to the Bible as well. Price urges readers to a new appreciation of the intricate redaction and rewriting of the Bible in the Book of Mormon, and to a positive theological estimate of this approach by Latter-day Saint Christians. Critical studies of several passages in the Book of Mormon are included.
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- Title Page
- Introduction: The Golden Bible of Joseph Smith
- Chapter 1: The Problem of the Canon and Further Revelation
- Chapter 2: Prophecy and Palimpsest
- Chapter 3: Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon
- Chapter 4: The Nineteenth-Century Setting of 3 Nephi 1:24-25
- Chapter 5: Later and Later Day Saints
- Chapter 6: The Oracles of Samuel the Lamanite
- Chapter 7: From the Scribe of Benjamin
- Chapter 8: Morton Smith as Joseph Smith
