Editore: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, 2002
Da: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First Edition. 368pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Very good - 'Historical Criticism and the Book of Mormon: A Personal Encounter' by Edwin Firmage, Jr. - 'Automaticityy and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon' by Scott C. Dunn - 'Lamanite Genesis, Genealogy, and Genetics' by thomas W. Murphy - 'The Validity of the Witnesses' Testimonies' by Dan Vogel - 'B.H. Roberts: Book of Mormon Apologist and Skeptic' by George D. Smith - 'Isaiah in the Book of Mormon: Or Joseph Smith in Isaiah' by David P. Wright - 'Secret Things, Hidden Things: The Seer Story in the Imaginative Economy of Joseph Smith' by Susan Staker - 'Echoes of Anti-Masonry: A Rejoinder to Critics of the Anti-Masonic Thesis' by Dan Vogel. Part of Signature Books' Essays on Mormonism series, American Apocrypha combines the insights of nine different authors in a comprehensive study of the Book of Mormon, its role in history, and the way religious communities use sacred texts to create meaning and culture. Published in 1830, the Book of Mormon acts as a modern-day example of apocrypha-literature with deep religious meaning that are excluded from the biblical cannon and often dismissed as heretical. As such, each essay examines the various lenses Mormons use to view and appreciate the Book of Mormon, despite allegations of historical and scientific inaccuracies.