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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/25157| Title: | By the Hand of Mormon: |
| Other Titles: | The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion |
| Authors: | Terryl L., Givens |
| Keywords: | Book of Mormon |
| Issue Date: | 2002 |
| Publisher: | Oxford |
| Description: | his present work is an attempt to answer that question, among others, but in the context of a larger history of the reception and impact of a scripture that has hitherto received little critical investigation. From the day of its founding, Mormonism’s name, doctrine, and image have been largely dependent on this book of scripture, transmitted to the boyprophet Joseph Smith by an angel. After the Bible, this Book of Mormon is the most widely distributed religious book in America. By the new millennium, over fifteen thousand copies a day were being printed, in some 94 languages.6 Long considered a sacred revelation by the faithful, a fraud by detractors, and ignored by non-Mormon scholars, the book in recent years has been undergoing significant reappraisal on all three fronts |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/25157 |
| ISBN: | 0-19-513818-X |
| Appears in Collections: | Religion |
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