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By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Terryl L. Givens
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- Title By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion
- Author Terryl L. Givens
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0195168887I3N00
- ISBN 9780195168884 / 0195168887
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.41 x 5.96 x 0.74 in (23.90 x 15.14 x 1.88 cm)
- Reading level 1660
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Religious Orientation: Lds (Mormon) Interest
- Dewey Decimal Code 289.322
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Summary
With over 100 million copies in print, the Book of Mormon has spawned a vast religious movement, but it remains little discussed outside Mormon circles. Now Terryl Givens offers a full-length treatment of this highly influential work, illuminating many facets of this uniquely Americanscripture. Givens examines the Book of Mormon's role as a divine testament of the Last Days and as a sacred sign of Joseph Smith's status as a modern-day prophet. He assesses its claim to be a history of the pre-Columbian peopling of the Western Hemisphere, first by a small Old World group in the era ofBabel, and later by tribes from Jerusalem in the age of Jeremiah. Givens explores how the Book of Mormon has been defined as a cultural product, the imaginative ravings of a rustic religion-maker more inspired by the winds of culture than the breath of God...
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It is both fitting and ironic that at a small crossroads in the town of Palmyra, New York, four churches occupy the four corner lots of the intersection.
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- Books & Culture, 11/01/2004, Page 39