Approaching antiquity :Joseph Smith and the ancient world /edited by Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges.

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Approaching antiquity :Joseph Smith and the ancient world /edited by Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges.

Description

Joseph Smith and the study of antiquity / Richard Lyman Bushman -- American visionaries and their approaches to the past / David F. Holland -- "A very particular friend" : Luther Bradish / Richard E. Bennett -- "Git them translated" : translating the characters on the gold plates / Michael Hubbard MacKay -- Joseph Smith and native American artifacts / Mark Alan Wright -- Joseph Smith, central American ruins, and The Book of Mormon / Matthew Roper -- Joseph Smith's biblical antiquity / Kent P. Jackson -- Of "life eternal" and "eternal lives" : Joseph Smith's engagement with the Gospel of John / Nicholas J. Frederick -- The spectrum of apostasy : Mormonism, early Christianity and the quest for true religion in antebellum America / Matthew Bowman -- "The word of the Lord in the original" : Joseph Smith's study of Hebrew in Kirtland / Matthew J. Grey -- Joseph Smith's awareness of Greek and Latin / John W. Welch -- Joseph Smith's developing relationship with the Apocrypha / Thomas A. Wayment -- Palmyra and Jerusalem? : Joseph Smith's scriptural texts and the writings of Flavius Josephus / Lincoln H. Blumell -- Patristic writings in early Mormon periodicals / Kristian S. Heal -- Joseph Smith and ancient Egypt / John Gee -- Joseph Smith's biblical view of Egypt / Kerry Muhlestein -- The Book of Abraham and the Egyptian project : "a knowledge of hidden languages" / Brian M. Hauglid. xviii, 526 pages :illustrations ;24 cm

Book Details

Place Published

City

Provo, Utah :Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University ;Salt Lake City

Publication Subjects

History, Ancient--Study and teaching--Congresses. History, Ancient--Study and teaching.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00958361 Learning and scholarship.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00994857 Smith, Joseph,Jr.,1805-1844--Knowledge and learning--Congresses.

Call No.

BX8611 .B725 2013

ISBN

9780842529662, 0842529667

LCCN

2015021492

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Carrier type: volumerdacarrier Conference Author: Brigham Young University Church History Symposium(2013 :Salt Lake City, Utah; Provo, Utah)aut Media type: unmediatedrdamedia Date: [2015] Publication Info: {copy}2015