Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon
Description
"This work, the fifth of a six-volume commentary, presents a startling reinterpretation of Mormon's Gadianton robbers. Mormon, working from a cyclical view of history, applied the same name to groups widely separated by time. In a brilliant matching of setting and text, Gardner reconstructs Mormon's conceptual linking of the Gadiantons in 50 B.C. with the warriors from Teotihuacan, the most fearsome war machine in ancient Central Mexico, who crushed the Nephites at Cumorah four centuries later. This volume also covers the hemisphere's most significant religious event: the resurrected Christ's appearance at Bountiful. Gardner reads the Sermon at the Temple against Matthew's Sermon on the Mount, reconstructing important insights about the cultural milieu of both and Joseph Smith's translation process. Gardner also dismantles the long-held belief that the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl is a folk remembrance of Christ. A close examination of Spanish and pre-Spanish native texts results in his conclusion that LDS hopes of seeing the risen Christ in the image of the feathered serpent reflect the same wishful thinking as the early Spanish fathers and end up in the same unconvincing mismatch of apparently Christian traits imposed on recalcitrant native elements."
Book Details
Author
Gardner, Brant,author.
Volume/Number/Issue
5
Place Published
City
[Salt Lake City, UT.]
Date Published
2007
Publication Subjects
Book of Mormon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Book of Mormon.
Call No.
BX8627.G36 2007 V. 5
ISBN
9781589580459 1589580451 9781589580473 1589580478
Notes
670 pages ; 27 cm. includes biographical references and series index.
