The gift and power :translating the Book of Mormon /Brant A. Gardner.
Description
Translation stories become history -- Understanding Joseph : magician or prophet? -- What is a magic worldview? -- The social interface between magic and religion -- Magic and religion in tradition and transition -- Joseph's two Palmyras -- Magic in Palmyra : divining rods and seer stones -- Money-digging, confidence men, and Joseph -- The event that changed everything -- Miracle, not magic : establishing Mormonism -- The creation of a sacred communal story -- Important stories, told importantly -- What does it mean to translate? -- Theories of Book of Mormon translation -- Evidence for literalist equivalence -- Evidence for functional or conceptual equivalence -- Structures in the Book of Mormon -- Joseph's translations involving Biblical texts -- From plate text to English translation -- Who translated the Book of Mormon? -- How did Joseph translate? -- Assembling the puzzle.
xii, 379 pages ;24 cm.
Book Details
Author
Gardner, Brant.aut
Place Published
City
Salt Lake City
Date Published
2011
Publication Subjects
Book of Mormon--Translating.
Occultism--Religious aspects--Mormon Church.
Smith, Joseph,Jr.,1805-1844