Understanding the Book of Mormon :a reader's guide /Grant Hardy.
Description
Preface -- Getting started or why bother? -- Section I: Nephi -- Sons and brothers -- Characterization -- Prophets of old -- Scriptural interpretation -- Section II: Mormon -- Mormon's dilemma -- Competing agendas -- Other voices -- Embedded documents -- Providential recurrence -- Parallel narratives -- The day of the Lord's coming -- Prophecy and fulfilment -- Section III: Moroni -- Weakness in writing -- A sense of audience -- Strategies of conclusion -- Allusion -- Afterword.
xix, 346 p. ;25 cm.