| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 346 pages) |
| Contents |
A brief overview -- Narrator-based reading -- 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 fulfillment -- Section III: Moroni -- Weakness in writing -- A sense of audience -- Strategies of conclusion -- Allusion -- Afterword |
| Summary |
In "Understanding the Book of Mormon," Hardy offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work's narrative structure in its 180 year history. He identifies the book's literary techniques, such as characterization, embedded documents, allusions, and parallel narratives, and shows how the narrators--Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni--each has a distinctive voice woven into an integral whole |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Nephi (Book of Mormon figure)
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Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844. Book of Mormon. (DE-588)4366494-5 gnd |
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Book of Mormon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Book of Mormon fast |
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Mormon -- (Buch. idszbz |
| Subject |
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199745449 |
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0199745447 |
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0199731705 |
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9780199731701 |
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