Oral Creation and the Dictation of t…

Read Now

Show Comments

Get the Link to This Publication

Publication link:
You can copy and paste this link into any site, or bookmark it online or offline with any service.
Done

Buy Print: $3.20

Buy Digital: Free

Learn More About Purchasing

Digital Includes: PDF WebViewer

Details
Description

Published by:: Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Published:: 9/1/2020
Specs:: Digest / 5.25" x 8.25"
20 pages Saddle-stitched

Category:: Religion
Tags:: Book of Mormon, church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, extemporaneous preaching, Joseph Smith, lds, Mormonism, review

Review of William L. Davis, Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020). 250 pages with index. $90.00 (hardback), $29.95 (paperback).

Abstract: Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon introduces a new perspective in the examination of the construction of the Book of Mormon. With an important introduction to the elements of early American extemporaneous speaking, Davis applies some of those concepts to the Book of Mormon and suggests that there are elements of the organizational principles of extemporaneous preaching that can be seen in the Book of Mormon. This, therefore, suggests that the Book of Mormon was the result of extensive background work that was presented to the scribe as an extended oral performance.

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:

Oral Creation and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon

Get the Link to This Publication

Also in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

1 - 3 of 386 other publications

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Oral C...