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Here's a second post on Joseph Smith, Jr.: Reappraisals After Two Centuries (OUP, 2009). I didn't find the second and third sections quite as strong as the first section, although I liked Richard Bushman's essay "Joseph Smith and the Creation of the...
There are some very sharp essays in the first section of six essays in Joseph Smith, Jr.: Reappraisals After Two Centuries (OUP, 2009). I particularly liked Richard H. Brodhead's "Prophets in America circa 1830: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nat Turner, Joseph...
I recently imported to this site the six posts I did at By Common Consent back in 2005 on selected articles from the LDS booklet True to the Faith. The first post was A is for Agency, followed by body piercing, the cross, divorce, exaltation, and the...
I posted a new Now Reading book: Joseph Smith, Jr.: Reappraisals After Two Centuries (OUP, 2009), a collection of scholarly essays edited by Reid Neilson and Terryl Givens. The quality of the essays seems quite good, with the volume as a whole being...
I just finished reading Terryl Givens' The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction, a recent addition to Oxford University Press's wildly successful VSI series. It gives 125 informative pages on the content, structure, origin, and reception of the...
