{"title":"The Book of Mormon and Book History","authors":"E. Fenton","doi":"10.5406/23744774.32.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23744774.32.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Book of Mormon Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134619944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Book of Mormon Bibliography for 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.5406/23744774.32.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23744774.32.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Book of Mormon Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115052985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Book of Mormon Bibliography for 2021","authors":"","doi":"10.5406/23744774.31.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23744774.31.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Book of Mormon Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128624252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Illuminating the Jaredite Records","authors":"K. Turley","doi":"10.5406/23744774.31.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23744774.31.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Book of Mormon Studies","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121972583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History, Religious Studies, and Book of Mormon Studies","authors":"P. Mason","doi":"10.5406/23744774.31.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23744774.31.03","url":null,"abstract":"Before the literary scholars, theologians, philosophers, and scripture scholars who currently dominate the field of Book of Mormon studies got their hands on the Book of Mormon, the volume was largely the preserve of historians and religious studies scholars. The same impulses that gave birth to the interdisciplinary field that goes by the name of “Mormon studies” also allowed for serious study of the Book of Mormon to take place within the secular academy.1 Or perhaps it is the reverse—that once scholars began to get comfortable with the notion of taking the Book of Mormon seriously, the conditions were then ripe for the advent of the field of Mormon studies. I’m less interested here in determining whether the chicken or egg came first than in charting the contours of academic inquiry that have allowed for both Mormon studies and Book of Mormon studies to thrive in the twenty-first century. Many have pointed to the 2002 publication of Terryl Givens’s landmark book By the Hand of Mormon as inaugurating this blessed new age of Book of Mormon studies. But without diminishing Givens’s accomplishment or influence, here I consider a number of","PeriodicalId":183152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Book of Mormon Studies","volume":"520 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132195877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bible, Mormon Scripture, and the Rhetoric of Allusivity","authors":"K. Heal","doi":"10.5406/23744774.31.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23744774.31.10","url":null,"abstract":"BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2017) N J. Frederick’s new book, The Bible, Mormon Scripture, and the Rhetoric of Allusivity, is a highly detailed analysis in which Frederick compares the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants with the Gospel of John, especially the first eighteen verses of John’s Gospel—the Johannine Prologue. In so doing, Frederick argues that Joseph Smith purposefully incorporated biblical allusions into Mormon canonical works to imbue Mormon scripture, the nascent church, and Joseph Smith himself with authority and gravitas—a technique prophets have traditionally used throughout the ages (xiv). According to Frederick, one mark of a prophet, anciently speaking, was allusivity: “By adopting the rhetoric of allusivity, authors intentionally link themselves to earlier text . . . to gain entry into a canon” (xiv). Such, Frederick argues, was Joseph Smith’s intention. Quoting Grant Hardy, Frederick suggests that Joseph Smith was simply following the lead of Moroni, who knew “his core audience intimately; [that is,] latter-day Gentiles” (7). To reach such an audience, Frederick avers, Joseph Smith used passages from the King James Bible. Frederick divides Smith’s use of biblical allusivity into four categories: (1) an “echo” of John’s prologue, wherein the Johannine language appearing in the Book of Mormon is just that—an echo, meant to cause Book of Mormon readers to recall familiar pieces of the Bible and not, necessarily, to suggest any subtext, aside from establishing Smith’s authority as a prophet; (2) an “allusion” to John’s prologue, where both the language and context of John’s words are carried over from the Bible into the Book of Mormon, allowing readers to apply the meaning or subtext of John’s words to LDS scripture (and vice versa); (3) a Johannine “expansion,” in which a concept, originally expressed in John’s Gospel, is amplified or given additional meaning through its inclusion Nicholas J. Frederick. The Bible, Mormon Scripture, and the Rhetoric of Allusivity. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.","PeriodicalId":183152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Book of Mormon Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116722144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joseph Smith's Folk Beliefs and Treasure Seeking Practices as Book of Mormon Background: A Review of Literature","authors":"Mark Ashurst-McGee","doi":"10.5406/23744774.31.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23744774.31.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Book of Mormon Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128331838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Signifiers and Signifieds: Terryl Givens and Twenty-First-Century Book of Mormon Studies","authors":"J. Spencer","doi":"10.5406/23744774.31.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23744774.31.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Book of Mormon Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131716967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel","authors":"Jordan T. Watkins","doi":"10.5406/23744774.31.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23744774.31.13","url":null,"abstract":"reaction. There was something about pacifists that got under the patriots’ skin that went beyond their worries about Friends passing on information to British lines. This could have been explored further. Godbeer also highlights other ways Revolutionary Americans, particularly Quakers, understood peace that went beyond issues related to warfare and killing, what peace studies scholars call “positive peace” or I would call “right ordering”—that is, notions of ordering that proponents believed would create the best of all possible worlds, even if it took violent means to achieve it or even if it led to unintended violent outcomes. After the war, Henry got into the maple syrup business, which nearly ruined him, but it was driven by his vision of filling the backcountry with Quakers and other “respectable citizens” who would “build orderly farming communities and treat local Indian nations with respect” (215). Godbeer correctly ties this venture to antislavery—the maple syrup was intended to replace slave-produced Caribbean sugar. But this was also a profoundly complicated articulation of peace as well, one that contained within it the seeds of something more violent—the Federalist and Jeffersonian campaigns for Indian “civilization” and, later, Indian removal. Not coincidentally, even these violent programs were couched in the language of peace. Overall, this is a worthy book for readers interested in learning more about the everyday trauma of life in Revolutionary America. It has an obvious appeal for those interested in Quaker studies, but it deserves a wider reading. As a work of biography, it is exemplary and a repudiation of an older notion that historians should avoid this genre in favor of more traditional narrative forms. Godbeer succeeds in bringing to life the humanity of his protagonists. We see them as they were: imperfect, suffering, living as we do within a set of contradictions, and shaped by the context of their time.","PeriodicalId":183152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Book of Mormon Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115199166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Present of Book of Mormon Studies: Introduction to a Roundtable Discussion","authors":"J. Spencer","doi":"10.5406/23744774.31.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23744774.31.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Book of Mormon Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127949939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}