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The pearl of greatest price : Mormonism's most controversial scripture
- Title
- The pearl of greatest price : Mormonism's most controversial scripture / by Terryl Givens ; with Brian M. Hauglid.
- Author
- Givens, Terryl
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hauglid, Brian M., 1954-
- Description
- 285 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: canonization and background. Canonization -- Backgrounds and precedents -- Re-visioning the Bible : the Joseph Smith Translation -- Moses : "caught up to an exceeding high mountain" -- The prophecy of Enoch -- Enoch in Jewish and Christian history -- Passible God -- Premortal existence -- Theosis -- Zion -- Matthew 24 : preserving millennialism -- Joseph Smith Translation and scriptural coherence -- The nature of the divine : a gentler face of God -- The nature of the divine : an embodied God -- New orthodoxies : a different sin and salvation -- The everlasting covenant -- Joseph Smith Translation as revelatory catalyst -- The Joseph Smith Translation and the Doctrine and Covenants as question and response -- New heavens and new cosmology -- The legacy of Enoch -- Polygamy -- Priesthood keys -- Intertextual infiltrations -- The revelatory process and the ur-text -- "Written by his own hand" : the Book of Abraham. Joseph Smith and seership -- The Book of Abraham and temple theology -- The new and everlasting covenant -- Councils, creation and cosmology -- Human preexistence and the divine assembly -- Creation ex materia -- by committee -- Priesthood -- A priesthood restricted -- Higher knowledge -- History of a controversy -- Assessing Joseph Smith's translations : the facsimiles -- Complicating the Book of Abraham controversy. Do we have the source documents? -- The Egypticity of the Book of Abraham -- Abraham/Egyptian papers and the mechanics of translation -- From mummies to scripture : rethinking translation -- "Owing to the many reports" : historicizing Mormonism. Re-centering Joseph -- The story of a story -- "Not to be trammeled" : to creed or not to creed -- The Articles of Faith in their context and since -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1073
- ISBN
- 9780190603861
- 0190603860
- LCCN
- 2019010152
- 40029538438
- OCLC
- 1096233040
- Author
- Givens, Terryl, author.
- Title
- The pearl of greatest price : Mormonism's most controversial scripture / by Terryl Givens ; with Brian M. Hauglid.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hauglid, Brian M., 1954- author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029538438
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1073