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Understanding the Book of Mormon [electronic resource] : a reader's guide / Grant Hardy.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 346 p.)ISBN: - 9780199745449 (electronic bk.)
- 0199745447 (electronic bk.)
- 289.3/32 22
- BX8627 .H33 2010eb
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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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
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.
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