Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, First Nephi: 1

History

Gardner, Brant A.

Ancient Civilizations

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Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon: Second Nephi Through Jacob

Volume three of the six-volume commentary

Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon: Enos - Mosiah

Volume four of the six-volume Book of Mormon commentary, Second Witness.

Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Alma

Volume five of the six-volume Book of Mormon Commentary

Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Helaman Through Third Nephi

Volume six of the six-volume Book of Mormon Commentary

Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Fourth Nephi - Moroni

Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, six-volume set.

Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon was presented to the world as the translation of an ancient text engraved on golden plates more than 180 years ago. However, the faithful assurance that it is a translation has not had an accompanying understanding of how that translation took place. How could the ill-educated Joseph Smith translate the ancient text on the golden plates into the English Book of Mormon upon which so many base not only their faith, but a willingness to completely change their lives? The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon examines the various issues surrounding that translation. How does the fact of the translation fit into a magical worldview in which Joseph had a place as a village seer? What might that context mean for our understanding of the text? This work explores the kind of translation the Book of Mormon represents. Did Joseph Smith or the marvelous instruments do the actual work of translation? Is it a tight or loose translation? How closely tied is the English text to the source text from which it was translated? What about Hebraisms in the text? What about the lengthy passages of King James English in it? The volume concludes with the most puzzling and persistent questions: How did the seer stones work? Why didn't Joseph retranslate the Book of Lehi? How did revival language make its appearance in the book? Why couldn't Oliver Cowdery translate? Brant Gardner offers answers to these questions. The result is a faithful description of how God used a human prophet to translate a transcendentally important scriptural text.

The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon

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Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon As History (Second Witness: Analytical & Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon)

The focus of the Book of Mormon is unquestionably on the things of God. Similar to the Bible, its sermons and explications of religious principles are presented against the framework of the story of a people. It is a story that covers a thousand years. In this book Brant Gardner looks around and behind the religious purposes of the book and teases out how those thousand years of Book of Mormon history correspond to those same years in the geographic and cultural context where they most plausibly took place. Gardner works through the Book of Mormon chronologically, examining how events in the Book of Mormon reflect the greater historical and cultural developments happening around them at the same time. Gardner asks and answers questions against particular historical backdrops. Why does Nephi appear to be so Christian so long before Christ, and why does his particular time period in Jerusalem help answer that question? Why do Nephi apostate groups from different times appear to adopt the same religion? Why does the Book of Mormon end around A.D. 400? Why not earlier or later? The answers are developed by looking at the Book of Mormon as history in the context of what has become known of Mesoamerican history. Along the way, Gardner also looks at the problem of anachronisms, DNA, and some popular ""proofs"" of the Book of Mormon that need to be abandoned.

Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History

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The focus of the Book of Mormon is unquestionably on the things of God. Similar to the Bible, its sermons and explications of religious principles are presented against the framework of the story of a people. It is a story that covers a thousand years. In this book Brant Gardner looks around and behind the religious purposes of the book and teases out how those thousand years of Book of Mormon history correspond to those same years in the geographic and cultural context where they most plausibly took place. Gardner works through the Book of Mormon chronologically, examining how events in the Book of Mormon reflect the greater historical and cultural developments happening around them at the same time. Gardner asks and answers questions against particular historical backdrops. Why does Nephi appear to be so Christian so long before Christ, and why does his particular time period in Jerusalem help answer that question? Why do Nephi apostate groups from different times appear to adopt the same religion? Why does the Book of Mormon end around A.D. 400? Why not earlier or later? The answers are developed by looking at the Book of Mormon as history in the context of what has become known of Mesoamerican history. Along the way, Gardner also looks at the problem of anachronisms, DNA, and some popular "proofs" of the Book of Mormon that need to be abandoned.

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