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Joseph Smith's Translation, Samuel Morris Brown argues that, rather than constituting literal translations of extant documents, Smith's religious translations express the mystical power of language and scripture to interconnect people across chasms of space and time.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Language, Time, and the Human Cosmos
- Nineteenth-Century Contexts
- Smith's Goals and Aspirations
- Smith's Approach
- Implications
- SECTION ONE INTRODUCTION: CONTEXTS
- Chapter 1. The Quest for Pure Language
- Chapter 2: The Nature of Time
- Chapter 3: Human and Divine Selves
- SECTION TWO INTRODUCTION: TEXTS
- Chapter 4: The Task of the Book of Mormon: To Save the Bible, First You Must Kill It
- Chapter 5: Rereading the Bible: Joseph Smith's New Translation
- Chapter 6: The Egyptian Bible and the Cosmic Order
- Chapter 7: The Transcendent Immanent Temple
- Epilogue
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
About the author
Samuel Morris Brown - intensive care unit physician, medical researcher, and cultural historian-is Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at University of Utah/Intermountain Medical Center and director of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain. The author of In Heaven as It Is on Earth and Through the Valley of Shadows, Dr. Brown researches and writes at the interfaces among medicine, religion, culture, and history.
Summary
In Joseph Smith's Translation, Samuel Morris Brown argues that, rather than constituting literal translations of extant documents, Smith's religious translations express the mystical power of language and scripture to interconnect people across chasms of space and time.
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I found Joseph Smith's Translation stimulating. Brown weaves his way through the wide variety of the texts Smith produced to identify common threads of metaphysical transformation and communal ascent. For those with an esoteric bent, he provides satisfying ways of understanding Joseph Smith's scriptural contributions. Samuel Morris Brown has "translated" Joseph Smith for the reader in a way we have not seen before.
