Understanding the Book of Mormon [[electronic resource] ] : a reader's guide / / Grant Hardy

• Autore: Hardy Grant <1961->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Disciplina: 289.3
• Soggetto topico: Latter Day Saint churches
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations; 1. A Brief Overview, Narrator-based Reading; Part I: Nephi; 2. Sons and Brothers, Characterization; 3. Prophets of Old, Scriptural Interpretation; Part II: Mormon; 4. Mormon's Dilemma, Competing Agendas; 5. Other Voices, Embedded Documents; 6. Providential Recurrence, Parallel Narratives; 7. The Day of the Lord's Coming, Prophecy and Fulfillment; Part III: Moroni; 8. Weakness in Writing, A Sense of Audience; 9. Strategies of Conclusion, Allusion; Afterword; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W ; YZ; Scripture Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Mark Twain once derided the Book of Mormon as ""chloroform in print."" Long and complicated, written in the language of the King James version of the Bible, it boggles the minds of many. Yet it is unquestionably one of the most influential books ever written. With over 140 million copies in print, it is a central text of one of the largest and fastest-growing faiths in the world. And, Grant Hardy shows, it's far from the coma-inducing doorstop caricatured by Twain. In Understanding the Book of Mormon, Hardy offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work's narrative structure in its 180 ye
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding the Book of Mormon
• ISBN: 9786612501203; 1-282-50120-8; 0-19-974544-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792222803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II