Author: Josiah PRIEST
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Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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American Antiquities, and discoveries in the West ... Second edition, revised
Author: Josiah PRIEST
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Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Publisher:
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Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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American Antiquities, and discoveries in the West ... Second edition, revised
Author: Josiah Priest
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Rafinesque
Author: T. J. Fitzpatrick
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Discoveries of the Norsemen in America
Author: Joseph Fischer
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Joseph Smith's Translation
Author: Samuel Morris Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190054247
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill, and produced an Egyptian "Book of Abraham" derived from funerary papyri he extracted from a collection of mummies he bought from a traveling showman. In addition, he rewrote sections of the King James Version as a "New Translation" of the Bible. Smith and his followers used the term translation to describe the genesis of these English scriptures, which remain canonical for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Whether one believes him or not, the discussion has focused on whether Smith's English texts represent literal translations of extant source documents. On closer inspection, though, Smith's translations are far more metaphysical than linguistic. In Joseph Smith's Translation, Samuel Morris Brown argues that these translations express the mystical power of language and scripture to interconnect people across barriers of space and time, especially in the developing Mormon temple liturgy. He shows that Smith was devoted to an ancient metaphysics--especially the principle of correspondence, the concept of "as above, so below"--that provided an infrastructure for bridging the human and the divine as well as for his textual interpretive projects. Joseph Smith's projects of metaphysical translation place Mormonism at the productive edge of the transitions associated with shifts toward "secular modernity." This transition into modern worldviews intensified, complexly, in nineteenth-century America. The evolving legacies of Reformation and Enlightenment were the sea in which early Mormons swam, says Brown. Smith's translations and the theology that supported them illuminate the power and vulnerability of the Mormon critique of American culture in transition. This complex critique continues to resonate and illuminate to the present day.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190054247
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill, and produced an Egyptian "Book of Abraham" derived from funerary papyri he extracted from a collection of mummies he bought from a traveling showman. In addition, he rewrote sections of the King James Version as a "New Translation" of the Bible. Smith and his followers used the term translation to describe the genesis of these English scriptures, which remain canonical for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Whether one believes him or not, the discussion has focused on whether Smith's English texts represent literal translations of extant source documents. On closer inspection, though, Smith's translations are far more metaphysical than linguistic. In Joseph Smith's Translation, Samuel Morris Brown argues that these translations express the mystical power of language and scripture to interconnect people across barriers of space and time, especially in the developing Mormon temple liturgy. He shows that Smith was devoted to an ancient metaphysics--especially the principle of correspondence, the concept of "as above, so below"--that provided an infrastructure for bridging the human and the divine as well as for his textual interpretive projects. Joseph Smith's projects of metaphysical translation place Mormonism at the productive edge of the transitions associated with shifts toward "secular modernity." This transition into modern worldviews intensified, complexly, in nineteenth-century America. The evolving legacies of Reformation and Enlightenment were the sea in which early Mormons swam, says Brown. Smith's translations and the theology that supported them illuminate the power and vulnerability of the Mormon critique of American culture in transition. This complex critique continues to resonate and illuminate to the present day.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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The Book Buyer's Manual
Author: G.P. Putnam & Co
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Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Russell Smith
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Catalogue of the ... Library of the Late Mr. William J. Davis
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Important Collection of Americana from the Library of W.H. Samson ...
Author: William Holland Samson
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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