Bibliograph

Understanding the Book of Mormon, a reader's guide, Grant Hardy

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Understanding the Book of Mormon, a reader's guide, Grant Hardy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Understanding the Book of Mormon

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

436310425

Responsibility statement

Grant Hardy

Sub title

a reader's guide

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

Table Of Contents

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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