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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bushman, Richard L., author.     Subjects     Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844.     Book of Mormon -- Evidences, authority, etc.     Book of Mormon -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bushman, Richard L., author.       by title:      Joseph Smith's gold ...         MARC Display

Joseph Smith's gold plates : a cultural history / Richard Lyman Bushman. by Bushman, Richard L., author. New York : Oxford University Press, [2023] Subjects Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844.   Book of Mormon -- Evidences, authority, etc.   Book of Mormon -- History. ISBN:  9780197676523 (hardback) 0197676529 (hardback) Description:  xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  The gold plates imaginary -- Translator : Joseph Smith, 1823-1829 -- Making scripture : The Book of Mormon -- Presence : family and friends, 1827-1830 -- Rationalism : apologists, critics, and imitators, 1832-1860 -- Fascination : fiction, lore, and psychology, 1860-1910 -- Art : 1833-2023 -- Instruction : 1893-2023 -- Scientific approaches : 1900-2023 -- Global perspectives -- Appendices -- Composition -- The translation debates. Requests:  0 Summary:  "For two centuries investigators of all kinds have sought to understand Joseph Smith's gold plates. Newspaper editors, treasure-seekers, critics, novelists, artists, historians, missionaries, and Church teachers have tried to explain their meaning. It has been difficult because there is nothing quite like the plates in either religious or secular history. Smith himself had trouble grasping what they were. He said an angel led him to the plates in 1823 and from them he translated the Book of Mormon, but that has been hard for outsiders to believe. Even today there is no agreed upon understanding of where the plates idea originated. One question has hovered over them from the start: were the plates real? Critics denounced Smith as a charlatan for claiming to have a wondrous object which he refused to show, while believers pointed to witnesses who said they saw the plates. Though heated at first, this debate has cooled in recent years. Apologists never made much of the witnesses, and, over time, outside scholars have focused more on how Smith came to believe the plates were real rather than their reality itself. After two hundred years the mystery of the gold plates remains. Other than the original angel story, there is no clear explanation. At the end, the book asks how the gold plates figure in a class of inspired texts and holy objects that includes pseudepigrapha, relics, stone tablets, and Buddhist terma. The book concludes that none perfectly match the plates, but that perhaps the plates are best understood as one of them"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 289.322 Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 289.322 Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 289.322 Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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