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020			_a9780691144801 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aBX 8627 _b.G88 2012
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100	1		_aGutjahr, Paul C. _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Book of Mormon : _ba biography / _cPaul C. Gutjahr.
260			_aPrinceton ; _aOxford : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2012], �2012.
300			_axix, 255 pages : _billustrations ; _c20 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aLives of great religious books
505	0		_aJoseph's gold bible -- Holy writ or humbug? -- Multiplying prophets -- Great Basin saints and the book -- Missionary work and the book -- Scholars and the book -- Illustrating the book -- The book on screen and stage -- Appendix 1. Notable Book of Mormon editions in English -- Appendix 2. Book of Mormon translations.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-246) and index.
520			_aLate one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas' ancient peoples, and which would restore the pure Gospel message as Jesus had delivered it to them. Thus began the unlikely career of the Book of Mormon, the founding text of the Mormon religion, and perhaps the most important sacred text ever to originate in the United States. Here Paul Gutjahr traces the life of this book as it has formed and fractured different strains of Mormonism and transformed religious expression around the world. Gutjahr looks at how the Book of Mormon emerged from the burned-over district of upstate New York, where revivalist preachers, missionaries, and spiritual entrepreneurs of every stripe vied for the loyalty of settlers desperate to scratch a living from the land. He examines how a book that has long been the subject of ridicule -- Mark Twain called it "chloroform in print" -- has more than 150 million copies in print in more than a hundred languages worldwide. Gutjahr shows how Smith's influential book launched one of the fastest growing new religions on the planet, and has featured in everything from comic books and action figures to feature-length films and an award-winning Broadway musical. - Publisher.
630	0	0	_aBook of Mormon _xHistory.
630	0	0	_aBook of Mormon _xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
830		0	_aLives of great religious books.
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