Books : The Book of Mormon
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Binding: CD-ROM
Dewey Decimal Number: 289
EAN: 9781891788086
ISBN: 1891788086
Label: Octavo
Manufacturer: Octavo
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: 1998-09
Publisher: Octavo
Sales Rank: 1581475
Studio: Octavo
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The Book of Mormon has generally come to most people as a surprise: to the farm boy beckoned from his sleep by an angel in the 1820s, to critics astonished that anyone would take the work seriously, and to millions of readers professing a personal witness that the book is not only authentic, but divine. It is unavoidably controversial and enigmatic, and if hundreds of millions of people have heard of this text, relatively few have examined it long enough to form an original opinion of what it may actually be. There are more than ten million Mormons worldwide, nearly half of them in the United States. Most of them have never seen this cornerstone of their religion as it was first published to the world.
When a book is a foundation stone of faith, it will always be more than a collector’s item. As with many other famous books, this volume’s relatively nondescript mien belies the prominence which it attained. The Book of Mormon disappears comfortably on the shelf between other books of similar time and place until some unsuspecting browser turns the front board to reveal the famous title. There were works of equally imposing claim even in nineteenth-century America, and it would be unproductive to insist that this book is unique. Indeed, much of the Book of Mormon speaks not merely from its own era, but from its own decade and the very counties from which it emerged. This has been verified over the years in hundreds of texts examined and transcribed from the immediate world and culture of Joseph Smith. So when it is pointed out that the Book of Mormon also has its exceptional moments, readers of all persuasions may allow that surprises wait between its leaves.
Commentary by Rick Grunder, searchable live text.
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If you are interested in religion and are not Mormon, I would recommend reading this style of the Book of Mormon. The original (supposed) translation of the Book of Mormon did not have the verse numbers or columns. I like reading it better that way; it is a narrative and to me, all of the notes and verse numbers in the current edition just get in the way.
I am an ex-mormon and I never really "got" the BoM until I read it from an outsiders perspective in this format. If you want the original book however, this is not quite there; it is the third edition. And, yes, there were nearly 4000 typos and more serious textual issues that have had to be changed since. If you can find one, it is really interesting to read the 1830 edition, but this one will suffice if not.
Even if you are not Mormon, if you are interested in religion, read the older edition (like this one), not the new one.
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WTF, Amazon, you've had the Look Inside and Search Inside features going for some five years now, and you still can't tag the appropriate scans to the right book. I tried to look inside the Penguin Book of Mormon, only to see a scan for some no-name BS small press edition. Way to lose a sale to a brick-and-mortar bookstore, where I can hold the book in my hands and consult it in the flesh. FAIL
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1. And it came to pass that I, TANSTAAFL, having been born of Mormon parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; which included the Book of Mormon, and having seen many afflictions and cognitive dissonance in the course of my days because of the fact that I was raised in the Mormon religion and having read the Book of Mormon nigh unto twenty times, nevertheless, yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mischievousness of Loki, therefore I make a book review of the Book of Moron.
2. Yea, I make a record of my review in the language of English, and not Reformed Egyptian - the language of the Book of Mormon, because everyone knoweth that no one speaks Reformed Egyptian anyway. Behold, I make an abridgment of the review upon computer which I have made with mine own hands; (the review, not the computer) wherefore, after I have abridged the review then will I make an account of mine own review and if thou findest this sentence difficult for your understandings to comprehend then thou wilt not enjoy reading the Book of Mormon, for I make the record of my review in the idiom of the book of Mormon author. Yea, verily, it came to pass that exceedingly more confusing than Yoda-speak it is.
3. And it came to pass that thus were written the first two paragraphs of my review. And I know that the review which I write true; and I make it with mine own computer; and I make it according to my knowledge. And thus passeth ... Read More
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Reading this book with an open heart and open mind will change your life forever. It truly is another testament of Jesus Christ!
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Mark Twain called the Book of Mormon "chloroform in print" and he wasn't kidding. It is by far the most boring read I have encountered (I could barely get through it). I am a woman of faith - faith in God and faith in Christ and I don't know how anyone could believe this rubbish. PLEASE, anyone who is taking this at all seriously - do some research on the church. Ask some hard questions (you will likely get a rehearsed answer, but it's worth a shot).
Joseph Smith was accused (and fined with a misdimeanor) of being a "glass looker" - hired by a man to help him find buried silver mines started and left behind by the Spanish. He would use "magic stones" that were placed in a hat to tell him where to find the location. So convenient that he later found "gold plates" and used what he called the "Urim and Thum" (which, by the way are actually gemstones that were carried by the High Priests of Israel in biblical times) to translate these plates (he describes them as stones he looked at in a hat).
There are SO many myths that are told by members of the church "most men were SO distraught at the thought of polygamy", the age issue of Joseph translating the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith's actual role in polygamy (which really should be called polandry - when a woman has more than one husband... 11 of Josephs 33 wives were actually married to other men first and then married to him, having NEVER divorced the first husband - what's up with that???).. etc.. ... Read More
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