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The Book of Mormon : The Earliest Text / Royal Skousen.
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Book of Mormon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Doctrines.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Latter Day Saint churches--Doctrines.
- Latter Day Saint churches.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (838 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- First published in 1830, the Book of Mormon is the authoritative scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its estimated 13 million members. Over the past twenty-one years, editor Royal Skousen has pored over Joseph Smith's original manuscripts and identified more than 2,000 textual errors in the 1830 edition. Although most of these discrepancies stem from inadvertent errors in copying and typesetting the text, the Yale edition contains about 600 corrections that have never appeared in any standard edition of the Book of Mormon, and about 250 of them affect the text's meaning. Skousen's corrected text is a work of remarkable dedication and will be a landmark in American religious scholarship. Completely redesigned and typeset by nationally award-winning typographer Jonathan Saltzman, this new edition has been reformatted in sense-lines, making the text much more logical and pleasurable to read. Featuring a lucid introduction by historian Grant Hardy, the Yale edition serves not only as the most accurate version of the Book of Mormon ever published but also as an illuminating entryway into a vital religious tradition.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Editor's Preface
- The Book of Nephi I
- The Book of Nephi II
- The Book of Jacob
- The Book of Enos
- The Book of Jarom
- The Book of Omni
- The Words of Mormon
- The Book of Mosiah
- The Book of Alma
- The Book of Helaman
- The Book of Nephi
- The Book of Mormon
- The Book of Ether
- The Book of Moroni
- The Testimony of Three Witnesses
- Appendix. Significant Textual Changes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-15629-4
- OCLC:
- 884499521
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