Approaching antiquity
Subtitle: Joseph Smith's study of the ancient world : Brigham Young University Church history Symposium
By: edited by Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges
Contributors: Blumell, Lincoln H. (Lincoln Harris), 1975- editor; Grey, Matthew J., editor; Hedges, Andrew H., 1966- editor
Publisher: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University ; Salt Lake City : Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Provo, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780842529662
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Knowledge and learning; Ancient History; Congresses; Study and teaching
Table of contents: title: Preface : prophets and the study of antiquity in early America; title: The study of antiquity in antebellum America / Richard L. Bushman; title: American prophets and their approaches to the past / David F. Holland; title: A very particular friend : Luther Bradish / Richard E. Bennett; title: "Git them translated" : translating the characters on the gold plates / Michael Hubbard MacKay; title: Joseph Smith and native American artifacts / Mark Alan Wright; title: Joseph Smith, central American ruins, and The Book of Mormon / Matthew Roper; title: Joseph Smith's biblical antiquity / Kent P. Jackson; title: Of life eternal and eternal lives : Joseph Smith's engagement with the Gospel of John / Nicholas J. Frederick; title: The spectrum of apostasy : mormonism, early christianity and the quest for true religion in antebellum America / Matthew Bowman; title: The word of the Lord in the original : Joseph Smith's study of Hebrew in Kirtland / Matthew J. Grey; title: Joseph Smith's awareness of Greek and Latin / John W. Welch; title: Joseph Smith's developing relationship with the Apocrypha / Thomas A. Wayment; title: What has Palmyra to do with Jerusalem? : Joseph Smith and the writings of Flavius Josephus / Lincoln H. Blumell; title: Patristic writings in early Mormon periodicals / Kristian S. Heal; title: Joseph Smith and ancient Egypt / John Gee; title: Joseph Smith's biblical view of Egypt / Kerry Muhlestein; title: The Book of Abraham and the Egyptian project : a knowledge of hidden languages / Brian M. Hauglid.