Title: By the Hand of Mormon
Description: With over 100 million copies in print, the Book of Mormon has spawned a vast religious movement, but it remains little discussed outside Mormon circles. Now Terryl Givens offers a full-length treatment of this highly influential work, illuminating  many facets of this uniquely Americanscripture.       Givens examines the Book of Mormon's role as a divine testament of the Last Days and as a sacred sign of Joseph Smith's status as a modern-day prophet. He assesses its claim to be a history of the pre-Columbian peopling of the Western Hemisphere, first by a small Old World group in the era ofBabel, and later by tribes from Jerusalem in the age of Jeremiah. Givens explores how the Book of Mormon has been defined as a cultural product, the imaginative ravings of a rustic religion-maker more inspired by the winds of culture than the breath of God...
Subjects: Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Book of Mormon, Criticism, interpretation, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, History, The book of Mormon, Mormonen, Histoire, Eglise mormone, Boek van Mormon, Book of mormon