Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation Cover:hardcover

Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation Cover:hardcoverBy William Victor Smith A model of what the future of Mormon scriptural studies should be. Stephen C. Taysom A level of detailed analysis that is essential for future readings. Jonathan Stapley "Smith succeeds in providing a sound theological and historical approach ." Association for Mormon Letters "An important, valuable contribution to the study of early Mormon plural marriage." Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought "Readers will undoubtedly come

Newell’s erudite review of racist white male behavior led to a paradigm shift in my understanding of Mormon history

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When I studied the Bible as a graduate student

Human Conflict And The Mormon Writer

Smith successfully charts the inner history of what would become the Deseret Book Company from its earliest years into the first decades of the twentieth century

He currently resides in East Lansing

Too often readers approach the Book of Mormon simply as a collection of quotations

the context in which each was written

which led him to leave Nauvoo

At the heart of this transformation was the Juvenile Instructor Office—a small but ambitious press that evolved from a youth's magazine into one of the largest Mormon publishing operations of its time

He is married to Heather Bennett Oman