Posted on 09/02/2009 1:00:55 PM PDT by TheDon
Review "Royal Skousen has single-handedly brought the textual analysis of the Book of Mormon to a professional level on par with the finest classical and biblical scholarship. This volume is the culmination of his labors, and it is the most textually significant edition since Joseph Smith's work was first published in 1830. It takes us back to the original manuscript (as best we can reconstruct it) and sometimes beyond, to the very words that were first spoken by Joseph Smith to his scribes."-Grant Hardy, from the Introduction (Grant Hardy )
Product Description
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.
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The culmination of Royal Skousen’s Book of Mormon project has been published and is available. And at a reasonable price.
Enjoy!
Thanks! I’ll look for it.
The amazing thing about this is to consider the poverty, lack of education, and the general lower class of the Smith family. To me it fit's perfectly with how the Lord uses his servants. Thank you for the post.
"27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are."
1 Corinthians 1: 27-28
By the way, can you please add me to your ping list? Thank you.
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I recently received my copy and have begun reading it. I’m still in the introduction, but it has been inetresting so far.
I received my copy and have begun reading. I like the fact that there is a list of the significant variants at the end of the book. It says something about the quality of the work that Yale University Press is the publisher.
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