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Tag Archives: Joseph Smith
Desperate Prayers: Keeping the Faith as Mormon Artists
“DOUBT NOT, FEAR NOT.” The lure is there. Always. As an artist, writer, scholar, etc. you want to explore, to search, to find uncharted places, and make illuminating insights. Thus the cling of dogma or doctrine can feel like the … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Narratives
Tagged A Man For All Seasons, apostasy, Burdens of Earth by Susan Elizabeth Howe, doubt, faith, Faith and Art, Faith and Scholarship, Faith Crisis, Faith Transition, Fiona Givens, Fires of the Mind, God's Army, Jeffrey R. Holland, Joseph Smith, Keeping the Faith, Liberty Jail, Mormon Cinema, Richard Dutcher, Robert Bolt, Terryl Givens, The God Who Weeps
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in verse # 24 : appointed to be read in churches
All poetry is appointed to be read in churches; not all verse is. There is a long history of verse in English, in German, in Russian — probably in every language — written to be read in toilets, in taverns, … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse
Tagged Alan Ginsberg, Authorized Version, Hebrew poetry, James 1 of England, John Donne, Joseph Smith, Kethubim, King James Bible, Nevi'im, Richard Elliott Friedman, Robert Alter, Tanakh, The art of biblical poetry, The law, The new Cambridge paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha : King James Version, The prophets, The writings, Torah, Walt Whitman, Who wrote the Bible?, William Blake, William Shakespeare
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Needful Opposition: Addressing Conflict and Controversy in Mormon History Plays
How to present Mormon History has often been a sensitive thing within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Especially with the understandable impulse to protect the faith and culture of an entire people, it can be tempting to … Continue reading
Posted in On-stage
Tagged Blacks and the Priesthood, Brigham Young, Burdens of Earth, Burdens of Earth by Susan Elizabeth Howe, Elijah Abel, Emma Smith, Hancock County, Hancock County by Tim Slover, I Am Jane by Margaret Young, Jane Manning James, Joseph Smith, Liberty Jail, Mormon drama, Mormon history, Mormon History Plays, Saints on Stage: An Anthology of Mormon Drama, Susan Elizabeth Howe, Tim Slover
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in verse # 18 : a monstrous fable
Like many a medieval manuscript, Piers the plowman has no title as such. Walter W. Skeat, who gave it that title, notes, however, that, in the manuscript he used as the basis for his Oxford edition, “we find here [in … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse, Mormon LitCrit, The Past through Literature
Tagged a monstrous fable, Albert C. Baugh, allegory, Book of Mormon, fantasy, Herman Melville, Joseph Smith, Joseph's Myth, Kemp Malone, mimesis, mimetic & fantastic, Moby-Dick, Mormon Literature, outsider art, Piers the Plowman, poetry, Scott Hales, the alliterative revival, verse and prose, Walter W. Skeat
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In Tents # 3 That Same Organization
Title: Making Sense of the Doctrine & Covenants: A Guided Tour through Modern Revelations Author: Steven C. Harper Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: Scripture Studies Year Published: 2008 Number of Pages: 601 Binding: Hardbound in perfectbound signatures, not sewn, which I … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Views of Scripture
Tagged Book reviews, Joseph Smith, Literary Criticism, mormon culture
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In tents #2: The Primitive Church
In The Primitive Church (Note: This is not a formal review, but I’ve included the bibliographical information because I like this book a great deal and want people to know where to get it. I posted a review to AML-List … Continue reading
in verse #3 : Monster Bait
I was a graduate student at the University of Washington, studying Anglo-Saxon poetry, struggling to translate Beowulf, when I first thought of writing an epic poem about Joseph Smith in Anglo-Saxon verse. It’s a good thing I wasn’t studying Old … Continue reading
Thoughts on Language: A Song in Pure Language
Simply titled “Sang by the gift of Tongs and Translated,” the text was composed in February 1833 and is in the handwriting of Fredgrick G. Williams with revisions by Williams, Oliver Cowdery, W.W. Phelps, an unknown scribe, and Joseph Smith. Continue reading
Thoughts on Language: Joseph Smith and Pure Language
By the end of November 1830, Joseph Smith had produced the verse in the Book of Moses that says Adam kept a book of remembrance “in the language of Adam” and that his children “were taught to read and write, … Continue reading
Thoughts on Language: The Search for a Pure Language
A restoration of the Adamic language was a life-long quest for Joseph Smith. The idea of a pure Adamic language is first raised in his translation of the Book of Mormon, where the text implies that the Jaredites (who came … Continue reading
