Article Title

Scholarly Review Enlightens and Seriously Entertains

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Keywords

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon, Book of Mormon studies, Orson Scott Card, Christ Heimerdinger, Rober Millet, Joseph Fielding McConkie, Neal Lambert, S. Kent Brown, Scott Proctor, Maurine Proctor, Jerald Tanner, Sandra Tanner. George D. Smith, Paul Toscano, Margaret Toscano, Brent Metcalfe

Abstract

Another lively issue of the Review contains articles that examine materials written by Orson Scott Card, Chris Heimerdinger, Robert Millet, Joseph Fielding McConkie, Neal Lambert, S. Kent Brown, Scott and Maurine Proctor, and others. Also reviewed are the works of some individuals critical of faightful scholarship, including Jerald and Sandra Tanners, George D. Smith, Paul and Margaret Toscano, and Brent Metcalfe, and others. Fiction, nonfiction, and fiction masquerading as nonfiction-all receive careful yet entertaining treatment. Topics addressed include geography, historicity, tolerance, logic, documentary evidence, plagiarism, Israelite festivals, faith, the atonement, and the contributions of LDS fiction (and many others).

Recommended Citation

(1994) "Scholarly Review Enlightens and Seriously Entertains," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 14: No. 6, Article 1.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol14/iss6/1