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Preview of Forthcoming FARMS Review

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Keywords

Book of Mormon, chapter, review, literary interpretation

Abstract

Readers awaiting this year’s first number of the FARMS Review (vol. 21, no. 1) will be rewarded with a deep lineup of reviews and other essays on the Book of Mormon. Sure to heighten anticipation is a promised peek at Terryl Givens’s in-press volume from Oxford University Press: The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction. Chapter 2, “Themes,” will be featured in its entirety—a substantial excerpt from the 152-page work that will fill an important gap in Oxford’s popular Very Short Introduction series. Review readers will enjoy other Book of Mormon–related fare as well: a literary interpretation of the death of Laban; a debunking of myths about the miraculous printing of the 1830 edition; a look at the record’s literary sophistication in light of a biblical hermeneutic that grants legitimacy to repetition and allusion; and reviews of the seminal works The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon, by John W. Welch, and the six-volume Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, by Brant A. Gardner.

Recommended Citation

(2009) "Preview of Forthcoming FARMS Review," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 29: No. 3, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol29/iss3/4