Keywords
Book of Mormon, ancient texts, human sensitivity
Abstract
Grant Hardy, chair of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, studied Chinese history at Yale and clearly has read a lot of ancient texts with the greatest care. Somewhere along the line, he learned to really read a text: to savor it, to interrogate it, to listen to every voice, to compare and contrast, to hear resonances of one voice in another, and, not least, to hear silences. We are all fortunate that he has not limited the employment of his finely honed tex tual skills to his academic specialty. We thought we were read ing the Book of Mormon all along, but it turns out we weren’t yet really reading it—not in this full sense, not with this loving attention, this openness to possibilities, this exposed humanity.
Recommended Citation
Hancock, Ralph C.
(2012)
"To Really Read the Book of Mormon,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol1/iss1/12
