![]() Campbell's revisions were much more significant than those of Noah Webster, whose 1833 Common Version was a minor Victorian updating of the King James Version. Louis: Bethany, 1958) Google Scholar, esp. This work became known popularly as “the Living Oracles,” though Campbell himself reserved that title for the original language texts: Thomas, Cecil K., Alexander Campbell and his New Version ( St. With Prefaces to the Historical and Epistolary Books and an Appendix, Containing Critical Notes and Various Translations of Difficult Passages ( Bethany, Va.: Alexander Campbell, 1826) Google Scholar, with three further editions by 1835. Translated from the Original Greek, by George Campbell, James MacKnight, and Philip Doddridge, Doctors of the Church of Scotland. 12, 14–17, 39, 58, 71, 76, 87, 96, 99, 124, 162–163, 186–187.Ĥ7 Campbell, Alexander, ed., The Sacred Writing of the Apostles and Evangelists of Jesus Christ, Commonly Styled The New Testament. and ed., Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2007) Google Scholar, esp. On the Patriarchal Blessing Book as a Book of Remembrance, see Marquardt, H. and ed., The Papers of Joseph Smith: Journal, 1832–1842 ( Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992), 440– 441 Google Scholar (23 August 1842) and Brown, Samuel, “ The ‘Beautiful Death’ in the Smith Family,” BYU Studies 45: 4 ( 2006): 135, 137–138 Google Scholar. On Smith's Book of the Law of the Lord, see Jessee, Dean, comp. On the Book of Life in broader Anglo-American culture, see Taves, Ann, Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James ( Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999), 30– 32 Google Scholar, 69–70, and Juster, Susan, Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), 163 Google Scholar. An analysis of the KEP from a religious hobbyist- Sampson, Joe, Written by the Finger of God: A Testimony of Joseph Smith's Translations ( Sandy, Utah: Wellspring, 1993) Google Scholar-takes the KEP too seriously for modern taste, although in some respects his treatment bears striking resemblance to the views of the KEP authors themselves.Ĥ4 These modern books of remembrance were modeled on the Biblical Book of Life. One less polemic treatment of the KEP is Dan Vogel and Brent Metcalfe, “Joseph Smith's Scriptural Cosmology,” in The Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture, 187–220, which discusses them as source documents for reconstructing Smith's views of planetary interactions, though the authors consider only superficially their religious significance. Vogel, Dan ( Salt Lake City: Signature, 1990), 221– 236 Google Scholar, is a reasonable review of criticism. Edward Ashment, “Reducing Dissonance: The Book of Abraham as a Case Study,” in The Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture, ed. Gee, (“Joseph Smith Papyri,” 175–217) provides a reasonable summary of current apologia. The original documents are available as microfilms in LDS Church Archives (MS 1294 & 1295), though Brian Hauglid of Brigham Young University is currently preparing a critical edition with high-quality photographic reproductions for publication.ġ6 The original major apologia is Nibley, Hugh, The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment ( Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1975) Google Scholar and “The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers,” BYU Studies 11:4 (Summer 1971): 350–399. and ed., The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papers ( Sandy, Utah: bound photostat published by the author, 1981) Google Scholar. The Tanner microfilm was republished in 1981 as Marquardt, H. Mormon scholar Sidney Sperry became aware of the KEP in LDS church archives in 1935, but little came of this awareness until 1966, when former Mormons published an unauthorized microfilm copy as Jerald, and Tanner, Sandra, Joseph Smith's Egyptian Alphabet & Grammar ( Salt Lake City: Modern Microfilm Company, 1966) Google Scholar. 6 After Smith's murder in 1844, official church historians, unable to retrieve the mummies or papyri from his estranged family, carefully transported the grammar documents to Salt Lake City in 1847, where they lapsed into obscurity: Todd, Jay M., The Saga of the Book of Abraham ( Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1969), 281–84 Google Scholar, 286, 326–31.
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