Table of Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
Mormon Canon of Scripture xi
Short Citations to the Joseph Smith Papers xiii
1 Introduction Michael Hubbard MacKay Mark Ashurst-McGee Brian M. Hauglid 1
Part I Context and Commencement
2 "By the Gift and Power of God": Translation among the Gifts of the Spirit Christopher James Blythe 27
3 "Bringing Forth" the Book of Mormon: Translation as the Reconfiguration of Bodies in Space-Time Jared Hickman 54
4 Performing the Translation: Character Transcripts and Joseph Smith's Earliest Translating Practices Michael Hubbard MacKay 81
5 Reconfiguring the Archive: Women and the Social Production of the Book of Mormon Amy Easton-Flake Rachel Cope 105
Part II Translating the Book of Mormon
6 Seeing the Voice of God: The Book of Mormon on Its Own Translation Samuel Morris Brown 137
7 Joseph Smith, Helen Schucman, and the Experience of Producing a Spiritual Text: Comparing the Translating of the Book of Mormon and the Scribing of A Course in Miracles Ann Taves 169
8 Nephi's Project: The Gold Plates as Book History Richard Lyman Bushman 187
9 Ancient History and Modern Commandments: The Book of Mormon in Comparison with Joseph Smith's Other Revelations Grant Hardy 205
Part III Translating the King James Bible
10 The Tarrying of the Beloved Disciple: The Textual Formation of the Account of John David W. Grua William V. Smith 231
11 A Recovered Resource: The Use of Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary in Joseph Smith's Bible Translation Thomas A. Wayment Haley Wilson-Lemmon 262
12 Lost Scripture and "the Interpolations of Men": Joseph Smith's Revelation on the Apocrypha Gerrit Dirkmaat 285
13 Translation, Revelation, and the Hermeneutics of Theological Innovation: Joseph Smith and the Record of John Nicholas J. Frederick 304
Part IV Pure Language, The Book of Abraham, and the Kinderhook Plates
14 "Eternal Wisdom Engraven upon the Heavens": Joseph Smith's Pure Language Project David Golding 331
15 "Translating an Alphabet to the Book of Abraham": Joseph Smith's Study of the Egyptian Language and His Translation of the Book of Abraham Brian M. Hauglid 363
16 Approaching Egyptian Papyri through Biblical Language: Joseph Smith's Use of Hebrew in His Translation of the Book of Abraham Matthew J. Grey 390
17 "President Joseph Has Translated a Portion": Joseph Smith and the Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates Don Bradley Mark Ashurst-McGee 452
Contributors 525
Index 529