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First published in 1830, the Book of Mormon is the authoritative scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its estimated 13 million members. Over the past twenty-one years, editor Royal Skousen has pored over Joseph Smith's original manuscripts and identified more than 2,000 textual errors in the 1830 edition. Although most of these discrepancies stem from inadvertent errors in copying and typesetting the text, the Yale edition contains about 600 corrections that have never appeared in any standard edition of the Book of Mormon, and about 250 of them affect the text's meaning. Skousen's corrected text is a work of remarkable dedication and will be a landmark in American religious scholarship. Completely redesigned and typeset by nationally award-winning typographer Jonathan Saltzman, this new edition has been reformatted in sense-lines, making the text much more logical and pleasurable to read. Featuring a lucid introduction by historian Grant Hardy, the Yale edition serves not only as the most accurate version of the Book of Mormon ever published but also as an illuminating entryway into a vital religious tradition. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Grant Hardy's excellent introduction to this volume (published by Yale University Press in 2009) offers a synopsis of the narrative text, a short history of the production and publication history, and ends with what he calls "three contexts for further studies": the text as a Mormon scripture, as an American scripture, and as a world scripture. He notes "In its own right, the Book of Mormon is an intriguing work that can be read as the word of God, a literary work, or as a remarkable example of the varieties of religious experience" (xxi).
Skousen's own preface lays out the process by which he arrived at the "original text" as presented here, drawing from the extant manuscripts and on the evidence of the earliest printed editions. He then analyzes various features of the original text, many of which were later emended by Joseph Smith for the second printed edition: non-standard English usages, Hebraisms, early modern English usages, and consistencies. Finally, Skousen outlines his own presentation of the text, and how he has chosen to display chapter and verse notations (not present in the original manuscripts), spelling, capitalization, and punctuation, &c. And he explains his decision to present the text not in paragraph form but in "sense-lines" instead, with "paragraph" breaks added. It's a fascinating look at the editing process itself, and well worth a close read.
Following the text, Skousen offers an appendix listing all the significant textual changes in the Book of Mormon throughout its history, using both the extant manuscripts and the twenty printed editions of the text. This, too, makes for a really intriguing look at the ways in which the text has evolved over time. Overall, a remarkable piece of scholarship and a testament to the interesting things that careful editing can tell us about a given work. ( )