Recent comparative attempts to characterize the DNA challenge to Book of Mormon historicity as a “Galileo Event” are interesting and provocative, but they have led to turf wars over who, exactly, is the “Galileo” figure and whether the revolutionary “events” in sixteenth-century astronomy and Catholic doctrine are an appropriate model for under-standing the debate on … Continue reading A MARVELOUS WORK AND A POSSESSION: BOOK OF MORMON HISTORICITY AS ‘COLON-IALIZATION’