In the 1960s-1970s, Jose Davila and John Brewer independently discovered and translated various Nephite and Jaredite writings in central Utah. Though they regarded themselves as scientists, Davila and Brewer modeled their enterprise on the Joseph Smith story and the LDS prophetic tradition and actively sought acceptance by Church authorities and Mormon academics. After some initial …
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King Benjamin And The Yeoman Farmer: New Nation Suspicions Of Surplus-Market Agriculture
The descriptions of Nephite and Jaredite agriculture found in the Book of Mormon challenged the transition to market economics that was well underway in upstate New York by 1830 and condemned Jacksonian America for its treatment of the poor. Read in the context of a changing American economy, the Book of Mormon can be seen …