Volume 29, No. 4
Winter 1996
Contents
Articles/Essays
A Mosaic for a Religious Counterculture: The Bible in the Book of Mormon
Mark D. ThomasDialogue 29.4 (Winter 1998):59–83
THE BOOK OF MORMON HAS OCCASIONALLY been portrayed as a deficient
first novel. Its characters appear flat and stereotypical; the plots and characters seem to lack moral subtlety; and so on. Should we wonder that today’s high literary circles ignore it?
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“White” of “Pure”: Five Vignettes
Douglas CampbellDialogue 29.4 (Winter 1996): 119–135
The Book of Mormon variously uses “white” and “pure” in the same verse in different editions. This article traces the history of those changes, who was behind them, and why.
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Fiction
Sister Dallon Gets Tattooed
Derk KoldewynJohnny take a walk With your sister the moon Let her pale light in To fill up your room You’ve been living underground Eating from a can You’ve been running away from what you don’t understand U2, “Mysterious Ways” Sister Alice Dallon…
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Elizabeth, and Dying Wishes
Daniel AustinAll winter and into spring Charlie Sutton tended his wife as best he could. It was awkward from the start, knowing that the outcome was never really in doubt. The cancer that Bettie defeated six…
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