
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 Campbell
1996: Douglas Campbell, “’White’ or ‘Pure’: Five Vignettes” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 29 No. 4 (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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