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Volume 29, No. 4

Winter 1996

Articles/Essays

The Miracles of Jesus: Three Basic Questions for the Historian

John P. Meier

Jesus’ Dispute in the Temple and the Origin of the Eucharist

Bruce Chilton

Heaven and Hell: The Parable of the Loving Father and the Judgmental Son

Todd M. Compton

A Mosaic for a Religious Counterculture: The Bible in the Book of Mormon

Mark D. Thomas

Dialogue 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?

Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told: Popular Literature as Scripture in Antebellum America

Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.

Scripture, History, and Faith: A Round Table Discussion

Todd M. Compton, Paul Edwards, Steven Epperson, Mark D. Thomas, Margaret Merrill Toscano and David P. Wright

“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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