Mormon’s Record: The Historical Message of the Book of Mormon - Hardcover

Gregory Steven Dundas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1950304531 ISBN 13: 9781950304530

Publisher: RSC/BYU/Deseret Book Company, 2024

Synopsis

Although the ancient scriptural record known as the Book of Mormon contains profound doctrinal and theological content, it is foremost a history. Thus, it is not surprising that it has the earmarks of ancient rather than modern works of history. Yet few studies analyze the Book of Mormon as a legitimate work of ancient history. The author describes the sacral worldview that informed much of ancient writing, surveys four millennia of historical writings to show how the sacral worldview differs from modern historiography, and discusses many underlying historical themes found in the writings of Israelite and Greco-Roman historians that also figure in the composition of the Book of Mormon. That scripture’s sobering theological message is shown to emerge from the historical accounts that inform it.

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About the Author

Gregory Steven Dundas received his PhD in Greek and Roman history from UCLA, a BA in history and classics from San Diego State University, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School. He is the author of Explaining Mormonism: A Believing Skeptic’s Guide to the Latter-day Saint Worldview (2022). For several years he taught classes in history and Classics and then went on to work for two decades as an attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Edition details

• Publisher: RSC/BYU/Deseret Book Company
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1950304531
• ISBN 13: 9781950304530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 472