Samuel Brown Ep. 515 The Cultural Hall

Joseph Smith’s Translation – The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism

* Provides a new framework for understanding Mormon scripture and theology

* Provides a new contextualization and interpretive strategy for the Mormon temple liturgy

* Demonstrates that the temple liturgy merges the textual and human modes of Smith’s translation, refiguring those central rites and their supportive theology

* Moves beyond polemical models to understand the Book of Abraham, its significance, and its relationship to the Bible

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SAMUEL M. BROWN is Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical

Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah and an

intensive care physician in the Shock Trauma ICU at Intermountain Medical Center.

His award-winning book In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early

Mormon Conquest of Death was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. He is also translator of Aleksandr Men’s Son of Man

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