Terryl Givens did graduate work in intellectual history at Cornell and in comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the Jabez Bostwick Professor of Literature and Religion Emeritus at the University of Richmond, and currently works as a Senior Research Fellow at BYU's Neal A. Maxwell Institute. His writings have been praised by the New York Times as "provocative reading," and include most recently a two-volume history of Mormon thought, Wrestling the Angel and Feeding the Flock (Oxford 2014; 2017).Brian M. Hauglid is Associate Professor and Visiting Scholar at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University.

Extraordinary commentary on this least likely of scriptures... Givens's review of the response of Latter-day Saint scholars is the best single account of the controversy I know.

• INTRODUCTION: CANONIZATION AND BACKGROUND Canonization Backgrounds and Precedents 1Chapter 1. RE-VISIONING THE BIBLE: THE JOSEPH SMITH TRANSLATION Chapter 2. "WRITTEN BY HIS OWN HAND": THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM Chapter 3."OWING TO THE MANY REPORTS": HISTORICIZING MORMONISM Chapter 4. "NOT TO BE TRAMMELED": TO CREED OR NOT TO CREED EPILOGUE

Terryl Givens did graduate work in intellectual history at Cornell and in comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the Jabez Bostwick Professor of Literature and Religion Emeritus at the University of Richmond, and currently works as a Senior Research Fellow at BYU's Neal A. Maxwell Institute. His writings have been praised by the New York Times as "provocative reading," and include most recently a two-volume history of Mormon thought, Wrestling the Angel and Feeding the Flock (Oxford 2014; 2017).Brian M. Hauglid is Associate Professor and Visiting Scholar at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University.

Extraordinary commentary on this least likely of scriptures... Givens's review of the response of Latter-day Saint scholars is the best single account of the controversy I know.

• INTRODUCTION: CANONIZATION AND BACKGROUND Canonization Backgrounds and Precedents 1Chapter 1. RE-VISIONING THE BIBLE: THE JOSEPH SMITH TRANSLATION Chapter 2. "WRITTEN BY HIS OWN HAND": THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM Chapter 3."OWING TO THE MANY REPORTS": HISTORICIZING MORMONISM Chapter 4. "NOT TO BE TRAMMELED": TO CREED OR NOT TO CREED EPILOGUE

Terryl Givens did graduate work in intellectual history at Cornell and in comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the Jabez Bostwick Professor of Literature and Religion Emeritus at the University of Richmond, and currently works as a Senior Research Fellow at BYU's Neal A. Maxwell Institute. His writings have been praised by the New York Times as "provocative reading," and include most recently a two-volume history of Mormon thought, Wrestling the Angel and Feeding the Flock (Oxford 2014; 2017).Brian M. Hauglid is Associate Professor and Visiting Scholar at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University.

Extraordinary commentary on this least likely of scriptures... Givens's review of the response of Latter-day Saint scholars is the best single account of the controversy I know.

• INTRODUCTION: CANONIZATION AND BACKGROUND Canonization Backgrounds and Precedents 1Chapter 1. RE-VISIONING THE BIBLE: THE JOSEPH SMITH TRANSLATION Chapter 2. "WRITTEN BY HIS OWN HAND": THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM Chapter 3."OWING TO THE MANY REPORTS": HISTORICIZING MORMONISM Chapter 4. "NOT TO BE TRAMMELED": TO CREED OR NOT TO CREED EPILOGUE