{"id":62213,"date":"2018-06-22T21:58:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T03:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=62213"},"modified":"2018-09-05T09:53:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:53:30","slug":"korihors-back-and-this-time-hes-got-a-printing-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/06\/korihors-back-and-this-time-hes-got-a-printing-press.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Korihor\u2019s back, and this time he\u2019s got a printing press.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38697\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/12\/8025daed25c67b62b472d545292dcb6d.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-38697\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/12\/8025daed25c67b62b472d545292dcb6d.jpg\" alt=\"Sun, clouds, and sky\" width=\"597\" height=\"373\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not directly relevant, but very beautiful. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A bit more about our departed colleague Stephen Robinson:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From <em>BYU Studies<\/em>: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/byustudies.byu.edu\/content\/special-feature-113?utm_source=BYU+Studies&amp;utm_campaign=5b677d3755-DAILY_FEATURES_MAR_16_2018_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e4342d96b2-5b677d3755-73903809\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRemembering Stephen E. Robinson\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From a former student of his: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mi.byu.edu\/in-memoriam-robinson\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cIn memoriam: Stephen E. Robinson, 1947-2018\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are the two pieces that he published with FARMS:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.mi.byu.edu\/fullscreen\/?pub=1397&amp;index=6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cNephi\u2019s \u2018Great and Abominable Church'\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This first one is, in my judgment, a very important contribution.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.mi.byu.edu\/fullscreen\/?pub=1426&amp;index=22\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Review of Dan Vogel, ed.,\u00a0<i>The Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture<\/i>. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1990.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second one began with an opening line that was, for a time, famous if not altogether notorious: \u00a0\u201cKorihor\u2019s back, and this time he\u2019s got a printing press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was the editor who published that essay, and I was immediately threatened with a lawsuit over it. \u00a0(That was my first experience with an attempt by a critic of the Church to silence me via legal intimidation. \u00a0Alas, it was not to be my last.) \u00a0Anybody who might be interested in the astonishing and sometimes amusing story behind the threat is welcome to tackle the lengthy account that I gave of it not too long thereafter, in which I chronicled a small but extraordinarily weird episode in the history of Latter-day Saint scholarship:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.mi.byu.edu\/fullscreen\/?pub=1427&amp;index=1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cEditor\u2019s Introduction: Questions to Legal Answers,\u201d\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.mi.byu.edu\/periodical\/review-volume-4-issue-number-1\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Review of Books on the Book of Mormon<\/i>4\/1 (1992)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may have missed the opportunity to read an autobiographical account of the <em>origins<\/em> of my wickedness. \u00a0It appears in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromthedesk.org\/10-questions-daniel-c-peterson\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an interview<\/a> that I gave just after the beginning of 2018:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"UWJPdq93Bo\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fromthedesk.org\/10-questions-daniel-c-peterson\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daniel Peterson: Meet the Latter-day Saint Apologist<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cDaniel Peterson: Meet the Latter-day Saint Apologist\u201d \u2014 From the Desk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fromthedesk.org\/10-questions-daniel-c-peterson\/embed\/#?secret=1cdkgqNaWH#?secret=UWJPdq93Bo\" data-secret=\"UWJPdq93Bo\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I close with some thoughts (which I\u2019ve censored slightly for my family-friendly Mormon blog) from the Hugo-Award-winning American science fiction author John Scalzi,\u00a0formerly president of the\u00a0Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They\u2019re also entitled to express them online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don\u2019t like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">3. Sometimes those opinions won\u2019t be very nice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) [@#$%&amp;%$#@ expletive deleted].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">5. However, if your solution to this \u201cproblem\u201d is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are\u00a0<i>almost certainly<\/i>\u00a0a bigger [@#$%&amp;%$#@ expletive deleted]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">6. You may also be twelve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">7. You are not responsible for anyone else\u2019s actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">8. So leave them alone and go about your own life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[<i>Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You<\/i>\u00a0(Blog post, July 17, 2012)]\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 A bit more about our departed colleague Stephen Robinson: \u00a0 From BYU Studies: \u00a0\u201cRemembering Stephen E. Robinson\u201d \u00a0 From a former student of his: \u00a0\u201cIn memoriam: Stephen E. Robinson, 1947-2018\u201d \u00a0 Here are the two pieces that he published with FARMS: \u00a0 \u201cNephi\u2019s \u2018Great and Abominable Church&#8217;\u201d \u00a0 This first one is, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Korihor\u2019s back, and this time he\u2019s got a printing press.&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; A bit more about our departed colleague Stephen Robinson: &nbsp; From BYU Studies: \u00a0&quot;Remembering Stephen E. 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