{"id":92279,"date":"2021-08-16T23:07:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=92279"},"modified":"2021-08-17T20:07:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T02:07:42","slug":"mormon-moses-and-the-representation-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2021\/08\/mormon-moses-and-the-representation-of-reality.html","title":{"rendered":"“Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The president and the executive vice president of the Interpreter Foundation in the extreme north of Israel, two or three years ago.\u00a0 (Photo courtesy of Steve Densley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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An essay by Richard L. Bushman<\/a> was published earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>In\u00a0this essay, Richard Bushman borrows a critical perspective from Erich Auerbach\u2019s\u00a0Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. He analyzes the representation of antiquity in two of Joseph Smith\u2019s striking translations, the Book of Mormon and the Book of Moses. The two texts, produced within a few years of one another, created distinctive stages on which to dramatize the human-God relationship. The question is: What can we learn from this comparison about God, prophets, and human destiny?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

[Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0<\/strong>Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the Latter-day Saint community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.<\/span><\/p>\n

See Richard L. Bushman, \u201cMormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality,\u201d in\u00a0Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities<\/em>, edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central; Redding, CA: FAIR; Tooele, UT: Eborn Books, 2021), 51\u201374. Further information at\u00a0https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/books\/ancient-threads-in-the-book-of-moses\/<\/a>.]<\/span><\/p>\n

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Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 August 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n

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The 1 August 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show featured Neal and Jasmin Rappleye and \u201cthe wise and newly located Hales Swift.\u201d\u00a0 In this installment of the Show, the hosts interviewed Dr. Taylor Halverson about his new Interpreter<\/em> journal article and discussed the recent 2021 FAIR Conference. The second portion of the show was devoted to a roundtable discussing the upcoming Come Follow Me lesson #37 (D&C 98-101). The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake each Sunday evening from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640.\u00a0 But you can listen to it live from anywhere, on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.\u00a0 In this archived form, though, it has been denuded of distracting commercial and other breaks.\u00a0 So there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

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The Interpreter Radio Show is just one of the many \u201cproducts\u201d brought to you by the donor-supported and overwhelmingly volunteer-staffed Interpreter Foundation.\u00a0 I\u2019m grateful to all of those whose generosity makes it possible.<\/p>\n

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For those of you who were unable to attend or to view the 2021 FAIR Conference, here is a helpful summary by Trevor Holyoak:<\/p>\n

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\u201cRecap of 2021 FAIR Conference\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 *** \u00a0 An essay by Richard L. Bushman was published earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: \u00a0 \u201cMormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality\u201d Abstract:\u00a0In\u00a0this essay, Richard Bushman borrows a critical perspective from Erich Auerbach\u2019s\u00a0Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. 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