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Vol. 19 Num. 2 the FARMS Review Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011 Volume 19 Number 2 Article 23 2007 Vol. 19 Num. 2 The FARMS Review FARMS Review Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Review, FARMS (2007) "Vol. 19 Num. 2 The FARMS Review," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011: Vol. 19 : No. 2 , Article 23. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr/vol19/iss2/23 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011 by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. The FARMS Review The FARMS Review Editor Daniel C. Peterson Associate Editors Louis C. Midgley George L. Mitton Production Editors Don L. Brugger Larry E. Morris Cover Design Andrew D. Livingston Layout Alison Coutts Jacob D. Rawlins The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship Executive Director Andrew C. Skinner Associate Executive Director M. Gerald Bradford Assistant Executive Director Alison V. P. Coutts Director, FARMS S. Kent Brown Director, METI Daniel C. Peterson Director, CPART Kristian Heal The FARMS Review Volume 19 • Number 2 • 2007 ! The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship Brigham Young University © 2007 Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship Brigham Young University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ISSN 1550-3194 To Our Readers The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholar ship encour- ages and supports re search on the Book of Mormon, the Book of Abraham, the Bible, other ancient scripture, and related subjects. The Maxwell Institute publishes and distributes titles in these areas for the benefit of scholars and interested Latter-day Saint readers. Primary research interests at the Maxwell Institute include the history, language, literature, culture, geography, politics, and law rele- vant to ancient scripture. Although such subjects are of secondary im- portance when compared with the spiritual and eternal messages of scripture, solid research and academic perspectives can supply certain kinds of useful information, even if only tentatively, concerning many significant and interesting questions about scripture. The Maxwell Institute makes reports about this research avail- able widely, promptly, and economically. These publications are peer- reviewed to ensure that scholarly standards are met. The proceeds from the sale of these materials are used to support further research and publications. The purpose of the FARMS Review is to help serious readers make informed choices and judgments about books published on the Book of Mormon and associated topics, as well as to publish substantial freestanding essays on related matters. We hope, thereby, to encour- age reliable scholarship with regard to such subjects. Most reviews and articles are solicited or assigned. Any person in- terested in writing a specific article or review should send a proposal to the editor. If the proposal is accepted, the Review style guidelines will be sent with the acceptance. The opinions expressed in these reviews and articles are those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the opinions of the vi • FARMS Review of Books 19/2 (2007) Maxwell Institute, its editors, Brigham Young University, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the authors’ employers. No por- tion of the reviews or articles may be used in advertising or for any other commercial purpose without the express written permission of the Maxwell Institute. The FARMS Review is published semiannually. See the Web site at maxwellinstitute.byu.edu for reviews and articles appearing in the FARMS Review. Contents Editor’s Introduction, “God and Mr. Hitchens,” by Daniel C. Peterson ........................................................................ xi Book of Mormon Schofield, Keith Bailey. How to Increase Your Enjoyment of the Book of Mormon: Striking New Insights into the Life of Mormon and His Work (Paula W. Hicken, “Mormon’s Spiritual Treasure, ‘Dazzling’ or Otherwise”) .................................................................. 1 Norman, V. Garth. Book of Mormon Geography— Mesoamerican Historic Geography (Larry Poulsen, “The Light Is Better Over Here”) ........................ 11 Remembrance Articles Louis Midgley. “Preserving and Enlarging the Memory of the Saints” ............................................................... 21 Steven L. Olsen. “The Theology of Memory: Mormon Historical Consciousness” .............................................. 25 viii • The FARMS Review 19/2 (2007) Gary Novak and Louis Midgley. “Remembrance and the Past” ...................................................................................... 37 John Murphy. “Acquiring and Preserving Written Records: A Sacred Commission” .................................................... 67 James E. Faulconer. “Remembrance” .................................................... 71 Interfaith Studies Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Ted Lyon, “In the Forecast: Global Christianity Alive and Well”) ................................................................................ 89 Article Raphael Jospe. “The Glory of God Is Intelligence”: A Note on Maimonides .................................................................... 95 Church History Topping, Gary. Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History (Larry E. Morris, “Sister Brodie and Sister Brooks”) ................... 99 Hardy, B. Carmon. Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy, Its Origin, Practice, and Demise (Allen L. Wyatt, “Plural Marriage and the Half-Empty-Glass School of Historiography”) ...........................117 Cain, Christopher, producer. September Dawn (Craig L. Foster, “Massacring the Truth”) ................................... 137 New Testament Judd, Frank F., Jr., and Gaye Strathearn, eds. Sperry Symposium Classics: The New Testament Contents • ix Jackson, Kent P., and Frank F. Judd Jr., eds. How the New Testament Came to Be: The 35th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Kevin L. Barney, “The Sperry Symposium and the New Testament”) ...................................................................... 177 Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Eric D. Huntsman, and Thomas A. Wayment. Jesus Christ and the World of the New Testament: An Illustrated Reference for Latter-day Saints (Kevin L. Barney, “Finally!”) ......................................................... 193 Price, Robert M. The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-four Formative Texts (Thomas A. Wayment, “Maverick Scholarship and the Apocrypha”) ...................................................................... 209 Hull, Michael F. Baptism on Account of the Dead (1 Cor 15:29): An Act of Faith in the Resurrection (John A. Tvedtnes, “The Quick and the Dead”) ......................... 215 The New Atheism Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion (David Grandy, “Ideology in the Guise of Science”) .................. 239 Book of Abraham Article John Gee. “New Light on the Joseph Smith Papyri” ......................... 245 Book Notes Campbell-Jack, W. C., and Gavin McGrath, eds. New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics .............................................261 Fletcher, Allen J. A Scriptural Discussion of Light .............................262 x • The FARMS Review 19/2 (2007) Lilla, Mark. The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West ....................................................................262 McConkie, Clay. A Man Named Peleg: An Exploration into the Days of Peleg .....................................................................264 Nichols, Larry A., George A. Mather, and Alvin J. Schmidt. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions .............................................265 Partridge, Christopher, ed. Dictionary of Contemporary Religion in the Western World: Exploring Living Faiths in Postmodern Contexts ................................................................267 Witherington, Ben. The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism and Wesleyanism .......................268 Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory .......................................................................272 About the Contributors ......................................................................... 275 Editor’s Introduction God and Mr. Hitchens Daniel C. Peterson hristopher Hitchens is the fourth of what one might call the Cfour horsemen of the New Atheism—the other three being Sam Harris,1 Richard Dawkins,2 and Daniel Dennett.3 Hitchens is the au- thor of a recent best seller called god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.4 Notice the lowercase god in the title of his book. Subtlety 1. Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (New York: Norton, 2005). For responses to Harris’s ideology, see Michael D. Jibson, “Imagine,” FARMS Review 18/1 (2006): 233–64; and Louis Midgley, “Knowing Brother Joseph Again,” FARMS Review 18/1 (2006): lxii–lxv, which discusses Harris’s curious fondness, apparently because of his atheism, for a vacuous mysticism. Harris has also published Letter to a Christian Nation (New York: Knopf, 2006); some attention has been given to portions of this screed in FARMS Review 18/2 (2006):
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