Latter-day Saint Perspectives

Download Transcript Grant Hardy became intrigued with world religions, especially those of East Asia, as a young missionary. He has reasearched and written widely on various topics, but his study of the Book of Mormon led him to publish two landmark books that share important insights. In his brief overview to Understanding the Book of Mormon, Hardy gives us ten observations about the Book of Mormon: It is a long book. It is written in a somewhat awkward, repetitious form of English. It imitates the style of the King James Version. It claims to be history. It presents a complicated narrative. It is a religious text. It is basically a tragedy. It is very didactic. It is a human artifact. Its basic structure is derived from the three narrators. It is this last observation that forms the thesis for the majority of his work. Hardy contends that "If you're not seeing the narrators at every turn, you're not really reading the Book of Mormon--because that's how the book is constructed, regard