Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:

The Great and Spacious Book of Mormon Arcade Game: More Curious Works from Book of Mormon Critics

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Published:
1/13/2017
Specs:
Digest / 5.25" x 8.25"
78 pages Perfect-bound
Category:
Religion
Tags:
apologetics, grunder, lds, mormon, Mormonism, Rochester, Tree of Life

A novel theory for the origins of Lehi’s vision of the Tree of Life has been offered by Rick Grunder, who argues that the story was inspired by a June 1829 visit to Rochester where Joseph could have seen a “great and spacious building,” a river, an iron railing, and even fruit trees. The purported source for the great and spacious building, the Reynolds Arcade, has even been suggested by one critic as a place where Joseph might have found “rare maps,” such as a map of Arabia that could have guided his fabrication of Lehi’s trail. As beautiful as such theories may be to their champions, they utterly fail to account for Nephi’s text.

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