Joseph

An Epic

Zachary Hutchins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2025
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04690-2 (ISBN)

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A poetic portrait of Joseph Smith's early life and career A quintessentially American saga, the life of Joseph Smith offers believers and non-believers alike an epic narrative that inhabits both grounded history and a heavenly sphere of action. Zachary McLeod Hutchins renders Smith's early life as a poetic narrative in two parts. The first introduces a very human Joseph and his youthful encounter with demonic powers seeking to prevent any communication with heaven. Following his First Vision, the teenaged prophet is charged by the angel Moroni to retrieve and translate a sacred record inscribed on gold plates. The second part picks up the story four years later, as Joseph marries Emma Hale and undertakes the plates' translation. Hutchins supplies a fictionalized excerpt from that translation, The Book of Lehi, and details Joseph's efforts to organize his growing band of followers, concluding on a note of contentment at odds with the tumultuous times to come in Smith's final years. An innovative perspective on Smith's early exploits, Joseph: An Epic reinterprets the origin story of a religious seeker and the faith he created.

Zachary McLeod Hutchins is a professor of English at Colorado State University. He is the author of Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative and Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	12 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	0-252-04690-0 / 0252046900
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04690-2 / 9780252046902
Zustand	Neuware