altersteve Posted May 24, 2012 Posted May 24, 2012 Does anyone know of any professional non-Mormon scholarly analyses of the Book of Moses? In comparison to the Books of Mormon and Abraham, there seems to be very little, and some critics I've seen have simply dismissed the Book of Moses with a wave of the hand without even so much as a glance at it.Any help would be much appreciated.
Buzzard Posted May 24, 2012 Posted May 24, 2012 I did a Google search 10 pages back. Plenty of anti- screeds and LDS defense, the only neutral site I found simply had the creation passages from Genesis, Abraham, and Moses displayed side by side.
volgadon Posted May 24, 2012 Posted May 24, 2012 While written by an LDS scholar, Bradshaw's "In God's Image and Likeness" has a lot in it geared for the general reader.
livy111us Posted May 24, 2012 Posted May 24, 2012 (edited) I would second Bradshaws work. I have thoroughly enjoyed his commentary and would liken it to the in depth commentary that Brant Gardner gave The Book of Mormon. It contains a wealth of information and you will not be able to find a better commentary on the book of Moses. As mentioned above, Bradshaw is LDS, but he draws heavily off of non-LDS sources.You can see a lecture he gave at last years Expound Symposium here: His 2008 FAIR conference lecture:[media=] His 2011 lecture at the FAIR conference here: http://www.fairlds.o..._of_Abraham.pdfand a review of his commentaries here: http://maxwellinstit...23&num=1&id=819 Edited May 24, 2012 by livy111us
CASteinman Posted May 25, 2012 Posted May 25, 2012 Does anyone know of any professional non-Mormon scholarly analyses of the Book of Moses? In comparison to the Books of Mormon and Abraham, there seems to be very little, and some critics I've seen have simply dismissed the Book of Moses with a wave of the hand without even so much as a glance at it.Any help would be much appreciated. Harold Bloom did not go into it in detail, but he apparently read it and included his views in a general critique of Mormonism in his book "The American Religion". As I recall, he said he could not identify any source for the Book of Moses other than divine inspiration and said Joseph Smith was an authentic religious genius. Which I take to mean that he considered it to be out of Joseph Smith's imagination but nevertheless brilliant. He also (I think) alluded to it having some uncanny references to things that were later discovered.
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