new Oxford Annotated Book of Mormon

[Hamilton Porter]

Where can I get a bootleg PDF?

https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Book-Mormon-Grant-Hardy/dp/0190082208/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2T2RBPT226Z4T&keywords=oxford+annotated+book+of+mormon&qid=1676950254&sprefix=oxford+anotated+book+of+mormon%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1

[sunstoned]

How about just buying it.  

[Rain]

You might be able to borrow one from the library.

 

[Kenngo1969]

@Hamilton Porter This has, perhaps, more relevance to your other thread, but when I clicked on the link to go to Amazon's page for The Annotated Book of Mormon, I found this, which I think is molto interessante.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P8FQ286/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?

Edited February 21, 2023 by Kenngo1969

[Calm]

2 hours ago, Hamilton Porter said:

Where can I get a bootleg PDF?

https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Book-Mormon-Grant-Hardy/dp/0190082208/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2T2RBPT226Z4T&keywords=oxford+annotated+book+of+mormon&qid=1676950254&sprefix=oxford+anotated+book+of+mormon%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1

You mean how you can steal it?

Edited February 21, 2023 by Calm

[Hamilton Porter]

10 minutes ago, Calm said:

You mean how you can steal it?

Yes. How can I steal it?

[Pyreaux]

Your quest seems hopeless. For someone whose vocally willing to pirate LDS literature, I'm betting you've never tried. Pirating books is dependent on its popularity and demand that LDS books and films just don't have. But here is a cute cat sign I just found.

[JustAnAustralian]

26 minutes ago, Hamilton Porter said:

Yes. How can I steal it?

Well it doesn't come out until September, so you'll need to start by waiting 7 months.

[Hamilton Porter]

1 hour ago, JustAnAustralian said:

Well it doesn't come out until September, so you'll need to start by waiting 7 months.

Great. How many of you have seen the Maxwell Institute version? I'm glad I kept putting off forking over money on that one, until the sexier Oxford version came out.

Edited February 21, 2023 by Hamilton Porter

[Calm]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid03eeuwXFS9kvyQxLntoMgktjDGjX1kf1bJEm4vpbgukBTfDfF4zBsVq9SADvnXLfol&id=891355262

For those interested in the book, Grant Hardy is mentioning it on his FB page

 

[JustAnAustralian]

4 hours ago, Hamilton Porter said:

Great. How many of you have seen the Maxwell Institute version?

The maxwell institute study edition is my daily reading version. Only time I use the gospel library app version is if I want to highlight or tag something for easy retrieval later.

[Hamilton Porter]

10 minutes ago, JustAnAustralian said:

The maxwell institute study edition is my daily reading version. Only time I use the gospel library app version is if I want to highlight or tag something for easy retrieval later.

Do the notes have any ancient Near Eastern content?

[MustardSeed]

As a creator I find this distasteful at best. 

[Hamilton Porter]

1 hour ago, MustardSeed said:

As a creator I find this distasteful at best. 

Was joking.

[Rain]

2 hours ago, JustAnAustralian said:

The maxwell institute study edition is my daily reading version. Only time I use the gospel library app version is if I want to highlight or tag something for easy retrieval later.

That is one thing I like about the app.  There are so many things I'm tagging and quoting in it.

[Smiley McGee]

16 hours ago, Hamilton Porter said:

Where can I get a bootleg PDF?

https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Book-Mormon-Grant-Hardy/dp/0190082208/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2T2RBPT226Z4T&keywords=oxford+annotated+book+of+mormon&qid=1676950254&sprefix=oxford+anotated+book+of+mormon%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1

Thank you for drawing attention to the release of this book. Should be an interesting read.

[JustAnAustralian]

8 hours ago, Hamilton Porter said:

Do the notes have any ancient Near Eastern content?

Not to any significant level.

It's more a case of more extensive footnotes with timelines, locations, references to the original text project, etc

One thing I like is that it removes the versified layout so it's more free flowing when reading.

[caspianrex]

Grant Hardy included a few shots of proof pages for the first few pages of 1 Nephi on Facebook yesterday.

The page layout looks quite good, even better than the Maxwell Institute Study Edition. I think it's significant that Oxford University Press has a long history of creating study Bibles, and this layout is similar to their study Bibles.

Grant has mentioned that the text base of the upcoming annotated edition will be the 1920 Salt Lake City edition, whereas the Maxwell Institute Study Edition used the 2013 Church edition. So there will be some differences from the text most folks use. But Grant's Reader's Edition from several years ago also uses the 1920 text, so that shouldn't be a huge deal for most people, I imagine.

I am really looking forward to this new work by Grant Hardy. All his previous editorial work on the BoM has been stellar.

 

 

 

[caspianrex]

18 hours ago, JustAnAustralian said:

Well it doesn't come out until September, so you'll need to start by waiting 7 months.

Hm, the publisher's website says it starts shipping July 28. But Amazon doesn't have a release date yet.

[caspianrex]

17 hours ago, Hamilton Porter said:

Great. How many of you have seen the Maxwell Institute version? I'm glad I kept putting off forking over money on that one, until the sexier Oxford version came out.

The Maxwell Institute Study Edition (also edited by Grant Hardy) is excellent. But, judging from some of the proofs that Grant has shared on Facebook, this new Oxford edition will blow it away. One thing that disappointed me about the MISE was that it only came out in paperback, whereas the Oxford edition will be in hardcover. I've heard rumors that some Church leadership didn't really get behind the MISE, and so any further editions of that version seem to be out of the question. Still, I wish they would do a hardcover edition someday. I originally had the paperback of Grant's Reader's Edition of the BoM, published by University of Illinois Press, and my paperback got worn out, so I invested in a hardcover of that one, which was a little harder to find, but definitely worth getting.

[JustAnAustralian]

1 hour ago, caspianrex said:

Hm, the publisher's website says it starts shipping July 28. But Amazon doesn't have a release date yet.

Amazon AU has September 2023 as the publication date, so that's the source of difference.

[caspianrex]

25 minutes ago, JustAnAustralian said:

Amazon AU has September 2023 as the publication date, so that's the source of difference.

Well, I also saw that Grant Hardy said September on his Facebook page, so maybe it's September after all. I guess, if it arrives in July (shortly after my birthday), I'll be pleasantly surprised!

[caspianrex]

Now it's July 28, so we should be just a matter of weeks away from the release of The Annotated Book of Mormon, edited by Grant Hardy and published by Oxford University Press.  Really looking forward to seeing the finished book!

[JustAnAustralian]

The OUP website says it's also available as an ebook, but I can't find anywhere with ebook preorders. Given the cost the hardcover book on Amazon Australia, I don't think I'll be acquiring it any time soon.

[caspianrex]

14 hours ago, JustAnAustralian said:

The OUP website says it's also available as an ebook, but I can't find anywhere with ebook preorders. Given the cost the hardcover book on Amazon Australia, I don't think I'll be acquiring it any time soon.

Ouch! That is a little pricey in Australia, isn't it? $39.95 in America is pretty standard for a work of this kind, but $82 is around the price one pays for a premium leatherbound Bible.