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_Kishkumen
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Re: Best peer-reviewed or PhD-authored books on Mormon histo

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nc47 wrote:Prestigious university presses (Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard Princeton), even better.


Oxford and Cambridge have been known to publish some garbage.
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_Kishkumen
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Re: Best peer-reviewed or PhD-authored books on Mormon histo

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nc47 wrote:Brodie's biography was the definitive one only because there was none better until RSR came along. And it isn't completely faith-destroying either, unless you accept her inferences and her imagination about what dead people are thinking. Her reputation was destroyed when she butchered Thomas Jefferson.


Yeah, she proved to be totally wrong on those Sally Hemings claims.

Guffaw.
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_Dan Vogel
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Re: Best peer-reviewed or PhD-authored books on Mormon histo

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NC47: What is it that you are trying to demonstrate? Paraphrase it, so I can understand what you are referring too.
I do not want you to think that I am very righteous, for I am not.
Joseph Smith (History of the Church 5:401)
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