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First And Second Nephi And Jacob Through Mosiah, Volumes 1 And 2 Of Doctrinal Commentary On The Book Of Mormon Joseph Fielding Mcconkie And Robert L. Millett, J. Frederic Voros Jr.
First And Second Nephi And Jacob Through Mosiah, Volumes 1 And 2 Of Doctrinal Commentary On The Book Of Mormon Joseph Fielding Mcconkie And Robert L. Millett, J. Frederic Voros Jr.
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A Hermeneutic Of Sacred Texts: Historicism, Revisionism, Positivism, And The Bible And Book Of Mormon, Alan Goff
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As methods by which texts are to be understood, positivism and historicism have a long tradition and continue to exert wide influence in all academic disciplines. Other approaches to textual concerns have recently emerged to challenge the dominance of these two approaches. Foremost among these new approaches are hermeneutics and deconstruction. Both of the latter approaches recognize that interpretation is inescapable. The latter challenges even the possibility of determinate meaning. A theoretical discussion of historicism and positivism uncovers questionable and troublesome difficulties. Hermeneutics in its conservative or radical variations overcomes the difficulties of interpretation that positivism and historicism can't explain. …