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I see that your book is a student manual for the Book of Mormon. Sacred texts are not well 'combined ' in LT, as there are so many variations and editions of them. And bookish people tend to have multiple copies of things like the Bible or the Qu'ran to compare translations or reference ... Murder by the Book by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Old Books, Rare Friends
The Book of Mormon
Freddy's Book
The Bookwoman's Last Fling ... listing "Bible" in the author field for purposes of combining. What do you all think about listing "Book of Mormon" for The Book of Mormon, "Doctrine and Covenants" for The Doctrine and Covenants, and "Pearl of Great Price" for The Pearl of Great Price. Since all of these books are ... ... that this reviewer never read the book.
I personally like that you have to have the book in your library. I know that The Book of Mormon is one of the most polarizing books in the LT Catalog - both in ratings and reviews. And in order to be one of the polarizing individuals, one must have ... 24:As the reviews for the book of Mormon show if something is "controversial" enough there will be drive-bys. ... and Bishop Doane: High Church Romanticism on the Delaware" about different religious approaches to Wordsworth in America
The Book of Mormon
Poetry by Byron (Childe Harolds Pilgrimage), Wordsworth, Poe, Shelley, Emerson, Bryant, and several sentimental American poetess' writing about death ( ... My mother pretty much stuck to the Book of Mormon. My father read all kinds of different stuff. I remember my parents arguing about Schopenhauer, for example. My Mom didn't appreciate Schopenhauer's low opinion of women. My Dad and I used to read Shakespeare's plays together --alternat ... ... if others didn't like it. If I see a book with extremely high and extremely low ratings, but nothing in the middle (e.g. Book of Mormon), I assume it is being rated for its content or point of view rather than for the quality of writing.
... if others didn't like it. If I see a book with extremely high and extremely low ratings, but nothing in the middle (e.g. Book of Mormon), I assume it is being rated for its content or point of view rather than for the quality of writing.
... grading final exams for my Intro to Prehistory course, so naturally I was grumpy.
As it happens, the origins of the Book of Mormon are to be found, in part, in an early 19th century literary genre dealing with the then-mystery of the nperrin in LC Classification Challenge : nicole's LC subject area challenge (Loka 20, 2007, 2:25pm) ... —Judaism
BQ—Buddhism
BT—Doctrinal theology (Erasmus-Luther: discourse on free will)
BX—Christian denominations (The Book of Mormon)
C--2 subclasses done. 3 more to be read (no potentials).
D--5 subclasses done. Remaining:
DAW—History of Central Europe
DB—History of Austria ... ... by H. G. Wells
Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
Brain Child by George Turner is a novel.
The Fourth 'R' by George O. Smith ... that you read a book that I disagree with...
Short answer would probably be for much the same reason that I have The Book of Mormon, The Bible, Al-Qur'an, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Bhagavad Gita, The Torah, and Tao Te Ching on my bookshelves. Being familiar with ... ... do a feel a lot less jumpy about being scathing about things like Dianetics or Angelic Messenger Cards than I do about The Book Of Mormon? I have them *shelved* together, for heaven's sake.
Plus, I know if I keep reviewing like I want to I'll eventually get to the parts of my shelves ... ... for religious texts have no greater meaning than "this person rated it 5, this person rated it 4..." Your issue with the Book of Mormon having higher ratings is an issue of fairness. You wish religious texts to be evaluated objectively and the ratings thereof to clearly reflect the ... As one who tags bibles, The Book of Mormon, and any other religious work as 'fiction', the fact that adherents to a particular belief system are rating their religious works with 5 Stars makes me say... so what?
What is being harmed by this practice? I don't foresee someone researching Mormon ... The Book of Mormon has 62 five star ratings. Is this a case of stacking, I mean have some members of the Mormon faith decided to manipulate the rating? I have nothing against Mormonism but it seems strange to me that so many people would give it five stars. Well, given the fact that the book of Mormon reads like it was written by a sixth grader trying to write in old english, I'm not surprised. Personally I think the book is a steaming pile, but I will leave it up to others to draw their own opinions. I'm not about to dictate what people can and can' ... One copy of the book of Mormon has as author satan! ... were no works on it, so I went to Joseph Smith's page and, sure enough, someone had assigned Satan as the author of The Book of Mormon and then combined it with the work by Joseph Smith.
I uncombined Satan's copy so that it appears on his author page (where it can easily be traced to ... For someone who knows the basic alphabet and how to read fairly well, I really liked Introducing Arabic by Michael Mumisa.
It takes a classical approach to classical Arabic, but I guess it really depends on what your goals are.
Also, for writing, at least to learn ruq'ah script, ... ... too much attention was Different Loving, so I moved it back into my reference section in the office. Now it sits next to The Book of Mormon. *smirk*
Now people focus on the shelf of Anne Rice hardcovers. The usual exchange is something like:
"You must really like Anne Rice!"
"No, I ... ... on
Must have 50 raters. The numbers are the standard deviation of rating—how much they differ from the average. "
1. The book of Mormon (1.94) now this has 11 reviews. I won't even get into the question of how you're supposed to review a religious text but people are doing it. Three of ... ... She focused on a community at the northern end of the Appalachians, in the Southern Tier of upstate.
Then there's The Book of Mormon, based on tablets unearthed by Joseph Smith in Palmyra (30 minutes from Rochester). Western NY was a real hotbed of religious revival and creation in ... ... Joseph Smith, Joseph F. Smith and Joseph Fielding Smith, to mean, first, the man who translated of the Book of Mormon, second, the nephew named for his uncle, and third, the son of that nephew named for his father and great-uncle. It can be confusing, for sure (especially ... ... even John Bytheway. And, obviously, the scriptures, but I think that's so much a given that nobody needs to tell us the Book of Mormon is their favorite book. :) But talking about favorite companion volumes/study guides would be neat.
Basically stuff that has to do with the Gospel, ...
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