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Introduction: Canonization And Background. Canonization -- Backgrounds And Precedents -- Re-visioning The Bible: The Joseph Smith Translation -- Moses: Caught Up To An Exceeding High Mountain -- The Prophecy Of Enoch -- Enoch In Jewish And Christian History -- Passible God -- Premortal Existence -- Theosis -- Zion -- Matthew 24: Preserving Millennialism -- Joseph Smith Translation And Scriptural Coherence -- The Nature Of The Divine: A Gentler Face Of God -- The Nature Of The Divine: An Embodied God -- New Orthodoxies: A Different Sin And Salvation -- The Everlasting Covenant -- Joseph Smith Translation As Revelatory Catalyst -- The Joseph Smith Translation And The Doctrine And Covenants As Question And Response -- New Heavens And New Cosmology -- The Legacy Of Enoch -- Polygamy -- Priesthood Keys -- Intertextual Infiltrations -- The Revelatory Process And The Ur-text -- Written By His Own Hand: The Book Of Abraham. Joseph Smith And Seership -- The Book Of Abraham And Temple Theology -- The New And Everlasting Covenant -- Councils, Creation And Cosmology -- Human Preexistence And The Divine Assembly -- Creation Ex Materia -- By Committee -- Priesthood -- A Priesthood Restricted -- Higher Knowledge -- History Of A Controversy -- Assessing Joseph Smith's Translations: The Facsimiles -- Complicating The Book Of Abraham Controversy. Do We Have The Source Documents? -- The Egypticity Of The Book Of Abraham -- Abraham/egyptian Papers And The Mechanics Of Translation -- From Mummies To Scripture: Rethinking Translation -- Owing To The Many Reports: Historicizing Mormonism. Re-centering Joseph -- The Story Of A Story -- Not To Be Trammeled: To Creed Or Not To Creed -- The Articles Of Faith In Their Context And Since -- Epilogue. By Terryl Givens; With Brian M. Hauglid. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.