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Joseph: An Epic

Name: Joseph: An Epic
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252089022
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Contributors:

Zachary Hutchins

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Religion, Poetry, Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Christianity, Epic, Religious

Book Topic:

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)

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Release Date:

12/9/2025

ISBN 13:

9780252089022

Weight:

0.69 lbs

Size:

8.94 x 6.10 x 0.48 inches

Pages:

192

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A quintessentially American saga, the life of Joseph Smith offers believers and non-believers alike an epic narrative that inhabits both grounded history and a heavenly sphere of action. Zachary McLeod Hutchins renders Smith's early life as a poetic narrative in two parts. The first introduces a very human Joseph and his youthful encounter with demonic powers seeking to prevent any communication with heaven. Following his First Vision, the teenaged prophet is charged by the angel Moroni to retrieve and translate a sacred record inscribed on gold plates. The second part picks up the story four years later, as Joseph marries Emma Hale and undertakes the plates' translation. Hutchins supplies a fictionalized excerpt from that translation, The Book of Lehi, and details Joseph's efforts to organize his growing band of followers, concluding on a note of contentment at odds with the tumultuous times to come in Smith's final years. An innovative perspective on Smith's early exploits, Joseph: An Epic reinterprets the origin story of a religious seeker and the faith he created.

About the Author
Zachary McLeod Hutchins is a professor of English at Colorado State University. He is the author of Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative and Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England.

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