Reviewing reference works that I largely skimmed always feels silly, but it’s my website, and no one can stop me.

I’m not a historian, but this historical context was really useful for me for a paper I’m writing on Ellulian perspectives on “media events” in early Mormon history. I appreciated having easy access to documents related to events I was writing about, and as I eventually expand the paper, I expect that I will come back to this volume.

Morris feels a need to weigh in on apologetic/critic debates in a way that I feel is unnecessary—especially since I feel like he tries to have it both ways in pushing back against critical arguments while also saying that “the historian can’t know for sure,” etc. That’s annoying, but the volume is also so helpful for my purposes (and the commentary in mostly good faith) that I can’t penalize it too much for that.

• A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
• Larry Morris
• Mormonism
• Jacques Ellul
• Three Witnesses
• Eight Witnesses
• Book of Mormon
• First Vision