The Book of Ether - Sans Moroni
I recently acquired Grant Hardy's new book The Annotated Book of Mormon . It's a remarkable edition, containing insightful literary annotations on every page and dozens of thematic or explanatory essays. One of the many interesting insights that intrigued me especially was his note on the book of Ether: it seems that Moroni's interjections throughout the text completely recontextualize it as an obviously Christian narrative that relates more naturally to his own context, but the rest of the book is shockingly absent of Christian themes (besides the Brother of Jared's Christic visitation). This made me wonder how the book would read with Moroni's editorial comments removed, and so I've elected to produce an edition of Ether without Moroni here. I hope everyone enjoys this concept! I took the text and paragraph divisions from the 1830 edition Book of Mormon text freely available on Wikisource. Bibliography: Hardy, Grant. The Annotated Book of Mormon . Oxford Univ...