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Grant Hardy

Studies the Book of Mormon as literature and the evidence surrounding its translation process.

literature · religious studies

Degree
PhD, Chinese Language and Literature, Yale University
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Grant Hardy is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He has a B.A. in Ancient Greek from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in Chinese Language and Literature from Yale.

Grant Hardy — Mormon Scholars Testify biography

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Relationship to the Church
Latter-day Saint
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serving on the high council in a large stake, and now as a member of the stake presidency

Grant Hardy — “An Answer to Anyone Who Cares to Ask (1 Pet. 3:15)”

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raised in the Church
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The short answer is that I was raised a Latter-day Saint

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Positions

How was the Book of Mormon text produced?

Hardy weighs evidence for both tight and loose control, including witness reports, English-language features, and biblical quotations. He concludes that neither account resolves all the difficulties and that the absence of the original-language text and direct access to Smith’s experience limits a definitive choice.

In conclusion, the two sides will probably remain in tension for some time.

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