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Originally Posted by Solon
Excellent. The famous "no mention of God the Father" earliest version.
This is, if I am not mistaken, the version found in 1965 by Paul Cheesman, and is the earliest written account of the vision, discrediting Brodie's assertion that Smith made up the story after 1834 (this point was made by James B. Allen, "The Significance of Joseph Smith's 'First Vision' in Mormon Thought'" in The New Mormon History (Salt Lake City: Signature, 1992), pp. 37-52.).
Did you get this from Jessee's contribution to the 2005 book Opening the Heavens? I haven't seen the book, but Bushman cites it.
http://www.amazon.com/Opening-Heaven...4595215&sr=1-1
Or is it online somewhere?
[I hope you didn't have to type the whole thing in by hand. If so, thanks.] |
Credit Brodie for being the first to ask the question whether the P of GP version was the product of revision and evolution.
How do we know this version was 1832? Does this mean he made it up sometime in 1832 rather than 1834? Is that a material "discrediting" of Brodie's essential point?