It occurred to me that this book was an American book as much as anything else. In college, I started to read it, and was studying Puritan American literature at the time. I had heard of, probably from a commercial, and knew it was some kind of weird outsider Bible or something. I grew up Orthodox Jewish, and was very serious about religious literature. People used to leave books that others could take, and someone left a Book of Mormon. He spoke by phone with City Weekly about this unique project click here for our review of the book.Ĭity Weekly: What was your own introduction to the Book of Mormon, and why did it become so interesting to you?Īvi Steinberg: I first actually encountered it in a subway in Boston. In The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla & Kansas City, Missouri, writer Avi Steinberg looks at The Book of Mormon as a unique work of American literature, including touring some of the key sites in the story.
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