Comments on: Book Review: Shall Millions Now Know Brother Joseph Again? (Part 2)

By: Jared T

Jared T — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:50:41 +0000

Thank you, Ivan, I fixed it.

By: Ivan Wolfe

Ivan Wolfe — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:38:24 +0000

Great review, so far. But (I hate to be nitpicky) -

If you’re results differ, pray harder.

You might want to fix that line.

Still, I’m enjoying this series. Thanks for doing it!

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:40:19 +0000

And a tangent, I think something can be both devotional and scholarly. I think some of Truman Madsen’s stuff fits that bill. Arguably some of Nibley’s stuff falls into that category as well. (Say a lot of the stuff from Approaching Zion)

By: Jared T

Jared T — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:21:29 +0000

Jonathan, I think I can agree in principle. It’s certainly more appropriate to talk about what is given and what that contributes. As far as the proposed topics I mention, yea, I didn’t and don’t entertain the notion that the author would have the background necessary to undertake them. However, given the train wreck described in that chapter, I found little else to do than to wax hopeful. Perhaps I’m being short sighted, (and I ask, I plead that someone show me where I’m wrong anywhere here) but I don’t see any apparent contribution in that section. So, yes, there was a missed opportunity to at least collect all the data and do some elementary analysis.

By: Nick Literski

Nick Literski — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:55:05 +0000

and Hendrix [likely Daniel Hendrix]

We’re talking Shannon Tracy here. It’s just as likely to be Jimmi Hendrix.

By: Times & Seasons » That Daguerreotype Again (part 1 of 2)

Times & Seasons » That Daguerreotype Again (part 1 of 2) — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:53:50 +0000

[…] Brother Joseph Again: The Joseph Smith Photograph (Salt Lake City: Eborn Pub., 2008), with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 currently available – I’ll link to additional parts as they go up. What follows […]

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:53:39 +0000

Thanks for the continued review, Jared. The whole thing sounds terribly problematic.

By: Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:21:54 +0000

OK, I agree that the methodology for collecting and presenting physical descriptions is problematic. But the comment about “a missed opportunity to contribute…to our understanding of…how Joseph was remembered by those around him and what that might have meant for the Church community and collective memory” is just a complaint that someone wrote a book that was interesting to them, rather than a book on a different topic that would have been more interesting to you. It’s a regularly-recurring feature of book reviews and responses to conference papers, and usually annoying.

Except when I do it. Then it’s witty and insightful.

Thanks for the great review. Now on to part III…