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A FAIR Analysis of: New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology A work by author: Brent Lee Metcalfe (editor)

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Reviews of this work

• Richard Lloyd Anderson, "The Modern-Text Theory (Review of "A Rhetorical Approach to the Book of Mormon: Rediscovering Nephite Sacramental Language" by Mark D. Thomas," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 379–419. off-site PDF link
• Ross David Baron, "Melodie Moench Charles and the Humanist Worldview (Review of "Book of Mormon Christology," in New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology by Melodie Moench Charles)," FARMS Review of Books 7/1 (1995): 91–119. off-site PDF link
• Davis Bitton, "Review of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology by Brent Lee Metcalfe," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 1–7. off-site PDF link
• Kevin Christensen, "Paradigms Crossed (Review of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology by Brent Lee Metcalfe)," FARMS Review of Books 7/2 (1995): 144–218. off-site PDF link
• John Gee, "La Trahison des Clercs: On the Language and Translation of the Book of Mormon (Review of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology by Brent Lee Metcalfe)," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 51–120. off-site PDF link
• Alan Goff, "Review of Apologetic and Critical Assumptions about Book of Mormon Historicity by Brent Lee Metcalfe," FARMS Review of Books 7/1 (1995): 170–207. off-site PDF link
• William J. Hamblin, "An Apologist for the Critics: Brent Lee Metcalfe's Assumptions and Methodologies (Review of Apologetic and Critical Assumptions about Book of Mormon Historicity by Brent Lee Metcalfe)," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 434–523. off-site PDF link
• John Wm. Maddox, "A Listing of Points and Counterpoints (Review of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology by Brent Lee Metcalfe)," FARMS Review of Books 8/1 (1996): 1–26. off-site PDF link
• Louis Midgley, "The Current Battle over the Book of Mormon: Review of The Word of God Is Enough: The Book of Mormon as Nineteenth-Century Scripture by Anthony A. Hutchinson," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 200–254. off-site PDF link
• Robert L. Millet, "By What (Whose) Standards Shall We Judge the Text? A Closer Look at Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon (Review of "Book of Mormon Christology" by Melodie Moench Charles)," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 187–199. off-site PDF link
• Daniel C. Peterson, "Text and Context," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 524–562. off-site PDF link
• Matthew Roper, "A More Perfect Priority? (Review of "Priority of Mosiah: A Prelude to Book of Mormon Exegesis" by Brett Lee Metcalfe)," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 362–378. off-site PDF link
• Royal Skousen, "Critical Methodology and the Text of the Book of Mormon (Review of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology by Brent Lee Metcalfe)," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 121–144. off-site PDF link
• James E. Smith, "Nephi's Descendants? Historical Demography and the Book of Mormon (Review of Multiply Exceedingly: Book of Mormon Population Sizes by John C. Kunich)," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 255–296. off-site PDF linkGL direct link
• John L. Sorenson, "Viva Zapato! Hurray for the Shoe! (Review of "Does the Shoe Fit? A Critique of the Limited Tehuantepec Geography" by Deanne G. Matheny," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 297–361. off-site PDF linkGL direct link
• Martin S. Tanner, "Is There Anti-Universalist Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon? (Review of Anti-Universalist Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon by Dan Vogel)," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 418–433. off-site PDF link
• Martin S. Tanner, "Review of Book of Mormon Christology by Melodie Moench Charles," FARMS Review of Books 7/2 (1995): 6–37. off-site PDF link
• John A. Tvedtnes, "Review of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology by Brent Lee Metcalfe," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 8–50. off-site PDF link
• John W. Welch, "Approaching New Approaches (Review of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology by Brent Lee Metcalfe)," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 145–186. off-site PDF link

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