The Acts of the Elders, Commonly Called the Book of Abraham

A satire in King James idiom: Norwood recounts his persecution by the orthodox 'elders' in mock-scriptural chapters and verses, with the Universalist as the apostle and the establishment as the Pharisees. The movement's counterpart to the era's political scripture-parodies, and proof that the controversy was fought with ridicule as well as exegesis.

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