{"id":41273,"date":"2021-01-08T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/?p=41273"},"modified":"2021-01-30T22:53:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T03:53:21","slug":"ein-ruf-aus-der-wuste-1-title-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/ein-ruf-aus-der-wuste-1-title-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Ein Ruf aus der W\u00fcste: title page"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first non-English Latter-day Saint work, Orson Hyde\u2019s Ein<\/em> Ruf aus der W\u00fcste<\/em><\/a>, was published in 1842 in Frankfurt. The section recounting the life of Joseph Smith and the translation of the Book of Mormon has been translated multiple times and is available at the Joseph Smith Papers Project<\/a>, in Dean Jessee\u2019s 1989 The Papers of Joseph Smith: Autobiographical and Historical Writings <\/em>vol. 1, and in Dan Vogel\u2019s Early Mormon Documents<\/em> vol. 1. That leaves around 100 of the 115 total pages still untranslated. As a first step toward making this source more widely available, a translation of the title page and a few notes follow. To accompany this year\u2019s \u201cCome Follow Me\u201d focus on the Doctrine and Covenants and church history, I\u2019m planning to post additional sections in English translation as a way to look at how an early church member understood the restored gospel and presented it to others.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

A<\/p>\n

Cry in the Wilderness<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

a<\/p>\n

Voice from the Bowels of the Earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A short overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

of the<\/p>\n

origin and doctrine of the church of \u201cJesus Christ<\/p>\n

of Latter Day Saints\u201d in America, known to<\/p>\n

many by the designation: \u201cThe Mormons.\u201d<\/p>\n

By<\/p>\n

Orson Hyde,<\/strong><\/p>\n

a priest of this church.<\/p>\n

Read, reflect, pray and act!<\/p>\n

Frankfurt, 1842.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Self published by the author.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

One thing that immediately sticks out is that Ein Ruf aus der W\u00fcste<\/em> provides an early example of using the First Vision and Book of Mormon \u2013 both of which are extensively described in the pages available via the JSPP \u2013 for missionary work. The motto on the title page (the one addition compared to the booklet\u2019s front cover) could be translated with equal accuracy as \u201cread, ponder, pray and act,\u201d attesting at an early date the approach to proselytizing still in use today.<\/p>\n

As a self-publishing author, Hyde would have hired a printer in Frankfurt and assumed all responsibility for distribution. The printer may have had no opinion on Hyde or his message, while Hyde\u2019s translator may have been at least fondly disposed toward Hyde personally, but neither attached their names to Hyde\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

I count four copies known today: one at the Church History Library, two in BYU Special Collections, and one available for checkout at the Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen. The digitized CHL copy at archive.org<\/a> bears the stamp: ANDREW JENSON\u2019S PRIVATE LIBRARY, but I don\u2019t know anything else about Jenson.<\/p>\n

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Bibliography<\/p>\n

Folsom, Marvin H. \u201cThe Language of Orson Hyde\u2019s \u2018Ein Ruf aus der W\u00fcste.\u2019\u201d Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium<\/em> 15.1 (1989), article 3. https:\/\/scholarsarchive.byu.edu\/dlls\/vol15\/iss1\/3<\/a> My preliminary view is that Folsom\u2019s first conclusion, that the text contains more \u201cmisspellings, inconsistencies and grammatical errors\u2026than in those written by native speakers of German,\u201d is incorrect. The text of Ein Ruf aus der W\u00fcste<\/em> would have been entirely impossible without a native speaker of German as translator. Folsom\u2019s point of comparison is the language of printed Bibles, but the features Folsom points to in Ein Ruf aus der W\u00fcste <\/em>strike me as just what one would expect from a nineteenth-century translator working from an English source and a printer willing to print whatever was handed to him.<\/p>\n

W\u00f6llauer, Peter. \u201cOrson Hydes Traktat Ein Ruf aus der W\u00fcste, eine Stimme aus dem Schoose der Erde<\/em>.\u201d In Bericht vom Orson Hyde Symposium<\/em>. Universit\u00e4t Regensburg 4.-5. Oktober 1991<\/em>. This chapter in a book of (informally published?) conference proceedings provides an overview of the work\u2019s structure, brief commentaries on the content and some investigation of Hyde\u2019s sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first non-English Latter-day Saint work, Orson Hyde\u2019s Ein Ruf aus der W\u00fcste, was published in 1842 in Frankfurt. The section recounting the life of Joseph Smith and the translation of the Book of Mormon has been translated multiple times and is available at the Joseph Smith Papers Project, in Dean Jessee\u2019s 1989 The Papers of Joseph Smith: Autobiographical and Historical Writings vol. 1, and in Dan Vogel\u2019s Early Mormon Documents vol. 1. That leaves around 100 of the 115 total pages still untranslated. As a first step toward making this source more widely available, a translation of the title page and a few notes follow. To accompany this year\u2019s \u201cCome Follow Me\u201d focus on the Doctrine and Covenants and church history, I\u2019m planning to post additional sections in English translation as a way to look at how an early church member understood the restored gospel and presented it to others. * * * A Cry in the Wilderness, a Voice from the Bowels of the Earth. A short overview of the origin and doctrine of the church of \u201cJesus Christ of Latter Day Saints\u201d in America, known to many by the designation: \u201cThe Mormons.\u201d By Orson Hyde, a priest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2895,18,2885],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-come-follow-me-currculum","category-general-doctrine","category-language-and-literature"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41378,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41273\/revisions\/41378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}