Tag: Hebraisms
Aural and Oral: The Raw Book of Mormon as Dictated By Joseph Smith
When I first examined the published text from the Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon, I was embarrassed at all the non-standard grammar. But now I find it to…
Possible Hebrew Wordplay in 2 Nephi 1:23?
(Taken from a post recently published at The Nauvoo Times.) Recently in “The Strength of Moses,” I explored an interesting theory from Noel Reynolds about the relationship between the Book…
An Old Story Gets a New Face: The Seer Stone and the Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon
Photo of the long-discussed seer stone used by Joseph Smith. What’s interesting news for many Latter-day Saints is, for some of our critics, simply earth-shattering and hopely faith-shattering for benighted…
Taxed With a Tax?
Taxes, the bane of the common people and the key to wealth and power for the ruling class, are mentioned in the Book of Mormon with puzzling language that most…
More on Word Pairs and Hebraisms
My previous post linked to a significant 1997 article by Kevin Barney that revealed the presence in the Book of Mormon of a recently recognized traditional element of ancient Hebrew…
Our Semitic Book of Mormon: Hebraic Word Pairs (and Question on Mosiah 7:11)
Kevin Barney’s impressive article, “Poetic Diction and Parallel Word Pairs in the Book of Mormon” published by the Maxwell Institute is a must-read for those interested in the issue of…
Nephi the Hebrew
Discussions of the Book of Mormon here have frequently included complaints from critics about the poor writing style, especially the annoying use of the phrase “and it came to pass.”…
