Item Detail
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18097
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English
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Prophecy and History : Structuring the Abridgment of the Nephite Records
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2006
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15
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1
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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18-29
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Olsen states that not just the contents but the "structure of the Book of Mormon narrative can be considered spiritually significant." He feels that Mormon may have specifically edited the large plates of Nephi to show how the prophecies of Nephi (recorded on the small plates of Nephi) were fulfilled. Olsen bases this idea on the similarities between Nephi's vision of his people and the world, and the events Mormon focuses on when he is editing the Book of Mormon, as well as the editorial comments Mormon makes throughout the record. Mormon and the other authors of the Book of Mormon are not recording a true history of a people, rather they "include historical, social, geographical, and other details in order to define the plan of salvation in real-world terms and to demonstrate its partial fulfillment among a portion of God's children."
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Another Testament of Jesus Christ : Mormon's Poetics
A Selective Bibliography of Book of Mormon Literary Features
Memory and Identity in the Book of Mormon
Poesy and Prosody in the Book of Mormon
The Covenant of Christ's Gospel in the Book of Mormon
The Supremacy of the Word : Alma's Mission to the Zoramites and the Conversion of the Lamanites
"To Seek the Law of the Lord": Essays in Honor of John W. Welch