Item Detail
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28952
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English
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Word Pairs and Distinctive Combinations in the Book of Mormon
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2003
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12
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2
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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32-41, 112-113
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"The literary richness of the Book of Mormon is attested by the appearance of word pairs, in both parallel and conjoined pairs. On occasion, combinations of three, four, or even more words appear together more than once. Possible reasons for the scriptural use of word pairs include literary functions, echoes of the law of Moses, theological terms, universals(or merisms), repetition, and mnemonic function. Duke builds on previous studies of word pairs in the Book of Mormon by Kevin Barney and John Tvedtnes. The frequency of word pairs and other combinations of words witnesses to the Hebrew roots of the language of the book." [abstract provided]
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A Selective Bibliography of Book of Mormon Literary Features
Experiment Upon the Word
In God's Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel
In God’s Image and Likeness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Book of Moses
Preserved in Translation : Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon
What's in a word? : Pairs and Merisms in 3 Nephi