Item Detail
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30296
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4
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14
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English
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'Behold, Other Scriptures I Would that Ye Should Write' : Malachi in the Book of Mormon
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 2018
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51
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2
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Farmington, UT
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Dialogue Journal
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103-138
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Despite its significance as the final book of the Christian Old Testament, the New Testament shows no explicit knowledge of the book of Malachi. In the case of the Book of Mormon this is true up until 3 Nephi 24 with the formal citation of Malachi by Jesus when he visits the Nephites at the temple in Bountiful. The fact that the Book of Mormon shows no direct knowledge of the text of Malachi until 3 Nephi 24 is intriguing because there are many quotations, allusions, and echoes throughout the text prior to this part of the book. This is interesting for many reasons. First, with this in mind, students of the Book of Mormon can study those places in the text where Malachi is used and analyze them through source-critical means to answer the following questions: (1) How does the Book of Mormon utilize a text from the Bible, in this case the book of Malachi? (2) How is the text similar and how is it different? (3) Are there any significant differences between the two? Second, the use of Malachi in the Book of Mormon is dependent solely on the King James Version of the Bible, which will be demonstrated below. This has implications for understanding how the Book of Mormon came to be written. Third, the sections where the Book of Mormon uses the text of Malachi can substantially help us obtain a better grasp of the composition date of those sections in the Book of Mormon. They provide evidence against a “tight control” translation theory, which has been offered by a number of scholars on the translation process of the Book of Mormon.
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The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source
The 'Brass Plates' and Biblical Scholarship
The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon
The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon : Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text
The Use of the Old Testament in the Book of Mormon
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