Item Detail
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31937
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English
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Book of Mormon Authors : Their Words and Messages
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University
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"The purpose of this study is threefold : (1) to identify differences and/or similarities in meaning among select content words (words which are theologically, historically, or culturally significant) used by the Book of Mormon authors; (2) to delineate among the different Book of Mormon authors based on their word usage; and (3) to suggest methodologies that may be used by others to research author individuality within the Book of Mormon. The research in this volume first separates the words of the various Book of Mormon authors from one another and then attempts to determine which of the select content words the different authors used and how they used them. If the Book of Mormon is, as it claims, an edited compilation of writings spanning a period of approximately one thousand years, then one could expect each author to exhibit some unique linguistic fingerprints. The word cluster studies of chapter 1 will test this basic hypothesis. The subsequent chapters will examine narrow word groups to determine whether the inferences of chapter 1 are supportable." [Author]