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English
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"He Shall Add": Wordplay on the Name Joseph and an Early Instance of Gezera Shawa in the Book of Mormon
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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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2010
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30
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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This article points out a Gezera Shawa (a "joining together of biblical texts from isolated passages on the basis of a shared word") in the Book of Mormon, analyzing Nephi's use of the Hebrew word yasap ("to add" or "continue," "proceed to do," or "do again."). The name Joseph is also dervied from yasap, a connection the Book of Mormon uses "to remind us that it was the seed of Joseph that would be gathered and to foretell the involvement of another Joseph, Joseph Smith, in the gathering and in the coming forth of scripture." [Author]
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Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture
“That They Might Come Again unto the Remnant of the House of Jacob”:
Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in 3 Nephi 26:8–10 and 4 Nephi 1:49
“Their Anger Did Increase Against Me”: Nephi’s Autobiographical Permutation of a Biblical Wordplay on the Name Joseph
"They Shall Be Scattered Again": Some Notes on JST Genesis 50:24-25, 33-35
“Unto the Taking Away of Their Stumbling Blocks”: The Taking Away and Keeping Back of Plain and Precious Things and Their Restoration in 1 Nephi 13–15