Item Detail
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32776
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2
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21
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English
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The Last Nephite Scribes
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
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2022
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53
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Orem, UT
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Interpreter Foundation
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95-138
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"In an earlier paper, I concluded that Lehi and Nephi were highly trained Josephite scribes and were associated with an official Jerusalem scribal school that preserved ancient Manassite traditions. There they acquired advanced writing skills and classical Hebrew and Egyptian, which would become the scriptural languages of the Nephite peoples. These they maintained in the new promised land and passed on from generation to generation through the entire thousand-year Nephite dispensation, even though the Nephite language itself would naturally evolve. Evidence of how they did this surfaces repeatedly throughout the Book of Mormon. The following paper documents how both Mormon and his son Moroni abridged and concluded the religious, military, and political records of Book of Mormon peoples, thus preserving key elements of the vast Nephite records collection for a later dispensation. That scribal process parallels the roles and schools of other cultures of the ancient Near East." [Author]
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A Backstory for the Brass Plates
Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon
Bare Record : The Nephite Archivist, The Record of Records, and the Book of Mormon Provenance
Internal Evidence of Widespread Literacy in the Book of Mormon
Labor Diligently to Write : The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture
Lehi and Nephi as Trained Manassite Scribes
Lehi’s Dream, Nephi’s Blueprint: How Nephi Uses the Vision of the Tree of Life as an Outline for 1 and 2 Nephi
Literacy and Orality in the Book of Mormon
Mormon's Codex : An Ancient American Book
Mormons, Scripture, and the Ancient World : Studies in Honor of John L. Sorenson
Nephi as Scribe
Nephi's Small Plates: A Rhetorical Analysis
The Book of Mormon Reference Companion
The Book of Mormon : The Earliest Text
The Lost 116 Pages : Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s Missing Stories
The "Mulekites"
Traditions of the Fathers : The Book of Mormon as History
Understanding the Abrahamic Covenant through the Book of Mormon
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide
Verbal Punctuation in the Book of Mormon I: (And) Now
Warfare in the Book of Mormon