“‘The Book of Mormon is True’ studies the importance of a unique vocabulary”

“‘The Book of Mormon is True’ studies the importance of a unique vocabulary” February 21, 2016

 

Cover image from Linford book
Image from Covenant Communications

 

This sounds very interesting, and I look forward to reading it:

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865648140/Book-review-6The-Book-of-Mormon-is-True7-studies-the-importance-of-a-unique-vocabulary.html?pg=all

 

Other studies that have found seemingly distinct authorial voices within the Book of Mormon include:

 

Grant Hardy.  Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)

 

Roger R. Keller.  Book of Mormon Authors: Their Words and Messages (Salt Lake City: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 1996)

 

And, of course, the classic computerized statistical wordprint studies introduced here:

 

http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Mormon/Wordprint_studies

 

You have to hand it to Joseph Smith, being able to create such varied voices while rapidly dictating his frontier religious yarn on the fly . . .

 

 


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