{"id":18251,"date":"2015-02-27T12:13:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18251"},"modified":"2015-02-27T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:21:11","slug":"the-implications-of-past-tense-syntax-in-the-book-of-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/the-implications-of-past-tense-syntax-in-the-book-of-mormon.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Implications of Past-Tense Syntax in the Book of Mormon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18252\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-ONL_1887_1.007_-_South-east_view_of_London_in_1550.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18252\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-ONL_1887_1.007_-_South-east_view_of_London_in_1550-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"London, 1550\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A southeast view of London in 1550<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another Friday. \u00a0Another article from <em>Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The title may put you off.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t be put off.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The implications of this article, if it\u2019s valid, are extraordinarily important. \u00a0Profound. \u00a0And a serious challenge to skeptics.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read the abstract, and I think you\u2019ll see what I mean:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/the-implications-of-past-tense-syntax-in-the-book-of-mormon\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/the-implications-of-past-tense-syntax-in-the-book-of-mormon\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/events\/2015-exploring-the-complexities-in-the-english-language-of-the-book-of-mormon\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">conference<\/a> coming up on Saturday, 14 March, about the language of the Book of Mormon, jointly sponsored by The Interpreter Foundation and BYU Studies. \u00a0Dr. Carmack, the author of today\u2019s <em>Interpreter<\/em> article, will be speaking there, as will Drs. 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