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\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n We\u2019re hoping that this new two-part documentary will be viewed by large numbers of people and that it will receive the widest possible distribution:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Interpreter Foundation:\u00a0 \u201cDVD Now Available of Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Called to Share<\/em>:\u00a0 \u201cNew Docudrama, Undaunted, Shares Story of Witnesses of the Book of Mormon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n LDS Daily<\/em>:\u00a0 \u201cThe Story of the Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Told in Unprecedented New Docudrama\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n With his generous permission, I share this from a note that Royal Skousen sent to me earlier today:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I have posted on the Interpreter Foundation blog my 91-page write-up entitled \u201cThe Witnesses of the Book of Mormon\u201d. This is going to appear as a chapter in part 7 of volume 3 of the critical text.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What is important here is that the statements of the witnesses of the translation process are tested against the original manuscript (O). In this write-up, I consider the following claims by these witnesses and their validation (or at least consistency) [with] how O reads.\u00a0 <\/b>Here\u2019s what I consider on pages 25-37:<\/span><\/p>\n This last item shows that the witnesses were WRONG when they claimed the scribe could not ultimately end up with any kind of error, in word or phrase. The last item shows that neither JS nor the instrument had \u201ciron-clad\u201d control over the text. The write-up now lists on pages 39-48 all the substantive errors in O, yet JS and his scribe went on!<\/span><\/p>\n I also consider the evidence for the spelling out of the strange Book of Mormon names (but NOT the common biblical names): pages 48-67. Note especially\u00a0Zenoch\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Coriantumr<\/em>. There is clear evidence for this in O.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, Emma said that in the beginning (when she scribed for JS as he dictated the 116 pages in early 1828) that JS spelled out long words of English he didn\u2019t know how to pronounce. Only one possible case later in O,\u00a0genealogy\u00a0<\/em>to Christian Whitmer (in June 1829). Otherwise, the scribe is spelling long words of English as he thinks they should be spelled (pages 68-84).<\/span><\/p>\n And finally, did OC\u2019s spelling improve while he was scribe for the original manuscript? Maybe for only a couple words near the end of the dictation, when the small plates were being dictated at the Whitmers\u2019 in June 1929.\u00a0angar > anger\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0hoast > host\u00a0<\/em>are the only two examples. In the printer\u2019s manuscript, OC is constantly learning how to spell words, based on his proofing of P against the 1830 typesetting. All of this is more fully described in part 6 of volume 3.<\/span><\/p>\n In all, this kind of evidence demonstrates why this article is so important. It looks for independent evidence of what the witnesses claimed.\u00a0 <\/b>This is not just any old article on the witnesses, just listing their claims. It\u2019s testing their claims against O itself. A long time ago I did a preliminary article on this subject for a book of Noel [Reynolds]\u2019s. Now I\u2019ve expanded that research to be fully inclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n A good classical example of this approach is Lorenzo Valla and the Donation of Constantine, with Valla showing linguistically that the Donation was a forgery dating from around 800 instead of in the 300s. I had to do the same with the University of Chicago acquisition of Alma 3-5, supposed from O, but found in 1982! Examination of a document\u2019s internal details reveals much.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n We\u2019re traveling here with friends and, together with them, we spent most of today between an extended double-decker bus tour of Barcelona, walking along La Rambla \u2014 of which the poet Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/a> is said to have remarked that it was \u201cthe only street in the world which I wish would never end\u201d \u2014 and in the adjacent food market, and enjoying tapas<\/em> at the Cervecer\u00eda Catalana<\/a> at 236 Carrer de Mallorca, which our friends discovered during a previous visit here.\u00a0 (It\u2019s also spelled Cerveser\u00eda Catalana<\/em>; both spellings can be found online and, to my considerable puzzlement, at the restaurant itself.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s a Spanish-versus-Catalan thing?)\u00a0 This is at least our third time in Barcelona, and I\u2019m becoming really fond of the place.\u00a0 The scenery up on Montju\u00efc, the gorgeous tree-lined boulevards down below, the striking but still unfinished Sagrada Familia and the other striking examples of Antoni Gaudi\u2019s architecture (and other art nouveau<\/em> monuments) that dot the city (I\u2019m an enthusiast for art nouveau<\/em>; we have a Gustav Klimt museum print in our bedroom that we bought years ago in Vienna) \u2014 altogether, they make Barcelona a very, very pleasant and interesting place.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n That is, if you\u2019ll indulge me the theft of a phrase from George Orwell, a little \u201chomage to Catalonia.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n On the Mediterranean, heading from Barcelona, Spain, to Cadiz, Spain<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 *** \u00a0 We\u2019re hoping that this new two-part documentary will be viewed by large numbers of people and that it will receive the widest possible distribution: \u00a0 The Interpreter Foundation:\u00a0 \u201cDVD Now Available of Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon\u201d \u00a0 Called to Share:\u00a0 \u201cNew Docudrama, Undaunted, Shares Story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29016,56,259,29022,29019,29010,29025,2046,29013,1035,5688,21713],"class_list":["post-95208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barcelona","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-book-of-mormon-witnesses","tag-casa-batilo","tag-casa-mila","tag-gaudi","tag-la-rambla","tag-royal-skousen","tag-sagrada-familia","tag-spain","tag-three-witnesses","tag-witnesses-of-the-book-of-mormon"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a>
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