Posted on 02/24/2013 3:13:06 PM PST by Colofornian
Readers along Utahs Wasatch Front will have a rare opportunity to hear from the foremost expert on the history of the text of the Book of Mormon between late February and the middle of March.
In a series titled 25 Years of Research: What We Have Learned about the Book of Mormon Text, professor Royal Skousen will discuss The Original and Printers Manuscripts (Tuesday, Feb. 26), The Printed Editions (Tuesday, March 5) and The Nature of the Original Text (Tuesday, March 12).
A professor of linguistics and English language at BYU, Skousen is the founder of the analogical modeling approach to linguistics and the author of several technical books on that subject...
Among Latter-day Saints, though, hes best known for having devoted a quarter of a century to meticulous study of the creation of the English text of the Book of Mormon and its transmission thereafter.
There is, quite simply, no person on the planet who knows more about this subject than Royal Skousen, and there never has been. Hes published the results of his research in numerous articles and several large volumes, as well as in his Yale University Press edition of The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text, which appeared in 2009.
And his findings are fascinating.
Glitches that have crept into the text...
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Intriguingly, too, Skousen (a specialist, be it remembered, in linguistics and the English language) contends that the language of the Book of Mormon isnt Joseph Smiths early 19th-century dialect, but English of the 1500s and 1600s. Indeed, certain elements of Book of Mormon vocabulary may derive from a period prior to the King James Bible which is certainly something to ponder.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
Guess what? All the handshakes many of the words and much of the ritual was identical. What a coincidence. I just knew it was so trooooooo.
WHAT!!??!!
I thought the BoM was PERFECT!!!!!
Is nothing sacred any more??
Teppe; is all you do is ACCUSE folks without producing evidence?
And then have the gall to question THEM on completely off-the-wall subjects??
It appears, from your picture, that Dapper Dan had a big influence!
Son; you need to take a cruise!
http://bountifultravel.com/book-of-mormon-tours/
You left out pedophile.
Then why don't YOU defend them?
Actually SHOW these inuendoes, distortions, and smears that are so apparent to you.
Else you are just letting the poor, defenseless READERs of the poor defenseless dead folks be confused by things that are so truthfully portrayed in these threads.
Do you not feel ANY obligation to correct these errors you've found?
Shame on you for allowing this "C" person to distort the record when YOU, teppe, could be doing MORMONism a HUGE favor by exposing YAHAMB on FR.
I remember that thread!!
And the fact you never responded on WHY that MORMONism's gods changed their minds and allowed WW to lead the church astray: away from the Eternal Covenant of POLYGAMY.
Well...
...sometimes 'history' can be confusing. After all, all them words tend to bog a fella's mind down so he cain't think too swell.
Perhaps a picture or two could illustrate the item in question a bit better: thousands words and all...
Thank ye
:)
He was so tired from having to learn to carve hieroglyphics into the student sandstone slabs everyday; working for perfection; perfection needed to be able to claim the title of Master Engraver of the Pharaoh.
"If ONLY there were an easier way!", he cried into the cobalt blue sky of the verdant valley: hundreds of miles long, but only a few thousand cubits wide.
Exhausted and exasperated, he sat on the bank; cooling his heels in the water while keeping a watchful eye for the crocs: the Gods of the Waters. Yes; being consumed by one is a sure sign of blessing; but this day young Yusef did not feel so blessed; as his only burning was of his arches: not his busom.
Later, as he had recovered some strength; he climbed high into a palm tree to procure a prized coconut - one sure to be brimming with cool, delicious milk.
Reaching out to one, he tugged on it, only to find it secure. Tugging and yanking harder, he slipped and fell onto the sand below.
Cursing his luck (but noticing no actual physical harm) he looked upward to find his prize HAD come loose and was now a mere arms-length above his head.
Evening was nigh, as he regained consciousness, cracked open the coconut and drank his fill.
As he was preparing to leave for home (all the while devising yet another tale to explain his absence to his harried mother) two foreign visitors were suddenly by his side. They said they were a Father and Son - sent to Yusef in response to his earlier cry. They relayed a message to him to dig under the trunk of the tree to find a new system of writing: writing to reform the complicated language of the Nile, engraved on Golden Metal: the Metal of the GODS.
As in countless other days, Yusef's mother did not believe him and beat him as usual; sending him to bed without his supper of beloved camel stew: the Meal of the Peasants.
Unable to sleep; unbelieved by his family; sure to be severely punished by his Master - Yusef gathered his few belongings and fled silently in the night; down the river of his heritage and into the foreign land of the Jews - never to be heard from again...
But; will he live long enough to delve into the mysteries of the JST???
I think it would be great if you could find something more positive to do with your time. Just sayin’.
'Taint Thunderbird though...
Never on Sunday....
I have coffee almost every morning but Sunday as well!
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