Deflected Agreement in the Book of Mormon

The Covenant of the Promised Land: Territorial Symbolism in the Book of Mormon

The Covenant of the Promised Land: Territorial Symbolism in the Book of Mormon

On Verifying Wordprint Studies: Book of Mormon Authorship On Verifying Wordprint Studies: Book of Mormon Authorship

The Status of Truth in Science-Fictional and Scriptural Texts: Captain KirkTM Meets Captain Moroni

Supposition Error: a novel uses several familar science fiction devices (time-travel, spaceflight, alien encounters, etc.) to illustrate for lay persons and students the dynamics of the philosophy of meaning formulated by C.S. Peirce (1839-1914). In this paper I shall use Peirce's framework in an academic context, to compare and contrast my treatment of The Book of Mormon in the novel Suppositi...

The Anthon Transcripts and the Translation of the Book of Mormon : Studying It Out in the Mind of

Prophesying of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, Nephi foretold that an unlearned man would be asked by God to read the words of a book after a learned man had failed to do so. The unlearned man was initially unwilling, claiming, “I am not learned” (2 Nephi 27:19). One interpretation of Nephi’s account is that Joseph Smith could not translate the Book of Mormon before the meeting of Marti...

Prophecy and History: Structuring the Abridgment of the Nephite Records

Utilizing techniques adapted from literary criticism, this paper investigates the narrative structure of the Book of Mormon, particularly the relationship between Nephi’s first-person account and Mormon’s third-person abridgment. A comparison of the order and relative prominence of material from 1 Nephi 12 with the content of Mormon’s historical record reveals that Mormon may have intentionally...