Article Title

Colophons in the Book of Mormon

Authors

Keywords

Book of Mormon studies, colophons, Hugh Nibley

Abstract

At the start of 1 Nephi a heading, not marked with verse numbers, begins, "An account of Lehi and his wife Sariah, and his four sons" and ends, "I, Nephi, wrote this record." Dozens of these editorial entries or colophons (a form well known in nonscriptural documents from antiquity, as Nibley pointed out years ago) are found in the Book of Mormon. Together they instruct us about how the volume as we have it was assembled. The fact that these colophons have been handled differently in modem translations and printings obscures their nature.

Recommended Citation

(1990) "Colophons in the Book of Mormon," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 10: No. 3, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol10/iss3/5