Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Article Title
Hebraic Elements in the Language of the Book of Mormon
Keywords
Book of Mormon studies, Hebrew, conditional clauses
Abstract
Recent research has yielded another interesting clue about the language of the Nephites and about the manner in which it was translated into English. By comparing the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon to the subsequent printed versions, Royal Skousen has found that the original English-language text of the Book of Mormon contained expressions that are uncharacteristic of English. One such expression is a Hebrew-like conditional clause.
Recommended Citation
Skousen, Royal
(1997)
"Hebraic Elements in the Language of the Book of Mormon,"
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 17:
No.
6, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol17/iss6/3