Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Article Title
Negative Questions in the Book of Mormon
Keywords
questions, Book of Mormon, criticism, examples
Abstract
Much research has been devoted to identifying and examining language patterns in the Book of Mormon that appear to reflect the book’s underlying Semitic character. One possible Hebraism in the Book of Mormon that has not received attention is the use of negative rhetorical questions when a positive meaning is intended. Some modern Bible translations now translate these negative questions in a positive or even emphatic way. This rhetorical device occurs in English, but it is stronger and more com-mon in biblical Hebrew.
Recommended Citation
Spackman, Ben
(2006)
"Negative Questions in the Book of Mormon,"
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 26:
No.
4, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol26/iss4/3