Keywords
Book of Mormon, Early Modern English, grammar, textual variants
Abstract
Royal Skousen has done an excellent job of summarizing the use of the construction “the more part of + ‹ NOUN PHRASE ›” (and close variants) in the Book of Mormon at Helaman 6:21 in his Analysis of Textual Variants.1 In this phrase, the adjective more conveys an obsolete meaning of ‘greater’.2 My concern here is to compare Book of Mormon usage to that of the King James Bible and the textual record and to place it in its proper time.
Recommended Citation
Carmack, Stanford
(2016)
"The More Part of the Book of Mormon Is Early Modern English,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 18, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol18/iss1/8
