Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
From Distance to Proximity: A Poetic Function of Enallage in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon
Keywords
Bible, Language, Book of Mormon, Language, Literature
Abstract
This essay analyzes examples of poetry in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon that do not conform to the standards to which prose is typically confined. Each of these poems contains a syntactic device that scholars have come to identify by the term enallage (Greek for “interchange”). Rather than being a case of textual corruption or blatant error, the grammatical variance attested in these passages provides a poetic articulation of a progression from distance to proximity.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Bokovoy, David
(2000)
"From Distance to Proximity: A Poetic Function of Enallage in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon,"
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: Vol. 9:
No.
1, Article 14.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol9/iss1/14