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There Nephi taught that “according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ.”. Beginning with this first reference, the name “Jesus” is found in common use in the Book of Mormon, and it appears a total of 161 times. In 1 Nephi 10:7, Nephi began the report of his father’s ...
4. Moroni 2. 19,513. 7.3%. 5. Jesus Christ. 14,161. 5.3%. Once we identified the different voices in the Book of Mormon, we worked with the developers of the WordCruncher software program (published by BYU’s Digital Humanities Department) to develop a database we called “Voices in the Book of Mormon.”.
Words of Mormon 1:10–11. Amaleki Delivered the Plates to King Benjamin. The plates that Amaleki gave to King Benjamin were the small plates. The large plates were continually added to and handed down from record keeper to record keeper until A.D. 385, when Mormon received the large plates and abridged them.
1 Nephi 19:5–6. 5 And an account of my making these plates shall be given hereafter; and then, behold, I proceed according to that which I have spoken; and this I do that the more sacred things may be kept for the knowledge of my people. 6 Nevertheless, I do not write anything upon plates save it be that I think it be sacred.
Through the frequent employment of parallel lines, many of the inspired writers of the Book of Mormon presented their messages with great skill, variety, and power. They used the power of repetition in poetic parallelisms to convey their message of Jesus Christ and his gospel to their audiences, which include readers of the twentieth century.
The Book of Mormon clarifies the covenant nature of baptism. 1. As I have explained in earlier essays, 2 the Book of Mormon writers consistently include water baptism as one element of what they call the “gospel” or “doctrine of Christ,” the way “whereby men can be saved in the kingdom of God” (2 Ne. 31:21).
Abstract. The last several decades have seen the emergence of academically rigorous textual criticism of the Book of Mormon. This scholarly development has largely been based on a detailed analysis of the two earliest manuscripts and twenty of the most significant printed editions. Royal Skousen, a linguist at Brigham Young University, has been ...
