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	MORMON CENTRAL - JOSEPH SMITH - LDS TEMPLES - BOOK OF MORMON - MORMONISM
		and Mark Thomas's "Revival Language in the Book of Mormon," Sunstone 8 (May-June 1983): 19-25, are examples of essays that have sought to enlarge the scope of approach.
		Anachronisms regarding the Book of Mormon's use of biblical material prompted Mormon scholars to reject the nineteenth-century notion that Joseph Smith produced from the plates a "literal" translation.
		In this important and interesting book the history of ancient America is unfolded, from its first settlement by a colony that came from the tower of Babel, at the confusion of languages[,] to the beginning of the fifth century of the Christian era.
	www.xmission.com /~research/central/vogel1.htm (4251 words)

	ipedia.com: Book of Mormon Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of Mormonism first published in Palmyra, New York, USA, in March 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr The book's self-declared main purpose is to testify of Jesus Christ, through the writings of ancient American prophets.
		Book of Mormon in Mormonism">3 Role of the Book of Mormon in Mormonism
		The remainder of The Book of Mormon is purportedly a third-person historical narrative and commentary compiled by Mormon and Moroni.
	www.ipedia.com /book_of_mormon.html (2517 words)

	linguistics - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about linguistics
		Linguistics has many branches, such as origins (historical linguistics), the changing way language is pronounced (phonetics), derivation of words through various languages (etymology), development of meanings (semantics), and the arrangement and modifications of words to convey a message (grammar).
		Applied linguistics is the use of lingustics to aid understanding in other areas of language-based study, such as dictionary compilation and foreign-language teaching.
		He thought of himself performing feats with the sign language and chance linguistics amidst a circle of admiring rustics.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /linguistics (144 words)

	Book of Mormon at lds-mormon.com
		This book contains manuscripts of B.H. Roberts (who was a General Authority, author, and church historian) in which he expresses some serious doubts about the authenticity of the Book of Mormon and frankly admits that Joseph Smith had a vivid enough imagination and the source material available to produce the Book of Mormon.
		Mormons claim that an ancient record (the Book of Mormon) was written beginning in about 600 BC, and the author in 600 BC copied Isaiah in Isaiah's original words.
		Most Mormons have managed to live comfortably with the claims of a magical translation of the Book of Mormon by regarding it as revelation or inspiration, or something like that; and seer stones, which in Quinn's account were not uncommon among early church members, have been kept at a bare minimum by the official histories.
	www.lds-mormon.com /book_of_mormon.shtml (1672 words)

	Book of Mormon - Part II
		Some Mormon and non-Mormon scholars claim to have found archaeological, cultural and linguistic evidence that the book was an ancient record; these conclusions however are not accepted by the majority of scholars.
		The Book of Mormon is of prime importance to the church as one of the greatest differentiating factors of the church as well as a spiritual foundation.
		The Book of Mormon’s significance was reiterated in the late 20th century by Ezra Taft Benson, Apostle and 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
	www.spiritrestoration.org /Church/Denominations/Book_of_Mormon_Part_II.htm (2958 words)

	Book of Mormon - MormonWiki.org
		Mormons claim that Joseph Smith translated (or transliterated) golden plates and that the result of this work was the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (hereafter BoM).
		Book of Mormon was translated by the gift and power of God, and not by any power of man.” (David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ, Richmond, Mo.: n.p., 1887, p.
		The theology of the Book of Mormon was monotheistic.
	www.mormonwiki.org /Book_of_Mormon (2235 words)

	Linguistics and the Book of Mormon at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		More sophisticated Mormon apologists now focus on evidence with respect to The Book of Mormon authenticity as follows: There are many things in The Book of Mormon which should not be there if it was written by Joseph Smith or anyone else in the 1830s.
		Doctrinally, the Book of Mormon, it is claimed, is more similar to the Ante-Nicene Fathers, some Gnostic sects and the Dead Sea scrolls, as well as other coptic writings, few of which were available (or popular) at the time.
		After the church reported that fl men would be permitted to enter the priesthood, on June 9, 1978, a change was made in the 1981 printing of the Book of Mormon that seemed suspicious to critics of the church.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Linguistics_and_the_Book_of_Mormon.html (1261 words)

	Mormon Truth and Book of Mormon Evidences: Not Proof, But Indications of Plausibility
		Book of Mormon Evidences discusses some of the factors that suggest the Book of Mormon may be an ancient document.
		The Book of Mormon indicates that Mulek was a surviving son of King Zedekiah (after the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem destroyed the royal household).
		The language of the Book of Mormon cannot be explained as the English of Joseph Smith or the King James English of the Bible.
	www.jefflindsay.com /BMEvidences.shtml (17099 words)

	Linguistic Problems in Mormonism
		Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley cites this feat as proof that it is not necessary for a prophet of God to have the actual original in front of him in order to translate.
		Mormon apologists who try to deal with the many translation problems often try to excuse and explain the problems by showing how translating is an inaccurate art, how difficult it is, how translators are hampered by the inexact correspondence of one language with another.
		Mormon apologists defend Stubbs' work by pointing out that he also shows patterns of sound shifts, such as have been observed in known language families such as the Indo-European group (which includes most modern and ancient European languages), in addition to the similarities in individual vocabulary items.
	home.teleport.com /~packham/linguist.htm (13552 words)

	Jerry Stokes Linguistics and the Book of Mormon
		As believers in the Book of Mormon, we adhere to the actuality that parties accompanying Lehi and Mulek left Jerusalem [p.2] and arrived in the Americas some 2600 years ago and that their descendants are among the Native Americans.
		Linguists have found that even though sounds change over time, the changes are not haphazard; sounds change in consistent patterns, such that a sound in one language will quite consistently correspond to a particular sound in a related language.
		FARMS, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Vol.4, Number 2, p.33 Another array of curiosities involves the UA words for "man." All four of them are traceable to Semitic, but they occur in exactly the opposite frequency typical of Hebrew.
	www.churches.net /churches/utmiss/Bookofmormon/Linguistics.html (17456 words)

	Uto-Aztecan and the Book of Mormon: Linguists Provide Possible Evidence Consistent with Book of Mormon Claims
		As discussed on my Book of Mormon Evidences page, Brian Stubbs has published significant works showing serious connections between Native American languages (the Uto-Aztecan language group) and Old World languages such as Hebrew.
		Key is a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics from the University of California at Irvine, and the author of 17 books during her five decades of linguistic research in more than a dozen languages.
		Perhaps the most surprising of all Eurasian-American linguistic connections, at least in geographic terms, is that proposed by Brian Stubbs: a strong link between the Uto-Aztecan and Afro-Asiatic (or Hamito-Semitic) languages.
	www.jefflindsay.com /bme8.shtml (735 words)

	Preface
		Although changes have been made in the Book of Mormon since 1830--mostly for stylistic reasons--I have used the 1982 edition published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
		Edward H. Ashment, "The Book of Mormon--A Literal Translation?" Sunstone 5 (March-April 1980): 10-14; James E. Lancaster, "The Method of Translation of the Book of Mormon," The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 3 (1983): 51-61.
		Among those who have recognized possible anti-Catholic elements in the Book of Mormon are Brodie, 59-60; O'Dea, 34; and Mernitz, 33-34.
	www.signaturebookslibrary.org /indian/preface.htm (4376 words)

	FAIR LDS Bookstore: Changes in the Book of Mormon (CD)
		His presentation will discuss the various changes in the book of Mormon, what they really are, and what they really mean.
		Recently he wrote two major books on analogy as an alternative to rule descriptions of language: Analogical Modeling of Language (1989) and Analogy and Structure (1992), both published by Kluwer.
		By careful examination of the original and printer's manuscripts of the Book of Mormon, as well as twenty printed editions of the book, he has discovered hundreds of hitherto unknown readings in the text.
	store.fairlds.org /prod/p2002CD06.html (659 words)

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