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Defending the Faith: Top Book of Mormon expert Royal Skousen to lecture
Deseret News ^ | Feb. 7, 2013 | Daniel Peterson

Posted on 02/24/2013 3:13:06 PM PST by Colofornian

Readers along Utah’s Wasatch Front will have a rare opportunity to hear from the foremost expert on the history of the text of the Book of Mormon between late February and the middle of March.

In a series titled “25 Years of Research: What We Have Learned about the Book of Mormon Text,” professor Royal Skousen will discuss “The Original and Printer’s Manuscripts” (Tuesday, Feb. 26), “The Printed Editions” (Tuesday, March 5) and “The Nature of the Original Text” (Tuesday, March 12).

A professor of linguistics and English language at BYU, Skousen is the founder of the “analogical modeling” approach to linguistics and the author of several technical books on that subject...

Among Latter-day Saints, though, he’s best known for having devoted a quarter of a century to meticulous study of the creation of the English text of the Book of Mormon and its transmission thereafter.

There is, quite simply, no person on the planet who knows more about this subject than Royal Skousen, and there never has been. He’s published the results of his research in numerous articles and several large volumes, as well as in his Yale University Press edition of “The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text,” which appeared in 2009.

And his findings are fascinating.

Glitches that have crept into the text...

SNIP

Intriguingly, too, Skousen (a specialist, be it remembered, in linguistics and the English language) contends that the language of the Book of Mormon isn’t Joseph Smith’s early 19th-century dialect, but English of the 1500s and 1600s. Indeed, certain elements of Book of Mormon vocabulary may derive from a period prior to the King James Bible — which is certainly something to ponder.

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TOPICS: General Discusssion; History; Other non-Christian; Theology
KEYWORDS: bookofmormon; inman; kingjamesenglish; lds; mormonism
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To: Elsie
I'm an expert on rituals. First time I was ritualized it was at the frat house at USU in Logan, Utah in the spring of 1960 when I became an active member of Sigma Alpha Everybody. Then in that very fall of 1960 I was once again ritualized in the big house in SLC.

Guess what? All the handshakes many of the words and much of the ritual was identical. What a coincidence. I just knew it was so trooooooo.

41 posted on 02/25/2013 8:41:39 AM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah Mood is Fine Art)
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To: Colofornian
Skousen has no doubt poured over this written record. In the link I provide in post #19, Skousen even knows how many times "it came to pass" was edited out of the 1837 revision of the Book of Mormon (47x).

WHAT!!??!!

I thought the BoM was PERFECT!!!!!


Is nothing sacred any more??


The Prophet Joseph Smith taught,
 
 'Ordinances instituted in the heavens before the foundation of the world, in the priesthood, for the salvation of men, are not to be altered or changed.' 
 
http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=b788b00367c45110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=da135f74db46c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD
 
 
 

42 posted on 02/25/2013 8:45:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: teppe
Colofornain, Does your life have no positive purpose and direction?

Teppe; is all you do is ACCUSE folks without producing evidence?

And then have the gall to question THEM on completely off-the-wall subjects??

43 posted on 02/25/2013 8:47:31 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Zakeet
Perhaps a better question is "What else heavily contributed to the BoM?"

It appears, from your picture, that Dapper Dan had a big influence!

44 posted on 02/25/2013 8:48:36 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: F15Eagle
The Book of Mormon is fiction with absolutely zero archaeological evidence for its basis.

Son; you need to take a cruise!


http://bountifultravel.com/book-of-mormon-tours/

45 posted on 02/25/2013 8:50:18 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Joseph Smith - Plagiarist, Scammer, Horndog, Adulterer, Cultist.

You left out pedophile.

46 posted on 02/25/2013 8:54:33 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Thanks Mitt.)
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To: teppe
I could go tit for tat with you, and I have in the past, but usually you just regurgitate inuendo, distortion, and smears about people who aren’t alive to defend themselves.

Then why don't YOU defend them?

Actually SHOW these inuendoes, distortions, and smears that are so apparent to you.

Else you are just letting the poor, defenseless READERs of the poor defenseless dead folks be confused by things that are so truthfully portrayed in these threads.

Do you not feel ANY obligation to correct these errors you've found?

Shame on you for allowing this "C" person to distort the record when YOU, teppe, could be doing MORMONism a HUGE favor by exposing YAHAMB on FR.

47 posted on 02/25/2013 8:55:11 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: teppe
... of course until I pointed out that the “God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” was the god of al least two confirmed polygamists and most likely three.

I remember that thread!!

And the fact you never responded on WHY that MORMONism's gods changed their minds and allowed WW to lead the church astray: away from the Eternal Covenant of POLYGAMY.

48 posted on 02/25/2013 8:57:26 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Bookmark.

49 posted on 02/25/2013 9:00:42 AM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. liberals and logic: Never confuse the two! Hi MI# !)
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To: Elsie
Hasn't HISTORY delivered enough material to us already?

Well...

...sometimes 'history' can be confusing. After all, all them words tend to bog a fella's mind down so he cain't think too swell.

Perhaps a picture or two could illustrate the item in question a bit better: thousands words and all...


The following are the LYING images that MORMONism has produced, KNOWING that they represent something FALSE!!
 
 
   

50 posted on 02/25/2013 9:02:06 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: greyfoxx39

Thank ye

:)


52 posted on 02/25/2013 11:29:29 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: F15Eagle
REFORMED Egyptian: The Beginning



O ne day, long ago; long before the Romans and the Greeks and the Hittites and the Philistines roamed the Earth - there was a young Egyptian boy - Yusef Shehata - who was running along the banks of the Nile one day; after escaping from the Teachers grasp.

 

He was so tired from having to learn to carve hieroglyphics into the student sandstone slabs everyday; working for perfection; perfection needed to be able to claim the title of Master Engraver of the Pharaoh.

"If ONLY there were an easier way!", he cried into the cobalt blue sky of the verdant valley: hundreds of miles long, but only a few thousand cubits wide.

Exhausted and exasperated, he sat on the bank; cooling his heels in the water while keeping a watchful eye for the crocs: the Gods of the Waters. Yes; being consumed by one is a sure sign of blessing; but this day young Yusef did not feel so blessed; as his only burning was of his arches: not his busom.

Later, as he had recovered some strength; he climbed high into a palm tree to procure a prized coconut - one sure to be brimming with cool, delicious milk.

Reaching out to one, he tugged on it, only to find it secure. Tugging and yanking harder, he slipped and fell onto the sand below.

Cursing his luck (but noticing no actual physical harm) he looked upward to find his prize HAD come loose and was now a mere arms-length above his head.

Evening was nigh, as he regained consciousness, cracked open the coconut and drank his fill.

As he was preparing to leave for home (all the while devising yet another tale to explain his absence to his harried mother) two foreign visitors were suddenly by his side. They said they were a Father and Son - sent to Yusef in response to his earlier cry. They relayed a message to him to dig under the trunk of the tree to find a new system of writing: writing to reform the complicated language of the Nile, engraved on Golden Metal: the Metal of the GODS.


As in countless other days, Yusef's mother did not believe him and beat him as usual; sending him to bed without his supper of beloved camel stew: the Meal of the Peasants.

Unable to sleep; unbelieved by his family; sure to be severely punished by his Master - Yusef gathered his few belongings and fled silently in the night; down the river of his heritage and into the foreign land of the Jews - never to be heard from again...


53 posted on 02/25/2013 1:05:10 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Colofornian
Among Latter-day Saints, though, he’s best known for having devoted a quarter of a century to meticulous study of the creation of the English text of the Book of Mormon and its transmission thereafter.

But; will he live long enough to delve into the mysteries of the JST???

54 posted on 02/25/2013 1:06:42 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Colofornian
Indeed, certain elements of Book of Mormon vocabulary may derive from a period prior to the King James Bible — which is certainly something to ponder.




55 posted on 02/25/2013 1:10:57 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

56 posted on 02/25/2013 1:29:46 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I think it would be great if you could find something more positive to do with your time. Just sayin’.


57 posted on 03/03/2013 9:42:24 AM PST by District13 (Obama scares me)
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To: District13; Utah Binger
What could POSSIBLY be better than mocking the MORMON heresy?


'Taint Thunderbird though...

58 posted on 03/03/2013 11:47:46 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Never on Sunday....

59 posted on 03/03/2013 12:32:18 PM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah Mood is Fine Art)
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To: Utah Binger

I have coffee almost every morning but Sunday as well!


60 posted on 03/04/2013 4:43:48 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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