Abstract: Grant Hardy has shown that Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni have distinctive personalities, rhetorical strategies, implied readers, and thematic concerns. Mormon lived within history and wrote as a

Abstract: In Words of Mormon 1:8, Mormon declares, “And my prayer to God is concerning my brethren, that they may once again come to the knowledge of God, yea, the redemption of Christ; that they may

Abstract: T. J. Uriona has offered two new theories about the meaning of Nephis term skin of blackness in 2 Nephi 5:21. He suggests that Nephis term may indicate impending death and/or it may be a

Review of Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Emer Harris & Dennison Lott Harris: Owner of the First Copy of the Book of Mormon, Witness of the Last Charge of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2023). 235

Abstract: Moroni1s letter in Alma 60 is not simply an angry and intemperate screed against the government; it also responds to arguments about just tactics (what modern readers would call ethics) tak

Abstract: Anti-Nephi-Lehis speech (Alma 24:716) reveals multiple allusions to significant texts in Nephis small plates record. Thus, when he declares I thank my God, my beloved people, that our gr

Abstract: Repetition is a feature of all ancient Hebraic narrative. Modern readers may misunderstand this quality of biblical and Book of Mormon narrative. Biblical and Book of Mormon writers believed

Abstract: There is no more important message than that of the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Its life-transforming and world-transforming. It is also the most joyous news imaginable. Wha

Abstract: To more permanently unify the Mulekites and the Nephites as a reunited kingdom of Israel, King Benjamin gathered his people at the temple, and in his role as a king and priest after the orde

Abstract: Bodily weakness, along with the varied circumstances into which we were born, provide the essential initial and ongoing conditions that shape the challenges and opportunities of our mortal p