Poesy and Prosody in the Book of Mormon

by Robert F. Smith

Overview

Abstract: Robert Smith makes the case that "poetic art in the Book of Mormon is highly developed" — you just need to have the eye to recognize it. Though many readers are aware of the stunning examples of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, thanks to the pioneering work by John W. Welch, fewer are acquainted with the other important forms of parallelism that pervade the text, often placed strategically to highlight the importance of a particular passage. Smith also shows why apocalpytic texts, sometimes thought to originate at a later period, can be found, for example, in the first chapter of the Book of Mormon.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162187899
Publisher:	Interpreter Foundation
Publication date:	01/15/2021
Series:	Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship , #42
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	759,489
File size:	362 KB

About the Author

Robert F. Smith is an alumnus of BYU and has had advanced training in archaeology and Near Eastern languages at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, UCLA, and CalState University, Long Beach. He was the first editor of the FARMS Book of Mormon Critical Text Project (1979–1987), and most recently presented a paper on “The Preposterous Book of Mormon: A Singular Advantage,” lecture, August 8, 2014, at the annual FairMormon Conference, Provo, Utah, online at
http://www.fairmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/PREPOSTEROUS-BOOK-OF-MORMON.pdf. He is currently a member of Grandview Stake.