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Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:

The More Part of the Book of Mormon Is Early Modern English

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Published:
1/1/2016
Specs:
Digest / 5.25" x 8.25"
12 pages Saddle-stitched
Category:
Religion
Tags:
apologetics, Book of Mormon, early modern english, lds, mormon, Mormonism

Royal Skousen has done an excellent job of summarizing the use of the construction “the more part of + ‹ NOUN PHRASE ›” (and close variants) in the Book of Mormon at Helaman 6:21 in his Analysis of Textual Variants. In this phrase, the adjective more conveys an obsolete meaning of ‘greater’. My concern here is to compare Book of Mormon usage to that of the King James Bible and the textual record and to place it in its proper time.

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