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Was Samuel The Lamanite A Poet?
Was Samuel The Lamanite A Poet?
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
S. Kent Brown, professor of ancient scripture at BYU, has recently completed a study of "The Prophetic Laments of Samuel the Lamanite," available as a F.A.R.M.S. paper. His comparison of Helaman 13 with the poetic form of biblical laments offers a number of intriguing insights into both the form and meaning of Samuel's message for the Nephites and for us.