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Some Textual Changes For A Scholarly Study Of The Book Of Mormon, Royal Skousen
Some Textual Changes For A Scholarly Study Of The Book Of Mormon, Royal Skousen
BYU Studies Quarterly
Royal Skousen has been working on the critical text project of the Book of Mormon since 1988. He has concluded that there are three important findings resulting from the critical text project of the Book of Mormon. The first is that Joseph Smith received an English-language text word for word, which he read off to his scribe. The second is that the original English-language text itself was very precisely constructed; where textual error has occurred in its transmission, the earliest reading is usually the superior reading. The third is the identification of 256 changes in the text that make a …