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Poetic Diction And Parallel Word Pairs In The Book Of Mormon, Kevin L. Barney

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Hebrew poetry is based on various patterns of parallelism. Parallel lines are in turn created by the use of parallel words, that is, pairs of words bearing generally synonymous or antithetic meanings. Since the 1930s, scholars have come to realize that many of these “word pairs” were used repeatedly in a formulaic fashion as the basic building blocks of different parallel lines. The Book of Mormon reflects numerous parallel structures, including synonymous parallelism, antithetic parallelism, and chiasmus. As word pairs are a function of parallelism, the presence of such parallel structures in the Book of Mormon suggests the possible presence …

Criteria For Identifying And Evaluating The Presence Of Chiasmus, John W. Welch

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

This article defines fifteen criteria one can use to measure the strength or weakness of a proposed chiastic pattern in a given text. The need for rigor in such studies depends primarily on how the results of the proposed structural analyses will be used. Ultimately, analysts may not know with certainty whether an author created inverted parallel structures intentionally or not; but by examining a text from various angles, one may assess the likelihood that an author consciously employed chiasmus to achieve specific literary purposes.

Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies Volume 4 Issue 2, Neal A. Maxwell Institute For Religious Scholarship

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting understanding of the history, meaning, and significance of the scriptures and other sacred texts revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Committee Activities, Doris Seely, Tai-Loi Ma, Kyungmi Chun, Hideyuki Morimoto, Yasuko Makino

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

The Ethnic Chameleon: Bakhtin And The Bai, Lucien Miller

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Woman To Woman: Selected Talks From The Byu Women's Conferences Edited By Maren M. Mouritsen; A Heritage Of Faith: Talks Selected From The Byu Women's Conferences Edited By Mary E. Stovall And Carol Cornwall Madsen; As Women Of Faith: Talks Selected From The Byu Women's Conferences Edited By Mary E. Stovall And Carol Cornwall Madsen; Women Of Wisdom And Knowledge: Talks Selected From The Byu Women's Conferences Edited By Marie Cornwall And Susan Howe; Women And The Power Within—To See Life Steadily And See It Whole: Talks Selected From The 1990 Byu Women's Conference Edited By Dawn Hall Anderson And Marie Cornwall; Women Steadfast In Christ: Talks Selected From The 1991 Women's Conference Co-Sponsored By Brigham Young University And The Relief Society Edited By Dawn Hall Anderson And Marie Cornwall; Women And Christ—Living The Abundant Life: Talks Selected From The 1992 Women's Conference Sponsored By Brigham Young University And The Relief Society Edited By Dawn Hall Anderson, Susette Fletcher Green, And Marie Cornwall; Women In The Covenant Of Grace: Talks Selected From The 1993 Women's Conference Sponsored By Brigham Young University And The Relief Society Edited By Dawn Hall Anderson And Susette Fletcher Green, Kathryn H. Shirts

BYU Studies

Maren M. Mouritsen, ed. Woman to Woman: Selected Talks from the BYU Women's Conferences. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1986. viii; 215 pp. Index. $9.95.

Mary E. Stovall and Carol Cornwall Madsen, eds. A Heritage of Faith: Talks Selected from the BYU Women's Conferences. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1988. ix; 198 pp. Index. $10.95.

Mary E. Stovall and Carol Cornwall Madsen, eds. As Women of Faith: Talks Selected from the BYU Women's Conferences. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1989. xi; 257 pp. Index. $10.95.

Marie Cornwall and Susan Howe, eds. Women of Wisdom and Knowledge: Talks …

Dialogicla Horizons: Latino Voices And U.S. Audiences: E Pluribus Plures, Ann Mcbride-Limaye

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Brother Wiseman, Tessa Meyer Santiago

BYU Studies

He appeared in our midst suddenly one Sunday morning. Hopped off a double-decker bus across the road from Wayne's Bakery just as they were pulling the first buns, five cents apiece, from the oven. Although, hopped is not exactly the word. More like he shuffled his little black body across the street and up the seven stairs outside the Mowbray Chapel, corner of Grove and Main, Cape Town, South Africa. Our problem was that he shuffled up those stairs, his three-piece suit folding dove gray around his ankles, about two years before the priesthood was restored to all worthy members, …

Mormon Bibliography 1994, Ellen M. Copley

BYU Studies

The Mormon Bibliography for 1994 is a selective bibliography of publications about Mormons and Mormonism. This bibliography concentrates on aspects of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. No attempt has been made to include articles pertaining to other branches of the Mormon community, including the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Articles are included about related organizations only when they also touch upon the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Special Reports, Amy Vladeck Heinrich, Kristina Kade-Troost

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

The "Isaiah Problem" In The Book Of Mormon, Sidney B. Sperry

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Doubts as to the literary unity of the book of Isaiah are fairly recent. The late nineteenth century saw a division of Isaiah into three parts by critics, who categorized only 262 of the 1292 verses as the genuine product of Isaiah. These critics deny the prediction element of prophecy and highlight different literary forms and theological ideas. The Book of Mormon attributes two of these three sections to Isaiah by quotation; ancient scriptures as well give no hint of a division. Christ and the apostles themselves attribute the book to Isaiah. Internal evidences of the unity of the book …

Brent Lee Metcalf, “Apologetic And Critical Assumptions About Book Of Mormon Historicity”, Alan Goff

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of “Apologetic and Critical Assumptions about Book of Mormon Historicity” (1993), by Brent Lee Metcalfe.

"Pleasing Passages": Style In The Old English Pastoral Care, Ray Moye

Quidditas

The Old English Pastoral Care, a translation of Gregory the Great's Liber Regula Pastoralis which King Alfred completed sometime in the first few years of the 890s, was the first in a series of translations of Latin Christian works in English that would serve as the foundation of Alfred's program of cultural and educational reform aimed at restoring England's preeminence as a leading Christian intellectual center. This reputation that the land had enjoyed during the glory days of Bede and Alcuin had been lost as a consequence of continual Viking invasions in the eighth and ninth centuries, with the …

Review Essay: Farrell, Thomas J., Ed. Bakhtin And Medieval Voices, Joseph D. Parry

Quidditas

Farrell, Thomas J., ed. Bakhtin and Medieval Voices. University of Florida Press, Gainseville, 1995. 240 pp., 9 black & white photographs, 1 figure, 1 table, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95.

The Development And Validation Of The Missionary Language Performance Test, Blair E. Bateman

Theses and Dissertations

Performance tests are an effective way of assessing examinees' ability to perform specific job-related tasks. This thesis details the development and validation of a performance test designed to measure LDS missionaries' ability to perform missionary tasks in a foreign language, the Missionary Language Performance Test (MLPT).

The development of the test involved identifying a set of relevant missionary tasks, specifying the criteria to be evaluated, designing test items, devising a procedure for sampling tasks and for administering and rating the test, and training raters to administer the test. Three separate studies were conducted to validate the test: (a) both the …

1996 Allen D. Breck Award Winner: Narration And Quattrocento Annunciation Paintings, Joseph D. Parry

Quidditas

Quattrocento Annunciation paintings are particularly useful in offering us a better understanding of the nature of narration in Renaissance art. When we describe the narration in Renaissance art. When we describe the narrative construction of the Annunciation in the work of quattrocento painters, a Fra Angelico, a Fra FIlippo Lippi, or a Sandro Botticelli, we know, of course that the Annunciation as a narrative ultimately resides in the language of St. Luke's Gospel; though in being told and retold, it easily takes on a life of its own in oral transmissions, in paraphrasings in sermons, in elaborations in scriptural commentaries, …

The Democratization Of American Christianity By Nathan O. Hatch; Culture Wars: The Struggle To Define America By James Davison Hunter, Ralph C. Hancock

BYU Studies

Nathan O. Hatch. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989. xiv; 312 pp. Notes, index. $15.00.

James Davison Hunter. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. New York: Basic Books, 1991. xiii; 416 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $15.00.

Structural Ambiguities And Written Advertisements: An Inventory Of Tools For More Resourceful Advertisements In English, Dallin D. Oaks

Faculty Publications

Competent writers usually avoid ambiguity, but there are some types of writing tasks such as advertising in which a writer might actually want to create ambiguous wordplays. Among the most interesting of the wordplays are those which involve structural ambiguities. In the natural course of brainstorming, advertisers will occasionally generate structural ambiguities, but a more conscious understanding of the structure of a language could make the generation of such ambiguities easier. The English language contains some characteristics and patterns which contribute significantly toward creating structural ambiguities. And if ad writers know where to focus their attention, structurally ambiguous wordplays can …

The Psychological Relevance Of Phonological Generalizations In Spanish: An Experiment, David Eddington

Faculty Publications

A psycholinguistic experiment aids in determining if the phonological generalizations which appear in the literature on Spanish phonology are psychologically significant for Spanish speakers. The experiment focuses on whether common phonological alternations play a role in native speakers' perceptions of whether two words share a morpheme. The results indicate that they are a significant factor in speakers' perceptions of morphemic relatedness. Therefore, these findings provide some evidence that these phonological generalizations are psychologically valid, and not merely descriptive in nature.

About The Reviewers, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

Review Essay: Baswell, Christopher. Virgil In Medieval England: Figuring The Aeneid From The Twelfth Century To Chaucer, Anita Obermeier

Quidditas

Baswell, Christopher. Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. xviii + 438 pp. 6 black-and-white facsimile plates. $64.95.

Sacred Connections: Lds Pottery In The Native American Southwest, Richard G. Oman

BYU Studies

LDS themes expressed via tribal art traditions provide a path to appreciating the Native American artists' connections to the land, the family, and a spirituality in and through all things.

The Allegory Of The Olive Tree: The Olive, The Bible, And Jacob 5 Edited By Stephen D. Ricks And John W. Welch, David B. Honey

BYU Studies

Stephen D. Ricks and John W. Welch, eds. The Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, Utah: F.A.R.M.S., 1994. xiv; 624 pp. Illustrations, appendix, 2 indexes. $28.95.

Vol. 7 Num. 1 Farms Review Of Books On The Book Of Mormon, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

Lynn Matthews Anderson, The Easy-To-Read Book Of Mormon: A Learning Companion, Marvin Folsom

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The Easy-to-Read Book of Mormon: A Learning Companion (1995), by Lynn Matthews Anderson.

Quechua Texts Of Perception, Janis B. Nuckolls

Faculty Publications

Recent work by anthropologists, folklorists, and semioticians has made significant strides in our understanding of the dynamics and poetics of spoken utterances. Such work has been motivated, generally, by the goal of understanding verbal expression in terms of its own unique structures and expressive modalities. The following paper will contribute to this line of inquiry. It offers an analysis of a form of expression, sound symbolism, that is widely used by people whose languages have not been written down. The main advantage of this analysis is that it rescues sound symbolism from the irrational abyss into which it has often …

El Léxico Disponible De La República Dominicana, Orlando Alba

Books

No abstract provided.

Development Of An English For Gospel Purposes Vocabulary List: The Latter-Day Saint Lexicon As A Second Language, Jennifer H. Burrill

Theses and Dissertations

This study sought to explore the non-native English-speaking LDS adult's comprehension of the English LDS lexicon. Stahle (1981) conducted a study of the LDS lexicon which established at least 249 words as "basic" vocabulary. The current study had two foci: it first sought to determine how difficult these words were in both English and Spanish for native Spanish-speaking LDS adults living in the U.S. To assess this, a dual-language vocabulary instrument was administered to 245 subjects from Texas, California, and Utah. Item Response Theory (IRT) analysis was used to calculate difficulty levels of words and these values were plotted two-dimensionally …

Impediments To The Cultivation Of The Folk School Spirit In A North American Context: The Case Of Grand View College, Dennis Bielfeldt

The Bridge

In the 1995-96 academic year Grand View College will

celebrate its first hundred years of life. In anticipation of

this milestone, suggestions have been made to designate

1994-95 the "Year of Grundtvig," and to formally observe

with the entire Grand View community the influence of

the great Dane upon the college and its educational philosophy.

What, after all, could be more fitting for a college

whose most recent Academic Mission Statement proudly

declares its founding "by Danish immigrants who sought

to give the educational vision and ideals of N.F.S.

Grundtvig an institutional presence?"

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The Bridge

No abstract provided.