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| + | #REDIRECT [[Book of Mormon/Textual changes/"white" changed to "pure"]] |
| − | ==Criticism==
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| − | ===Source(s) of the criticism===
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| − | *{{AntiBook:Southerton:Losing|pages=12}}
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| − | *{{QuestionsMormonsShouldAsk}}
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| − | ==Response==
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| − | This change was a deliberate editorial change by Joseph Smith to clarify the meaning of the term "white" in the original:
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| − | * {{s|2|Nephi|30|6}} (1830 edition, italics added): "...they shall be a ''white'' and a delightsome people."
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| − | * {{s|2|Nephi|30|6}} (1837 edition, italics added): "...they shall be a ''pure'' and a delightsome people."
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| − | In this edition numerous corrections were made to the text of the 1830 (first) edition to bring it back to the reading in the original and printer's manuscripts. Joseph Smith also made a number of editorial changes to the text, [[Book of Mormon translation method|as was his right as the translator of the text]].
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| − | Joseph probably made this change because he realized that readers were seeing this as a literal issue (i.e., skin color), rather than symbolic (i.e., righteous). The change removed the ambiguity.
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| − | ==Conclusion==
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| − | Unfortunately, this change went unnoticed in subsequent editions, until the preparation of the 1981 edition. So, the 1981 edition restored a reading that went back to 1837; the change is not (as the critics want to portray it) a "recent" change designed to remove a "racist" original.
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| − | ==Endnotes==
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| − | ''None''
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| − | ==Further reading==
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| − | ===FAIR wiki articles===
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| − | {{BoMWiki}}
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| − | ===FAIR web site===
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| − | *{{tg|url=http://fairlds.org/apol/ai282.html|topic=Changes in the Book of Mormon}}
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| − | *Royal Skousen, "Changes In the Book of Mormon," 2002 FAIR Conference proceedings.{{fairlink|url=http://www.fairlds.org/FAIR_Conferences/2002_Changes_in_the_Book_of_Mormon.html}}
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| − | ===External links===
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| − | {{BoMLinks}}
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| − | ===Printed material===
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| − | {{BoMCriticalText}}
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| − | {{BoMPrint}}
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| − | [[fr:Book of Mormon textual changes/white or pure?]]
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