ISBN: 9781890718459; Hardbound with dust jacket. Published by Eborn Books & The Interpreter Foundation.
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Throughout the Bible, understanding the meaning of names of important people and places is often crucial to understanding the message of the ancient authors. In other words, names of people and places serve as \u201ckey-words\u201d that can help unlock the intended\u00a0messages of scripture.<\/p>\n
Since the Book of Mormon is an ancient record rooted in Old Testament traditions, it is not surprising that similar patterns of wordplay emerge from its pages. Besides their important\u00a0role as key-words in scriptural interpretation, the names of people and places may also\u00a0provide our clearest glimpses into the text that existed on the plates from which Joseph Smith\u00a0translated the Book of Mormon. In many instances, the names of important Book of Mormon\u00a0people and places are directly related to words matching the most-likely Hebrew and\u00a0Egyptian origins for those names. Textual and contextual clues suggest that this matching\u00a0was done deliberately in order to enhance literary beauty and as an aid to understanding. In\u00a0some cases, authorial wordplay can be verified by a close analysis of matching text structures.\u00a0In others, the wordplay can be verified by using the Bible as a \u201ccontrol\u201d text.<\/p>\n
A wealth of philological, onomastic, and textual evidence suggests that the Book of Mormon,\u00a0like the Bible, is the work of ancient authors rather than that of a rural nineteenth-century\u00a0man of limited literary attainments. Knowing more about these names enriches our\u00a0understanding of the stories that these authors tell.<\/p>\n
\u201cProfessor Bowen\u2019s\u00a0Name as Key-Word<\/em>\u00a0is a work that deals with scriptural onomastic\u00a0wordplays and allusions; the volume constitutes sixteen chapters of pure gold. Bowen\u00a0presents powerful, substantive materials regarding the names Mary, Nephi, Enos,\u00a0Abish, Jershon, as well as over a dozen others. Bowen is a world-class scholar and this\u00a0volume will remain a valuable source book for decades to come.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Donald W. Parry,<\/p>\n Professor of Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls,\u00a0Brigham Young University<\/p>\n \u201cMatt Bowen is currently producing some of the most innovative, exciting, and best\u00a0scholarship on the Book of Mormon.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0John Gee,\u00a0William \u201cBill\u201d Gay Research Professor, Neal A. Maxwell\u00a0Institute for Religious Scholarship,\u00a0Brigham Young University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This book is now available on PRE-ORDER. The book will be available sometime around the first week of August, and it will be mailed out immediately upon its arrival at our facility.<\/p>\n Throughout the Bible, understanding the meaning of names of important people and places is often crucial to understanding the message of the ancient authors. In other words, names of people and places serve as \u201ckey-words\u201d that can help unlock the intended\u00a0messages of scripture.<\/p>\n A wealth of philological, onomastic, and textual evidence suggests that the Book of Mormon,\u00a0like the Bible, is the work of ancient authors rather than that of a rural nineteenth-century\u00a0man of limited literary attainments. Knowing more about these names enriches our\u00a0understanding of the stories that these authors tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13952,"template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[49],"product_cat":[107,31],"product_tag":[1084],"class_list":{"0":"post-13951","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_brand-eborn-books","7":"product_cat-book-of-mormon","8":"product_cat-miscellaneous","9":"product_tag-202204inventoryconfirmed","10":"product_shipping_class-united-states","11":"pa_writer-bowen-matthew-l","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n