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Smooth Words and Slippery Things: Samuel the Lamanite’s Prophetic Use of Hebrew ḥlq

Matthew L. Bowen | July 11, 2025 | 1 Reply

“That They Might Come Again unto the Remnant of the House of Jacob”:
Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in 3 Nephi 26:8–10 and 4 Nephi 1:49

Matthew L. Bowen | March 17, 2023 | 2 Replies

“Unto the Taking Away of Their Stumbling Blocks”:
The Taking Away and Keeping Back of Plain and Precious Things and Their Restoration in 1 Nephi 13–15

Matthew L. Bowen | October 7, 2022 | Leave a reply

“For Their Good Have I Written Them”:
The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:8

Matthew L. Bowen | September 23, 2022 | Leave a reply

“If Ye Believe on His Name”:
Wordplay on the Name Samuel in Helaman 14:2, 12–13 and 3 Nephi 23:9 and the Doctrine of Christ in Samuel’s Speech

Matthew L. Bowen | July 2, 2021 | 1 Reply

“The Messiah Will Set Himself Again”:
Jacob’s Use of Isaiah 11:11 in 2 Nephi 6:14 and Jacob 6:2

Matthew L. Bowen | April 16, 2021 | 1 Reply

“I of Myself Am a Wicked Man”:
Some Notes on Allusion and Textual Dependency in Omni 1:1-2

Matthew L. Bowen | October 9, 2020 | 2 Replies

Becoming Men and Women of Understanding:
Wordplay on Benjamin
— An Addendum

Matthew L. Bowen | April 24, 2020 | Leave a reply

Now If This Is Boasting,
Even So Will I Boast!

Loren Blake Spendlove | April 3, 2020 | 8 Replies

“And They Shall Be Had Again”:
Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in Moses 1:41 in View of the So-called Canon Formula

Matthew L. Bowen | June 21, 2019 | 2 Replies

Joseph Knew First:
Moses, the Egyptian Son

Nathan J. Arp | May 10, 2019 | 10 Replies

“They Shall No More Be Confounded”:
Moroni’s Wordplay on Joseph in
Ether 13:1-13 and Moroni 10:31

Matthew L. Bowen | October 12, 2018 | 3 Replies

“If Ye Will Hearken”: Lehi’s Rhetorical Wordplay on Ishmael in 2 Nephi 1:28–29 and Its Implications

Matthew L. Bowen | May 19, 2017 | 8 Replies

“Their Anger Did Increase Against Me”: Nephi’s Autobiographical Permutation of a Biblical Wordplay on the Name Joseph

Matthew L. Bowen | December 30, 2016 | Leave a reply

The Scalp of Your Head: Polysemy in Alma 44:14–18

Matthew L. Bowen | May 27, 2016 | 8 Replies

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