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Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? [message #520 is a reply to message #519]

Tue, 19 June 2012 19:23

JulesGP
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I just got my copy of "The Book of Mormon, The Earliest Text", edited by Royal Skousen. It's kind of an amalgamation of the original manuscript as Joseph Smith dictated - written in the hand of the scribes who worked with him, the printer's manuscript, and twenty significant printed editions. He spent twenty years on this project to come up with the most accurate version of the BOM. He includes notations of the changes.

For example, 2 Nephi 30:6 was changed in the 1981 edition after Blacks were allowed by the church to receive the Priesthood, which "softened" it from:

6 And then shall they rejoice: for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a white and a delightsome people.

To:

6 And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a pure and a delightsome people.

So the book includes the most original version as it can be determined, and these variations and which versions they came from are noted and listed in the back of the book.

The book is also written without the BRM headers, and without the separations - in other words, it reads like a book (though the scripture separations are in the sidebar for reference). It's interesting to read it this way, because when the verses are separated, it can IMPLY meaning or emphasis where it shouldn't be, and can change the meaning or understanding. Like Seeker said, even a comma can change the meaning of a scripture.

~Jules

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