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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies Volume 12 Number 2 Article 15 7-31-2003 Journal of Book of Mormon Studies Volume 12 Issue 2 Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Scholarship, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious (2003) "Journal of Book of Mormon Studies Volume 12 Issue 2," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: Vol. 12 : No. 2 , Article 15. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol12/iss2/15 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Book of Mormon Studies by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. JOURNAL OF Book of Mormon Studies a publication of the foundation for ancient research and mormon studies at brigham young university Volume 12 | Number 2 | 2003 Has the Seal of Mulek Been Found? ! Irony in the Book of Mormon ! 19th-Century Literary Treatments of the Book of Mormon ! Word Pairs and Distinctive Combinations in the Book of Mormon ! Straightening Things Out: The Use of Strait and Straight in the Book of Mormon 20 58 32 4 84 42 ON THE COVER: Photo and reproduced illustration of the seal of Malkiyahu ben hamelek. Photographs courtesy of Robert Deutsch. Illustration by Jeffrey R. Chadwick. Is this the seal of Mulek, son of Zedekiah? Read the article on page 72. CONTENTS 2 Contributors 3 The Editor’s Notebook Feature Articles 4 “Had for Good and Evil”: 19th-Century Literary Treatments of the Book of Mormon richard h. cracroft Nearly 175 years of popular authors’ facile dismissal of the Book of Mormon as a clumsily written imposture have fostered mistaken views of the book, keeping some potential readers at arm’s length. But change is under way in the 21st century. 20 Irony in the Book of Mormon robert a. rees Much has been written about irony in the Bible. Is this literary device also discoverable in the Book of Mormon? What might its pres- ence therein suggest about the complexity, richness, authorship, and ancient character of that text? 32 Word Pairs and Distinctive Combinations in the Book of Mormon james t. duke Linguistic evidence for the Book of Mormon’s antiquity continues to mount with the addition of dozens of newly identified word pairs with substantial linkages to the literary tradition of ancient Israel. 42 Counting to Ten john w. welch Detecting instances of the symbolic use of the number ten in the Book of Mormon uncovers a previously unnoticed ancient quality of Nephite scripture. 58 Straightening Things Out: The Use of Strait and Straight in the Book of Mormon paul y. hoskisson Biblical Hebrew, poetic parallelism, and internal textual evidence enter the ongoing discussion of the correct use of two easily confused words in the Book of Mormon. 72 Has the Seal of Mulek Been Found? jeffrey r. chadwick An ancient Judean stamp seal bears the Hebrew form of a name that some LDS scholars equate with Mulek in the Book of Mormon. Does this mean that an archaeological relic belonging to an ancient Book of Mormon personality has been located? 84 A Test of Faith: The Book of Mormon in the Missouri Conflict clark v. johnson Affidavits documenting the bitter persecutions heaped upon the Latter-day Saints in 1830s Missouri show that sometimes the mobo- crats needed to know only one thing before unleashing violence—whether or not those targeted would renounce the Book of Mormon. Departments 88 A Conversation with Robert J. Matthews 93 What’s in a Word? cynthia l. hallen The Language of the Scriptures 96 With Real Intent carole mikita york A Continuing Influence 100 A Reader’s Library kristine hansen, keith lawrence 107 New Light grant hardy The Book of Mormon as a Written (Literary) Artifact 110 Endnotes CONTRIBUTORS Journal of Book of Mormon Studies P.O. Box 7113, University Station Provo, Utah 84602 USA Jeffrey R. Chadwick holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern archaeology from the 1 (801) 422-9229 or 1 (800) 327-6715 University of Utah Middle East Center. He is associate professor of church history at E-mail: [email protected] Brigham Young University and visiting professor of Near Eastern studies at the BYU Web: farms.byu.edu Jerusalem Center. He is also a senior research fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute Fax: (801) 422-0040 of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and a senior field archaeologist with the Tel volume 2, number 2, 2003 Safi/Gath Archaeological Expedition in Israel. editor Jeffrey R. Chadwick Richard H. Cracroft Richard H. Cracroft earned a Ph.D. in English and American literature at the S. Kent Brown University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Nan Osmond Grass Professor in Literature, Emeritus, at BYU, where he was chair of the English Department, dean of the College associate editors of Humanities, coordinator of American Studies, and director of the Center for the Richard E. Bennett Study of Christian Values in Literature. He edited three volumes of the Dictionary Donald W. Forsyth of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century American Western Writers and, with Neal Cynthia L. Hallen Dana M. Pike Lambert, A Believing People: The Literature of the Latter-day Saints. production editor James T. Duke is emeritus professor of sociology at Brigham Young University, where Don L. Brugger he taught from 1963 to 2003. His major interest has been in the sociology of religion and in the sociological study of Latter-day Saint people. He received his Ph.D. from editorial advisory board the University of California, Los Angeles. Marilyn Arnold James T. Duke Cynthia L. Hallen Jill Mulvay Derr Cynthia L. Hallen is associate professor of linguistics and adjunct associate professor James E. Faulconer of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. She specializes in the fields of lexi- Steve F. Gilliland cography, exegesis, and philology. Kenneth W. Godfrey Cheryl B. Mitchell Kristine Hansen is a professor of English at Brigham Young University. Her teaching Richard B. Stamps and research focus on writing in academic disciplines and history, theory, and peda- Wouter van Beek gogy in rhetoric and composition. She is a former associate dean of Undergraduate Education for University Writing Programs. art director & graphic designer Bjorn W. Pendleton Grant Hardy is an associate professor and chairman of the History Department at illustrations editor the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He has a B.A. in ancient Greek from Michael Lyon Kristine Hansen Grant Hardy Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in Chinese language and literature from Yale. His scholarly publications include The Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition (University Published by the Foundation for Ancient of Illinois Press, 2003) and Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian’s Conquest of Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) History (Columbia University Press, 1999). at Brigham Young University Paul Y. Hoskisson, professor of ancient scripture, has taught religion at Brigham executive director Young University for 23 years. He did his graduate work at Brandeis University in Noel B. Reynolds Assyriology, with an emphasis in ancient Semitic philology. The fruits of his work on director of publications the FARMS Book of Mormon onomasticon project have appeared several times in Alison V. P. Coutts this journal. associate director of publications Don L. Brugger Clark V. Johnson received a B.A. in Spanish and history from Utah State University, Paul Y. Hoskisson Clark V. Johnson an M.A. in Spanish literature with an emphasis in the golden age of Spain, and a editorial staff Ph.D. in U.S. history, specializing in the U.S. western frontier and the Latin American Paula W. Hicken colonial period, from Brigham Young University. He taught in the Church Educational Larry E. Morris System and at BYU for 38 years. Jacob D. Rawlins Shirley S. Ricks Keith Lawrence holds a Ph.D. in English, with an emphasis in early American litera- ture, from the University of Southern California. As an associate professor of English © 2003 by the Institute for the Study and at Brigham Young University, he teaches American and world literature and advanced Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts composition. He is coediting two books—one on early Asian American authors and All rights reserved the other on depictions of Asia and Asian Americans in American fiction between 1865 and 1920. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (ISSN 1065–9366) is a semiannual publica- tion. Second-class postage paid at Provo, Robert A. Rees is a graduate of Brigham Young University and holds advanced de- Keith Lawrence Robert A. Rees Utah. Subscription is a benefit of member- grees in literature from the University of Wisconsin. He taught for 25 years at the ship in FARMS. Back issues can be viewed University of California, Los Angeles, where he was also director of continuing educa- on the Internet at farms.byu.edu. tion in the arts and humanities and assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts. Rees was a Fulbright professor of American studies in the Baltic States and has lectured at a number of foreign universities. A specialist in American literature, he has published Submitting Articles to the Journal of a number of scholarly works on American literature and the Mormon experience. Book of Mormon Studies Guidelines for preparing and submitting John W. Welch earned B.A. (history) and M.A. (Greek and Latin) degrees from articles for publication in the Journal are Brigham Young University and a J.D. from Duke University. He is the Robert K. available on the FARMS Web site (farms.

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