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Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 29 (2018)
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Toward a Deeper Understanding: How Onomastic Wordplay Aids Understanding Scripture
Title
Toward a Deeper Understanding: How Onomastic Wordplay Aids Understanding Scripture
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2018
Authors
Brown, Amanda Colleen (Primary)
Journal
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Pagination
247-250
Volume
29
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Bibliographic Citation
Brown, Amanda Colleen. "Toward a Deeper Understanding: How Onomastic Wordplay Aids Understanding Scripture" In Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Vol. 29.
2018:247-250.
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Abstract
Matthew L. Bowen’s book compels readers to consider both the Book of Mormon’s construction and the significance of names in the text. Bowen and his coauthors invite readers to contemplate not only scripture but its stages of construction to completion, be they first draft, editing, final abridgement, or translation. Bowen’s work reveals how, in the endeavor to sacralize the act of scripture reading, specific details like names and their meanings can invigorate one’s understanding of the narrative and its theology, preventing such reading from becoming a rote endeavor.
Review of Matthew L. Bowen, Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture (Salt Lake City: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2018). 408 pp., $24.95.
Onomastics
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