The
Interpreter Foundation just posted a new article:
John Hilton
III, Ryan Sharp, Brad Wilcox, and Jaron Hansen, Gentiles
in the Book of Mormon (PDF)
Something
which struck me was the high level of intertextuality in the Book of Mormon,
evidencing a strong level of internal consistency, something one should not
expect if Nephite source material did not exist for Mormon et al to use, and
instead, Joseph Smith was just making it up and trying to remember things he
dictated previously from memory. For instance, table 3 (p. 284)
Table 3. Intertextuality between Christ and Nephi
(emphasis added).
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1 Nephi 15:13, 17
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3 Nephi 21:5-6
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“[I]n the
latter days, when our seed shall have dwindled in
unbelief, yea, for the space of many years, and many
generations after the Messiah shall be manifested in body unto the children
of men, then shall the fulness of the gospel of the Messiah come unto the
Gentiles, and from the Gentiles unto the remnant of our
seed … it [the fulness of the gospel] shall
come by way of the Gentiles, that the Lord may show his power unto the
Gentiles …”
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“[W]hen
these works and the works which shall be wrought among you hereafter shall
come forth from the Gentiles, unto your seed which
shall dwindle in unbelief because of iniquity; For thus it
behooveth the Father that it [the Book of Mormon] should come forth
from the Gentiles, that he may show forth his power unto the Gentiles …”
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