JOURNAL OF BOOK OF MORMON STUDIES 2015 Volume 24 Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship Brigham Young University Editor Brian M. Hauglid, Brigham Young University Associate Editors Mark Alan Wright, Brigham Young University Joseph M. Spencer, Brigham Young University Book Review Editor Janiece Johnson, Brigham Young University Idaho Editorial Advisory Board Matthew L. Bowen, Brigham Young University Hawaii Paul C. Gutjahr, Indiana University Janiece Johnson, Brigham Young University Idaho Michael H. MacKay, Brigham Young University Tammi J. Schneider, Claremont Graduate University John Christopher Thomas, Pentecostal Theological Seminary and Bangor University Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, LaDue, Missouri Production Editor Shirley S. Ricks Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship M. Gerald Bradford, Executive Director Anela Ormsby, Subscriptions Manager
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Contents Evaluating the Interaction between the New Testament and the Book of Mormon: A Proposed Methodology 1 Nicholas J. Frederick Samuel s Reliance on Biblical Language 31 Shon Hopkin and John Hilton III Temporality and Fulfillment in 3 Nephi 1 53 Kimberly M. Berkey War Banners: A Mesoamerican Context for the Title of Liberty 84 Kerry Hull The Supremacy of the Word: Alma s Mission to the Zoramites and the Conversion of the Lamanites 119 Michael F. Perry Skins as Garments in the Book of Mormon: A Textual Exegesis 138 Ethan Sproat Review Essays Why the Book of Mormon Deserves More Twenty-First-Century Readers: A Question of Complexity 167 J.B. Haws
iv Contents The Self-Critical Book of Mormon: Notes on an Emergent Literary Approach 180 Joseph M. Spencer Book Reviews Avi Steinberg, The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri 195 Reviewed by Michael Austin Dale E. Luffman, The Book of Mormon s Witness to Its First Readers 203 Reviewed by Christopher James Blythe Joseph M. Spencer, An Other Testament: On Typology 206 Reviewed by Rosalynde Frandsen Welch Notes Book of Mormon Pneumatology 217 John Christopher Thomas Death, Time, and Redemption: Structural Possibilities and Thematic Potential in Jacob 7:26 231 Jenny Webb Abner Cole and The Reflector: Another Clue to the Timing of the 1830 Book of Mormon Printing 238 Robin Scott Jensen
Contents v Mormon s Question 248 Candice Wendt Two Authors: Two Approaches in the Book of Mormon 254 Brant A. Gardner Book Notice Royal Skousen and Robin Scott Jensen, eds., Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, Part 1: Printer s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon 261