The Isaiah Passages in the Book of Mormon: A Non-Aligned Text

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Carol F. Ellertson
Brigham Young University - Provo
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THE ISAIAH PASSAGES IN THE BOOK OF MORMON
A NON ALIGNED TEXT
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of a thesis submitted by
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ABSTRACT
THE ISAIAH PASSAGES IN THE BOOK OF MORMON
A NON ALIGNED TEXT
carol F ellertson
the david M kennedy center
master of arts
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since the advent of the dead scrolls four biblical textual scholars have
emerged at the forefront of the dialogue concerning textual evolution they are frank
moore cross emanuel tov sShheemmarayrayhhauu talmon and eugene ulrich though there is
some overlap in their hypotheses each scholar has put forth a framework of biblical
textual development in light of these new discoveries
if
a new biblical text were discovered today how would each scholar approach it
tovs
this kovs
thesis evaluates each scholars views and concludes that emanuel criteria for
tovs
judging a newly discovered text is the most thorough and explanatory kovs views
provide for texts that appear to have evolved away from other known biblical texts his
descriptive categories for discovered texts recognize the possibility that a discovered text
could be unaligned with any text known thus far to the scholarly world he terms this
category non aligned the other scholars do not provide for such a category they
assume that all texts are closely related in families or literary editions and that all
texts evolved in relative close proximity to one other with either occasional or frequent
contact
book of mormon isaiah was removed from the biblical textual evolutionary
process that was tttaaalikkliiinnnggg place in palestine ca 600 BC where does it fit into this process
as put forth by scholars Is it a text closely related to any of the families described by
these four scholars this thesis evaluates the textual variants between book of mormon
text qumrannss of
isaiah and isaiah in the septuagint the masoretic and Qumra isaiah scrolls
the 433 verses of isaiah in the book of mormon 216 50 contain 370 variants 119 of
these are related to italicized words in the king james version 76 variants appear to
quaran
qumran
agree with the septuagint 28 agree with isaiah at 52 are supported by the
masoretic text and 150 variants are non aligned these facts are accurately predicted and
explained by emanuel tkoovvss theories of the four he is the only scholar that conceives
of the idea of a text not closely aligned with any other extant text book of mormon
tovs
isaiah contains approximately 13 of the chapters in the masoretic text using kovs
theories when 433 verses contain 370 variants this fits the criteria of an independent
or non aligned text book of mormon isaiah is a proof text for his theories
CONTENTS
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part
introduction
1 5
quaran
qumran
biblical textual evolution since 7
frank moore cross
11
sShheemmarayrayhhauu ttaalimmoonn 22
tov
emanuel 27
eugene ulrich
32
how would each scholar view and evaluate a previously
text
unknown recently discovered
35
cross
35
ttaalimmoonn 36
ulrich 38
tov
40
isaiah43
part
2 the variants in book of mormon isaiah 43
qquumarraann
preliminary information on isaiah at 43
variants50
previous studies on book of mormon isaiah variants 50
the evolution of book of mormon isaiah 53
variants in book of mormon isaiah 55
evaluation of the variants 57
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part
conclusion
3
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the book of mormon variants are accurately predicted and
explained by TOYS theories 71
isaiah74
cross theory has no category for B ooffmM isaiah 74
tsTaaalllmmmooonnnsss view of a new text of isaiah 75
ulrichs view of a new text of isaiah 78
devices82
variants with support from hebrew literary devices 82
text85
A final word book of mormon serves as a proof text 85
appendix
87
verse
table I comparison 88
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supportl75
q176
table 2 book of mormon variants with LXX support 175
table 3 book of mormon variants supported by Q 176
table 4 book of mormon variants supported by
M against KJV 177
table book of mormon variants that restore poetic
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parallel patterns
in isaiah 178
bibliography
179
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CHARTS
chart the local text theory
A
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chart B the strengths and weaknesses of
each SsscechhhooolllaaarrrTtthhheeeooorrriiieeesss 42
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