Matthew L. Bowen
“Behold, I Went to Hunt Beasts in the Forest”: An Addendum on Enos, Esau, and the Symbolic Geography of Seir
“I Shall Gather In”: The Name Joseph, Iterative Divine Action, and the Latter-day Harvest Ingathering of Israel as Themes in 3 Nephi
“Armed with Righteousness and with the Power of God”: Allusions to Priestly Clothing, Priesthood, and Temple in 1 Nephi 14:14
“That They May Once Again Be a Delightsome People”: The Concept of Again Becoming the Seed of Joseph (Words of Mormon 1:8 and Mormon 7:4–5)
“Our Great God Has in Goodness Sent These”: Notes on the Goodness of God, the Didactic Good of Nephi’s Small Plates, and Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s Renaming
“Encircled About Eternally in the Arms of His Love”: The Divine Embrace as a Thematic Symbol of Jesus Christ and His Atonement in the Book of Mormon
“Behold, He Was a Man Like unto Ammon”: Mormon’s Use of ʾmn-related Terminology in Praise of Moroni in Alma 48
“Upon the Wings of His Spirit”: A Note on Hebrew rûaḥ and 2 Nephi 4:25
“They Shall Be Scattered Again”: Some Notes on JST Genesis 50:24–25, 33–35
“That They Might Come Again unto the Remnant of the House of Jacob”: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in 3 Nephi 26:8–10 and 4 Nephi 1:49
“Unto the Taking Away of Their Stumbling Blocks”: The Taking Away and Keeping Back of Plain and Precious Things and Their Restoration in 1 Nephi 13–15
“For Their Good Have I Written Them”: The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:8
“But That Thou Wouldst Clear My Way Before Me”: A Note on the Personal and Emotional Rendering of an Ancient Idiom in 2 Nephi 4:33
“Can You Suppose That the Lord Will Spare You?”: Moroni’s Charged Rhetoric in Alma 60:30–32
Putting Down the Priests: A Note on Royal Evaluations, (wĕ)hišbît, and Priestly Purges in 2 Kings 23:5 and Mosiah 11:5
“The Messenger of Salvation”: The Messenger-Message Christology of D&C 93:8 and Its Implications for Latter-day Saint Missionary Work and Temple Worship
“We Might Have Enjoyed Our Possessions and the Land of Our Inheritance”: Hebrew yrš and 1 Nephi 17:21
“The Lord God Will Proceed”: Nephi’s Wordplay in 1 Nephi 22:8–12 and the Abrahamic Covenant
“If Ye Believe on His Name”: Wordplay on the Name Samuel in Helaman 14:2, 12–13 and 3 Nephi 23:9 and the Doctrine of Christ in Samuel’s Speech
“The Messiah Will Set Himself Again”: Jacob’s Use of Isaiah 11:11 in 2 Nephi 6:14 and Jacob 6:2
Essay #48: Moses Witnesses the Creation (Moses 2): “This I Did By the Word of My Power” (Moses 2:5)
Essay #43: Moses 1: A Literary Masterpiece. Many-Great Waters and Moses’ Mission to Baptize (Moses 1:25-26)
Essay #42: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: “The Words of God” (Moses 1:1–7, 35, 40–42)
Coming Down and Bringing Down: Pejorative Onomastic Allusions to the Jaredites in Helaman 6:25, 6:38, and Ether 2:11
Essay #41: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses in the Presence of God (Moses 1:31, chapters 2-4)
Essay #40: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses’ Vision at the Veil (Moses 1:27–30)
Essay #39: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: The Names of Moses as “Keywords” (Moses 1:25)
“I Will Deliver Thy Sons”: An Onomastic Approach to Three Iterations of an Oracle to Mosiah II (Mosiah 28:7; Alma 17:35, 19:23)
“We Are a Remnant of the Seed of Joseph”: Moroni’s Interpretive Use of Joseph’s Coat and the Martial nēs-Imagery of Isaiah 11:11–12
Where Did the Names Mahaway and Mahujah Come From? A Response to Colby Townsend’s “Returning to the Sources,” Part 2 of 2
Textual Criticism and the Book of Moses: A Response to Colby Townsend’s “Returning to the Sources,” Part 1 of 2
“I of Myself Am a Wicked Man”: Some Notes on Allusion and Textual Dependency in Omni 1:1-2
Essay #21: The Teachings of Enoch — “Thus May All Become My Sons” (Moses 6:59, 66–68)
Essay #20: The Teachings of Enoch — “By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified” (Moses 6:60)
“That Which They Most Desired”: The Waters of Mormon, Baptism, the Love of God, and the Bitter Fountain
Essay #19: The Teachings of Enoch — “By the Spirit Ye Are Justified” (Moses 6:60, 63, 65–66)
Essay #18: The Teachings of Enoch — “Out of the Waters of Judah” (1 Nephi 20:1; JST Genesis 17:3–7)
“God Hath Taken Away His Plainness”: Some Notes on Jacob 4:14, Revelation, Canon, Covenant, and Law
Essay #17: The Teachings of Enoch — “By the Water Ye Keep the Commandment” (Moses 6:60, 64)
Essay #16: The Teachings of Enoch — “By Water, and Blood, and the Spirit” (Moses 6:58–60)
Essay #15: The Teachings of Enoch — “The Son of Man, Even Jesus Christ, a Righteous Judge” (Moses 6:57)
Essay #14: The Teachings of Enoch — Enoch as a Teacher (Moses 6:51–68)
Becoming Men and Women of Understanding: Wordplay on Benjamin — An Addendum
He Knows My Affliction: The Hill Onidah as Narrative Counterpart to the Rameumptom
Shazer: An Etymological Proposal in Narrative Context
“And They Shall Be Had Again”: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in Moses 1:41 in View of the So-called Canon Formula
Messengers of the Covenant: Mormon’s Doctrinal Use of Malachi 3:1 in Moroni 7:29–32
“They Shall No More Be Confounded”: Moroni’s Wordplay on Joseph in Ether 13:1-13 and Moroni 10:31
“And the Meek Also Shall Increase”: The Verb yāsap in Isaiah 29 and Nephi’s Prophetic Allusions to the Name Joseph in 2 Nephi 25–30
“Thou Art the Fruit of My Loins”: The Interrelated Symbolism and Meanings of the Names Joseph and Ephraim in Ancient Scripture,
“Swearing by Their Everlasting Maker”: Some Notes on Paanchi and Giddianhi
“Possess the Land in Peace”: Zeniff’s Ironic Wordplay on Shilom
Jacob’s Protector
“He Did Go About Secretly”: Additional Thoughts on the Literary Use of Alma’s Name
“I Kneeled Down Before My Maker”: Allusions to Esau in the Book of Enos
“If Ye Will Hearken”: Lehi’s Rhetorical Wordplay on Ishmael in 2 Nephi 1:28–29 and Its Implications
“By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified”: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6
“This Son Shall Comfort Us”: An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs
“Their Anger Did Increase Against Me”: Nephi’s Autobiographical Permutation of a Biblical Wordplay on the Name Joseph
“Creator of the First Day”: The Glossing of Lord of Sabaoth in D&C 95:7
“O Ye Fair Ones” — Revisited
The Scalp of Your Head: Polysemy in Alma 44:14–18
Alma — Young Man, Hidden Prophet
“See That Ye Are Not Lifted Up”: The Name Zoram and Its Paronomastic Pejoration
“My People Are Willing”: The Mention of Aminadab in the Narrative Context of Helaman 5-6
Onomastic Wordplay on Joseph and Benjamin and Gezera Shawa in the Book of Mormon
“They Were Moved with Compassion” (Alma 27:4; 53:13): Toponymic Wordplay on Zarahemla and Jershon
Nephi’s Good Inclusio
“He Is a Good Man”: The Fulfillment of Helaman 5:6-7 in Helaman 8:7 and 11:18-19
You More than Owe Me This Benefit: Onomastic Rhetoric in Philemon
Not Leaving and Going On to Perfection
Getting Cain and Gain
Place of Crushing: The Literary Function of Heshlon in Ether 13:25-31
Father Is a Man: The Remarkable Mention of the Name Abish in Alma 19:16 and Its Narrative Context
“Most Desirable Above All Things”: Onomastic Play on Mary and Mormon in the Book of Mormon
“What Thank They the Jews”? (2 Nephi 29:4): A Note on the Name “Judah” and Antisemitism
“And There Wrestled a Man with Him” (Genesis 32:24): Enos’s Adaptations of the Onomastic Wordplay of Genesis
Founded Upon a Rock: Doctrinal and Temple Implications of Peter’s Surnaming
