FootnoteErin Shalev (2010): “Written in the Style of Antiquity”: Pseudo-Biblicism and the Early American Republic, 1770-1830. Church History 79:4 (December 2010), 800–826. doi:10.1017/S0009640710001034. Source. (Thanks to Dale Broadhurst.) “The year 1744 witnessed the...
FootnoteBubble area is proportional to the number of times that the word is used in the Book of Mormon. A stylistic goal of the Book of Mormon was to imitate the sound of the Old Testament. John H. Gilbert, the man who helped to print the Book of Mormon, claimed that...
FootnoteMembers of the LDS Church continue today to use pronouns from Early Modern English in their prayers in reference to Diety (“thee, “thy”, “thine”, “thou art”, etc.) Erin Shalev (2010): “The language of the King James Bible was as strange and foreign to late...
Footnote Henry Lake (1833): “the so frequent use of the words ‘And it came to pass,’ ‘Now it came to pass,’ rendered it ridiculous.” Martha Spalding (1833): “The old, obsolete style, and the phrases of ‘and it came to pass,’ &c. are the same.” John Spalding...
