He Did Go About Secretly: Additional Thoughts on the Literary Use of Almas Name
Mormon describes Alma the Younger's "go[ing] about secretly" to destroy the church that his father, Alma the Elder, had established (Mosiah 27:8–10), this as a narratalogical inversion of that period when Alma the Elder "went about privately" teaching the words of Abinadi and establishing a church "that it might not come to the knowledge of the king" (Mosiah 18:1–6). In Mosiah 27:10, Mormon subtly reworks Alma the Younger's autobiographical statement preserved in Alma 36:6, adding in the former passage a word rendered "secretly" to create a midrashic or interpretive pun on the name Alma, echoing the meaning of the Semitic root ?lm, "hide," "conceal"). Mosiah 27:8–10 contains additional language that evokes the introduction of the name Alma in the Book of Mormon (at first in terms of ?elem ["young man"] but also in terms of the homonymous root ?lm) in Mosiah 17:2–4 but also re-invokes allusions in the latter passage to Mosiah 14:1 (Isaiah 53:1).
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He Did Go About Secretly: Additional Thoughts on the Literary Use of Almas Name
Mormon describes Alma the Younger's "go[ing] about secretly" to destroy the church that his father, Alma the Elder, had established (Mosiah 27:8–10), this as a narratalogical inversion of that period when Alma the Elder "went about privately" teaching the words of Abinadi and establishing a church "that it might not come to the knowledge of the king" (Mosiah 18:1–6). In Mosiah 27:10, Mormon subtly reworks Alma the Younger's autobiographical statement preserved in Alma 36:6, adding in the former passage a word rendered "secretly" to create a midrashic or interpretive pun on the name Alma, echoing the meaning of the Semitic root ?lm, "hide," "conceal"). Mosiah 27:8–10 contains additional language that evokes the introduction of the name Alma in the Book of Mormon (at first in terms of ?elem ["young man"] but also in terms of the homonymous root ?lm) in Mosiah 17:2–4 but also re-invokes allusions in the latter passage to Mosiah 14:1 (Isaiah 53:1).
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| BN ID: | 2940158631740 |
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| Publisher: | Interpreter Foundation |
| Publication date: | 11/23/2017 |
| Series: | Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture , #27 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 22 |
| File size: | 123 KB |
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