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"His Secret is with the Righteous": Instructional Wisdom in the Book of Mormon

By Alyson Skabelund Von Feldt
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By Alyson Skabelund Von Feldt
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Abstract: This study argues that the Book of Mormon both adopts and develops the instructional wisdom tradition found in Proverbs 1–9 and other pre-exilic Near-Eastern texts. After outlining the structure, rhetoric, and themes of Hebrew instructional wisdom, it tracks those features through major Book of Mormon discourses. Particular attention is given to the personification of Wisdom, the tree-of-life and great-whore polarity, temple motifs, and the democratic invitation to pursue the "mys...

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