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That Which They Most Desired: The Waters of Mormon, Baptism, the Love of God, and the Bitter Fountain

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Abstract: Paronomasia in the Hebrew text of Exodus creates narrative links between the name Miriam (Mary) and the "waters" (mayim) of the Re[e]d Sea from which Israel is "pulled" and the nearby "bitter" waters of Marah. Nephi sees Mary (Mariam), the mother of Jesus, associated with the "love of God," and thus to both "the tree of life" and "the fountain of living waters" (1 Nephi 11:25) vis-à-vis "the fountain of filthy water" (1 Nephi 12:16). Mormon was named after "the land of Mormon" (3 ...