Poetic Parallelisms in the Book of Mormon: The Complete Text Reformatted

by Donald W. Parry

Book Overview

The Book of Mormon is filled with parallelisms, a form of ancient poetry. The poetic patterns serve, as they do in the Bible, to structure and emphasize messages, define and expand them, and make them more memorable. One form of parallelism, chiasmus, has been extensively studied; the Book of Mormon has an abundance of chiasmus, as well as other forms of parallelism.

The prophets of the Book of Mormon were inspired in their stylistic choices,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1627301313
• ISBN13: 9781627301312
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Stonewell Press
• Length: 626 Pages
• Weight: 3.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"