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Stanford Carmack

Studies the grammar of the earliest Book of Mormon text and its relationship to Early Modern English.

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PhD, Hispanic Languages and Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Carmack has a linguistics degree and a law degree from Stanford University as well as a doctorate in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he specialized in historical syntax and textual analysis.

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How was the Book of Mormon text produced?

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Carmack argues that the earliest text contains grammatical patterns characteristic of Early Modern English that cannot be explained simply by imitation of the King James Bible or Smith’s ordinary dialect. He takes those patterns as evidence that the English wording was revealed to Smith rather than composed in Smith’s own language.

the grammar presents extensive evidence of its Early Modern English character, independent in many cases from the King James Bible.

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