On Saturday, August 10, 2024, Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack spoke at a celebration for the completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. An audio recording and the slides used for those talks are available below.
Royal Skousen’s presentation was entitled “The Innovative and Revolutionary Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.”
Stanford Carmack’s presentation was entitled “The Archaic Language of the Original Book of Mormon.” His slides are pages 85 through 144 of the slides below.
Note that we have not made this recording or these slides available for downloading or printing due to copyright issues. Please refrain from attempting to bypass these restrictions.
wonderful wonderful!
a typo on slide 77-
1 Thessalonians 3:22 does NOT exist. It should be 1 Thess. 3:12
a typo on slide 79–
1 Thessalonians 3:22 does NOT exist. It should be 1 Thess. 3:12
Very nice presentation by Royal.
At I Ne 8:31, slides 62-64, O has “specious,” while P has “spacious” — referring to that great building, representing variously the pride of the world, the vain imaginations and pride of men, and the world and wisdom thereof (I Ne 12:18). Thus, it might be worth pointing out that specious can mean “misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive.” Might that even be the correct reading? Indeed, in Scripture Central’s KnoWhy #546, the abstract online has the phrase at the end “the great and specious building” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tQnwiMDEKk ).
Moreover, Lord Edward Coke (1552-1634) referred to the magnificent London Charterhouse as “the spacious and specious House .” He went on to refer to it as “tanquam Orbis in Urbe [‘as a world within a world’].” Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke, vol. I, https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/shepherd-selected-writings-of-sir-edward-coke-vol-i#Coke_0462-01_845 .
That is not dealt with in ATV1. I haven’t seen ATV2 or ATV3.
Awesome. Thank you for making this availble.
It was wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Brilliant linguistic research by both! I left Blanding 6 a.m. for Provo, listened to Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack’s presentations on critical text project, and drove back by dark. The 10-hour round-trip drive was well worth it. It is an additional independent witness (among many others) that the Book of Mormon came from Above and could not have been of earthly invention.
Are you the Brian Stubbs who’s been doing the linguistic research? If I had known you were going to be there, I would have tracked you down. I’ve been wanting to get in contact with you about your research and about some ideas that have been brewing in my mind about language and Egyptian writing.
It was a wonderful presentation. I would have liked more time to mingle afterwards, and I’m curious to find out more about Royal’s theory about textual criticism: the differences between copyists and editors.