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Changes in the Book of Mormon (CD)

Royal Skousen, "The Critical Text Project and Changes in the Book of Mormon," Mesa, Arizona: The Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR), 2002.

No one knows more about the Book of Mormon manuscripts than Dr. Royal Skousen. He has carefully studied the original and printers manuscripts as well as a number of printed editions of the Book of Mormon and has found some surprising things. His presentation will discuss the various changes in the book of Mormon, what they really are, and what they really mean. Are there really 4,000 changes in the Book of Mormon? Is that an issue we need to be concerned about? Dr. Skousen can take you to a whole new level of understanding of the Book of Mormon and its manuscripts.

"One of the true highlights of the conference was the presentation of Dr. Royal Skousen. Dr. Skousen has been the editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text for the last 13 years. He knows more about the manuscripts and linguistics in the Book of Mormon than probably anyone in the world.

Dr. Skousen presented some of his findings (as many as could be presented in an hour) and commented that the most significant were his discoveries that the process of translation was so systematic and consistent. He has concluded that everything he has learned only adds to the fact that the Book of Mormon was the result of a divine translation process." --Cooper Johnson, excerpt from Meridian Magazine

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Royal Skousen has taught at BYU since 1979. In 1972 he received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Professor Skousen has also taught at the University of Texas (1972-1979) and as a visiting professor at the University of California at San Diego 0981). The following year he was a Fulbright lecturer in Finland. He serves on the editorial boards of Computers and the Humanities and Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, and has been a consultant for Houghton Mifflin, ITT, WordPerfect, Collins Publishers, Novell, and others. He was the linguistic consultant for Houghton Mifflin's grades 1-8 spelling program (1982. 1985). Recently he wrote two major books on analogy as an alternative to rule descriptions of language: Analogical Modeling of Language (1989) and Analogy and Structure (1992), both published by Kluwer.

In 1975 Mouton published his Substantive Evidence in Phonology. He is also the author of over fifty journal articles and other publications in such areas as the empirical basis of linguistic theory, mathematical linguistics, phonological theory, morphology of Finnish, French, and Fula (a West African language), the Kalevala (the national epic of Finland), English grammar (especially prescriptivism), English spelling, analogical modeling, language of the Mormon scriptures, and textual criticism of the Book of Mormon. Since 1988 he has been the editor of the Book of Mormon critical text project. He plans to publish a four-volume critical text of the Book of Mormon beginning in 1998. By careful examination of the original and printer's manuscripts of the Book of Mormon, as well as twenty printed editions of the book, he has discovered hundreds of hitherto unknown readings in the text. He has also discovered the location of numerous additional (and legitimate) fragments of the original manuscript and has arranged for their conservation and photography.

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