Priority of Mosiah is the theory of the creation of the Book of Mormon which states that the original manuscript begins not with 1 Nephi (found at the beginning of the Book of Mormon), but in the middle of the road, beginning with Mosiah. According to the priorities of Mosiah, after the Mosiah text through the end of the Book of Mormon was transcribed, Joseph Smith returned to the beginning and wrote 1 Nephi through the Words of Mormon. The Priority of Mosiah is the most widely held solution for questions about the sequence of English text.
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The original transcription of the Book of Mormon by scribe Martin Harris was cut off by the loss of the original manuscript. Questions about the next workflow are known as the priority issues in the Book of Mormon .
Missing 116 pages
"Lost 116 pages" is the first manuscript page of the Book of Mormon, and it is entrusted to writer Martin Harris and then lost. Smith then announced a revelation:
Behold I say unto you, that ye shall no longer translate the words which have gone out of your hand; for behold, they shall no longer lie against those words; for behold, if you must ask the same words, they will say that you have lied; that you have pretended to translate, but you have been opposed to your words; and behold they shall publish this, and the devil will harden the hearts of the people, to raise them up to be angry with you, that they may not believe my words
In the introduction to the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon, Smith writes about the missing pages 116:
I translated, by the gift and power of God, and caused the written, one hundred and sixteen pages, which I took from the Book of Lehi, which is a story summarized from the Lehi Plate, by the hand of Mormon; who says the account, some people or people have been stolen and kept away from me, despite my endeavor to recover it - and commanded by God that I will not translate it again, because Satan has put it in their hearts to tempt their Lord God, by changing the words they read contradict what I translate and cause to be written down; and if I had to put out the same words again, or, in other words, if I had to translate them again, they would publish what they had stolen, and Satan would raise the hearts of this generation, that they might not accept this work: behold the Lord said unto me, I will not suffer that Satan will finish his evil design in this: therefore thou shalt translate from the plates of Nephi, until ye come unto what ye have translated that thou hast detained; and behold you shall publish it as the record of Nephi; and thus I will confuse the people who have changed my words. I will not suffer that they will destroy my work;
1 Nephi priority
Faced with a missing manuscript page 116, a second manuscript transcription begins.
The 1 Nephi Priority theory holds that after the original 116 page manuscript disappears, the transcription process returns to the beginning of the Golden Plate narrative, starting at 1 Nephi . The 1 Nephi Priority supporters include several 20th century writers.
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The Mosiah Priority theory argues that after the original 116 page manuscript disappears, the transcription continues in narrative sequence, beginning with Mosiah and continuing into Moroni. After that, the transcription process switches to replace the beginning of the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi to the Word), approximately the same as the material on the Lost page 116.
Historical evidence
The title page of the Book of Mormon, which Joseph Smith said found at the very end of Moroni's record, was completed before June 11, 1829. But the evidence shows that the translation process is still continuing after this date. Metcalfe also argues that since the title page mentions a summary of Mormon and Ether, but not Nephi's note, it indicates that 1 Nephi has not been translated.
For some parts of the Book of Mormon text, the possible date of transcription has been identified. This includes restarting the work of translation (mentioned in D & C 10 in April-May 1829), the doctrine of baptism in <3 Nephi (referred to D & amp 13 on May 15, 1829) , and the prophecies of the Three Witnesses in 2 Nephi 27 (mentioned in D & C 17 of June 1829). The times when these parts were produced according to consistent sequence and translation rates began at Mosiah in April 1829 and then arrived at 1 Nephi that summer.
The pages of the original manuscript containing 1 Nephi are written in Oliver Cowdery's handwriting. However, the first scribes were the wives of Joseph Emma and his younger brother, Samuel, pointing out that the original manuscript did not begin in 1 Nephi . In addition, a writer's handwriting in 1 Nephi is believed to have come from John Whitmer, who was not involved until late in the translation process, after Joseph Smith moved back to Fayette, New York.
The beginning of the Book of Mosiah seems to be missing, as it has no introduction (unlike other summary books) and its inception was initially marked as Chapter 3 in the printer manuscript. This indicates that the initial beginnings for Mosiah may be in the missing 116 page manuscripts and that the current Book of Mosiah is continuing soon from the missing text.
Textual evidence
Textual evidence for Mosiah's priorities includes a shift in word choice during the transcription process. Scholars examine pairs of words that are roughly the same, such as:
- "hence" and "hence."
- "whoever" and "whoever."
- "as far as" and "insomuch."
Computational studies
A computational study in 2008 claims to record patterns that support Mosiah's priorities, although his methodology is not without criticism.
Reception
Miaia's priorities were widely accepted by the Book of Mormon researchers and in the scientific publication of the text.
References
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