{"id":2717,"date":"2025-10-01T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivroseladodemormon.org\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:32:10","slug":"hebrew-poetry-in-the-sealed-book-part-1-written-by-renee-sheryl-crowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivroseladodemormon.org\/en\/hebrew-poetry-in-the-sealed-book-part-1-written-by-renee-sheryl-crowell\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebrew Poetry in the Sealed Book \u2014 Part 1 \u2014 Written by Renee Sheryl Crowell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1. There is exquisite poetry inscribed on the Plates of Mormon, but the Nephite language inscribed there became an extinct language that modern scholars would not be capable of deciphering.\u00a0 Only a seer and prophet, \u201cby the gift and power of God\u201d, can take an extinct language and give it new life, in new times; a rebirth, so-to-speak, of the ancient words that have been delivered to the prophet by the angel Moroni, first in the 19th<\/sup> century and later in the 21st<\/sup> century, \u201c\u2026as one crying from the dead, yea, even as one speaking out of the dust\u201d <\/em>(Moroni 10:27 or Moroni 10:22-23 RLDS).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2. \u201cSyntax\u201d is how words relate to one another, morphing and forming together to reveal the material we call grammar. The syntax of a language contributes to its unique flow. In the 20th<\/sup> century, some dedicated Biblical and Book of Mormon scholars began to discover a Hebrew<\/em> syntax emerge from the pages of the Book of Mormon, even though in the 19th<\/sup> century Joseph Smith Jr., presumably, did not know that such things as Hebrew parallelisms and chiasmus existed, or that a Hebrew syntax could be woven into messages written in other languages, such as Reformed Egyptian, and English. There was no known terminology for Hebrew poetic structures at that time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3. In the 21st<\/sup> century, Maur\u00edcio A. Berger translated a previously sealed<\/em><\/strong> portion of the Plates of Mormon by the gift and power of God. However, some of the unsealed part is still sealed to our understanding. Although Modern scholars and researchers are not able to unseal something that is sealed in our minds, they can uncover Hebrew poetry and some other Hebraisms within the lines of The Sealed Book. Some <\/strong>knowledge is necessary, regarding the order and structure of Hebrew poetry\u2014the type of poetry recorded by the prophets of Jehovah in our scriptures\u2014in order to recognize the rhymes that have no phonetic parallels<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. In 1939, barely over one hundred years since Christ\u2019s church was restored in 1830 by Joseph Smith Jr., several people began to publish their discoveries of Hebrew poetry that was discovered in the Book of Mormon. According to author Wade Brown, it is not possible to list everyone who has discovered a Hebrew linguistic syntax in Mormon\u2019s text. Only a few are mentioned here: E. Cecil McGavin and A. S. Reynolds discovered three Hebrew poetic parallel forms in the Book of Mormon, and identified them as \u201csynonymous parallelism, antithetic parallelism, and antimony\u201d.<\/em><\/strong> In 1969, John W. Welch published numerous chiastic parallelisms he found in the Book of Mormon. In 1986, Angela Crowell,1<\/sup> \u201cpublished an excellent analysis of the many parallel types which she had discovered in her articles, \u2018Hebrew Poetry in the Book of Mormon\u2019\u2026 She may have been the first to detail such a variety of forms\u201d<\/em>. (Wade Brown, THE GOD-INSPIRED LANGUAGE OF THE BOOK OF MORMON, pages 42,45,47,48).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

5. The term, \u201cHebraisms\u201d, is not limited to Hebrew poetry structures. Included in that term is the intricate syntax of Hebrew wordplays and idioms, of Hebrew poetry and grammar, and many more Hebrew linguistic devices which arise in languages<\/em> other than<\/em> Hebrew<\/em> and which can flow almost seamlessly when translated from one language to another<\/strong>, as long as the words and grammar translated by the gift and power of God have not been altered by scribes, editors, or publishers who are not seers. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines the noun “Hebraism” in a very simple way.\u00a0 Hebraisms are:<\/span><\/p>\n