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FRI1630
David Bokovoy
Ancient Links Between the Book of Mormon and the Old Testament

Prophetic Perfect.. what is it?
In Hebrew, an action is understood as either completed or incompleted. There are no past present, or future tenses. In the Prophetic Perfect, a biblical prophet transports his mind ahead so that he describ3e a future event as if it has already occured.

Examples of it:
Isaiah 5:13 “are gone”
Isa 9:6 “has been born”
1 Nephi 5:5 “have obtained”
2 Nephi 31:8 “was baptized”
Mosiah 15:12 “has borne” “has died”

Mosiah 12:1 — Abinadi came in disguided
1 Samuel 28:8 — Saul disguised himself
Kings, Prophets, Disguises… death of the King..

1 Kings 14:2 — prophet, king, disguise.. doesnt fair so well for the king.
14:10 –

1 Kings 20:38 — king, prophet, disguise… king wiped out as well as his dynastsy

1 kings 22:30
2 chro 18:29
2 chro 35:22

Disguise .. not even the highest king of the earth can hide himself or his sins from the Lord.

Creation Imagery:
“The kernel of ancient Eastern creation thought does not lie in the (historically motivated) interest in the origins of being but, rather, in the concern for the present.” Stefan Pass, Creation and Judgment: Creation Texts in Some Eighth Century Prophets (Leiden: Bill, 2003): 54.

Through creation imagery, the biblical author “projects a certain continuity of divine power upon which humans can rely.” Michael Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 35

In Genesis chapter one, the word of God performs the nourishing acts of creation through the formulaic expression: “God said…” (v. 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26, 29)

But if ye will nourish the word…” (alma 32:41)

Note in Alma 32:41 — ’springing up’..
Genesis 3:18 — “bring forth”

The verb smh (yismah) translated in the KJV as “to bring forth’ literally means, “to spring up.” The Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1996): 855.

Genesis 2:5 — before it grew (yismah)
Genesis 3:24 — “drove out the man”

In Hebrew, the verb translated as “drove out” garas(h) means “to drive out, to cast out”
The Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1996): 176; see Genesis 21:10

Alma 32:5 — they have cast us out of our synagogues
Alma 32:5, 9, 12, 24, 38 (cast out examples)

Genesis 1:11-12
Alma 32:31

Wisdom in Creation
“And on the sixth day I commanded my wisdom to create man” (2 Enoch 30:8)
Jer 10:12
Psalm 104:24
“Blessed is He who created the earth with his power, who established the world with his wisdom” (11QPSa) Hymn to the Creator

2 nephi 2:15

Clothing:

In the ancient world Clothing represents a bond.. either between men, or between men and God.
1 Samuel 18

Ruth 3:9 — skirt should be ‘robe’.. significant of the covenant of marriage
Ezek 18:8 — clothed you.. covered thy nakedness.. sweared thee.. and entered into a covenant

2 Nephi 9:14 —
2 Nephi 4:33 —

Enallage — greek for “Interchange”
2nd to 3rd person

Altar as a Place ofo Deliverance:
1 Kings 1:50-51
1 Kings 2:28

Alma 15:17