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<p>KevinBarney: </p> <hr /> <div>Kevin - should the question include the line &quot;Aramaic,&quot; since Hammi actually translated into &quot;Arabic&quot; according to the answer? [[User:GregSmith|Greg Smith]] 17:08, 12 Nov 2005 (EST)<br /> <br /> Greg - I pasted in the question as it was posted. Aramaic is a mistake from the original question; Hanna worked solely in Arabic. I guess there's no particular virtue to reciting the question verbatim, since we are genericizing it for the benefit of others, so perhaps we should indeed change it to Arabic.</div>

KevinBarney https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/index.php?title=Book_of_Mormon/Evidences/Hebraisms/Sami_Hanna_on_the_Book_of_Mormon&diff=2101 2005-11-12T18:07:53Z

<p>KevinBarney: </p> <hr /> <div>{{question}}<br /> <br /> ==Question==<br /> I have read a talk written by Elder Russell M.<br /> Nelson where he talks about a<br /> friend of his who translates the Book of Mormon<br /> back<br /> into Aramaic. Is there<br /> a source for this talk? I would like to find it.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Answer==<br /> At one time Elder Nelson had a neighbor named Sami<br /> Hanna, who was an Arabic scholar and a member of the<br /> Church. Based on his knowledge of Arabic and his experience translating the Book of Mormon into Arabic, Sami<br /> thought there were numerous things in the Book of<br /> Mormon text that were consistent with a Semitic<br /> original of that book.<br /> <br /> Elder Nelson has alluded to Sami a few times in talks,<br /> as he has to others of his extensive network of<br /> friends who can read Hebrew. But he has never given a<br /> talk specifically on Sami. The internet article that<br /> circulates under his name was not written by Elder Nelson.<br /> <br /> According to Sami's son, Mark, Sami left the Church some<br /> time ago and is now some sort of a fundamentalist<br /> Christian. He now repudiates his former comments on<br /> the Book of Mormon.<br /> <br /> Such a repudiation is not, however, terribly significant. <br /> Sami's material on the BoM was never a part of<br /> mainstream LDS scholarship on the subject. It was<br /> linguistically naive in a number of important<br /> respects. For the details, see this link:<br /> <br /> http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?table=review&amp;id=49<br /> <br /> The material relating to Hanna starts about halfway<br /> down.<br /> <br /> There is an extensive literature dealing with<br /> Hebraisms in the BoM. A good place to start would be<br /> with John Tvedtnes, &quot;Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon:<br /> A Preliminary Survey,&quot; BYU Studies 11/1 (Autumn 1970):<br /> 50-60, available online here:<br /> <br /> &lt;http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/byustudies&amp;CISOPTR=21932&amp;CISOSHOW=2997&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Endnotes==<br /> <br /> ''None''<br /> <br /> &lt;!-- How to add a footnote: <br /> NOTE: Footnotes in this article use names, not numbers. Please see [[FAIRWiki:Footnotes]] for details.<br /> 1) Assign your footnote a unique name, for example TheSun_Dec9. <br /> 2) Add the macro {{ref|TheSun_Dec9}} to the body of the article, where you want the new footnote.<br /> 3) Take note of the name of the footnote that immediately precedes yours in the article body. <br /> 4) Add #{{Note|TheSun_Dec9}} to the list, immediately below the footnote you noted in step 3. No need to re-number anything!<br /> 5) Multiple footnotes to the same reference: see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] for a how-to.<br /> NOTE: It is important to add footnotes in the right order in the list!<br /> --&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Further reading==<br /> <br /> ===FAIR wiki articles===<br /> <br /> <br /> ===FAIR web site===<br /> *FAIR Topical Guide:<br /> <br /> ===External links===<br /> <br /> <br /> ===Printed material===</div>

KevinBarney https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/index.php?title=Book_of_Mormon/Evidences/Hebraisms/Sami_Hanna_on_the_Book_of_Mormon&diff=2100 2005-11-12T18:04:02Z

<p>KevinBarney: </p> <hr /> <div>{{question}}<br /> <br /> ==Question==<br /> I have read a talk written by Elder Russell M.<br /> Nelson where he talks about a<br /> friend of his who translates the Book of Mormon<br /> back<br /> into Aramaic. Is there<br /> a source for this talk? I would like to find it.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Answer==<br /> At one time Elder Nelson had a neighbor named Sami<br /> Hanna, who was an Arabic scholar and a member of the<br /> Church. Based on his knowledge of Arabic, Sami<br /> thought there were numerous things in the Book of<br /> Mormon text that were consistent with a Semitic<br /> original.<br /> <br /> Elder Nelson has alluded to Sami a few times in talks,<br /> as he has to others of his extensive network of<br /> friends who can read Hebrew. But he has never given a<br /> talk specifically on Sami. The internet article that<br /> circulates under his name, which presumably was what<br /> you read, was not written by Elder Nelson.<br /> <br /> According to Sami's son, Sami left the Church some<br /> time ago and is now some sort of a fundamentalist<br /> Christian. He now repudiates his former comments on<br /> the BoM.<br /> <br /> Such a repudiation is not, however, a big deal. <br /> Sami's material on the BoM was never a part of<br /> mainstream LDS scholarship on the subject. It was<br /> linguistically naive in a number of important<br /> respects. For the details, see this link:<br /> <br /> http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?table=review&amp;id=49<br /> <br /> The material relating to Hanna starts about halfway<br /> down.<br /> <br /> There is an extensive literature dealing with<br /> Hebraisms in the BoM. A good place to start would be<br /> with John Tvedtnes, &quot;Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon:<br /> A Preliminary Survey,&quot; BYU Studies 11/1 (Autumn 1970):<br /> 50-60, available online here:<br /> <br /> &lt;http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/byustudies&amp;CISOPTR=21932&amp;CISOSHOW=2997&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Endnotes==<br /> <br /> ''None''<br /> <br /> &lt;!-- How to add a footnote: <br /> NOTE: Footnotes in this article use names, not numbers. Please see [[FAIRWiki:Footnotes]] for details.<br /> 1) Assign your footnote a unique name, for example TheSun_Dec9. <br /> 2) Add the macro {{ref|TheSun_Dec9}} to the body of the article, where you want the new footnote.<br /> 3) Take note of the name of the footnote that immediately precedes yours in the article body. <br /> 4) Add #{{Note|TheSun_Dec9}} to the list, immediately below the footnote you noted in step 3. No need to re-number anything!<br /> 5) Multiple footnotes to the same reference: see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] for a how-to.<br /> NOTE: It is important to add footnotes in the right order in the list!<br /> --&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Further reading==<br /> <br /> ===FAIR wiki articles===<br /> <br /> <br /> ===FAIR web site===<br /> *FAIR Topical Guide:<br /> <br /> ===External links===<br /> <br /> <br /> ===Printed material===</div>

KevinBarney https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/index.php?title=Book_of_Mormon/Evidences/Hebraisms/Sami_Hanna_on_the_Book_of_Mormon&diff=2099 2005-11-12T18:02:19Z

<p>KevinBarney: </p> <hr /> <div>{{question}}<br /> <br /> ==Question==<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Answer==<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Endnotes==<br /> <br /> ''None''<br /> <br /> &lt;!-- How to add a footnote: <br /> NOTE: Footnotes in this article use names, not numbers. Please see [[FAIRWiki:Footnotes]] for details.<br /> 1) Assign your footnote a unique name, for example TheSun_Dec9. <br /> 2) Add the macro {{ref|TheSun_Dec9}} to the body of the article, where you want the new footnote.<br /> 3) Take note of the name of the footnote that immediately precedes yours in the article body. <br /> 4) Add #{{Note|TheSun_Dec9}} to the list, immediately below the footnote you noted in step 3. No need to re-number anything!<br /> 5) Multiple footnotes to the same reference: see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] for a how-to.<br /> NOTE: It is important to add footnotes in the right order in the list!<br /> --&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Further reading==<br /> <br /> ===FAIR wiki articles===<br /> <br /> <br /> ===FAIR web site===<br /> *FAIR Topical Guide:<br /> <br /> ===External links===<br /> <br /> <br /> ===Printed material===</div>

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