Interpreter / Scripture Central
Not a novel
Royal Skousen / Scripture Central
The original manuscript is a one-pass dictation. Hebraisms, chiasms, and Old World geography are not the toolkit of a Palmyra romancer. View of the Hebrews and The Late War similarities shrink under actual reading. Isaiah 29 said a sealed book would come. We have the book.
If this is fiction, it is the only frontier novel that behaves like an ancient record when you stop treating it like a pamphlet.
- Dictation speed and manuscript evidence fight the novelist theory.
- Named Old World sites and untranslated words are the wrong kind of 'tells.'
- Isaiah 29 / 2 Nephi 27 is the Bible’s own category for this object.