Jarom 1:14 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and I [Joram 1|Jarom ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] do not write more

Here Oliver Cowdery spelled Jarom as Joram. The three other occurrences of the name are consistently spelled as Jarom (including the first one, found in the title of the book):

Two of these correct spellings precede Jarom 1:14 in the text. Thus the spelling in 𝓟 of Joram is undoubtedly an error, a simple switching of the vowels, perhaps under the influence of the name Jordan. (It is doubtful that the considerably less familiar biblical name Joram led to this error.)

Summary: Retain the spelling Jarom since the first two spellings in 𝓟 of the name read that way (𝓞 is not extant for any of the occurrences of the name).

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 2

References