Alma 10:2 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it was [that 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRT|the S] same Aminadi which interpreted the writing which was upon the wall of the temple

Here the 1953 RLDS edition replaced the determiner that with the. Elsewhere, the text has one more example of “that same X”, where X is a personal name:

But there are no examples in the text of “the same X”, where X is a personal name. Note, by the way, that the 1953 RLDS edition did not replace the that in Alma 49:16 with the, which suggests that the change in Alma 10:2 was a simple typo.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 10:2 the determiner that in the phrase “that same Aminadi”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 3

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