Alma 61:2 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
I Parhoron [which art >js who am 1|which art A|who am BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] the chief governor of this land …

There are three instances in the original text where art occurs rather than the expected am, in each case in a relative clause modifying a preceding first person pronoun, as here in Alma 61:2: “I ... which art the chief governor”. In his editing for the 1837 edition, Joseph Smith emended the art to am (in addition to replacing the relative pronoun which with who). As explained under Alma 36:18, the critical text will restore the original usage here, “I Parhoron which art the chief governor”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 5

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