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Fascinating guesswork at Deseret's etymology
http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/...rs-1-2-barney/
I agree with Barney's suggestion about Nibley's conjecture and I am not well-versed in the other languages to quibble but find the discussion interesting.
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Fascinating. I especially like the twice-used word onomasticon.
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I hadn't caught that, but here's a good Onomasticon for Biblical references.
http://www.pef.org.uk/pages/Onomasticon.htm
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Interesting stuff, but I've often wondered about the deseret thing. Wasn't the BoM supposed to have been written in Hebrew language with Egyptian characters (let alone whatever language Ether is supposed to have been written in)? Why would an Egyptian word show up?
Did a prophet say it was Egyptian or is it written somewhere more clearly than in Ether 2.3?
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What's interesting to me is that there is enough of a connection to call for a scholarly study in (apparently) two different directions.
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I agree that Nibley appears to have taken too great a leap, and that the proposals by Barney appear more logical, but I'm not schooled enough in any of those languages to evaluate it properly.
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