Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:

“Most Desirable Above All Things”: Onomastic Play on Mary and Mormon in the Book of Mormon

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Published:
11/21/2014
Specs:
Digest / 5.25" x 8.25"
40 pages Saddle-stitched
Category:
Religion
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apologetics, Book of Mormon, lds, Mary, meaning, mormon, Mormonism

The names Mary and Mormon most plausibly derive from the Egyptian word mr(i), “love, desire, [or] wish.” Mary denotes “beloved [i.e., of deity]” and is thus conceptually connected with divine love, while Mormon evidently denotes “desire/love is enduring.” The text of the Book of Mormon manifests authorial awareness of the meanings of both names, playing on them in multiple instances. All of this has implications for Latter-day Saints or “Mormons” who, as children of the covenant, must endure to the end in Christlike “love” as Mormon and Moroni did, particularly in days of diminishing faith, faithfulness, and love (see, e.g., Mormon 3:12; contrast Moroni 9:5).

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