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Alan Sikes
Nameless to New Name: Namelessness in the Narrative of the Anti-Nephi-Lehies, or the People of Ammon
by Nathan J. Arp, Alan Sikes | undefined 59 | 09-20-2025
Abstract: A narrator may choose to provide or withhold the name of a character for many reasons. This article hypothesizes that Mormon intentionally omitted the name of two key characters, a Lamanite king and queen. Both feature in his narration of the mission to the Lamanites and the miraculous conversion it inspires, as recounted in […]
Enos—Wrestling a Man and Seeing God’s Face
by Allen Wyatt | 11-01-2017
In this presentation, entitled “Enos—Wrestling a Man and Seeing God’s Face: Allusions to the Temple and Christ’s Atonement in Early Nephite Uses of the Jacob and Esau Story,” Professor Matthew L. Bowen compares the stories of Jacob’s wrestle with the “man” in Genesis 32 with the wrestle before God described by Enos in the Book […]
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