MormonTimes.com: The hidden meaning of the Sermon on the Mount

Published: Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008 12:20 a.m. MDT
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John W. Welch changed the face of Book of Mormon studies 41 years ago when he discovered the complicated literary form called chiasmus in the Book of Mormon. Twenty years ago Welch made another startling discovery in the Book of Mormon.

Welch, a professor at J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, spoke at BYU on Friday at "A Conference on Third Nephi: New Perspectives on an Incomparable Scripture." He told how at one time many saw the presence of the Sermon on the Mount in the Book of Mormon as an easy target for critics.

But that has all changed.

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