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| − | {{Resource Title|Sami Hanna on the Book of Mormon}}
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| − | I have read a talk written by Elder Russell M. Nelson in which he discusses a
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| − | At one time Elder Nelson had a neighbor named Sami Hanna, who was an Arabic scholar and a member of the Church. Based on his knowledge of Arabic and his experience translating the Book of Mormon into Arabic, Sami thought there were numerous things in the Book of
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| − | Elder Nelson has alluded to Sami a few times in talks, as he has to others of his extensive network of friends who can read Hebrew. But he has never given a talk specifically on Sami. The internet article that circulates under his name was not written by Elder Nelson.{{ref|sami1}}
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| − | According to Sami's son, Mark, Sami left the Church some time ago and is now some sort of a fundamentalist Christian. He now repudiates his former comments on the Book of Mormon.{{ref|mark1}}
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| − | Such a repudiation is not, however, terribly significant. Sami's material on the Book of Mormon was never a part of mainstream LDS scholarship on the subject. It was linguistically naive in a number of important respects.{{ref|naive1}}
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| − | There is an extensive literature dealing with Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon. A good introductory article is {{BYUS|author=John Tvedtnes|article=Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon: A Preliminary Survey|vol=11|num=1|date=Autumn 1970|start=50|end=60}}[http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=4936 *]
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| − | #{{note|nelson1}}Russell M. Nelson, "A Treasured Testament," ''Ensign'', July 1993.{{link|url=http://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/07/a-treasured-testament}}
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| − | #{{note|sami1}}There are copies of the spurious transcript on various web sites. Here is an example of one near the top of the Google search rankings: {{link|url=http://www.sugardoodle.info/Book%20of%20Mormon/Reflections%20of%20Sami%20Hanna.shtml}}
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| − | #{{note|mark1}}A copy of Mark Hannah's email regarding his father is available here: {{like|url=http://www.ancientamerica.org/library/media/HTML/7m8thtdi/Feed%20Back%20of%20Sami%20Hanna%20article.htm?n=0}}
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| − | #{{note|naive1}}{{FARMSReview|author=John A Tvedtnes|article=Little Known Evidences of the Book of Mormon|vol=2|num=1|date=1990|start=258|end=259}}{{link|url=http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/review/?vol=2&num=1&id=49}} ''The material relating to Hanna starts about halfway down.''
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