
Published online:
19 September 2024
Published in print:
02 January 2024
Online ISBN:
9780252054952
Print ISBN:
9780252045356
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The Exodus Type in the Book of Mormon The Exodus Type in the Book of Mormon
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Merger or Acquisition? A Contrapuntal Reading of Alma 1–3 Merger or Acquisition? A Contrapuntal Reading of Alma 1–3
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Cite
Austin, Michael, 'Reimagining the Exodus', The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible (Champaign, IL , 2024; online edn, Illinois Scholarship Online, 19 Sept. 2024), https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252045356.003.0005, accessed 14 May 2025.
Abstract
The Book of Mormon begins with an Exodus type-scene, and versions of the same type-scene occur throughout the text. Most instances of the Exodus type in the Book of Mormon do not end in the conquest of a foreign people. However, through a post-colonial reading of the books of Mosiah and Alma, this chapter suggests that the most important Exodus type in the text—the escape of the Nephites from their Lamanite enemies and their subsequent discovery of the city of Zarahemla—conceals a narrative of the conquest and annihilation of an indigenous culture. This initial conquest, rather than a pattern of Nephite dissent, drives the war narratives in the book of Alma.
Keywords:
settler colonialism, Exodus, contrapuntal reading, post-colonialism, Edward Said, Mulekites, Zarahemla
Subject
Religious Studies
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