I finally finished a project I've been working on for a while now. I've gone through the entire German translation of the Book of Mormon and counted all of the references to the Savior I could find. I counted everything: Symbols, pronouns, everything I could think of. I've been working on it off and on, which is why it's taken a while. Anyway, it's done now :D
Keep in mind that I did it in German, and the German language uses a few more pronouns than english does, so there might be a few more that I counted that aren't in the english Book of Mormon. I should also mention that there were some points in the Book of Mormon where it was a little fuzzy as to whether they were referring to the Savior, or to Heavenly Father, so I just used my best judgment. Also keep in mind that there may have been some symbols that I didn't pick up on because of my spiritual immaturity.
Final count:
Number of references to the Savior in....
1st Nephi: 688
2nd Nephi: 1230
Jacob: 374
Enos: 44
Jarom: 11
Omni: 29
Words of Mormon: 11
Mosiah: 719
Alma: 1104
Helaman: 352
3rd Nephi: 1204
4th Nephi: 40
Mormon: 195
Ether: 458
Moroni: 176
Total: 6635
References to the Savior per Chapter (average):
1st Nephi: 31.27
2nd Nephi: 37.27
Jacob: 53.43
Enos: 44
Jarom: 11
Omni: 29
Words of Mormon: 11
Mosiah: 24.79
Alma: 17.52
Helaman: 22
3rd Nephi: 40.13
4th Nephi: 40
Mormon: 21.67
Ether: 30.53
Moroni: 17.6
Total: 27.7
1 comment:
Wow Jim, that's amazing!
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