{"product_id":"2940158631740","title":"He Did Go About Secretly: Additional Thoughts on the Literary Use of Almas Name","description":"Mormon describes Alma the Younger's \"go[ing] about secretly\" to destroy the church that his father, Alma the Elder, had established (Mosiah 27:8–10), this as a narratalogical inversion of that period when Alma the Elder \"went about privately\" teaching the words of Abinadi and establishing a church \"that it might not come to the knowledge of the king\" (Mosiah 18:1–6). In Mosiah 27:10, Mormon subtly reworks Alma the Younger's autobiographical statement preserved in Alma 36:6, adding in the former passage a word rendered \"secretly\" to create a midrashic or interpretive pun on the name Alma, echoing the meaning of the Semitic root ?lm, \"hide,\" \"conceal\"). Mosiah 27:8–10 contains additional language that evokes the introduction of the name Alma in the Book of Mormon (at first in terms of ?elem [\"young man\"] but also in terms of the homonymous root ?lm) in Mosiah 17:2–4 but also re-invokes allusions in the latter passage to Mosiah 14:1 (Isaiah 53:1).","brand":"Interpreter Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177692479728,"sku":"2940158631740","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158631740_p0.jpg?v=1764115821","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158631740","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}