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Royal Skousen

American linguist

Royal Jon Skousen (/ˈskaʊsən/; born August 5, 1945) is a retired professor of linguistics and English at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he is editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. He is "the leading expert on the textual history of the Book of Mormon" and the founder of the *ogical modeling approach to language modeling.

Contents

  • 1 Early life
  • 2 Studies
  • 3 Career
  • 4 Personal life
  • 5 Works
    • 5.1 Books
    • 5.2 Articles and papers
  • 6 References
  • 7 External links

Early life

Skousen was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Leroy Bentley Skousen and Helen Louise Skousen, a Latter-day Saint family and was one of eleven children. He is a nephew to W. Cleon Skousen. He graduated from Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon.

Studies

Skousen received his B.A. degree from BYU, with a major in English and a minor in mathematics. Skousen went on to study linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning his Ph.D. degree there in 1972.

Career

He was then an *istant professor of linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin until 1979, when he joined the faculty of BYU. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego in 1981, a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Tampere in Finland in 1982, and a research fellow at the Max Planck Ins*ute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 2001. In 1999, BYU presented him the Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Research and Creative Arts Awards.

Since 1999, Skousen has served as the president of the Utah *ociation of Scholars, an affiliate of the National *ociation of Scholars. He has also been *ociate editor of the Journal of Quan*ative Linguistics since 2003.

Personal life

Skousen's father unexpectedly died from lung cancer in 1964 despite never having smoked. He served as an LDS missionary in Finland from 1965 to 1967, and is fluent in Finnish. Skousen married Sirkku Unelma Härkönen in 1968. They had seven children and live in Orem, Utah.

Works

Books

  • Skousen, Royal (1975). Substantive Evidence in Phonology: The Evidence From Finnish and French. The Hague: Mouton.
  • —— (1989). *ogical Modeling of Language. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN:0-7923-0517-5.
  • —— (1992). *ogy and Structure. Dordrecht; Boston; Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN:0-7923-1935-4.
  • —— (2001). The Original M*cript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text. Critical Text of the Book of Mormon. Vol.:1. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University. ISBN:0-934893-04-7.
  • —— (2001). The Printer's M*cript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts (2 vols.). Critical Text of the Book of Mormon. Vol.:2. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University. ISBN:0-934893-05-5. v.1 , v.2. {{cite book}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • ——; Deryle Lonsdale; Dilworth B. Parkinson (2002). *ogical Modeling: An Exemplar-Based Approach to Language. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN:1-58811-302-7.
  • —— (August 2004). *ysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon (6 vols.). Critical Text of the Book of Mormon. Vol.:4. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University. ISBN:0-934893-07-1. v.1 , v.2 , v.3 , v.4 , v.5 , v.6. {{cite book}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • —— (2009). The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN:978-0-300-14218-1.

Articles and papers

  • Skousen, Royal (Fall 1986). "Through a Gl* Darkly: Trying to Understand the Scriptures". BYU Studies. 26 (4): 3–20.
  • —— (Summer 1988). " The Book of Isaiah: A New Translation With Interpretive Keys From the Book of Mormon, by Avraham Gileadi". BYU Studies. 28 (3): 124–127.
  • —— (Winter 1990). "Towards a Critical Edition of the Book of Mormon". BYU Studies. 30 (1): 41–69.
  • —— (1992). "Book of Mormon Editions (1830-1981)". In Daniel H. Ludlow (ed.). Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Vol.:1. New York: Macmillan. ISBN:0-02-879600-4.
  • —— (1992). "Book of Mormon M*cripts". In Daniel H. Ludlow (ed.). Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Vol.:1. New York: Macmillan. ISBN:0-02-879600-4.
  • —— (1992). "The Original Book of Mormon Transcript". In John W. Welch (ed.). Reexploring the Book of Mormon: The F.A.R.M.S. Updates. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book. ISBN:0-87579-600-1.
  • —— (May 1992). "Piecing Together the Original M*cript". BYU Today. 46 (3): 18–24.
  • —— (1994). "Textual *ysis of Zenos's Allegory of the Olive Tree". In Stephen D. Ricks; John W. Welch (eds.). The Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, The Bible, and Jacob 5. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book. pp.:28–39. ISBN:0-87579-767-9.
  • —— (1994). "The Original Language of the Book of Mormon: Upstate New York Dialect, King James English, or Hebrew?". Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. 3 (1): 28–39.
  • —— (1994). "Critical Methodology and the Text of the Book of Mormon". Review of Books on the Book of Mormon. 6 (1): 121–144.
  • —— (1994). "The Bible II". Review of Books on the Book of Mormon. 6 (2): 1–2.
  • —— (1997). "Translating the Book of Mormon: Evidence from the Original M*cript". In Noel B. Reynolds (ed.). Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. ISBN:0-934893-25-X.
  • —— (1998). "Joseph Smith's Translation of the Book of Mormon: Evidence for Tight Control of the Text". Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. 7 (1): 22–31.
  • —— (2000). "John Gilbert's 1892 Account of the 1830 Printing of the Book of Mormon". In Stephen D. Ricks; Donald W. Parry; Andrew H. Hedges (eds.). The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies at Brigham Young University. ISBN:0-934893-45-4.
  • —— (2000). "Introducing the Dead Sea Scrolls to an LDS Audience". FARMS Review of Books. 12 (2): 441–44.
  • —— (2001). "Was the Path Nephi Saw "Strait and Narrow" or "Straight and Narrow"?". Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. 10 (2): 30–33.
  • —— (2002). "'Scourged' vs. 'Scorched' in Mosiah 17:13". Insights. 22 (3): 2–3.
  • —— (2004). "The Pleading Bar of God". Insights. 24 (4): 2–3.
  • —— (2005). "The Earliest Textual Sources for Joseph Smith's 'New Translation' of the King James Bible". FARMS Review. 17 (2): 451–70.
  • —— (2005). "The Archaic Vocabulary of the Book of Mormon". Insights. 25 (5): 2–6.
  • —— (2006). "Conjectural Emendation in the Book of Mormon". FARMS Review. 18 (1): 187–231.
  • —— (2006). "Translating and Printing the Book of Mormon". Oliver Cowdery: Scribe, Elder, Witness. Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Ins*ute for Religious Scholarship. pp.:75–122. ISBN:0-8425-2661-7.

References

    External links

    • "Royal Skousen FAIR Interview" video (Discussing the Italics in the KJV Bible and Book of Mormon) on YouTube
    • Skousen speaking on "The Critical Text Project of the Book of Mormon" (video and audio)

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