Matthew L. Bowen

Bibliography

• 'Most Desirable Above All Things': Onomastic Play on Mary and Mormon in the Book of Mormon in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 13 (2015): 27-61
  • Cited in: MORMON, MARY
• Wordplay on the Name 'Enos', FARMS Insights, #178, 26/3 (2006)
  • Cited in: ENOS,
• “Not Partaking of the Fruit: Its Generational Consequences and Its Remedy,” in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision: The 40th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson (Provo: BYU Religious Studies Center/ SLC: Deseret Book, 2011), 240-263.
• “Getting Cain and Gain,” Interpreter 15 (2015):115-141, online at http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/getting-cain-and-gain/ .
• “Internal Textual Evidence for the Egyptian Origin of Nephi's Name,” FARMS’ Insigts, 21/11 (2001), online at http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/insights/?vol=22&num=11&id=301 .
• “Nephi’s Good Inclusio,” Interpreter, 17 (2015):181-195, online at http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/nephis-good-inclusio/ .
• “What Meaneth the Rod of Iron?” Insights, 25/2 (2005):2-3.
• “’See That Ye Are Not Lifted Up’: The Name Zoram and Its Paronomastic Pejoration,” Interpreter, 19 (2016):109-143, online at http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/see-that-ye-are-not-lifted-up-the-name-zoram-and-its-paronomastic-pejoration/ .
• “‘If Ye Will Hearken’: Lehi’s Rhetorical Wordplay on Ishmael in 2 Nephi 1:28–29 and Its Implications,” Interpreter, 25 (2017): 157-189, online at http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/if-ye-will-hearken-lehis-rhetorical-wordplay-on-ishmael-in-2-nephi-128-29-and-its-implications/ .
• “‘Possess the Land in Peace’: Zeniff’s Ironic Wordplay on Shilom,” Interpreter, 28 (2018): 115-120, online at http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/possess-the-land-in-peace-zeniffs-ironic-wordplay-on-shilom/ .
• “‘Swearing by Their Everlasting Maker’: Some Notes on Paanchi and Giddianhi,” Interpreter, 28 (2018): 155-170, online at http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/swearing-by-their-everlasting-maker-some-notes-on-paanchi-and-giddianhi/ .
• Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture. Salt Lake City: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2018.
• “Becoming Men and Women of Understanding: Wordplay on Benjamin — An Addendum,” Interpreter, 36 (2020): 239-280, online at https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/becoming-men-and-women-of-understanding-wordplay-on-benjamin-an-addendum/ .
• “‘I Will Deliver Thy Sons’: An Onomastic Approach to Three Iterations of an Oracle to Mosiah II (Mosiah 28:7; Alma 17:35, 19:23),” Interpreter, 41 (2020): 241-256, online at https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/i-will-deliver-thy-sons-an-onomastic-approach-to-three-iterations-of-an-oracle-to-mosiah-ii-mosiah-287-alma-1735-1923/ .
• “’If Ye Believe on His Name’: Wordplay on the Name Samuel in Helaman 14:2, 12–13 and 3 Nephi 23:9 and the Doctrine of Christ in Samuel’s Speech,” Interpreter, 46 (2021):49-76, online at https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/if-ye-believe-on-his-name-wordplay-on-the-name-samuel-in-helaman-142-12-13-and-3-nephi-239-and-the-doctrine-of-christ-in-samuels-speech/ .
• “‘For Their Good Have I Written Them’: The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:8,” Interpreter, 53 (2022): 77-90, online at https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/for-their-good-have-i-written-them-the-onomastic-allusivity-and-literary-function-of-2-nephi-258/ .
• and Pedro Olavarria,“‘Our Great God Has in Goodness Sent These’: Notes on the Goodness of God, the Didactic Good of Nephi’s Small Plates, and Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s Renaming,” Interpreter, 61 (2024): 97-134, online at https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/our-great-god-has-in-goodness-sent-these-notes-on-the-goodness-of-god-the-didactic-good-of-nephis-small-plates-and-anti-nephi-lehis-renaming/#footnote26sym.
• “‘Behold, I Went to Hunt Beasts in the Forest’: An Addendum on Enos, Esau, and the Symbolic Geography of Seir,” Interpreter, 63 (2025): 75-82, online at https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/behold-i-went-to-hunt-beasts-in-the-forest-an-addendum-on-enos-esau-and-the-symbolic-geography-of-seir/ .