Giddonah / Gidanah Variant: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 10:08, 4 May 2011
Variant spelling of GIDDONAH/GIDANAH
-Alma 10:2
P: Gidanah
A: Giddonah 1830 – 1981 RLDS 1908
Discussion: The 1830 typesetter for some reason changed Gidanah, the spelling in P, to Giddonah. It is highly unlikely that Cowdery would have told the typesetter to change the name based on the later personage (in Alma 30:23), or that the typesetter would have made such a decision, since he only had access to 24 pages or so at a time. It is more reasonable to think that he simply misspelled the name. Gidanah is perfectly acceptable, in line with the Book of Mormon name Rabbanah.
Summary: Skousen thinks Gidanah and Giddonah should be separate names
Source: ATV 3:1774, 6:3579
