View source for Messiah / Masiah / Jesus Christ / Mosiah Variants

Variant Spellings of [[MESSIAH|M<small>ESSIAH</small>]]

masiah
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/10.4?lang=eng#3 1 Nephi 10:4]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]]: masiah
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Messiah
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/10.5?lang=eng#4 1 Nephi 10:5]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]]: masiah
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Messiah
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/10.7?lang=eng#6 1 Nephi 10:7]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]]: masiah
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Messiah
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/10.9?lang=eng#8 1 Nephi 10:9]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]]: masiah
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Messiah
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/10.11?lang=eng#10 1 Nephi 10:11]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]]: masiah
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Messiah
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/10.14?lang=eng#13 1 Nephi 10:14]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]]: masiah
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Messiah
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/10.17?lang=eng#16 1 Nephi 10:17]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]]: masiah
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Messiah
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/15.13?lang=eng#12 1 Nephi 15:13a]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]]: masiah
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Messiah
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/15.13?lang=eng#12 1 Nephi 15:13b]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]]: masiah
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Messiah

Summary: Scribal error; Messiah correct.

Source: [[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]] 96-99, 127; [[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]] 79-80, 102-03.

Jesus Christ
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/12.18?lang=eng#17 1 Nephi 12:18]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]], 1830: Jesus Christ
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Jesus Christ >js Mosiah
::1837-1981: the Messiah 
Mosiah
:[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/12.18?lang=eng#17 1 Nephi 12:18]
::[[Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|O]], 1830: Jesus Christ
::[[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]]: Jesus Christ >js Mosiah
::1837-1981: the Messiah

Discussion: J. Smith crossed out Jesus Christ in [[Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon|P]] and replaced it with Mosiah, "his spelling for Messiah. The ''s'' in the name Mosiah can be pronounced as an /''s''/ or a /''z''/. (Both pronunciations are listed, for instance, in the pronouncing guide at the end of the 1981 [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS]] edition; in the 1920 [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS]] edition, only the /''s''/ pronunciation is given.) Joseph Smith apparently pronounced Mosiah with the /''s''/, along with a reduced schwa vowel /''ə''/ for the first vowel; thus for him Mosiah and Messiah were homophonous . . . In any event, Joseph intended Messiah, which is what was set in the 1837 edition (plus the addition of the definite article the" (''[[Royal Skousen, Analysis of Textual Variants in the Book of Mormon. 6 Parts. Provo, Utah: FARMS, Brigham Young University, 2004-2009.|ATV]]'' 1:259).

Acceptability: [[Royal J. Skousen|Skousen]] restores Jesus Christ here.

Source: ''[[Royal Skousen, Analysis of Textual Variants in the Book of Mormon. 6 Parts. Provo, Utah: FARMS, Brigham Young University, 2004-2009.|ATV]]'' 1:258-59.

[[Category:Variant Names]]