Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 4

“White” of “Pure”: Five Vignettes

1996: Douglas Campbell,  “’White’ or ‘Pure’: Five Vignettes” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 29 No. 4 (1996):119–135.

The Book of Mormon variously uses “white” and “pure” in the same verse in different editions. This article traces the history of those changes, who was behind them, and why.