This particular edition of the Book of Mormon seems to have struck a resonant chord among thousands of readers. The first 5,000 copies sold out in ten days!
From the gorgeous cover-art to the gilded pages filled with hundreds of annotations, this edition is marked by a editorial perspective captured best in a footnote on page 125, where it quotes Russell M. Nelson My Philosophy is to stop putting question marks behind the prophet's statements and put exclamation points instead. The book's unique appeal stems in part from the fact that it is the first edition to feature a complete literary treatment of all of the Hebraisms in the text. Another aspect is the changing font colors throughout the text. Red for Deity, Blue for Angels, etc.
The familiar public domain text (1920) has been treated in three unique dimensions:
1st, LITERARY treatment of the text;
2nd, addition of 250 INSIGHT pages;
3rd, use of vast amounts of COLOR in a variety of forms.
The content has not been altered, but the formatting and literary presentation of the text has. e.g. verses are combined into coherent paragraphs, new descriptive headers appear within chapters over each new thought. Verse numbers are superscripted; poetical stanzas shown in their Hebraic forms; quotation marks, indentation and BOLD text identify voices of speakers, and much more;
Ancient Hebraic writing forms such as psalms, chiasmus, parallelisms, etc. are shown in-context along with font colors which establish textual hierarchy.
Ten years in the making, this volume gives powerful testimony to the fact that the Book of Mormon is indeed a rich Hebrew literary masterpiece centered on the Savior Jesus Christ that was translated by the gift and power of God.
The chief-editor of this annotated edition, David R. Hocking of Raleigh, North Carolina, began the project as a way of enhancing his own family's study of the Book of Mormon.
