Book of Mormon writers by verse
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I have a similar need for authorship broken down by internal evidence in the Book of Mormon. Something that gets problematic is deciding what authorship means, anyways. Is Nephi the author when he is quoting Isaiah wholesale, or is Nephi? When Mormon summarizes a bunch of things Mosiah said, who is the author? What if there is an introductory phrase from an editor, which then quotes Ammon, and all in the same verse (very common)?
I somewhat solved this by separating authorship from the speakers in a verse, and then another column for content origin. For example, when Mormon summarizes the events of Mosiah, he is the author, and Mosiah is the content origin, but when Mosiah is being directly quoted, he is also the speaker. When Nephi quotes Isaiah, he is the author, Isaiah is the speaker (determining if it is Isaiah or The Lord speaking could be a whole study on it's own), and Isaiah is the content origin too.
I've been working through the book, I just finished Mosiah. I'm hoping to have my listing finished in a few weeks, and then I will post in on Github for collaboration.
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Some work on this has been done and is available on github.
This seems to be the most relevant.
https://github.com/philngo/book-of-mormon
The file of interest (which is a json and contains verse level author information): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philngo/book-of-mormon/master/json/derived_output.json
Note: These are not official by any means and I cannot vouch for its accuracy. I merely provide it as a potentially useful starting point.
Now if someone could point me to similar projects that annotate every reference of Christ that would make my life a bit easier at this point.
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The study you cite is an early attempt at wordprint analysis of the Book of Mormon. If you are interested in looking at attempts to identify authorship of portions of the Book of Mormon using this technique, you could look through the sources cited in this Wikipedia section. There have been a number of attempts at this type of analysis, and some of the authors of these studies may provide replication data that would allow you to look at authorship at the verse level. However, even if replication data is available, it may still not provide you with the verse-by-verse breakdown you want. Depending on the statistical model used, a verse-level classification may not be produced by the model. And even if a verse-level classification is produced by the model, it would be a probabilistic estimate. Because of this, a chart showing the model's "best guess" for each verse without taking into account the margin of error for that guess would be misleading.
If, instead, you are interested in a resource breaking down Book of Mormon authorship using authorship statements within the Book of Mormon itself, there is this chart available through BYU Studies. It does not identify authorship at the verse level, but it does provide a diagram showing which authors were quoted in which books, according to the text itself. There are also a couple of other authorship charts available in section 2 of this page.
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