Editing Book of Omni (section)

==Interpretation==
According to authors Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Hemming, Omni wrote in order to maintain a record of the genealogical line. His son Chemish, on the other hand, wrote out of obligation.{{sfn|Salleh| Hemming|2020|p=145}} Additionally, [[Grant Hardy]] suggests that the contributors to the Book of Omni treated record-keeping as "a genealogical responsibility rather than an opportunity for preaching or testifying."{{sfn|Hardy|2023|p=207}} Sharon Harris noticed a genealogical theme throughout Omni and identified three of its purposes. She suggests that the purposes of keeping the genealogy in allows the plates to be passed down, preserves teachings of the prophets, and demonstrates the larger influence of genealogy.{{sfn|Harris|2020|pp=90-100}} [[Terryl Givens]] claims that Omni wrote in a manner that suggests he believed the Nephites would eventually die out.{{sfn|Givens|2009|p=86-87}} Adopting Robyn Warhol's term, professor of English at Vermont University Elizabeth Fenton calls the style of the Book of Omni "unnarration" due to a large lack of events while maintaining a "narrative voice."{{sfn|Fenton|2013|pp=349-350}} Out of all the narrators, Amoron is the only one who doesn't finish his account with "And I make an end."{{sfn|Thomas|2016|pp=62-63}} 

Throughout the Book of Omni, its narrators claim that God causes the righteous among their people to win wars and punishes the wicked by letting them die in war. Salleh and Hemming take issue with this idea, saying that whether or not someone dies in war does not determine personal righteousness.{{sfn|Salleh|Hemming|2020|p=146}} Sharon Harris points out that the points of contention mentioned by Abinadom and Amaleki lead to bodily injury; from this she concludes that the usage of "contention" here (and in other parts of the Book of Mormon) carries a more intense connotation than what modern readers think of.{{sfn|Harris|2020|pp=85-88}}