Editing Book of Jarom (section)

=== Literary ===
The Book of Jarom is the shortest book in the Book of Mormon text, excepting the explanatory [[Words of Mormon]].<ref>{{harvnb|Thomas|2016|p=56n1}}; {{harvnb|Givens|2009|p=9}}</ref> Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Hemming, co-authors of the three-volume series ''[[The Book of Mormon for the Least of These]]'', suggest that Jarom's choice of audience (the Lamanites) is based on his father Enos's covenant with God, in which the Lamanites would return to God. This impacts Jarom's practice of record keeping, Salleh and Hemming argue.{{sfn|Salleh|Hemming|2020|p=141}}

Due to the absence of events while maintaining a "narrative voice," Jarom's account has been called an "unnarration" by Elizabeth Fenton, who adopted the term from [[Robyn R. Warhol|Robyn Warhol]].{{sfn|Fenton|2013|p=349}} [[Brigham Young University]] professor [[Donald W. Parry]] contends that the book follows an “'''A'''abcd'''B'''ABBA'''CDEEDCBA'''dbca” [[chiasmus]] pattern that repeats ideas of faith, destruction, and obedience to commandments, among other things.{{sfn|Parry|2007|pp=151-153}}