Alma the Younger's conversion story and the conversion story of Saul of Tarsus in the Bible. Critic Grant H. Palmer argues for nine specific parallels between Alma and Paul's conversion narrative plus various similarities in language. FAIR, the Latter-day Saint apologetics organization, argues that the parallels are superficial or otherwise poorly contrived. Latter-day Saint philosopher and historian Alan Goff, in a long paper written for and published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, argues that the "New and Old Testaments appropriate an ancient narrative genre called the prophetic commissioning story. Paul’s and Alma’s commissioning narratives hearken back to this literary genre, and to refer to either as pilfered is to misunderstand not just these individual narratives but the larger approach Hebraic writers used in composing biblical and Book of Mormon narrative." References Further reading J. Christopher Conkling, "Alma's Enemies: The Case of the Lamanites, Amlicites, and Mysterious Amalekites" Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14/1 (2005) Book of Mormon prophets Book of Mormon people Angelic visionaries