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Auditing Book of Mormon Geography Models
Several years ago, Jack Welch challenged me to devise a methodology to reasonably evaluate multiple Book of Mormon geography models no matter their setting. It has taken years of work and involved...
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1921 Book of Mormon Geography Hearings
In April, 1928 General Conference, Pres. Anthony W. Ivins (1852 - 1934) of the First Presidency discussed Hill Cumorah. The Church had just purchased Hill Cumorah from the Pliny T. Sexton (1840 - 1924)...
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Large Bodies of Water
Alma 50:29 talks about a land which was northward covered with large bodies of water. Helaman 3:4 describes migrations from the land of Zarahemla to an exceeding great distance into the land northward...
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Early Settlement Sequence
I am reading a very good book entitled Pathways to Complexity: A View from the Maya Lowlands edited by M. Kathryn Brown (UT San Antonio) and George J. Bey III (Millsaps College).New Book on Maya...
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Captain Moroni's Towers
We read in Alma 50:4 that Captain Moroni had the Nephites build towers as part of their defensive fortification strategy. The Pacunam Lidar Initiative (PLI) has helped archaeologists identify towers as...
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President Nelson in Guatemala
This from Church News: A Living Record of the Restoration, Volume 90, Number 35, September 1, 2019:As he arrived in "The Land of Eternal Spring" on Saturday, August 24, 2019, President Nelson said his...
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Volcanic Eruptions Near the Time of Christ
Book of Mormon Central's KnoWhy #530 "Is there evidence for great destruction in the land northward at the death of Christ?" is superb. It discusses recent scientific literature about the massive...
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Moroni's Total War
In Mormon Chapter 8, a solitary Moroni ca. AD 400 finishes his father's record and documents widespread warfare among the Lamanites: "the Lamanites are at war one with another; and the whole face of...
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Burned Cities
General Shiz spread terror through the Jaredite countryside by annihilating inhabitants and then burning their cities Ether 14:17. Lamanite armies ca. AD 379 used a similar scorched-earth tactic,...
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Seasons of War
The Book of Mormon states that war among the Nephites was seasonal Omni 1:3. In an often-cited study, John L. Sorenson demonstrated that warfare in the Book of Mormon generally took place in months 11...
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As Itzhak Perlman is to Violonists, the Book of Mormon is to Books
Last evening, my wife and I had the rare privilege of hearing world's greatest violinist, Itzhak Perlman, in concent. He performed Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major, for Violin and Orchestra Op....
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I volunteer as the Executive Director of Book of Mormon Central. We have been unusually busy the last few months preparing for Come Follow Me 2020. The centerpiece of our effort is the new...
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Jaredites Crossed the Pacific
There has been a difference of opinion among Book of Mormon geographers about the Jaredite voyage - did the eight barges cross the Atlantic or the Pacific? In his 1985 An Ancient American Setting for...
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Where did the Mulekites Land?
Several lines of reasoning about the Mulekite ocean voyage across the Atlantic point to Tabasco, Mexico, as likely landing locations. The Mulekites landed twice, once in the land northward near the...
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Clayton Magleby Christensen (1952 - 2020)
My cousin died early Thursday, January 23rd, 2020, of complications from leukemia. It was his fifth bout with cancer. He was 67. What Clayton Magleby Christensen accomplished in his life was...
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Cacaxtla
I spent Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at the site of Cacaxtla, Tlaxcala with my friends, Javier Tovar, Ignacio Salguero, and Alejandro Martinez.Tovar, Magleby, and Salguero at CacaxtlaWe filmed a video...
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Robbers and Lamanites
For hundreds of years, the Nephites battled a single monolithic nemesis, the Lamanites. At the end of their civilization, though, the Nephites fought two different, allied enemies: robbers and...
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Izapa
I spent Friday, February 21, 2020 in and around Izapa, Chiapas, with friends Javier Tovar (Atotonilco de Tula, Hidalgo), Alejandro MartÃnez (Puebla, Puebla), Ignacio Salguero (Mexico City), and Ayax...
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President Nelson and Coronavirus
Helaman 16:13 describes a time when the Nephites could plainly see that the words of prophets such as Samuel the Lamanite and Nephi son of Helaman were being fulfilled before their eyes. Many did not...
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Base Dates
The Book of Mormon has several hundred chronological references. Accurate timekeeping was very important to the Nephites as Mormon explicitly states in 3 Nephi 8:1-2.Point #1. We should find Book of...
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