Reexploring the Book of Mormon
A Decade of New Research
The Book of Mormon invites exploration and reexploration. After more than 150 years of careful reading, we are still learning to appreciate its fullness, understand its origins, and comprehend its messages. Reexploring the Book of Mormon yields a wealth of new insights. More than ever before, patient and skillful research during the past decade has led from one discovery to another. Since 1981, the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (F.A.R.M.S.) has issued articles and updates—brief, readable reports on current discoveries about the origins and contents of the Book of Mormon. Eighty-five of these findings published through 1991 have been collected in this volume. This type of research does more than gather circumstantial evidence for the Book of Mormon. It explores many avenues of the record’s internal complexity. It helps define the rich literary, anthropological, historical, and spiritual settings in which this scripture was written and translated.
About the Author
John Welch
John W. Welch (J.D., Duke University) is the Robert K. Thomas Professor of Law at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School, editor in chief of BYU Studies, and director of publications for the university's Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for LDS History. He is the founder of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. He serves on the executive committee of the Biblical Law Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Table of Contents
How Long Did It Take to Translate the Book of Mormon?
The Original Book of Mormon Transcript
Colophons in the Book of Mormon
Two Figurines From the Belleza and Sanchez Collection
Textual Consistency
Lehi's Council Vision and the Mysteries of God
The Book of Mormon and the Heavenly Book Motif
Old World Languages in the New World
Columbus: By Faith or Reason?
The Plain and Precious Parts
Nephi's Bows and Arrows
Lodestone and the Liahona
Lehi's Trail and Nahom Revisited
Winds and Currents: A Look at Nephi's Ocean Crossing
Did Lehi Land in Chile?
Statutes, Judgments, Ordinances, and Commandments
Kingship and Temple in 2 Nephi 5-10
Jacob's Ten Commandments
What Did Charles Anthon Really Say?
Textual Criticism of the Book of Mormon
Parallelism, Merismus, and Difrasismo
View of the Hebrews: "An Unparallel"
No, Sir, That's Not History!
Seven Tribes: An Aspect of Lehi's Legacy
Antenantiosis in the Book of Mormon
Once More: The Horse
Lost Arts
What Was a "Mosiah"?
Ancient Europeans in America?
"Latest Discoveries"
The Ideology of Kingship in Mosiah 1-6
"This Day"
Benjamin's Speech: A Classic Ancient Farewell Address
The Coronation of Kings
"O Man, Remember, and Perish Not" (Mosiah 4:30)
Barley in Ancient America
Decorative Iron in Early Israel
Abinadi and Pentecost
Dancing Maidens and the Fifteenth of Av
New Information about Mulek, Son of the King
Four Quarters
Three Accounts of Alma's Conversion
Joseph Smith: "Author and Proprietor"
The Law of Mosiah
Possible "Silk" and "Linen" in the Book of Mormon
Epanalepsis in the Book of Mormon
Antithetical Parallelism in the Book of Mormon
The Land of Jerusalem: The Place of Jesus' Birth
The Nephite Calendar in Mosiah, Alma, and Helaman
The Destruction of Ammonihah and the Law of Apostate Cities
Ammon and Cutting Off the Arms of Enemies
Directions in Hebrew, Egyptian, and Nephite Language
"A Day and a Half's Journey for a Nephite"
Exemption from Military Duty
Synagogues in the Book of Mormon
The Sons of the Passover
Conference on Warfare in the Book of Mormon
"Holy War" in the Book of Mormon and the Ancient Near East
Symbolic Action as Prophetic Curse
New Year's Celebrations
Concrete Evidence for the Book of Mormon
Mesoamericans in Pre-Spanish South America
Mesoamericans in Pre-Columbian North America
Wordprints and the Book of Mormon
"Secret Combinations"
Chiasmus in Helaman 6:7-13
Chiasmus in Mesoamerican Texts
Nephi's Garden and Chief Market
Was Helaman 7-8 An Allegorical Funeral Sermon?
The Case of an Unobserved Murder
Mormon's Agenda
Thieves and Robbers
The Execution of Zemnarihah
The Sermon at the Temple
The Gospel as Taught by Nephite Prophets
Getting Things Strai[gh]t
Prophecy Among the Maya
The Survivor and the Will to Bear Witness
Mormon and Moroni as Authors and Abridgers
Number 24
The "Golden" Plates
Hebrew and Uto-Aztecan: Possible Linguistic Connections
Words and Phrases
Our Nephite Sacrament Prayers
Climactic Forms in the Book of Mormon
Introduction
Publication Information
Subject: Book of Mormon
Publication Year: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 13: 978-0875796000
Page Count: 328
Price: $ 14.95
Imprint: FARMS