Tag: Geography
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Observations on Book of Mormon geography
From the time the Nephites move to the land of Zarahemla in Omni 1:12 and until the coming of Christ in 3rd Nephi, the Book of Mormon geography is consistently and repeatedly describing several cities and areas and even their relative locations. For instance, the city of Gideon is first mentioned in Alma 6:7. We…
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Gideon, another example of internal consistency (and possibly Hebrew wordplay) in the Book of Mormon
If we simply compare all the mentions of the name Gideon in the Book of Mormon, we quickly discover that the name can either refer to a place or a person. In this post, we\’ll compare these references to see if they are internally consistent. We\’ll also explore the meaning of the name, since it…
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Ammonihah
The geography of the Book of Mormon is very consistently described. I described one example of this (elevation difference of the Lands of Nephi and the lands of Zarahemla and a wilderness in between) here. The city of Ammonihah offers us a great example of this. In Alma 16, we read: 2 For behold, the…
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Consistent Geography in the Book of Mormon
“Go up” and “go down” A person travels “down” to Zarahemla and “up” to the Land of Nephi: There is a wilderness between Zarahemla and the Land of Nephi that is thick enough for a person to become lost.
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A serialized response to John Hamer – Part 2b
We are still dealing with Hamer’s claim that: “The Book of Mormon is far simpler than it first appears”. We will consider another argument he uses to back up that claim: “Although the text includes many characters and places, the author only had to have a few of each in his mind at any given time as he tells individual…
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1 Nephi 2:4
A subtle detail can be found in verse 4: 4 And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family, and provisions, and…