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Into Arabia: Lehi And Sariah’S Escape From Jerusalem, Warren P. Aston
Into Arabia: Lehi And Sariah’S Escape From Jerusalem, Warren P. Aston
BYU Studies Quarterly
In his exhaustively reasoned paper “Dating the Departure of Lehi from Jerusalem,” Jeffrey Chadwick moved the discussion of the timing of the Lehite departure significantly further. Those like myself, who have long assumed that the Book of Mormon’s dating for the departure (about six hundred years before Christ’s birth) is simply a round, approximate number, now have additional reasons to see that the dating may, in fact, be literal and that a definitive year for the event might be within reach.
Naturalistic Explanations Of The Origin Of The Book Of Mormon, Brian C. Hales
Naturalistic Explanations Of The Origin Of The Book Of Mormon, Brian C. Hales
BYU Studies Quarterly
In early 1830, an unknown farmer in upstate New York burst upon the world’s book-publishing scene. The Book of Mormon rolled off the Grandin Press in Palmyra, New York, with Joseph Smith listed as “author and proprietor” on the title page. That same year, a few other authors produced new titles, including The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck by Mary Shelley, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore, and Six Sermons on the Study of the Holy Scriptures by Samuel Lee. If grouped with books classified as “fiction” in 1830, the Book of Mormon may have been the longest, …
Is Not This Real?, Joseph M. Spencer
Is Not This Real?, Joseph M. Spencer
BYU Studies Quarterly
Latter-day Saints often take Korihor, the infamous Nephite anti-Christ, to be a fool, someone perhaps rightly struck dumb for stupidly demanding signs when he knew better. After all, he self-contradictorily trusted “an angel” who told him that “there is no God” (Alma 30:53). One popular commentary remarks: “Wickedness does not promote rational thought!”