Item Detail
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10460
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6
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10
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English
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Basic Methodological Problems with the Anti-Mormon Approach to the Geography and Archaeology of the Book of Mormon
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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Spring 1993
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2
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1
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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161-200
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Anti-Mormon criticisms of the Book of Mormon are frequently based on a questionable set of assumptions concerning the nature of historical and archaeological evidence, the role of governing presuppositions, and the nature of historical proof. Using arguments found in a recent anti-Mormon critique by Luke Wilson as a foundation, this article analyzes issues of the difficulties of reconstructing ancient geographies, problems with the discontinuity of Mesoamerican toponyms, the historical development of the idea of a Limited Geography Model, and difficulties of textual and artifactual interpretation when trying to relate the Book of Mormon to archaeological remains.
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