Item Detail
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18094
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5
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10
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English
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Archaeology, Relics, and Book of Mormon Belief
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2005
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14
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2
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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38-49
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Clark states that many critics use archaeology in an attempt to prove that Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon. These critics "specialize in listing things mentioned in the Book of Mormon that archaeology has not found." On the other hand, Clark feels that geography and archaeology do provide "evidence" that the Book of Mormon is a record of an ancient people that existed in Mesoamerica. He considers twelve points, unknown at the time that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, that substantiate his claim: 1) metal records in stone boxes, 2) ancient writing, 3) the arts of war, 4) cities, temples, towers, and palaces, 5) cement houses and cities, 6) kings and their monuments, 7) metaphors and the Mesoamerican World, 8) timekeeping and prophesying, 9) Old World geography, 10) New World geography, 11) cycles and civilization in Mesoamerica, and 12) Mesoamerican demographic history.
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