Item Detail
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28661
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4
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1
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English
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An Hypothesis concerning the Three Days of Darkness among the Nephites
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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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107-123
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"Aspects of the three days of darkness following the three-hour period of intense destruction described principally in 3 Nephi include:(1) the strange absence of rain among the destructive mechanisms described; (2) the source of the intense lightning, which seems to be unaccompanied by rain; (3) a mechanism to account for the inundation of the cities of Onihah, Mocum, and Jerusalem, which were not among the cities which 'sunk in the depths of the sea'; and (4) the absence in the histories of contemporary European and Asiatice civilizations of corresponding events, which are repeatedly characterized in 3 Nephi as affecting 'the face of the whole earth.'" [abstract provided]