Item Detail
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28770
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2
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English
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Were There Two Cumorahs?
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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1995
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4
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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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260-268
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"No one doubts that the hill where Joseph Smith received the plates is known as Cumorah, but is the hill where the final battles between the Nephites and Lamanites took place another Cumorah? The book of Ether tells us that Omer traveled to this place of the last battles of the Nephites, and that the relatively short duration of this journey would not account for the three thousand miles from Middle America to New York. A similar journay was undertaken by Limhi's men, of equally short duration. The description of the geographical features around the final battle site is also at obbs with the topography of presentday Cumorah." [abstract provided]