Item Detail
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28790
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4
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13
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English
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Across Arabia with Lehi and Sariah : "Truth Shall Spring out of the Earth"
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2006
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15
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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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8-25, 110-113
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"Aston draws on his own research in Yemen and Oman as well as on the work of other scholars and researchers to explore two locations in the Book of Mormon account of Lehi's journey through Arabia: Nahom and Bountiful. Preliminarily, Aston highlights Nephi's own directional indications for each leg of the journey, considers the relevance of existing trade routes, and suggests relative durations of stops along the way. He reviews the research on the tribal area associated with Nahom, including the discovery of an altar dating to roughly 600 BC that bears the tribal name NHM-possible the first archaeological evidence of the Book of Mormon's authenticity. Aston uses twelve criteria taken from Nephi's descriptions of the area to identify the fertile Khor Kharfot area at the mouth of Wadi Sayq as the most likely candidate for Bountiful. The discussion also speculates on the kind of ship that Nephi may have biult and the plausibility of a transpacific voyage. Taken together, the archaeological and geographical evidence of Nahom and Bountiful strongly argue for the historicity of the Book of Mormon account." [abstract provided]
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An Approach to the Book of Mormon
Archaeology, Relics, and Book of Mormon Belief
Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited : The Evidence for Ancient Origins
Book of Mormon Event Structure : The Ancient Near East
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites
Lehi's Altar and Sacrifice in the Wilderness
Literature of Belief : Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience
Newly Found Altars from Nahom
The Design of the Liahona and the Purpose of the Second Spindle
"The Place that was Called Nahom" : New Light from Ancient Yemen
Through the Arabian Desert to a Bountiful Land : Could Joseph Smith Have Known the Way?