Item Detail
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28888
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3
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1
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English
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New Light : The Queen of Sheba, Skyscraper Architecture, and Lehi's Dream
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2002
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11
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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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102-103, 115
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"The Book of Mormon prophet Lehi received a vision commonly referred to as the tree of life. Within that vision, he observes a building that he describes as 'strange.' A possible reason Lehi labels it this way is that the architecture popular in Jerusalem at the time. The building in Lehi's time. By studying the architectural styles of Jerusalem and south Arabia, one can better evaluate and understand the vision of the tree of life." [abstract provided]