Item Detail
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28909
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4
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0
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English
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Ammon and the Mesoamerican Custom of Smiting off Arms
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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1999
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8
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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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44-47, 78-79
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"Ammon, a Nephite missionary who chose to serve a Lamanite king as his servant, gained fame by cutting off the arms of enemies as trophies fits a cultural pattern known among the later Aztecs and Maya in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica." [abstract provided]