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The Gadianton robbers (/ ˌ ɡ æ d i ˈ æ n t ən /), [1] according to the Book of Mormon, were a secret criminal organization in ancient America. Their use of murder and plunder to destabilize society and overthrow the extant government makes them similar to the Sicarii .
In the book of Ether found in the Book of Mormon, King Coriantumr (/ˌkɒriˈæntəmər/) [1] was the last Jaredite along with the prophet Ether. He and his family lived wickedly, rejecting Ether's invitation to change their ways. Over the course of his reign, many people try to take the kingdom from Coriantumr.
The Jaredites (/ ˈ dʒ ær ə d aɪ t /) [1] are one of four peoples (along with the Nephites, Lamanites, and Mulekites) that the Latter-day Saints believe settled in ancient America. The Book of Mormon (mainly its Book of Ether) describes the Jaredites as the descendants of Jared and his brother, who lived at the time of the Tower of Babel ...
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. [1] [2] The book is one of the earliest and most well-known unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement.
The Book of Mormon notes them as initially righteous people who eventually "had fallen into a state of unbelief and awful wickedness" [2] and were destroyed by the Lamanites in about AD 385. [ 3 ] Some Mormon scholars have suggested that the Nephites settled somewhere in present-day Central America . [ 4 ]
According to the Book of Mormon, the final war that destroyed the Jaredites resulted in the deaths of at least two million people. [80] From Book of Mormon population estimates, it is evident that the civilizations described are comparable in size to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the Maya. Such ...
A popular "traditional" view among many Latter Day Saint faithful covers much of North and South America. However, many Book of Mormon scholars, particularly in recent decades, believe the text itself favors a less expansive (“limited”) geographical setting for most of the Book of Mormon events.
The Book of Mormon depicts these settlers building magnificent cities, which were destroyed by warfare about CE 385. The Book of Mormon can be placed in the tradition of the "Mound-Builder literature" of the period and has been called "the most famous and certainly the most influential of all Mound-Builder literature". [33]