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Based on textual analysis and comparison of the Book of Mormon limited geography model to existing geographical regions, time-lines and cultures, many LDS scholars believe that the Book of Mormon geography is centered in Mesoamerica around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the area of current day Guatemala and the southern Mexico States of Tabasco ...
Based on textual analysis and comparison of the Book of Mormon limited geography model to existing geographical regions, time-lines and cultures, many LDS scholars believe that the Book of Mormon geography is centered in Mesoamerica around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the area of current day Guatemala and the southern Mexico States of Tabasco ...
Forest of Mormon, near waters of Mormon; Place of Mormon, region near city of Lehi-Nephi; Waters of Mormon, baptismal waters for over 200 Nephites; Land of Moron, north of the great land of Desolation; Moroni's Camp, Nephite military post; City of and Land of Moroni, in southeast of Nephite lands; City of Moronihah, iniquitous Nephite city
According to the Book of Mormon, prior to their arrival at Nahom, the travelers had been moving in a "south-southeast" direction (1 Nephi 16:13). It was at this location "Nahom" that the Book of Mormon states that the travelers made a significant change in direction "eastward" before continuing their journey toward the coast. [4]
Map showing the possible lands and sites of the Book of Mormon in Mesoamerica. The Book of Mormon refers to a city on the American continent called Bountiful. It has significance in the book as the place where Jesus Christ is said to have visited people in the Book of Mormon civilization after his resurrection. As with most Book of Mormon ...
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 State of Deseret (modern pronunciation / ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ⓘ DEZ-ə-RET, [1] contemporaneously / d ɛ s iː r ɛ t / dess-ee-ret, [dubious – discuss] as recorded in the Deseret alphabet spelling 𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻) [2] was a proposed state of the United States promoted by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had founded settlements in what is ...
The accounts related to Zelph are used as evidence by some Book of Mormon scholars to suggest that the Lehites inhabited the entire North American continent as proposed by the Hemispheric Geographical Model, rather than merely portions of Central America as suggested by the Limited Geography Model. (See also Archaeology and the Book of Mormon)