Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Book of Mosiah (/ m oʊ ˈ s aɪ. ə,-ˈ z aɪ. ə /), [1] translated by Joseph Smith in the early 19th century, is one of the books which make up the Book of Mormon. The title refers to Mosiah II , a king of the Nephites at Zarahemla .
According to Mosiah priority, after the text of Mosiah through the end of the Book of Mormon was transcribed, Joseph Smith returned to the beginning and transcribed 1 Nephi through Words of Mormon. Mosiah priority is the most widely held solution to questions regarding the sequence of the English text.
Book of Jacob; Book of Enos; Book of Jarom; Book of Omni; Contribution of Mormon; Words of Mormon; Mormon's abridgment of the Large Plates of Nephi. Book of Mosiah; Book of Alma; Book of Helaman; Third Nephi; Fourth Nephi; Book of Mormon; Additions by Moroni; Parts of the Book of Mormon; Book of Ether; Book of Moroni; Latter Day Saints Portal
The history of Mosiah I is limited to Amaleki's account in the Book of Omni. [2]Following a period of "much war and contention between...the Nephites, and the Lamanites", [3] Mosiah 1 was "warned of the Lord that he should flee out of the land of Nephi, and as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord should also depart out of the land with him, into the wilderness". [4]
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Book of Mormon: . The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.
In the Book of Mormon, chapters 9 through 22 of the Book of Mosiah are identified as the Record of Zeniff.These chapters contain the story of a group of Nephites, led by Zeniff, who leave the land of Zarahemla and return to their former land, known as the land of Nephi, which was then occupied by the Lamanites, their traditional enemies.
In it, Metcalfe himself wrote an essay that was the first to advance the Mosiah priority theory, or that Joseph Smith began dictating the Book of Mormon from the Book of Mosiah. The reception of the Mosiah priority theory was gradual, but it is now well accepted by researchers and in scholarly publications about the text. [4]
Mosiah may refer to: King Mosiah I, in Mormon literature, king of a tribe of Nephites before 130 BC; King Mosiah II, in Mormon literature, king of the Nephite nation from about 124 BC to 91 BC; Book of Mosiah, a book of Book of Mormon, named after King Mosiah II; Mosiah priority, a theory about the creation of the Book of Mormon