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Based on the plates' lighter weight and Stowell's description of its corner's "greenish cast", one scholar has hypothesized Smith made the plates from copper, which weighs less than gold and rusts green. [185] LDS writers have speculated the plates could also exhibit those qualities if it were made of a copper-gold alloy like Mesoamerican tumbaga.
The King James Study Bible is an edition of the King James Bible originally produced by Liberty University. It has undergone several name changes and is now sold by Christian publishing house Thomas Nelson in a mass-market edition. The theology in the study notes reflect conservative Christian theology.
In his Textual History, Prof. Norton describes the process by which Cambridge University Press commissioned the New Cambridge Paragraph Bible. The beginning dates back to 1994, when the press' Bible Publishing Manager needed to decide on any changes or corrections that would have to be made to the KJV text published by Cambridge, given that the film from which the press printed its text was ...
However, iron artefacts of great age are much rarer than objects made of gold or silver due to the ease with which iron corrodes. [86] The technology developed slowly, and even after the discovery of smelting it took many centuries for iron to replace bronze as the metal of choice for tools and weapons.
The earliest gold artifacts were discovered at the site of Wadi Qana in the Levant. [13] Silver is estimated to have been discovered in Asia Minor shortly after copper and gold. [14] There is evidence that iron was known from before 5000 BC. [15] The oldest known iron objects used by humans are some beads of meteoric iron, made in Egypt in ...
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The following table outlines the publication history of the King James version of the Thompson Chain-Reference Bible. The changes from one edition to another are generally seen in the margins of the Bible and in the study materials in the back of the Bible, rather than the Biblical text itself.
Being denser than the lithophiles, hence sinking lower into the crust at the time of its solidification, the chalcophiles tend to be less abundant than the lithophiles. [103] In contrast, gold is a siderophile, or iron-loving element. It does not readily form compounds with either oxygen or sulfur. [104]