List of Book of Mormon groups
This list is intended as a quick reference for groups of people mentioned in the Book of Mormon.
Some of these groups are not mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon, but these names are used in discussions" about" the Book of Mormon.
Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting
The geographical setting of the Book of Mormon is the set of locations of the events described in the Book of Mormon.
There is no universal consensus among Mormon scholars regarding the placement of these locations in the known world, other than somewhere in the Americas.
A popular" traditional" view among many Latter- day Saint faithful covers much of North and South America; while many Book of Mormon scholars, particularly in recent decades, believe the text itself favors a limited Mesoamerican or other limited setting for most of the Book of Mormon events.
The largest of the churches embracing the Book of Mormon — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints( LDS Church) —has not endorsed an official position for the geographical setting the Book of Mormon, although some of its leaders have spoken of various possible locations over the years.
There have also been multiple attempts to identify the several civilizations in the Book of Mormon, which are dated in the text as living from 2500 BC to 400 AD, but no consensus has ever been reached.
According to Joseph Smith, an angel named Moroni told him" there was a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang."
According to Joseph Smith, Moroni explained that the coming forth of the Book of Mormon was to be concurrent with the fulfillment of ancient prophecies regarding the latter- day church of Christ.
According to Latter Day Saint scripture, the narrative in the Book of Mormon came to an end in the ancient land Cumorah, where Moroni, in 421 AD deposited the golden plates prior to his death.
Mormon and Moroni's Cumorah is claimed by many believers to be the same land containing the modern" Hill Cumorah" near Joseph Smith's home in Palmyra, western New York, from whence the gold plates of the Book of Mormon were retrieved.
Others view the modern" Hill Cumorah" to be distinct from the original, and simply to have been named after it; thus adding no information to the question of the location of the lands described in the Book of Mormon.
Linguistics and the Book of Mormon
According to most adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Book of Mormon is a 19th- century translation of a record of ancient inhabitants of the American continent, which was written in a script which the book refers to as" reformed Egyptian".
This claim, as well as all claims to historical authenticity of the Book of Mormon, are rejected by non-Latter Day Saint historians and scientists.
Linguistically based assertions are frequently cited and discussed in the context of the subject of the Book of Mormon, both in favor of and against the book's claimed origins.
Both critics and promoters of the Book of Mormon have used linguistic methods to analyze the text.
Promoters have published claims of stylistic forms that Joseph Smith and his contemporaries are unlikely to have known about, as well as similarities to Egyptian and Hebrew.
Critics of the Book of Mormon claim there are places where the language is anachronistic and suggestive of a 19th- century origin consistent with Smith's upbringing and life experience, as well as the books and other literature published just preceding the time that the Book of Mormon was published.
A problem with linguistic reviews of the Book of Mormon is that the claimed original text is either unavailable for study or never existed.
Smith said that he returned the golden plates to an angel after he finished the translation.
The Book of Mormon Movie
The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1:
The Journey is a 2003 American adventure drama film directed by Gary Rogers and written by Rogers and Craig Clyde.
A film adaptation of the first two books in "The Book of Mormon", a religious text of scripture, the film was given a limited theatrical release on September 12, 2003.
John L. Sorenson
John L. Sorenson( born April 8, 1924) is an emeritus professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University( BYU) and the author of" An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon" as well as many other books and articles on the Book of Mormon and archaeology.
Sorenson first did archaeological work in Mesoamerica while pursuing a master's degree at BYU.
From January until June 1953 he was involved in the New World Archaeological Foundation's initial fieldwork( under the direction of Pedro Armillas) in the state of Tabasco in Mexico.
Sorenson holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
He began teaching at BYU in 1963, and he later established the BYU's anthropology department.
He also served as head of Social Sciences for General Research Corporation based in Santa Barbara, California, and was the founder of Bonneville Research Corporation.
For a time he served as editor of the" Journal of Book of Mormon Studies".
Sorenson has authored or co-authored some 200 books and articles including" Mormon's Codex: An Ancient American Book"( 2013)," An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon"( 1985)," Transoceanic Culture Contacts between the Old and New Worlds in Pre-Columbian Times: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography"( with Martin Raish, 1988)," Images of Ancient America: Visualizing Book of Mormon Life"( 1998)," Mormon ’s Map"( 2000), and" World Trade and Biological Exchanges before 1492"( with Carl L. Johannessen, 2004).
While being a proponent of the historicity of the Book of Mormon, Sorenson has also attacked the poor scholarship that some have used in defending the Book of Mormon.
Sorenson is the father of 8 children, all boys, has one adopted daughter, 23 grandchildren, and 10 great grandchildren.
He has served as bishop of the BYU 99th Ward.
Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which, according to adherents, contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.
It was first published in March 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".
According to Smith's account and the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as" reformed Egyptian" engraved on golden plates.
Smith said that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in the Hill Cumorah in present- day Manchester, New York before his death, and then returned to Earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the plates to Smith, and instructing him to translate the plates into English for use in the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.
Critics claim that it was authored by Smith, drawing on material and ideas from contemporary 19th- century works rather than translating an ancient record.
The Book of Mormon has a number of original and distinctive doctrinal discussions on subjects such as the fall of Adam and Eve, the nature of the Christian atonement, eschatology, redemption from physical and spiritual death, and the organization of the latter- day church.
The pivotal event of the book is an appearance of Jesus Christ in the Americas shortly after his resurrection.
The Book of Mormon is the earliest of the unique writings of the Latter- day Saint movement, the denominations of which typically regard the text primarily as scripture, and secondarily as a historical record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.
The archaeological, historical, and scientific communities do not accept the Book of Mormon as an ancient record of actual historical events.
The Book of Mormon is divided into smaller books, titled after the individuals named as primary authors and, in most versions, divided into chapters and verses.
It is written in English very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 111 languages.
As of 2011, more than 150 million copies of the Book of Mormon had been printed.
Amulek
Amulek is a key figure in the Book of Alma, a book of the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Mormon and the King James Bible
The Book of Mormon contains many linguistic similarities to the King James Bible
(KJV).
In some cases, entire passages are duplicated in the Book of Mormon.
Sometimes the quotation is explicit, as in the Second Book of Nephi, which contains 18 quoted chapters of the Book of Isaiah.
Other significant connections between the two books include Book of Mormon words and phrases that only appear in their KJV usage, perpetuation of Bible passages considered by some scholars to have been mistranslated in the KJV, and the possible presence of English homophones.
Most Mormons accept the miraculous origin theory of the Book of Mormon and deny that the KJV was a source for it, arguing that the alleged similarities between the two are artifacts of the divine nature of the creation of the work.
In contrast, those who reject the miraculous origin of the Book of Mormon view the KJV as a major source for the Book of Mormon.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints identify the Book of Mormon as the “stick of Joseph” in the following KJV Bible scripture;
Ezekiel 37:19
Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
This link comes from revelation written in Doctrine and Covenants 27:5;
Behold, this is wisdom in me; wherefore, marvel not, for the hour cometh that I will drink of the fruit of the vine with you on the earth, and with Moroni, whom I have sent unto you to reveal the Book of Mormon, containing the fulness of my everlasting gospel, to whom I have committed the keys of the record of the stick of Ephraim;
Gary Rogers
Gary Rogers (born 25 September 1981 in County Louth, Ireland) is an Irish professional footballer playing as a goalkeeper for Dundalk in the League of Ireland.
He has also been called up for the Republic of Ireland national football team.
Royal Skousen
Royal Jon Skousen( born August 5, 1945) is a professor of linguistics and English at Brigham Young University( BYU), where he is editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.
He is" the leading expert on the textual history of the Book of Mormon" and the founder of the analogical modeling approach to language modeling.

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