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Mormon FAIR-Cast 141: Was the Book of Mormon Set in Heartland America?

Where did the events of the Book of Mormon take place? What evidence is there that the events took place in Mesoamerica? What evidence is there that these events did not take place in the heartland of...

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Mormon FAIR-Cast 160b: Don Bradley and Dan Peterson Taking Questions

Joseph Smith Scholar Don Bradley and Dr. Dan Peterson take calls on K-Talk radio and answer a wide variety of questions in this interview that took place on July 25, 2013 on Drive Time Live with Mills...

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Noham, That’s Not History (Nor Geography, Cartography, or Logic): More on the...

As mentioned in my previous post about the significance of Nahom, in a recent presentation at an ex-Mormon conference, a man who says he is “addicted to truth” made the claim that his searching had...

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Book of Mormon and DNA Studies

[Cross posted from Ploni Almoni: Mr. So-and-So's Mormon Blog.] The Church has released a new article addressing criticisms of the Book of Mormon based on DNA evidence (link here). Here are a few of my...

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Fair Issues 42: Dismissing Book of Mormon Geography Inaccuracies

The traditional LDS folk-belief asserts that the Lehites arrived to a nearly vacant New World,…this assumption – like many other assumptions about the about the Book of Mormon – comes from a naïve...

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Fair Issues 43: Why aren’t other peoples mentioned in the Book of Mormon?

Why didn’t Nephi include explicit information about “others” in the small plates?  Unlike the large plates – which recorded the more mundane, political and warring elements of Nephi history – the small...

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Fair Issues 45: What about statements that say the Lehites came here alone?

While I recognize that more than one LDS Church leader has implicitly or explicitly stated that the New World was uninhabited before arrival of the Jaredites, there is no official statement or...

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Book Review: Mormon’s Codex: An Ancient American Book

Title: Mormon’s Codex: An Ancient American Book Author: John L. Sorenson Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: Nonfiction Year Published: 2013 Number of Pages: 826 pages Binding: Hardcover ISBN13:...

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Fair Issues 54: Does the Book of Mormon get the Old World Details Right?

When we examine the Old World geography through which the Lehites would have traveled, we find remarkable consistency with the terrain and trails that accurately match what we find in the Book of...

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Fair Issues 59: To Arabs, valleys, not mountains, the symbol of permanence

As we discussed in the last installment of this series the Lehites’ first semi permanent encampment was called the river of “Laman” and the valley of “Lemuel.”  In this podcast Michael Ash explains how...

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Fair Issues 65: Tracing the Lehites journey through the wilderness

When we examine the territory likely traversed by the Lehites we find an interesting match for the Book of Mormons Shazer.  Wadi Agharr is about 60 miles southeast from the likely location of the...

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Mark Wright vs. Earl Wunderli: How Perspective Changes Everything

[Cross posted from Studio et Quoque Fide with slight alterations.] Last year, Earl Wunderli published study claiming to show that the Book of Mormon was written by Joseph Smith strictly by internal...

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Fair Issues 67: In the Book of Mormon where is the city called Nahom?

After Nephi’s broken-bow incident the Lehites continued on their Journey until the death of Ishmael. “And (he) was buried,” wrote Nephi, “in the place which was  called Nahom” (1Nephi 17:24). Typically...

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Fair Issues 68: Exploring the journey of Lehi’s family

Among the earliest LDS researchers to explore the likely path trekked by the Lehites, we would be remiss if we failed to include Lynn and Hope Hilton.  In the early 1970’s, building on some of Hugh...

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Fair Issues 69: Where is the land Bountiful?

In this podcast brother Ash discusses possible locations for the land Bountiful. Current research supports the view presented in the Book of Mormon. In the southern Arabia country of Oman near the...

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Fair Issues 70: What was Nephi’s ship like?

Brother Ash discusses how Nephi was instructed to build a ship to take his family to their new land.  The ship was not to be built “after the manner of men” but according to the Lord’s instructions....

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Fair Issues 71: Were there transoceanic voyages in ancient times?

While LDS scholars agree with non-LDS scholars that the New World was populated primarily by humans who traversed the Bering Strait thousands of years ago, a growing number of non-LDS scholars agree...

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Fair Issues 74: What happened at the Tower of Babel?

In Genesis we are told that following the confusion of tongues the people were scattered across the earth (11:7-9).  Many people have traditionally assumed that the scattering or dispersion, was caused...

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Fair Issues 77: What is the correct geography for the Book of Mormon?

In this podcast Michael Ash relates the possible models for the Book of Mormon geography.  The strongest models are those which 1) are supported by the strongest evidences, 2) do the best accounting...

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Fair Issues 78: What is the correct Book of Mormon geography?

In this episode brother Ash investigates real world distances in determining the proper Book of Mormon geographic models. The full text of this article can be found at Deseret News online. Brother Ash...

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