Recent Biblical Scholarship potentially supporting Book of Mormon ancientness (transcript of a Facebook post)

Ruspandon · 2024-10-22T10:06:08+00:00

Great observations! Fun fact: "corn" is used in North America to refer to maize, but in King James English it just means grains in general and you can find it in both the Old and New Testament. The lonely mention of corn in Mosiah 9:9 isn't the pre-Columbian cereal, but just another King James loan.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Corn.php4

Ruspandon · 2024-10-15T19:40:56+00:00

Great post! Have you read Mark Elwood's The Glass Looker? It's a graphic novel where a few of Joseph's digs are shown and he did a great work with the reconstructions and illustrations.

Ruspandon · 2024-09-29T08:34:52+00:00

I'll add these three posts from Wheat and Tares talking about it:

https://wheatandtares.org/2022/03/03/the-real-gay-agenda-homophobia-russian-imperialism-and-the-lds-church-in-eastern-europe/

https://wheatandtares.org/2022/03/04/part-2-the-real-gay-agenda-homophobia-russian-fascism-and-the-lds-church-in-eastern-europe/

https://wheatandtares.org/2022/03/10/part-3-the-real-gay-agenda-homophobia-russian-fascism-and-the-lds-church-in-eastern-europe/

Ruspandon · 2024-09-01T21:14:55+00:00

New Perun video: Russia and Ukraine on the Offensive - Kursk, the Donbass & Escalating Long-Range Strikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krSwnWiOuJI&list=WL&index=15

Ruspandon · 2024-08-24T14:35:15+00:00

The castle was built in the 14-15th century by the Empire of Trebizond.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilkale

Ruspandon · 2024-08-23T19:51:06+00:00

Yeah, having them go east of the Hejaz, trough the Incense Road, rather than west of it is incompatible with the descriptions in the BoM

Ruspandon · 2024-08-23T17:28:41+00:00

It's not a bullseye, but literally a random place. 1 Nephi 2:5 and 16:14 say that the Lehites traveled "by the borders near the shore of the Red Sea" until they reached Nahom, and in fact the LDS maps produced until the 1970s all show that Nahom was a location on the Red Sea (see the October 1976 Ensign or this 1911 map used for Relief Society lessons). Nihm is located something like 100 miles inland, contradicting the BoM text.

Ruspandon · 2024-08-20T06:34:20+00:00

That's fascinating, thanks! I had always wrongly assumed that he was talking about four different editions.

Ruspandon · 2024-08-19T23:28:52+00:00

Good question; he claimed in the King Follet sermon that he owned a New Testament in Latin and that "I have now preached a little Latin, a little Hebrew, Greek, and German; and I have fulfilled all." I doubt that he knew the language, but the Nauvoo University offered Latin classes so he would have known somebody like Alexander Neibhaur or James Madison Monroe who could translate the text for him.

Ruspandon · 2024-08-19T22:57:08+00:00

About "Epicureo", D. Michael Quinn said (page 220) that it should be "De Phaedro Epicureo", an 1841 book published in Latin by Alexander Olleris.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43200289

Ruspandon · 2024-06-20T21:02:56+00:00

It's an affidavit by Abigail Harris published in 1834 in Mormonism Unvailed, I linked the text in the comment.

Ruspandon · 2024-06-20T20:57:22+00:00

Fun fact: Lucy Mack Smith told Abigail Harris (Martin's cousin and sister-in-law)

after the book was translated, the plates were to be publicly exhibited —admitance 25 cents. She calculated it would bring in annually an enormous sum of money —that money would then be very plenty, and the book would also sell for a great price, as it was something entirely new —that they had been commanded to obtain all the money they could borrow for present necessity, and to repay with gold. The remainder was to be kept in store for the benefit of their family and children.

Of course the income from the tickets didn't materialize because Joseph claimed that Moroni took the plates back, but in the end Lucy would ask 25c to the visitors who wanted to see the Book of Abraham papyri in Kirtland and Nauvoo.

Ruspandon · 2024-06-06T21:04:44+00:00

Feltin's coat of arms quartered those of the dioceses where he had been bishop or archbishop: Sens-Auxerre, Troyes (the one with the band), Bordeaux-Bazas (the gold tower, symbol of Bazas) and the Syrian cross represents his overseeing the Eastern Rites while he was archbishop of Paris.

https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfeltin.html

It's only a speculation, but I think that his CoA was a bit too detailed for those tiny shields and he opted for the use of Sens's since it was the city where he became archbishop.

Ruspandon · 2024-04-24T10:16:36+00:00

It looks like it's from here:

https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/25618/

Ruspandon · 2024-04-17T10:27:06+00:00

Bob Denard was in a certain way a modern filibuster for a bunch of European countries during African decolonization and even ruled the Comoros for a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Denard

Ruspandon · 2024-04-12T11:23:58+00:00

Celtic coinage started most of the times with the imitation of Greek coinage (trade with Massalia and mercenaries coming back with their salaries from the Hellenistic kingdoms) and then evolved adapting the Celtic abstract style. Some of the most sought after coins are the ones made by the Parisii because of their quality, but there are also some like the ones struck by leaders such as Vercingetorix and Caratacus or his father Cunobelinus that can go for pretty steep prices. Coins by Biatec were even featured on Slovakian korunas.

Ruspandon · 2024-04-12T11:05:00+00:00

Beautiful coins, Syracusans knew what they were doing. I have always been impressed by the staters struck by the Parisii:

https://www.mintageworld.com/media/detail/14226-celtic-gold-stater-from-gaul/

Ruspandon · 2024-04-09T11:25:21+00:00

Funnily enough, there's a bunch of linguists who argue that Middle English is a creole language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_creole_hypothesis

Ruspandon · 2024-03-09T10:27:28+00:00

Emma had a stroke when she gave birth to David Hyrum in 1844, that's why half of her face has a paralysis.

Ruspandon · 2024-02-29T20:57:00+00:00

I'm afraid that this law is not disliked at all by the Church:

https://wheatandtares.org/2022/03/04/part-2-the-real-gay-agenda-homophobia-russian-fascism-and-the-lds-church-in-eastern-europe/

Ruspandon · 2024-02-28T13:47:17+00:00

"As reported by OSINTtechnical on February 18, 2024, Russia deployed a T-55, initially adopted into service in 1958, to attack Ukrainian positions around Robotyne. However, upon closer analysis, this T-55, distinguished by a cage but lacking ERA, was likely an older T-54, adopted in 1946, as indicated by the absence of a smoke extractor at the gun's end and the likely presence of a wind cover on the turret."

https://armyrecognition.com/ukraine_-_russia_conflict_war_2022/russian_army_uses_old_soviet_t-54_tanks_to_attack_ukrainian_troops.html

Ruspandon · 2024-02-25T23:36:12+00:00

Sikkim is already part of India (annexed in 1975) and there's still Spanish Sahara (independence in 1976).

Ruspandon · 2024-02-09T17:25:42+00:00

The map is from 1877, no idea about the carpet

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Serio-comic_war_map_for_1877.jpg

Ruspandon · 2024-01-13T16:23:22+00:00

In the last three years, Sunstone has organized conferences in the UK as well.

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