The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon (properly titled The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ) is a sacred book of scripture that testifies of Jesus Christ and explains the Lord’s dealings with His people in the ancient Americas. Latter-day Saints believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God and a companion testament to the Holy Bible. Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon into English in the 1820s, and others have since translated the English version into dozens of languages. The book contains a promise that whoever reads it sincerely, ponders its contents and asks God if it is true will receive that knowledge by the power of the Holy Ghost. (Read more)
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Book of Mormon Research
This site focus on the Book of Mormon and it features many articles written by John A. Tvedtnes. It also includes basic information about beliefs of the Mormon Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and other interesting topics.
John A. Tvedtnes (MA in Linguistics and MA in Middle East Studies (Hebrew), University of Utah) retired in 2007 as a senior resident scholar with the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts at Brigham Young University. He has taught at the University of Utah and at the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies and the BYU Salt Lake Center and has lectured in Israel and the United States. At this writing, he has authored 10 books and more than 300 articles. (Read More)
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
One of the most popular books in the world, after the Bible, is the Book of Mormon. Since it was first published in 1830, 78 million copies have been published in 94 languages. More than four million copies were distributed during 1997. (Read more)
The Book of Mormon Helps Us Understand the Bible
One of the purposes of the Book of Mormon is to lend support to the Bible. About four centuries after the coming of Jesus Christ to visit the Nephites in the New World, Mormon wrote, “this [the Book of Mormon] is written for the intent that ye may believe that [the Bible]; and if ye believe that ye will believe this also” (Mormon 7:9). (Read more)
The Book of Mormon and Other Ancient Documents
When the Book of Mormon was first published in English in 1830, it seemed rather an anomaly, despite its biblical tone. No one had ever heard of ancient books being written on metallic plates and hidden in stone boxes. Moreover, it claimed to have been originally written in a “reformed Egyptian” script by ancient Israelites. Critics were quick to ridicule these ideas. But all that changed in the mid-twentieth century. (Read more)
Book of Mormon Articles by John A. Tvedtnes
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We agree that Jesus is the only one on whom we can rely for salvation. But you seem not to be aware that the Book of Mormon also testifies of Jesus Christ. Technically, there is no such thing as “Mormonism.” We are the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and we acknowledge Christ as the head of our Church. Mormon is the man who, in the late fourth century AD, abridged the records of his people and called it the Book of Mormon. I suggest you read it before you judge it.
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The word templum is Latin and refers to sacred space. We have many Latin words in English. The KJV translators used it to denote the sacred building constructed in Jerusalem by Solomon.
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I read the Book of Mormon many years before the subtitle was added and the contents were the same as now, describing Nephite history and teachings. Where did you come up with the idea that the book itself has changed just because a subtitle was added? You need to read the book!
There were two varieties of reformed Egyptian at the time Lehi left Jerusalem, One was called by the Greeks hieratic (meaning “priestly”), the other demotic (meaning “popular” (i.e., of the people). Each was a cursive, with demotic being the most cursive. But the Nephites reformed it even further, as Moroni states in Mormon 9:32-34. Again, where are you getting such strange and incorrect ideas?
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