Category: Near East
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered
1992 Eisenman, R., & Wise, M. (1992). The Dead Sea Scrolls uncovered. Element. Read more
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The Nahom Maps
Several maps from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries support details of Lehi’s journey as recorded in the Book of Mormon. In 1751, the renowned cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D’Anville became the first to include Nahom (or Nehem), Ishmael’s burial place in the Book of Mormon, in his map of Asia. This map and a 1771 Read more
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The Nahom Convergence Reexamined: The Eastward Trail, Burial of the Dead, and the Ancient Borders of Nihm
For decades, several Latter-day Saint scholars have maintained that there is a convergence between the location of Nahom in the Book of Mormon and the Nihm region of Yemen. To establish whether there really is such a convergence, I set out to reexamine where the narrative details of 1 Nephi 16:33–17:1 best fit within the Read more
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Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants
References both the Frankincense trial or incense road and the summer monsoons of the Qura mountains in which Nephi’s bountiful is located. K. Hammer, J. Gebauer, S. Al Khanjari,A. Buerkert 2009 Hammer, K. & Gebauer, Jens & Al Khanjari, Sulaiman & Buerkert, Andreas. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Genetic Read more
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More Evidence for Alma as a Semitic Name
Beginning with Hugh Nibley, several Latter-day Saint scholars have highlighted a deed found among the Bar Kokhba documents as evidence of the name Alma as a Jewish male name in antiquity. Here we highlight a second attestation of the same name used for a Jewish male from a slightly earlier period, as well as other Read more
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Hugh Nibley review of Bar-Kochba by Zigael Yadin
Hugh Nibley reviews the book: “Bar-Kochba” relating its relevance to the Book of Mormon and the fascinating discovery of a land deed with the name “Alma son of Judah” now one of many attestation of Alma as a Hebrew male name. Hugh Nibley Nibley, Hugh. “Review of Bar-Kochba by Zigael Yadin.” BYU Studies Quarterly 14, no. 1 Read more