Category: Nahom
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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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Book of Mormon Minimalists and the NHM Inscriptions: A Response to Dan Vogel
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Newly Found Alters from Nahom
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On Lehi’s Trail: Nahom
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A History of NaHoM
Warren P. Aston relates the history of the locations of Nahom, or NHM and archeological evidence that the sites existence Read more
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Across Arabia with Lehi and Sariah
Warren P. Aston draws on his own research in Yemen and Oman as well as on the work of other scholars and researchers to explore two locations in the Book of Mormon account of Lehi’s journey through Arabia: Nahom and Bountiful. Preliminarily, Aston highlights Nephi’s own directional indications for each leg of the journey, considers Read more
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Through the Arabian Desert
Eugene England examines the route taken by the Book of Mormon emigrants from Jerusalem across Arabia to the sea, testing the hypothesis that Joseph Smith, or one of his contemporaries, made up the account of that journey on the basis of information available in the 1820s. Eugene England, “Through the Arabian Desert to a Bountiful Land: Could Joseph Read more
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An Ishmael Buried near Nahom
Within a catalog of Funerary Stelae from the Jawf Valley. Neal Rappleye found an unlikely occurrence of a small stone engraving dating to the 5th or 6th centuries BC bearing the name Yasma’ ‘il, an Arabic form of the name name Ishmael. This stella was found in the Jawf valley, near the NHM archeological site. Read more