Category: Ishmael’s burial
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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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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
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A Collection of Funerary Stelae from the Jawf Valley
Stella 105, found on page 72 is of particular interest to Book of Mormon readers, this stella bears the name Yasma’ ‘il which is an Arabic from of the name Ishmael. This stella dates to the 6th to 5th centuries BC, the time in which Lehi and his family passed through the area. It is Read more