An Ancient American Setting For The Book Of Mormon By John L. Sorenson 415 pages
“Where did the Book of Mormon events take place?” Ever since the publication of the Book of Mormon, its readers have asked this question. Only recently has enough information come to light to make it possible to place the book in a thoroughly plausible geographical, historical, and cultural setting.
In An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon, Professor John L. Sorenson presents a detailed answer to the question of the locations of book of Mormon lands. He cites extensive details from the book itself as it describes natural features, cities, routes and territories, as well as peoples, customs, warfare, and population data. Hundreds of geographical, historical, and cultural facts from the scriptures fall in to place as the geographical model is expanded to cover related issues.
The volume asks questions like “Who were the Nephites in archaeological terms?” “What might they have looked like?” “Who were their neighbors?” “How many of them were there?” “How did they live, eat, speak, work, and fight?” Plausible answers to these questions are developed by matching data from reliable archaeological and anthropological studies of Mesoamerica (southern Mexico and northern Central America) with cultural and historical information form the Book of Mormon. The analysis yields surprising insights on every page. Yet the book intentionally ask more questions that it answers, for it aims to stimulate, not to shut off, further inquiry.
Referenced to up-to-date scientific and scholarly sources, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon stems from decades of research by a recognized scholar. While the words are probing, they are carefully weighed and the discussion proves to be very readable,. Since its publication in 1985, the book has gained recognition as the essential treatment of book of Mormon peoples and events in the New World setting. It remains a book that should be read by every serious student of the Book of Mormon.
In An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon, Professor John L. Sorenson presents a detailed answer to the question of the locations of book of Mormon lands. He cites extensive details from the book itself as it describes natural features, cities, routes and territories, as well as peoples, customs, warfare, and population data. Hundreds of geographical, historical, and cultural facts from the scriptures fall in to place as the geographical model is expanded to cover related issues.
The volume asks questions like “Who were the Nephites in archaeological terms?” “What might they have looked like?” “Who were their neighbors?” “How many of them were there?” “How did they live, eat, speak, work, and fight?” Plausible answers to these questions are developed by matching data from reliable archaeological and anthropological studies of Mesoamerica (southern Mexico and northern Central America) with cultural and historical information form the Book of Mormon. The analysis yields surprising insights on every page. Yet the book intentionally ask more questions that it answers, for it aims to stimulate, not to shut off, further inquiry.
Referenced to up-to-date scientific and scholarly sources, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon stems from decades of research by a recognized scholar. While the words are probing, they are carefully weighed and the discussion proves to be very readable,. Since its publication in 1985, the book has gained recognition as the essential treatment of book of Mormon peoples and events in the New World setting. It remains a book that should be read by every serious student of the Book of Mormon.
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