Taking the Book of Mormon seriously

This is the standard reading of Nephi's list of what is included in the Plates of Brass ( 1 Ne. 5:11-13 ): And he beheld that they did c...

A few passages in the Book of Mormon appear to contain errors immediately followed by corrections. This is probably the most obvious instanc...

This turned out to be unexpectedly lengthy and speculative, but I think the hypotheses it introduces have got legs. I mentioned this in pass...

No El, no El, no El, no El -- Christmas carol (That epigraph is just a throwaway pun, of course, though it is perhaps worth noting that this...

Sheri Doty, Abish Teaching the Lamanites The Book of Mormon briefly mentions that Abish, a Lamanitish woman, had "been converted unto t...

Vincent Van Gogh, Olive Trees  (1889) The 2 Zenos text (as quoted in Jacob 5) has significant parallels to three different biblical texts: I...

The first part of Nephi's high mountain vision deals with the conception, birth, baptism, ministry, end execution of Jesus Christ -- the...