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According to Amaleki, because Mosiah was a seer, the Mulekites asked him to interpret a stone their people found that tells the story of a Jaredite named Coriantumr. [11] An early LDS scholar of the Book of Mormon, Sidney Sperry, identifies Coriantumr as the last Jaredite king, whose account is found in the Book of Ether.
According to the Book of Mormon, Omni (/ ˈ ɒ m n aɪ /) [1] is the first writer of several authors of the Book of Omni, and the son of Jarom. It is believed that he was born in 390 BC. Omni wrote the first three verses of the Book of Omni before passing the responsibility of keeping the Book of Mormon record to his son, Amaron. His writings ...
Corom, king who did good for his people and fathered many children, including Kish. Son of Levi 2. [35] Kish, king about whom little is known; father of Lib 1 and son of Corom, two righteous kings. [36] Lib 1, righteous king who rid land of serpents and became a great hunter. Son of Kish, and father of Hearthom.
King of the Lamanites 2 (unnamed), who was father of Lamoni and Anti-Nephi-Lehi, and who was converted by Aaron 3 (c. 90 BC). [151] King of the Lamanites 3 (unnamed), who was slain by Amalickiah's servant (c. 72 BC). [152] King of the Lamanites 4 (unnamed), to whom Nephite dissenters appealed. Possibly the same as, or a successor to, Tubaloth ...
His interpretation involves an analysis of the wealthy using money to climb the social echelon and gain more power. [27] The Book of Mormon refers to this as "getting gain." [ 28 ] Couch deduces that Ammonihahites with authoritative positions seek to maintain and increase their power and money without any regard for others. [ 29 ]
According to the Book of Mormon, Lehi (/ ˈ l iː h aɪ / LEE-hy) [1] was a prophet who lived in Jerusalem during the reign of King Zedekiah (approximately 600 BC). [2] In First Nephi, Lehi is rejected for preaching repentance and he leads his family, including Sariah, Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi, into the wilderness.
Mosiah priority is a theory about the creation of the Book of Mormon arguing that the original manuscript began not with 1 Nephi (found at the beginning of the Book of Mormon), but midway through, starting with Mosiah.
Literary interpretations of the vision started in the 1970s. [12] Writing in 1977, Brigham Young University (BYU) English professor Bruce Jorgensen introduced an interpretation of the tree of life vision as a key to understanding the Book of Mormon's typological unity. Lehi's dream enacts the pattern of moving from a wasteland to a land of ...