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Names with superscripts (e.g., Nephi 1) are generally numbered according to the index in the LDS scripture, the Book of Mormon [1] (with minor changes). Missing indices indicate people in the index who are not in the Book of Mormon; for instance, Aaron 1 is the biblical Aaron, brother of Moses.
Mormon scholars have also noted that at least seven [4] of "the ancient textual variants in question are not significantly different in meaning." [5] The text of the Book of Mormon is written in an archaic style, and some Latter Day Saints have argued that one would expect a more modern 19th-century vocabulary if Smith had authored the book.
One of two voluntary associations of people [1] described in the Book of Mormon. Nephi 1, People of (Nephites) (proper). First generation descendants of Nephi 1 and his righteous brothers, as well as of Zoram 1. [4] One of seven secondary groups [1] of Book of Mormon peoples. [3] Nephites.
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. [1] [2] The book is one of the earliest and most well-known unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Critics believe Joseph Smith came up with all the names in the Book of Mormon, noting that Joseph owned a King James Bible with a table listing all the names used in the Bible. [51] [52] Many Book of Mormon names are either biblical, formed from a rhyming pattern, or changed by a prefix or suffix.
While historians recognize the roots of Mormonism in American Protestantism and the Second Great Awakening of the 1820s and 1830s, [3] [17] Mormonism has also been identified as "a radical departure from traditional"—i.e. mainline—"Protestant Christianity" [18] and a "profoundly primitivist tradition."
In the earliest manuscripts of the Book of Mormon, the intended spelling of Zenock was Zenoch, resembling the biblical Enoch. Oliver Cowdery, who transcribed part of the Book of Mormon, misspelled the name when he copied the text to a printer's manuscript, and that spelling has carried over to almost all published editions of the Book of Mormon.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Book of Mormon: . The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.