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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.
Mormon wrote the history of his people on the Golden plates before he died during a battle on the Hill Cumorah. His son, Moroni, added his own words and the Book of Ether to the record. Moroni hid and protected the Golden plates at the Hill Cumorah. For a possible map look at Image:Book of Mormon Lands and Sites2.jpg.
The Book of Mormon describes a number of individuals unique to its narrative as prophets.Here, the prophets included are those who, according to the narrative, inherited the plates of Nephi and who otherwise are called prophets within the text.
This chronology outlines the major events in the history of the Book of Mormon, according to the text. Dates given correspond to dates in the footnotes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) edition of the Book of Mormon and to a Jaredite timeline proposed by Latter-Day Saint scholar John L. Sorenson. [1] [2]
The Book of Mormon is a book, or subdivision, of the larger Book of Mormon. This "inner" book has nine chapters. According to the text, the first seven chapters were abridged by the prophet Mormon and the last two by his son Moroni. The book thus explains the claimed provenance of the Book of Mormon as an ancient record, mostly of the Nephites ...
This article is a list of rulers in the Book of Mormon, including kings and chief judges among the Lamanites, Nephites, and Jaredites. [1] Dates cited below generally accord with those found in the Latter-day Saint scripture index. [2]
Thomas Stuart Ferguson (May 21, 1915 – March 16, 1983) was an American lawyer, a Mormon and an amateur archaeologist who dedicated his life to finding archeological evidence of the Book of Mormon in Mesoamerica.
Mormon book dealer Curt Bench listed this book among 50 important books on Mormonism in its first 150 years, including it as one of six "anti-Mormon" titles on the list. [1] The book has been described by Dean Helland of Oral Roberts University as "the heavyweight of all books on Mormonism". [2] However, D. Michael Quinn, a Mormon historian at ...