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The Book of Alma is the longest of all the books of the Book of Mormon, consisting of 63 chapters. The book records the first 39 years of what the Nephites termed "the reign of the judges", a period in which the Nephite nation adopted a constitutional theocratic government in which the judicial and executive branches of the government were combined.
When Sjödahl died in 1939, he had partially completed an extensive commentary on the Book of Mormon. In 1955, Sjödahl's material was taken by his son-in-law, Philip C. Reynolds, and combined with some materials by church general authority George Reynolds and published under their names the seven-volume Commentary on the Book of Mormon .
One of seven secondary groups [1] of Book of Mormon peoples. [3] Nephites. The later descendants of Nephi 1, [5] and those peoples who chose to be called by his name. One of four primary groups [1] of Book of Mormon peoples.
Gazelem (/ ɡ ə ˈ z eɪ l ɪ m /; [1]) is a person or object mentioned in the Book of Alma, within the Book of Mormon. Alma the Younger makes a reference to Gazelem in his instructions to his son Helaman. It has been theorized that Gazelem was a Jaredite seer. Joseph Smith used Gazelam (sic) as one of his code names in the Doctrine and ...
McConkie was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Oscar Walter McConkie and Margaret Vivian Redd. Before he was a year old, his family moved to Monticello, Utah.In 1925, his family moved back to Ann Arbor, where his father continued studying law and in 1926 they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Robert L. Millet (born 30 December 1947) is a professor of ancient scripture and emeritus Dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah.Millet is a Latter-day Saint author and speaker with more than 60 published works on virtually all aspects of Mormonism.
Alma Adelbert Timpson was born to English-immigrant John Herbert Timpson and Jeanetta Ann Timpson on March 28, 1905, in Iona, Idaho. His family were practicing polygamists and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; his father had wives Jeanetta and Sarah from before the church disavowing plural marriage with the 1890 Manifesto. [2]
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.