Parallels between Lehite journey, Israelite exodus

[_zeezrom]

Okay maybe (MAYBE) Joseph skipped over the lineage chapters and the rules about Solomon's temple but come on. I can't even....

Just thinking about this topic is taking precious minutes from my life when I could be thinking about something with even a tiny amount of value. I feel so sorry for people that have to devote large chunks of their life to "studying" the Book of Mormon.

[_Zub Zool oan]

But the notion of the uneducated farm boy out on the frontier is a picture that we promoted in the discussions - at least the ones I gave in the early seventies and heard in the early sixties before my family converted. It has power and when one reads the uncorrected words Joseph Smith wrote, some people conclude that there was no way he could have done what he did without it being divine. Joseph Smith lived near the greatest engine of commerce of his time and it went right through Palmyra. It was the canal that enabled books, a variety of goods, news and whatnot so that Joseph had access to a myriad things in his world. The canal is a big part of New York being the economic powerhouse it became.

[_sock puppet]

I feel so sorry for people that have to devote large chunks of their life to "studying" the Book of Mormon.

It's like a security blanket that they can't let go of.

[_aussieguy55]

But then Smith did not have access to Israel Finkelstein's book The Bible Unearthed which as an archaeologist argues that the Exodus and Conquest did not happen. No walls around Jericho. No wandering around the desert.

"The conclusion - that the Exodus did not happen at the time and in the manner described in the Bible - seems irrefutable when we examine the evidence at specific sites where the children of Israel were said to have camped for extended periods during their wandering in the desert(Numbers 33) and where some archaeological indication - if present - would almost certainly be found. According to the biblical narrative, the children of Israel camped at kadesh-barnea for thirty eight of the forty years of the wanderings. The general location of this place is clear from the description of the southern border of the land of Israel in Numbers 34. It has been identified by archaeologists with the large and well watered oasis of Ein el-Qudeirat in eastern Sinai, on the border of modern Israel and Egypt. ..... Yet repeated excavations and surveys throughout the entire area have not provided even the slightest evidence for activity in the Late Bronze Age, not even a single sherd left by a tiny fleeing band of frightened refugees" (P.63)

[_moksha]

Adamites bore a striking resemblance to Pre-Adamites. That was more than just coincidence. It proved Professor Hugh Nibley was onto something.

[_SteelHead]

Moksha wins the interwebz today.

[_ludwigm]

Moksha wins the interwebz today.

As always.

But ...
I should do a hard work to decode his (her? its?) texts...

Anyway, I learn English.