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This blog utilizes the ScriptureLog plugin to create a WordPress page for every chapter and verse of the Book of Mormon. You can then leave comments on these chapters and verses just as you would on any blog post.
You can begin navigate to specific books (and then chapters and verses) here .
Gold Plates
In an earlier post I asked the question of what ancient engravings on gold plates might look like.
Kristiina Sorenson was kind enough to leave a comment and a link to another picture/site that helps answer the question.
Her comment reads:
The Louvre Museum in Paris has some ancient plates on display. Some are gold; others are made from other metals. They were discovered during the excavation of the palace of Sargon II, the Assyrian king from 721-705 BC. The site is known as Khorsabad, for the modern-day Iraqi city nearby.
Here’s the image shown at the linked site:
Thank you Kristiina for bringing attention to this!
Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
For the Isaiah passages and chapters that appear in the Book of Mormon, there are now web-pages that will make it easy to compare the Hebrew, King James translation and Book of Mormon texts.
Some internet browsers handle Hebrew better than others. Apple’s Safari seems to work best (while Mozilla Firefox and Google’s Chrome create some problems).
Much credit should be given to Victor Ludlow and the scripture reference list he put together, which came in very handy as a resource.
Links are provided below. Read more
The Malachi Chapters in the Book of Mormon
Filed under: 3 Nephi, 3 Nephi Chapter 24, 3 Nephi Chapter 25, Malachi, Malachi Chapter 3, Malachi Chapter 4
The Hebrew Bible book of Malachi has only 3 chapters. In the King James Bible, this chapter three is divided into a chapter 3 and a chapter 4.
For the sake of comparison, I have entered the Hebrew verses and the King James Bible verses alongside the verses of 3 Nephi Chapter 24 and 3 Nephi Chapter 25.
3 Nephi Chapter 24 (comparable to KJV Malachi Chapter 3 and Hebrew Bible Malachi Chapter 3) – verse 1
3 Nephi Chapter 25 (comparable to KJV Malachi Chapter 4 and Hebrew Bible Malachi Chapter 3) – verse 1
It makes sense to read 3 Nephi Chapter 24 and 3 Nephi Chapter 25 as if they were a single chapter – they clearly fit together as a single document or revelation.
In my experience so far, the Hebrew text/verses appears best in Apple’s Safari browser (for either Apple or PC computers). Other browsers seem to distort the text or remove crucial letters and diacritics.
“And It Is Marvelous In Our Eyes”
What would ancient engravings in gold look like?
The 4/6/2010 article at Law.com which provided the pictures shown above is titled “German Museum Loses Attempt to Reclaim Artifact From Estate” – and it reads:
The gold tablet was found during an excavation around the city of Ashur, now Qual’at Serouat, Iraq, by a team of German archeologists led by Walter Andrae. The inscribed tablet, which was discovered in the foundation of the Ishta Temple, is actually a construction document, according to the judge. It dates to the reign of the Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I (1243-1207 BCE) who expanded the Assyrian empire but was later killed by his son.
At the least, this is proof that ancient peoples in the Middle East engraved records in gold and that such records, even though they are engraved in a precious metal, could survive calamities and last up until modern times.
Though very small, the pictured engravings are not only beautiful, but helpful as an example of what the engravings on the gold plates might have looked like to Joseph Smith and to the other eleven witnesses of the gold plates.
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