ldsfaqs wrote:Darth J wrote:Of the different locations that the Church has touted as Nahom from the Book of Mormon, which one IS a match?
http://LDS.org/liahona/1977/07/in-searc ... l?lang=eng
http://LDS.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideN ... 82620aRCRD
http://LDS.org/liahona/2008/01/was-lehi-here?lang=eng
1. You are so funny.
2. "Nahom" has been the SAME PLACE since the beginning.
No.
August 1978 Ensign:
It is unlikely that modern scholars will ever locate with confidence the rest stop to which travelers of a lonely caravan gave the name Shazer—simply because they may never have spoken that name to anyone outside their group.
But Nahom is different. The name in Hebrew seems to mean “mourning,” or perhaps “comfort” or “consolation.” Was it a burial ground—a cemetery—to which the local people led the mourning travelers when one of their leaders died? (See Hugh Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, pp. 90–91.) Perhaps it was similar to the cemetery which Gerald W. Silver, who accompanied the Hiltons, photographed near Al Qunfudhah. (See Ensign, October 1976, p. 54.)
Although Nephi in his account makes no explicit mention of any person outside his father’s group as it passed through Arabia, the land must surely have been peopled. In view of the well-known longevity of place-names in the Semitic world, we could perhaps hope to find a name such as Nahom preserved in the speech of recent inhabitants. Its form would be altered, of course; at least minor changes in pronunciation would be expected with the passage of so many centuries.
Little mapping has been done in Arabia, however; detailed maps exist for only small parts of the land. Nevertheless, “the place called Nahom” may already have been found!
In 1763 Carsten Niebuhr prepared a map of Yemen (South Arabia or “Arabia Felix”) as a major project of the scientific expedition sent out by King Frederick V of Denmark. The name “Nehhm” appears on that map. It was a small administrative district located among the mountain valleys some 100 miles east of Luhaiya and about 25 miles north of the capital, Sana. (See accompanying map; also Thorkild Hansen, Arabia Felix: the Danish Expedition of 1761–1767 (1964), pp. 232–33.)
And what bearing does this have upon the route traced by Lynn and Hope Hilton? If the “Nehhm” of Niebuhr is accepted as the equivalent of “Nahom” of the Book of Mormon, then the discovery might confirm the general itinerary traced in the Hiltons’ article. (See Ensign, Sept. 1976, ill. 7, p. 49.) Nehhm is only a little south of the route drawn by the Hiltons. Nehhm could thus be the place where Ishmael was laid to rest, where his daughters “did mourn exceedingly” (1 Ne. 16:35), and whence the caravan then turned eastward toward the Indian Ocean.
February 2001 Ensign:
A group of Latter-day Saint researchers recently found evidence linking a site in Yemen, on the southwest corner of the Arabian peninsula, to a name associated with Lehi’s journey as recorded in the Book of Mormon.
Warren Aston, Lynn Hilton, and Gregory Witt located a stone altar that professional archaeologists dated to at least 700 B.C. This altar contains an inscription confirming “Nahom” as an actual place that existed in the peninsula before the time of Lehi. The Book of Mormon mentions that “Ishmael died, and was buried in the place which was called Nahom” (1 Ne. 16:34).
This is the first archaeological find that supports a Book of Mormon place-name other than Jerusalem or the Red Sea, says Brother Witt.
3. You are confusing some of the other evidences of which there have been a couple different candidates for, i.e. the Valley of Lemual, etc.
I've studied both the Hilton's work and George Potter/Richard Wellingtons work.
I find the later studies on the couple of variations to be the most accurate candidates.
Anyway, again, a couple of evidences out of 100's for which we aren't 100% sure of which candidate is the actual candidate, doesn't somehow invalidate all the other evidences, the entire evidence chain. There are MANY valley's.... It's not surprising that there would be a question of which valley is the better candidate.
In other words, a vague description in the Book of Mormon of features that apply to many places does in fact resemble many different places, indicating nothing except coincidence.
But again, Nahom has always been the same place. It was a major city/people of a particular time period.
You [personal attack deleted] don't even get BASIC FACTS right..... to degrade the Church with.
Yes, it has always been in the same place in Saudi Arabia (1978 Ensign), and also the same place in Yemen (2001 Ensign).
And this compelling evidence certainly does not look to a reasonable observer like shooting an arrow and then painting a target around where the arrow landed.