Ancient Italy: The true Book of Mormon location

[_Kishkumen]

Darth J-

Why on earth have you not submitted this material to EJJS? I am constantly on the look out for solid work on the Book of Mormon. Your work needs to be published. Your Etruscan/Jaredite connection is especially strong, in my opinion. And, hello, the Etruscans used gold plates for writing! Bravo, Darth. Would you mind editing and submitting your work for publication in EJJS? You have a bright career in this field ahead of you.

All best,

Reverend Severus M. Kishkumen

[_zeezrom]

Darth J,

I fear there are a couple of major problems with your theory. The first one is the lack of evidence of major, regional destruction prior to Christ's visitation to the people. The second one is lack of any publication of Christ's heavenly visitation. Are suggesting that these two key events were exaggerated in the written word?

Zee.

[_MCB]

Pompeii and Herculaneum postdate Jesus' death, but close enough to tango.

Darth's theory really emphasizes the European ideas present in the Book of Mormon. The nature of the book is egregiously European, which the Italian theory illustrates.

[_zeezrom]

Pompeii and Herculaneum postdate Jesus' death, but close enough to tango.

Darth's theory really emphasizes the European ideas present in the Book of Mormon. The nature of the book is egregiously European, which the Italian theory illustrates.

I agree the theory is a good one and illustrates that point (European connection) very well.

[_Kishkumen]

Pompeii and Herculaneum postdate Jesus' death, but close enough to tango.

I think so. And remember that chronological expressions in the scriptures can't be read too literally, not to mention the possibility of a "loose translation" in the pertinent passages.

[_Calculus Crusader]

Pompeii and Herculaneum postdate Jesus' death, but close enough to tango.

I think so. And remember that chronological expressions in the scriptures can't be read too literally, not to mention the possibility of a "loose translation" in the pertinent passages.

Yes, Joseph Smith's translation of the Book of Mormon is "richly anaphoric."

[_MCB]

Hmmmnnn. That vagueness is what makes the Book of Mormon so subject to individual interpretation, according to the cultural background of the reader.

I really enjoy utterances that the reader can interpret in several different ways. How they interpret them gives me some measure of the person, whether they are people who always want to believe the the best, or worst, of another, for example.

[_Calculus Crusader]

Hmmmnnn. That vagueness is what makes the Book of Mormon so subject to individual interpretation, according to the cultural background of the reader.

I really enjoy utterances that the reader can interpret in several different ways. How they interpret them gives me some measure of the person, whether they are people who always want to believe the the best, or worst, of another, for example.

Ah, but you can't interpret it; that's the Maxwell Institute's job!

[_MCB]

Ah, but you can't interpret it; that's the Maxwell Institute's job!

<Grins.> If anyone who chooses to wade through its vagueness and "it came to pass-es" doesn't have the right to interpret it, then the Maxwell Institute has promoted itself to the position of gods.

[_harmony]

Ah, but you can't interpret it; that's the Maxwell Institute's job!

<Grins.> If anyone who chooses to wade through its vagueness and "it came to pass-es" doesn't have the right to interpret it, then the Maxwell Institute has promoted itself to the position of gods.

A bit of an aside: it's not the MI's job to interpret scripture. That's the task for the GA's. MI's job is to translate really old Arabic texts. And we can't extrapolate their chief's favorite hobby onto the rest of them.