Fake Book of Mormon Geography -- holes in the script

[huckelberry]

Shulem, artist depictions are a product of assumptions and images they are familiar with. It seems Book of Mormon images are recycled images of Bible illustrations. Yes, they would be a bit misleading sort of like all those images of Jesus which do not look like him.

I thought I would copy what I added to the version of this thread in Celestial.

But the swords made in the manner of Laban's sword , turn out to be wood clubs with flint blades. Fallowing the pattern of this sort of construction "in the manner of" the temple means constructed of wood poles and thatch.

Shulem, you seem not to have included the LDS view (well some LDS) that what you read in Nephi is the reconstructed edition of Nephi made by Mormon and Moroni who lived a thousand years later and were a bit unclear on the building details.

I actually thought your suggestion of there being a city of previous Israelite immigrants to help the project and help Nephi survive could be helpful for peoples efforts to believe the book as history. You suggested that mention of those ancient details got edited out by the misadventure of the 116 pages. That dovetails nicely with everything that Mormon left out to help explain the incongruities between the book and known reality.

(I already mentioned that the effort to make the book believable is curious but has left matters beyond my personal ability to believe)