Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s

by Melvin J. Thorne and John W. Welch

Book Overview

Edited by John W. Welch and Melvin J. Thorne, this book presents the FARMS Research Updates of the 1990s, plus some similar short notes from the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, in a new collection.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093489342X
• ISBN13: 9780934893428
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Maxwell Institute
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Suggested reading on the Book of Mormon

This is a collection of updates regarding certain pericope and items contained in the Book of Mormon volume from the Foundation of Ancient Research and Mormon studies. It is, too all intents and purposes, based on the book from 1992, "Reexploring the Book of Mormon." I strongly suggest this text as it contains a heck of a lot of information regarding Nephite economics, warfare, material culture, and scriptural insight for exegesis and hermeneutics. Further, in regard to the negative review left by "Dave" below, his ignorance of the Book of Mormon volume is staggering. The only steel sword, for instance, in the Book of Mormon is that of Laban's from the Old World. 2 Nephi 5 mentions sword making and metallurgy as if they were seperate from one another, suggesting that New World swords in the Book of Mormon were made from wood, as with the Macanas Mesoamerican soldiers used in warfare (that this is so can be seen in Alma 24:11-14).