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ane John 50. Sorenson, "Digging into the Volume of Mormon," Ensign, September 1984, 2637; Oct 1984, 12-23, reprinted past the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS); An Aboriginal American Setting for the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Deserei Book Company, and Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1985);

The Geography of Book of Mormon Events: A Source Book (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1990);

"The Book of Mormon equally a Mesoamerican Tape," in Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1997), 391-521.

2 Deanne Thousand. Matheny, "Does the Shoe Fit? A Critique of the Limited Tehuantepec Geography," in New Approaches to the Volume of Mormon: Explorations in Disquisitional Methodology, ed. Brent Lee Metcalfe (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1993), 269-328.

John Fifty. Sorenson, "Viva Zapato! Hurray for the Shoe!" in Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 6, no. one, ed. Daniel C. Peterson (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1994): 297-361

three Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 6.

4 James E. Smith, "How Many Nephites? The Book of Mormon at the Bar of Census," Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1997), 260.

5 The Reverend 1000.T. Lamb, The Gilt Bible; or, The Book of Mormon, Is It From God? (New York: Ward & Drummond, 1887), 100 (photomechanical reprint of the original edition by Modern Microfilm Co., Salt Lake City),

Kenneth Godfrey, "What is the Significance of Zelph in the Study of Book of Mormon Geography?" Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 8, no. 2 (1999): 76,

Sorenson, A Source Volume, 178,

6 James East. Smith, "Nephi'due south Descendants? Historical Demography and the Book of Mormon," in Review of Books on the Volume of Mormon, 6, no.1, ed. Daniel C. Peterson (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1994): 264-65.

seven Melvin J. Thorne, "Complexity, Consistency, Ignorance, and Probabilities," in Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1997), 182-83.

Dean C. Jessee, The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Volume, 1984), 213-twenty, is a letter Joseph Smith wrote on i March 1842

Ibid., 215

8 Jessee, The Personal Writings, 203 (accent added).

Ibid., 214, accent added

9 Sorenson, A Source Book, 9,

D&C 28:8,

D&C 32:two,

D&C 54:eight,

10 Sorenson, "Mesoamerican Record," 393-94.

11 Smith's "How Many Nephites?" 261-62.

Writing in 1984, George Smith, "Is There Any Mode to Escape," 95,

12 Sorenson, A Source Book, 3, 38-41.

13 Noel B. Reynolds, "The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon in the Twentieth Century," Brigham Young Academy Studies 38:2 (1999): 33.

14 Reynolds, "Coming Along," 33-34.

xv John L. Sorenson, "Instant Expertise on Book of Mormon Archæology," Brigham Young University Studies sixteen, no. 5 (Bound 1976): 429-32.

16 Sorenson, A Source Book, iii.

Sorenson, ibid., 209,

17 Sorenson, A Source Book.

18 David Wright in "Historical Criticism: A Necessary Element in the Search for Religious Truth," Sunstone 16 (September 1992): 38n59,

"Basic Methodological Problems with the Anti-Mormon Approach to the Geography and Archæology of the Book of Mormon," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies two/iii (1993): 182-83,

Wilson asserts [in "The Scientific Search for Nephite Remains," Middle and Heed: The Newsletter of Gospel Truths Ministries (Autumn 1992): 3a]

19 Robert D. Anderson, "The Dilemma of the Mormon Rationalist," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Idea thirty, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 83n49.

A Source Volume, 19,

20 Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 49.

21 Stan Larson, "The Odyssey of Thomas Stuart Ferguson," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 23, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 59.

22 Letter to the editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 18, no. ii (Summer 1985): 5-6.

Smith's letter was challenged by later messages in Dialogue 19, no. two (Summer 1986): 8-x, and Dialogue 19, no. 3 (Autumn 1986): 11-12.

23 Sorenson in "Digging into the Book of Mormon," 29,

Joseph Smith, knew in 1830.

ibid., 81

24 Fletcher B. Hammond, Geography of the Book of Mormon (Table salt Lake City: Utah Press Company, 1959), 18, 122, 125.

25 Fletcher B. Hammond, "Where is the Hill Cumorah?" Accost delivered on March 25, 1964, to the Campus Chapter of the University Archaeological Lodge, Brigham Young Academy, Provo, Utah, 7.

26 Sorenson, A Source Book, 28.

28 Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 49.

29 William Hamblin in "Methodological Problems," 171n34,

John E. Clark, "A Key for Evaluating Nephite Geographies," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1 (1989): xx-70;

David Palmer, In Search of Cumorah (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon, 1981).

30 Sorenson, A Source Book, 352-53.

David Palmer in "Why Search for Cumorah?" FARMS reprint of Chapter 1 from In Search of Cumorah: New Evidences for the Book of Mormon from Aboriginal Mexico (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon, 1992), twenty,

Sorenson agrees with this possibility in "Digging into the Volume of Mormon," 30.

Hammond in his Geography, 89,

Hamblin even describes the possible transportation means and road in "Methodological Bug," 178

canoe to New York, forth well-used waterways of the Hopewell Indians (who flourished c. 200 B.C. to A.D. 400).

31 Brigham D. Madsen, "Reflections on LDS Disbelief in the Volume of Mormon as History," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 30, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 92.

Madsen'southward article in the Summertime 1998 edition of Dialogue, vi-xv,

32 Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 146-47.

Sorenson'south position is reflected in Frank Johnson's letter to the editor of Sunstone 14 (December 1990): 5,

Volume of Mormon, "Multiply Exceedingly: Volume of Mormon Population Sizes," Sunstone 14 (June 1990): 27-44:

33 Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 86.

William Hamblin in "Methodological Bug," 179-eighty,

citing John L. Sorenson, "When Lehi'southward Political party Arrived in the State, Did They Find Others In that location?" Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1992): one-34].

34 Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 84.

36 Smith's "How Many Nephites?" 263-64.

37 Sorenson, An Aboriginal American Setting, 89.

38 William Hamblin in "Methodological Problems," 170

39 Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, viii-10.

42 Sorenson, A Source Book, 312.

3 Ne. 20:22, emphasis added

iii Ne. 21:22-23, emphasis added

43 Sorenson believes, An Ancient American Setting, 97,

1 Nephi 13:13-15

1 Ne. 13:12-nineteen

1 Ne. thirteen:12,

i Ne. 13:12

The World Book Encyclopedia 4 (1970): 690-97,

i Ne. thirteen:thirteen

1 Ne. 13:13

i Ne. 13:fourteen

ane Ne. xiii:15

i Ne. 13:16-19

44 two Ne. 1:vii

2 Ne. 1:half-dozen

1 Ne. 13:14, xx, xxx

LDS scholar Richard Bushman notes in "The Book of Mormon and the American Revolution" in Book of Mormon Authorship: New Calorie-free on Ancient Origins, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, Inc., 1982): 191-92,

Mosiah 29:25-32

Mosiah 27:2-iii;

Alma 1:17; xxx:vii

45 2 Ne. 10:10-eleven, 19

Alma 37:38, 44-45

Hel. 3:eight

3 Ne. 20:14

3 Ne. 20:28, emphasis added

46 John Clark in "A Key for Evaluating Nephite Geographies," 64,

William Hamblin agrees in "Methodological Problems," 189.

B.H. Roberts, on the other hand, B.H. Roberts: Studies of the Volume of Mormon, ed. Brigham D. Madsen (Urbana and Chicago Academy of Illinois Press, 1985), 204,

Hel. 3:8

47 Ether vi:12 in A Source Book, 307:

the Nephites. The same phrase occurs in v. 16 and 7:27.

ibid., 210

48 Sorenson, A Source Book, 347.

49 Sorenson writes, "Mesoamerican Record," 397:

50 He writes in An Ancient American Setting, xv,

51 Sorenson notes in "Mesoamerican Record," 396,

A Source Book, 268, 291; 273; 299,

Mulek in Alma 51:26 but reversed in Hel. 5:xv.

Alma 51:26

52 "Where we must begin," he writes in A Source Book, 210,

53 Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 29.

54 Sorenson himself describes his Book of Mormon geography in "Mesoamerican Tape," 396

55 Bruce Warren, in his review in Brigham Immature University Studies thirty:3 (Summer 1990): 134,

Sorenson writes in An Ancient American Setting, 35-36,

ibid., 37,

57 Ibid., 32.

Sorenson notes, ibid., 36,

58 Sorenson, A Source Volume, 397

Alma 22:32

ibid., 245,

Alma 22:30

Alma 22:30

Helaman 3:three-4,

Sorenson, ibid., 289,

ibid., 348,

60 Sorenson, A Source Book, 247-48 (bracketed fabric his).

In the earlier An Aboriginal American Setting, 17,

ibid., 175-76,

Sorenson, A Source Book, 224;

Ibid., 226;

Ibid., 226-27;

Ibid., 234;

ibid., 272;

ibid., 277;

ibid. 279.

ibid., 409,

61 Hel. 4:5

Hel. iv:6

Hel. four:seven

Alma 32:29-30

Alma 22:32

Alma 22:33-34

Hel. 4:7

Alma 22:32

Hel. 4:7,

A Source Book, 290-91

Joshua -Mormon ii:vi.

Alma 22:32,

Hel. 4:vii

Alma 22:32.

implied in Alma 22:32, ibid., 247.

Alma 22:32,

Alma 22:32

Alma l:8

Alma 22:27

Hel. iv:7

Morm. two:6

Hel. 4:8

Hel. iv:6

Hel. 4:8

62 Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 42-43.

64 Alma 22:32; 50:34; 52:9; 63:5;

Mormon two:29; 3:5;

Ether 10:20.

65 Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 36.

66 Sorenson, A Source Book, 216.

Morm. 2:29.

Alma 50:29 (twice) and 63:four;

Alma 50:eleven.

67 Sorenson, An Aboriginal American Setting, 227-28;

A Source Book, 178;

Alma 22:27.

68 Ether vii:6

Ether 9:3,

Morm. one:3; 4:23

Ether 9:31,

Ether 15:11,

69 Sorenson, A Source Book, 178.

lxx Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, initial map of Mesoamerica; Map 2, p. 11; Map 3, p. 20; Map iv, p. 24; Map five, p. 37.

71 Just Sorenson notes in A Source Volume, 310,

in Ether 9:three

72 Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 41-42.

75 Ibid., 38-39.

According to The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 204:11,

A Source Book, 405-vi,

77 Sorenson believes, An Aboriginal American Setting, 138-39

2 Nephi v:7-viii

2 Ne. v:7-eight

78 Sorenson, A Source Book, 414-15.

Sorenson warns, Ibid., 353,

In his review of Joseph Allen's Exploring the Lands of the Volume of Mormon (Orem, Utah: Southward.A. Publishers, 1989), in Brigham Young University Studies 30, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 136,

ibid., 138,

ibid., 139,

William Hamblin also agrees with Sorenson on cultural differences in directional systems in "Bones Methodological Bug," 188: A Source Book, 405,

ibid., 413-14,

1 Ne. one:2

79 Sorenson, A Source Book, 415.

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