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The Book of Mormon Plates
Title | The Book of Mormon Plates |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2001 |
Authors | Sjodahl, Janne M. |
Journal | Journal of Book of Mormon Studies |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 1 |
Pagination | 22-24, 79 |
Keywords | Epigraphy; Gold Plates; Language; Language - Hebrew; Plates; Writing |
Abstract | Janne Sjodahl discusses how the Book of Mormon would have taken up less space on the plates than in its current translated and printed form. Because the plates were written in a language comparable to Hebrew, Sjodahl had fourteen pages of the English Book of Mormon translated into Hebrew and written out. This Hebrew text covered only one page. According to this finding, the Book of Mormon could be written using as few as twenty-one plates (or even forty-eight if written in larger characters). Sjodahl presents estimates of the size and weight of the plates. |
URL | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol10/iss1/6 |
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