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Model Name | Date Proposed | Scope | Narrow Neck | Land North | Land South | Cumorah | River Sidon | Nephi's Landing | Religion | Type of model
Model name: Sorenson 1955Date proposed: 1955 |
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Sorenson first developed his model in 1953 and committed it to paper in 1955.[1]
Sorenson outlined his model in his seminal 1985 work, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon,<re>John L. Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Co. ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1996 [1985]), 1.</ref> provided a detailed description of his method in creating his model in 1992,[2] and in 2000 published a more 'theoretical' approach to Book of Mormon geography.[3]
![]() Figure 3:Sorenson's proposed geography, with the narrow neck of land at the Tehuantepec Isthmus.[4] |
Real world suggested correlates in this model:
Sorenson's model has been critiqued,[5] and Sorenson has written a reply to the criticism.[6] A chief complaint has been Sorenson's model's "skew" of the cardinal directions ("Nephite North" is not "geographic north".) Critics have often caricaturized Sorenson's position, and ignored the fact that (as a non-LDS researcher noted):
Other researchers have offered some refinements of the model which may offer another elegant solution to the directional issues. (See, for example, Poulsen 2004.)
Sorenson's model is strengthened by evidence for active volcano activity mainly confined to the time period around A.D. 30, which correlates with the three days of darkness following Jesus' crucifixion, as reported by 3 Nephi (see Three days of darkness: due to volcanoes?
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