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#{{note|hamblin4}} Joyce Marcus, ''Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 189; cited in {{JBMS-2-1-11}}. Hamblin further discusses issues of directionality in {{reexploring|author=William J. Hamblin|article=Directions in Hebrew, Egyptian, and Nephite Language|start=183|end=186}} {{GL1|url=http://gospelink.com/library/doc?book_doc_id=296845}} | #{{note|hamblin4}} Joyce Marcus, ''Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 189; cited in {{JBMS-2-1-11}}. Hamblin further discusses issues of directionality in {{reexploring|author=William J. Hamblin|article=Directions in Hebrew, Egyptian, and Nephite Language|start=183|end=186}} {{GL1|url=http://gospelink.com/library/doc?book_doc_id=296845}} | ||
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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.[2]
Sorenson outlined his model in his seminal 1985 work, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon, [3] provided a detailed description of his method in creating his model in 1992,[4] and in 2000 published a more 'theoretical' approach to Book of Mormon geography.[5]
![]() Figure 3:Sorenson's proposed geography, with the narrow neck of land at the Tehuantepec Isthmus.[1] |
Real world suggested correlates in this model:
Sorenson's model has been critiqued,[6] and Sorenson has written a reply to the criticism.[7] 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.)
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