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#{{note|shoe1}} Critiques include {{Dialogue|author=Earl M. Wunderli|article=Critique of a Limited Geography for Book of Mormon Events|vol=35|num=3|date=2002|start=161|end=197}}{{link|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dialogue&CISOPTR=29050&REC=15}}; a review is available at {{FR-16-2-11}}. Another critique of Sorenson's model can be found in Deanne G. Matheny, "Does the Shoe Fit? A Critique of the Limited Tehuantepec Geography," in ''New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology'', edited by Brent Lee Metcalfe, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1993), 269–328. This latter volume is dedicated to the proposition that "the Book of Mormon isn't historical." It has been exhaustively critiqued and reviewed, especially in [http://farms.byu.edu/publications/reviewvolume.php?volume=6&number=1 Vol. 6] of the ''FARMS Review''. | #{{note|shoe1}} Critiques include {{Dialogue|author=Earl M. Wunderli|article=Critique of a Limited Geography for Book of Mormon Events|vol=35|num=3|date=2002|start=161|end=197}}{{link|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dialogue&CISOPTR=29050&REC=15}}; a review is available at {{FR-16-2-11}}. Another critique of Sorenson's model can be found in Deanne G. Matheny, "Does the Shoe Fit? A Critique of the Limited Tehuantepec Geography," in ''New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology'', edited by Brent Lee Metcalfe, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1993), 269–328. This latter volume is dedicated to the proposition that "the Book of Mormon isn't historical." It has been exhaustively critiqued and reviewed, especially in [http://farms.byu.edu/publications/reviewvolume.php?volume=6&number=1 Vol. 6] of the ''FARMS Review''. | ||
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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}} |
Sorenson first developed his model in 1953 and committed it to paper in 1955.[2]
Sorenson outlined his model in his seminal 1985 work,[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 Poulsen's model below).
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