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Category:Echoes and Evidences
Neal A. Maxwell, "By The Gift and Power of God," in Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2002), Chapter 1, references silently removed—consult original for citations.
Pages in category "Echoes and Evidences"
The following 166 pages are in this category, out of 166 total.
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- Source:Echoes:Ch10:1:Environmental theory of Book of Mormon authorship
- Source:Echoes:Ch10:2:View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon
- Source:Echoes:Ch10:3:Book of Mormon versus 19th century expectations
- Source:Echoes:Ch10:4:Book of Mormon versus 19th century expectations about language
- Source:Echoes:Ch10:5:Expectations and nineteenth century writing materials
- Source:Echoes:Ch10:6:New World culture and nineteenth century expectations
- Source:Echoes:Ch10:7:View of the Hebrews versus the Book of Mormon
- Source:Echoes:Ch10:8:Book of Mormon and the nineteenth century's expectations
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:10:Exemption from military service
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:11:Unobserved murder
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:12:Theft versus robbery
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:13:Execution of Zemnarihah
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:14:Apostate cities
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:15:Cement
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:16:Doubled and sealed documents
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:1:Textual variant in Sermon on the Mount in 3 Nephi
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:2:Secrecy in Sermon on the Mount
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:3:King Benjamin's farewell address
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:4:Chiasmus in Alma 36
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:5:Chiasmus in Helaman 6
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:6:Ancient parallels to Nephite weights and measures
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:7:Cursing litigants
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:8:Hebrew legal terminology
- Source:Echoes:Ch11:9:Better that one should perish
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:10:Relative cause
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:11:Paanchi
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:12:Sariah
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:13:Cumorah (name)
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:14:Jershon
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:15:Place called Nahom
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:16:Burying metal plates with writing
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:17:Joseph Smith describes the plates
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:18:Martin Harris on the translation process
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:19:Garment of Joseph
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:1:Treaty and covenant in King Benjamin
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:20:Nephi (as name)
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:21:Emma Smith on the translation
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:22:Emma Smith on the translation (late interview)
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:2:Sanctuary as coronation site
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:3:King installed with insignia
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:4:King annointed
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:5:King receives throne name
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:6:Tree of life in ancient world
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:7:Hebraism word order of construct state
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:8:Hebraisms: adverbials
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:9:Hebraism: Cognate accusative
- Source:Echoes:Ch13:1:Asylum
- Source:Echoes:Ch13:2:Smiting off arms
- Source:Echoes:Ch1:1:No notes
- Source:Echoes:Ch1:2:Oliver Cowdery witness
- Source:Echoes:Ch1:3:Plates not present at translation
- Source:Echoes:Ch1:4:Pace of translation
- Source:Echoes:Ch1:5:No revising or reviewing
- Source:Echoes:Ch1:6:Physical layout of translation
- Source:Echoes:Ch1:7:Unfamiliar names spelled out
- Source:Echoes:Ch1:8:Joseph ignorant of translation contents
- Source:Echoes:Ch1:9:Pace of Joseph's ministry
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:10:John Whitmer
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:11:John Whitmer 1876:I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:12:William Smith
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:13:Martin Harris on weight of plates
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:14:Lucy Mack Smith on Urim and Thummim
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:15:Emma Smith on the plates
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:16:On BoM witnesses generally
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:17:Alma as male name
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:18:Land of Jerusalem
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:19:Divine council
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:1:Exodus motif in BoM
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:20:Hebrew conditional sentences
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:21:Asherath
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:2:Guerilla war
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:3:Vulcanology in BoM
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:4:Olive culture in BoM
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:5:Christopher Columbus
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:7:David Whitmer:Just as plain as I see this bed
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:8:David Whitmer:I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:9:Hyrum Smith
- Source:Echoes:Ch3:1:Jaredite travel time
- Source:Echoes:Ch3:2:Atonement for those who sin ignorantly
- Source:Echoes:Ch3:3:John Welch on BoM sophistication
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:10:Nineteenth century authors on Arabia
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:11:Libraries of Joseph Smith's era on Arabia
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:12:First camp to Nahom - Mountains
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:13:First camp to Nahom - duration of trip
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:14:Nahom
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:15:Incense trail
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:16:Desert afflictions
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:17:Arabian travel and wealth
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:18:Metal plates
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:19:Alphabet from Arabia and Anthon transcript
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:1:Journey Jerusalem to first camp
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:20:Nahom to Bountiful
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:21:Nahom to Bountiful - trials
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:22:Nahom to Bountiful - enemies
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:23:Old world Bountiful
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:24:Old world Bountiful - fruit
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:25:Old world Bountiful - honey
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:26:Old world Bountiful - timber
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:27:Old world Bountiful - mists
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:28:Old world Bountiful - ore
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:2:Sacrifice in the wilderness
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:3:Lehi's route south
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:4:Lehi's route east and south
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:5:Lehi's first camp
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:6:Lehi's dream - wealth
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:7:Lehi's dream - geography
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:8:Lehi's dream - multitudes
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:9:Lehi's dream - architecture
- Source:Echoes:Ch6:10:Complexity of Book of Mormon
- Source:Echoes:Ch6:1:Shipbuilding in Arabia
- Source:Echoes:Ch6:2:Nephi's temple
- Source:Echoes:Ch6:3:Book of Mormon population numbers
- Source:Echoes:Ch6:4:Zosimus
- Source:Echoes:Ch6:5:Orphic gold plates
- Source:Echoes:Ch6:6:Forty day literature and 3 Nephi
- Source:Echoes:Ch6:7:Merismus
- Source:Echoes:Ch6:8:Warfare in the Book of Mormon
- Source:Echoes:Ch6:9:Early American versus Book of Mormon political views
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:10:Plural amplifications
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:11:Notes on numbers
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:12:The construct state
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:13:Repeat definitive article
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:14:Cognate accusative
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:15:Many "ands" in Book of Mormon
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:16:Repeat possessive pronoun
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:17:Emphatic pronouns
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:18:Observations on Hebraisms
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:1:Similie curses
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:2:Odd patterns with Book of Mormon names
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:3:Synonymous parallelism
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:4:Antithetic parallelism
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:5:Repeated alternate parallelism
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:6:Observations on "it came to pass"
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:7:Prophetic perfect
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:8:Climax poetic form
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:8:Names and titles of deity
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:9:Compound prepositions
- Source:Echoes:Ch7:9:Prophetic speech formulas
- Source:Echoes:Ch8:10:Execution of Laban and Zemnarihah
- Source:Echoes:Ch8:1:Hidden texts
- Source:Echoes:Ch8:2:Semitic texts in Egyptian script
- Source:Echoes:Ch8:3:Oldest Bible texts and Book of Mormon
- Source:Echoes:Ch8:4:Joseph's garment
- Source:Echoes:Ch8:5:Joseph's prophecy
- Source:Echoes:Ch8:6:Abinadi on Isaiah
- Source:Echoes:Ch8:7:Foreknowledge of Christ
- Source:Echoes:Ch8:8:Jaredite barges
- Source:Echoes:Ch8:9:Translation of Moses and John
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:10:Material culture - sheum
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:11:Material culture - wine
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:12:Material culture - textiles
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:13:New World warfare and fortifications
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:14:New World archaelogy: Hagoth
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:14:New World archaelogy: Santa Rosa
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:15:New World culture: Human sacrifice and cannibalism
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:1:Level of civilization in New World
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:2:Population and complextity of precolumbian culture
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:3:Geographical consistency
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:4:Pattern of cultural history
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:5:Broad outlines of New World history
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:6:Book of Mormon as Mesoamerican codex
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:7:Political economy in Book of Mormon
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:8:Language in the New World and Book of Mormon
- Source:Echoes:Ch9:9:Material culture - cement
- Source:Echos:Ch2:6:David Whitmer:Character of David Whitmer