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Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch2:1
Writing on copper plates
Writing on copper plates
A private letter written in Hebrew on a copper plate has turned up and been dated to the twelfth century B.C.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Hugh W. Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Mormon, 3rd edition, (Vol. 6 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), edited by John W. Welch, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988), Chapter 2, citing William F. Albright, "A Hebrew Letter from the Twelfth Century B.C.," BASOR 73 (February 1939): 9—12; cf. Julian Obermann, "An Early Phoenician Political Document," JBL 58 (1939): 229; it was "engraved on a metal tablet, of copper or bronze.".