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Mormon’s Codex: An Ancient Mesoamerican Book<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Sorenson. \u00a0Salt Lake City, Utah: \u00a0Deseret Book Company, 2013. \u00a0Hardbound, 6×9″, 880 pages.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leading scholar and author John L. Sorenson brilliantly synthesizes in this volume his work from 60 years of academic study of ancient Mesoamerica and its relationship to the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n

Here Sorenson reveals that the Book of Mormon exhibits what one would expect of a historical document produced in the context of ancient Mesoamerican civilization. He also shows that scholars\u2019 discoveries about Mesoamerica and the contents of the Nephite record are clearly related. Indeed, Sorenson lists more than 400 points where the Book of Mormon text corresponds to characteristic Mesoamerican situations, statements, allusions, and history.<\/p>\n

Are we to simply suppose that mere coincidence can account for similarities of this magnitude? The parallels are too striking and too sweeping to answer in the affirmative. Even the greatest savant of the early 19th century\u2014let alone a marginally literate frontier farm boy\u2014could not possibly have produced a volume as rich in Mesoamericana as the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n

The only format in which a record such as the Book of Mormon could have been preserved is that of a native Mesoamerican book, referred to by scholars as a codex. According to the record itself, the text was compiled by a man named Mormon, who lived in the Mesoamerican isthmus area in the late fourth century. Mormon passed the record to his son Moroni, who survived him by more than 35 years and made modest additions to the text.<\/p>\n

A significant contribution to the fields of Book of Mormon studies and Mesoamerican studies, Mormon\u2019s Codex is John Sorenson\u2019s magnum opus. It contains copious explanatory material, extensive footnotes, over 1,300 bibliographical references, illustrations, an appendix, and detailed maps. This long-awaited volume will appeal to informed general readers, archaeologists, and scholars alike<\/p>\n

Mormon\u2019s Codex<\/em>\u00a0is the culmination of a lifetime\u2019s labor by Mormonism\u2019s preeminent Mesoamerican specialist. Since 1949 John Sorenson has been collecting archaeological and anthropological evidence to show that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from a native Mesoamerican codex, or book. Now, having assembled a mountain of evidence, he boldly challenges scholars to take the Book of Mormon seriously as a priceless source of information about Mesoamerican history and culture. \u2014Richard Lyman Bushman<\/p>\n

Mormon\u2019s Codex<\/em>\u00a0will immediately serve as the high-water mark of scholarship on the Book of Mormon. \u2014Terryl L. Givens<\/p>\n

For decades, John Sorenson has been among the foremost students of the Book of Mormon, and the principal advocate for a limited Mesoamerican geography. I vividly remember the excitement of readingAn Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon<\/em>\u00a0back in 1985. Now, in\u00a0Mormon\u2019s Codex,<\/em>\u00a0we have the rich results of nearly 30 years of additional study. I have eagerly anticipated this book. \u2014Daniel C. Peterson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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