Malline:BoMGeographyWiki

Book of Mormon Geography

• Book of Mormon geography
  • Statements made by LDS leaders
    • Joseph Smith statements about geography
    • First Presidency Letter

Models and settings

• Old World
  • Nahom
• New World
  • New World geography models in table form
  • Hemispheric geography theory (HGT)
  • Limited geography theory (LGT)
    • Mesoamerica ^{[needs work]}
      • Maya and Olmec as Book of Mormon peoples?
      • Plates to New York
    • Great Lakes geography?
      • Vernal Holley (1983) geography
      • "Heartland" (Meldrum, 2003) model

Nineteenth century issues

• Borders of the Lamanites
• "Continents" in Joseph Smith's era
• Lamanites in the Doctrine and Covenants
• Joseph Smith statements about geography
• Book of Mormon and the Mound Builders
• Place names from Joseph's environment?
  • Comoros Islands and Moroni
• Zarahemla near Nauvoo, Illinois?
• Zelph
• Zion: location of Zion

Modern issues

• Archaeology, the Bible, and Book of Mormon
• DNA and geographic issues
  • Haplotype X2a?
• Demographics and Population sizes
• "Disdaining or dismissing" Joseph's views?
• Historicity of Book of Mormon