I began to reflect

Reflections on Joseph Smith and the Holy Scriptures: The Holy Bible, The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, The Doctrine and Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price, and Related Themes

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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The god of Elkenah in Hieroglyphs and in the Book of Abraham

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I We are not coming to terms with the Pearl of Great Price as we might, unless by its study we also magnify our view of the ancients and, ...

Friday, August 9, 2013

What Does The Book of Mormon Name "Cumorah" Signify? Cumorah's Redoubt; Cumorah's Olivepress

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I "I am going to Cumorah" is what the old man, turning down a ride in their wagon, said to Joseph, Oliver, and David. (https:/...

Friday, May 13, 2011

Bountiful Zion, Zomar, Zamar, Shamry, Shamrana--and the Kirtland Egyptian Papers

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When Hugh Nibley says the Egyptian Grammar and Alphabet (1835-36), with its "many happy guesses," "is not all pure nonsense,...

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The Plain of Olishem and the Field of Abram: Book of Abraham, Chapter One

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I Olishem on GoogleEarth Even the thank-offering of a child did the priest of Pharaoh offer upon the altar which stood by the hill calle...

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I began to reflect: 2020 is the Bicentennial of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I dedicate this website not to the wise and the learned but to those of the rising generation, who, like the young Joseph Smith, are beginning to learn the things of God for themselves. "I began to reflect" is how Joseph describes his earliest yearnings for God. The Book of Mormon gives us added insights on the phrase: of Coriantumr we read "he began to remember"; "he began to repent." I began to reflect corresponds to I began to repent. I hold copyright for all postings and alone am responsible for all content. Nothing I post on Scripture should be considered an official or authoritative statement of the teachings or policies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I address all readers who love the truths revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith and all those who may yet learn to love them. I hold myself free from any investment whatsoever in polemics, apology, politics, religious controversy, or debate (see 1 Peter 1:15). "Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right." Val Hinckley Sederholm, PhD, Egyptology, UCLA.

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