BYU Studies Quarterly
Keywords
Nahom, Yemen, Book of Mormon
Abstract
For decades, Latter-day Saint scholars have argued that “the place . . . called Nahom” in the Book of Mormon (1 Ne. 16:34) is the Nihm region in Yemen, located northeast of Sanaʿa, west of Maʾrib, and south of the Wadi Jawf. The location fits well both with the directions provided for getting to and from Nahom in the Book of Mormon (1 Ne. 16:13–14, 33; 17:1) and with inscriptions dated to Lehi’s time referring to a person called a nhmyn, translated as “Nihmite,” confirming that the name goes back to the right time period. Publications by Princeton, Oxford, and Brill have talked about the connection, with some hailing the inscriptions as “the first actual archaeological evidence for the historicity of the Book of Mormon."
Recommended Citation
Rappleye, Neal
(2023)
"The Place—or the Tribe—Called Nahom? NHM as Both a Tribal and Geographic Name in Modern and Ancient Yemen,"
BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 62:
Iss.
2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol62/iss2/4