Keywords

history, Israel, Book of Mormon, Mormon studies

Abstract

Israel, historical background of Familiarity with the historical background of ancient Israel is beneficial, even essential for students of the Book of Mormon for many reasons , including the following: (1) so readers can appreciate the historical context in which the Lehites and Mulekites originated ; (2) because the Book of Mormon prophets presupposed that their people (and latter-day readers of their records) were familiar with the Hebrew scriptures (the Ch1istian Old Testament) and Israelite. history as they refer to the Israelite Exodus from Egypt, the existence of ten "lost tribes" of Israel, and so on 1 Ne. 17) ;

Original Publication Citation

“Israel, Historical Background of” (406-416), in Book of Mormon Reference Companion. Ed. by Dennis L. Largey, et al. (Salt Lake City: Deseret, 2003).