Article Title

Worth Repeating: “The Book of Mormon as a Mesoamerican Record”

Authors

John L. Sorenson

Keywords

Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, American culture, political history

Abstract

The Nephite account is a record that resembles in form, nature, and functions—in scores of characteristics, in fact—what we would expect in an ancient Mesoamerican codex, a type of document that was utterly unknown to Joseph Smith.

Recommended Citation

Sorenson, John L. (2007) "Worth Repeating: “The Book of Mormon as a Mesoamerican Record”," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 27: No. 5, Article 6.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol27/iss5/6