Keywords
Book of Mormon, Mormon the writer, Ammaron, Nephite archives
Abstract
Ammaron was entrusted with the sacred Nephite archives. Although he recorded Nephite history in the same way so many of his predecessors had, we have nothing that he wrote. As the penultimate official Nephite historian, we know that he wrote and cared for the sacred Nephite records in perilous times.11 Rather than his writings, however, we have the record of his efforts to preserve and continue the plates. We learn that: “Ammaron, being constrained by the Holy Ghost, did hide up the records which were sacred — yea, even all the sacred records which had been handed down from generation to generation, which were sacred — even until the three hundred and twentieth year from the coming of Christ” (4 Nephi 1:48). In that year, Ammaron searched for a new recordkeeper and found ten-yearold Mormon. Mormon wrote of his meeting with Ammaron:
Recommended Citation
Gardner, Brant
(2020)
"Section 1: Mormon the Writer,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 35, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol35/iss1/5
