The Book of Mormon Plates

Authors

Janne M. Sjodahl

Keywords

Book of Mormon, Language, Records, Gold Plates, Witnesses, Modern Church, Restoration, Coming forth of the Book of Mormon

Abstract

Janne Sjodahl discusses how the Book of Mormon would have taken up less space on the plates than in its current translated and printed form. Because the plates were written in a language comparable to Hebrew, Sjodahl had fourteen pages of the English Book of Mormon translated into Hebrew and writ-ten out. This Hebrew text covered only one page. According to this finding, the Book of Mormon could be written using as few as twenty-one plates (or even forty-eight if written in larger characters). Sjodahl presents estimates of the size and weight of the plates.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Sjodahl, Janne M. (2001) "The Book of Mormon Plates," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: Vol. 10: No. 1, Article 6.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol10/iss1/6