Re: Redating the BoM book Ether

[Geiserik]

On 29 jun, 19:17, Geiserik <dejonghn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 29 jun, 14:54, Nick Youngh <dejonghn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> The Mormon book Ether hasno dates underits pages, but could be dated
> by someremarkable events.
> Firdt is there the confounding of languages in the Tower of Babylon.
> Up till now Mormons dated that event as far as 2000BC.
> But there could not have been a confounding of Lenguages without tower
> and modern archeologist put the date of the
> rebuilding of the Ziggurat around 610BC,the time of Lehi and Nephi.
>
> (Wikipedia)
>
> > > > Etemenanki (Sumerian: "temple of the foundation of heaven and earth")
> > > > was the name of a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in the city of Babylon.
> > > > It was famously rebuilt by the 6th century BC Neo-Babylonian dynasty
> > > > rulers Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II. According to modern
> > > > scholars such as Stephen L. Harris, the biblical story of the Tower of
> > > > Babel was likely influenced by Etemenanki during the Babylonian
> > > > captivity of the Hebrews.
>
> Not surprising straight thereafter Erher comes with a sea journey from
> the Red Sea till "the promised land"" clearly the same journey  as
> that of Lehi and Nephi in 600BC ,
> which was the same as "the circumnavigation of Africa"by pharaoah
> Necho inthe same year"
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> > >  Herodotus, The Histories 4.42
> > > Libya is washed on all sides by the sea except where it joins Asia, as
> > > was first demonstrated, so far as our knowledge goes, by the Egyptian
> > > king Necho, who, after calling off the construction of the canal
> > > between the Nile and the Arabian gulf, sent out a fleet manned by a
> > > Phoenician crew with orders to sail west about and return to Egypt and
> > > the Mediterranean by way of the Straits of Gibraltar. The Phoenicians
> > > sailed from the Arabian gulf into the southern ocean, and every autumn
> > > put in at some convenient spot on the Libyan coast, sowed a patch of
> > > ground, and waited for next year's harvest. Then, having got in their
> > > grain, they put to sea again, and after two full years rounded the
> > > Pillars of Heracles in the course of the third, and returned to Egypt.
> > > These men made a statement which I do not myself believe, though
> > > others may, to the effect that as they sailed on a westerly course
> > > round the southern end of Libya, they had the sun on their right - to
> > > northward of them. This is how Libya was first discovered by sea.-
>
> Another time indication comes from the 3 million invasion army of the
> Persian king Xerxes (500BC)
>
> > The numbers of troops which Xerxes mustered for the second invasion of
> > Greece have been the subject of endless dispute, because the numbers
> > given in ancient sources are very large indeed. Herodotus claimed that
> > there were, in total, 2.5 million military personnel, accompanied by
> > an equivalent number of support personnel.[3] The poet Simonides, who
> > was a near-contemporary, talks of four million; Ctesias gave 800,000
> > as the total number of the army that was assembled by Xerxes.[4
All those events give thebook Ether a dating like the book Jacob from
544BC till 421BC
>
> The BYU students moderating Wikipedia seem to agree with these dates
> for ETHER and go even further by suggesting that Nephi was the brother of Jared, and Jared Lehi, whose youngest son Jacob ruled long and just like Orihah.

(Wikipedia)
The Book of Ether parallels in many ways the story of The Book of
Mormon as a whole. A small group (Jared and his companions; Lehi and
his family) separate themselves from a wicked society (the Tower of
Babel; Jerusalem just prior to its destruction) and establish a new
nation (the Jaredites; the Nephites) in "the promised land." In each
case the group is divided following the death of the original leaders
and the divisions contend for many generations. The fortunes of the
nations are dependent upon their obedience to God -- righteousness
brings prosperity and wickedness brings destruction (sometimes
delayed). Ultimately, the wicked prevail and the nation is destroyed.
[citation needed]


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