Nephite

This is seized upon as proof of the Nephite connection.

Archive 2006-02-01 2006

This is seized upon as proof of the Nephite connection.

The Book of Mormon, DNA, Native Americans, and Archaeology 2006

Cause lets face it the search for the “historical Jesus” is no more satisfying than trying to find Nephite artifacts in meso-america. i guess i am trying to say that it would be very difficult for a doubting mormon to say, “i was completely fooled on the JS thing, but i believe in god and jesus no problem.”

A Ragtag Band. | Mind on Fire 2006

Moroni in mortal life had been a Nephite prophet, the son of another prophet named Mormon, who was the compiler of the record buried in a hill situated about two miles from the modern village of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Lamanites, "the degenerate remnants of the Nephite nation."

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

This man, at once warrior, prophet and historian, had made a transcript and compilation of the heterogeneous records that had accumulated during the troubled history of the Nephite nation; this compilation was named on the plates "The Book of Mormon," which name has been given to the modern translation -- a work that has already made its way over most of the civilized world.

The Story of "Mormonism" James Edward Talmage 1897

It is possible that in the earlier Nephite baptisms some irregularity in mode or impropriety in the spirit of administering the ordinance may have arisen; for, as we have seen the Lord enjoined upon the people in connection with the instructions concerning baptism that disputations must cease.

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

On the 15th of May, 1829, Joseph Smith and his scribe in the work of translating the Nephite record, Oliver Cowdery, retired to a secluded glade to pray.

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

During the thousand years covered by the Nephite record, the people crossed the Isthmus of Panama, which is graphically described as a neck of land but a day's journey from sea to sea, and successively occupied extensive tracts in what is now Mexico, the valley of the Mississippi, and the Eastern

The Story of "Mormonism" James Edward Talmage 1897

The last writer in the ancient record, and the one who hid away the plates in the hill Cumorah, was Moroni -- the same personage who appeared as a resurrected being in the nineteenth century, a divinely appointed messenger sent to reveal the depository of the sacred documents; but the greater part of the plates since translated had been engraved by the father of Moroni, the Nephite prophet Mormon.

The Story of "Mormonism" James Edward Talmage 1897