Cumorah ~ The Journal of Book of Mormon Geography ~ Hardcover ~ Multiple Authors ~ 2018

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About the Authors:

• Warren P. Aston – “Notes on the Book of Mormon’s Old World Setting.” Aston is the co-author, along with his wife Michaela, of In the Footsteps of Lehi – New Evidence for Lehi’s Journey Across Arabia to Bountiful. He is a photographer and travels widely. He is the owner of Bountiful Tours and has conducted many Book of Mormon-related tours throughout the Middle East. He is also the author of Lehi and Sariah in Arabia – The Old World Origins of the Book of Mormon.
• Bret Eborn is the owner of Eborn Books, with Utah’s largest bookstore downtown Salt Lake City, a smaller store in Nauvoo, Illinois, and three satellite franchises in Provo, Layton,and Ogden, Utah. He is the author of The Comprehensive Bibliography of Mormon Literature and Bret Eborn’s Guide to Mormon Books. More recently he wrote Flaxen Cords, which is a ground-breaking new theory on how secret combinations may have been passed anciently. His article nicely lays out all the current theories of Book of Mormon geography.
• Eborn’s article uniquely pictures many of the books published over the years, including Just One Cumorah by Riley L. Dixon; The Geography of the Book of Mormon by E. Cecil McGavin and Willard Bean; An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon and Mormon’s Map by John L. Sorenson; Joseph Allen’s Exploring the Lands of the Book of Mormon; A Challenge to the Critics by Diane Wirth; Archaeology and the Book of Mormon by Milton R. Hunter; In Search of Cumorah by David A. Palmer; Las Ruinas de Tiwanaku y el Libro de Mormon by Hans Ralf Caspary; Book of Mormon Guide Book by Verla Birrell; Lehi Never Saw Mesoamerica by Del DowDell; Christ in North America by Delbert W. Curtis; Cumorah-Where? by Thomas Stuart Ferguson. It also cites other books such as An Introduction to the Study of the Book of Mormon by J. M. Sjodahl; The Geography of Book of Mormon Lands by Joel Ricks; Approach to the Study of Book of Mormon Geography by J.A. and J.N. Washburn; Romance of the Book of Mormon by Josiah Hickman, The Story of the Book of Mormon by Florence Pierce, and The Americas Before Columbus by Dewey Farnsworth and many more….
• Klaus Gurgel is a geography professor at Weber State University. His article on the Hill Cumorah pageant was written many decades ago but has never been published until now. It is called, “God’s Drumlin: Hill Cumorah in the Religious Geography of Mormonism.”
• Rod Meldrum is the author of several books and is one of the main advocates for what has more recently been called the “Heartland Theory.”
• Stephen Schwendiman – “Chamber of Records at the Hill Cumorah — Mormon Deposited the Records in the Hill Cumorah.” Stephen is the author of four comprehensive books of history on Mendon, New York, and the many Saints who converted in that small town, including Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball. His books are called The Mendon Saints: Their Lives and Legacy. [4 Volumes].
• Nick Galieti, “The Heartland Theory Interview with Rod Meldrum.” Nick hosts “The Good Word” Podcast and is the author of Tree of Sacrament and D&C 4.
• George Potter, “The Truth About Peru — The Land of the Book of Mormon.” Potter lived in Saudi Arabia for 20 years and has documented new evidences of the Book of Mormon. He has authored many books including Lehi in the Wilderness, Nephi in the Promised Land and Amazing Discoveries, Voyages of the Book of Mormon. He gives a very convincing argument for placing Book of Mormon events in the Andean region of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
• Diane Wirth has a fascinating article: “Shades of the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) in the Book of Mormon and in Mesoamerica.” She is also the author of Decoding Ancient America and Weaving Golden Threads.
• Roy Schmidt reviews John L. Sorenson’s book Mormon’s Codex.
• Trevor Holyoak also reviews Sorenson’s book.
• Rush Utah entertains with this short sarcastic little article on Deseret, or honey bees!  – “Honey Bees in America?”
• Joel Ricks, “The Land of Zarahemla” is a reprint from the past from The Juvenile Instructor, 1906.
• William Harold De Vaney gives us a very fascinating look at the martime travels of the Jaredites, in: “Buoyed by Faith: The Jaredite Migration. An Analysis of the Challenges and Options Facing a Seafaring People In Obedience to the Commandments of God.”

 

 

 

Cumorah Journal, Volume One, 2018.

Executive Editor: Bret A. Eborn

Assistant Editor: Dan Hogan

Board:

Alex Criddle, LeGrand Baker, Jeffrey Needle

 

 

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