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if anyone doubts that the Book of Mormon is a literal history, they won’t after reading our book and seeing our videos.
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Never doubted that “the bom is a literal history...”

It is a literal history of plagarism and some added ravings of an imaginative conman’s mind and some input from his gang..

From the article: "Potter and Wellington have written a book on their explorations. It is due to hit the shelves of LDS bookstores in 2002. The book includes over 2000 scholarly footnotes from non-LDS sources. Their citations include personal correspondences with scholars from universities, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Oman. Their theories on Nephi’s ship include insights from correspondence with the well known explorer Tim Serverin, Tom Vosmer (Director of the Ancient Omani Ships Project of the Western Australian Museum of Maritime History), and Frank Linehan (of the United States Maritime Administration)."

From Amazon: "Lehi in the Wilderness" is written from a Mormon perspective and with the understanding that it is a fact that Lehi was a real prophet, and that the Book of Mormon is a true history. Those outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints do not make that same assumption."

There are many problems in the text concerning the interpretation of the Book of Mormon and applying the text to the physical locations in the Arabian Peninsula. Overall, the book contains entirely too much supposition to warrant serious consideration as "evidence" for the Book of Mormon. The dialogue is bogged down with consistent terminology such as "could have been," "might have," "should be," "if this were," and various other sundry phrases which are merely prerequisites to injecting presumptions concerning the possibility that Lehi actually existed on the Arabian Peninsula. The photographs ARE remarkable, good choices in the effort to provide supports for the Book of Mormon account, and I appreciated the amount of references provided in each chapter, making it easier to research the material. It's a "must read" for apologetics.

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I'm just wondering why, since this book was published in 2003, there hasn't been major media attention to this "proof" of the BOM? Has the Smithsonian weighed in?