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To: Calpernia; Hodar
Source: Alma 7:10 [Jesus] “shall be born of Mary at Jerusalem, which is in the land of our forefathers”

Nothing like quoting from the actual bogus manuscript JS conjured up.

Hodar, you wanted a source, there ya go! Will you be wise enough to check it out as well as the other false things JS wrote and said? I thought "Prophets" weren't supposed to be able to get it wrong, unless of course they are conning for false profits.

Moroni never had it so good!

14 posted on 06/30/2007 12:04:39 PM PDT by sirchtruth (No one has the RIGHT not to be offended...)
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To: sirchtruth
I'd suggest you take a look at the source I listed. The Dead Sea Scrolls support Joseph Smith.

Now from the Dead Sea Scrolls comes an even more specific occurrence of the phrase "land of Jerusalem" that gives insight into its usage and meaning - in a text that indirectly links the phrase to the Jerusalem of Lehi's time.
Robert Eisenmann and Michael Wise, in The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (1993), discuss one document that they have provisionally named "Pseudo-Jeremiah" (scroll 4Q385). The beginning of the damaged text reads as follows:
...Jeremiah the Prophet before the Lord [...w]ho were taken captive from the land of Jerusalem [Eretz Yerushalayim, column 1, line 2] (p. 58). In their discussion of this text, Eisenmann and Wise elaborate on the significance of the phrase "land of Jerusalem, which they see as an equivalent for Judah (Yehud), :
"Another interesting reference is to the 'land of Jerusalem' in Line 2 of Fragment 1. This greatly enhances the sense of historicity of the whole, since Judah or , 'Yehud' (the name of the area on coins from the Persian period) by this time consisted of little more than Jerusalem and its immediate environs.," (p. 57) Based on the evidence from Qumran, and in the words of Eisenmann and Wise, we can conclude that consistent usage of such language among a people of Israel who fled Jerusalem at the time of Jeremiah also "greatly enhances the sense of historicity" of the Book of Mormon.

Source: Alma 7:10 [Jesus] “shall be born of Mary at Jerusalem, which is in the land of our forefathers”

20 posted on 06/30/2007 12:13:07 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, come Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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