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Illuminating the Jaredite Records

… explores the relationship between the Nephite and the Jaredite records culturally, politically, literarily, and … is a cultural-historical lens, in which elements of Jaredite culture are discussed, including the impact of a Jaredite subculture on Nephite politics during the reign of …

The Tower of Babel, the Jaredites, and the Nature of God

… verses of Ether 1 set the scene for the beginning of the Jaredite epic in the Book of Mormon. The record relates that … specific details about a group of people known as the Jaredites, who were among those associated with the tower in Genesis 11. [32] The Jaredites are first introduced in the book of Omni, where in …

The Jaredites—A Case Study in Following the Brethren

… The Pattern of Destruction One way to view the fall of the Jaredites is to observe the four points of sequence that led … This pattern is repeated at least six times in the Jaredite record until the people are destroyed under the … that ended in the destruction of an entire nation. Jaredites in the Land The Jaredites were led to the land of …

The Jaredites: A Case Study in Following the Brethren

… The Pattern of Destruction One way to view the fall of the Jaredites is to observe the four points of sequence that led … This pattern was repeated at least six times in the Jaredite record until the people were destroyed under the … that ended in the destruction of an entire nation. Jaredites in the Land The Jaredites were led to the land of …

Jaredite Zion Societies: Hope for a Better World

… of their minds that they might be destroyed,” all the Jaredites “were drunken with anger, even as a man who is … We wonder why Moroni included all that wickedness if the Jaredites were such a “great nation” and whether the record … been destroyed because of wickedness. Consequently, the Jaredite record stands as a second witness with the Nephite …

“They Are of Ancient Date”: Jaredite Traditions and the Politics of Gadianton’s Dissent

… of their texts that described what we can call the Jaredite civilization. While Mormon ascribes the formation of the secret society among the Jaredites to the adversary, the Jaredites themselves, as we will see, state explicitly that …

The Jaredite Journey: A Symbolic Reflection of Our Own Journey along the Covenant Path

… emphasis on our “covenant path,” the metaphor of the Jaredite journey to a promised land strikes me as especially … from the Old World to the promised land. This story of the Jaredites predates Lehi by many centuries, [1] covers more … a far better job than Moroni at abridging and writing the Jaredite’s stories on plates. For that matter, he could have …

Absence of “Joseph Smith” in the Book of Mormon

… Lack of the Name Letter Effect in Nephite, Lamanite, and Jaredite Names Many reject Joseph Smith’s claims that he … from several different ancient American cultures (e.g., Jaredites, Mulekites, Nephites, Lamanites) with names derived … … Lack of the Name Letter Effect in Nephite, Lamanite, and Jaredite Names … Absence of “Joseph Smith” in the Book of …

Introduction: A Knowledge of Those Destroyed

… This second volume in the series, Illuminating the Jaredite Records , continues that tradition by exploring the … who inhabited the New World, known collectively as the Jaredites. Intriguingly, while there is no reference to any … the apparently former interaction between the surviving Jaredites and the Mulekite culture, seems to have piqued the …

Jared’s Two Daughters

… purposes are realized only among the latter. But the Jaredites are not part of the Abrahamic covenant that governs … to teach to careful readers. The text presents the Jaredites, rather, as a monolithic culture, and women do not … well in it. Indeed, the one woman genuinely central to the Jaredite story—the nameless daughter of Jared—may be the most …