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LIST OF ARTICLES BY SUBJECT MATTER

BMAF Articles by Subject Matter
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1.  BOOK OF MORMON LANDS PROPOSALS

Critical Criteria for Identifying the New World Lands of the Book of Mormon by Ted Dee Stoddard
Mesoamerica and US Heartland Comparisons by Stephen L. Carr
From the East to the West Sea: An analysis of John L. Sorensen's Book of Mormon Directional Statements 
 by Ted Dee Stoddard
Misguided Zeal and Defense of the Church statement by FAIR  click here to learn about FAIR
Revelatory Stewardship and the Book of Mormon  by Chris Heimerdinger  click here for a bio of author
A Summary of Several Theories of Book of Mormon Lands in Mesoamerica  by Stephen L. Carr  click here for sketch of author
Searching for Cumorah-All Over Again  by Chris Heimerdinger  click here for a bio of author
A Brief History of the Limited Geographic View of the Book of Mormon by  John A. Tvedtnes click here for a bio of author
Where Did Book of Mormon Events Take Place?by Michael R. Ash    To see a comment on this article by V. Garth Norman, click here.
Book of Mormon Civilizations in Space and Time  by  Ross Christensen

A Survey of Pre-1830 Historical Sources Relating to the Book 

of Mormon by David A. Palmer

A Lost Generation of Scholarship by Chris Heimerdinger  click here for a bio of author


2.  THE MESOAMERICA MODEL

Amazing Middle Eastern Connection: Measuring Mesoamerica by the Cubit   by V. Garth Norman
COLUMBUS in THE PROMISED LAND  by  Joe V. Andersen  click here for a biographical sketch of author
The Seven Primordial Tribes of Mesoamerica by Diane E. Wirth
“The Whiteness of the Driven Snow”: An Evaluation of the Word "Snow" in the Book of Mormon by Ted Dee Stoddard click here for bio Joseph Smith and the Beginning of Book Of Mormon Archaeology by V. Garth Norman
Burned With Fire  by Ted Dee Stoddard
A Whole Bunch of Reasons Why Book of Mormon Geography Could Not Have Included North America by  John L. Sorenson   click here forbiographical sketch 
Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens  by Ted Dee Stoddard
The Need for Evidence of a High-Level Written Language in the New World  by Ted Dee Stoddard
The Hopewell Culture of Eastern North America by Douglas K. Christensen click here for a biographical sketch of author
Additional Insights Concerning the Book of Mormon by F. Richard Hauck  click here for a bio of author


4.  THE RIO GRIJALVA VS. USUMACINTA

"The Waters of Sidon":  The Grijalva or the Usumacinta?  by Joseph L. Allen, et al  click here for biographical sketch of author

5.  JESUS CHRIST

IXTLILXOCHITL - QUETZALCOATL - JESUS CHRIST  by Milton R. Hunter  and Thomas Stuart Ferguson
Historic Parallels to the Destruction at the time of the Crucifixion  by  John A. Tvedtnes 
click here for a biograhical sketch of author


6.  THE POPOL VUH

Translations of The Popol Vuh by Adrián Recinos, Delia Goetz, and Sylvanus G. Morley
Popol Vuh and the Tree of Life  by V.Garth Norman


7.  BOOK OF MORMON PLACES AND NAMES                    

Is Lago de Izabal in Guatemala a Book of Mormon Name?  by V. Garth Norman
All Book of Mormon Cities Examined  by Richard Averett   (click here for a biographical sketch of author)
      Aaron to Nephi
      Nephihah to Zeezrom

 

The Land of Nephi by  John A. Tvedtnes click here for a biographical sketch of author

"Higher Things" - Teotihuacan: City of the Birth of the Gods    by William J. Hamblin and Daniel C. Peterson
8.  BEARDS IN THE NEW WORLD

The Bearded Ones, a Context for Bearded Populations in Mesoamerica  by  F. David Lee  click here for a biographical sketch of author
Beards On Men of Mesoamerica  by  Alan C. Miner and Diane E. Wirth click here for a biographical sketch of author

Bearded Foreigners in Mesoamerica by  V. Garth Norman click here for a biographical sketch of author


9.  HORSES IN THE NEW WORLD
The Issue of the word Horse in the Book of Mormon  by Ted Dee Stoddard
Indigenous Horses  by  Daniel Johnson  click here for a biographical sketch of author
Horses in the Book of Mormon   by Alan C. Miner click here for a biographical sketch of author


10.  OLD WORLD PARALLELS


Paradise Themes by  Diane E. Wirth  (revised and expanded) click here for a biographical sketch of author


11.  JAREDITES & OLMECS

Of Jaredites and Olmecs  by Douglas K Christensen click here for a biographical sketch of author
Jaredites and Serpents by Bruce W. Warren


12.  PRE-COLUMBIAN TRANSOCEANIC TRAVEL
Lehi's DNA  by Michael DeGroote in Mormon Times
Ancient Voyages Across the Ocean to America by John L. Sorenson
Trans Oceanic Migrationby Captain Richard Rotheryh, rtd      


13.  OTHER SUBJECTS

The Nature of Mormon’s Word Processor by Ted Dee Stoddard
 PLATES OF GOLD  by Daniel Johnson -
Mission Impossible by Hugh Nibley
Other Peoples in the Promised Land by  Stephen L. Carr  click here for a biographical sketch of author
Archaeology & Cumorah Questions by  John E. Clark  click here  for a bio sketch 

Baptism at the Waters of Mormon  by V. Garth Norman and Alan C. Miner
Metal Weapons and Tools by Daniel Johnson click here for a biographical sketch of author
Earliest Mayan writing found in pyramid by Bjorn Carey, LiveScience , Thurs., Jan. 5, 2006
Reply to Smithsonian Institution statement about Book of Mormon, by  John L. Sorenson   click here for a bio
Who Did Mormon and Moroni "Minister" To?  condensed from material by Alan C. Miner and Jerry L. Ainsworth
Was Mormon a Member of a Military Class?  by John A. Tvedtnes
Mormon: A Man Forbidden to Preach--Who Preached Anyway
Resolving a possible textual contradiction in the Book of Mormon  by Chris Heimerdinger  click here for a bio of author
Swords and "Cimeters" in the Book of Mormon  by Mattew Roper


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