What Is The Book of Mormon?
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The Book of Mormon is composed of fifteen books, each divided into chapters and verses much like the Bible is.
The text includes the account of an ancient prophet named Mormon, who lived in the 5th century A.D.,
and who gathered more than a thousand years of records, abridging them into
what is now known as The Book of Mormon (Mormon 6.6)…Contrary to common assumptions,
The Book of Mormon is not the Latter-day Saint version of the Bible.
Patheos Editorial Team, Patheos.org
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... The Book of Mormon is essentially the narration of a group of Israelites who migrate to the New World [around] 600 B.C.,
led by a prophet figure called Lehi. It chronicles God's dealings with them; it chronicles the fragmentation of that people into two primary races,
the Lamanites and the Nephites. In many ways it's a morality tale, as it chronicles the
adversities they face when they are wicked, the blessings that are accrued through righteousness.
PBS.org, Terryl Givens Professor of Litterature and Religion at the University of Richmond
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The Book of Mormon is a foundational sacred text for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (whose members are commonly called "Mormons,"
after the book itself). Mormonism was organized as a religion after Joseph Smith, the movement's founder, published the Book of Mormon in upstate New York in 1830.
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Book of Mormon Commentaries
