Mormon
Mormon is a central prophet in the Book of Mormon named after him . According to the belief of the Mormons, he is said to have lived in America in the 4th century AD, but this has not yet been proven historically.
Life
According to the Book of Mormon, Mormon was born in the Nephite city of Zarahemla. He lived in a time of extended, hateful, armed conflict between his people, the Nephites, of whom he was military leader, and the Lamanites. His son Moroni reported in the Book of Mormon that he was killed in connection with a major final battle near a hill called Cumorah that cost numerous lives and practically exterminated the Nephites. Whether he died in the battle itself or was killed in the subsequent persecution of the surviving Nephites is not clear from the text.
Even as a child, Mormon was commissioned by the prophet Ammaron at the age of 24 to go to the place where the chronicles of the Nephites were supposed to be hidden and to add his own observations about the people to the record of Nephi. Mormon later compiled a summary of the accounts of his people, which he gave to his son Moroni.
Meaning of the name
The scientists at Brigham Young University , Hugh Nibley , noticed the frequency of names with the syllable mor in the Book of Mormon and suggested in 1993 that the Egyptian had origin and loved mean. This is countered by the explanation of Joseph Smith , who declared in 1843 that the word is a contraction of the English word more and the syllable mon . Mon is good in the language of the gold plates, which Smith referred to as "Reformed Egyptian" . So the name literally means more good .
See also
Web links
- Mormon in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Mormon , Mormon 8: 2
- Jump up ↑ Book of Mormon, Mormon 1: 3
- ↑ Book of Mormon, Mormon 6: 6 ; Words of Mormon 3-6
- ↑ See Hugh W. Nibley , Teachings of The Book of Mormon. Semester 3, Lecture 71 (Eng.)
- ↑ See Joseph Smith , Times and Seasons 15 May 1843. Correspondence , p. 194.