Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 1 of 2

by Jeff Lindsay

Overview

The Arabian Peninsula has provided a significant body of evidence related to the plausibility of Nephi's account of the ancient journey made by Lehi's family across Arabia. Relatively few critics have seriously considered the evidence, generally nitpicking at details and insisting that the evidences are insignificant. Recently more meaningful responses have been offered by well educated writers showing familiarity with the Arabian evidences and the Book of Mormon. They argue that Nephi's account is not historical and any apparent evidence in its favor can be attributed to weak LDS apologetics coupled with Joseph's use of modern sources such as a detailed map of Arabia that could provide the name Nahom, for example. Further, the entire body of Arabian evidence for the Book of Mormon is said to be irrelevant because Nephi's subtle and pervasive incorporation of Exodus themes in his account proves the Book of Mormon is fiction. On this point we are to trust modern Bible scholarship ("Higher Criticism") which allegedly shows that the book of Exodus wasn't written until long after Nephi's day and, in fact, tells a story that is mere pious fiction, fabricated during or after the Exile.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157634476
Publisher:	Interpreter Foundation
Publication date:	04/08/2016
Series:	Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture , #19
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	92
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Jeffrey Dean Lindsay and his wife, Kendra, are residents of Shanghai, China. Jeff has been providing online materials defending the LDS faith for more than twenty years, primarily at JeffLindsay.com. His Mormanity blog () has been in operation since 2004. He also wrote weekly for Orson Scott Card’s Nauvoo Times (NauvooTimes.com) from 2012 through 2016. Jeff has a PhD in chemical engineering from BYU and is a registered US patent agent. He serves as Head of Intellectual Property for Asia Pulp and Paper, one of the world’s largest paper companies. Formerly, he was associate professor at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (now the Renewable Bioproducts Institute) at Georgia Tech, then went into R&D at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, eventually becoming corporate patent strategist and senior research fellow. He then spent several years at Innovationedge in Neenah, Wisconsin, helping many companies with innovation and IP strategy. Jeff has been in China for four years, where he works with various APP companies and mills in advancing their intellectual property and innovation. He is active in the chemical engineering community and was recently named a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is also listed as a leading IP strategist by Intellectual Asset Magazine in their global IAM300 listing, one of only two IP workers named in China so far. Jeff served a mission in the German-speaking Switzerland Zurich Mission and currently serves as counselor in the district presidency of the Shanghai International District. He and his wife Kendra are the parents of four boys and have eight grandchildren.