Ether

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Overview

• Source behind the Book of Mormon (Link)
• Bruce W. Warren, "Secret Combinations, Warfare, and Captive Sacrifice in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• John L. Sorenson, "The Years of the Jaredites" (Link)

Ether 1

• Ether 1-3
  • John S. Thompson, "The Jaredite Exodus: A Literary Perspective of a Historical Narrative" (Link)
  • Alan Goff, "Boats, Beginnings, and Repetitions" (Link)
• Ether 1:2
  • Rex C. Reeve Jr., “The Book of Mormon Plates,” (Link)
• Ether 1:3, 5, 33
  • John L. Sorenson, “Towers in the Book of Mormon” (Link)
• Ether 1:11
  • Stan Larson, "Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Ether 1:11-12
  • Royal Skousen, “Book of Mormon Critical Text Project Completes Text Analysis” (Link)
• Ether 1:38
  • John L. Sorenson, "Old World People in the New" (Link)

Ether 2

• Ether 2:3
  • FAIR entry on "bees" (Link)
• Ether 2:23
  • FAIR entry on "windows" (Link)
• Ether 2:25
  • Nicholas Read, Jae R. Ballif, John W. Welch, Bill Evenson, Kathleen Reynolds Gee, and Matthew Roper, "New Light on the Shining Stones of the Jaredites" (Link)

Ether 3

• Overview
  • Shon D. Hopkin, "Preparing Students to Receive Revelation: Insights from the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • David E. Bokovoy, "“Thou Knowest That I Believe”: Invoking The Spirit of the Lord as Council Witness in 1 Nephi 11" (Link)
• Ether 3:4
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Glowing Stones in Ancient and Medieval Lore" (Link)
• Ether 3:6
  • M. Catherine Thomas. "The Brother of Jared at the Veil" (.pdf)
• Ether 3:15
  • Kent P. Jackson, ""Never Have I Showed Myself unto Man": A Suggestion for Understanding Ether 3:15a" (Link)
• Ether 3:22
  • Valentin Arts, "A Third Jaredite Record: The Sealed Portion of the Gold Plates" (Link)

Ether 6

• Ether 6:4
  • Allen J. Christenson, "By Land of by Sea? Revisiting the Bearing Straits" (Link)

Ether 7

• Ether 7:9
  • William J. Hamblin, "Vikings, Iron, and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson, "Steel in Early Metallurgy" (Link)
  • FAIR entry on "metals" (Link)

Ether 9

• Ether 9:17
  • FAIR entry on "silk" (Link)
• Ether 9:18
  • FAIR entry on "cattle and cows" (Link)
  • FAIR entry on "swine" (Link)
• Ether 9:19
  • FAIR entry on "elephants" (Link)
• Ether 9:31
  • John A. Tvednes, "Droughts and Serpents" (Link)
  • FAIR entry on "serpents and drought" (Link)

Ether 10

• Ether 10:24
  • FAIR entry on "silk" (Link)

Ether 11

• Ether 11:9
  • Stan Larson, "Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the Book of Mormon" (Link)

Ether 12

• Ether 12:25
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson, John W. Welch, Robert F. Smith, Bruce W. Warren, Roger R. Keller, David Fox, and Deloy Pack, "Words and Phrases" (Link)

Ether 15

• Overview
  • John L. Sorenson, "When Lehi's Party Arrived in the Land, Did They Find Others There?" (Link)
  • Anonymous, "Out of the Dust (Did the "Last Jaredite," Coriantumr, Leave Descendants?)" (Link)
  • Matthew Roper, "Nephi's Neighbors: Book of Mormon Peoples and Pre-Columbian Populations" (Link)
• Ether 15:30
  • Matthew Roper, “Book of Mormon Swords in Mesoamerican Antiquity” (Link)
  • M. Gary Hadfield and John W. Welch, "The "Decapitation" of Shiz" (Link)
  • M. Gary Hadfield, "Neuropathology and the Scriptures" (Link)
• Ether 15:31
  • FAIR entry on "Shiz struggles to breath" (Link)