The Ancient Meaning Behind Book of Mormon Names
12K views · Mar 15, 2026 · People & Blogs
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@PierzStyx · 6 months ago
You have to get Jerry Grover on the show and talk to him about his work studying the presence of Sumerian in Jaredite words and names.
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@professorchimp1 · 6 months ago
Matt's discovery of Enos alluding to the Old World lands of his ancestors blew my mind. Jerry Grover's application of Matt's work, particularly to the Caractors document, is likewise mind-blowing
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@Lambert1290 · 6 months ago
Dallin D. Oaks is Dallin H. Oaks' son. He is a BYU English Professor.
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@michael-zitar · 6 months ago
I see Matt Bowen chose to be at BYU-H. He really is a genius.
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@cameronshapiro2961 · 6 months ago
This illustrates one reason why I tell my friend that I don’t believe that Joseph could even have written the Book of Mormon. He hasn’t read it himself, but he thinks that the parts that he’s had shared with him sound terrible and fake.
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@lukehanson_ · 6 months ago
Excellent video guys! I hadn't heard many of these connections (other than Jershon, a classic)
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@Rozzboy · 6 months ago
Stephen O. Smoot is genuinely one of the coolest dudes.
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@dinocollins720 · 6 months ago
I absolutely love brother Bowen!!! His work is mind blowing! I no joke think I’ve looked at and studied everything he’s produced or published… I’m his number 1 fan!<br><br>In fact, I’m currently trying to publish another interpreter article on a new BoM name discovery with Taylor Halverson, but it was totally inspired and pulled from Bro Bowen’s work!<br><br>Love this great man!
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@michael-zitar · 6 months ago
Great great episode gentlemen!
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@Gubbytherealfr · 6 months ago
Awesome interview!!!
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@Lambert1290 · 6 months ago
Also pay attention that the work on Latter-day Saint names and naming conventions was published by Routledge.
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@BobSmith-lb9nc · 6 months ago
Brian Stubbs notes a fossilized pa- definite article in Uto-Aztecan, and Simon Martin detects Nahuatl standard prefixes, pa-, pax-, paz-, on Western Maya surnames for males (Ix- for females), as in the name Pa-ma-lil Kaloomte’, the highest title of a Maya king at Caracol, on Caracol Altar 13, in 820 AD (9.19.10.0.0). Several Book of Mormon names feature a pa- prefix, which is usually taken as the Egyptian masculine definite article, as in Pathros, Pacumeni, Pahoron, etc.
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