Book of Mormon News: New Translation from Golden Plates Yields Surprises

Seven lines of the Book of Mormon's original "Reformed Egyption" characters have been discovered among records preserved by John Whitmer, the first Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Latter-Day Saints have long claimed that Joseph Smith copied these characters from among tens of thousands that had been inscribed on thin sheets of gold during the 4th and 5th centuries by "Mormon" and "Moroni", two inspired, ancient American military and spiritual leaders.Show more

Smith's records indicate that he copied a "considerable number" of those characters onto paper as he commenced his translation work, but only this single page is known to have survived.

Doubters have always assumed that the characters were nothing more than the random imaginings of a charlatan.

However, a careful linguistic analysis based on modern logographic research into Egyptian, Hebrew, and Mesoamerican scripts has revealed that many of the characters represent numbers. Furthermore, the numbers can be shown to coincide with important dates and date/calendar combinations from the English-Language translation of the Book of Mormon as published in 1830 by Joseph Smith.

In 2015, Jerry Grover, a Book of Mormon enthusiast (who also happens to be a linguist and mathematician) published a scholarly book in which he proposes a consistent set of linguistic rules and syntax which, applied to the characters, yields a remarkable translation based on the resulting numbers and the corresponding, dated events from the published Book of Mormon.

This 18-minute video clip summarizes Grover's Book.

For more information about the Book of Mormon's mysterious origins, click the link below to commence our 4-part series:

https://rumble.com/vcf73x-book-of-mormon-proves-the-bible-v1of4.html