Book of Mormon Reading Group: 30 Oct - 05 Nov 2023 (Alma 13 - Alma 25)

[Jamie123]

5 minutes ago, Traveler said:

You are correct concerning Jerusalem but there were Jews in northern Israel under Herod.  

 

The Traveler

Absolutely, but it was Jewish leaders in Jerusalem who said "we have no king but Caesar". (Though....OK. I guess seeing as it was the Passover, some of them may have been from Galilee.)

[askandanswer]

On 11/5/2023 at 9:12 AM, Carborendum said:

Egyptian has a term "nty" (sometimes used as a prefix) which means of the.  In today's English vernacular, we might say with the.  And the combining of two names in this manner is indicating a son-father relationship. 

Thus it would be a label for a people who are with the people of Nephi (son of) Lehi.

This seems to be inconsistent with how the prefix anti is used in Alma 30:6.

6 But it came to pass in the latter end of the seventeenth year, there came a man into the land of Zarahemla, and he was ^aAnti-Christ, for he began to preach unto the people ^bagainst the prophecies which had been spoken by the prophets, concerning the coming of Christ.

[Vort]

1 hour ago, askandanswer said:

This seems to be inconsistent with how the prefix anti is used in Alma 30:6.

6 But it came to pass in the latter end of the seventeenth year, there came a man into the land of Zarahemla, and he was ^aAnti-Christ, for he began to preach unto the people ^bagainst the prophecies which had been spoken by the prophets, concerning the coming of Christ.

The Book of Mormon was translated into normal English, where "anti-" is a Greek and Latin prefix that carries the same meaning that it always does in English. The proposition is that, in addition to this normal meaning, the Book of Mormon contains the prefix "anti-" (in "anti-Nephi-Lehies") where it has a different etymology, coming from an Egyptian root and carrying a different meaning.

[Carborendum]

1 hour ago, askandanswer said:

This seems to be inconsistent with how the prefix anti is used in Alma 30:6.

6 But it came to pass in the latter end of the seventeenth year, there came a man into the land of Zarahemla, and he was ^aAnti-Christ, for he began to preach unto the people ^bagainst the prophecies which had been spoken by the prophets, concerning the coming of Christ.

LoL!  Nice Try.