The place called "NAHOM" in the Book of Mormon

[randy]

On the Community of Christ discussion board there is a thread currently running entitled "Who wrote the Book of Mormon", and we're discussing the somewhat recent discovery of the alter's in Yemen that allude to "the place called Nahom" in the Book of Mormon.

This comment/question was recently asked....and I was wondering if anyone on the board could help me with a response.

"Since "NHM" are Roman characters, were what was found Hebrew or Aramaic characters that someone transliterated to "NHM"? Not the same thing as "reading NHM." If they actually read "NHM," then it is Roman and anachronistic.

Supposedly the Book of Mormon was written in "Reformed Egyptian," so how would that transliterate to "NHM," and were the supposed characters found in "Reformed Egyptian"?

So no, not persuasive.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[LeSellers]

"Since "NHM" are Roman characters, were what was found Hebrew or Aramaic characters that someone transliterated to "NHM"? Not the same thing as "reading NHM." If they actually read "NHM," then it is Roman and anachronistic.

There is no reason to believe that the characters were anything but an ancient Semitic script. I don't have any Semitic language, so cannot comment on what they saw (assuming I, too, had seen it, or even in a photo of it). The people who have seen it and who have commented on it are trustworthy folks, and we have their statements that the find was c. vii~vi (I am using a new notation here: lower case Roman numerals for centuries B.C. I will continue to use upper case Roman for centuries A.D.).

But it is more than common to transliterate such finds into Roman characters, and there is at least one convention for doing so.

Supposedly the Book of Mormon was written in "Reformed Egyptian," so how would that transliterate to "NHM," and were the supposed characters found in "Reformed Egyptian"?

NO!

The Book of Mormon was not "written in 'Reformed Egyptian'". It was written in "the characters which are called among us the reformed Egyptian". The implication of Moroni's statement is that they used a modified Egyptian character set to write in Hebrew by transliteration or substitution for whole words or phrases (e.g., "and it came to pass").

Since we have no idea what reformed Egyptian characters looked like (the Anthon Transcript notwithstanding), the answers to your questions are simply unknown and unknowable.

Lehi

[jadams_4242]

On the Community of Christ discussion board there is a thread currently running entitled "Who wrote the Book of Mormon", and we're discussing the somewhat recent discovery of the alter's in Yemen that allude to "the place called Nahom" in the Book of Mormon.

This comment/question was recently asked....and I was wondering if anyone on the board could help me with a response.

"Since "NHM" are Roman characters, were what was found Hebrew or Aramaic characters that someone transliterated to "NHM"? Not the same thing as "reading NHM." If they actually read "NHM," then it is Roman and anachronistic.

Supposedly the Book of Mormon was written in "Reformed Egyptian," so how would that transliterate to "NHM," and were the supposed characters found in "Reformed Egyptian"?

So no, not persuasive.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

The inscription of "N.H,M" It was written in "Hebrew" which does not contain vouls. So actually yer way off track from the very start.

[Rommelator]

Here are some links:

http://farms.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vo...um=1&id=187

http://farms.byu.edu/publications/books/?b...8&chapid=61

http://mi.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=1...&cat_id=267

http://mi.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=1...&cat_id=267

http://mi.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=1...&cat_id=269

Hope those help.

[maklelan]

The inscription of "N.H,M" It was written in "Hebrew" which does not contain vouls. So actually yer way off track from the very start.

The inscription was written in Old South Arabic, which is a Semitic language, but southern Semitic, rather than Northwest Semitic (Hebrew's branch). The alphabet is roughly analogous, though, although the Old South Arabian inscription has a hard H rather than the soft H, so if it is Nahom, the city's name does not refer to consolation or grieving. Nephi could have easily related the word (which is not found in Hebrew) to one he was more familiar with, which is common. What kind of characters were used is irrelevant, though.

[Olavarria]

On the Community of Christ discussion board there is a thread currently running entitled "Who wrote the Book of Mormon", and we're discussing the somewhat recent discovery of the alter's in Yemen that allude to "the place called Nahom" in the Book of Mormon.

This comment/question was recently asked....and I was wondering if anyone on the board could help me with a response.

"Since "NHM" are Roman characters, were what was found Hebrew or Aramaic characters that someone transliterated to "NHM"? Not the same thing as "reading NHM." If they actually read "NHM," then it is Roman and anachronistic.

Supposedly the Book of Mormon was written in "Reformed Egyptian," so how would that transliterate to "NHM," and were the supposed characters found in "Reformed Egyptian"?

So no, not persuasive.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Nahom

Bountiful

DCP

Teryl Givens

http://books.google.com/books?id=a5OgaD3gl...esult#PPA120,M1