(February 16, 2014)
One thing that I just noticed in the text, despite having read this so many times (and I admit, I was aided in this by the supplemental materials that I had been reading) was how alien Sherem was to the people of Nephi. He came among them, but was not always among them. He long strove to speak with Jacob – why didn’t he just walk up to him, in this small community of believers? He spoke their language, which is not something that you point out about a person who is either a nephew or a child of you.
Sherem was an outsider, and it really proves the point that there were others around during the time of the Book of Mormon. For these evidences to be in place, and still not found for over a century after the book was translated (and, yet, unarguably be in the text) once again says something about the reality of its translation rather than its creation.
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