Mormon's Map

by John L. Sorenson

As Mormon edited the Book of Mormon, he must have had a map in his mind of the places and physical features that were setting the events described in that book. John L. Sorenson attempts to reconstruct that mental map — "Mormon's Map" — using information in the text.

Mormon's Map answers such general questions as, "What is the overall shape of the Book of Mormon lands?" And "What can we learn about distances and directions?" It also answers more specific questions like, "How was geography central to the defeat of the robbers of Giddianhi?"

Mormon's Map gives a model that we can apply to stories from the record, shedding a new light on the influence of geography on Nephite history, increasing our understanding of that book and its characters, and making events and places more concrete in our minds.

Genres: Religion, Lds, Mormonism

170 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this years ago. It was ok.

[Bruce Lloyd]

John L. Sorenson should abandon the Mesoamerican model and start looking in the real Book of Mormon lands in ancient America--a land choice above all other lands!

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interest look at how the juxtaposition of Book of Mormon cities and sites. The author does not attempt to identify where precisely on the American continent the Nephites and Lamanites live; he simply suggests how the cities and sites might have been situated in relation to each other.

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book makes a lot of seemingly good approximations of where the Book of Mormon predominately took place. It's too bad the author's (John L. Sorenson's) geographical model in his other books point to Mesoamerica.

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

nice concise book

[Mormon Heretic · Rating 3 out of 5]

pretty good--short version of his theories on BoM geography