A note on the “horses” in the Book of Mormon

Last updated on: January 9, 2016 at 5:10 pm by Dan Peterson

Das Nilpferd — A hippopotamus (Greek for “river horse”) or “Nile horse” (German “Nilpferd”) ambling along by the water.
(Wikimedia Commons; click to enlarge.)

The proposal offered by some LDS scholars that the Book of Mormon’s “horses” might have been some other animal — perhaps Baird’s tapir — that the Nephites called “horses” because, although unfamiliar, they saw them as, in some salient way, “horse-like” can be counted upon to draw raucous derision from a certain species of ex- and anti-Mormon.

That’s the background for this item, from Stephen Smoot:

http://www.plonialmonimormon.com/2016/01/a-recent-experience-with-greek.html

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