“Is ‘Nauvoo’ a genuinely Hebrew word?”

Last updated on: May 8, 2016 at 10:37 am

May 8, 2016 by Dan Peterson

Nauvoo in 1855 — An 1855 engraving of Nauvoo, Illinois, as seen from the western side of the Mississippi River. The largely destroyed original Nauvoo Temple was still standing at the time, and is clearly visible.
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The late Fawn Brodie, an alleged biographer of Joseph Smith, initially claimed that Nauvoo isn’t an authentically Hebrew word but, instead, was a mere figment of Joseph’s fertile (and unscrupulous) imagination. She has been followed in this claim by some critics of Mormonism.

Robert Boylan sets them straight:

http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.it/2016/05/is-nauvoo-genuinely-hebrew-worda.html

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