BOM Alma 31

Last updated on: June 17, 2016 at 3:46 pm by Dan Peterson

Lake Ram, in the disputed Ramat Ha-Golan (“Golan Heights), currently occupied by Israel
(Wikimedia Commons)

In Wadi Rum, Jordan — A mountain in Jordan’s Wadi Rum, where the recent film “The Martian” was filmed, along with the movie “Lawrence of Arabia.” (Much of the actual story of T. E. Lawrence occurred here.) Despite its spelling “Rum” here is actually pronounced “ramm,” and it probably derives from an Aramaic word meaning “elevated.” (Wikimedia Commons)

Today’s reading, Alma 31, introduces us to the (in)famous Rameumptom, the elevated platform from which the apostate Zoramites would offer up their complacently self-righteous weekly prayer.

Here are some interesting thoughts, from the Book of Mormon Onomasticon Project that was once associated with FARMS or the Maxwell Institute, on the etymology of the word Rameumptom: https://onoma.lib.byu.edu/index.php/RAMEUMPTOM

I’m struck, too, by the fact that, in 31:35, Alma remarks of the Zoramites that “many of them are our brethren” — which suggests that at least some of them are not. That seems to me pretty clearly to imply the existence of “others” in the land.

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