In connection with yesterday’s reading and today’s, here’s a Deseret News column (entitled “May your new year begin better than Amalickiah’s”) that I wrote back at the very end of 2011.
It treats some of what I posted last night, but it also addresses, very briefly, the significance of the date of Amalickiah’s assassination for the religious sensibilities of many ancient societies (presumably, from their reaction, including the Lamanites):
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