{"id":33297,"date":"2016-05-08T10:37:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T16:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=33297"},"modified":"2016-05-08T10:37:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T16:37:56","slug":"is-nauvoo-a-genuinely-hebrew-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/05\/is-nauvoo-a-genuinely-hebrew-word.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Is &#8216;Nauvoo&#8217; a genuinely Hebrew word?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33298\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/800px-Nauvoo3b24766u.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33298\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33298\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/800px-Nauvoo3b24766u.jpg\" alt=\"Nauvoo in 1855\" width=\"596\" height=\"398\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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.<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The late Fawn Brodie, an alleged biographer of Joseph Smith, initially claimed that <em>Nauvoo<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t an authentically Hebrew word but, instead, was a mere \u00a0figment of Joseph\u2019s fertile (and unscrupulous) imagination. \u00a0She has been followed in this claim by some critics of <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormonism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/robertb\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Boylan<\/a> sets them straight:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripturalmormonism.blogspot.it\/2016\/05\/is-nauvoo-genuinely-hebrew-worda.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/scripturalmormonism.blogspot.it\/2016\/05\/is-nauvoo-genuinely-hebrew-worda.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Terricciola, Italy<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 The late Fawn Brodie, an alleged biographer of Joseph Smith, initially claimed that Nauvoo\u00a0isn\u2019t an authentically Hebrew word but, instead, was a mere \u00a0figment of Joseph\u2019s fertile (and unscrupulous) imagination. \u00a0She has been followed in this claim by some critics of Mormonism. \u00a0 Robert Boylan sets them straight: \u00a0 http:\/\/scripturalmormonism.blogspot.it\/2016\/05\/is-nauvoo-genuinely-hebrew-worda.html \u00a0 Posted from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Is &#039;Nauvoo&#039; 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