{"id":34276,"date":"2016-06-13T05:40:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=34276"},"modified":"2016-06-13T05:41:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:41:47","slug":"bom-alma-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/06\/bom-alma-27.html","title":{"rendered":"BOM Alma 27"},"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_34277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34277\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/06\/800px-GrandinPrintingShop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34277\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34277\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/06\/800px-GrandinPrintingShop.jpg\" alt=\"Grandin interior\" width=\"595\" height=\"446\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the restored Grandin Print Shop in Palmyra, New York, where the first edition of the Book of Mormon was printed. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s reading, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/bofm\/alma\/27?lang=eng\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alma 27<\/a>, the Nephites give the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi a land called <em>Jershon<\/em> for their inheritance, as a place of refuge.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a strikingly apt name for a \u201cland of inheritance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See, for example,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/a-nickname-and-a-slam-dunk-notes-on-the-book-of-mormon-names-zeezrom-and-jershon\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen D. Ricks, \u201cA Nickname and a Slam Dunk: Notes on the Book of Mormon Names <em>Zeezrom<\/em> and J<em>ershon\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/they-were-moved-with-compassion-alma-274-5313-toponymic-wordplay-on-zarahemla-and-jershon\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew L. Bowen, \u201c\u2018They Were Moved with Compassion\u2019 (Alma 27:4; 53:13): Toponymic Wordplay on <em>Zarahemla<\/em> and <em>Jershon<\/em>\u201c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 In today\u2019s reading, Alma 27, the Nephites give the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi a land called Jershon for their inheritance, as a place of refuge. \u00a0 That\u2019s a strikingly apt name for a \u201cland of inheritance.\u201d \u00a0 See, for example, \u00a0 Stephen D. 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