\u201cGeology and Third Nephi (1): The Time of Darkness (A)\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s another item that I\u2019ve drawn from that significant article from more than two decades ago, \u00a0Bart J. Kowallis, \u201cIn the Thirty and Fourth Year: A Geologist\u2019s View of the Great Destruction in 3 Nephi,\u201d\u00a0BYU Studies<\/em>\u00a037\/3 (1997-1998). \u00a0The phrase the Two Lands<\/em> refers, of course, to Egypt in its entirety, which was made up of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, originally two independent kingdoms along the River Nile that were eventually united by Narmer or by Menes (probably two distinct names for the same Early Dynastic Period person, who likely lived between 3150 BC and 3100 BC):<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
A second, much older account of a time of darkness is found on the remains of an Egyptian stele that has been connected with a great volcanic eruption (ca. 1500-1450 B.C.) on the island of Santorini (Thera) located about seventy miles north of the island of Crete. \u00a0The inscription on the stele reads in part:<\/span><\/p>\nThe gods [caused] the sky to come in a tempest of r[ain], with darkness in the western region and the sky being \/ unleashed without [cessation, louder than] the cries of the masses, more powerful than [. . .] [while the rain raged (?)] on the mountains louder than the noise of the \/ cataract which is at Elephantine. \u00a0Every house, every quarter that they reached [. . .] \/ floating on the water like skiffs of papyrus opposite the royal residence for a period of [. . .] days, \/ while a torch could not be lit in the Two Lands.<\/strong> \u00a0(138)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alert readers who are familiar with the Book of Mormon will already have noticed the similarity of the Egyptian account and of the New Hebridean retelling already mentioned to the narrative of 3 Nephi. \u00a0And Professor Kowallis is not shy about calling attention to the Book of Mormon description of a natural catastrophe, expressly quoting 3 Nephi 8:5-13, 18-23; 10:12-13, which he plainly believes to be significantly parallel. \u00a0(See page 140.)<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Yesterday, I cited an account, gathered by Russell Blong, of a catastrophic volcanic eruption (\u201cThe Time of Darkness\u201d)\u00a0that occurred off the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea roughly three hundred years ago: \u00a0 See \u201cGeology and Third Nephi (1): The Time of Darkness (A)\u201d \u00a0 Here\u2019s another item that I\u2019ve drawn from that […]<\/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":[1341,56,8529,8520,1356,1353,8526,1350,1050,1369,1347,8523,8531],"class_list":["post-82908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3-nephi","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-cataclysm","tag-catastrophe","tag-christ","tag-destruction","tag-devastation","tag-earthquake","tag-geology","tag-jesus","tag-seismology","tag-visit","tag-volcano"],"yoast_head":"\n
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