Book of Mormon Commentary 6: I, Mormon, Make a Record
by Monte S. Nyman
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This is the sixth and last volume of the Book of Mormon commentary series. It covers a more extensive time period of the Nephite culture than any of the other five volumes.
It begins during the thirty-fourth year after the birth of Jesus Christ and ends in the four hundred and twenty-first year of that same time period�for a total of three hundred and eighty-seven years.
In addition, it contains an abridgment of about two thousand years of the Jaredite record, the book of Ether.
The geographic information is sparingly treated and is only spoken of in general terms. What area Mormon is referring to as the place where the people "spread upon all the face of the land" is left in question (4 Nephi 1:23). The geography of "the north countries" (Mormon 2:3) is not clearly defined. How far northward the people of Nephi were driven is not dealt with (See, Mormon 2:20, 29). The location of the land of desolation where the Jaredites were destroyed (See, Alma 22:30-32), and where many of the last battles of the Nephites were fought, is also not clearly defined (See, Mormon chapters 3 and 4). Again, how much farther north the Nephites were driven is left unanswered (See, Mormon 5:3-7).
The land of Cumorah remains in controversy (Mormon 6), but it is assumed that it is in New York State, until the time comes when "a knowledge of these things must come unto the remnant of these people, and also unto the Gentiles" (Mormon 5:8).
In this work we have concentrated on the guidelines for life given to us by the abridgers, which will bring us "nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book" (Book of Mormon Introduction; quoting TPJS, 194).
449 pages
Published: 2004
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