Secondary Questions / Book of Mormon
Anachronisms in the Book of Mormon — horses, steel, wheat.
What the question is
Some terms in the Book of Mormon (horses, steel, wheat, etc.) appear at times and places they are not currently attested archaeologically. Translation choices, broader meanings of words, and ongoing archaeological discovery all bear on these questions.
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How to weigh it
Archaeology is a slow, expanding field. Absence of present evidence is not evidence of absence — and translation is rarely word-for-word identity.
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