Research Catalog

Title

The Book of Mormon and DNA research : essays from the FARMS review and the Journal of Book of Mormon studies / edited by Daniel C. Peterson.

Publication

Provo, Utah : The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Peterson, Daniel C.

Description

287 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

In Book of Mormon and DNA Research, contributors explore the claim that DNA proves the Book of Mormon false and explain the problems in drawing definitive conclusions about the Book of Mormon based on DNA findings.

Subject

• Nephi (Book of Mormon figure)
• Lehi (Book of Mormon figure)
• Book of Mormon
• DNA > Analysis
• Indians > Origin

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The problematic role of DNA testing in unraveling human history / John L. Sorenson -- A few thoughts from a believing DNA scientist / John M. Butler -- Before DNA / John L. Sorenson and Matthew Roper -- Addressing questions surrounding the Book of Mormon and DNA research / John M. Butler -- DNA and the Book of Mormon / David G. Stewart, Jr. -- DNA and the Book of Mormon : a phylogenetic perspective / Michael F. Whiting -- Detecting Lehi's genetic signature : possible, probable, or not? / David A. McClellan -- Who are the children of Lehi? / D. Jeffrey Meldrum and Trent D. Stephens -- Nephi's neighbors : Book of Mormon peoples and pre-Columbian populations / Matthew Roper -- Swimming in the gene pool : Israelite kinship relations, genes, and genealogy / Matthew Roper -- Elusive Israel and the numerical dynamics of population mixing / Brian D. Stubbs.

ISBN

9780842527064 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008017034

OCLC

• 226304684
• SCSB-12201158

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library