Well, just about ALL novel...the Book of Mormon doesn't really know how to describe women in any detail! And, as for a book in the Book of Mormon named Alma, well "Alma" in Hebrew means "virgin"...so why would the book of Alma be about a man named Alma if Hebrew-speaking people referenced such as young girls/teens?
From the article: "Abish is one of only three women mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon and yet there is very little said about her."
Book of Mormon Jeopardy on Women
Time to hit the Jeopardy category of “Women in the Book of Mormon.” (For those who don't know "Jeopardy," the answer comes first)
Answer: 2%
Question: What % of the 250 or so characters in the Book of Mormon are female?
Answer: Once
Question: How many times are “sisters” even referenced in the Book of Mormon? [The only reference I've found is 2 Nephi 5:6 – and even then
these sisters of Nephi are unnumbered & unnamed]
Answer: Sarai
Question: Who's the only wife mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon?
Answer: Abish
Question: Who's the only daughter mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon?
Answer: Don't Exist
Question: Who are the sisters mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon?
Now that we know the BoM marginalizes women, how can we tell if it trivializes women, too?
(1) Leading off the lineup of Mormon women, we have the unnamed daughter of Jared (Ether 8:8-12). What goes through her brain? Why she wants to dance before a man so that she'll seduce him into marrying him; then this household can properly commit patricide. Nice.
(2) There's an unnamed Lamanite queen in Alma 47:35. She's easy to defraud.
(3) There's another unnamed Lamanite queen in Alma 22:19-24. Let's see. This queen sees Aaron & servants @ foot of a dead king's bed. She jumps to wrongful conclusions. Then in all her decisiveness, she's going to massacre them for guilt-by-association. Then she started to back down from her heavy-handed executive authority. Why? Not because of justice, but because of fear – her servants were fearful. So she was, too (v. 21). Aaron, seeing that this woman was no match for kingdom authority, elected, instead to do the “easy thing.” And what was the easy thing in comparison to trying to deal with this queen? Why, he raised the king back from the dead (vv. 22-23).
(4) And since the book of Alma in the Book of Mormon seems to carry the predominant mention of women on behalf of the entire book, how do the earlier chapters introduce such women?
Here, read it yourself:
“And now, may the peace of God rest upon you, and upon your houses and lands, and upon your flocks and herds, and
[“and” = covering things you haven't yet covered...so what you seen the next line applies to what follows -- not what was preceding]
and all that you POSSESS, your women and your children,
according to your faith and good works,
from this time forth AND FOREVER
And thus I have spoken. Amen. (Alma 7:27)
(Well, last time I looked, forever meant forever)
Other than that, when women are mentioned in the Book of Mormon, they are good for toiling, spinning, working (Mosiah 10:5; Hel. 6:13) and having kids (1 Nephi 17:1), which the prestigious clans of the Book of Mormon were good at having by gobs of millions...supposedly.
And even when we get to the grandest of stories about women yanked out of the Bible, even Joseph can't get it quite exact. He references an unnamed virgin in 1 Nephi 11:18 -- who Smith identified as "the mother of God." Now the RC among us might say, "So?"
Well, the Book of Mormon "editors"...
...those who made almost 4,000 changes from the original Book of Mormon...
...(who'd have thunk that "the most correct book on earth" according to the Mormon angel would have need "editors"?)...
...then inserted the words "the Son of" into the text. Hmm. Those words -- were they there in the original gold inscribed text? Why did they add them? Why isn't there at least a footnote at the bottom of the Book of Mormon page saying, "Hey, we kind of added to the text here. Just wanted to let ya know."
A work of fiction based upon a work of fiction.
Does that make it ‘fan fiction’?
So let me get this straight. Hardly anything is written about this "Abish", so in order to get to know more about her, you write a piece of fiction to get to know her?
The spin used in the lds to legitimize that which can't just defies imagination.
SZ
Wow, I never knew this. The more I learn about this counterfeit Christian cult, the more amazed I am that they manage to fly under the radar. If I read this travesty of a book, I’d feel a burning alright, and it wouldn’t be in my bosom.
There must be a more positive way to spend your time. Try showing the good things that the Mormons are doing for a change.
Your constant and predictable bashing of the LDS faith is getting very boring.
Great site if you want to learn more about Mormon history:
Also, see here how the evil Mormons have donated 225,000 lbs. of food, medical supplies, doctors and tents etc.
http://heraldextra.com/news/local/article_a9b9a180-be84-5bb7-8ed6-f9a8c5fed3cd.html
Interesting thread...
The mormons do a lot of genealogy so that they can get lists of people real or imagined to dead dunk...
I recently found some of my ancestors in a website authored by the mormons..
The family had come to America...
The wife was noted as having “come in the John Brown emigration”
(also called a “Great Migration” even though it was the mid 1600s)
However the lady was MISSUS BROWN married to MISTER JOHN BROWN..
Why was a seperate note necessary ???
In all my years of research I had never seen it put that way before...
Why not put John and Susie Brown arrived in Beverwyck from Amsterdam in 1659 ???
Only the men emigrated ???
The women came along as baggage ???
I though it was telling...
(2) There’s an unnamed Lamanite queen in Alma 47:35. She’s easy to defraud.
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Sheba in the Bible wasnt..
She heard about Solomon and came to check the stories out for herself...
I wonder how they would deal with Deborah...
She lead and judged the Hebrews in her day...
HEY
She was the PROPHET and PRESIDENT...
Oh noes...
When you write fiction about another fiction book, is it fiction?
If it is the Book of mormonites, yes!
And then there’s that man that Heber C. Kimball was named for ...
yeah Heber is in the Bible....
Heber C. Kimball had lots of “wives” and he treated them like cows and kept them corralled and in line...
He was a good mormon guy..
Now let’s look at that “out-of-control” wife of the Biblical Heber...
Her name was Jael...and she was no book of mormon wife..
No sirree not her...
She tricked Sisera into coming into her husband’s tent...
and gave him food, water, a bed to sleep in...
and a nail in his head with her little hammer...
Oh noes...
And God had planned it that way...
Oh noes...
And God told Deborah that Sisera was gonna get his...
And Deborah PROPHECISED to the Hebrews that God was going to do it ...
Oh, noes..
Maybe - maybe not.
We ALL know that the Eternal Covenant (polygamy) lasted 47 years!!
HMMmm...
That's kinda like Resty's story...
Another Mormon post from our single issue poster.