Robert F. Smith addresses the use of "Lord" (YHWH) in the Book of Ether.

Date
2022
Type
Book
Source
Robert F. Smith
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Robert F. Smith, Jaredites and Manassites: The Ethnological Foundations of the Book of Mormon, 3 vols. (Provo, UT: Deep Forest Green Books, 2022), 2:17-18

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Deep Forest Green Books
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Robert F. Smith
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Reading Public
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Lord

As pointed out by Grant Hardy, “Lord” as deity “more than a hundred times” in the Jaredite record, and is identified with Jesus Christ in Ether 3:14, 20. Yet, Hardy observes, since Yahweh (KJV “LORD”) is not attested before the 14th century B.C., “it is not clear what original divine title might have been behind Moron’s use of Lord” in Ether. However, given the context, Sumerian En, en, in4 = Akkadian bēlu “Lord,” or En-Ia “My-Lord,” would be just fine, or perhaps seen DIMER, DINIR, DINGIR = ilu (“God” (as applied above in the etymology of Coriantumr). As rendered in Egyptian on the Book of Mormon plates, this would likely have been Nb “Lord” (ne, né-eb, nib, ni-ib, ni-im).

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