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− | <onlyinclude>[In the 1950s] some silver plates from the time of Lehi have turned up not far from his home. They were found in the "Bertiz" valley, carefully laid away in a bronze vessel. The plates measured 4.5 by 5 centimeters, were quite thin, and were entirely covered with writing, twenty-two lines of Semitic characters "pressed into the metal with a hard sharp object." Almost at the same time small plates made of gold and silver foil and covered with Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions were found: they seem to have been carried about as talismans, and the writing on them included magic words and names of power, along with the name of the God of Israel.<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&index=5 Chapter 2], citing Muhibble Aüstock-Darga, "Semitische Inschriften auf Silbertäfelchen aus dem 'Bertiz'-Tal," ''Jahrbuch für kleinasiatische Forschung'' 1 (1950): 199—200 and André Dupont-Sommer, "Deux lamelles d'argent à inscription hébréo-araméenne trouvés à Agabeyli (Turquie)," ''Jahrbuch für kleinasiatische Forschung'' 1 (1950): 201—17.}}</ref></onlyinclude> | + | {{FME-Source |
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+ | [In the 1950s] some silver plates from the time of Lehi have turned up not far from his home. They were found in the "Bertiz" valley, carefully laid away in a bronze vessel. The plates measured 4.5 by 5 centimeters, were quite thin, and were entirely covered with writing, twenty-two lines of Semitic characters "pressed into the metal with a hard sharp object." Almost at the same time small plates made of gold and silver foil and covered with Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions were found: they seem to have been carried about as talismans, and the writing on them included magic words and names of power, along with the name of the God of Israel.<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&index=5 Chapter 2], citing Muhibble Aüstock-Darga, "Semitische Inschriften auf Silbertäfelchen aus dem 'Bertiz'-Tal," ''Jahrbuch für kleinasiatische Forschung'' 1 (1950): 199—200 and André Dupont-Sommer, "Deux lamelles d'argent à inscription hébréo-araméenne trouvés à Agabeyli (Turquie)," ''Jahrbuch für kleinasiatische Forschung'' 1 (1950): 201—17.}}</ref></onlyinclude> | ||
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+ | [[Category:Hugh Nibley]] | ||
+ | [[Category:An Approach to the Book of Mormon]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Collected Works of Hugh Nibley Vol. 06]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Metal plates|Metal plates]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Culture/Old World|Old World]] |
[In the 1950s] some silver plates from the time of Lehi have turned up not far from his home. They were found in the "Bertiz" valley, carefully laid away in a bronze vessel. The plates measured 4.5 by 5 centimeters, were quite thin, and were entirely covered with writing, twenty-two lines of Semitic characters "pressed into the metal with a hard sharp object." Almost at the same time small plates made of gold and silver foil and covered with Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions were found: they seem to have been carried about as talismans, and the writing on them included magic words and names of power, along with the name of the God of Israel.[1]
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