* 1829 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.

The Book of Alma () is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon.

The Book of Alma is the longest of all the books of the Book of Mormon, consisting of 63 chapters.

* The Book of Mormon: The Book of Alma

The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.

It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

The Book of Mormon has a number of original and distinctive doctrinal discussions on subjects such as the fall of Adam and Eve, the nature of the Atonement, eschatology, redemption from physical and spiritual death, and the organization of the latter-day church.

The Book of Mormon is the earliest of the unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement, the denominations of which typically regard the text not only as scripture but also as a historical record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.

The Book of Mormon is divided into smaller books, titled after the individuals named as primary authors and, in most versions, divided into chapters and verses.

The church has an open canon which includes four scriptural texts: the Bible ( both Old and New Testaments ), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon, a self-described chronicle of indigenous American prophets that Smith said he had translated from golden plates.

* The Book of Mormon, subtitled since 1981 " Another Testament of Jesus Christ "

* April 6, 1830-When the church was organized, the Bible and Book of Mormon were unanimously accepted as scripture.

" The church teaches that " he most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passage is not by comparing different texts, but by comparison with the Book of Mormon and modern-day revelations ".

Cover page of The Book of Mormon from an original 1830 edition, by Joseph Smith, Jr. ( Image from the U. S. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Latter-day Saints consider The Book of Mormon as a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible.

Segments of the Book of Mormon provide an account of the culture, religious teachings and civilizations of groups who immigrated to the New World.

The crowning event recorded in the Book of Mormon is the personal ministry of Jesus Christ among Nephites soon after his resurrection.

The latter segments of the Book of Mormon details the destruction of these civilizations, as all were destroyed except the Lamanites.

Lamoni was a lesser king of one part of the larger Lamanite Kingdom, as recounted in the Book of Mormon.

William Smith on Mormonism: A True Account of the Origin of the Book of Mormon ( Lamoni, Iowa: RLDS Church )

In the Book of Exodus, Amram () Arabic عمران Imran, is the father of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam and the husband of Jochebed.

The Book of Joshua () is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament.

The Book of Jeremiah () is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve.

The Book of Isaiah () is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, preceding Ezekiel, Jeremiah and the Book of the Twelve.

Since 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has identified the Book of Mormon as the " record of the stick of Ephraim " () while the stick of Judah is identified with the Bible.

This seven-year week may be further divided into two periods of 3. 5 years each, from the two 3. 5-year periods in Daniel's prophecy where the last seven years are divided into two 3. 5-year periods, () The time period for these beliefs is also based on other passages: in the book of Daniel, " time, times, and half a time ", interpreted as " a year, two years, and half a year ," and the Book of Revelation, " a thousand two hundred and threescore days " and " forty and two months " ( the prophetic month averaging 30 days, hence 1260 / 30 = 42 months or 3. 5 years ).

The Book of the Courtier () is a courtesy book.

The First Book of Nephi () is the first book of the Book of Mormon.

Though Book of Mormon authors are not explicit about the practices in these Nephite temples, they were patterned " after the manner of the temple of Solomon " () and served as gathering places for significant religious and political events ( e. g. Mosiah 1-6 ; 3rd Nephi 11-26 ).

The curelom () and the cumom () are " useful " animals mentioned in the Book of Mormon.

In the Book of Exodus, the Book of Leviticus and the Book of Numbers, Nadab () and Abihu () were respectively the eldest and second-eldest of the sons of Aaron.

The Book of Genesis () refers to Casluhim as the origin of the Philistines.

In the lists of cities of the Israelites by tribe given in the Book of Joshua, Ziklag appears both as a town belonging to the Tribe of Judah () and as a town belonging to the Tribe of Simeon ().

Shamgar, son of Anath () is the name of one or possibly two individuals named in the Book of Judges.

A Gospel Book believed to be directly associated with St. Augstine's mission survives in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, England.

Since Daniel was a statesman during the Persian conquests, the Book of Daniel could have been written in a period when the Persians had their greatest influence on Aramaic, believed to be in the mid 6th century BC.

Also, while Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems ( the Book of the Duchess is believed to have been written for John of Gaunt on the occasion of his wife's death in 1368 ), the intended audience of The Canterbury Tales is more difficult to determine.

Agassiz like other polygenists believed Book of Genesis recounted the origin of the white race only and that the animals and plants in the Bible refer only to those species proximate and familiar to Adam and Eve.

The Book of Mormon is also believed to have been written by ancient prophets, and is viewed as a companion to the Bible.

Kaplan, a critic of both Orthodox and Reform Judaism, believed that Jewish practice should be reconciled with modern thought, a philosophy reflected in his Sabbath Prayer Book ..." Due to Kaplan's evolving position on Jewish theology and the liturgy, he was also condemned as a heretic by members of Young Israel.

This Telegony aside, the last 548 lines of the Odyssey, corresponding to Book 24, are believed by many scholars to have been added by a slightly later poet.

It was perhaps this altar, believed to be dedicated to Zeus, that John of Patmos referred to as " Satan's Throne " in his Book of Revelation ( Revelation 2: 13 ).

The sling is mentioned in the Bible, which provides what is believed to be the oldest textual reference to a sling in the Book of Judges, 20: 16.

Ur is considered by many to be the city of Ur Kasdim mentioned in the Book of Genesis ( Biblical Hebrew ) as the birthplace of the Hebrew patriarch Abram ( Abraham ; Aramaic: Oraham, Arabic: Ibrahim ), traditionally believed to be sometime in the 2nd millennium BC.

Other events include the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, it being a record made by the ancestors of the Indians, and also what is believed to be the founding of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, although it is not mentioned by name, yet there are described several events which imply movements and church formation.

This Greek word was used to describe an instrument mentioned in the Book of Daniel, once believed by scholars to have been a bagpipe — the word was identified, for example, as the root of the name of the Italian zampogna ( Stainer and Galpin 1914, 145 – 46 ).

Jonathan Swift is widely believed to be misanthropic ( see A Tale of a Tub and, most especially, Book IV of Gulliver's Travels ).

It is referred to in the Domesday Book as Suindune, believed to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon words " swine " and " dun " meaning pig hill or possibly, Sweyn's hill, where Sweyn would be the local landlord.

Winston Churchill ( The Second World War, Book XII ) had erroneously believed it to be " a modernised heavily defended fortress " and ordered its destruction.

One example is that the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip ( written by Bill Waterson ) includes in its scenario a children's book Hamster Huey & The Gooey Kablooie, and Bill Waterson stated in The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book that he believed that Hamster Huey & The Gooey Kablooie should remain an undefined story, left to the reader's imagination ; but someone not associated with the strip published Hamster Huey & The Gooey Kablooie in the real world.

The Egyptians also believed that knowing the name of something gave power over it ; thus, the Book of the Dead equips its owner with the mystical names of many of the entities he would encounter in the afterlife, giving him power of them.

According to the Book of Mormon, " deseret " meant " honeybee " in the language of the Jaredites, a group believed by Mormons to have been led to the Americas during the time of the construction of the Tower of Babel ( see ).

Like other Asharites who believed that faith or taqlid should only apply to Islam and not to any ancient Hellenistic authorities, Ibn al-Haytham's view that taqlid should only apply to prophets of Islam and not to any other authorities formed the basis for much of his scientific skepticism and criticism against Ptolemy and other ancient authorities in his Doubts Concerning Ptolemy and Book of Optics.

In 1996, Jon Elliston wrote that the book is generally believed to be a hoax authored by one man, Leonard Lewin, and the book was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the " Most Successful Literary Hoax.

There were also prose translations of French books of chivalry that survive from the 1450s, including The Book of the Law of Armys and the Order of Knychthode and the treatise Secreta Secetorum, an Arabic work believed to be Aristotle's advice to Alexander the Great.

The town appears in the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) as Escumetorp, which is Old Norse for " Skuma's homestead ", a site which is believed to be in the town centre close to where the present-day Market Hill is located.

Dee and Kelley believed their visions gave them access to secrets contained within the apocryphal Book of Enoch.

He was also a teacher of Christian Science who believed that Eddy represented a personal fulfillment of biblical prophecy such as the woman in the 12th chapter of the Book of Revelation.

“ You are the best of the nations raised up for ( the benefit of ) men ; you enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong and believe in God ; and if the followers of the Book had believed it would have been better for them ; of them ( some ) are believers and most of them are transgressors .” ( Quran: 3: 110 )