Explore "heartland model" with insightful episodes like "Lamanite & Nephite DNA, Heartland or Mesoamerica?", "Where Is Cumorah? Mesoamerican Geography Model (feat. Brant Gardner)", "Did Joseph Smith Really Use A Seer Stone?", "Where Is Cumorah? Where Did The Book of Mormon Take Place? (feat. Jonathan Neville)" and "What Happened to the Gold Plates with Jonathan Neville Part 2" from podcasts like ""Cwic Media- LDS Podcast / Latter-day Saints", "Cwic Media- LDS Podcast / Latter-day Saints", "Cwic Media- LDS Podcast / Latter-day Saints", "Cwic Media- LDS Podcast / Latter-day Saints" and "Mormon Patriot Project"" and more!
Rod Meldrum is one of the original "Heartlanders." Rod talks about starting his research into DNA, the Hopewell tribes, as well as the battle between the "Heartland" model and the Mesoamerican model.
What does the DNA show?
What of the mounds? Does the Hopewell civilization match the Book of Mormon dates?
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This is Part 1 of 2 episodes with Brant Gardner. The second episode focuses on the translation of the Book of Mormon.
Brant Gardner, a Book of Mormon Scholar, gives a response to our interview with "Heartland" model scholar, Jonathan Neville on Book of Mormon Geography. Gardner supports the "academic" Mesoamerican model for the events that took place in the Book of Mormon.
He cites North, East, South, and West directions in the text, population, agriculture, and other points he believes support the Mesoamerican model.
We also cover the crucial point of "Where is the Hill Cumorah?" Everything may ride on how you interpret this location and the history of referring to the hill in New York as Cumorah.
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How many sets of plates were there?
Was the large repository of records at Cumorah in New York?
What does "Translate" mean?
Did the Book of Moses come from Nephite records in the repository?
What is the "Demonstration Hypothesis?
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I have no horse in this race. But many do. Where did the Book of Mormon take place? The academic model is the Meso-American model. But there is a growing belief in what has become known as the Heartland model which states that the Book of Mormon took place in the Eastern United States. According to scholar Jonathan Neville, one of the thought leaders of the Heartland Model, if we simply listen to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, we would have to take a closer look at this model.
Is there "gatekeeping" going on at Book of Mormon Central (Scripture Central)?
Key to the Heartland Model is the location of Cumorah. The Meso-American Model has the Hill Cumorah in Meso-America. The Heartland Model in New York. Obviously, the plates were found in New York, but the meta-narrative is that this hill was mistakenly called Cumorah or "traditionally" called Cumorah. Listen to this conversation and make your own judgment.
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