Book of Mormon geography/Models/Hemispheric

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Model Name	Date Proposed	Scope	Narrow Neck	Land North	Land South	Cumorah	River Sidon	Nephi's Landing	Religion	Type of model
Olive 2001	2001	LGT	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	LDS	[needs work]	edit
Goble-May 2002	2002	HGT?	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	LDS	[needs work]	edit
General 1830s	1830	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America	New York	Magdalena?	Chile	LDS	External	edit
Times and Seasons 1842	1842	HGT?	Unclear	Tehuantepec-NY?	Unclear	New York	Unclear	Columbia	LDS	External	edit
Pratt 1866	1866	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America	New York	Magdalena	Chile	LDS	External	edit
Com.-Maes 1880	1880	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America	New York	Magdalena	Chile	LDS	External	edit
Reynolds 1880	1880	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America	New York	Magdalena	Chile	LDS	External	edit
Plain Facts 1887	1887	HGT	Panama	Guatemala	South America	New York?	Magdalena	Chile?	LDS	Minimal external	edit
Roberts 1888	1888	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America	New York	Magdalena	Chile	LDS	External	edit
RLDS/Wes 1900?	1900	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America	New York	Magdalena	Chile	RLDS	External	edit
Ricks 1904	1904	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America	Unclear	Magdalena	Chile	LDS	External	edit
Driggs 1925	1925	HGT	Honduras Bay	Panama to NY	Southern Guatemala	Guatemala	Ulna	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Bagley 1927	1927	HGT	Belize-Yucatan base	South-Central Mexico	Unclear	New York	Unclear	Unclear	LDS	External	edit
Sjodhal 1927	1927	HGT	Tehuantepec	Tehuantepec-NY	Unclear	New York	Unclear	Chile	LDS	External	edit
Laytons 1940?	1940	HGT	Tehuantepec	Tehuantepec-NY	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	New York	Usumacinta	Unclear	LDS	Internal and Minimal External	edit
Wilde 1947	1947	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America?	New York	Unclear	Chile?	LDS	External	edit
Dixon 1958	1958	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America	New York	Unclear	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Le Poidevin 1977	1977	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	Other	New York	Maranon?	Chile	RLDS	External	edit
Holley 1983	1983	HGT	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	New York	Other	Unclear	LDS	External	edit
Curtis 1988	1988	HGT	Unclear	Unclear	Other	New York	Unclear	Unclear	LDS	External	edit
Hobby-Smith 1988	1988	HGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America	Central Mexico	Unclear	Chile?	LDS	External	edit
Wunderli 2002	2002	HGT	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	[needs work]	Critic	[needs work]	edit

Table based on John L. Sorenson, The Geography of Book of Mormon Events: A Source Book (Provo, Utah: FARMS, revised edition, 1992), 32. AISN B0006QHZWE. off-site with additions and corrections by FAIR Wiki editors.

Book of Mormon geography models in table form:

• By Author
  • All models by author name
  • LDS models
  • RLDS models
  • Models posited by critics
• By Date
  • All models by date of authorship
• By Scope
  • Hemispheric geography theory (HGT) models
  • Limited geography theory (LGT) models
• By Type
  • External (real world) models
  • Internal models - describes relationship between Book of Mormon places, but no attempt at real-world correlate

Book of Mormon Geography

• Book of Mormon geography
  • Statements made by LDS leaders
    • First Presidency Letter
  • Old World
  • New World
    • Hemispheric geography theory (HGT)
    • Limited geography theory (LGT)
      • Plates to New York
      • Great Lakes geography?
      • DNA and geographic issues
        • Haplotype X2a?
    • Demographics and Population sizes
    • Lamanites in the Doctrine and Covenants
    • Borders of the Lamanites
    • Book of Mormon and the Mound Builders
    • Zarahemla near Nauvoo?
    • Zelph
    • Place names from Joseph's environment?
      • Comoros Islands and Moroni
• New World geography models in table form
• Historicity of Book of Mormon
• Archaeology and the Bible