“They Called the Mount Shelem Because of Its Exceeding Height”

Alan C. Miner

According to Hugh Nibley, one of the things that argues for an easterly course of travel is the mention of a mountain of "exceeding height" which stood near the point of Jaredite embarkation (Ether 3:1). There is no such mountain on the Atlantic seaboard of Europe, but many points of "exceeding height" can be found on the Asiatic shore. [Hugh Nibley, The World of the Jaredites, p. 182]

Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon: A Cultural Commentary

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