Let's talk about "sheum"

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Let's talk about "sheum"

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Anyone familiar with this argument or "piece of evidence", your thoughts (and hopefully references) would be greatly appreciated.

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INDEX
Sheum
Unidentified crop cultivated by Nephites
Mosiah 9: 9 people of Zeniff till ground with seed of sheum.


Could this have been hemp seed?
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moksha wrote:
INDEX
Sheum
Unidentified crop cultivated by Nephites
Mosiah 9: 9 people of Zeniff till ground with seed of sheum.


Could this have been hemp seed?


too funny... perhaps it was. I never considered that possibility.
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How about barley, grains generally, or pine nuts?

The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, ed. Ignace J. Gelb et al. (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1992), vol. 17, pt. 2, 345–55, sheum
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Special pet food for cureloms. Don't confuse it with neas which is useful unto cumoms only.
Both material can be stored only cans made out of ziff.

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So has anyone read Echoe's and Evidences of the Book of Mormon? In it the authors claim that because sheum was an akkadian word, and it could not have been known by Joseph Smith at the time the Book of Mormon is translated, the book must have been inspired. I'm having trouble finding evidence to support, or disprove this claim and was wondering if anyone could help.
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GoodK wrote:So has anyone read Echoe's and Evidences of the Book of Mormon? In it the authors claim that because sheum was an akkadian word, and it could not have been known by Joseph Smith at the time the Book of Mormon is translated, the book must have been inspired. I'm having trouble finding evidence to support, or disprove this claim and was wondering if anyone could help.

Please be more correct! Reformed akkadian.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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ludwigm wrote:
GoodK wrote:So has anyone read Echoe's and Evidences of the Book of Mormon? In it the authors claim that because sheum was an akkadian word, and it could not have been known by Joseph Smith at the time the Book of Mormon is translated, the book must have been inspired. I'm having trouble finding evidence to support, or disprove this claim and was wondering if anyone could help.

Please be more correct! Reformed akkadian.


can someone give me a source where I can check when this akkadian word was discovered, if it really was undiscovered prior to the 1850's, if it really appeared in the print manuscript, and where Joseph could have learned the word.

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Has the usage of this word not appeared in Hollywood Lamanite productions? Has not the phrase, "Sheum heep good wife" been a staple of Lamanite family flicks?
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moksha wrote:Has the usage of this word not appeared in Hollywood Lamanite productions? Has not the phrase, "Sheum heep good wife" been a staple of Lamanite family flicks?


You lost me.
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