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Faith and Reason 46: King Benjamin’s Speech

June 7, 2015 by Julianne Hatton

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From the book: Of Faith and Reason: 80 Evidences Supporting the Prophet Joseph Smith

by Michael R. Ash

Secondary to the spiritual insight gained by reading the sermon of King Benjamin, we also find additional evidence of the Book of Mormon’s link with the ancient Old World. Modern research suggest that King Benjamin’s speech fits the patterns of ancient “farewell addresses”.

Not only does King Benjamin’s speech resemble Near Eastern traditions, but so does Mosiah’s coronation. Hugh Nibley writes, “Imagine a 23-year-old backwoodsman [Joseph Smith] in 1829 giving his version of what an ancient coronation ceremony would be like –what would be done and said, how, and by whom?”

Order the book: Of Faith and Reason: 80 Evidences Supporting the Prophet Joseph Smith in time for Father’s Day at http://bookstore.fairlds.org/

Michael R. Ash is the author of: Of Faith and Reason: 80 Evidences Supporting The Prophet Joseph Smith. He is the owner and operator of MormonFortress.com and is on the management team for FairMormon. He has been published in Sunstone, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, the Maxwell Institute’s FARMS Review, and is the author of Shaken Faith Syndrome: Strengthening One’s Testimony in the Face of Criticism and Doubt.  He and his wife live in Ogden, Utah, and have three daughters.

Julianne Dehlin Hatton  is a broadcast journalist living in Louisville, Kentucky. She has worked as a News Director at an NPR affiliate, Radio and Television Host, and Airborne Traffic Reporter. She graduated with an MSSc from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 2008. Julianne and her husband Thomas are the parents of four children.

Music for Faith and Reason is provided by Arthur Hatton.

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