I just heard that John L. Sorenson passed away. He was 97 years of age. He authored a number of important books and articles on the Book of Mormon and Mesoamerica, including:
An
Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon (1985)
“Vive
Zapato! Hurray for the Shoe!" FARMS Review of Books on the Book
of Mormon 6, no. 1 (1994): 297-361 (review of "Does the Shoe Fit? A
Critique of the Limited Tehuantepec Geography" by Deanne G. Matheny)
Mormon’s
Codex: An Ancient American Book (2013)
Sorenson
also did a lot of work on pre-Columbian contact between the Old World and the
New, including the following volume:
(with Carl
L. Johannessen) World
Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492 (rev. ed.; 2013)
Due to his
great scholarly output on the Book of Mormon, the following from the book of
Revelation comes to mind:
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are
the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that
they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them (Rev 14:13)