Friday, July 26, 2019

Ireland, Ur of the Chaldeees

A friend, Jaxon Washburn, shared this with me as a joke:

Anna Wilkes, Ireland, Ur of the Chaldees (1873)

While it is utter nonsense (I mean, everyone knows Ireland is not Ur of the Chaldees--it is God's Country!), just as Lot and his daughters is a better love story than Twilight, this book is a better attempt at scriptural exegesis than anything produced by the advocates of the Heartland model of Book of Mormon geography.

Speaking of which, be sure to check out Stephen Smoot et al. and their beatdown of the Heartland model (and Stephen's excellent article on the true location of Ur of the Chaldees)