Lehi the Winner
Hugh W.
Nibley
Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute
The views expressed in this article are the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the position of
the Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, or The Church of Jesus Christ of...
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Lehi the Winner
Hugh W.
Nibley
Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute
The views expressed in this article are the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the position of
the Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Chapter 6
Lehi the Winner
A Word about Plates
We have seen how the ruler of Byblos, to score a point in bargaining with Wenamon, had his family
records and accounts brought out and read to him.
In the Amarna tablets, the Rabu of one Palestinian
city writes to a neighboring prince: "But now behold [note the Book of Mormon style] the king
causeth that his true city should go from his hand; let the king search in the tablets which are kept in
the house of his father, and learn whether the one who rules Gubla has been his true servant.
"1
Here
as in Byblos the records were kept at the house of the ruling family; even in distant Rome in the time
of Lehi the records from which the later annals were composed seem to ha
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