The Takeaway Uriona posits that some elements of Nephi’s vision were in part influenced by and a response to rhetoric of conquest and domination from the Assyrian Empire, with the fall of the Assyrian empire used as a template for the fall of the “great church.”   The Summary In this article, Todd Uriona proposes that language used within royal inscriptions from the Assyrian Empire, long known to have connections with biblical writing,...
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