Hagoth, another direct B. of M. "Astronomical" Joseph Smith Translation Bulls Eye.
Posted: December 7th, 2023, 7:17 pm
Hagoth—
Brief Summary: “One Book of Mormon critic argued that Joseph Smith derived the name Hagoth from the name of the biblical prophet Haggai. Indeed, the names may be related, but a closer parallel is the biblical Haggith (see 2 Samuel 3:4; 1 Kings 1:5, etc.), which may have been vocalized Hagoth anciently. All three names derive from a root referring to a pilgrimage to attend religious festivals. The name Hagoth is attested in the form Hgt on an Ammonite seal inscribed sometime in the eighth through the sixth centuries BC36 (The Ammonites, neighbors of the Israelites and descendants of Abraham’s nephew Lot, wrote and spoke the same language as the Israelites.)” [1] Source FairMormon
“Residing east of the Jordan River, Israel’s Ammonite neighbors spoke a Semitic language derived from earlier Canaanite, as did Hebrew. They were, however, Gentiles. Since the inscribed seal was discovered during a 1949 archaeological dig between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in present- day Jordan, one hundred five years after Smith died, no one, including him, could have possibly guessed that “Hagoth” was, in fact, the ancient appellation for a Near Eastern man. The odds that Smith could have coincidentally invented such a perfectly appropriate name, unknown as it was to modern scholars at the time he transcribed the Book of Alma, are nothing short of astronomical. We can likely conclude, then, that he was indeed referencing historically authentic source materials describing a Semitic-speaking figure living in the American Middle West, around 55 A.D.Zoramites = Cherokee Mulekites = Algonquian Hagoth = Polynesianshttps://bookofmormonevidence.org/zorami ... lynesians/
Brief Summary: “One Book of Mormon critic argued that Joseph Smith derived the name Hagoth from the name of the biblical prophet Haggai. Indeed, the names may be related, but a closer parallel is the biblical Haggith (see 2 Samuel 3:4; 1 Kings 1:5, etc.), which may have been vocalized Hagoth anciently. All three names derive from a root referring to a pilgrimage to attend religious festivals. The name Hagoth is attested in the form Hgt on an Ammonite seal inscribed sometime in the eighth through the sixth centuries BC36 (The Ammonites, neighbors of the Israelites and descendants of Abraham’s nephew Lot, wrote and spoke the same language as the Israelites.)” [1] Source FairMormon
“Residing east of the Jordan River, Israel’s Ammonite neighbors spoke a Semitic language derived from earlier Canaanite, as did Hebrew. They were, however, Gentiles. Since the inscribed seal was discovered during a 1949 archaeological dig between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in present- day Jordan, one hundred five years after Smith died, no one, including him, could have possibly guessed that “Hagoth” was, in fact, the ancient appellation for a Near Eastern man. The odds that Smith could have coincidentally invented such a perfectly appropriate name, unknown as it was to modern scholars at the time he transcribed the Book of Alma, are nothing short of astronomical. We can likely conclude, then, that he was indeed referencing historically authentic source materials describing a Semitic-speaking figure living in the American Middle West, around 55 A.D.Zoramites = Cherokee Mulekites = Algonquian Hagoth = Polynesianshttps://bookofmormonevidence.org/zorami ... lynesians/