ABOUT THE SITE

Thank you for visiting Year in the Book of Mormon. This website was created and is operated with the purpose of purpose of supporting daily study of God's Word and the Christian fellowship and conversation of His people. It is designed to make reading the Book of Mormon a fun and rewarding year-long journey, and provide a support group of fellow travelers.

Physically, this site is a blog, an online journal if you will, with an RSS feed that allows updates to the blog to be distributed to the email addresses of subscribers. Additional features include the commenting, which allows readers to share their insights or questions about the daily readings with the other readers.

This site is maintained by DA Vogel, who can be reached with comments or questions at vogel_dal@yahoo.com.

FAQ

Q: Who is this for?
A: Whether you've never read the Book of Mormon cover-to cover, or this is your 20th time through, Year in the Book of Mormon is for anyone who desires to spend time in God's Word and wants to know more about His work among the people of the Americas. Please invite friends, family, aquaintances... anyone who might be interested.

Q: How does it work?
A: Every weekday in 2008, starting with January 1st, this site will be updated with a daily reading from the Book of Mormon. Subscribers to the site feed will receice an email with the daily passage.

Q: How can I participate?
A: It's easy. Just subscribe to the site's email feed (to your left). Or, if you prefer, bookmark this site and visit it every weekday for your daily reading. Share your thoughts, questions or insights with the other readers by commenting at the bottom of individual readings (posts). Please also share any relevant reference material.

Q: How much will we read each day?
A: There are 777 pages in the Book of Mormon (1908 Authorized) and 262 weekdays in 2008. That equates to 2.97 pages per day, aproximately 10 minutes of reading.

Q: What about the weekends?
A: Weekends are left open to allow for interaction on the weeks reading, and to give opportunity for catching up on any missed readings.

Q: What if I miss a day?
A: Each passage is saved. Besides your email, you can access missed readings on your left under "Archived Daily Readings."

Q: I don't get online every day, but I still want to participate. What should I do?
A: No problem. Just read three pages each day, and you'll stay right with us. Of course, we'll miss interacting with you on the comment portion of the site.

MAPS

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Map 1 shows an overview of the lands of the Book of Mormon, with the Narrow Neck of Land between the Land of Desolation and Land Bountiful. Please note the discrepancy in size of this "Narrow Neck" and the description given in Alma; great flood plains exist on either side, which could have shrunk this area down to the day's journey described in Alma.


Map 2 zooms in on the boxed area from Map 1, focusing on the more populated region, where much of the Book of Mormon unfolds. Notice the band of wilderness; this physical feature acts as a separation of the Nephites (North) and the Lamanites (within wilderness and South) during much of the later half of the Book of Mormon.

About the Maps

The maps above were created by DA Vogel to illustrate the relative locations of lands and cities mentioned in the Book of Mormon. Major influences in their creation include the descriptions given in the Book of Alma, as well as the research and maps of Donald E. McIndoo and G. A. Scott. Please note, the maps above show the lands and cities of the Book of Mormon on a modern illustration of southern Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula and Guatemala. They do not take into account the cataclysmic upheavals at the time of Christ's crucifixion that so drastically changed the geography of these areas. They are a representation of the relative locations of the places described in Alma (B.C.), placed upon a modern (A.D.) map. Thanks to Scott, the city placements correlate with ruins that date back to the time of Book of Mormon account.