{"id":1110,"date":"2004-07-27T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:32:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:32:26","slug":"zelph-examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/zelph-examined\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelph Examined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Hatch has a <a href=\"http:\/\/rameumptom.blogspot.com\/2004\/07\/another-round-dna-zelph-and-book-of.html\">not-to-be-missed examination of Zelph over at By Common Consent<\/a>.  (For those not familiar with Zelph, the very short version is that Joseph Smith, on finding a burial mound in Illinois, stated that the remains were of Zelph, a great  Nephite general, and scholars, critics, and apologists have been writing reams on Zelph ever since).  New DNA evidence makes Zelph look potentially problematic.  John concludes that there are five reasonable possibilities for interpreting the Zelph story.  His post is very interesting, and highlights some of the tensions and questions relating to Joseph Smith&#8217;s prophetic calling, modern scientific theories, and apologist work attempting to reconcile the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hatch has a not-to-be-missed examination of Zelph over at By Common Consent. (For those not familiar with Zelph, the very short version is that Joseph Smith, on finding a burial mound in Illinois, stated that the remains were of Zelph, a great Nephite general, and scholars, critics, and apologists have been writing reams on Zelph ever since). New DNA evidence makes Zelph look potentially problematic. John concludes that there are five reasonable possibilities for interpreting the Zelph story. His post is very interesting, and highlights some of the tensions and questions relating to Joseph Smith&#8217;s prophetic calling, modern scientific theories, and apologist work attempting to reconcile the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggernacle","tag-around-the-blogs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}