Grant Hardy argues that the use of "brass" and "steel" are anachronistic to both the Old and New World in the 6th c. BCE, and that iron is unattested in the New World before Columbus.

Date
2023
Type
Book
Source
Grant Hardy
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Grant Hardy, The Annotated Book of Mormon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 101

Scribe/Publisher
Oxford University Press
People
Grant Hardy
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

15: Nephi’s knowledge of metallurgy would have been unusual. Brass and steel are anachronistic for the 6th c. BCE; the use of the two metals, along with iron, is unattested in the New World before Columbus.

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