John L. Sorenson reviews the Book of Mormon's depiction of the Mulekites, or the people of Zarahemla.
John L. Sorenson, "The 'Mulekites'," BYU Studies 30, no. 3 (1990): 6-22
The “people of Zarahemla” referred to in the Nephite record remain enigmatic to Latter-day Saint readers. Although they were more populous than the Nephites-by-descent, only a handful of statements in the scripture give explicit information about them. No one has attempted to combine these into a systematic picture of who these people were and what their role in Nephite history was. This article redresses that lack.
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