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For more on Enos’ struggle to attain answers from heaven and motivation to keep going, go here.
You can read Mike Wilcox’s BYU Hawaii address here.
I reference Matt Bowen’s article “And There Wrestled a Man with Him” (Genesis 32:24): Enos’s Adaptations of the Onomastic Wordplay of Genesis, from the Interpreter (2014), and you can read it here. You can also read Matt Bowen’s article about Enos’ name and how it was used as a paronomastic wordplay, or pun here. Matt Bowen excellently demonstrates how authors in the Book of Mormon and the Bible used wordplay to instruct their audiences. I briefly discuss why this technique was used by the authors of the text in this article. I summarize his article and provide great images of the the embrace between Jacob and Esau (which I reference in the podcast) here.
See this article to read more about models examining Book of Mormon geography. You can purchase a copy of John Sorenson’s book An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon here. You can also purchase Rod Meldrum’s Exploring Book of Mormon in America’s Heartland here. Michael D. Coe’s book The Maya can be purchased here.
I refer to the article by Bruce and Brian Dale, “Joseph Smith: The World’s Greatest Guesser (A Bayesian Statistical Analysis of Positive and Negative Correspondences between the Book of Mormon and The Maya),” in the Interpreter. It can be read here.
You can see the show notes for Jarom and Omni here.
You can access Elder Rasband’s Oct. 2017 conference message “By Divine Design” here. (Incorrectly referred to as Elder Renlund in the podcast.)