Questions and Points about Nephite Modernity (

I’m doing a chronology comparison for Nephite modernity, the extremely critical period from King Benjamin to the Savior’s return.  I wanted to give myself a feel for the events by comparing them to American and Church history.  You know, like the distance from the beginning of the reign of the judges to 1 AD is the same as the distance between us and the beginning of WWII.  You’ll see that posted over the next day or two.

Meanwhile I ran across some interesting points.  Probably nothing original, but new to me.

Omni —

-not all Nephites came with Mosiah.  Some of what the Nephites called ‘Lamanites’ were probably stay-behind Nephites.

-the chronology doesn’t add up here.  We have a son, a brother, and the brother’s son and grandson covering a period of 180 years.  Probably like with the genealogies in the gospels, ‘son’ just means ‘descended from’ and ‘brother’ means ‘related to’.  In support of there are indicators that Amaleki the last writer in Omni was not alive during the King Mosiah exodus though he still wrote about it, there probably wasn’t anyone acting as a custodian at that time, or at least not one who wrote

-the leading theory about the continual dissensions and wars in Nephite modernity is that it was some kind of subsumed ethnic conflict between Nephite and Mulekite elites.  But its interesting that the last of the Nephite-descended chroniclers was named Amalek, and the two leading dissenters were named Amlici and Amalickiah.  Similarly, Amulek strongly emphasizes his descent from Nephi.  Could the actual basis of the dissent be the old Nephite priestly lineage claiming preeminence once the kings abolished themselves?

After Cezoram is murdered in 23 BC, there still appear to be chief judges but none of them are named until Lachoneus in 1 AD.  Is this because the chroniclers considered them illegitimate in some way?