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Book of Alma

The Book of Alma: The Son of Alma (/ˈælmə/),[1] usually referred to as the Book of Alma, is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. The title refers to Alma the Younger, a prophet and "chief judge" of the Nephites. Alma is the longest book in the Book of Mormon and consists of sixty-three chapters,[2] taking up almost a third of the volume.

A figure (presumably Captain Moroni) stands with arms aloft at the top of a wide set of outdoor stairs that appear to descend from a large public building; implicitly, in the context of the Book of Mormon, a religious edifice like a temple. Two figures flank Captain Moroni, one seated and the other standing, a few steps down. Behind them, a the building looms, with two gaping square-arched entrances. Crowds seem to be trailing out from each. At the bottom of the steps, another crowd gathers. They are animated, and many have their arms raised up. Captain Moroni has evidently energized the crowd, rallying them to arms in defense of Nephite society.
Captain Moroni raises the "Title of Liberty", as found in the 1910 book Cities in the Sun.

Narrative

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The Book of Alma is the longest of all the books of the Book of Mormon, consisting of 63 chapters. The book records the first 39 years of what the Nephites termed "the reign of the judges", a period in which the Nephite nation adopted a constitutional theocratic government in which the judicial and executive branches of the government were combined.

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Book of Mormon Pronunciation Guide" (retrieved 2012-02-25), IPA-ified from «ăl´ma»
  2. ^ Alma

Further reading

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  • Austin, Michael (2024). The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-04535-6.
  • Brown, Cheryl (1992). "Book of Mormon: Book of Alma". In Ludlow, Daniel H. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Macmillan Publishing. pp. 150–152. ISBN 0-02-879602-0. OCLC 24502140.
  • Gardner, Brant A. (2007). Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon. Vol. 4, Alma. Greg Kofford Books. ISBN 978-1-58958-044-2.
  • Nyman, Monte; Tate, Charles D., eds. (1992). The Book of Mormon: Alma, the Testimony of the Word. Book of Mormon Symposium Series (Volume 6). Religious Studies Center. ISBN 0-8849-4841-2. OCLC 26785256.
  • Salleh, Fatimah; Olsen Hemming, Margaret (2022). The Book of Mormon for the Least of These. Vol. 2, Mosiah–Alma. By Common Consent Press. ISBN 978-1-948218-58-0.
  • Spencer, Joseph M. (2017). "The Structure of the Book of Alma". Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. 26: 273–283. doi:10.18809/jbms.2017.0116.
  • Thomas, John Christopher (2016). A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon: A Literary and Theological Introduction. CPT Press. ISBN 9781935931553.
  • Turley, Kylie Nielson (2020). Alma 1–29: A Brief Theological Introduction. The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions. Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. ISBN 978-0-8425-0024-1.
  • Wrathall, Mark A. (2020). Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction. The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions. Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. ISBN 978-0-8425-0020-3.
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