Forget Everything You Know about Book of Mormon Geography

For nearly 100 years from its first publication, readers of the Book of Mormon assumed the small neck of land was Panama. This was challenged when Tehuantepec was proposed, displacing Panama. Since then, an explosion of various models have placed the geography of the Book of Mormon all over the Western Hemisphere. What if the reasons for rejecting Panama were wrong? Nephi opens the Book of Mormon by saying he wrote in the language of the Jews and of the Egyptians (1 Nephi 1:2). An Egyptian day's march fits Panama precisely. This not only locates the Land of Zarahemla but also pinpoints the Valley of Lemuel. Starting with an Egyptian day's march, the Book of Mormon geography lays out as neatly as a formal dinner table.