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Role of women in The Book of Mormon

Marco19

Researcher
Dear LDS friends,

to clarify...
may be they are some other threads here talking about the role of the women in general (not my interest)

my interesting is about the role of the women ONLY in the Book of Mormon
this question has arised after reading an article about it...
the article is more like a brief review of a book: Women of the Book of Mormon

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basically the author talks about 12 women...
well some i know, and some other even can't remember the names (i've already read the book)
may be because they don't have a real role related to the faith,
like Sariah for example ...
and some others i'll always remember there story (even though there names are not mentioned)
like the Daughter of Jared ...

So my question: could you please, if you don't mind, recall the names of the women who really had a prominent role in the Book?


Note:
in case you are interested, below is the link to the article
Women in the Scriptures: "Women of the Book of Mormon": Book Review

Thank You!
 

sniper762

Well-Known Member
during the time that the bom as well as the books of the bible were writtten, women, with a very few to exception, were concidered like second class citizens and their status in the religious heirarchy was limited.
 

SoyLeche

meh...
There aren't many women refferenced by name in the Book of Mormon:

Sariah: Lehi's wife
Mary: The mother of Christ, seen in a vision
Eve: Talked about
Abish: A lamanite woman who was in the court of King Lamoni when Ammon was preaching to him.
Isabel: A harlot Alma chastises his son for chasing after

I thought there was another - but I can't think of it right now. (ETA: just looked at the link - Sarah, Abraham's wife, is also mentioned by name)

As far as "prominent" role, Sariah would come the closest.
As a group, the mothers of the "2000 Strippling Warriors" are fairly well known.
The daughter of Jared (not the Jared who was the brother of the brother of Jared.... :)) played a major part in her small story.

I can't think of any others.
 
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