Zelph

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Zelph is a minor figure in Mormon history. In May and June of 1834, Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, led a group of Mormon brethren (known as Zion's Camp) on a march from Kirtland, Ohio to Jackson County, Missouri. On June 3, while passing through southern Illinois, some bones were discovered on the top of a mound. Joseph Smith declared that the bones were from Zelph, a "white Lamanite" general who was a righteous man.

Zelph is used as evidence by some Book of Mormon scholars to suggest that the Lehites inhabited the entire North American continent (the continental theory), and not merely portions of Central America (the Limited Geography theory, most prominently associated with Sorenson).

[edit] The Book of Zelph

Zelph the white Lamanite is the main character in an online parody of The Book of Mormon, entitled The Book of Zelph

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