Revision 2.9. “Fidelity to One’s Promises in Ancient Arabia (and the Book of Mormon!)”

    As in the case of Shanfara, the devotion to one’s oath among these ancient Arabians is strik­ing.  They were a people who saw words themselves as sacred, as containing a power of their own, independent of the intentions of those who uttered them.  Such a notion wasn’t uncommon among pre-modern peoples. (We ourselves […]