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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Studies of the Book of Mormon/A Book of Mormon Study
Response to claims made in "A Book of Mormon Study"
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Response to hypotheses made in "A Book of Mormon Study"
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- Response to "Literature Available to Joseph Smith as a Ground Plan for the Book of Mormon"
- Response to "Ethan Smith and View of the Hebrews"
- Response to "View of the Hebrews as ground plan"
Response to "Literature Available to Joseph Smith as a Ground Plan for the Book of Mormon"
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- Response to hypothesis: 152 - Josiah Priest’s The Wonders of Nature and Providence, published in 1824, promoted the idea that Native Americans were descendants of the Israelites
- Response to hypothesis: 153 - It is “altogether probable” that Priest’s Wonders of Nature and Proidence and Ethan Smith’s View of the Hebrews “were either possessed by Joseph Smith or certainly known by him"
- Response to hypothesis: 154 - Was Joseph Smith "a person of sufficiently vivid and creative imagination as to produce such a work as the Book of Mormon from such materials?”
Response to "Ethan Smith and View of the Hebrews"
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- Response to hypothesis: 155 - This study supposes that it is more than likely that the Smith family possessed a copy of this book by Ethan Smith
- Response to hypothesis: 160 - Both books claim that "that the American Indians are descendants of the Israelites"
- Response to hypothesis: 170 - Both books talk of the destruction of Jerusalem and the scattering of Israel
- Response to hypothesis: 171 - One of the Isaiah passages regarding the gathering of Israel that was quoted by Moroni to Joseph Smith is also quoted in View of the Hebrews
- Response to hypothesis: 173 - Many of the Isaiah chapters quoted in View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon are the same
Response to "View of the Hebrews as ground plan"
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- Response to hypothesis: 170 - The first chapter of View of the Hebrews talks of the destruction of Jerusalem and scattering of Israel
- Response to hypothesis: 173 - Both View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon extensively quote Isaiah
- Response to hypothesis: 73 - Many of the Isaiah chapters quoted in View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon are the same