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|summary=Claims made in "Chapter 2: Authorship of the Book of Mormon" | |summary=Claims made in "Chapter 2: Authorship of the Book of Mormon" | ||
+ | |sublink1=Response to claim: 39 - the church has encouraged a 'thorough and impartial examination' of the Book of Mormon, including questions regarding its authorship]] | ||
+ | |sublink2=Response to claim: 40 - B.H. Roberts stated that Joseph Smith was intellectually capable of writing the Book of Mormon himself]] | ||
+ | |sublink3=Response to claim: 40 - B.H. Roberts is claimed to have wondered if the Book of Mormon stories were just inspirational tales]] | ||
+ | |sublink4=Response to claim: 41-42 - The story of Zelph]] | ||
+ | |sublink5=Response to claim: 42 - Joseph reported that the Kinderhook Plates contained a genealogy back to Ham]] | ||
+ | |sublink6=Response to claim: 42 - Joseph gave many descriptions of heroes and their treasures hidden in the New York hills]] | ||
+ | |sublink7=Response to claim: 42 - B.H. Roberts concluded that Joseph Smith was capable of writing the Book of Mormon]] | ||
+ | |sublink8=Response to claim: 48 - The story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead is the source of Alma 19]] | ||
+ | |sublink9=Response to claim: 49 - "The evidence indicates that the Book of Mormon is in fact an amalgamation of ideas that were inspired by Joseph's own environment"]] | ||
+ | |sublink10=Response to claim: 55 - The decapitation of Laban parallels the story of Judith in the Apocrypha]] | ||
+ | |sublink11=Response to claim: 57 - The author claims that the LDS position is that the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians]] | ||
+ | |sublink12=Response to claim: 57, n38 - No Hebrew or Egyptian writing or language has been discovered in the New World]] | ||
+ | |sublink13=Response to claim: 58, n40 - B.H. Roberts thought that View of the Hebrews could be a basis for the Book of Mormon]] | ||
+ | |sublink14=Response to claim: 60 - Roberts concluded that a copy of View of the Hebrews could have been supplied by Oliver Cowdery]] | ||
+ | |sublink15=Response to claim: 60-64 - B.H. Roberts' parallels between View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon]] | ||
+ | |sublink16=Response to claim: 65-66 - Joseph Smith received a revelation to send people to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright]] | ||
+ | |sublink17=Response to claim: 66 - The writing of the 116 pages served as an "apprenticeship" to learning to write the Book of Mormon]] | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins A work by author: Grant Palmer
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