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** {{CriticalWork:Campbell:Mormon Bible|pages=267–68}}{{an|Note that Campbell quickly adopted the Spalding theory when it became available.}} | ** {{CriticalWork:Campbell:Mormon Bible|pages=267–68}}{{an|Note that Campbell quickly adopted the Spalding theory when it became available.}} | ||
| + | * {{CriticalWork:Reflector:30 September 1829|pages=2}} {{An|This article pre-dated the book's publication.}} | ||
| + | * {{CriticalWork:Blatchley:Caution Against the Golden Bible|pages=150}} {{An|"The editor of the Palmyra Freeman describes Joseph Smith as not being very literate: and that his translation is pronounced, 'by his proselytes, to be ''superior in style, and more advantageous to mankind than our holy bible!'''"....I cannot perceive any ''superiority of style'' in this specimen; nor any evidence that this bible is not a book of Joseph Smith’s own manufacture."}} | ||
Revision as of 20:42, 26 April 2010
Source(s) of the criticism
- Alexander Campbell, Delusions (Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1832), ??; originally published in Millennial Harbinger 2 (7 February 1831): 85–96. off-site O. Cowdery reply #1 #2 Full title
- Alexander Campbell, “The Mormon Bible,” Millennial Harbinger 3, no. 6 (June 1839): 267–68. off-site
Note that Campbell quickly adopted the Spalding theory when it became available.
- Alexander Campbell, “The Mormon Bible,” Millennial Harbinger 3, no. 6 (June 1839): 267–68. off-site
- “An Extract,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 1, no. 5 (30 September 1829): 2. off-site
This article pre-dated the book's publication. - C. C. Blatchley, “Caution Against the Golden Bible,” New-York Telescope 6, no. 38 (20 February 1830): 150. off-site
"The editor of the Palmyra Freeman describes Joseph Smith as not being very literate: and that his translation is pronounced, 'by his proselytes, to be superior in style, and more advantageous to mankind than our holy bible!'"....I cannot perceive any superiority of style in this specimen; nor any evidence that this bible is not a book of Joseph Smith’s own manufacture."