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| + | * {{CriticalWork:Cincinnati Advertiser:2 June 1830|pages=xxx}} | ||
| + | * {{CriticalWork:Reflector:30 September 1829|pages=2}} {{earliest}} {{An|[[This article pre-dated the book's publication.]}} | ||
| + | * {{CriticalWork:Village Chronicle:27 April 1830|pages=??}} {{An|The author is Joseph Smith, Jr.}} | ||
| + | {{An|"The author, who has the ‘copy-right secured according to law,’ says, ‘that he was commanded of the Lord in a dream,’ to go and find, and that he went and found.}} | ||
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| + | * {{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....These facts are given to caution people not to spend their money uselessly for a book, that is more probable a hoax—or a money-making speculation—or an enthusiastic delusion, than a revelation of facts by the Almighty."}} | ||
*{{CriticalWork:Campbell:Delusions|pages=??}} | *{{CriticalWork:Campbell:Delusions|pages=??}} | ||
** {{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.}} | ||
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Revision as of 20:54, 26 April 2010
Source(s) of the criticism
- Cincinnati Advertiser and Ohio Phoenix (2 June 1830). Reprinted from Wayne County Inquirer, Pennsylvania, circa May 1830. off-site
- “An Extract,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 1, no. 5 (30 September 1829): 2. off-site [the earliest mention of this concept which FAIR has identified] {{An|[[This article pre-dated the book's publication.]}}
- “The Book of Mormon, or Golden Bible,” Village Chronicle (Dansville, New York) (27 April 1830). off-site
The author is Joseph Smith, Jr.
"The author, who has the ‘copy-right secured according to law,’ says, ‘that he was commanded of the Lord in a dream,’ to go and find, and that he went and found.
- 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....These facts are given to caution people not to spend their money uselessly for a book, that is more probable a hoax—or a money-making speculation—or an enthusiastic delusion, than a revelation of facts by the Almighty." - 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