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Book of Mormon
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General information: Basics Gospel fulness Most correct book Plain doctrines Book of Mormon & Bible: Plagiarized from Bible? Keeping KJV errors? Translation method Dead Sea Scrolls Criticisms: Translation Chronology of events List of methods Textual changes Anachronisms? "Familiar spirit"? Author and proprietor? Hebrew in New World? Plagiarism accusations Apocrypha The King James Bible The Golden Pot The Westminster Confession The Wonders of Nature The Spalding manuscript View of the Hebrews North American place names The Comoros Islands Joseph Smith, Sr.'s dream
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Heartland as Hinterland
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Production of the Book of Mormon

Discovery

Translation

• Translation
• Witnesses

Publication

• Author and proprietor listed as Joseph Smith
• Copyright—attempt to sell in Canada
• Printing timeframe

Secular authorship theories

• B.H. Roberts and "Studies of the Book of Mormon"
• B.H. Roberts' testimony
• Plagiarism accusations

Language used in the Book of Mormon

• As a "familiar spirit"

Revisions

• Textual changes
  • "white" changed to "pure"

Content of the Book of Mormon

Completeness

• As the most correct book
• Contains the fulness of the gospel

Archaeology

• Archaeology

Anachronisms

• Anachronisms

Doctrinal issues

• Plain and precious doctrines
• Baptism for the dead—why is it not taught in the Book of Mormon?
• Book of Mormon condemns polygamy
• Great and abominable church
• Nephi's killing of Laban

Evidences of the Book of Mormon

• Evidences
• Historicity
• DNA evidence
• Geography
• Hill Cumorah
  • Archaeology
• Lamanites
• Moroni's promise
• Olive culture
• Stick of Ephraim/Erastus Snow statement
• Wordprint studies