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Book of Mormon plagiarism accusations
Summary: Joseph Smith is often accused of creating the Book of Mormon by plagiarizing various contemporary sources such as the Spalding Manuscript or Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews.
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- Evaluating Plagiarism Accusations of Scripture
- The Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon authorship
- The View of the Hebrews theory of Book of Mormon authorship
- The Book of Mormon and the Apocrypha
- The Book of Mormon contains passages from the King James Bible
- 19th century influences alleged to have been a factor in the production of the Book of Mormon
- Did Joseph Smith obtain the names Cumorah and Moroni from a map of the Comoros Islands?
- The Book of Mormon and place names from the area around Joseph Smith's home
- Was the Book of Mormon influenced by the language and themes of "The Late War" by Gilbert Hunt?