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- Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times" (view source)
- Barney: "three types of evidence favoring the conclusion that Joseph understood the meaning of the italicized words" (view source)
- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode" (view source)
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence (view source)
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Limited (view source)
- Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/The Late War (view source)
- Ensign (Sept. 1977): "If his translation was essentially the same as that of the King James version, he apparently quoted the verse from the Bible" (view source)
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" (view source)
- Gee: "Ferguson is largely unknown to the vast majority of Latter-day Saints; his impact on Book of Mormon studies is minimal" (view source)
- Grayson: "extinct North American mammals...losses began in Mexico and Alaska during the Pleistocene and ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago" (view source)
- Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C." (view source)
- Johnson: "Probably it is safe to say that American Proboscidea have been extinct for a minimum of 3000 years" (view source)
- Joseph Smith: "I might have rendered a plainer translation to this, but it is sufficiently plain to suit my purpose as it stands" (view source)
- Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: "Pottery and other cultural materials were found in levels VII and above. But in some of those artifact-bearing strata there were horse bones, even in level II" (view source)
- Madden et al.: "by the beginning of the tenth century B.C. blacksmiths were intentionally steeling iron" (view source)
- Martin: "no theoretical reason why a herd of mastodons, horses, or ground sloths could not have survived in some small refuge until 8000 or even 4000 years ago" (view source)
- Matthews: "To regard the New Translation...as a product of divine inspiration given to Joseph Smith does not necessarily assume that it be a restoration of the original Bible text" (view source)
- McGuire: "Anjouan, one of the Comoro islands, with an indicated anchorage identified as Meroni" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "Bones of domesticated cattle...have been reported from different caves in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence for the survival of the elephant can be found in Native American myths and traditions" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence of goats associated with pre-Columbian man also comes from caves in Yucatan" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "This was long enough to bring them (mammoths) to the time of the Jaredites" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "there are sheep native to America. The most common type is the Mountain Sheep, Ovis canadensis" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "two distinct species of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times" (view source)
- Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago" (view source)
- Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists" (view source)
- Peterson: "Thomas Stuart Ferguson's biographer...makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'" (view source)
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle" (view source)
- Question: Are the Gadianton robbers in the Book of Mormon actually references to the anti-Masonic panic of Joseph Smith's era? (view source)
- Question: Are the names on the Holley Map in the correct locations relative to one another? (view source)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa? (view source)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from stories of Captain Kidd that he read in his youth? (view source)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have heard the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from American whalers? (view source)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have used Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews'' as a guideline for creating the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (view source)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own? (view source)
- Question: Did Dee F. Green say that there is no such thing as Book of Mormon archaeology? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith incorporate his father's dream of the tree of life into the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's "Key to Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names"? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith teach a hemispheric, rather than a limited, geography model for the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph know what the italics in the Bible meant? (view source)
- Question: Do Mormon apologists claim that the horse referred to in the Book of Mormon is actually a deer or tapir? (view source)
- Question: Do academic translators copy translations of other documents to use as a "base text"? (view source)
- Question: Does Vernal Holley rely on modern maps to create his comparison of actual place names with Book of Mormon names? (view source)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain anti-Masonic language? (view source)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain mistakes? (view source)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon support trinitarianism? (view source)
- Question: Has the Church ever promoted a Limited Geography model for the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Has the book ''View of the Hebrews'' been readily available? (view source)
- Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (view source)
- Question: How does archaeology in the New World fit with the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: How is the Joseph Smith Translation best understood? (view source)
- Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map? (view source)
- Question: How would Book of Mormon archaeology compare to that of the Bible? (view source)
- Question: How would a statement that "God is a spirit" be interpreted in ancient Judasism? (view source)
- Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian? (view source)
- Question: If the Book of Mormon is an accurate translation, why would it contain translational errors that exist in the King James Bible? (view source)
- Question: If the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is Joseph Smith's 'correction' of Biblical errors, why do these corrections not match known Biblical manuscripts? (view source)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: In what context are elephants mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Is the Father embodied or a spirit in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants? (view source)
- Question: Is there a link between Ethan Smith, author of ''View of the Hebrews'', and Oliver Cowdery? (view source)
- Question: Was Bishop M'Kendree, a Methodist revivalist preacher, the model for King Benjamin in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Was Captain Kidd "hanged for crimes allegedly committed in the vicinity of Moroni on Grand Comoro?" (view source)
- Question: Was Thomas Stuart Ferguson an archaeologist? (view source)
- Question: Was the ''View of the Hebrews'' theory of Book of Mormon origin advanced during the lifetime of Joseph Smith? (view source)
- Question: Was the Limited Geography model created in response to DNA claims? (view source)
- Question: Was the beginning of the Book of Mormon derived from ''The First Book of Napoleon''? (view source)
- Question: Were anti-Mason's opposed to the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Were any of the changes to the Book of Mormon made in reaction to sectarian criticism? (view source)
- Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible? (view source)
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith? (view source)
- Question: What Old World sites match those on Lehi's journey as described in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What archaeological evidence might be considered the minimal irrefutable proof needed to convince a non-believing world of the authenticity of the Nephite scripture? (view source)
- Question: What are the Lectures on Faith? (view source)
- Question: What are the similarities and differences between ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What changes were made to the 1837 edition of the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What did B.H. Roberts say about ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process? (view source)
- Question: What do the italicized words in the Bible represent, and why is it relevant to the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? (view source)
- Question: What do we find when we turn to the records of the ancient (i.e. before A.D. 400) Americas? (view source)
- Question: What does Lecture 5 of the Lectures on Faith say about the nature of God? (view source)
- Question: What is "brass" in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What is "loan-shifting"? (view source)
- Question: What is an anachronism, and what should be borne in mind when assessing the Book of Mormon (or any other text) for supposed "anachronisms"? (view source)
- Question: What is the Limited Geography Theory and model? (view source)
- Question: What is the origin of the modern horse in the New World? (view source)
- Question: What is the relationship between Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago? (view source)
- Question: What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What was known about steel in ancient America? (view source)
- Question: Why are horses considered an anachronism in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Why are many of the quotes from Isaiah in the Book of Mormon identical to those in the King James Bible? (view source)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith make changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"? (view source)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith say that the Book of Mormon was the "most correct book"? (view source)
- Question: Why did the Church modify the introduction to the Book of Mormon from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors?" (view source)
- Question: Why does "Nahom" constitute archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Why does 2 Nephi 19:1 change the word "sea" in Isaiah 9 to "Red Sea"? (view source)
- Question: Why does Isaiah in the Book of Mormon not match the Dead Sea Scrolls? (view source)
- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (view source)
- Question: Why have Church leaders taught a hemispheric geography for the Book of Mormon rather than a limited one? (view source)
- Question: Why was the name "Cumorah" originally spelled "Camorah" in the 1830 Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Why would "camp meeting" elements appear in the story of King Benjamin's temple speech in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question:Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (view source)
- Question:Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (view source)
- Question:What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question:Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (view source)
- Rappleye: In Maya Classic Art (view source)
- Roper: "Critics of the Book of Mormon have claimed that the limited geography is only a late, desperate attempt to defend the Book of Mormon" (view source)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (view source)
- Roper: "archaeologists have discovered a carburized iron sword near Jericho" (view source)
- Sorenson: "By 1400 BC, smiths in Armenia had discovered how to carburize iron by prolonged heating in contact with carbon" (view source)
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs" (view source)
- Sorenson: "Lumps of hematite, magnetite, and ilmenite were brought into Valley of Oaxaca" (view source)
- Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them 'wild cows'" (view source)
- Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them" (view source)
- Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization" (view source)
- Sorenson: Linen and silk textiles in ancient America (view source)
- Sorenson: The grain "Amaranth" in Mexico (view source)
- Source:Phelps:The Evening and The Morning Star 1:58:through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim) (view source)
- Truman Madsen: "Among readers who came to the Book of Mormon with hard, skeptical assumptions, B.H. Roberts is notable" (view source)
- Verses in the Book of Mormon that talk about "horses" (view source)
- W.W. Phelps (1833): "through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)" (view source)
- Wikipedia: Amaranth and the Aztecs (view source)
- Wikipedia: Bighorn sheep "crossed to North America over the Bering land bridge" (view source)
- Wikipedia: Mammoths "were members of the family Elephantidae" (view source)
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