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Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa?: Difference between revisions

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Comoros is a small nation made up of three islands off the southeast coast of Africa. Its capital city is Moroni.
*Some have claimed that Joseph Smith created the Book of Mormon names ''Cumorah'' and ''Moroni'' by copying them from a map of the Comoros islands.
*An alternative explanation offered by critics of the Book of Mormon is that Joseph Smith found the names ''Cumorah'' and ''Moroni'' in stories about Captain Kidd, who is said to have visited the island.
 
The settlement of "Moroni" did not become the capital city of the Comoros Islands until 1876 (32 years after Joseph's death and 47 years after the publication of the Book of Mormon). The possibility of Joseph seeing the names on a map is remote at best. It has not even been proved that Joseph ever saw the names, or that any source available to him linked them.
 
Those who propose that Joseph obtained the names "Cumorah" and "Moroni" from stories of Captain Kidd fail to cite any sources or demonstrate that Joseph had access to them. For more detail on this claim, see: [[Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Comoros Islands and Moroni/Captain Kidd|Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago]].
 
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