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Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Comoros Islands and Moroni/Captain Kidd
Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago
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- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from stories of Captain Kidd that he read in his youth?
- Question: What is the relationship between Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago?
- Question: Was Captain Kidd "hanged for crimes allegedly committed in the vicinity of Moroni on Grand Comoro?"
Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago
Jump to Subtopic:
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from stories of Captain Kidd that he read in his youth?
- Question: What is the relationship between Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago?
- Question: Was Captain Kidd "hanged for crimes allegedly committed in the vicinity of Moroni on Grand Comoro?"
Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago
Jump to Subtopic:
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from stories of Captain Kidd that he read in his youth?
- Question: What is the relationship between Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago?
- Question: Was Captain Kidd "hanged for crimes allegedly committed in the vicinity of Moroni on Grand Comoro?"
Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago
Jump to Subtopic:
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from stories of Captain Kidd that he read in his youth?
- Question: What is the relationship between Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago?
- Question: Was Captain Kidd "hanged for crimes allegedly committed in the vicinity of Moroni on Grand Comoro?"
A FairMormon Analysis of "From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism" by Ronald V. Huggins, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36 no. 4 (2003), 22.
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