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Claims made in "Chapter 1: Joseph Smith as Translator/Revelator"
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A work by author: Grant Palmer
 Claims made in "Chapter 3: The Bible in the Book of Mormon"

Claims made in "Chapter 2: Authorship of the Book of Mormon"

Page Claim Response Author's sources

39
  •  Author's quote: "...the church has encouraged a 'thorough and impartial examination' of the Book of Mormon, including questions regarding its authorship."
  • Talmage, The Articles of Faith, 273.
  • Widtsoe, In Search of Truth: Comments on the Gospel and Modern Thought, 80.
  • Quinn, J. Reuben Clark: The Church Years, 24.

40
  • Joseph Smith was intellectually capable of writing the Book of Mormon himself.

6. Ibid., 262-63.

40
  • B.H. Roberts is claimed to have wondered if the Book of Mormon stories were just inspirational tales, and questioned whether it was history or the product of a "pious but immature" mind.

41-42
  • The story of Zelph.
  • History of the Church, ed. B. H. Roberts, 2:79-80.

42
  • Joseph reported that the Kinderhook Plates contained a genealogy back to Ham.

42
  • Joseph gave many descriptions of heroes and their treasures hidden in the New York hills.

42
  • B.H. Roberts concluded that Joseph Smith was capable of writing the Book of Mormon.

46
  • The Book of Mormon reflects evangelical Protestantism.
  • Alexander Campbell, Delusions: An Analysis of the Book of Mormon, 19.

48
  • The story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead is the source of Alma 19.

48
  • Alma 19 is claimed to have been derived from evangelical conversion experiences common in the 19th century.
  • Author's opinion.

49
  • Alma 32 is claimed to have been derived from Jesus's parable of the sower.
  • No source provided.

49
  • The Book of Mormon was an amalgamation of ideas from Joseph Smith's own environment.
  • Author's opinion.

50-53
  • It is claimed that many Book of Mormon stories are derived from the New Testament.
  • No source provided.

55
  • The decapitation of Laban parallels the story of Judith in the Apocrypha.

57
  • LDS position is that the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians.
  • Book of Mormon, xii, "A Brief Explanation about the Book of Mormon."

57, n38
  • No Hebrew or Egyptian writing or language has been discovered in the New World. The Book of Mormon provides too short a time for the disappearance of the Nephite/Lamanite language.
  • Thomas Stuart Ferguson, "Written Symposium on the Book of Mormon Geography: Response of Thomas S. Ferguson to the Norman and Sorenson Papers," 12 Mar. 1975, printed and updated in Stan Larson, Quest for the Gold Plates: Thomas Stuart Ferguson's Archaeological Search for the Book of Mormon, 175-268
  • B.H. Roberts, Brigham D. Madsen (ed.), Studies of the Book of Mormon (Signature Books, 1992), 91-94 ( Index of claims ).

58, n40
  • B.H. Roberts thought that View of the Hebrews could be a basis for the Book of Mormon. Roberts concluded that there was a great probability that the Smith family read View of the Hebrews.

60
  • Roberts concluded that a copy of View of the Hebrews could have been supplied by Oliver Cowdery.
  • Studies, 27, 151-61.
  • "Poultney Church Records," bk. 3, Poultney Vermont, 1793-1828, Poultney Historical Society.

60-64
  • B.H. Roberts' parallels between View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon.

65-66
  • Joseph Smith received a revelation to send people to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright for $8000. After expenses, the money was to go to the Smith family.
  • Hiram Page to William E. McLellin, 2 Feb. 1848, in RLDS Library Archives.
  • Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ, 30-31.

66
  • The writing of the 116 pages served as an "apprenticeship" to learning to write the Book of Mormon.
  • Author's opinion

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