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|L1=Question: What is the "Ang Aklatan," and does it have anything to do with the Book of Mormon?
 
|L2= Question: What do the Mentinah Papers or the Nemenhah People have to do with the Mormons?
 
|L3=Question: What is The Sealed Book of Mormon, translated by Mauricio Berger?
 
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{{:Question: What is the "Ang Aklatan," and does it have anything to do with the Book of Mormon?}}
 
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|link=Forgeries related to Mormonism/Oliver Cowdery's 1839 Defence in a Rehearsal of my Grounds for Separating Myself from the Latter Day Saints
 
|subject=Oliver Cowdery's 1839 ''Defence in a Rehearsal of my Grounds for Separating Myself from the Latter Day Saints''
 
|summary=Although this document purports to have been published in 1839 by Oliver Cowdery, the earliest copies in existence are dated 1906. The document was "discovered" by the Reverend R. B. Neal, who was a leader in the American Anti-Mormon Association. No references to this document exists prior to 1906. This document was believed to be authentic for many years, until it was discovered that it consists primarily of a selection of Cowdery's phrases taken from various issues of the ''Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate'' that were removed from their original context and placed in a different context. A number of talking points appear to have been reworded from David Whitmer's 1887 ''An Address to All Believers in Christ.'' Historians now agree that this document is a forgery.
 
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|link=Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mark Hofmann
 
|subject=Mark Hofmann
 
|summary=Gordon B. Hinckley, then a member of the First Presidency, purchased several apparently nineteenth-century documents from Mark Hofmann. They later turned out to be forgeries. Critics say that if Gordon B. Hinckley were a true prophet, he would not have been fooled into buying the forgeries.
 
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|link=Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries
 
|subject=Church reaction to Hofmann forgeries
 
|summary=Did the Church acquire the "Salamander letter" with the intent of 'suppressing' it? The reality is that the historical record is clear that the Church did nothing to hide the Hofmann "Salamander Letter," even though to some it appeared to pose problems for the Church's story of its origins.
 
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|link=Specific works/The "Book of Lehi"
 
|subject="Lost 116 pages"
 
|summary=The author claims to have been commanded to translate the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon, as well as the lost 116 pages. As part of his 'prophetic call,' the author produced what he claims is a translation of the lost 116 pages, or "Book of Lehi." This portion of Mormon's abridgement (from Lehi to King Benjamin, roughly) was lost by Martin Harris after the manuscript was loaned to him by Joseph Smith (See D&C 3, D&C 10).
 
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