Item Detail
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2550
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8
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1
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English
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William E. McLellin's Testimony of the Book of Mormon
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BYU Studies
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Summer 1970
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10
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485-87
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"In 1880 James T. Cobb, a graduate of Dartmouth and Amherst colleges and a resident of Salt Lake City, was making an attempt to establish the falsity of the Book of Mormon through an extensive examination of its origins. Among those to whom he directed letters of inquiry was William E. McLellan, whose close association with Joseph Smith and the witnesses of the Book of Mormon in the early years of the Church made him an appropriate subject for correspondence. William E. McLellan joined the Church in 1831. Although he became an early critic of Joseph Smith and other Church leaders, he nevertheless progressed to top leadership positions and on February 15, 1835, he was ordained as one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve. Yet due to his criticism of Church leadership he was excommunicated in 1838. The testimony reproduced in this article, written in reply to James T. Cobb's inquiry, is significant because despite McLellan's disillusionment with Joseph Smith, he nevertheless was unable to deny his conviction that the Book of Mormon was what it claimed to be." [Publisher's abstract]
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A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
Attempts to Redefine the Experience of the Eight Witnesses
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Expressions of Faith : Testimonies of Latter-day Saint Scholars
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
The Book of Mormon Witnesses and Their Challenge to Secularism
The Emergence of Brigham Young and the Twelve to Mormon Leadership, 1830-1841
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography