Item Detail
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25984
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2
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English
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Reading the Gold Plates
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Journal of Mormon History
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January 2015
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41
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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64-76
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In this article, the author expresses reasoning behind his desire to research further about the gold plates. The plates had many lives, each one different from the rest. In the Book of Mormon, they were surrounded by an assemblage of sacred objects: the Liahona, the brass plates, the sword of Laban, and the plates of Ether. In that phase of their life, the plates were never described as gold, and their monetary worth was never mentioned. When they came into Joseph Smith's hands, they assumed a new identity. They had to be protected from treasure-seekers lusting for the gold, and looking upon them was forbidden. They became an evidence of Smith's divine calling, so much so that James J. Strang claimed to have plates too, as did other less-noted aspirants to prophethood since Strang. [From the article]
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Ancient America and the Book of Mormon Revisited
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Early Mormon Documents : Volume III
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Mormonites
Quest for the Gold Plates : Thomas Stuart Ferguson's Search for the Book of Mormon
Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, and the New Mormon History
The Book of Mormon Plates