Item Detail
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28948
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English
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Secret Combinations and Flaxen Cords : Anti-Masonic Rhetoric and the Book of Mormon
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2003
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12
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1
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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64-77, 116-118
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"Some critics of the Book of Mormon claim that Joseph Smith drew certain terminology from his nineteenth-century environment. In particular, they suggest that terms such as secret society and secret combination may reflect anti-Masonic rhetoric from the period or even that the term flaxen cord has Masonic overtones. This article traces many varied uses of secret combinations in nineteenth-century writings that have nothing to do with the Masons. The appearance of these terms in the Book of Mormon does not weaken the historical claims of the Book of Mormon." [abstract provided]
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By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Mormon Answer to Skepticism : Why Joseph Smith Wrote the Book of Mormon
Mormonism's 'Anti-Masonick Bible'
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
"Secret Combinations" Revisited