Item Detail
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29352
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English
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Joseph Smith's 1823 Vision : Uncovering the Angel Message
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ScienceDirect
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October 1988
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18
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Elsevier
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347-362
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Joseph Smith, Jr claimed to have seen an angel in the autumn of 1823, and to have learned from that angel of the Book of Mormon. He further claimed that the day after his vision he found the Book of Mormon plates. An analysis of Smith's vision narratives—the earliest of which dates to 1832—shows that such claims were anachronistic. Smith could not have found the plates that year. Possibly Smith invented the vision in order to gain status in his family; more probably, however, there was a vision (hallucination) which Smith interpreted differently as time passed and he saw its significance for his career as prophet and ‘translator’.
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