Item Detail
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30310
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English
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Changing Critics' Criticisms of Book of Mormon Changes
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Interpreter : A Journal of Mormon Scripture
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28
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Orem, UT
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The Interpreter Foundation
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49-64
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In early 1830 Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon, a 269,938-word volume that discusses religious themes intermingled with a history of ancient American peoples. Claiming it was scripture like the Bible, in 1841 he declared it to be “the most correct of any book on earth and the keystone of our religion.” Yet, many changes in the text of the Book of Mormon can be detected when comparing the original manuscript to the version available today. These changes have served as a lightning rod for some critics who imply that a divinely inspired book should not require any alterations. This article examines the types of changes that have occurred while trying to assign levels of significance and identify Joseph’s motives in making those alterations in the 1837 and 1840 reprintings of the book.
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2000 Changes in the Book of Mormon
A Look at Some 'Nonstandard' Book of Mormon Grammar
An Imperfect Book : What the Book of Mormon Tells Us about Itself
Changes in The Book of Mormon
Curiously Unique : Joseph Smith as Author
of the Book of Mormon
Far West Record : Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844
Isaac and Elizabeth Hale in Their Endless Mountain Home
Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith : The Making of a Prophet
Opening the Heavens : Accounts of Divine Manifestations 1820-1844
Reassessing Joseph Smith Jr.'s Formal Education
The Founder of Mormonism : A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr.
The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon
The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon : Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text
Wilford Woodruff's Journals