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Automatic Writing and the Book of Mormon : An Update
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Farmington, UT
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Dialogue Foundation
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Attributing the Book of Mormon's origin to supernatural forces has worked well for Joseph Smith's believers, then as well as now, but not so well for critics who seem certain natural abilities were responsible. For over 180 years, several secular theories have been advanced as explanations. The more popular hypotheses include plagiarism (of the Solomon Spaulding manuscript), collaboration (with Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, etc.), mental illness (bipolar, dissociative, or narcissistic personality disorders),6 and Joseph’s intellect (with help from the Bible, View of the Hebrews, parallelism, or his environment). Even today the topic remains controversial without general consensus.
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A New Witness to the World
Curiously Unique : Joseph Smith as Author
of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith as Book of Mormon Storyteller
Naturalistic Explanations of the Origin of the Book of Mormon : A Longitudinal Study
The Limits of Naturalistic Criteria for the Book of Mormon : Comparing Joseph Smith and Andrew Jackson Davis -
American Apocrypha : Essays on the Book of Mormon
Apocryphal Writings and the Latter-day Saints
Approaching Antiquity : Joseph Smith and the Ancient World
Automaticity and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon
A Visit to Nauvoo in 1856
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations
Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited : The Evidence for Ancient Origins
Changes in The Book of Mormon
Changing Critics' Criticisms of Book of Mormon Changes
Curiously Unique : Joseph Smith as Author
of the Book of Mormon
David Whitmer Interviews : A Restoration Witness
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
Far West Record : Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844
Hebraisms and Other Ancient Peculiarities in the Book of Mormon
History and the Claims of Revelation : Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates
History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase, and Morris' Reserve
Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith : Psychobiography and the Book of Mormon
Inventing Mormonism : Tradition and the Historical Record
James Colin Brewster : The Boy Prophet Who Challenged Mormon Authority
Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith : The Making of a Prophet
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormon Portraits or The Truth About the Mormon Leaders from 1830 to 1886
Naked Truths about Mormonism
Naturalistic Explanations of the Origin of the Book of Mormon : A Longitudinal Study
Opening the Heavens : Accounts of Divine Manifestations 1820-1844
Origin, Rise and Progress of Mormonism
Relishing the Revelations: The Doctrine and Covenants and the Revelatory Process
Spirit Writing: Another Look at the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon and Automatic Writing
The Book of Mormon Text Reformatted According to Parallelistic Patterns
The Founder of Mormonism : A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Geography of Book of Mormon Events : A Source Book
The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 1 : 1832–1839
The Sword of Laban : Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Dissociated Mind
The Windows of Heaven Revisited : The 1899 Tithing Reformation
"The Word of the Lord in the Original" : Joseph Smith's Study of Hebrew in Kirtland
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Translating the Book of Mormon : Evidence from the Original Manuscript