Item Detail
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30423
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Journal Article
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English
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Hales, Brian C.
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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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52
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Farmington, UT
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Dialogue Foundation
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2019
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1-35
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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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"The Word of the Lord in the Original" : Joseph Smith's Study of Hebrew in Kirtland
A Visit to Nauvoo in 1856
Approaching Antiquity : Joseph Smith and the Ancient World
Automaticity and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon
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
David Whitmer Interviews : A Restoration Witness
Far West Record : Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844
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 : The Making of a Prophet
Journals, Volume 1 : 1832-1839
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Naked Truths about Mormonism
Origin, Rise and Progress of Mormonism
Relishing the Revelations: The Doctrine and Covenants and the Revelatory Process
The Book of Mormon Text Reformatted According to Parallelistic Patterns
The Book of Mormon and Automatic Writing
The Founder of Mormonism : A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Geography of Book of Mormon Events : A Source Book
The Sword of Laban : Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Dissociated Mind
The Windows of Heaven Revisited : The 1899 Tithing Reformation
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