Item Detail
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31979
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0
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22
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English
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Mormon Forgery : Past and Present
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Journal of Mormon History
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2021
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47
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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101-117
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"In this essay, I speak to three primary periods in the history of Latter-day Saint forgery. In the earliest period, a heavy emphasis was placed upon archaeological finds, such as plates, stones, or other familiar elements of Mormonism’s founding story. Early Mormon leaders actively sought to meet the appetite of a Mormon community craving a more tangible evidence of its divine heritage. In a second period, following Joseph Smith’s death, literary forgeries served primarily as a tool to alter or undermine classic understandings of the faith, such as with James Strang’s appointment letter and the Oliver Cowdery forgeries of 1906. Finally, in a third period, with the emergence of a series of interest-generating historical finds in the late 1960s, forging of Latter-day Saint documents became financially lucrative enough to draw forgery-for-profit con artists into the fold." [Author]
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