Item Detail
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3314
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7
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English
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From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni : Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 2003
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36
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4
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17-42
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Huggins traces Moroni's role in the story of Joseph Smith finding the Book of Mormon plates. He argues that in early accounts of the story, Moroni was 'a type of murdered treasure-guardian ghost particularly (though not exclusively) associated with the story of Captain Kidd's treasure.' He reasons that Joseph Smith 'must have learned of the motif while helping his father dig for Kidd's treasure and while studying Kidd's life and lore as a boy.' He argues that this treasure-guardian ghost figure was transformed into an angel named Moroni in the later traditional accounts of the plates story.
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A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
"Idle and Slothful Strange Stories" : Book of Mormon Origins and the Historical Record
Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd Lore, and Treasure-Seeking in New York and New England during the Early Republic
No Weapon Shall Prosper : New Light on Sensitive Issues
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Seeking Divine Interaction : Joseph Smith's Varying Searches for the Supernatural
The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents Volume 14: 1 January-15 May 1844 -
An American Prophet's Record : The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Money-Digging Folklore and the Beginnings of Mormonism : An Interpretive Suggestion
New Light on Mormonism
The Persisting Idea of American Treasure Hunting
The Prophet of Palmyra